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love 2 bomb interviews by channeling my relentless negativity and focusing exclusively on talking about everything i'm bad at and/or not familiar with
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Jan 20, 2021 17:21
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I'm a manager now, this is weird when does my class traitor welcome packet get here?
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Jan 20, 2021 17:24
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when are you in manager meetings discussing how your subordinates are going to be laid off and then you don't tell them because it'd cause "disruption"
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just got the rejection email after spending five hours on google meets today talking to managers and doing tech interviews and trying to say the right poo poo. i am owned
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that has happened to me 3 times recently and I think I'm heading towards the fourth time I think it's partly due to covid downsizing increasing competition a lot, at least here in the uk, since it was seemingly much easier to get a job in the past
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Does anyone have a link to that (offsite) thread a guy posted where he was complaining that he never got past the phone screens, but he had recorded a bunch of them and he was extremely terse to the point of being uncomfortably standoffish? I remember it being discussed here but I can't find it with the threadsearch. All the calls were some variation of:  Hi, thanks for meeting with us today. Hello. So, it says here you have three years of JavaScript. Yes. What sort of projects have you worked on? Web Apps Okay...A mate of mine is trying to get their second job (after their first post-uni that they've been in for 5 years) and they're pretty nervous, not super confident to begin with, and I'm trying to convince them they'll do fine. Edit: of course I find it after I post. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20197206 He kind of owns in this one actually lol: https://soundcloud.com/freework/1d20190530155359pnull?in=freework/sets/phone-interviews Chopstick Dystopia fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Jan 21, 2021 |
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Jan 21, 2021 02:38
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Chopstick Dystopia posted:Does anyone have a link to that (offsite) thread a guy posted where he was complaining that he never got past the phone screens, but he had recorded a bunch of them and he was extremely terse to the point of being uncomfortably standoffish? I remember it being discussed here but I can't find it with the threadsearch. That's Forum super star HOW?!?! Who also insists that because you don't get a 1:1 resume to offer there's no shortage of engineers and there's actually a super large glut! Because otherwise you'd be forced to take any resume you can regardless of the experience, fit, or personality.
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Jan 21, 2021 21:01
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Thinking about quitting my job this year and taking a break. Got a nice little nut tucked away and don't have rent/mortgage right now. A little worried about getting back into the job market if I do take a few months off though. Some people make it feel like career suicide to do this and no one will want to hire you with a gap in your resume/if you're already not working. Would I be loving up my career if I do this
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Jan 21, 2021 21:10
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my bitter bi rival posted:Thinking about quitting my job this year and taking a break. Got a nice little nut tucked away and don't have rent/mortgage right now. A little worried about getting back into the job market if I do take a few months off though. Some people make it feel like career suicide to do this and no one will want to hire you with a gap in your resume/if you're already not working. Would I be loving up my career if I do this Founder My Bitter bi Rival 7/21 - 7/22 Consultant for doing back end things. Hey look no gap!
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Jan 21, 2021 21:14
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better to avoid gaps but the consulting/small biz thing is a dece dodge if ur taking a break I’d try to book a few small contracts or have some projects to talk about if they ask
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PCjr sidecar posted:better to avoid gaps but the consulting/small biz thing is a dece dodge if ur taking a break spin up consulting company A. have buddy spin up consulting company B. both of you gently caress around. when the time to go back to work comes you talk about how A and B had a lotta contracts w one another. no, they were handshake sorta deals
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I took almost a full year off and literally told people “I decided I wanted a break to work on personal projects” but that was coming out of an 8 year tenure at one company so that might have helped. just own it imo, I wouldn’t want to work somewhere that cared about poo poo like that.
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Jan 21, 2021 21:58
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it’s a spectrum; in an ideal world it wouldn’t matter but like so much else it depends on how much demand there is for your skills in your location. a senior ux designer or aws architect in the bay vs early career it generalist or qa analyst in des moines
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Jan 21, 2021 22:04
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qirex posted:I took almost a full year off and literally told people “I decided I wanted a break to work on personal projects” but that was coming out of an 8 year tenure at one company so that might have helped. just own it imo, I wouldn’t want to work somewhere that cared about poo poo like that. this is almost my exact situation, i've been here for like 8 years and i'm just running low. recruiters already look at me like im a psycho for having been at one job for so long in the bay area. thanks for giving me the advice i wanted to hear haha
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Jan 21, 2021 22:16
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my bitter bi rival posted:this is almost my exact situation, i've been here for like 8 years and i'm just running low. recruiters already look at me like im a psycho for having been at one job for so long in the bay area. thanks for giving me the advice i wanted to hear haha the stress of nujob can be ameliorated by asking for like 75k more
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Hughlander posted:That's Forum super star HOW?!?! Who also insists that because you don't get a 1:1 resume to offer there's no shortage of engineers and there's actually a super large glut! Because otherwise you'd be forced to take any resume you can regardless of the experience, fit, or personality. Oh my god I had no idea this was HOW but it makes perfect sense. bob dobbs is dead posted:read a sales book Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It is a fun and easy read in this vein.
