Hughlander posted:

Or 1/10th of hours as I recall at Ratheon (6 minute intervals!)

sunaurus posted:

A huge reason for me taking my current job was that they don't do time tracking. All the teams here are doing agile very seriously, and it's actually working out (surprisingly) quite well. A big thing that I really love is that as long as my team finishes all the stories we agree to do in a sprint, our PO and our clients are happy. This means that I can work on whatever schedule I want, so sometimes I sleep all day and work in the evenings, some days I just can't get in the zone at all and just read books all day, but then some days I'm super focused and just work 12 hours straight. This might sound terrible to some people, but it's really amazing for me.

oliveoil posted:

snip

csammis posted:

Reviews shouldn't involve berating.

Mniot posted:

Toxic review process can be a circular thing. We had a new developer who opened a PR that was full of stuff like

code:

if(foo === bar || baz !== qux)
{solveFor(foo, baz); return qux;}else{return null;}

Bruegels Fuckbooks posted:

If you're senior enough to make technology choices, you can just pick a new technology to use for a project and learn it at work.

Roadie posted:

So, here's a warning for anybody else interested in SDE stuff at Amazon: regardless of your experience or references, they will make you take a programming test with someone watching you through your webcam the entire time. Not an interview or anything interactive, just a "proctor" from a third-party company operating on the basic assumption that you are a cheating liar and you and your computer need to be monitored the entire time.

I told the Amazon internal recruiter that I found this skeevy and discouraging, and in the span of one day they went from "well, I'm not supposed to tell you, but we really think you'd be a good fit" buddy-buddy phone calls to a two-sentence "we have decided not to move forward with your application" email.

ToxicSlurpee posted:

Because remote employees might not work every single hour they're on the clock!

I think this is part of why tech companies are opening offices in many more cities even outside of the traditional hubs. The rent has gone insane near silicon Valley and many people are just refusing to move there. Or just plain can't. Plus there is cheap office space aplenty in some lesser thought of cities. Amazon just opened an office in pittsburgh and Google has already been there a while. Granted cmu being a thing is part of it but still...that something that has to break is breaking.

Pollyanna posted:

I'll admit, I've never gotten into the larger community of professional developers past SA. Part of it is not knowing where to start. How good are weekly meetups and working groups for this kind of thing (networking, career advice, etc.)? If I join a Ruby, Clojure, or Elixir meetup, will that work, or should I look forward something more general? What do people do to bolster their careers?

CPColin posted:

Yeah, something like, "Between when I was being interviewed and when I started, the company went through a significant reorg that heavily impacted the team I joined."

Doghouse posted:

C# is good though

Jose Valasquez posted:

This but replace NYC with Pittsburgh and live like a king on a Google salary with the super cheap cost of living instead of living in a $3000 a month box on the street like I imagine the NYC people do.

As a bonus Uber is in Pittsburgh too so they might pay you lots of money to download all our files and go work for them

minato posted:

At the "5" level, managers don't tell you what to do. It's expected that you're good at CS, and you're competent at identifying projects to work on and driving them to completion. This includes selling others on the value of your idea, convincing others to join you if you can't achieve it alone, and evangelizing the project to broaden the impact once it's done.

Pollyanna posted:

Wuh oh, recruiter dude wanted a word version of my resume. Sorry man, not happening. Not very high hopes for the rest of the process now, but we'll see.

Is there a good resume template out there? LinkedIn PDFs are kinda dinky apparently.

oliveoil posted:

I heard that Facebook has a process where if you think that something you're working on - in your personal time, with your personal equipment - is not relevant to any of their products, you can ask for and be granted the rights to your project. So that even if the super broad "we own everything you create" assignment agreement is something you must agree to, people still commonly get exceptions for individual projects, like video games or something. Does anyone know if that's true?

JawnV6 posted:

You're not a co-founder.

I mean, you can ask a stupid question about it, but you didn't risk your livelihood on the venture, you're joining _after_ the first major fundraising, you're squarely in the "first employee" bucket. It's neat that you've done some contract work trading your time and expertise for money (not equity?), but having pretensions of co-founderhood are really out there.

