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rotor posted:in my dream i have a nice house in vancouver and a lil getaway cabin on gabriola this is my dream too except tofino instead of gabriola
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Same but Portland and the wallowas
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:yeah, that’s largely why I’ve stayed in Detroit. I have a mostly boring but frequently interesting job with a TC of around 165k, and the Detroit COL is cheap as hell lol FAT32 SHAMER posted:are there tech jobs in Norway unrelated to the oil industry tho? my man, you live in loving detroit and moving (back) to norway with the wifey is a hard sell? is this ya'lls engagement photoshoot? i love figgies like the rest of us but money isn't everything, drat
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rotor posted:in my dream i have a nice house in vancouver and a lil getaway cabin on gabriola Same but Lausanne and somewhere in Valais 
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Asymmetric POSTer posted:my man, you live in loving detroit and moving (back) to norway with the wifey is a hard sell? we did actually do an engagement picture in a theatre they were tearing down so lol but no the main issue would be a lack of family support. my family has largely left Ireland for the US right before the GFA was signed, and we floated around a few different countries before ending up here as well, so losing that would be a massive blow even though the QoL would be better in Norway. I think eventually it may be something to consider, but not while the kids are all under 5 
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grade schools in norway don't have regular active shooter drills, or any active shooter drills at all for that matter. something to consider.
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Sapozhnik posted:grade schools in norway don't have regular active shooter drills, or any active shooter drills at all for that matter. the younger you can start kids down the bilingual path, the better as well i had to renew my passport at the consulate this year, and while chatting with the consul general, she mentioned that, in the past, they would usually have two or three people a year investigate getting dual citizenship through their parents or grandparents. for the last couple of years their phone has been ringing off the hook from people (US citizens) trying to get dual citizenship for themselves and (mainly) their children The_Franz fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Sep 5, 2023 |
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Sapozhnik posted:grade schools in norway don't have regular active shooter drills, or any active shooter drills at all for that matter.
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SeXTcube posted:Just don't send them to summer camp 
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I will say taking a haircut by leaving the USA is not a direct comparison. For example, I took a 50% cut by numbers going to South Korea from USA. But my takehome pay at the end of all the taxes, rent, car, health etc was the same. The USA must pay those absurd amounts because you are absolutely covered in blood sucking leeches. Currently posting from New Zealand too right now so do run a visit before you decide anything because jesus christ the roads here are some mario kart poo poo with all the curves.
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Also the haircuts just wtf
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Gildiss posted:Also the haircuts just wtf lmao never seen a mullet before? did the eshays make it over or are they still an Aussie thing?
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CompeAnansi posted:Yeah, it's because the first freeways in socal were not numbered, but instead named, e.g., "the san diego freeway" and "the santa monica freeway". When they started numbering them, people who were used to calling it "the santa monica freeway" switched to just saying "the 10" instead, keeping the "the" in front. The rest of the country would typically say something like I-10 instead, so it is somewhat unusual. That said, I grew up in the central coast and we all called it the 101, so the dialect makes it that far north, at least. as any travel in LA inevitably requires a list of no less than 3 freeways, they need to pepper "The" in there to break things up so you can tell if it's "5 to 10" or "5, 210" "the 5 to the 10" just jam extra syllables to make up for the awful infrastructure
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it never bothered me or seemed particularly noteworthy that people call it "the 5" and so on when i moved to socal. i dont really understand why people give a poo poo. especially when the true linguistic scourge, the phrase "jojo potatoes" is still in use
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I interviewed a guy today, and for the first time in a while I was impressed. he built a dumb dog.ceo app and got it running all while using extra stuff like Hilt for DI and Compose for the views, and even used a sealed class to control the state of the api result. it’ll be really nice to have four experienced devs on our team, tho hopefully we don’t have a lot of free time on our hands due to it
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knox_harrington posted:idk anything about the actual software engineer jobs but Switzerland is about the only place with similar or higher pay than expensive US locations, and has a decent tech sector. From my team the people based in CH get salaries a bit higher than those in SF/Seattle and there's an additional 20k cash "car allowance" on top of that. Switzerland is insanely expensive though
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Does anyone have a good list of interview questions to review? I have a "pre-interview" interview with the HR hiring manager soon, so most likely its going to be the "what is your greatest weakness?" type questions rather than loads of technical questions.
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if it's the hiring manager/recruiter, just make sure you rehearse the answers to "why do you want to work here?" (can be a lie), "what are you looking for?" (can be a lie), and "what are your salary expectations?" (can be a lie, at your own risk)
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Pulcinella posted:Does anyone have a good list of interview questions to review? I have a "pre-interview" interview with the HR hiring manager soon, so most likely its going to be the "what is your greatest weakness?" type questions rather than loads of technical questions. "HR hiring manager" is a weird phrase unless this is a HR job. in general the HR interviews I've had have been very basic and just asking general things about my CV, how you work in teams, general culture/"fit" stuff.
