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i'm applying for a java shop where you have to do their little test in java (or c++???) and my only java experience is two units back in undergrad ten years ago hopefully my c# translates well enough and they aren't too picky about the language itself. i'm gonna try to use streams, wish me luck
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Surprisingly Amazon said they want to go a technical phone interview but my dumb rear end replied, "Sure, I'm available after 5 PM during the week as I'm not taking off work to talk."
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mekkanare posted:Surprisingly Amazon said they want to go a technical phone interview but my dumb rear end replied, "Sure, I'm available after 5 PM during the week as I'm not taking off work to talk." what's wrong with that
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:what's wrong with that an amazon recruiter once scheduled a call with me on a saturday morning
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protip, don't work at amazon. I had a recruiter call me, I told him, "no Amazon" and then goes into why I should reconsider.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:what's wrong with that it's an amazon recruiter, so mekkanare should have declined outright.
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Fiedler posted:it's an amazon recruiter, so mekkanare should have declined outright. ???
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Fiedler posted:it's an amazon recruiter, so mekkanare should have declined outright. beggars can't be choosers though
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Penisface posted:beggars can't be choosers though ... there's a whole subreddit tho
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don't feign ignorance, news of how they treat their employees has reached new york
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thanks this is helpful. reading this and knowing how rusty I am at whiteboarding that’s def where I need to spend most of my time JawnV6 posted:austin tho? yeah. actually apparently there’s already a bunch of apple dev jobs here, at least from looking at a cursory search, I just never checked until that recent announcement on the expansion
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raminasi posted:i'm applying for a java shop where you have to do their little test in java (or c++???) and my only java experience is two units back in undergrad ten years ago the major differences between Java and c# ate not stuff that should come up or ding you on a test. I came out of a c# environment and it was only a couple week learning curve for the basics and I'm slowly increasing my mastery of Java. I continue to be frustrated by how much shittier javas generics are but what can you do? I'm addicted to lambdas and streams now though. linq was banned at my old job, as were lambdas.
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had an interview today for what i thought was a research technician job but turned out to be devops. seeing as my background is as a scientist i don't think i'll be getting a callback for round 2. but got also got an interview with the same company and some of the same interviewers for a research job this week, which i reckon i have a good shot at having felt them out a bit today the naming of jobs in computer science can be confusing
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jit bull transpile posted:linq was banned at my old job, as were lambdas. wtf i get they can be used to write unreadable code but still
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Lambda, the forbidden architecture ...of desire!
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Schadenboner posted:Lambda, the forbidden architecture ...of desire!
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I blindly accept what's asked of me without asking questions and fret over it after the fact. It's something I need to work on. I definitely have the privilege of being picky. Despite my complaints my work environment is very accommodating, especially wrt mental health. Every time you post about Epic I am more and more glad that you got out of there.
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jit bull transpile posted:linq was banned at my old job, as were lambdas. ![]()
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there are legit reasons to avoid linq with particular bits of code (performance, usually) but i can't think of any reasons to avoid lambdas
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It's funny but I actually want to get into Epic, their hosted ![]() ![]() Also they rejected me so I have an infantile need to prove them wrong somehow.
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goog phone interview at noon, prepared for death. i seriously hate this feeling, and it's so much worse for FAANG interviews
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Good luck KidDynamite
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iospace posted:protip, don't work at amazon. So I've heard all kinds of opinions about amazon ranging from "lol don't work there" to "its not bad depending on what team you're on". I'm in Seattle and I've decided I want a big name on my resume. I've been specializing in BIG DATA processing and technologies for the last couple of years and would like to continue with that, so working for AWS specifically is something I'm seriously considering.... (I've heard too many horror stories about Google, and I'd probably never make it past their interview process anyway... and Microsoft is... Microsoft... which leaves AWS, it doesn't hurt that they're headquartered here and are the biggest of the big three cloud companies) Does anyone have experience working at AWS, or knows someone that does?
