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I had an interview today with startup B that ended at 12, I had a positive decision in my email by 12.45 inviting me for a final on-site interview I've never seen turnaround that quickly
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Mar 30, 2018 18:47
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Valeyard posted:I had an interview today with startup B that ended at 12, I had a positive decision in my email by 12.45 inviting me for a final on-site interview I had one of those -- interviewed with the founders, they emailed me 15 mins after the callr asking for salary requirements to send an official offer. dropped the ball after that though, they dragged feet for like 4 weeks getting board approval on the equity grant. sucks for them, cause I would have taken the job had they gotten back to me
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Mar 30, 2018 19:53
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i also asked some of the questions from the OP to two different interviewers today, so thanks 
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Mar 30, 2018 20:28
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Symbolic Butt posted:I wasn't part of the interviewing process, I only caught a glimpse of a few candidates. It was an internship position, the parents seemed kind of poor and were like "our son is really smart, unlike us, please he really deserves a chance" Well I hope you gave him a chance 
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Mar 30, 2018 21:01
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Pendragon posted:just finished 3 hours of phone interviews for junior candidates. I'm done talking for today. on the plus side all seemed pretty smart and I'll probably bring all three in for an on-site. my most recent internship rejection email said they decided to move forward with another candidate sent from a NOREPLY email which seemed a bit tacky
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Mar 30, 2018 21:20
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Pendragon posted:"I tell them we'll get back to them and then usually don't get back to them" god bless
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Mar 30, 2018 21:59
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Valeyard posted:I had an interview today with startup B that ended at 12, I had a positive decision in my email by 12.45 inviting me for a final on-site interview both of my last fortune 500 interviews resulted in an offer within an hour this poo poo is v. unpredictable because the candidate has zero insight into what is happening inside the org
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Mar 30, 2018 23:05
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Sapozhnik posted:hmm i dunno man our capex budget is pretty lean this quarter, you'll have to escalate that to the coo too real
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Mar 30, 2018 23:34
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Valeyard posted:I had an interview today with startup B that ended at 12, I had a positive decision in my email by 12.45 inviting me for a final on-site interview my current job was a 10-2 interview and when i finished the recruiter i was working with came in and said they wanted to move forward it was fantastic and a huge weight off my mind
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Mar 30, 2018 23:37
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ADINSX posted:Some dorks in the 70s figured out the best way to do it It’s not an easy problem, but Microsoft seems to be in the lead with theirs
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Mar 30, 2018 23:45
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Query optimisers are nuts. There's so much to learn about SQL, and every time you get close to thinking you finally basically understand it, another world of poo poo you don't know opens up. First it's joins and views, then maybe transactions, isolation levels and locks...then indexes and perhaps query plans...then you discover the joys of statistics, page splits, fill factors...and all that's just a tiny facet of the whole thing. I'm going to be looking for work soon, and I'm dreading getting interview questions on it. That said, I interviewed someone last week for a senior C# position who'd been using ORMs for years but said he couldn't answer any SQL questions because writing raw sql was a premature optimisation so he never bothered to learn it. It was like, wtf, how can you not even be interested.
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Mar 31, 2018 00:50
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there's a strange tendency for application programmers to view sql as somehow beneath them, which is especially funny when their application is primarily an interface to a sql database
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Mar 31, 2018 00:53
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went to apply again at a place i interviewed at last year and couldn't find any way to update my resume on their page. so much for that i guess.
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Mar 31, 2018 00:53
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toiletbrush posted:Query optimisers are nuts. There's so much to learn about SQL, and every time you get close to thinking you finally basically understand it, another world of poo poo you don't know opens up. First it's joins and views, then maybe transactions, isolation levels and locks...then indexes and perhaps query plans...then you discover the joys of statistics, page splits, fill factors...and all that's just a tiny facet of the whole thing. I'm going to be looking for work soon, and I'm dreading getting interview questions on it. Dude if you know that indices are ordered then you are above 99% of fuckheads that work with databases.
