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Sleng Teng posted:that's a really lovely comment to give, gently caress that Extremely unprofessional. Sounds like you made someone mad about something.
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probably felt like I wasted their time or something
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Branch Nvidian posted:probably felt like I wasted their time or something Some people are just assholes. Console yourself with the knowledge that you dodged the bullet of having to work with the kind of persson who would say poo poo like that to a stranger.
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Mar 28, 2024 17:59
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Yeah that was rude as poo poo. gently caress em.
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rotor posted:Some people are just assholes. not puter touchers tho that infamously nice and socially adjusted group
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Mar 28, 2024 18:16
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it didn't read like they were tryin to be dicks or otherwise rude to me. i dont know if that makes it better or worse, though
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Mar 28, 2024 18:19
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Achmed Jones posted:it didn't read like they were tryin to be dicks or otherwise rude to me. i dont know if that makes it better or worse, though yea they thought they were being nice by giving feedback in general the rule is listen to the no and not the reason and for good reason theres a bunch of other poo poo that could be at play here and so the feedback aint super helpful and is just discouraging
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occluded posted:hey fig thread My company has an office in Cardiff and we do hire at the intern/coop/jr level. We are also fully remote. Some of my coworkers will be at a beginner coding workshop they are sponsoring on April 9. It would be a great networking event for someone at your level. If you'd like more info, send me a DM so I don't dox myself.
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Mar 28, 2024 18:54
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Sorry, we only hire 10x engineers
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Mar 28, 2024 19:28
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getting a reply email after an interview that just says "skill issue"
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Mar 28, 2024 19:38
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i know you shouldn't care but i did like this one a lotquote:
this is why i didn't date for years. i hate dating and i hate job hunting.
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Mar 28, 2024 20:37
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cheese eats mouse posted:i know you shouldn't care but i did like this one a lot Its nice...and its a completely generic form email.
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Mar 28, 2024 20:45
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work has been pretty poo poo this week, which has me thinking about what I'd rather be working on instead. I think that answer is dev tools. the projects I've enjoyed the most at previous jobs have all revolved around improving the dev experience for the project team rather than adding a new feature to the widget we were building who hires for this? is this pretty much the domain of FAANGs or companies whose product is a dev tool? is this an area that has been hit especially hard by layoffs? most of my experience has been with startups in medical devices or medical adjacent, with my current job mostly boiling down to backend for a CRUD app. is there anything I can do resume wise to help sell myself for a role like this? does having written a neovim plugin with a few dozen stars count for anything here?
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Mar 29, 2024 01:20
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sounds like devops to me
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"we regret to inform you that the position you applied for has been closed due to unforeseen circumstances" was one of the ones I got when job hunting a couple months back that made me think, wow, gently caress you too. it's not like suddenly there was downsizing, because it was a drat municipal government job in an extremely fast growing city
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Kazinsal posted:"we regret to inform you that the position you applied for has been closed due to unforeseen circumstances" was one of the ones I got when job hunting a couple months back that made me think, wow, gently caress you too. it's not like suddenly there was downsizing, because it was a drat municipal government job in an extremely fast growing city the boomer whose job opened up when he retired decided he'd like to stay on for a few more years
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Mar 29, 2024 04:56
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Roosevelt posted:the boomer whose job opened up when he retired decided he'd like to stay on for a few more years my guess was either that or they internally promoted someone into the role yeah
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silvergoose posted:sounds like devops to me yeah, you might be right. dev tooling seems like a small slice of what devops usually does, but I guess you could say the same about plain software dev
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Mar 29, 2024 15:40
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"developer experience" or "devex" is the buzzword that i've been using to sell my bosses on investing in that kind of stuff, not sure if you'll find a lot of postings for it though
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Mar 29, 2024 18:04
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Kazinsal posted:my guess was either that or they internally promoted someone into the role yeah i once interviewed for a computer touching position at the mta. i went into an office at 10:30am on a saturday where a guy named "dino" asked me some pro-forma questions. i was 0% surprised to lose the job to whoever dino had preselected for the role.
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Mar 29, 2024 18:08
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Asleep Style posted:work has been pretty poo poo this week, which has me thinking about what I'd rather be working on instead. I think that answer is dev tools. the projects I've enjoyed the most at previous jobs have all revolved around improving the dev experience for the project team rather than adding a new feature to the widget we were building If you're working primarily on developer tools you're not directly contributing to the bottom line and that makes it easy to justify cutting your position. Go for it if you want, but just be aware that that's a potential issue.
