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DONT THREAD ON ME posted:alright going into ~4 hours of interviews with $JOB_I_REALLY_WANT. i have a decent shot imo but could go either way. nerves arent too bad but my palms are sweaty. lol i hosed up at reading the schedule they sent me and i only had half the interviews today. today was the technical portion (implement a set, plus some other simple stuff) which i'd done recently so i sailed through it with minor issues that i found and corrected. tomorrow is more soft skills stuff which i'm good at so feeling really good atm. remembered how to write a for loop this time i could be wrong but my guts telling me i'm gonna get it DONT THREAD ON ME fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Feb 18, 2019 |
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# ? Feb 8, 2025 03:36 |
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Its important to not have expectations
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a lot of the interviews i've did that felt really easy and solidly in the bag ended up being a no, and vice versa. i guess the difficulty goes down when the interviewers realize it's going to be a no mid-interview and switch into let's get this guy outta the building pronto mode.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:Its important to not have expectations yeah, i've been burned before, don't worry. even if i get an offer, it might not be the offer i need or want. but i did well and i'm feeling good.
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qhat posted:a lot of the interviews i've did that felt really easy and solidly in the bag ended up being a no, and vice versa. i guess the difficulty goes down when the interviewers realize it's going to be a no mid-interview and switch into let's get this guy outta the building pronto mode. those are always great
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qhat posted:a lot of the interviews i've did that felt really easy and solidly in the bag ended up being a no, and vice versa. i guess the difficulty goes down when the interviewers realize it's going to be a no mid-interview and switch into let's get this guy outta the building pronto mode. interview suddenly shifts into easy mode = you blew it
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bob dobbs is dead posted:Its important to not have expectations this is fun and easy to do when you've got less than three months of rent & food
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graph posted:this is fun and easy to do when you've got less than three months of rent & food Practically the most important reason to stack the figgies when you can, yes
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oh yeah: my interviewer was in the UK and I succeeded in not mentioning Brexit or saying "things must be pretty crazy over there!"
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Being an American commenting on Brexit to a Brit would've been about the worst faux pas you could possibly make. Not least because the country is literally days away from collapsing.
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I laughed my rear end off with a customer whose dad was a provo, lol
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qhat posted:Being an American commenting on Brexit to a Brit would've been about the worst faux pas you could possibly make. Not least because the country is literally days away from collapsing. but enough about america ![]()
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qhat posted:Being an American commenting on Brexit to a Brit would've been about the worst faux pas you could possibly make. Not least because the country is literally days away from collapsing. lol i keep forgetting that this is about to happen actually my next client is a uk-based bank i’m wondering what will happen
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Rex-Goliath posted:actually my next client is a uk-based bank i’m wondering what will happen get the cash up front in us dollars
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Fiedler posted:get the cash up front in us dollars they’ve already paid us the project is actually to assist them with paying us less
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The funniest thing about Brexit is the services industry (i.e the people who mostly voted against Brexit) will probably be okay since being part of the customs union has exactly nothing to do with being able to sell services into Europe. I mean, maybe the passporting thing in the finance industry is an issue, but Switzerland doesn't have passporting either and I don't think anyone is stupid enough to argue that their banking industry has been significantly constrained as a result. The people it hurts most is the manufacturing industry (i.e the ones who mostly voted for Brexit) of which companies are already cancelling projects and moving to Amsterdam regardless of what happens in a month's time.
qhat fucked around with this message at 01:10 on Feb 19, 2019 |
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what british manufacturing
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qhat posted:The funniest thing about Brexit is the services industry (i.e the people who mostly voted against Brexit) will probably be okay since being part of the customs union has exactly nothing to do with being able to sell services into Europe. I mean, maybe the passporting thing in the finance industry is an issue, but Switzerland doesn't have passporting either and I don't think anyone is stupid enough to argue that their banking industry has been significantly constrained as a result. The people it hurts most is the manufacturing industry (i.e the ones who mostly voted for Brexit) of which companies are already cancelling projects and moving to Amsterdam regardless of what happens in a month's time. the locals, who by and large voted for brexit, are stunned
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yeah a lot of it is car manufacturing. nissan also cancelled their new SUV manufacturing here as a direct result of brexit.
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incredible self own by the British but, surely this is a good thing for nearly everyone else?
