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Gazpacho posted:no, encouraging people to hire you for the dead technologies you know is career suicide lots of people still migrating off legacy unix lots of greybeard hiring managers who just want to know you're one of the tribe
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jit bull transpile posted:any job is better for ciaphas than what's going on now. he should maximize his opportunity to get anything. who gives a gently caress if its with legacy systems?
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except the people who haven't forgotten it, and they need to hire someone to fix their broken poo poo, and you're one of the very few people who has the experience to do it cobol programmers won't find work at startups in the valley but they can still make bank at... banks
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Nov 21, 2018 02:13
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cobol programmers are mostly fresh grads, in my experience it's hard to find senior people who actively want to work on cobol
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Nov 21, 2018 04:26
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re: solaris, I got past the phone screen for my current job because the hiring manager and i spent an hour shooting the poo poo about the ~*~ good old days ~*~ of legacy unix don't underestimate that kind of poo poo telling dumbass war stories is valuable even if the skills are pretty dated
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Nov 21, 2018 04:34
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I got my job from posting mumps war stories in yospos. people don't even need to know the ancient tech you're using, you just need to know it well enough to be perceived as some type of witch or warlock
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jit bull transpile posted:I got my job from posting mumps war stories in yospos. people don't even need to know the ancient tech you're using, you just need to know it well enough to be perceived as some type of witch or warlock lol you're making GBS threads me aapl reached out because of your posts? I mean, they were good posts, but, poo poo
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jit bull transpile posted:I got my job from posting mumps war stories in yospos. people don't even need to know the ancient tech you're using, you just need to know it well enough to be perceived as some type of witch or warlock I’m open to options that lead in the technical direction I’m looking to go, which is web app development in the Bay Area, despite a lack of spring butt experience that comes from working in legacy-bound companies that were willing to pay me. If anyone wants to talk I’ll buy platinum and pm. If it works I might ban myself and if not you’ll have the ultimate “shut up gazpacho” line Gazpacho fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Nov 21, 2018 |
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Nov 21, 2018 04:53
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I learned ada and mumps in college the ada guy taught the weed out CS course (In ada obviously) and really liked trains to the point where he did a project course once every two years where you used ada to control model trains the mumps guy used it in a databases course and he was a huge conservative douche from chesapeake
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Nov 21, 2018 05:04
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:lol you're making GBS threads me well, an anonymous goon on a team with an opening reached out to me. actually eschaton did too but I didn't have the swift knowledge his group wanted.
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Nov 21, 2018 08:18
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Gazpacho posted:what kind of job is it large datums
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Recruiters from palantir and Facebook reached out to me this week. I guess they're scouring for potential h1bs?
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jit bull transpile posted:large datums
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Gazpacho posted:i want to be happy for you though it is a struggle i like it a lot and im learning a lot about modern java as i go. i get to be something of a firefighter which has always been one of my strongest skills and I get to work with tech I've never touched before between the big data stuff, java (i write lambdas like a champ now holy poo poo), protobuf , etc. I'm not really worried about what it "looks like" to the next job because right now I'm happy at this one and if I need a new job the apple on the resume should be enough to get it at least to a human reader.
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Nov 21, 2018 08:48
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Nov 21, 2018 11:27
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:lol you're making GBS threads me I got a job from asking for it on Twitter to the owner, and they had read blog posts of mine which they liked I got a job from helping people on IRC a few times and they decided to hire me instead of just asking questions I got a job from having someone review some writing I did and them liking it enough to offer me a job I got a job from giving a talk on a topic a CEO really really liked at an event they organized Tech is not objective, tech is not meritocratic, and you always get hired faster by knowing someone on the inside than any other avenue possible. In some cases you might even be able to bypass interview processes altogether because someone vouched for you very hard (though that might be a red flag, you want to interview them as well). But really, knowing people online and having demonstrated some level of knowledge can work real good. I know I've also personally reached out to a few goons over the years when the profile and job opening seemed to be a good fit, and at least one was interested, hired, and I even got a commission on it.
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qhat posted:Recruiters from palantir and Facebook reached out to me this week. I guess they're scouring for potential h1bs? palantir is satan tho
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Roughly half of my jobs were via referrals and the interviews were either skipped or a formality.MononcQc posted:In some cases you might even be able to bypass interview processes altogether because someone vouched for you very hard (though that might be a red flag, you want to interview them as well). Agreed, if there is no formal interview you still want to ask your questions about the company before accepting any offers!
