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LLSix posted:Looking for some feedback on my resume. I tried to inline my language and technical skills with their relevant tasks and job experience to make space for more work experience examples. 1. Order your professional experience newest to oldest. 2. Kill the associations 3. Highlight your personal projects more than just saying you did them and not even specify/link to them 4. Format your sections like you would code (indentation can be your friend here) 5. Try to cut down on the amount of text for each of your lines. Indenting above will mean you'll have less space to fit things in which will help you out in the long run.
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Doh004 posted:1. Order your professional experience newest to oldest. Also, it's not against the rules to have different resumes for different job applications. It's a marketing document, so if you're trying to switch from embedded to web dev, emphasize web dev experience. Obviously don't make anything up, but your resume should be "I'm a great all-around developer who has experience with {web dev technologies} and many years of experience with other technologies" whereas if you were applying to embedded software positions it would be more like "I am a fantastic embedded developer with many years of experience". Right now the embedded position is largest and most prominent (which makes sense, you were there 7 years) but you need to have your web dev experience front and center. vonnegutt fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Oct 11, 2018 |
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Oct 11, 2018 15:19
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Some idiot on LinkedIn thinks they can tempt me with a short-term tier-1 IT tech job provisioning laptops and setting up meeting rooms. 
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Oct 14, 2018 02:57
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I deleted my LinkedIn account not that long ago. The only activity I saw on it was from terribad recruiters trying to friend me in order to mine my network, or pitching completely irrelevant openings. I also didn’t like at all that LinkedIn put public profiles behind a login wall. People can’t see my resume without giving LinkedIn their own information and being tracked? Screw that.
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Oct 14, 2018 16:28
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Thought I'd cross-post my recent tech screening experience from the Game Jobs thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3415662&pagenumber=611&perpage=40#post488827364 I'm probably going to try the 4 week intensive studying thing before I try any more applications and see how it goes.
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Oct 14, 2018 22:34
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Just wanted to get other people's thoughts on this job posting I came across. They mention: * "Unprecedented" revenue growth * "Urgent need" for senior development manager + senior testing manager * 4 year degree + 3-5 years experience, ideally in JS / jQuery, CSS, and web applications * "Annual earnings potential of over $100,000" * "Casual, fun, team environment with a family feel" The high salary + low experience requirement kind of throws me for a loop. I live in WNY which has an absurdly low cost of living, but $100K would be a 53% pay increase for me. I think I'm going to apply, but it sounds a little too good to be true? Either that or they'll work you like a dog - and my life schedule really cannot afford overtime.
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Oct 18, 2018 17:03
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I'm on the west coast and 100k doesn't seem unrealistic for that level of experience. The red flag for me is that it's described as "earnings potential", which makes me suspect the company has some weird compensation structure. ("Casual, fun environment with family feel" is also a giant red flag for me, but different strokes and all.)
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Oct 18, 2018 17:13
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Yeah, "earnings potential" sounds like those "speeds of up to 100MBps" kinds of claims you see on broadband ads.
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Oct 18, 2018 18:05
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Agreed on both accounts of potential red flags
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Oct 18, 2018 18:43
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Earnings "potential" makes me think they're going to hand you a bunch of currently-worthless stock with a ridiculously low base pay, or have some bizarro bonus structure involving a bunch of sales crap instead of dev work.
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Oct 18, 2018 19:32
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That sounds like an ad you’d see stapled to a telephone pole.
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Oct 18, 2018 19:36
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It'll be an $11.42 per hour job and as long as you work every single hour of every single day in a year you can hit $100,000
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Oct 18, 2018 20:01
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I'm betting on poo poo salary, but with big bonus opportunities! (I'm sorry we don't have the money for a bonus this year (for you - we're buying everyone in upper management a boat though)).
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Oct 18, 2018 20:05
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Earnings "potential" is the language they use when they're talking about bonuses that you theoretically could get but aren't guaranteed. And yes, it's a red flag because you have no idea how realistic the criteria for the bonuses are.
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Oct 19, 2018 09:53
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a hot gujju bhabhi posted:Earnings "potential" is the language they use when they're talking about bonuses that you theoretically could get but aren't guaranteed. And yes, it's a red flag because you have no idea how realistic the criteria for the bonuses are. Right. A good job pays you well regardless of the "potential" for bonuses. Bonuses are, well, bonuses. It's great when they come along, but they don't make up for lovely base pay. The ideal is to be paid well AND to receive good bonuses, but if I had to choose between the two, I'd choose "be paid well without bonuses".
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Oct 19, 2018 14:52
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I think I've gotten into a good rhythm with work now. "Day job" client: 5 day work weeks at contractor day rates, 1 day per week in the office. "Part time" client: fully remote evenings and weekends and other spare moments as and when I feel like it, fixed-quote based on a generous hourly rate. When I have enough money (lol) I'll likely cut my day job clients down to maybe 3 days per week fully remote and drop my part time clientele, or can the day job entirely and take enough "free time" jobs to get by. Eventually... I've already resolved never to take gigs requiring more than 2 days in the office per week. It's just not worth it on any scale.
