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Bloody posted:i have to interview a software engineer. i think im just gonna use that table of "tell me about a time that <blank>" scenarios to generate interview questions until im out of time if you don't ask a software engineer candidate to write code you're wasting your loving time.
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Ask who else is interviewing the candidate and strategize who will do the technical questions and who will do the behavioral ones. Or roll the dice, which is always an option!
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Sep 25, 2018 04:40
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Just buy startups and get their engineers, duh
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Sep 25, 2018 05:23
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TimWinter posted:Ask who else is interviewing the candidate and strategize who will do the technical questions and who will do the behavioral ones. then who does the physical examination? 
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Sep 25, 2018 06:12
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Are JavaScript developers commonly working for next to nothing, or is there oversupply of them now? Contacted by a  company for full stack JS (not my favorite thing), comfortably passed the interviews and they completely lowballed the offer. Like so low its not even worth negotiating about. Serves me right for even considering doing JS, I suppose.
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Sep 25, 2018 12:41
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Double Bill posted:Are JavaScript developers commonly working for next to nothing, or is there oversupply of them now? Contacted by a depends on the area, but there's a supply glut of JS devs thanks to bootcamps.
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Sep 25, 2018 12:47
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i had a serious talk about doing a sdlc properly (went well) and my salary (went not so well) today with my superiors i am glad we are on the same page when it comes to proper planning, communication and avoiding bikeshedding, but "we don't want people who are working only for big salaries here in this company" "uhh stock options are difficult to set up, but it is in progress (but we need to decide how to do it)" "how are we supposed to justify giving you a raise if you've only been here so little time" come on guysss, it's a startup: you want people to work hard, solve difficult problems on tight deadlines so you have a product to sell - if you do not pay your people or even promise any stock or percentage of the eventual payday when the company finally makes it, they will burn out and they will leave let's see in 2 weeks when my holiday is over if the message got through 
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Sep 25, 2018 15:37
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Penisface posted:"we don't want people who are working only for big salaries here in this company" lmao exactly why do they think people have jobs?
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Sep 25, 2018 15:44
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what excuses have you used to take time off for in-person interviews?
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Sep 25, 2018 17:12
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had my first phone interview in 5 years. bombed it badly. probably should have expected that. oh well, on with the next. Family Photo posted:what excuses have you used to take time off for in-person interviews? do you have to give a reason for PTO? my current job doesn't require a reason. in past jobs I just said "personal" or "getting stuff done around the house" something similar.
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Sep 25, 2018 17:21
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scheduled maintenance on the car is a good one. also puking baby
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Sep 25, 2018 17:30
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Penisface posted:"we don't want people who are working only for big salaries here in this company" These three statements don't add up... The only reason to work at a startup for less than market rate is giving a poo poo about what they do and hoping the stock pays off (and I think most people here would agree that the stock thing is a bad idea... but thats why people do it) A startup without stock options... a shameful startup Family Photo posted:what excuses have you used to take time off for in-person interviews? I try and schedule them on Mondays or Fridays and say I just wanna take a long weekend... the middle of the week is tough, just say errands I guess (but they'll probably know what you're really doing)
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Sep 25, 2018 17:33
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Family Photo posted:what excuses have you used to take time off for in-person interviews? i ran into a situation where company wanted me to do a video webex with an interviewer in munich later that day. i had already took pto the day before so taking another was off the table. found out about breather.com and rented office space in New York for an hour for about $60. took a late lunch. got job. anyways I recommend breather if you’re in a bind for work day video interviews.
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Sep 25, 2018 17:35
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Pendragon posted:do you have to give a reason for PTO? my current job doesn't require a reason. in past jobs I just said "personal" or "getting stuff done around the house" something similar. buddy of mine just used "dermatologist appointment". yes, i have a dermatologist appointment for the third week in a row, you wanna see? no? ok cool
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Sep 25, 2018 17:38
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for in-person interviews I like to say I'm going to the dentist so it's not weird that I'm brushing my teeth before I leave
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Sep 25, 2018 18:32
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https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/city-storage-systems fuuuuck that company
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Sep 26, 2018 01:27
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seems boring and probably bad for cities but i bet they're going to make a lot of money parasitizing the latest wave of "Amazon Now for food/clothes/pets/wet meat/whatever" startups
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Sep 26, 2018 02:08
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 quote:City Storage Systems https://www.cloudkitchens.com quote:We provide infrastructure and software that enables food operators to open delivery-only locations with minimal capital expenditure and time.