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90 minute interview with two engineers at once today. ive always wanted to do two engineers at the same time
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You could cut that time down if you lined them up tip to tip
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They're just gonna argue about what color to paint your bikeshed, iykwim
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ive got two hands. no reason to go tip to tip until there are three engineers involved
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something something premature optimization
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lord fifth posted:90 minute interview with two engineers at once today. ive always wanted to do two engineers at the same time *project managerishly* so you'll be done in 45 minutes?
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knox_harrington posted:"HR hiring manager" is a weird phrase unless this is a HR job. in general the HR interviews I've had have been very basic and just asking general things about my CV, how you work in teams, general culture/"fit" stuff. could be a matrix organization. at my last university gig, i had one manager who did just hr-like poo poo, and other managers for the projects i worked on.
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CompeAnansi posted:Yeah, it's because the first freeways in socal were not numbered, but instead named, e.g., "the san diego freeway" and "the santa monica freeway". When they started numbering them, people who were used to calling it "the santa monica freeway" switched to just saying "the 10" instead, keeping the "the" in front. The rest of the country would typically say something like I-10 instead, so it is somewhat unusual. That said, I grew up in the central coast and we all called it the 101, so the dialect makes it that far north, at least. its a regional dialetc
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lord fifth posted:90 minute interview with two engineers at once today. ive always wanted to do two engineers at the same time it was a database query optimization problem and the interviewers seemed mad that my answer wasnt "precompute all possible queries and cache them." weird loving interview. they did specify up front that there was no bound on the time for database construction but, like, what sane person would take that as direction to precompute every possible query ?? i would also give answers at a high level and then they would get mad that i didnt exactly explain what lines of code i would have to change to implement whatever scenario they threw at me. probably not a good company for me
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i had an interviewer for an embedded role in college get mad that i wrote binary search "like a software engineer instead of like an electrical engineer." i think he meant recursively instead of iteratively but it felt like a dig and he didn't qualify anything when he asked the question
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lord fifth posted:it was a database query optimization problem and the interviewers seemed mad that my answer wasnt "precompute all possible queries and cache them." weird loving interview. they did specify up front that there was no bound on the time for database construction but, like, what sane person would take that as direction to precompute every possible query ?? i would simply memorize the database's contents and answer queries myself
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Its a Rolex posted:i had an interviewer for an embedded role in college get mad that i wrote binary search "like a software engineer instead of like an electrical engineer." i think he meant recursively instead of iteratively but it felt like a dig and he didn't qualify anything when he asked the question having dealt with reams of code from both you should run screaming from the one who wants code like an electrical engineer
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JawnV6 posted:having dealt with reams of code from both you should run screaming from the one who wants code like an electrical engineer cannot be emphasized enough
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well-read undead posted:i would simply memorize the database's contents and answer queries myself 
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JawnV6 posted:having dealt with reams of code from both you should run screaming from the one who wants code like an electrical engineer
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one time I took a project over and the EE’s had been using SharePoint as their source control
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knox_harrington posted:"HR hiring manager" is a weird phrase unless this is a HR job. in general the HR interviews I've had have been very basic and just asking general things about my CV, how you work in teams, general culture/"fit" stuff. Yeah its just the person in charge of making sure the person interviewed is not a complete crazy person, has at least the bare minimum of social skills, and doesn't have stinky views about women & minorities (or I guess is smart enough to not bring it up in an interview).
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Its a Rolex posted:i had an interviewer for an embedded role in college get mad that i wrote binary search "like a software engineer instead of like an electrical engineer." i think he meant recursively instead of iteratively but it felt like a dig and he didn't qualify anything when he asked the question i appreciate that he should've said something but embedded roles is one of the places where i'd expect you to be able to talk about why iterative is the right choice. even if you implemented it recursively i'd want a "i'm doing it this way because xyz but iterative would be better in situations abc." hell id expect that conversation even in non-embedded roles. less important if there's tco and all that i guess, but that out is gonna depend on the language and how you wrote the algorithm
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tco is definitively a step into weenieland its an aesthetic thing. dont reveal the weenie if they dont ask for it
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wait i thought at interviews they usually wanted to see your weenie this...explains a lot
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Got a first-round interview/chat for a super swanky FAANG gig downtown today. I've known the guy I'm meeting with for years, we're old friends and colleagues and this position is a natural fit. Responded to my LinkedIn DM within 10 minutes with "would love to have you on this team" and set up the meeting. Got a good feeling about this one
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