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Oct 19, 2018 23:54
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Any of y'all work jobs on upwork? I've made a few hundred off it, but the biggest success was forming a relationship with someone who has me refresh his football app every summer in anticipation for the next season.
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Oct 29, 2018 00:01
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I tried toptal and it seemed really promising until I failed the remarkably hard algorithms test, I'm thinking about studying a bit and giving that another go.
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Oct 29, 2018 00:02
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Careful Drums posted:Any of y'all work jobs on upwork? I've made a few hundred off it, but the biggest success was forming a relationship with someone who has me refresh his football app every summer in anticipation for the next season. I've done a decent amount of Upwork freelancing and it's okay. I found gun.io to be by far the best freelancing site because it has higher quality clients with larger budgets. They have people who screen both clients and freelancers (rather than register and you're in right away) so you get a lot less "make me an operating system for $100" type stuff.
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Oct 29, 2018 21:11
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awesomeolion posted:I've done a decent amount of Upwork freelancing and it's okay. I found gun.io to be by far the best freelancing site because it has higher quality clients with larger budgets. They have people who screen both clients and freelancers (rather than register and you're in right away) so you get a lot less "make me an operating system for $100" type stuff. gun.io seems to be targeting full time freelancers, would be worthwhile to get some part time work too? I've tried upwork before and was turned off by all of the "build crm addon for $10/hour" garbage.
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Oct 29, 2018 21:22
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The Fool posted:gun.io seems to be targeting full time freelancers, would be worthwhile to get some part time work too? There's this question on the registration form:  So I would guess they support both?
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Oct 30, 2018 03:09
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Whatup thread? I used a lot of the advice from here and landed myself a new job! Promotion, raise, and better gig all around! Lots of thanks to y'all. e: Some deets: + Started looking when I saw good peers bailing from old company. + Looked while still employed, spent six months in total. + I wound up revising my resume multiple times. + I definitely improved from every unsuccessful interview. + I got *way* better at interviewing -them-, i.e. "Do you have any questions for us?" My two go-to questions were "What does the day-to-day look like for this job?" which always led to further discussion, and "What does success look like for this job? -or- How do you measure success for this position?" + Sucked it up and negotiated upwards a good amount from the original offer - which I would have jumped at before this. Holy hell, negotiation has always been a weak point for me. Thots and Prayers fucked around with this message at 03:23 on Oct 30, 2018 |
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Oct 30, 2018 03:15
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Thots and Prayers posted:Whatup thread? I used a lot of the advice from here and landed myself a new job! Congratulations  I swear one time when I dropped the "What does success look like here" question to a C-level type as a young college grad the dude came in his pants and offered me a job.
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Oct 30, 2018 13:26
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I'm doing an interview via Google Hangouts and HackerRack next week...never done one of these "on line" coding things before  This is for a firmware engineering position so I'm even less certain what to expect. Isn't HackerRank testing primarily geared towards basic algorithms?
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Oct 30, 2018 18:08
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csammis posted:I'm doing an interview via Google Hangouts and HackerRack next week...never done one of these "on line" coding things before It also has a reasonably accessible in-browser IDE which is all the interviewer is using it for. It's kind of like remoting into their PC and typing in an IDE of the interviewer's choice but without all the pesky security issues that would raise. I'd suggest trying a few problems in whatever language the interview is going to be in. Not for the problems, but to get used to the error message you get back. They're often more cryptic than what you'd get in a non-browser IDE for that language.
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Oct 30, 2018 18:20
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Good advice about trying the environment beforehand. I'll give C and Python a whirl. From the confirmation link:quote:You will go through coding and algorithm based questions with one of our software engineers and you can use the language of your choice. The rest of the email sounds fairly boilerplate though and this company employs many different kinds of software engineers so who knows what I'll be asked  e: holy poo poo I really like that IDE. The prototype completion for C is priceless. Inline editors have come a long way since I last saw one. csammis fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Oct 30, 2018 |
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Oct 30, 2018 18:25
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Huh, I remember HackerRank's IDE being a text box set to monospace font, but that was years ago. Maybe I ought to see if my old account is still active.
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Oct 30, 2018 19:22
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Can anyone give me any advice on how to get my good bug reports? I can't seem to train management to include anything except screenshots.
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Oct 31, 2018 16:35
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They don't understand how much information you need to do your work; as far as they're concerned we're all magicians. So it's a combination of ignorance and laziness that you're fighting here. Document a process, get them to agree to it, and then start closing/bouncing bugs back with "sorry, this bug doesn't have enough information for us to be able to start work, please follow process as documented in <link to document>". During the "get them to agree to it" phase, you should point out that you want to be able to fix bugs, we're on the same side here, it's just a waste of everyone's time to create a bug that doesn't have enough info to be actionable. Ideally your bug-filing system lets you provide a default template that asks them for the info you need, but in my experience users will just ignore all the parts they don't feel like filling out unless they're appropriately motivated.
