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Just passing along this potential opportunity. This is not my team or group so I do not have any additional insight or influence to share really but if you have questions about working at the university in general, feel free to PM me. Benefits are excellent and you should just add another 10% on top of the salary figure to account for the retirement matching that is provided (it's 2-for-1 matching on a 5% contribution). 5 weeks vacation time, separate sick time pool, week between Christmas and New Years off, etc etc. The manager of the group provided this additional info via email when sharing the posting: quote:We’re excited to share a fantastic opportunity within our Emerging Technologies group, widely recognized as the AI Services Team, in ITS. We’re seeking a passionate full-stack software developer to join us. https://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/257735/senior-emerging-technologies-engineer
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Yeaahhhhhhh I know. They are throwing a bunch of money at this though and everybody is real excited about it. Considering it is gen AI for a university, you'll probably enable people to use it for poo poo that isn't just bullshit capitalist number go up reasons (maybe, idk, not my team)!! Plus once you get your foot in the door its a lot easier to move around if that's what you want to do. The team lead has been around for forever and is, from what I've heard, a good guy to work for.
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Maybe the solution for all the mismanaged or stalled-out digital transformation projects across the nation is to throw an entirely new category of consultant into the mix.
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Throwing consultants into a mixer? Sounds great!
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Fire me a PM if you're interested. unknown fucked around with this message at 15:56 on Apr 1, 2025 |
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Any tier 3+ remote jobs or positions available in SoCal? Went through 3 rounds of interviews for a month to get rejected because the other dude had more government experience than me. Went through 2 rounds of interviews for a 4 weeks for another position that went well and they just outright rejected me with no feedback. I recently picked up an AZ-104 cert alongside CompTIA A+, Network+, Security+ certifications and got about 8-9 of enterprise IT experience. BA in CS and AS in IT. Literally revamped my entirely my resume too. I’m 6 months out right now from work. Never had this much trouble. What the gently caress am I doing wrong?
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kaaj posted:Location: Dublin, Ireland (or based around it and can commute to it 50% of time. Exceptional candidates may be able to negotiate remote from anywhere in Ireland) I’ll quote myself again because we had a candidate for this position in Boulder, CO but they backed out a day before starting PM for details, I’m guessing requirements will be either for Software Engineer/ Senior Software Engineer, depending on seniority. Knowledge and experience with Istio is a massive plus, good programming skills + Dev Ops background would be ideal. But so far we’ve been getting candidates who had two of Istio / Dev Ops + K8s / Programming. Strong 2 out of these 3 are what we’re looking for as a minimum.
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False Toaster posted:Any tier 3+ remote jobs or positions available in SoCal? Went through 3 rounds of interviews for a month to get rejected because the other dude had more government experience than me. Went through 2 rounds of interviews for a 4 weeks for another position that went well and they just outright rejected me with no feedback. Job market is messed up right now. There’s enough of open positions but crazy competition to get them. I’ve got friends who got unjustifiably fired and are hardcore studying for last few months to compete with others. There’s also rather more specialized positions and not much candidates for these. Remote is weird because you can ace a month of interviews and they’ll choose someone who’s cheaper from another place in the country (happened to two of my friends). All this to say is that the situation is hosed up and I really wish you all the strength while battling it.
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kaaj posted:Job market is messed up right now. There’s enough of open positions but crazy competition to get them. I’ve got friends who got unjustifiably fired and are hardcore studying for last few months to compete with others. There’s also rather more specialized positions and not much candidates for these. Remote is weird because you can ace a month of interviews and they’ll choose someone who’s cheaper from another place in the country (happened to two of my friends). I'm four months out looking for a DBA position and a third of the listings require active Secret clearance, the other third are contract positions, and then I have to try and filter for the correct RDBMS from the remaining third. I've gotten two whole interviews, both leading nowhere. Currently studying for the 1Z0-082 and 1Z0-083 exams to try to make myself a more appealing candidate (even though Oracle goes out of their way to make preparation more difficult by not publishing exam prep material).