The first hiring round of a startup tends to be 15-20% of equity. As One Person on that team you should be getting whole percentage points, but anything north of 8% would be unreasonable.

Greatbacon posted:

I'd say just list it as if it were a project that had gone to production. Even without it actually going in front of users you still clearly had to use all your skill you formulate, design, and build the drat thing.

Then if you end up getting asked about how it performed in production or anything related to that, you can say that it got canned during a reorg and never actually went live, and parlay it into a discussion about your deployment plan (or what you were planning to do) once it went live. Like what sort of tests you had performmed to be confident in it's performance in a production environment or some other things about what you were going to do to ensure that it's debut would have been successful. Or failing that, about what skills/things you learned in the process.

csammis posted:

I got contacted by a Google recruiter who turned out to be looking for "Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering”. I haven't been a software engineer that works on ~global scale systems~. In fact, with my last job (and hopefully the next) I've been moving my career more towards the embedded side of things. I've never been able to bring myself to care deeply about data center networking or ensuring website availability and that sounds like that's pretty much the gist of an SRE. The job descriptions from Google's site and the recruiter are all vagaries about "you're still doing software engineering, just at a LARGE SCALE." No specifics at all and that bugs me.

Is anyone here an SRE for Google or has interviewed for same? Do I have the right read on it?

Doctor w-rw-rw- posted:

Pollyanna posted:

Really? I consider web dev as anything that plays a role in transferring data across some sort of long-distance protocol, or is part of a project where that is a main component. Maintaining a REST API is web dev, as is writing the front-end that consumes it and bringing up the pipelines and servers needed to build and deploy it, but the code that doesn't fetch data from an API in a mobile app is not considered web dev to me, and interacting with the database the API consumes is technically not wev dev in and of itself. Of all the things that play a role in web dev, back-end stuff like APIs and databases are the least objectionable to me.

Maybe my definitions are all out of wack, which is totally possible. I've just done a lot of Rails and Node work recently and I see people doing cool poo poo like systems, embedded, writing good libraries, and mobile and I want in. I've had a difficult experience with platform (AWS, CICD stuff, etc.), but maybe "platform" means something different everywhere.

It'd be good to clear up these misconceptions sooner rather than later...

Sinten posted:

Specifically, Abusing the force was a useful overview of the force module (useful for network visualizations and "bubble" abstractions).

AskYourself posted:

Your post made me feel small and unaccomplished wow man crazy stuff you are working on.
At first, I didn't feel qualified to answer but after thinking about it well, the concerns you have are pretty much universal.

It's not your responsibility to hire your replacement, you can certainly help with the process but ultimately it's not your fault if you/they can't find someone that can/want to do 3 jobs for the price of one. I've seen this situation before where management will pile up more work on people and push them to work 50,60,70 hours per week because "Work has to be completed" or other motivational mumbo-jumbo.

Your bosses will mostly surely try to retain you. If you do the work of 3 peoples like you said well, they may even offer to double your salary or something crazy like that because they know the cost of replacing you would be even higher than this.

What would it take for you to stay? Double salary? Tripple salary? No more than 40 hours of work per week?

They will probably start by guilt-tripping you into staying and then actually offer you something when you refuse. You have to ask yourself before the meeting: is there anything that would change your mind and make you stay? If nothing would make you stay then don't let yourself be fooled by the VP offers. Usually, working conditions will return to what they were after a couple of weeks or months. Doubling your salary will stay double your salary tho so if that's what you're after then express your need clearly to the vp and negotiate (or don't negotiate, from your post, it seem like you can ask for anything and they should give it to you).

Good luck with all that, and stay true to yourself.

You are not the company.

Che Delilas posted:

My last boss (from hell) did this kind of thing, and he was ex-army so it doesn't exactly surprise me that he'd choose a disciplinary method from Full Metal Jacket.

Good Will Hrunting posted:

2 hour retrospective agenda..

Jose Valasquez posted:

leetcode.com is the best in my opinion in terms of being similar to real interview questions I've gotten.

hackerrank.com is pretty good for reviewing specific types of questions (graph, dp, etc.)

Doghouse posted:

I make $75k with 3 years experience in St. Louis, which is average-ish I think. If I am asked how much I am looking to make during an interview, and I say 90, is that reaching too high? Too low?