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Jan 22, 2021 02:56
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Chopstick Dystopia posted:Edit: of course I find it after I post.
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Jan 24, 2021 20:02
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not really surprising but the very liberal use of the remote flag on SO jobs is getting a little old
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Iverron posted:not really surprising but the very liberal use of the remote flag on SO jobs is getting a little old ugh seriously. the "potentially remote for the right candidate" poo poo sucks. oh, so if I'm SUPER good, you'll give me an opportunity to be ignored because none of your work culture accounts for remote employees? what a deal!
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Jan 26, 2021 13:21
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being completely ignored while still getting paychecks is the dream though
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Jan 26, 2021 23:34
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that was an old dealio from sa greyforums where that really did happen to someone, right?
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bob dobbs is dead posted:that was an old dealio from sa greyforums where that really did happen to someone, right? ya his name was moonshine i think i was going to try and pull it up but archives are broken lol edit here it is: https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/ post hole digger fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Jan 26, 2021 |
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Jan 26, 2021 23:49
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well, there's definitely some guy on the internet that said it happened. it's not clear to me what the relationship to reality is
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that story will always be real because i want it to be real
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Jan 27, 2021 03:12
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barkbell posted:that story will always be real because i want it to be real
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Iverron posted:not really surprising but the very liberal use of the remote flag on SO jobs is getting a little old Also ones which are remote but only if you live in a specific country, and which don't bother to state this until you're 10 forms deep in the application process (almost always the USA)
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pointsofdata posted:Also ones which are remote but only if you live in a specific country, and which don't bother to state this until you're 10 forms deep in the application process (almost always the USA) I sorta get it if an application says "oh yeah be within n amount hours of this time zone", but the rest is some corpo bs. I've seen it a lot for american companies (because of course), but a ton of canadian and even UK corps do it as well.
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Boiled Water posted:I sorta get it if an application says "oh yeah be within n amount hours of this time zone", but the rest is some corpo bs. I've seen it a lot for american companies (because of course), but a ton of canadian and even UK corps do it as well. I understand why they do it (they don't want to suddenly discover that their contractor in France has been reclassified as an employee and are now on the hook for $$$ in social security), but it's often bs corp stuff and the american ones never bother to even state it!
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It's because doing payroll and taxes for someone who works in a different country is a legal pain in the rear end.
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Jabor posted:It's because doing payroll and taxes for someone who works in a different country is a legal pain in the rear end. If I can possibly put pain in a company rear end I shall endeavor to do so!
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what are the key things to look for when talking to a startup? this company contacted me. 3yr runway, pay range and bonuses seem good, but the glassdoor reviews are not so good. apparently new ceo came in summer 2020 and upset things, lots of engineering left, "its not the same", etc. is that just normal startup growing pains or what do i make of it
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i think you just need to ask questions about it if your interviewers are offended about you asking, or really bad-mouth the people that left it's a super bad sign, but it is possible that everyone acted like adults and it was just a difference of opinion about the direction of the company, which is fine
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well the final interview would be with the ceo so i can ask him if i get there
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The CEOs answer is important, but ask some of the lower-level people about it too so that you get a more balanced perspective.
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barkbell posted:well the final interview would be with the ceo so i can ask him if i get there yep, that is probably wise and good. be diplomatic though, as it is plenty likely that the ceo came in and nixed a bunch of dumb startup bullshit.
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barkbell posted:what are the key things to look for when talking to a startup? One thing to keep in mind with glassdoor/blind - there's a pretty big reporting bias. All the people who think the company is middle-of-the-road probably aren't going to post about it. Like say a company is 200 employees strong, and has an extra 200 former employees. If 350 out of 400 thought it was fine or good, that's 50 who had a bad experience for whatever reason (including that they might be shitlords). Maybe 25 of them bitch about the company online. Those people are probably also dumb as hell, or else they wouldn't do something shortsighted like badmouthing an old employer. I'm not saying they're right or wrong with their reviews - just that you don't see all the people who don't think it's worth posting
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i put in my two weeks last friday and since my boss and i are on good terms i stupidly told him where i was going. how hosed am i? should I just consider myself unemployed at this point and start looking for another job? my boss doesn’t seem like a complete rear end in a top hat but the company im leaving has a huge legal department and the new company is a start up so im worried they’ll lean on them to rescind the offer
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greps of wrath posted:i put in my two weeks last friday and since my boss and i are on good terms i stupidly told him where i was going. how hosed am i? should I just consider myself unemployed at this point and start looking for another job? my boss doesn’t seem like a complete rear end in a top hat but the company im leaving has a huge legal department and the new company is a start up so im worried they’ll lean on them to rescind the offer
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