Volguus posted:

Now they're coming around so maybe in 10 years .NET will catch up to Java.

prisoner of waffles posted:

Me and my coworker wistfully wishing we were using Maven and not NuGet while enjoying many C# language features agree with this.

genki posted:

I use a combination of a work notebook and tracking tools. The tracking tools are great for items related to the work I'm doing, and the notebook is more like a todo list where I can list out the basic items I'd like to accomplish for the day (and sketch out things that I might need to visualize and/or take notes or whatever).

Generally I like writing things down. A nice notebook and a nice pen are just part of my workflow now.

Doctor w-rw-rw- posted:

unless you buy an iPad Pro

geeves posted:

So my coworker has pretty much grown his own family tree of old subordinates over the last few months (quick note: 2 have been here for 2.5 years). He's only brought in 4 people over the last three months to interview and pretty much made it clear he was only interested in hiring people he's managed before. He's brought in zero female candidates saying they weren't qualified enough, this is even after I audited their code and resume.

Then he brings in this Skeletor-looking nutsack this week. We actually interviewed this travesty of a human 3 years ago and there were red flags galore. We actually interviewed him for my coworker's position and he couldn't pass a simple code test. It wasn't anything major, we gave him a Fibonacci problem. He sat there for 5 minutes, in complete silence staring at the screen, even after we asked him what he was stuck on, etc. and said, "Let's work on this together and figure it out." Then he just pushed the laptop away and said, "I pass."

This week, I gave him a different problem - still just as simple - and the amount of handholding my boss and I had to do to get him through 15 lines of code was astounding. He has 13+ years of experience. The rest of the interview he sat around like he already had the job. Overall it was a very weird and awkward hour.

It gets better.

Two VPs interviewed him - just quick 15-minute meet and greets - and he told one of them that he had anger issues in the past.

I actually knew this as my coworker and two other members of his tree joked about this guy and his anger issues.

Coworker replied to the VP and said, "Yes, I actually fired him for that in the past because he blew up on somebody. But he's worked on it and is okay now."

Everyone but my coworker was uneasy about this guy, but yet he gets an offer. What the gently caress. I know we've had it rough finding talent in the city, but to slum it like this.

Basically everyone was overruled and the offer went out. gently caress. He has 13 years of experience and is getting an offer as a junior dev.

We're still a small team and we've had a couple of bad employees already over the years (that we got rid of thankfully). Hopefully he won't pass the background check.

Cirofren posted:

Mongo can do some neat stuff with location data, it has built in geospatial queries that can return locations inside a boundary or on an intersect.

Saved me a lot of time on a toy project. I'm no db expert though, is there a better query engine I could be using for locations?

Pollyanna posted:

The problem with housing is not your fault, it is the fault of capitalism and the bourgeoisie. It is, however, compounded by software engineers rarely being paid in proportion to the revenue and savings we generate for our companies. When we make fixes and changes that land our companies $200k/mo deals and we get shafted on our salaries and bonuses, then we’re effectively being conspired against to keep our wages low.

In a just world, we would be paid in proportion to what we generate.

CPColin posted:

Agreed!

comedyblissoption posted:

comedyblissoption posted:

I'm more contesting the idea that society needs corporate overlords

Good Will Hrunting posted:

I got my itinerary for my (first) on-site Friday. 1 hour of coding, 1 hour of design, 1 hour of culture fit and.... 1 hour dedicated to SQL it seems???? Not a single bullet from three jobs over the past 5 years lists anything at all SQL related, I don't even have it on my list of skills anymore after bombing 2 entirely SQL interviews last go around.

Why the gently caress are companies this braindead when it comes to recruiting and hiring?

Good Will Hrunting posted:

It wasn't in either of the job ads for the two teams I'm up for which is why I'm so perplexed. As a matter of fact I just went back and it specifically says "and usage of NoSQL type databases", of which I've used many.

asur posted:

It's far more likely that you're working with people who have good CS fundamentals. It's pretty obvious if someone has memorized a solution versus understanding it and that tends to get you rejected. My personal experience, based on two companies who had tribal questions and two companies with algorithm based questions, is that it weeds out the people who can't code, bottom 50, and leaves you with an above average workforce which leads to a much more productive work environment.

Also everyone focuses on the odd questions, about tries, red black trees, whatever, but you're far more likely to get questions around hashmaps, graphs, and generic or binary search trees.

Keetron posted:

"I am not experienced enough in this sprint thing to comment on it."
But actually I think your manager wants to hear you don't like it so he can kill it and go back to a process he understands.

