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DELETE CASCADE posted:my former rule of thumb for uk salaries would be to divide your usa salary by 2, since the pound is like $2. but given how hard and deep the uk has hosed itself forever with brexit, i'd demand at least 100k gbp, and nobody's paying that, so gently caress the uk The pound was last over $2 11 years ago, and that was a freak one-off. It was last regularly over $2 in the late 70s.
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meatpotato posted:i think i should use some of the time to learn new skills. assembly language seems promising. Hi how are things in 1995 Why do you think (x86?) assembly language would be useful for your job hunting?
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Xarn posted:Being able to read assembly so you can find out what fun compiler bug have you ran into today is important. I mean it is for me but my pet home hobby project is a compiler (to native code) so yes there are lots of fun compiler bugs
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I mean this is regional obvs but in the UK and the Midwest/New Jersey I've always worn a suit for interviews and that always turned out to be the correct choice.
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Emacs Headroom posted:i imagine its banks or crusty old monoliths like IBM that its normal to wear a suit? It's not normal to wear a suit once you actually get the job, that's only been true of one company I worked for and that was an IT/management consultancy (also a sucky place to work). The discussion is what you wear to an interview, which is different.
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HoboMan posted:i def mostly post at work I am posting from work right now 
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DuckConference posted:and also because there were a couple of crazies that filled their cover letter with red flags. Like what? I'm curious now. 'I am looking forward to working at DuckCorp where I really feel my experience in skinning co-workers and wearing them as a hat will shine through!'
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Sapozhnik posted:yeah if you switch from swt to something designed more recently than 20 years ago then you're going to have an easier time of it Qt 2 is about 20 years old now and wasnt that much harder to program for. Motif, on the other hand, is plain C not C++ 
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Sapozhnik posted:oh god yeah london is loving dire I have worked in many places in the UK that are not London tbh
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Peeny Cheez posted:Always apply directly if they let slip the company name. Always. Because gently caress those clowns. Even if they don't (which they won't, for this reason) sometimes you can figure out what the company is with a bit of careful Googling. Then, yeah, def apply direct and score that extra salary that would otherwise be going to their commission.
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Penisface posted:yeah but dont you think the recruiting company might have a clause in their contract saying they will still get their commission even if the candidate ends up going directly to the company? How would they know, if the company is also advertising directly? If the recruiting company somehow has an exclusive contract then you're boned anyway.
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Penisface posted:i am assuming that the recruiter can show that they sent you an email and coincidentally right after that you ended up applying at the company for the same position that the recruiter was pushing for I was thinking more of eg seeing a recruiters ad on a job site tbh
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ADINSX posted:barf Eh tbf my former employer tried this for a couple of years after they went through a bad patch and drank the agile Kool Aid, it didn't last.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:it's not like programmers in, say, minnesota are unaware that wages double on the coasts. they just don't care. they have houses and families and they would rather face penury than leave  Penury. Sure. Those dudes can afford to actually own their own houses, dude.
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Boiled Water posted:and your coming children, free or cheap university. Ummmmm not in London (or England in general) you don't.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:“penury” was a reference to the risk of unemployment, not the standard of living It's not actually that hard to find a job in places like Minneapolis or wherever if you're an experienced programmer? Like, if someone gets laid off from a tech job they're not going to be living out of a cardboard box. They just find another tech job.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:dipshit business people obsess over shoes in the midwest, too. you're being judged whether you notice it or not The only place I've ever worked that might give a poo poo about what shoes someone might wear was a lovely IT/business consultancy in New Jersey which I was very glad to get out of. This woud be a very weird take for like 99% of people in this thread, I think.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:it's probably actually this. Microsoft in particular has been hiring like crazy around Pittsburgh since they acquired Avere earlier this year Yeah about Raleigh and Microsoft...
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Boiled Water posted:am I cursed? a second startup has contacted me and asked if I’d like to join them in Canada. You are destined by fate to poutine and nanaimo bars my friend.
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Penisface posted:also have you considered starting a little github where you post project euler solutions just so you can add a link to the CV? I have had people request github links in interview processes (with positive results) My most recent interview was simply 'prove to me you're the guy who wrote the thing on Github you linked in your CV'. Granted it's pretty neato imo 
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Nov 23, 2018 20:55
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Kevin Mitnick P.E. posted:whats the typical downside for binning a resume? nothing? yeah you might get yelled by downstream but you can cover that with "sorry its all poo poo didn't want to waste your time". the downside of passing people on is getting yelled at for wasting peoples time on interviewing dipshits The downside is that someone who is good at their job (which is rare) works for your competitor, not you. Sorry if this isn't enough incentive for you.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:foreigners get hella smug about American living conditions because they see poo poo in the news Yeah let me tell you about the time a decade ago I was unemployed from my junior level job going under thanks to corporate bankruptcy and my diabetic wife was living off free samples of insulin from her doctor because we had no insurance. The entire software industry is not your fancy rear end job in NYC fintech and you should probably acknowledge that.
