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ultrafilter posted:not much what's up with you?
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What smells like uproled?
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Mar 8, 2025 21:53
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Truman Peyote posted:well, another company has cold-messaged me waving something like a 65-70% total comp increase under my nose. so at the very least, i will do the interview process. i don't think i've ever cared about what languages any of my managers knew as all of them had been out of the game long enough that it didn't matter. in fact i'm now trying to envision scenarios where it would make a difference and none of them are good if you want to keep moving in the management direction this role should be fine since your resume will be highlighting your management contributions, not what language you were writing from time to time i guess the usual buyer beware caveat comes with this though because it sounds like they don't know if they want a developer or a manager. a role that tries to be both is going to be compromised
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Mar 8, 2025 22:27
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minivanmegafun posted:how much AI bullshit is baked into senior/staff SRE interview loops nowadays, I might have to hit the pavement a bit in the near future
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Mar 10, 2025 03:42
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i took a job at a social media gen-z company that i don't really understand, but they pay pretty good. thanks thread.
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Mar 10, 2025 04:09
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is samsung known for paying badly? I just got a recruiter spam with what I would consider to be an insultingly low rate for a contract ux designer in the bay area, like less than I was making in 2009 when the economy was on fire
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Mar 12, 2025 02:49
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not that I know of but most foreign headquartered companies pay worse in the USA than they should in my experience
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Mar 12, 2025 05:36
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particularly in the bay, foreign cos would rather hire some texas/florida dude and pay similarly from what i hear. no first person exp tho
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Mar 12, 2025 12:15
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a second offer came in, and im considering my options in how to push the new one (offer/company B) to materially out perform the former (offer/company A) what are some approach options in this scenario? do i bluff and tell company B an exaggerated version of offer A and see what they come back with? (I've heard of scenarios where they may ask to see the offer, so i want to be prepared for that on the off chance it could happen. i think i can side step it and say it's confidential i can't share the offer letter with another company) Or do i be transparent and tell them the actual offer b and see what they come back with? or do i say what I'd like to see in order to get me to sign today? this may mean i wouldn't give company A a chance to respond, which have already informed me offer A was their last best final a couple weeks ago (we'll see if that changes with the leverage a second offer gives me) is there a way i can get them to offer beyond what the stated range is? which i can forsee bumping into pretty quickly, and that would affect raises later, probably meaning im at the top of the band already and can't qualify for more without title bump. hypothetically, if they do get to an offer i want to accept, I think i would then want to inform my manager at company A that i have another offer and give them a chance to respond in terms of duties, offer b is a step up in title but it would mean running agile meetings again and that poo poo is kinda tiring but the role comes with more system design opportunities and driving of technical decisions, which is what im looking for
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Mar 12, 2025 18:07
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i'd say "here's what i'd like to see in order to sign today," and write down what i would actually like to see in order to sign today, without caring what job A offers. it sounds like you're more interested in job B anyway. if they come in lower, you have the option of taking it or seeing if job A will beat it in a way that makes you more interested.
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Mar 12, 2025 19:17
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PIZZA.BAT posted:i don't think i've ever cared about what languages any of my managers knew as all of them had been out of the game long enough that it didn't matter. in fact i'm now trying to envision scenarios where it would make a difference and none of them are good I’m in eng management right now and looking for a new position ideally in management, but I’m looking at principal/staff roles too since there are way more. nearly every eng manager role I’ve looked into wants 60/40 writing code/meetings. i assume this is just a technical gatekeeping thing. that being said I met with a recruiter at Atlassian about an eng manager role but he pushed me into an interviewed for a principal engineer position since there were many more open positions. unfortunately the recruiter said i didnt do well enough at the leetcode interview even for the manager role, which apparently is benchmarked at midlevel/senior eng
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Mar 13, 2025 14:05
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managers shouldn't be doing engineer work
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Mar 13, 2025 14:16
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Some places want managers with technical background though, it depends. It can be helpful if the manager understands the work being done and the complexities/timescales involved. It can also be terrible if they have strong opinions on technical things and a tendency to micromanage. e: but agreed on the not doing engineering work bit Private Speech fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Mar 13, 2025 |
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Mar 13, 2025 14:22
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update from my journey, i countered on second offer, they accepted, it worked out
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Mar 18, 2025 19:20
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KoRMaK posted:update from my journey, i countered on second offer, they accepted, it worked out thread success story!