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AWWNAW posted:incredible self own by the British but, surely this is a good thing for nearly everyone else? youd think brexit and trump would both serve as giant smoldering warning signs to the rest of the world but everyone continues to do incredibly stupid things at an accelerating rate
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edit: maybe not a great post lol
qhat fucked around with this message at 01:55 on Feb 19, 2019 |
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uncurable mlady posted:youd think brexit and trump would both serve as giant smoldering warning signs to the rest of the world but everyone continues to do incredibly stupid things at an accelerating rate canada is next i'm sure of it
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qhat posted:edit: maybe not a great post lol ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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qhat posted:Being an American commenting on Brexit to a Brit would've been about the worst faux pas you could possibly make. Not least because the country is literally days away from collapsing. no, the faux pas was millions of people voting to slit their own throats there's no burden of civility on us to stop laughing at you, y'all hosed up hilariously bad and parliament is crippled by some combination of cupidity and cynicism it's uproariously funny and i enjoy visiting london and having a perpetual 33% off sale everywhere i go edit: here in a couple years it'll probably be a perpetual 50% sale, so i guess there's that silver lining for me, who won't be suffering from medicine shortages or rationing of staple goods
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AWWNAW posted:incredible self own by the British but, surely this is a good thing for nearly everyone else? it's not really a good thing for anyone except tourists who stands to benefit? certainly not europe
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:no, the faux pas was millions of people voting to slit their own throats A lot of people still voted strongly to remain, there's pretty much no in-between, and there's nothing they can do about it at this point. Millions of people are going to be significantly worse off because of a small majority of bigots who can't see the forest for the trees. Thankfully though I'm now part of a country that has a currency that will be worth more than the material it's printed on in a couple of months.
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qhat posted:A lot of people still voted strongly to remain ain't democracy great honestly the whole idea of the referendum was a travesty. cameron was a coward who couldn't close the gaps in his own party so he tossed a nonsense idea with no attached policy to the public, assuming he would win by the sheer power of his personal brand i guess way to go you colossal peckerwood
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:ain't democracy great Pretty much this is the current conservative strategy, gamble the entire future of the country to score political points. See also: Scottish Independence referendum, and Theresa May calling a general election as a power grab and then losing her majority in Parliament.
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what's the word for when you experience both schadenfreude and sympathy at the same time? empathetic dissonance? well that's how i feel about brexit
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qhat posted:Pretty much this is the current conservative strategy, gamble the entire future of the country to score political points. See also: Scottish Independence referendum, and Theresa May calling a general election as a power grab and then losing her majority in Parliament. if she had any interest at all in serving the populace, she would resign her deal can never pass as long as she relies on DUP for C+S. inking a C+S agreement with DUP was tantamount to suicide. by the time it was done, she and her cabinet should have fully known about the backstop and related matters
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DONT THREAD ON ME posted:what's the word for when you experience both schadenfreude and sympathy at the same time? empathetic dissonance? well that's how i feel about brexit i'm 100% schadenfreude here it's not the referendum. the referendum was a crock of poo poo, and there was no way voters had any idea no, it's the loving regular elections. voters put tories in power three times, twice after the exercise of article 50. that's plainly stupid enough for me to laugh rather than empathise just watch theresa may try to discuss anything in an off the cuff interview and ask yourself whether you would vote the lizard people into power again
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Honestly the conservatives came to power 9 years ago with the promise of stabilizing a post recession Britain, and since then we've seen no less than 3 separate and completely avoidable catastrophes in the British economy. How anyone still votes Tory is totally beyond me.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i'm 100% schadenfreude here i mean i've witnessed the complete failure of the process and media here in the US. it's easy to feel sympathy for the non-idiots. the idiots, well, it's complicated.
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don't worry brits, donald trump will most likely win reelection so you can laugh at us while burning pounds in giant novelty oil drums for warmth
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qhat posted:Honestly the conservatives came to power 9 years ago with the promise of stabilizing a post recession Britain, and since then we've seen no less than 3 separate and completely avoidable catastrophes in the British economy. How anyone still votes Tory is totally beyond me. i assume it has something to do with rupert murdoch
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DONT THREAD ON ME posted:i mean i've witnessed the complete failure of the process and media here in the US. it's easy to feel sympathy for the non-idiots. the idiots, well, it's complicated. i pity the non-idiots, which is not the same as empathy
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uncurable mlady posted:don't worry brits, donald trump will most likely win reelection so you can laugh at us while burning pounds in giant novelty oil drums for warmth he would have to still be outside of prison to win re-election
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:he would have to still be outside of prison to win re-election donald trump might resign after his hilarious crime katamari finally spins out of control and crashes through the white house, but he will never see a day in prison.
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# ? Feb 8, 2025 03:36 |
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im really excited to see the field of horror that will be the democrat primary
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