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Mar 31, 2018 01:11
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Shaman Linavi posted:went to apply again at a place i interviewed at last year and couldn't find any way to update my resume on their page. so much for that i guess. this happened to me too why are online application portals so universally poo poo?
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Mar 31, 2018 05:19
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HoboMan posted:this happened to me too it’s recruiting but automated by the lowest bidder
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Mar 31, 2018 06:17
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University portals for job recruiting lol. Another useless North American invention.
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Mar 31, 2018 07:52
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please upload your resume and also type in everything worst one i've seen so far is the danish police's recruiting portal which is a SAP-web-thing
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Mar 31, 2018 10:18
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Boiled Water posted:please upload your resume and also type in everything Pigs out of YOSPOS.
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Mar 31, 2018 11:56
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Pendragon posted:on the subject of callbacks, I asked my boss what he says to candidates that don't make it. I like to take the final interview one-on-one because then you can be pretty open with the candidate about why you're rejecting them, and maybe even allow them to ask questions and such, without making it a public-humiliation style situation with some other interviewer present
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Mar 31, 2018 17:01
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i have a "meeting" scheduled with the cio of the company that purchased us to "gauge my willingness to work with them"
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Mar 31, 2018 17:58
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HoboMan posted:this happened to me too the people paying for them aren't the people who will use them
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Mar 31, 2018 18:23
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Boiled Water posted:worst one i've seen so far is the danish police's recruiting portal which is a SAP-web-thing yeah it's a bit overkill for a form that just asks whether or not you hate roma
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Mar 31, 2018 18:24
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Progressive JPEG posted:yeah it's a bit overkill for a form that just asks whether or not you hate roma hey now that’s uncalled for it also needs to ask if you’re currently a pig. you have to tell the truth otherwise it’s entrapment
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Mar 31, 2018 18:26
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DELETE CASCADE posted:there's a strange tendency for application programmers to view sql as somehow beneath them, which is especially funny when their application is primarily an interface to a sql database i absolutely rag on this for any of my other coworkers that are like "oh you dont need to do SQL so its great" this is how we got mongo motherfcukers
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Apr 2, 2018 16:40
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DELETE CASCADE posted:there's a strange tendency for application programmers to view sql as somehow beneath them, which is especially funny when their application is primarily an interface to a sql database sql is the only good part of any application
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Apr 2, 2018 16:41
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I just had an idea. I'm going to create a recurrent neural network bot trained on shaggar's post history and which automatically posts within seconds whenever the subject of SQL or Microsoft hits a thread on yospos, and see if anyone notices the difference.
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Apr 2, 2018 17:33
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qhat posted:I just had an idea. I'm going to create a recurrent neural network bot trained on shaggar's post history and which automatically posts within seconds whenever the subject of SQL or Microsoft hits a thread on yospos, and see if anyone notices the difference. don't forget bicycles
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Apr 2, 2018 17:35
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I got a cold email from some external recruiter a couple weeks ago for a job in South Dakota so I deleted it thinking it was just normal mail merge spam. nope - the guy has followed up four times. gotta figure a normal person would figure out I wasn't going to respond after the second one where he said they were in the final round of interviews and I'd better hurry up to be considered didn't get me running in visibly out of breath holding a half-crumpled resume, but no, not this dude. maybe it's actually a sympathy play because I am wondering just how desperate you have to be to be so obviously thirsty
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Apr 2, 2018 19:26
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Munkeymon posted:I got a cold email from some external recruiter a couple weeks ago for a job in South Dakota so I deleted it thinking it was just normal mail merge spam. nope - the guy has followed up four times. gotta figure a normal person would figure out I wasn't going to respond after the second one where he said they were in the final round of interviews and I'd better hurry up to be considered didn't get me running in visibly out of breath holding a half-crumpled resume, but no, not this dude. maybe it's actually a sympathy play because I am wondering just how desperate you have to be to be so obviously thirsty this is the best one i've gotten so far  'chances are good that you are not interested in in basically anything i have to say haha' not exactly making a good pitch, pal
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Apr 2, 2018 19:58
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prior to the ucf/auburn bowl game, i had a recruiter pitch me a "bet" on the game. if ucf won i'd get a bowl game t-shirt; if auburn won i'd have to listen to his recruiter spiel for a half hour. i accepted. ucf won; i didn't get a t-shirt.