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Mar 20, 2025 03:08
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just got a cold outreach email from a recruiter for a company building an AI senior care ecosystem. a once in a lifetime opportunity to build the torment nexus, but for the elderly. it's bleak out here
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Mar 20, 2025 21:31
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get an interview just so you can excoriate them for their moral failings
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Mar 20, 2025 22:32
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well-read undead posted:get an interview just so you can excoriate them for their moral failings i keep thinkin about doing this at twitter and/or tesla just for the lols
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Mar 20, 2025 22:42
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well-read undead posted:get an interview just so you can excoriate them for their moral failings my dad apparently did this once. he's a schoolteacher and his idiot principal quit so he applied to replace her solely so he could get in a room with the guy who hired her and ask how someone that incompetent got hired originally.
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Mar 20, 2025 22:58
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a recruiter from a sports-betting company contacted me about an open position i really wish i had the time to waste their time because those companies are the scum of the earth
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Mar 20, 2025 23:07
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Got my rejection for my deepest interview sequence in a while yet. I'm annoyed but I'm trying not to be. It's not my responsibility to prevent these people from making the mistake of not hiring me.
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Mar 20, 2025 23:17
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rotor posted:i keep thinkin about doing this at twitter and/or tesla just for the lols same, add anduril
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Mind_Taker posted:a recruiter from a sports-betting company contacted me about an open position
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Mar 20, 2025 23:18
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KoRMaK posted:was it sports betting or was it the much more specific compliance space of fantasy betting? they offer both there may be more predatory companies out there but not many. the tactics they use on their "customers" is truly horrific
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Mar 20, 2025 23:36
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i had an interview with one in that industry recently, like right before the super bowl. they made sure to distinguish that they were fantasy sports, and that they only had 40% code coverage very funny interview, sounded miserable to be on the team
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Mar 21, 2025 00:35
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KoRMaK posted:i had an interview with one in that industry recently, like right before the super bowl. they made sure to distinguish that they were fantasy sports, and that they only had 40% code coverage fantasy tests for fantasy sports
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Mar 21, 2025 00:42
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Asleep Style posted:just got a cold outreach email from a recruiter for a company building an AI senior care ecosystem. a once in a lifetime opportunity to build the torment nexus, but for the elderly. it's bleak out here crooter posted:Currently I’m working with Inspiren, one of Primary’s portfolio companies. Inspiren is a leader in AI-powered solutions redefining senior living. They officially launched Inspiren’s ecosystem, the industry’s first and only complete senior living solution that integrates care planning, resident safety, staff efficiency, and emergency call systems in one platform. They raised $35M Series A and are now scaling their internal teams! very inspiring
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Mar 21, 2025 03:33
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koolkal posted:very inspiring $35M is a big series A unless thats valuation
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CarForumPoster posted:$35M is a big series A unless thats valuation lotta old people
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Mar 24, 2025 23:29
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rotor posted:i keep thinkin about doing this at twitter and/or tesla just for the lols don’t do it, musks doge boys will cut off your medicare and social security checks
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Mar 24, 2025 23:31