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Sep 26, 2018 03:30
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lol forget I said to talk about caring for the customer. Asking around, the thing that the people I interviewed with liked the most was that I know about the struggles of working with hardware and the priorities of engineers working on it. Customer Focus is not really what people care about with inter-team collaboration.
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Sep 26, 2018 03:44
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food delivery businesses are ubereats' "complement" "commoditize your complement" (by getting people to start sharecropper businesses?) Like the uber lease program, but restaurateurs instead of taxi drivers
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Sep 26, 2018 03:50
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yeah it almost seems genius in a diabolical way Also reminds me of this https://ny.eater.com/2014/2/24/6274495/network-of-fake-restaurants-uncovered-on-seamless hobbesmaster fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Sep 26, 2018 |
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Sep 26, 2018 03:52
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"feedback came in, the interviewer thought you just didn't know as much about the company as he, who works there, did. gliyjs"
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Sep 26, 2018 20:53
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I’d give a less than 50% shot at that being correct
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Sep 26, 2018 20:56
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Gazpacho posted:"feedback came in, the interviewer thought you just didn't know as much about the company as he, who works there, did. gliyjs" "you seemed unwilling to live harmoniously in the people's village, we were especially concerned about your willingness to drink the kool-aid"
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Sep 26, 2018 21:27
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and it wasn't even a startup or a well-publicized "hip" company...
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Sep 26, 2018 23:40
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"you ranked highly in technical foundation, subject matter expertise, communication, and affect, but i see here you went to a state school..."
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Sep 26, 2018 23:46
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why are y'all asking for feedback what's the best case result from that
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Sep 26, 2018 23:47
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You get to laugh at the dumb reasons they give?
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Sep 26, 2018 23:53
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any qs you should be asking to interviewers that are specific to consultancies?
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Sep 26, 2018 23:57
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CPColin posted:You get to laugh at the dumb reasons they give? Ploft-shell crab posted:any qs you should be asking to interviewers that are specific to consultancies?
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JawnV6 posted:why are y'all asking for feedback i was gonna answer "to have a better idea what to improve/focus on for the next interview" but then i thought about that answer for a bit there is no point, huh. jeez. 
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Sep 27, 2018 00:05
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Ploft-shell crab posted:any qs you should be asking to interviewers that are specific to consultancies? do your customer contracts give consultants a certain percentage of time offsite? or do clients expect every billable hour will be delivered on premise?
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Sep 27, 2018 01:08
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Ploft-shell crab posted:any qs you should be asking to interviewers that are specific to consultancies?
a good shop will have no problem selling you on most of this without you even having to ask. bad shops will use slights of hand or prey on the desperate to warm their benches. do not be a sucker. the upside can be very lucrative if you find a good shop but the downsides of landing with a bad one can literally ruin your life. be careful and don't let anyone pressure you into making a quick decision PIZZA.BAT fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Sep 27, 2018 |
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Sep 27, 2018 04:26
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Ploft-shell crab posted:any qs you should be asking to interviewers that are specific to consultancies? Have you ever had to fire a client?
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Fiedler posted:"you ranked highly in technical foundation, subject matter expertise, communication, and affect, but i see here you went to a state school..." My CEO legit asked to see my decade old transcripts when I got offered a job here, and then tried to use my 60-70% grades (in the UK this is what grades are bell curved around) to lowball me lol.
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Sep 27, 2018 06:54
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thank you for these!! the people I’m interviewing with seem solid technically, the only thing I’m slightly concerned with is the nature of consulting so these will help
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Sep 27, 2018 15:22
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postin' here since i'm startin' to throw resumes out there
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Sep 27, 2018 15:52
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meatpotato posted:
lol they came back today and said "actually, we can only do <way less than before>", which is about 10% more than my last job but the additional commute or moving expenses would completely negate and likely exceed the increase in salary :/ i think i flunked a phone interview today too, god dammit
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Sep 27, 2018 23:06
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jeeeeezus the no-whiteboard-coding place gave me an unofficial salary offer about 35% more than I made at my last job
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quote:similar to the question in the op regarding pto- hammer this question home. a good consulting shop should have a very generous pto policy- moreso than even normal tech companies due to how stressful the work is. DO NOT be satisfied with any answer unless they tell you exactly how much pto they've taken and what they did. absolutely make it clear that any attempt at dancing around your question is completely unacceptable I get the idea but I keep picturing “I DEMAND TO KNOW WHETHER YOU HAD FUN IN LONDON”
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