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KidDynamite posted:also some goober responded to my exit email with don't send out spam so i trolled him for a while. ended with him threatening to report me to HR 
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how loving autistic do you have to be to yell at someone sending a farewell letter holy poo poo
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What does he think HR are going to do on your final day? Fire you? Keep a very critical note of you on their system? Lol.
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KidDynamite posted:Walked out at 10 after waiting around for my manager to come collect my laptop and stuff. never showed so I just left. trash company is trash. also some goober responded to my exit email with don't send out spam so i trolled him for a while. ended with him threatening to report me to HR lmao congratulations on your freedom 
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should have replied to "don't spam" guy by adding IT to the thread to notify them that someone had hijacked that goober's account and was sending out stupid emails.
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Aug 2, 2019 16:02
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just respond “boy, I’m sure not gonna miss this guy.”
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yeah that’s when you reply to his email and copy the whole company “look at this goof”
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qhat posted:What does he think HR are going to do on your final day? Fire you? Keep a very critical note of you on their system? Lol. this will be reflected on your PERMANENT RECORD
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first interview as part of project GTFO this Wednesday. More money at a smaller and middling reputation firm (as opposed to my current very large and poor reputation firm). it's really exposed a weird kind of brain worms for me - I have a lot of ego tied up in being part of a 'global business' and the opportunities for travel, work placements overseas etc. i guess the rationale is even though we are kind of poo poo in Australia there are opportunities to work in other bits of the business that might be less poo poo? hard to unpick. waiting to hear on the FAANG thing, good reputation + large in thet case but a more junior role so less cash most likely.
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:first interview as part of project GTFO this Wednesday. More money at a smaller and middling reputation firm (as opposed to my current very large and poor reputation firm). it's really exposed a weird kind of brain worms for me - I have a lot of ego tied up in being part of a 'global business' and the opportunities for travel, work placements overseas etc. i guess the rationale is even though we are kind of poo poo in Australia there are opportunities to work in other bits of the business that might be less poo poo? hard to unpick. waiting to hear on the FAANG thing, good reputation + large in thet case but a more junior role so less cash most likely. Have you thought about jumping ship and moving or transferring overseas? Asking as a fellow Australian.
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Rude Mechanical posted:Have you thought about jumping ship and moving or transferring overseas? Asking as a fellow Australian. yep thats the main appeal of my current gig, using it to get on a plane at some point in the next 12 months and not come back for a few years. thats the brain worms part though, is it worth staying in a poo poo situation because of the *expat dream* or should i just go get a job that pays more at the local co. I've asked about global stuff but everything moves glacially slowly.
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:yep thats the main appeal of my current gig, using it to get on a plane at some point in the next 12 months and not come back for a few years. thats the brain worms part though, is it worth staying in a poo poo situation because of the *expat dream* or should i just go get a job that pays more at the local co. I've asked about global stuff but everything moves glacially slowly. Not a chance. A company that's terrible to work with and in will make terrible decisions. If you really wanna go apply out and go. Isn't getting a job in the commonwealth pretty ok?
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We have a special category of US work visa (E3) that runs parallel to H1B, so in theory it should be pretty ok getting a job in the States, if they want to chase the money.
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I don’t have a degree so for me it’s an intercompany transfer if I want to go to anywhere except the UK. anyway interview this week at smallco, FAANG screen next week. the FAANG role looks pretty amazing but the selection criteria is maybe 60% aligned with what I do. will see.
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company has me interviewing two potential consultant-managers out here so i guess i’ll post my trip report for the other side of the equation. first guy had technical chops out to wazoo but had almost zero customer-facing experience or any consulting experience to speak of. he’s probably gonna be rejected which sucks because he was real bright but seriously why the gently caress did this recruiter submit him for this position? dude was clearly out of his element. :/
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alright candidate #2 was so strong i’ll be surprised if he doesn’t get the job. i now understand what people mean when they say they know if the candidate is cut for the job within the first five minutes of the interview
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Rex-Goliath posted:company has me interviewing two potential consultant-managers out here so i guess i’ll post my trip report for the other side of the equation. first guy had technical chops out to wazoo but had almost zero customer-facing experience or any consulting experience to speak of. he’s probably gonna be rejected which sucks because he was real bright but seriously why the gently caress did this recruiter submit him for this position? dude was clearly out of his element. I've been that dude a couple times - recruiters straight up lie to you about what the job is because they hope by some miracle that it'll work out I think? I'm like "yeah i'm a frontend expert and my mid-level backend experience is nodejs or python" and I get to the interview where they say "Okay so it says here you're proficient in Java are you on Java 7 or 8 right now"
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Rex-Goliath posted:alright candidate #2 was so strong i’ll be surprised if he doesn’t get the job. i now understand what people mean when they say they know if the candidate is cut for the job within the first five minutes of the interview Yeah pretty much. I can count on one hand the number of times when a candidate has started out very strong and gradually deteriorated to a No Hire over the course of the interview. And yeah it's not because we make it easier because we like them, it's because we make it harder and they still keep answering the questions adequately.
