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CarForumPoster posted:word in startup land is that valuations for Series B+ are dropping to more reasonable numbers This is definitely happening, at least at highly unprofitable startups with short runways. There still seem to be plenty of jobs around, they just pay a little less and are less trendy
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distortion park posted:This is definitely happening, at least at highly unprofitable startups with short runways. There still seem to be plenty of jobs around, they just pay a little less and are less trendy alternatively they'll pay the same but be for companies that actually make things and not just Blank As A Service
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sometimes i wonder what it would be like to work at a good company
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Aug 17, 2022 16:53
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I worked at one once but they went out of business
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I worked for a pretty good company until DuPont bought them.
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i worked for what i thought was a really nice company once, then when i called them out for doing something unsavory they shoved me out the door with hush money
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i worked for one until covid hit and they had mass layoffs
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nudgenudgetilt posted:shoved me out the door with hush money that sounds extremely nice
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DuckConference posted:sometimes i wonder what it would be like to work at a good company
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Asymmetric POSTer posted:that sounds extremely nice it was a mixed bag. mentally it messed me up a bit I'm a very untrusting person who developed a massive amount of trust in my boss (who made the call to get rid of me), and even more so in her boss (who I previously reported to). i got a few months salary out of it but haven't been able to bring myself to work for VC since.
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i work at a company where senior leadership can't focus on anything for more than a month at a time and there's zero technical vision from the top, but my coworkers are extremely chill, i clock out pretty much whenever i want, i'm learning a lot, and the checks are large and don't bounce, so i'll take it
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raminasi posted:i work at a company where senior leadership can't focus on anything for more than a month at a time and there's zero technical vision from the top, but my coworkers are extremely chill, i clock out pretty much whenever i want, i'm learning a lot, and the checks are large and don't bounce, so i'll take it whats up my colleague
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had a recent chat with my current boss and they brought up an interview answer i gave to a dei question along the lines of what you would do to improve dei if you were in a leadership position, and how impressed they were with it. i can't help but laugh because my response was that i'd step down from the position -- mostly because i didn't have a real answer and i'd just watched the end of the expanse and wanted to see if i could james holden my way through the situation.
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nudgenudgetilt posted:had a recent chat with my current boss and they brought up an interview answer i gave to a dei question along the lines of what you would do to improve dei if you were in a leadership position, and how impressed they were with it. 
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raminasi posted:i work at a company where senior leadership can't focus on anything for more than a month at a time and there's zero technical vision from the top, but my coworkers are extremely chill, i clock out pretty much whenever i want, i'm learning a lot, and the checks are large and don't bounce, so i'll take it This is where I ended up and it’s great 90% of the time.
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same really, but there's going to be cuts in december on account of the economic shitstorm heading for Britain
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ugh i hate interviewing i get the theory behind starting with a simple code question to warm up to a hard one, but when the conceptually simple question is still off the beaten path of normal work, general coderpad lockup means i feel like a moron for failing to do an easy thing quickly and not having enough time to talk about the actual difficult thing i don't even want this job! it's an interview just to stay in practice! why do i feel like crap!
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Aug 18, 2022 18:14
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raminasi posted:ugh i hate interviewing i love being asked questions on algorithms I will never get to program myself
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Aug 18, 2022 18:22
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We give candidates some documentation for a toy API and ask them to do write a cli app/script/simple frontend which does a basic task using it (delete as appropriate for the position). way better than algorithms imo and much more reflective of day to day work.
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extension question is to take into account that the API is flakey and calls to it fail occasionally
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got a call from a company looking for a staff engineer (posting says 10+ yoe, i don't have 3 yet). the recruiter said the vp of eng personally recommended me but i have no recollection of ever meeting this person. looking them up on linkedin reveals over a dozen shared connections. this gives me a weird vibe, is this some scam?
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Our take home is literally "Create something that will query a url and provide a hash of the body. " No other requirements. We see a ton of variation in responses to this and use it to drive conversation in the interview.
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The Fool posted:Our take home is literally "Create something that will query a url and provide a hash of the body. " Do you use this as a filter or a conversation starter? If someone does some hacky one liner is that ok?
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Aug 18, 2022 20:30
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#!/bin/bash curl $1 | sha256sum - when do i start
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Conversation starter, hacky one liners are fine. When I'm present in the interview I usually start by asking how they'd integrate their "solution" into a larger system.
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Aug 18, 2022 20:38
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a few years ago i had to rush out an application-time filter for an employer. i can't remember why, but i was annoyed at having to do it, so i made it something like "fetch a token from the web service described in the following srv record: ..." the "token" was just nginx spitting out something snarky like '{"token": "youfoundthetoken"}'.
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Aug 18, 2022 20:39
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Sapozhnik posted:#!/bin/bash senior engineer level bash there
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The Fool posted:senior engineer level bash there inadvertent curl option fingerprinter e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855
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The Fool posted:senior engineer level bash there they forgot the retries tho while ! curl $1 ; do true; done
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i asked what success looks like in the position and got told "just do your thing, do good work, shine" 
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barkbell posted:got a call from a company looking for a staff engineer (posting says 10+ yoe, i don't have 3 yet). the recruiter said the vp of eng personally recommended me but i have no recollection of ever meeting this person. looking them up on linkedin reveals over a dozen shared connections. this gives me a weird vibe, is this some scam? the scam is they give you money and you do as little as possible to earn it
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raminasi posted:i asked what success looks like in the position and got told "just do your thing, do good work, shine" that’s a bad sign
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i got a rejection from a senior gig, because they down leveled me and had no mid-level openings. the feedback was "could be trained to senior in a month" baffled as to how you arrive to that conclusion on the interview panel and then choose not to hire. i got a hire from the system design interview and that's were i historically struggle. so still calling it a win.
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i got a headhunter email from dropbox of all places. they're still around? salaries look pretty good for my area but kind of seems like a dead end??
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KidDynamite posted:i got a rejection from a senior gig, because they down leveled me and had no mid-level openings. the feedback was "could be trained to senior in a month" companies can never train people, ever
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KidDynamite posted:i got a rejection from a senior gig, because they down leveled me and had no mid-level openings. the feedback was "could be trained to senior in a month" i’m guessing that hiring you after that evaluation would prompt some uncomfortable conversations within the organization about the way the entire leveling system works and it’s easier to simply not hire you than have them
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that rules hire you on as a mid-level and then promote to senior immediately afterwards so you’re on the receiving end of like a 25% total comp haircut lol
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KidDynamite posted:i got a rejection from a senior gig, because they down leveled me and had no mid-level openings. the feedback was "could be trained to senior in a month" Same rules apply as dating and raising VC dollars. A no is a no. A maybe is a no. Ignore the reason 95% of the time its not the real reason. Other 5% ignore unless it can help you on the next one.
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Tech hiring is hosed up but it's not as bad as this https://twitter.com/alex_hallowell/status/1562511162159546370?t=wisxqBU5DpCXkGsr1v8x0g&s=19
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distortion park posted:Tech hiring is hosed up but it's not as bad as this for a fun surprise click this tweet to see the rest of the thread just a wall of text. i lolled and closed the tab without reading any more
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