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Pollyanna posted:im considering learning SRE work which is apparently a bunch of linux work and containers n poo poo, but i always learn on the job so you need a job to get good enough for a job and aaaaaaaaaaaa SRE stuff isn’t a mystery. it’s what I do, reach out if you want some things to read or tech to play with. basically read the Phoenix project and play with kubernetes.
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Fiedler posted:Experience is knowledge plus cynicism.
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Kudaros posted:I learned a lot about dealing with people and sniffing out bullshit that year. I also learned that my pessimism was a reflection of reality -- 95% + companies talking about graphene, nanotubes, nano needles, are bullshit vaporware that will never come to fruition. this is 95% of everything else too fyi in regards to presenting - it’s truly amazing how terrible most engineers are at it
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Gazpacho posted:experience is the currency of the job market. if you don't wave your experience around, what else have you got?  but srusly tho MS has their recognized community leads program called MVPs, monocqc would probably be that for the Erlang world if they had such a thing Major contributors for commonly used OSS projects also have that recognition. but that’s like 0.01% of devs hobbesmaster posted:in regards to presenting - it’s truly amazing how terrible most engineers are at it low hanging fruit, as far as differentiation from the crowd I should be presenting poo poo at meetups  Coffee Jones fucked around with this message at 23:13 on Feb 20, 2018 |
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oh gently caress yeah, just found that my company has a Safari Books Online corporate account that I can just sign up for and use to cram Agile buzzwords.
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Feb 20, 2018 23:30
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ugh. starting a new job search because of changes coming down the pike that present a less then compelling future if I stick around. turns out a team at my corporation is hiring and would be a perfect fit, but I can’t move because of internal issues that would arise.
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Flat Daddy posted:Agreeing with the I hate working post. Never seen that site but I am strongly considering doing just that. IF I can get past the proposal point, next goal will be avoiding the trap of going crazy if I'm going to be the one doing development work (I'm an EE and the software domains I need to tie everything together are learnable but not my forte) until I can bring on some other people to help shore that part up.
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Feb 21, 2018 01:18
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february is the best month cause i make the most money per hour
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crs: redoing my resume to put more emphasis on my personal programming garbage since i haven't been gainfully employed as a software toucher for years kill me also wtb resume advice, i can pay in wow tokens
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Shaman Linavi posted:crs: redoing my resume to put more emphasis on my personal programming garbage since i haven't been gainfully employed as a software toucher for years no one reads past the first page, make it count
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cjss: im tired
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Feb 22, 2018 13:42
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Pollyanna posted:cjss: im tired 
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Feb 22, 2018 13:58
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God drat why do companies always recruit the hardest during the busiest part of the semester? I’ve got projects, midterms, research, and finding 4 hours in my week to knock out some of these phone screens is loving impossible Two weeks ago would have been fine
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:God drat why do companies always recruit the hardest during the busiest part of the semester? I’ve got projects, midterms, research, and finding 4 hours in my week to knock out some of these phone screens is loving impossible vacations Christmas or summer wreck havoc on making decisions in companies. the bigger the company with more stakeholders the longer it takes to get anything, including hiring, done
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Feb 22, 2018 14:45
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Phone screens meh. At least they're not asking you to dedicate multiple hours a pop to write a homework project.
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qhat posted:Phone screens meh. At least they're not asking you to dedicate multiple hours a pop to write a homework project. try a week gently caress you English company in the middle of nowhere you’re not that important
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:God drat why do companies always recruit the hardest during the busiest part of the semester? I’ve got projects, midterms, research, and finding 4 hours in my week to knock out some of these phone screens is loving impossible will vary by company of course, but: january was tallying everything from last year, early february was finalizing the budget for this year. its now late february so teams actually know that they 100% have the budget to hire someone right now in the fall its "we have an open slot until the end of the year, we might lose it next year if we don't get anyone"
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how much stock should i put in glassdoor reviews e.g. https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/athenahealth-Reviews-E18207.htm it seems like theyre biased towards people unhappy with the company? but then again they have good information in them like that one review where the company called african american employees "AMFAMs" which is kinda weird
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also if a company had big layoffs recently is that something i should bring up in an initial phone convo? or is it one of those too-awkward-to-talk-about things and i should learn about it somewhere else?
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no that is not appropriate for an initial contact. by definition layoffs are not subject to being refilled, your concern is not being hired into a downsized team but rather having a dependency on one
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Gazpacho posted:no that is not appropriate for an initial contact. by definition layoffs are not subject to being refilled, your concern is not being hired into a downsized team but rather having a dependency on one so i should be concerned not that they laid off a bunch of random people already, but that they laid off people fronting the project/team im working on or are gearing up to do so? is there a way to see that happening before i get hired?
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Pollyanna posted:so i should be concerned not that they laid off a bunch of random people already, but that they laid off people fronting the project/team im working on or are gearing up to do so? is there a way to see that happening before i get hired? can you find out what the layoffs were? for example the layoffs could be sales or marketing people working with product_1 when you're in engineering making product_2.