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Just make your hiring process 3x as long, and give every interviewer veto power. Works like a charm to reject strong candidates.
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TimWinter posted:Just make your hiring process 3x as long, and give every interviewer veto power. Works like a charm to reject strong candidates. this sounds like a recipe for corporate joy
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Boiled Water posted:Not a chance. A company that's terrible to work with and in will make terrible decisions. If you really wanna go apply out and go. Isn't getting a job in the commonwealth pretty ok? With a couple of small exceptions, there are no breaks when it comes to immigration between Commonwealth countries. The Empire is no longer a thing.
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feedmegin posted:With a couple of small exceptions, there are no breaks when it comes to immigration between Commonwealth countries. The Empire is no longer a thing. you used to qualify for uk citizenship or something but then non-white people started exercising their rights and you'll never guess what happened next e: the follow up 1968 bill was somehow even more racist https://www.newstatesman.com/when-labour-played-racist-card distortion park fucked around with this message at 12:54 on Aug 5, 2019 |
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feedmegin posted:With a couple of small exceptions, there are no breaks when it comes to immigration between Commonwealth countries. The Empire is no longer a thing. welp If I were to chose I'd go to Germany. Mild weather, mild people, v. few nazis.
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If you're willing to do remote you can just work for a US company as a contractor. You will be able to afford an accountant who can set you up an ABN and help you avoid the double taxation situation.
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pathetic little tramp posted:I've been that dude a couple times - recruiters straight up lie to you about what the job is because they hope by some miracle that it'll work out I think? companies don't know what they're hiring for half the time either so they're probably just firing blindly. ie "well if they actually wanted a senior dev and not a manager then this guy will work, otherwise we have an actual manager to send as well"
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qhat posted:Yeah pretty much. I can count on one hand the number of times when a candidate has started out very strong and gradually deteriorated to a No Hire over the course of the interview. And yeah it's not because we make it easier because we like them, it's because we make it harder and they still keep answering the questions adequately. interviews mostly go very well or very poorly, with little in-between. you can usually tell in the first five minutes which one it will be.
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the first interview was actually going really well until i started shifting gears to talk about his experience dealing with customers / consulting experience instead of his tech background. that’s when it started going downhill fast and i had to turn it back to some softball tech questions just to fill out the rest of the time we set aside.
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Rex-Goliath posted:the first interview was actually going really well until i started shifting gears to talk about his experience dealing with customers / consulting experience instead of his tech background. that’s when it started going downhill fast and i had to turn it back to some softball tech questions just to fill out the rest of the time we set aside. its kind of astounding how bad many engineers are around customers
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hobbesmaster posted:its kind of astounding how bad many engineers are around customers I don't know what's astounding about it, speaking as a walking stereotype of a severely socially anxious software dev  (though i appreciate how difficult accurate requirements-gathering is, so i guess i'm a step up there)
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hobbesmaster posted:its kind of astounding how bad are customers
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when I was a young engineer and I was a snide rear end in a top hat / socially awkward idiot, I would have been totally incapable of dealing with customers and luckily was nowhere near them. now that I’m older I’ve learned how to smile and pretend I’m interested in people and generally get along even with dumb annoying people. so I can do customer interaction but I still hate it. signed, snide rear end in a top hat socially awkward idiot
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at least the socially awkward idiots can maybe be made less awkward by taking away the anxiety part; i'm much more willingly outgoing/conversant when i can type instead of talk, to take an example sucks for interviews though
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had a phone screen last week, turns out that when they say 'remote' they mean 'remote, but not for seniors'
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fritz posted:had a phone screen last week, turns out that when they say 'remote' they mean 'remote, but not for seniors' sounds like a recipe for success lol
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Ciaphas posted:at least the socially awkward idiots can maybe be made less awkward by taking away the anxiety part; i'm much more willingly outgoing/conversant when i can type instead of talk, to take an example irc interview
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fritz posted:had a phone screen last week, turns out that when they say 'remote' they mean 'remote, but not for seniors' wtf, usually i hear the opposite about remote. i see job postings stating remote available "for the right candidate" which ive heard generally means people at the senior level
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I just put in for a Dynamics admin role (note: I know gently caress-all about Dynamics) and this will probably be the end of the job search for the summer (I'm trying to avoid looking during my school year).
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Boiled Water posted:this sounds like a recipe for corporate joy To my knowledge and from my own experience that's exactly the Amazon interview process
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