School of How posted:

I experienced a handful of companies that made me perform some lengthy take home project, only to end up not offering me the job, despite me completing the take home exactly as they wanted it. SInce then I've developed the habit of asking "If I complete this take home project exactly as it's described, will you guarantee me with 100% certainty that you'll offer me a job" when asked to do a homework project. So far, literally 100% of the time I ask this, the answer is always "No". If the programmers were truly scarce, then the answer would always be "Yes, if you complete the take home project, then we'll definitely offer you a job"

School of How posted:

The only logical explanation is oversaturation. From 2010-2012 I received a total of 8 job offers. These were all without whiteboard interviews or take home projects. Since 2013 I've received a total of one job offer. Yet I've interviewed more times than I can count. A lot of those "rejections" come after I refuse to do the whiteboard or take home project. Many of them come without any explanation. Back in 2010-2012 I was rejected too, but not nearly as often, and it was always after I bombed the interview or some other explainable reason.

I would ask the person to explain what each project does, and why they decided to build it and why they stopped working on it. I would cross-check their answers to the code I see on the repository. Using this process, if someone is a fake developer, it'll be blatantly obvious.

Cancelbot posted:

To keep things on track. Should I tell my boss at all about this?

Cancelbot posted:

Thanks for the replies! Yeah my gut was not to so I went with that. I realise its a dumbass question to ask but I have been burned hard by "surprising" someone by handing my notice in as well. I don't owe my employer a drat thing but I like to be nice to the people I work with; yet they're not compatible feelings.

FMguru posted:

Yeah, you can be friendly with management, but you can't ever really be friends.

sunaurus posted:

Do you guys think that the junior-mid-senior scale is going to be changing (in an actually noticable way) at some point in the future? The idea that somebody with 5 years of experience is a "senior developer" in a whole lot of companies is totally nuts.

sunaurus posted:

I don't know what the measure should be, I don't even really care about what actual titles people use, I'm just a bit confused at how the scale can be so short (at least at every place I've ever worked and most places I've ever interviewed at) that you reach the "highest level" after just 5 years as a professional.

rsjr posted:

There are some developers who will never make senior, regardless of their years on the job.

Mega Comrade posted:

I definitely feel myself creeping towards the latter. Its hard to stay enthusiastic about programming when you do it 8 hours a day 5 days a week. I'm not starting to dislike my job or anything, but when I get home I find myself wanting to do anything as long as its not programmer related.

Sab669 posted:

Where do you people work where you can just arbitrarily decide to include new libraries/frameworks into your products?? If I told my boss I was going to add <whatever latest hot JS library> for some new feature we're adding I'd 100% get a very cockeyed look, then be told QA doesn't have the time to test such a thing enough. I'm all for trying to write better code, but that seems like the extent of my "control" over my own personal development while at work.

School of How posted:

Code is not something that inherently has to be "maintained". It's not like a sports car that will have parts wear out and need to be replaced.

My favorite example is Super Mario Bros. for the NES. That game was first released in 1985, and the code hasn't changed one bit since then. And yet the game still works perfectly fine today as it did 50 years ago. It doesn't really matter if the code for SMB is "maintainable" or not because it doesn't need maintenance.

School of How posted:

In general to figure out how working code works, I suggest putting print statements before and after a function call to see what data is going into the function, and then comes out. From there you can sort of backwards engineer what's going on inside the function.

pokeyman posted:

In the Repositories tab on someone's profile, choose Type: Sources.

Forgot about pinned though, that’s a much better idea.

Rocko Bonaparte posted:

Since we're talking about home ergonomics: does anybody have a recommendation for an adjustable desk conversion? My home office is at a slightly elevated height since my wife kind of thought stools were more office-like. She's had to concede that it hasn't helped with my teres minor liking to get inflamed and pissed. So I am going to be dismantling the built-in desk here to make it free-floating. I wanted to get a kit to move it up and down. I'll also have to replace the chair since it's stool height--and it's also kind of falling apart.

I was figuring that I didn't need to splurge on electric motors and could do with a manual cranked one since I don't move between settings too often, but I haven't used a manual one and they might be poo poo.

Vulture Culture posted:

I just want to make sure I understand your implication correctly. You're suggesting that a good candidate, who did well in the interview, who the company wants to hire, and who probably has multiple competing offers, is going to be lowballed because of a reference check. And the reason this reference check is necessary to even do instead of just lowballing is so the person making the offer can neg the candidate, someone they want to come work at the company, about the reference check being why they aren't worth more. Is that accurate, or do you have a different play-by-play in your head of how this situation goes down?

The Fool posted:

The CEO also registered the trademark for ‘We’ and then licensed it back to the company.

taqueso posted:

And people invested in that. Apparently I need to start a bullshit company.