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Oct 31, 2018 17:12
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Ideally your bug-filing system lets you provide a default template that asks them for the info you need, but in my experience users will just ignore all the parts they don't feel like filling out unless they're appropriately motivated. This is how we got our customer support department to start including a fundamental unique ID in all their bug reports, plus we made the field required. I don't know how well that would work with management as the offending party though; without buy-in they're just going to force whoever manages the bug report system to make the field not required. TooMuchAbstraction has the right approach in general though: messaging, emphasizing that you need this information because you want to help and it will let you help faster/at all. Document how people can get the information you need, and if it's really hard to get, consider buliding something that will make it easy for them to get - if they have to jump through a lot of hoops, especially technical hoops, they're never going to cooperate.
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Che Delilas posted:This is how we got our customer support department to start including a fundamental unique ID in all their bug reports, plus we made the field required. I don't know how well that would work with management as the offending party though; without buy-in they're just going to force whoever manages the bug report system to make the field not required. Shouldn't the bug system create and assign that ID automatically?
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Nov 3, 2018 00:00
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Doom Mathematic posted:Shouldn't the bug system create and assign that ID automatically? I don't mean a unique ID for the ticket that they're creating, I mean the unique ID of the thing that's wrong in the product we make/support. Like, say, Location ID. "There's something wrong with WalMart Canada" "We have 470 different WalMart Canada locations. What's the LocationID."
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Nov 3, 2018 01:38
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Get some data together to show how much faster bugs get fixed when filed with the right amount of data versus incomplete. That'll make the buy in a lot easier and help you demonstrate that you're on the side of the customer (management).
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Nov 9, 2018 14:25
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(don't doxx me thx) My web presence stuff isn't quite there yet - I probably won't apply anywhere until the new year. I've gotten started developing a dumb little web-based game with ASP.NET Core /MVC just to show proof I can do the things on the resume and I need to actually write some blog posts to show I can communicate over the web, but hey, the resume is a start. moved to other career thread Careful Drums fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Nov 14, 2018 |
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I have a bit of a conundrum. I've been referred for a position at a well-known $localTechCompany. It's apparently a great place to work and I'm sick of my current job, so I'm very interested in following up on this position. $localTechCompany is a solid and well-established firm, with pretty reasonable financial performance. I'd be joining a small satellite office - ~5% of their headcount - in my city. They've been growing this office aggressively and are moving into new offices next year. However, news has recently come out that a large international $privateEquityFirm is interested in taking over $localTechCompany. I know gently caress all about business, but commentators seem to think the deal isn't unrealistic. The current and long-term CEO is also leaving at the end of this year. So, I'm concerned. On the one hand, this is a decent position at a well-performing org. On the other, I don't really think it's wise to trust that $privateEquityFirm won't be doing normal  things like shutting down unneeded offices (i.e. the one here) and/or reducing headcount (i.e. new hires i.e. potentially me). On the other other hand, the takeover might not even go ahead!The potential takeover makes me very nervous and unwilling to pursue this opportunity - I like stability and not being fired. But there's a nonzero chance that's just an excuse I've come up with to stay at $currentJob which, while poo poo, is at least a known quantity that will tide me over while I find a recruiter or some poo poo. I really don't know what to think or consider or look out for.
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Nov 21, 2018 10:58
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Stability is an illusion.
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Nov 21, 2018 11:50
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Gildiss posted:Stability is an illusion. Yeah this. Your current job won't hesitate to can you if it becomes expedient for them to do so. IMO the only stability you have is your own skills and living in a seller's market. Also bear in mind that we tend to fear loss much more than equivalent or greater gain. Embrace the change!
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Nov 21, 2018 12:55
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redleader posted:I really don't know what to think or consider or look out for. What are the odds you could come back to your current job if the new job disappears? You said you’re tired of current job, but if they’re still happy with your performance I’m sure they’d put you top of the list if you came back in a year.
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Was the CEO a founder of the company? It spells trouble for that business that she's leaving and there's talks of a PE buyout. I would not hinder your career growth if it's an upward move. But be absolutely sure to go into it with your eyes open that things are going to likely be hosed in the medium to long term, and prioritze making sure you get compensated and you get a title bump well over any cultural or interesting work promises (you should be doing this anyway)
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Anyone in the thread willing to share their experience and/or advice regarding taking a sabbatical/extended leave or an unemployment "gap"? My current title is the equivalent of "Intermediate Software Developer" and I'd liking be applying for the same title after a ~6-8 month period of unemployment. Wife and I are discussing one of us taking a break for a puppy (among other things) and I a) earn less b) have a less specialist role and have been at current employer for quite some time, where as she recently switched. So makes sense that I'm the one. My primary concern is explaining the gap in the future. I'm sure my current boss would provide a reference to alleviate the whole "he probably got fired" thing, but that would require getting to the stage of reference checking. The market is quite healthy here for my skills, but I'm still concerned about how this will affect my career?
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