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I've done IT Tier 2/3 work for 15 years, usually ending up team leader or team leader not in title but in being the guy everyone asks for help. I've worked 4 years at a shithole indy webhost/creator, then 4 years at Telus, then 4 at eHealth (ontario govt), then 3 at an MSP specifically for vet clinics. Got Laid off Dec 2003, surprisingly right after we finally finished migrating 500+ clinics/15000 accounts from Gsuite to Azure/AD for MFA+VPN for covid. It was literal hell getting people to set up vpn's early on even with the most straight forward documentation (and these are Doctors and Vets mainly) surprisingly the secretarial staff was usually able to set them up without issue... anyways I thought I was laid off because we were doing it a stupid way and I was suggesting working with a vendor or MS to do it in bulk (We had 2 team members doing 2-3 clinics a day, for like ever from an excel doc on our sharepoint).... anyways my manager was laid off the day after, so gently caress her. They asked me to come back a few days later saying my manager didn't take me being put strictly as our only Security guy for half my shift by the CEO... I instantly said sure, but I want 50% salary increase and 2 year guarantee because I was doing so much more than everyone else, and I get fired because my manager was a loving idiot... they did offer the 2 years, but not any salary increase at all saying I was making more than all the new hires (well duh, i was a senior guy with a specialist title vs analyst) anyways, I got a decent severance since for the 3 years since I never bothered doing my milage expenses until I got the pinkslip; google maps history was quick to add up all my trips over 3 years, which in turned out to be about 30k total (I used to drive around all of Ontario in a 500km radius) if they needed onsite support. so with EI + Severance + Savings + moving back to parents (no rent); I've lived comfortably doing nothing for 2~ years. I'm always getting asked what I was doing those 2 years; seems like a bad sign you not working for that long of a period, and I always lie and say things like I was raising my non-existent kids while the wife worked, or my parents passed over the year and had to deal with moving the family/selling my house/moving into my parents house and just started looking again for a job now that everything's settled and the kids are older and I don't feel like I missed out on a big portion of their life. are these bad reasons? If I gave the real reason; I was lazy and didn't want to work for a bit, I'd be instantly trashed. I don't think there's really a way those would fail any background check as I did get a 3month contract mar-may 2024 for a company dealing with ATM's/Banks to do upgrades, so they did a heavy background check which they provided me and nothing of the sorts seems like it would be checked for/was checked for on my results. Do I continue to lie? Anyone have a better reason to give?
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Mar 27, 2025 21:01
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"my company went through layoffs and I used the opportunity to take a sabbatical after many years of hard work" is an option i think i just did 12 months and framed it as working on a pet project that is running in production, and working on myself professionally. i got to hide a lot of loving around time behind "infra upgrades, framework upgrades, frontend upgrades, feature and bug fixes". so, maybe make up a bullshit project or few that you could point to and say you were staying sharp working on them while you sabbatical'd ? KoRMaK fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Mar 27, 2025 |
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Mar 27, 2025 21:17
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"taking care of a sick relative" is a good explanation for a gap in your resume
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Mar 27, 2025 21:26
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i wouldn't hold a sabbatical against an applicant. i'm sure some would, though.
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Mar 27, 2025 21:28
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I don't interview people anymore but when I did I would simply ignore a big employment gap because I don't give a poo poo
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Mar 27, 2025 22:29
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PokeJoe posted:I don't interview people anymore but when I did I would simply ignore a big employment gap because I don't give a poo poo yeah same. didn't work for 2 years? hell yeah work sucks
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Mar 27, 2025 22:41
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well-read undead posted:yeah same. didn't work for 2 years? hell yeah work sucks
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Mar 27, 2025 23:20
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I haven’t interviewed anyone in at least a year, feels good
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Mar 28, 2025 02:52
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I interviewed someone last week and it was weird since I don't feel like I've been here very long I think there are more coming up since we have a couple of open spots on our team now
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Something I've seen recently is a job application form (for an otherwise pretty good position) which requires filling out an "expected salary" field with a number between 30000 and 300000. How would people approach that? My thought was to take my desired pay and throw 10% on top & also compare to glassdoor for reasonableness, but I don't really know if that's the best way to handle it.
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