Janitor Prime posted:

You didn't mention telecom, but there is a lot going on in that space that is pretty stable and isn't as shady as some of the stuff you mentioned.

MononcQc posted:

Symbolic Butt posted:

yeah python is a tough one for demonstrating functional style. I'd have used haskell or sml for that because it's a kind of cliche problem to solve in a language like that to demonstrate pattern matching and recursion

for anything trickier than that I'd go back to python lol

homercles posted:

If the question was such a parity mismatch why not mention it to the interviewer? Why do you subject us to your worst moments?!?

It's like watching Wonder Years in VR. No.

Diva Cupcake posted:

companies are universally terrible, especially in finance. work for figgies instead which finance has a lot of.

NoneMoreNegative posted:

we do ‘probationary’ periods for new starters - gives new hires six months to their first proper evaluation and if they’re not measuring up contract says we can let them go. ok it’s a bit longer than ‘a month or two at most’ but it still gives you a written-down ‘out’ that you can’t really lawyer against.

Rex-Goliath posted:

i’m dead loving serious if you fancy yourself a computer touched and can’t even type/touch computers effectively i will judge you super harshly

Boiled Water posted:

I would apply for positions that aren’t webdev

quote:

I hope you are well. I wanted to reach out to you about the chance to become an integral part of the development team working on a game-changing IoT/M2M connected car platform in Stockholm!

... start-up building pioneering smart human interfaces for IoT-apps and specialize in M2M & mobile product development ...
... building advanced, scalable systems for a SaaS platform which refines data collection from the car & service providers to revolutionise car ownership! ...
... microservice architecture primarily using Node.js (they are looking for skilled developers with experience in any server-side language but who have an interest in working with NodeJS & other languages for different components), JavaScript (ES6/7), AWS, MongoDB ...

TheFluff posted:

when i started looking around for a new job and going to interviews a few weeks ago i felt really confident in myself as a programmer, that i was really starting to feel like i could rely on myself to tackle almost any problem

now i feel like poo poo and like im at the edge of a nervous breakdown and i have absolutely no confidence i will get any decent job at all, i'll be stuck writing garbage tier broken webapps in javascript for eternity

dan luu posted:

At the last conference I attended, I asked most people I met two questions:

1) Do you know of any companies that aren't highly dysfunctional?
2) Do you know of any particular teams that are great and are hiring?

Not one single person told me that their company meets the criteria in (1). A few people suggested that, maybe, Dropbox is ok, or that, maybe, Jane Street is ok, but the answers were of the form "I know a few people there and I haven't heard any terrible horror stories yet, plus I sometimes hear good stories", not "that company is great and you should definitely work there". Most people said that they didn't know of any companies that weren't a total mess.

A few people had suggestions for (2), but the most common answer was something like "LOL no, if I knew that I'd go work there". The second most common answer was of the form "I know some people on the Google Brain team and it sounds great". There are a few teams that are well known for being great places to work, but the fact that they're so few and far between that it's basically impossible to get a job on one of those teams. A few people knew of actual teams that they'd strongly recommend who were hiring, but that was rare. Much rarer than finding a developer who I'd want to work with who would consider moving. If I flipped the question around and asked if they knew of any good developers who were looking for work, the answer was usually "yes".

qhat posted:

Europe pays bad and is expensive so it can't be that short. Or am I just thinking about London?

Shaggar posted:

SQL Server has always been a better option than oracle unless you needed to light some money on fire to hit your budget goals. since like 2008 or 2012 or whenever ssis and ssrs started coming with sql server its been far and away the best db option

Gazpacho posted:

just to be clear you're not going to double a $160k salary as a bay area computer toucher at a tech giant, they pay market rates and immigrants will eat your lunch

quote:

The numbers will vary depending on circumstances, but we can do a back of the envelope calculation and adjust for circumstances afterwards. Median income in the U.S. is about $30k/yr. The somewhat bogus zeroth order lifetime earnings approximation I'll use is $30k * 40 = $1.2M. A new grad at Google/FB/Amazon with a lowball offer will have a total comp (salary + bonus + equity) of $130k/yr. According to glassdoor's current numbers, someone who makes it to T5/senior at Google should have a total comp of around $250k/yr. These are fairly conservative numbers (1).

Someone who's not particularly successful, but not particularly unsuccessful will probably make senior in five years. For our conservative baseline, let's assume that we'll never make it past senior, into the pay grades where compensation really skyrockets.

[...]

(1): In particular, the Glassdoor numbers seem low for an average. I suspect that's because their average is weighed down by older numbers, while compensation has skyrocketed the past seven years. The average numbers on Glassdoor don't even match the average numbers I heard from other people in my Midwestern satellite office in a large town two years ago, and the market has gone up sharply since then. More recently, on the upper end, I know someone fresh out of school who has a total comp of almost $250k/yr ($350k equity over four years, a $50k signing bonus, plus a generous salary). As is normal, they got a number of offers with varying compensation levels, and then Facebook came in and bid him up. The companies that are serious about competing for people matched the offers, and that was that. This included bids in Seattle and Austin that matched the bids in SV. If you're negotiating an offer, the thing that's critical isn't to be some kind of super genius. It's enough to be pretty good, know what the market is paying, and have multiple offers. This person was worth every penny, which is why he got his offers, but I know several people who are just as good who make half as much just because they only got a single offer and had no leverage.

Anyway, the point of this footnote is just that the total comp for experienced engineers can go way above the numbers mentioned in the post. In the analysis that follows, keep in mind that I'm using conservative numbers and that an aggressive estimate for experienced engineers would be much higher. Just for example, at Google, senior is level 5 out of 11 on a scale that effectively starts at 3. At Microsoft, it's 63 out of a weirdo scale that starts at 59 and goes to 70-something and then jumps up to 80 (or something like that, I always forget the details because the scale is so silly). Senior isn't a particularly high band, and people at senior often have total comp substantially greater than $250k/yr. Note that these numbers also don't include the above market rate of stock growth at trendy large companies in the past few years. If you've actually taken this deal, your RSUs have likely appreciated substantially.

bob dobbs is dead posted:

these jobs dont exist outside the sfba seattle and some other points of non-crap in the republican darkness