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Kevin Mitnick P.E. posted:last cobra letter i got said i could have my lovely hdhp for the low low price of $1500 a month. before that was an actually decent plan with copays and a maximum out of pocket that would have made healthcare affordable when i was on the phones, if premiums were 0. $3300 a month on cobra Yeah it was basically this. You can be reasonably well paid as a junior software engineer and still get hosed out the rear end on healthcare in the US if you become unemployed. I'm surprised this is even remotely controversial. The fact that it's even worse if you were a steelworker or something is pretty cold loving comfort if you have a dependent with a medical condition. Edit: in more 'the world isn't NYC' news lol at getting paid 80k as a junior in most of the US btw. feedmegin fucked around with this message at 11:31 on Dec 3, 2018 |
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lancemantis posted:I think my first job was like a week of combined sick and vacation that jumped to two after 5 years Let me just say that America is insane. Like I worked in America for a decade and the vacation/sick pay situation sucked compared to back in Britain, but this is just mindboggling. This was a tech job?
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Pie Colony posted:fortunately any place that drug tests is a place you wouldn't want to work at (e.g. government, non-US companies, etc) The only companies that I've ever heard of doing drug tests are American. It's certainly not common in Europe.
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FMguru posted:ive seen it called "herrenvolk socialism" One might even call it 'national socialism'
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DELETE CASCADE posted:According to some study I googled, only 17% of working Americans sleep in until 8 'Wake up by 8' and 'at work by 8' are v different statements though.
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toiletbrush posted:As a candidate? Did you ask them which it was when working on it?
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:no, that's what i mean Perhaps if you wore nicer shoes?
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mekkanare posted:Interviewer asked me how my current job makes sure current practices when designing software are best and I had nothing for him. Sorry dude, if it compiles and doesn't mung up the rest of the system somehow it's probably going in. I liked the part where he mentioned how there would be very little legacy code to deal with, and I wanted to mention that last week a coworker found code still in use that invovled checking for people born before 1900. I mean, it's been a whole two years since the last person born before 1900 died, so that actually doesn't seem that bad? 
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:2001 was the hottest job market for tech up until today... salaries didn't reach 2001 levels until this year It depends WHEN in 2001 but I was jobhunting then and I remember the job market going to poo poo. Also - are you just going by average salary of new hires? Because guess what happens when companies tighten their belt, stop recruiting juniors and only recruit when they absolutely need someone with specialised skills. Volume is the thing to watch here.
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DONT THREAD ON ME posted:soooo if i'm being interviewed by a woman, how terrible is it to ask if she thinks the company has a bro-culture problem? Are you a woman?
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FMguru posted:"carpe pecunia", surely? Pecuniam. Accusative case innit 
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Get, like, four cats instead
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Dijkstracula posted:lmao yeah and they started the interview by saying "so I'm sure you remember this encoding strategy from college, ..." I mean my take would be 'my degree is in HISTORY dude I remember poo poo about the taifa kingdoms period of al-Andalus, algorithms not so much'
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Rex-Goliath posted:i’m assuming the consulting will involve travel? you should almost always be getting a premium if your job involves a lot of travel so this makes taking the startup job a no-brainer to me Yeah in general consulting should pay more and startups less so this is weird to me. Mind you I've worked for two consulting companies and hated them both, but that could just be me.
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gonadic io posted:i'm told they have computers in the rest of the country, not convinced they have computer jobs There are quite a lot of them in Cambridge, as it happens. It's sort of known for it, in fact.
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Fart Johnson posted:Seems like the difficulty has really ramped up in the past few years. When I interviewed with AWS 4 years ago the hardest coding question was solved with a basic BFS. The older you get, the more senior you are and the more difficult the questions you personally will be asked.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:Smaller parts of the disk data. Nobody said the subproblems were nonobvious One bit of data that lives on a slow disk.
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TheFluff posted:in other news, a recruiter email came in, claiming they're looking for "a remote full-stack engineer position - USD $50,000 - 175,000/year". what kind of loving useless range is that? $50k would be a laughable lowball for what they're asking for even here. I'm guessing $50k goes quite a long way in say Chennai, though?
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