It seems like the market here is going bonkers (I turned on the "let recruiters know you're looking" feature in LinkedIn on, and I got like 8 messages in 2 days) but I don't really have a firm grasp on market salary figures.

Doctor w-rw-rw- posted:

IIRC, I get 20 days, sick days don't count, and can go negative 10 days if I ask.

Hughlander posted:

Yep, a lot of people like to poo poo on 'American Companies' and their horrible culture when that's usually code for poo poo hole places in fly over country. 25 days PTO, 10 holidays, and week between Christmas and new years. I'll put that up against pretty much any EU work place.

Pollyanna posted:

Had a phone interview with a recruiter yesterday, and the topic of work history came up, specifically time spent at a job. My last two jobs have been 10 months and 1.5 years, in order. The recruiter said they wanted engineers to stick around for 3+ years, which is sensible, but...well, that's not what I'm used to.

I like being able to work on many different things and grow in many different ways, but I also recognize that jumping around jobs can look bad on my resume/history. If I want to stay at a place for 2~3 years, I want to make sure it doesn't, like...go bad eventually. In the past, I either didn't get the opportunities to do new and interesting things, or there just wasn't much happening at all. Those aren't necessarily why I left or am leaving, but they're a major factor.

Maybe it's my millennial nature expressing itself, but I get really nervous when I think of tying several years of my life to the whims of a single company. I can't even stay in a single apartment for a year, staying at a company for that long is like So much can go wrong.

Good Will Hrunting posted:

Industry vets: what % of your jobs (or % of your time spent working, as I realize jobs can obviously change) would you say was "good"?

New Yorp New Yorp posted:

Then you work for a company that is bad at mentoring junior-to-mid-level folks. They should be able to carve of small slices of the non-trivial problem to farm out to the mid-level folks, then give it a thorough code review and feedback.

quote:

The company and I finally agreed that it would be best if I moved on after I stupidly used a client's credit card while fixing our CC system since we didn't have any test credit cards I could use. Honestly, I kinda earned the blame on that one, but it was the chance I needed to move on.

Pollyanna posted:

This is the same company that let a newbie engineer have complete and unsupervised access to their server setup scripts, which predictably led to production pointing to the wrong API and database for a good 12 hours before it was caught. The users were not happy.

To explain how I had access to the credit card: I was given the CC information and told to use it to replicate the bug on production, and debug it. Guess what happened when I got the feature to work properly?

(To be fair, I should have pushed back on that more than I actually did, but after I asked if we had a test CC and was basically told "no, shut up and do your work", I decided it wasn't worth pissing off my manager. I should have trusted my gut.)

ToxicSlurpee posted:

That's insultingly low for anybody with any experience at all, isn't it? I mean like...anywhere.

necrobobsledder posted:

I've been seeing a lot of positions being pushed by this company in the past year-ish or so. They sound like they're trying to run a decent company but I haven't even talked to a recruiter yet because my BS meter is going off the charts because they sound like they're full of themselves.

Good Will Hrunting posted:

The best is when you get emails from recruiters who work at companies that you've recently turned down and vice versa. Like, within 6 months.

Blinkz0rz posted:

Yeah they're trying to fill roles internally but have some due diligence requirement which forces them to list the position and pursue external candidates first.

My last place was a government contractor and had a similar requirement.

Blinkz0rz posted:

That's...really dumb and super demoralizing. Why would anyone want to work there?

rsjr posted:

There's a large difference between doing a little self research and asking for advice vs. a history of Livejournal, stream of conscious, you won't believe the new dumb poo poo I did at work today / had happen to me.

The lack of perspective on just how good the OP has it -- graduated from a boot camp, writing if-statements in language of choice and will probably make six figures in most large markets -- and wanting to know if it's the right career that can let you buy stuff. Do you have any idea what the average income is for most people and how cushy your job is?

Please keep treating this person with kid gloves. It'd be awful if they went to a different community to ask for permission to work on their resume and job hunts while taking money from their current employer.

Rex-Goliath posted:

I thought the whole point of becoming a computer toucher and stacking bills was so you could afford the good stuff?