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Batterypowered7 posted:I'm four months out looking for a DBA position and a third of the listings require active Secret clearance, the other third are contract positions, and then I have to try and filter for the correct RDBMS from the remaining third. I've gotten two whole interviews, both leading nowhere. Currently studying for the 1Z0-082 and 1Z0-083 exams to try to make myself a more appealing candidate (even though Oracle goes out of their way to make preparation more difficult by not publishing exam prep material). We may have had a DBA role just open up. Shoot me a PM with some background / resume? Fully remote
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Walked posted:We may have had a DBA role just open up. Shoot me a PM with some background / resume? Fully remote Donezo!
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Batterypowered7 posted:I'm four months out looking for a DBA position and a third of the listings require active Secret clearance, the other third are contract positions, and then I have to try and filter for the correct RDBMS from the remaining third. I've gotten two whole interviews, both leading nowhere. Currently studying for the 1Z0-082 and 1Z0-083 exams to try to make myself a more appealing candidate (even though Oracle goes out of their way to make preparation more difficult by not publishing exam prep material). Don't be afraid to apply for databases you don't know directly. I work for a nosql database company and we hire RDBMS people all the time. Going from Oracle to Postgres or whatever isn't anywhere near as big a lift.
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I’m in month 20 of looking for work and have only had a handful of interviews. Had to take a help desk job almost a year ago just to keep a roof above my head. The job market is absolutely hosed.
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Blurb3947 posted:I’m in month 20 of looking for work and have only had a handful of interviews. Had to take a help desk job almost a year ago just to keep a roof above my head. The job market is absolutely hosed. Quoting but also wanted to bump this thread. I can't make sense of things, seems super regional maybe? I'm in Pittsburgh and fortunately am still employed however we have gone through a couple rounds of culling over the past two years. The strange thing is everyone who got the axe walked into something new with what seems very little trouble and generally for more money. Granted I'm at an F500 and everyone at my level are 10+ year super strong generalists at minimum, I have heard that the younger crowd trying to break into anything past tier 1 is having a real bad time.
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ProperCauldron posted:Was laid off. OK for a couple months but really don't want to greet thanksgiving in panic mode. e-friends I'm desperate in NYC. This has been the worse job search of my life. EVERYTHING is either 50K or 150K, entry or senior, but I'm looking for the middle. I had a crackping moment this morning from seeing a VMware Admin job posting for $22/hour. I've resigned to looking at help desk postings and there's still none that are a good fit.
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Why are you not going for Senior positions? On the surface it looks like that's where you should be at.
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You're also more likely to meet your remote work requirements as a senior.
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The Fool posted:Why are you not going for Senior positions? On the surface it looks like that's where you should be at. The Fool posted:You're also more likely to meet your remote work requirements as a senior. Impostor Syndrome is a hell of a thing. E: Also new year, same old me, except now I'm studying for the 1Z0-082 and 1Z0-083 exams for the OCP for Oracle databases. Seeking I used to work for General Motors but was unceremoniously informed on the morning of August 19, 2024 that I had been one of over 1000 employees that had suddenly been let go from their Software & Services division. Location: Marietta, GA area, but I'd prefer remote jobs if at all possible. Education: Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, Master of Science in Computer Science Experience: 3 years of Oracle Siebel CRM development, 1 years of IBM DataStage and Broadcom AutoSys work, 4 years of SAP HANA and Oracle database administration Seeking: An SAP HANA or Oracle database administration position. I'm willing to apply for database administration positions for different RDBMSs if given the chance to grow into the role relatively quickly. Relocation: No please. Marietta, Georgia or the surrounding areas. I was commuting ~30 minutes to Roswell, GA and am willing to travel a similar distance for hybrid work. Skills:
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The Fool posted:Why are you not going for Senior positions? On the surface it looks like that's where you should be at. Yeah it's this, also from what you all say $150k in NYC isn't like super senior anyway