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Mar 29, 2024 18:15
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ultrafilter posted:If you're working primarily on developer tools you're not directly contributing to the bottom line and that makes it easy to justify cutting your position. Go for it if you want, but just be aware that that's a potential issue. if you do tooling, its vitally important to include whatever logging and usage monitoring you can to generate the kind of metrics that let you say "this tool saved X developer hours last quarter, resulting in a savings of $Y"
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Mar 29, 2024 18:23
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ultrafilter posted:If you're working primarily on developer tools you're not directly contributing to the bottom line and that makes it easy to justify cutting your position. Go for it if you want, but just be aware that that's a potential issue. unless, as they said, you're working for a company that builds developer tools in my experience my best jobs have been with these kinds of companies, mostly because it's comprised of people who understand developer concerns since it's their entire business. there's tons of companies out there that work in this domain so you're not exactly limiting yourself too much by trying to focus on these kinds of companies. the question mostly comes down to which vertical you want to get into and the size of the company. you have your oracles and redhats down to your ten man tiny companies that are still pre revenue
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ultrafilter posted:If you're working primarily on developer tools you're not directly contributing to the bottom line and that makes it easy to justify cutting your position. Go for it if you want, but just be aware that that's a potential issue. I ran into this in my current job, but in a slightly different form. Instead of developer tools, it really was more of being on a team that was responsible for paying off tech debt to get us away from some unscalable patterns. It was really rewarding work, but could not be directly tied to revenue or product features. I asked my team lead at the time how the business value of my work could be quantified when it couldn't be tied to KPIs and he said he trusted his director. I was skeptical but it seemed to be going ok until the director quit ahead of almost all of his entire reporting structure getting laid off. I enjoyed the work, but it can be career limiting.
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as for how to modify your resume to target it just remember bdid's adage that all interviewing / job hunting is fundamentally a sales role. go over the whole thing and rewrite it such that anyone will see you through the lens you want to be seen through. if you want to work on tooling then emphasize your tooling work in any role you worked in. don't worry if it was just a one week project out of years working there. this is sales
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cheese eats mouse posted:i know you shouldn't care but i did like this one a lot I got a similar one once from HP, except it said I got to the final round and that they really liked me but decided to go with an internal hire and that I should apply for other jobs there, with a link to their jobs site so anyway I go to that website, fill out an essay and all that and it tells me it's a corporate policy that I can apply only once a year not to be deterred I write a polite email including the previous positive feedback to the hiring manager and recruitment I never heard back moral of the story, just keep sending out more applications, it's a numbers game, just world is a fallacy
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in other news i'm starting to get cold emails from recruiters again so i think the market may be turning around
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yeah, i've been getting a 2018-usual level. not 2021 craziness but not drastically reduced like last year
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PIZZA.BAT posted:in other news i'm starting to get cold emails from recruiters again so i think the market may be turning around the wild 'crooters are roaring (at you)
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PIZZA.BAT posted:in other news i'm starting to get cold emails from recruiters again so i think the market may be turning around you have to beat recruiters off of you with a stick I can’t get a recruiter to even recognize I exist we are not the same
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If you have to beat them off to get them to recognize you then they don't respect you enough to be worth your love
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bob dobbs is dead posted:yeah, i've been getting a 2018-usual level. not 2021 craziness but not drastically reduced like last year
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Waiting until my official start date to change my job title on LinkedIn. Looking forward to the recruiter spam that will hit me then.
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LanceHunter posted:Waiting until my official start date to change my job title on LinkedIn. Looking forward to the recruiter spam that will hit me then. You don't hibernate your LI account when you get a job?
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Quackles posted:You don't hibernate your LI account when you get a job? I don't really keep it super-active, but it's not really hibernated. Most of my activity is just adding certifications when I get them (and, of course, updating my job info when I land a new job).
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Branch Nvidian posted:probably felt like I wasted their time or something that’s impossible, they asked you in for interviews, they wasted your time. gently caress ‘em.
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Quackles posted:You don't hibernate your LI account when you get a job? i have found that linkedin advertises me to recruiters as “looking for a new gig” or whatever even when i am definitely not and have told them that.
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Private Speech posted:I got a similar one once from HP, except it said I got to the final round and that they really liked me but decided to go with an internal hire and that I should apply for other jobs there, with a link to their jobs site other moral of the story: do not work at hp also thanks for the replies earlier for my question about saying a number first
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i picked up "cracking the coding interview" and it's been a pretty great read at challenging me as i fill in the computer sci stuff that i avoided for so long and giving me hints, answers and also as both a quick and deep survey of interview questions i may be up against. I've also been watching abdul bari's series on data structures and algorithms, which also has sections on analyzing each algorithms space and time complexity. also on the reading list is "designing data intensive systems", and "system design interview" 1 and 2 all good stuff, would recommend
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cracking the coding interview i found good for getting into the mindset of "this is whiteboard bullshit not actually writing functional code" and the dos/don'ts that implies. system design interview is nice both for review if you've done some of that before, and learning new stuff regardless of whether you have. it's not deep or comprehensive, but the references are usually interesting enough; i've read a few "classic" papers because of them on a different topic, how common is international work for full remote positions these days? some positions explicitly mention that they're hiring from anywhere, or a given set of countries, but i'm gonna assume that if there's no mention of it, there's no choice but to be in the us (or wherever)? it's kind of pissing me off that nvidia has a bunch of what they say are full remote positions that are pretty much exactly in my wheelhouse, but they're all in the us whereas i'm in canada where they have jack poo poo. oh ATI, how i miss thee... wait gently caress does amd still do stuff in this frozen hellhole? i didn't even think of checking. gonna do that later
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