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Space Whale posted:

Fair 'nuff, changed it to what it was, merge sort a big rear end file.

Did I do anything really wrong with the code? It friggin' works.

Should I just make a class period even when I just want a bundle of "file handler and line of file being handled"?

Rex-Goliath posted:

if they're not going to tell you why your code was wrong other than 'no' then you should assume it's over something pointlessly arbitrary because whoever is judging your code is a shitlord. i wouldn't lose any sleep over it.

all of the criticisms that have been posted so far- while true- shouldn't have been disqualifiers unless they specifically said to do or not do whatever in the assignment.

Blinkz0rz posted:

Waroduce posted:

I'm not sure where to ask this, and I'm cross-posting from the A/T Career Advice thread. I will remove if it doesn't belong here:

I work for an enterprise software company that has been in business for about 5 years and are currently growing out of the "Start Up" mentality. We have a core software product that is an electronic medical records system that integrates medical charting, prescription pads, pharmacy communication, med tracking, patient tracking, rounds and a bunch of poo poo. Its scaleable from single doctor general practice to large nation-wide hospitals. I started in implementation for them and was responsible from taking a new client from sales, structuring their chart, customizing the software and teaching all the doctors, nurses and staff what buttons to press.

There is a new software product we are adding to our enterprise offering that is a client relationship management software with a bit of marketing stuff tacked on (Tracking ad campagins/dollars per admit/providing basic business intelligence). My COO and CTO approached me and asked me to join the team in an undetermined role and for a salary increase in june/july if i demonstrate aptitude. I pushed back on this and they gave me a bonus with a salary negotiation in June. The structure is CTO of the core product and company, SVP Product Manager/Owner, me, and than i got a team of 4 running basic configuration and doing monkey level data entry (user profiles, security roles, sending invites). I got the team 3 weeks ago after being just me and working like 15 hours a day and bitching to my COO about the product failing due to lovely resource allocation.

I am responsible for some sales demos, implementation, project management, end user training and communicating customer requests to the dev team. I also am in the stand up meeting for the dev team every morning at 9am (They are remote a few states away), and write user stories and bugs in Visual Studios. I do NOT code at all apart from some basic ruby on rails web manipulation poo poo for the core product to automate lovely boring tasks. I am also part of the bi-weekly sprint planning meetings and architecture meetings where i do voice an opinion on either poo poo i care about, the customer cares about or if i understand something.

Among a whole host of questions I have involving like salary, I would first like to ask what do you guys think an appropriate title to ask for is? I am a senior implementation specialist now, and Enterprise Implementation Specialist or Manager would work and seem to be natural (I am the only one in the ENTIRE Company that can implement the CRM and the core EMR product. I am the only who knows the CRM apart from the SVP) but I was wondering if pivoting my resume into some sort of Product Manager role may be better for me and sound more impressive? I feel like thats a harder, better title than enterprise implementation manager. I Feel like i def want manager in it somewhere....

Blinkz0rz posted:

i was suggesting it was a perfect post

have i misinterpreted that emoticon?

Rex-Goliath posted:

no that's its original meaning. it's meant to be sarcastic

Space Whale posted:

Apparently my mindset of always anticipating poo poo going pear shaped and picking things apart to test them, and then always testing the whole regression, is a very marketable skill. And my constant triage in life is good for looking at what can blow up in a big system.



Curiously I think that I might have put bugs in the ear of the interview to use himself even if I'm not hired lol.

https://boyter.org/2016/07/chaos-testing-engineering/ Also "Chaos Engineering" immediately struck me as what I was born for. How do I become a code monkey who makes monkeys?

MononcQc posted:

most companies are not the size or do not see the traffic necessary to have engineers spend time making sure there are no points of failure in the infra when a 5-10 minutes outages with a person restarting a server is going to be fine for most cases.

Those that are really nervous, like stores around black friday, can just overstaff or overprovision for a few weeks a year.

Chaos engineering when done netflix-style is usually done by purely online businesses that have engineering departments in a good enough shape to want to purposefully cause small outages to prevent larger ones. Most places are not at that stage to begin with.

qhat posted:

Unless you're Google, this is always the case.

qhat posted:

Making a change in big org: checkout the code, make change, then submit and let it move up the build into production.

Making a change in lovely startup: checkout the code, download prebuilt binaries from sourceforge/GitHub for your dependencies making sure not to download the wrong ones. Checkout the in-house git repo with the prebuilt binaries for the in-house code. Set up your filesystem/environment variables so that the project actually builds. Repeat this entire process until you are able to the get project to build. Make your changes making sure not to write any unit tests because at the end of the day QA will just find the bugs. Ship to QA when it compiles. Fight with QA for the next 2 months because your program is ultimately broken and they can't seem to replicate your build. When QA finally gets it working, blame them for the delay and then ship to customers. Then fight with them adinfinitum.

FormatAmerica posted:

I sort of have the same question/seeking guidance on this.

I've been working @ the same place for 10 years, advancing from a non-technical role to a team lead w/ architecture responsibilities - we've been through some expansions & reorgs that have made work far less meaningful and productive than it once was and I don't think I can continue to struggle knowing what once was anymore.

So, looking to get started on the job hunt...but I don't really know where to start.

qhat posted:

Nice. Time to buy a new car son.

Sapozhnik posted:

Blinkz0rz posted:

boston is cool but i've lived here for a long time and so i don't notice the lovely people or roads anymore

Pollyanna posted:

I still need to collect my thoughts over today’s interview but I still don’t understand what exactly we want, and I’m not convinced that our approach is appropriate for what I do know we want

aside from setting down ground rules for proctoring, and the fact that knight’s tour is not a good fit for a 45 minute timespan, it’s mostly a matter of “what the gently caress do we even want and how are we gonna get it”

yes, it’s hard, but the answer isn’t to give up and do stupid poo poo

Pendragon posted:

I'm having to beat [...] recruiters off [...]

Double Bill posted:

Are JavaScript developers commonly working for next to nothing, or is there oversupply of them now? Contacted by a company for full stack JS (not my favorite thing), comfortably passed the interviews and they completely lowballed the offer. Like so low its not even worth negotiating about. Serves me right for even considering doing JS, I suppose.

Dijkstracula posted:

seattle circa 1999 hth