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Thanks Ants posted:Yeah it's this, also from what you all say $150k in NYC isn't like super senior anyway It's not. Actual senior in-office positions in big cities like NYC should be in the $250-350 range. My first job in the NY Metro area started at $90k when I had 5ish years of experience and no degree, and that was a decade ago. Edit: While I'm here, is anyone looking for someone with a really strong background in Semantics/Graphs/Library Sciences? One of my coworkers was laid off and she is an absolute gem. KillHour fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Jan 8, 2025 |
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Batterypowered7 posted:Impostor Syndrome is a hell of a thing. I haven't heard back from any Senior position I've applied. It's not [insert pop psych term like a weird rear end in a top hat here]. I'm not an IT superfan, it's just my job, not my lifestyle. I'm an adept worker/learner but I don't love the field. Even days caring about gaming PC's are long gone. I like the ease and $$$, I did manual labor for years. I think I'm A+ support with a knack for fixing things but I'm not a Lead or Manager. That's ok, punch in punch out is good enough for me. I'm perfect at being a #2 for a senior. Big raises with every new job is what's kept me around. Senior positions tend to want an enterprise level builder designer/builder. I can't build an entire backup solution from scratch. I'm not buying physical gear for a homelab. No networking or vendor specific certs. Free time with Microsoft, Amazon, Google products. (This is always easier when unemployed though. I struggle with working+IT during personal time) Can't script aside from intermediate powershell or bash. Little experience with AI/ML, IaC, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Chef, Puppet The variety of job titles and responsibilities is very wide. I always have a couple of requirements but I'm always missing a couple too. I'm good at in-person interviews when you meet the people who matter. Phone or virtual interviews with the HR stooges are grim. If it's so easy feel free to share job postings instead of being smug about them. I'll venmo you $200 from my first paycheck.
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I'm going to give you some tough advice that you're not going to like: You're failing your HR screens because of that exact attitude. Nobody wants to hire somebody who spent the last 12 years coasting and doesn't see themselves as lead material. IT is an industry full of turbo nerds and overachievers, and NYC seems to attract an even higher concentration of both. You are competing with a several dozen other people - half of whom claim to be Linux Jesus and spend their free time arguing about code style on open source projects, and the other half jack off to the idea of themselves being the next Elon Musk between rails of coke. You don't have to like work, and you don't have to have aspirations of greatness. But you need to pretend you do to get a job, because if you don't, they will hire one of the schmucks lined up out the door behind you who will. There are two exceptions to this - having extensive, proven expertise in a critical tech that everyone wants (right now, this means AI), or working for the government / a non profit / schools for poo poo pay but decent job security. Edit: As someone who works with architect-level people who make salaries that start with 2 and 3 literally all day long, 90% of them don't know what the gently caress they're doing and are just making poo poo up as they try not to drop the spinning plates. Sometimes, this includes me, because nobody can know everything all the time. Being senior doesn't mean knowing all the things, it means being really good at figuring it out without causing too much damage or wasting too much KillHour fucked around with this message at 05:22 on Jan 9, 2025 |
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Technology is, by far, the industry seeing the highest level of growth and innovation in the West. With that comes a commensurate amount of constant change. It is not a great field for you if you are not interested in learning about and using new tools of the trade. I’m going to go a bit further than KillHour here and say that not only do you need to convincingly pretend to give a poo poo in interviews, you also actually need to learn some of the poo poo you’ve just breezily ignored. I appreciate that it is annoying to keep up with the Joneses and learn the latest reinvention of the wheel, but them’s the breaks. You’ve expressed that you are desperate to find a new job and are worried about finances. Take an evening to study a new tool on your list, and then put it on your resume. Do home lab projects and put them down in your resume as freelance work, which you should do anyways to avoid giving an appearance of joblessness. Apply to those senior jobs, learn the questions they ask in the interviews and phone screens, and figure out the right answer for any interview questions you don’t get right after the fact. When you look at a job description full of tools you aren’t familiar with, chances are you can learn enough about them in four hours of study and practice to beat 90% of their other applicants. Since you aren’t working, you have the time to do this. Once you’ve learned something, you get to put it on your resume forever. Without looking to start an argument about AI, chatGPT/gemini/claude3.5 (especially the latter!) are phenomenal tutors regarding technical concepts, and will likely be the fastest mechanism for troubleshooting while learning the things you need to know to get hired. The Iron Rose fucked around with this message at 05:29 on Jan 9, 2025 |