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Welp it looks like my turkey day vacay just got turned into interview prep. Wasn't expecting anything over the holidays but I've touched base (possibly space docked) with one of the BIG 5 and an investment firm. It also looks like I can get a referral to another big company via my roommate's uncle. in b4 nintendo
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my therapist offered to help rewrite my resume yesterday i still haven't decided what to make of that offer, but my first reaction literally being "... that bad, huh" is probably a sign of necessity i guess did have a phone screening thanks to a goon here, but it fell through long ago shortly afterward. still not sure why, but that could be bad memory wish i'd networked in college instead of pursuing an education (lol)
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Ciaphas posted:wish i'd networked in college instead of pursuing an education (lol) 
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I'm extremely bad at networking too  In addition to making it hard to job hunt it makes it hard to hire more people.
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Yeah my resume was trash too, and I've been editing it multiple times a day for the past 2 weeks, and it's finally something i scan kinda look at and not barf. You should take up the offer, and if you haven't already, maybe have a goon(s) give it a once over.
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jit bull transpile posted:large datums oh man i wasn’t sure before so i wasn’t going to say anything but now that i know this is the case: big thanks to you guys for buying out and blackholeing our only real competition on the market 
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Rex-Goliath posted:oh man i wasn’t sure before so i wasn’t going to say anything but now that i know this is the case: big thanks to you guys for buying out and blackholeing our only real competition on the market I was personally responsible
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Nov 21, 2018 23:54
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elite_garbage_man posted:Welp it looks like my turkey day vacay just got turned into interview prep. Wasn't expecting anything over the holidays but I've touched base (possibly space docked) with one of the BIG 5 and an investment firm. It also looks like I can get a referral to another big company via my roommate's uncle. if so don't work there
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jit bull transpile posted:I was personally responsible my stock options thank you
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Rex-Goliath posted:my stock options thank you look at this chump not even getting rsus 👸🏽
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Rex-Goliath posted:oh man i wasn’t sure before so i wasn’t going to say anything but now that i know this is the case: big thanks to you guys for buying out and blackholeing our only real competition on the market was your comp FoundationDB?
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We're hiring right now and the applicants have been so goddamn bad so far. Two completely unqualified people like one not even in tech, and then one dude who's entire resume attachment was a PDF saying he's definitely qualified and btw is this job work from home? Jesus Anyway if you want to work on kubernetes and golang remotely for fat stacks pm me. I'm 0/3 on referrals so far so lmao.
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Mao Zedong Thot posted:We're hiring right now and the applicants have been so goddamn bad so far. Two completely unqualified people like one not even in tech, and then one dude who's entire resume attachment was a PDF saying he's definitely qualified and btw is this job work from home? Jesus is your company palantir
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Nov 22, 2018 05:58
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tempting but ... golang
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on second thought i don't think i want to work with anyone who has read my posting and is still willing to consider hiring me
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Mao Zedong Thot posted:We're hiring right now and the applicants have been so goddamn bad so far. Two completely unqualified people like one not even in tech, and then one dude who's entire resume attachment was a PDF saying he's definitely qualified and btw is this job work from home? Jesus remote as in not-usa?
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Mao Zedong Thot posted:We're hiring right now and the applicants have been so goddamn bad so far. Two completely unqualified people like one not even in tech, and then one dude who's entire resume attachment was a PDF saying he's definitely qualified and btw is this job work from home? Jesus is japan or the eu a possibility?
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Ciaphas posted:its the same one ive posted before, youre welcome to look it over too if you like disclaimer: my resume-fu comes from japan, so it may be different in format first of all, list most recent thing as first item - make sure the topmost items contain the stuff and tech you are working on, slip in buzzwords to make it seem more awesome than it is on my resume every job item is formatted basically like this: Month 2018 - Present: software engineer, ACME corp (company website URL). Location, Country. Responsibilities: + poo poo I did day to day + more poo poo I did day to day + at least 4-5 items here ranging from "app I coded" to "took part in designing and developing BIG THING" (even if you just attended meetings) Keywords: every little bit of technology you laid your hands on during this job that matters to computer touching (Docker, C#, WPF, XAML, etc.). (This part probably helps buzzword recruiters and systems that just look for keywords) another thought but i recall you said you have 10 years of experience - and the resume also mentions you went through different roles (comp scientist I to III).. so if i compare my resume which sort of has the same format and i have a similar number of years worked - why not split the positions up so you make it look like you worked for 3 different companies (sort of) like this: comp sci iii: - amazing stuff you did comp sci ii: - amazing stuff you did back then comp sci i: - amazing stuff you did in ancient history i think this makes it look visually more impressive and shows that you have gone through a career progression, although professional CV readers here will probably disagree also have you considered starting a little github where you post project euler solutions just so you can add a link to the CV? I have had people request github links in interview processes (with positive results)
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GenJoe posted:was your comp FoundationDB? very good! they weren’t exactly *direct* competition as they were key-value but they were the only other guys offering ACID
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Kevin Mitnick P.E. posted:is your company palantir God no Yeah anywhere in world though probably it will be lovely if you're 12 hours away from North America
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Mao Zedong Thot posted:God no k just asking cause I had a call with them recently and that was their pitch
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