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ADINSX posted:So I've heard all kinds of opinions about amazon ranging from "lol don't work there" to "its not bad depending on what team you're on". I'm in Seattle and I've decided I want a big name on my resume. I've been specializing in BIG DATA processing and technologies for the last couple of years and would like to continue with that, so working for AWS specifically is something I'm seriously considering.... (I've heard too many horror stories about Google, and I'd probably never make it past their interview process anyway... and Microsoft is... Microsoft... which leaves AWS, it doesn't hurt that they're headquartered here and are the biggest of the big three cloud companies) That what was the recruiter was saying. I'm also not interested in Seattle either ![]()
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iospace posted:That what was the recruiter was saying. I'm also not interested in Seattle either well of COURSE the RECRUITER was saying that :p I'm rejecting job postings from other parts of the company outright (and living here, you get a lot of them)... I don't care about alexa, I don't care about some random department's international tax calculation software... but there aren't many companies out there doing cloud stuff at their scale, and I think it would have a really solid return on resume. A problem I've been worried about recently is I keep working at small companies and proving myself, sometimes getting promotions, usually getting better work... but when you switch jobs that clout vanishes... no one gives a poo poo that you're "software architect" at No Name Co... but if I gut it out at a bigger company for a few years I could see promotions like that sticking, or at least big projects seem that much more impressive.
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Munkeymon posted:
I bet there was a green engineer many years ago that went "I just learned linq/lambdas and now it is my hammer for everything." That Green engineer made a gigantic pile of poo poo code that took months to clean up. This happens in every language.
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ratbert90 posted:I bet there was a green engineer many years ago that went "I just learned linq/lambdas and now it is my hammer for everything." true, the problem is usually "nobody was guiding this work or paying any attention at all really" but nobody ever wants to acknowledge that so it's easier to just ban the footguns or worse they go too far in the opposite direction and oops devs aren't around to write sql anymore dbas have to do it all
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beginning to think i should just take all reference to the clearance stuff out of my resume keep getting ads on indeed for military recruiters which i Emphatically No Longer Want
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Cold on a Cob posted:there are legit reasons to avoid linq with particular bits of code (performance, usually) but i can't think of any reasons to avoid lambdas
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my org has a huge boner for extension methods and i take perverse joy in removing them so i can simultaneously mock components and our architect
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i really, really wish it was easy to mock extension methods
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Extension methods seem like they could mayyybe be an okay idea if you're the only person working on a bit of code and you're never going to come back to it and have to go, "Wait, since when did String have a foo() method?" Like, syntactic sugar is nice, but it should also be consistent. Like operator overloading.
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ADINSX posted:and Microsoft is... Microsoft... lol. "companyA isn't trendy enough so tell me about companyB. companyB can't really be as bad to its employees as everyone says, right?"
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ADINSX posted:So I've heard all kinds of opinions about amazon ranging from "lol don't work there" to "its not bad depending on what team you're on". I'm in Seattle and I've decided I want a big name on my resume. I've been specializing in BIG DATA processing and technologies for the last couple of years and would like to continue with that, so working for AWS specifically is something I'm seriously considering.... (I've heard too many horror stories about Google, and I'd probably never make it past their interview process anyway... and Microsoft is... Microsoft... which leaves AWS, it doesn't hurt that they're headquartered here and are the biggest of the big three cloud companies) Enjoy your on call. But I have some friends at Amazon and I think aws is generally regarded as a more prestigious position within the firm, and really I'd probably consider it myself. Even if you hate it, it puts you in a good position to be accepted to another team. qhat fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Jan 23, 2019 |
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Cold on a Cob posted:i really, really wish it was easy to mock extension methods yah this is basically my only problem with them
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Konami gaming had me doing a codility test, scheduled for two hours but I aced it in one, so in theory i've got a 30-45m phoner on Friday At least it's a team lead in theory, I do way better with them than the HR people I can't reliably get technical with
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hosed up printing out a string representation of a UIView hierarchy iteratively(explicitly stated no recursion) , like had the right direction going but had mush brain. interviewer explicitly told me 40 minutes was more that enough time for that. also may have had my identity stolen and i can't file an identity theft report because the government is shut down good day, imo
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Ciaphas posted:Konami gaming had me doing a codility test, scheduled for two hours but I aced it in one, so in theory i've got a 30-45m phoner on Friday Game Design Considered Harmful. Especially given what little I know about your psychological profile. ![]()
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Ciaphas posted:Konami gaming had me doing a codility test, scheduled for two hours but I aced it in one, so in theory i've got a 30-45m phoner on Friday wonder if their fitness and slot/pachislot machine divisions aren't nearly as terrible as their video game and arcade game divisions
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god drat Apple recruiter that I assumed ghosted me emails me for availability the day after I sign an offer ffffffu
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