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The Iron Rose posted:I’m going to go a bit further than KillHour here and say that not only do you need to convincingly pretend to give a poo poo in interviews, you also actually need to learn some of the poo poo you’ve just breezily ignored. I appreciate that it is annoying to keep up with the Joneses and learn the latest reinvention of the wheel, but them’s the breaks. I agree with this with the caveat that you don't actually need to spend all your free time on it. I only spend my free time on IT stuff when I'm genuinely interested in learning it for my own edification (granted, this isn't super rare in my case), and I take long breaks because you will burn out fast. Instead, the key is learning that poo poo on the job. Some IT manager bought Databricks but oops nobody knows how to use it? Guess what, you're the Databricks guy now. Doesn't matter if you barely managed to cobble something together after spending a month on it, you understand it better than anyone else around you and it can go on your resume - you're the Databricks lead, after all. Get paid to learn new poo poo then get paid more by some new company looking for someone that knows that poo poo. Rinse and repeat. The Iron Rose posted:Without looking to start an argument about AI, chatGPT/gemini/claude3.5 (especially the latter!) are phenomenal tutors regarding technical concepts, and will likely be the fastest mechanism for troubleshooting while learning the things you need to know to get hired. I recently became "The Azure Guy" (we are a billion $ IT software and services company why am I the loving Azure Guy!?), and this would have saved me so much time because Microsoft's documentation is shiiiiiit. On the other hand, Gemini still gets "turn on the kitchen lights" wrong, so it's probably just a different kind of pain. KillHour fucked around with this message at 05:39 on Jan 9, 2025 |
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KillHour posted:I agree with this with the caveat that you don't actually need to spend all your free time on it. I only spend my free time on IT stuff when I'm genuinely interested in learning it for my own edification (granted, this isn't super rare in my case), and I take long breaks because you will burn out fast. broadly agreed on all accounts and I too do not love doing more tech after eight hours of tech. fortunately there is a lot of opportunity to learn on the job. these past few months I’ve been actually learning how to do this DBA thing after seven years of “oooh SQL scary” - it’s very freeing honestly. databases are also an area LLMs have plenty of training data on; in general they excel when you’re asking about broad concepts that humans have studied extensively, rather than very specific or niche implementation details. On the other hand, I would be *much* less likely to trust them with the latest new features in azure, precisely because MS’ docs (I.e. said training data) are so poo poo! Anyways, I agree you shouldn’t spend all your free time becoming tech jesus. You should, however, spend at least a little bit of time trying to become tech jesus. The Iron Rose fucked around with this message at 05:51 on Jan 9, 2025 |
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I'm going to tell the story about being "The Azure Guy" because it's funny and relevant to the point. About 8 years ago, I was working for a different company running the technical training department and the CEO said "host the training in the cloud" and I said "that's a terrible idea" and he said "do it anyways everything needs to be in the cloud and it's gonna save us so much money," so I became "The Azure Guy." Turns out, 8 years ago, doing things like "create 16 VMs with identical images and predefined hostnames and also specific network configurations in a way that this is repeatable and scriptable" was really hard to do so my company flew me out to headquarters to sit in a room with a Microsoft Azure architect who told me "This is by far the most complex deployment I've ever worked on," and was shocked when we managed to get it working (IIRC, we needed to stand up a VM that hosted a custom DNS server to override whatever dumb poo poo MS was doing behind the scenes). I then didn't touch Azure for 8 years until about 6 months ago when my current company needed a demo and training environment that didn't suck rear end and I became "The Azure Guy" again. About a month and a half into being "The Azure Guy," we had a sales engineer and a consultant/architect from Microsoft in a meeting and I showed them what I had been working on and I asked if we could get some additional functionality around it. They immediately replied with "I have never seen anyone do anything like that and if you asked me if it was possible I would have said no, but it's really cool and we should definitely support it." So here I am, having touched Azure twice, 8 years apart, with literal Microsoft employees who do nothing but Azure for a career telling me "Y'er a wizard, Harry" both times. This isn't to brag - I guarantee most of us have war stories just like this - it's to say that everything in IT is the Wild West and it moves so fast that it's real easy to make a niche for yourself because nobody knows everything, even if it's their job. Actually, that was a lie, it was mostly to complain that Azure is still a broken piece of poo poo 8 years later.