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Pollyanna posted:how much stock should i put in glassdoor reviews e.g. https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/athenahealth-Reviews-E18207.htm it seems like theyre biased towards people unhappy with the company? but then again they have good information in them like that one review where the company called african american employees "AMFAMs" which is kinda weird The only useful reviews on glassdoor are the negative ones, unless you really care what the HR plants have to say in their 5 star reviews (negatives? Sometimes we move TOO QUICK) edit: for reference the lovely contracting company I used to work for had a higher review than this, 3.2 is pretty bad...
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in an on-site interview you can ask what parts of the company were affected by the layoffs, and whether they include teams that the hiring team has to interact with regularly
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hobbesmaster posted:can you find out what the layoffs were? for example the layoffs could be sales or marketing people working with product_1 when you're in engineering making product_2. "redundant positions and middle management", including a place in atlanta which still annoys me because a company should have loyalty to its workers over its profits but thats the socialist in me. anyway it doesnt seem engineering related
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Pollyanna posted:which still annoys me because a company should have loyalty to its workers over its profits ahahaha
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Pollyanna posted:how much stock should i put in glassdoor reviews e.g. https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/athenahealth-Reviews-E18207.htm it seems like theyre biased towards people unhappy with the company? but then again they have good information in them like that one review where the company called african american employees "AMFAMs" which is kinda weird they can be useful but take them with a grain of salt. any issue you see repeatedly is likely to be more or less true, newer reviews are more helpful than older ones, and always keep in mind that big companies can be effectively many different companies under the same name, so look out for the locations and titles given in the review and pay particular attention to the ones where you're likely to work. for example, at my employer, my office is pretty different than the corporate hq, and the problems are therefore different. alternatively, different parts of the org may be good: I've seen one where it was really obvious that the sales org was a complete tire fire but engineering was pretty ok. also you can see if you can get at some of the stuff mentioned in the reviews indirectly. for example, I have this post saved from someone here (tef maybe? I didn't note the poster, oops) that gives some pretty good examples of the type of language you'd use to do this: quote:questions to ask your interviewer
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ADINSX posted:ahahaha yeah i know  Arcsech posted:they can be useful but take them with a grain of salt. any issue you see repeatedly is likely to be more or less true, newer reviews are more helpful than older ones, and always keep in mind that big companies can be effectively many different companies under the same name, so look out for the locations and titles given in the review and pay particular attention to the ones where you're likely to work. for example, at my employer, my office is pretty different than the corporate hq, and the problems are therefore different. alternatively, different parts of the org may be good: I've seen one where it was really obvious that the sales org was a complete tire fire but engineering was pretty ok. hell yeah i worked tef's questions into my phone screen boilerplate and it helps a LOT. anyway that sounds about right re: reviews, good point on company structure too. we'll see (if the guy ever actually responds to my proposed times for speaking :|!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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Pollyanna posted:which still annoys me because a company should have loyalty to its workers over its profits but thats the socialist in me. anyway it doesnt seem engineering related jfc username post combo
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Captain Foo posted:jfc username post combo i like my name, it reminds me to be positive 
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Pollyanna posted:how much stock should i put in glassdoor reviews e.g. https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/athenahealth-Reviews-E18207.htm it seems like theyre biased towards people unhappy with the company? but then again they have good information in them like that one review where the company called african american employees "AMFAMs" which is kinda weird
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Im going to change my name to cranky and cynical.
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NVIDIA at 6pm tomorrow and Apple at 5:30pm on Monday My brains gonna be so fried before those
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Linkedin is where I get whored out for another sales job right? Get me the gently caress out of Wisconsin or let me work from home. I have three months before dish Corp combusts.
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I just did an online coding test and holy poo poo did I get wrecked. it was like 12 problems/questions in 1 hour, it killed me I'm dead
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12 problems in 1 hour is fine, I regularly fix 96 bugs a day at work.
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Double Bill posted:12 problems in 1 hour is fine, I regularly fix 96 bugs a day at work. you gotta pump up those numbers
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Mao Zedong Thot posted:Timed coding test is hella red flag "you will be expected to meet unreasonable, unchangeable deadlines you never agreed to"
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Working at my current company has been a real eye opener, in the sense that every possible inefficiency a software firm can have exists. For example: - Sales setting hard deadlines without any consultation because they oversold a product, and then blaming software for not delivering on time. - QA overwhelmed because developers actively refuse to write unit tests, and then QA being blamed as a bottleneck in the release cycle. - Infrastructure projects which should be high priority, such as CI and dependency management, never happen because it does not contribute directly to the fastest possible next release. Instead developers do stupid poo poo like checking binaries into git, using recursive submodules (this is just so inherently dumb it's not worth elaborating on), manually copying around binaries on disk just to get their project to build, etc. All of these things honestly come down to incompetent management. I'll be making sure to ask questions related to these things next time I go for an interview.
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