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Apr 2, 2018 20:11
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Rex-Goliath posted:this is the best one i've gotten so far Tek systems from my experience are universally a bunch of clowns who have no idea what they are doing
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Apr 2, 2018 23:10
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qhat posted:
ftfy
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Apr 2, 2018 23:23
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qhat posted:Tek systems from my experience are universally a bunch of clowns who have no idea what they are doing I got roped into a 15 minute conversation with one of their recruiters months ago before I got my current job. Apparently that recruiter left a month or two ago because since then I've been getting weekly voicemails from different recruiters saying that "so-and-so isn't with us anymore, but I'd be happy to connect and continue where you left off!" which leads me to believe that the second you leave the recruiting world your former coworkers all descend upon your contact list like vultures on an animal carcass.
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Apr 3, 2018 02:52
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kloa posted:ftfy At least most of the people that contact me read my profile and understand that if I have C++ then I can probably do a C++ job, and not like loving tech support or something.
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Apr 3, 2018 03:18
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quote:Join a company who is growing, awesome building, and laid back and people focused company culture. if the people writing stuff like this are the people reviewing resumes maybe i shouldn't worry so much about having
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Apr 3, 2018 05:08
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qhat posted:At least most of the people that contact me read my profile and understand that if I have C++ then I can probably do a C++ job, and not like loving tech support or something. I too am wanted for my language skills. the language is Danish the job is literal printer support at xerox at one third my current wage “what do you mean you’re not interested in a phone interview?”
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Apr 3, 2018 06:03
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i dreamed that there was another layoff and i was the only one left, and when i tried to quit the company wouldn't let me. i spoke to the HR pawns but they didn't hear me, so I grabbed one and tried to sit her back down to process me but she just kept walking. the global boss insisted that he needed me for a project (do not ask what the project is!)
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Apr 3, 2018 13:36
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So (while feverish because recruiter want it done now!11one  ) I did a thing:quote:Merge sort a really big file in a weird wonky way. So I do it, and I pull out Moby Dick!  I try to send it in, and I run into spamfilter after spamfilter after spamfilter. Dunno if it's because of a .zip with my code, or "Dick" in the text. Don't Care. So I want. Then the correspondence: Recruiter: We heard from $JOB last night and unfortunately they did not feel that the coding exercise was in line with what they were looking for. They will be sending you the $200 payment for your time. I will let you know when new positions open up with our other clients. Thanks! Me: Did they have any specific feedback? I was under the impression they cared about implementation and if it ran in reasonable time. Were they expecting object models or more methods added to the interface? Recruiter: This was all that we were told: The test results did not meet our expectations. Me: Sorry for the pithy response. Recruiter: We can try to get more detailed feedback for you. If we get anything more, I will let you know! Me: It's not your fault that's all they said but I'm a little speechless. It ran on my machine, fit the requirements they gave as best as I understood, and I anticipated some sort of review/"why this way?" process. I did this while sick with a fever so maybe I overlooked something? Maybe they don't like tuples? If you can't get anything else from them don't worry.  lol interviews and screenings are shitshow. I'm glad I got $200 for it instead of a "gently caress you". Also in further "WTF" I actually passed a Hackerrank. I guess I'm slightly less bad now. The WTF part is I'll be potentially working for a certain burrito company. Edit: my code, in it's glorious terribleness. https://pastebin.com/JPFxG5YB What should I be NOT doing in the future or more doing in the future? Object models? More classes? If it's a one off tool to do one thing and one thing only why would I bother doing so? I'm not asking to be petulant I want to understand their thinking, and what I should be doing, especially if they are two separate things. Space Whale fucked around with this message at 18:17 on Apr 3, 2018 |
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i mean you probably shouldn't be posting interview questions verbatim either tbh
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