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I completely agree with everything said above. And as someone who been in the industry for a long, long time if you are applying from the something senior in a major metro like LA, NYC, SF, etc. you need to know your poo poo. It's highly competitive and you are going to be around people who are necessarily addicted to work but put some level of serious effort into it. If you aren't doing that then they're going to pick someone cheaper like out of somewhere like Dallas, Phoenix, etc. or offshore. Gucci Loafers fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Jan 9, 2025 |
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I'm at the end of my rope over here. Over a thousand apps in the last 6 months, only a handful of interviews. I apply blind. I go through recruiters who recommend me to jobs I'm absolutely qualified for, immediate rejection. I just don't loving know what to do.
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Just passing along this posting I learned about. Devops-y looking job at University of Michigan. I have no knowledge of the role or team beyond what is in the job description, it just seemed like something that might be up some goon's alley: https://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/258147/application-development-manager-research-administration-systems
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Ghostnuke posted:I'm at the end of my rope over here. Over a thousand apps in the last 6 months, only a handful of interviews. I apply blind. I go through recruiters who recommend me to jobs I'm absolutely qualified for, immediate rejection. I just don't loving know what to do.
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ilkhan posted:What do you know, what are you applying for? Have you had your resume reviewed? Hell, I'll post my resume if it helps. Have had it professionally gone over, etc. I'm in Azure admin.
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Ghostnuke posted:Hell, I'll post my resume if it helps. Have had it professionally gone over, etc. I'm in Azure admin. There is a resume thread in BFC as well with a decent amount of traffic including hiring managers and goons familiar with the stylistic trends. The OP is a helpful place to start as well. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3553582&pagenumber=1
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Ghostnuke posted:I'm at the end of my rope over here. Over a thousand apps in the last 6 months, only a handful of interviews. I apply blind. I go through recruiters who recommend me to jobs I'm absolutely qualified for, immediate rejection. I just don't loving know what to do. Simply apply to jobs, and then earn 7 times the national average. What's wrong with you? Society is a perfect meritocracy, you see. Really though Ghostnuke, I randomly found this reddit post https://old.reddit.com/r/jobsearchhacks/comments/1hxnnhf/i_scraped_16_million_jobs_with_chatgpt/ which links to https://hiring.cafe/ which has tons of IT jobs that I haven't even seen on Indeed/Dice You should definitely check it out.
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ProperCauldron posted:which links to https://hiring.cafe/ which has tons of IT jobs that I haven't even seen on Indeed/Dice Sick, hadn't come across this site yet. Thank you kindly. 
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ProperCauldron posted:Simply apply to jobs, and then earn 7 times the national average. What's wrong with you? Society is a perfect meritocracy, you see. This website's great!
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ProperCauldron posted:Simply apply to jobs, and then earn 7 times the national average. What's wrong with you? Society is a perfect meritocracy, you see. https://hiring.cafe/ + simple apps filter + https://simplify.jobs/ browser app, means I can fill out a job posting in like 20 seconds.
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ProperCauldron posted:Simply apply to jobs, and then earn 7 times the national average. What's wrong with you? Society is a perfect meritocracy, you see. Thank you, I'll give this a try.
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