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FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin
I legit do 1099 work. When i was unemployed for 7 months a few years ago, I put the 1099 stuff on my resume. I never got any pushback from it.

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FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin
I have been asking the question: "I have a 100Mb/s internet connection, how long will it take me to download a 100MB file?" for the last several months to candidates.

I think that question has around a 40% correct answer rate. :smith:

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin

Xarn posted:

Trick question, the connection has been oversold to hell and back and it will run at approximately 1Mbps.

I would actually accept this answer. Nobody has been that creative though. :v:

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin

JawnV6 posted:

lol even google knows


The amount of people that say 10 seconds is crazy though.

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin

Chalks posted:

do they say exactly 10 seconds or do they say about 10 seconds, 'cause what are you testing for here?

Assuming everything is constant. It's to see if people interviewing for a programming job that requires networking knowledge understand that MegaBIT and MegaBYTE are two different things.

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin
How about:

Make background checks illegal unless 100% necessary for security purposes?

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

pro: it's a job

cons: literally everything. no real feel for politics. contributions less valued than local staff. weak communication. more likely to be fired, less likely to be promoted. poor morale. failure to shower.

Huh, the opposite for me.

I travel once a quarter to HQ, have a really good feel for politics, my team has excellent communication, I’ve been promoted twice, I have great moral and a great schedule.

The shower thing is true though. :v:

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

similarly competent brazilian or hungarian or romanian

lol.

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

hell half the regular posters in yospos itself are not americans

do they strike you as insufferable knuckledragging morons because they dare to stay in their home countries?

This is disingenuous and you know it. Nobody is saying their morons. However, the time zone differences, the language differences, and the cultural differences are all a pretty big deal in a lot of situations.

Some of the best programmers I know are from other countries. Heck, I am going to Belgium in February to meet up with them. But I wouldn't trust a company to competently hire a full team of foreign programmers and manage them properly over somebody who is at least in the same timezone with the same culture as us.


:rolleyes:

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin
The current company I am at flew me out and back on the same day, but it was only a one hour flight. :v:

Heck, at the time they just had 11 people. If a company is too cheap to fly you out, it’s not a company at which you should even consider working.

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin

gonadic io posted:

meanwhile here i am recording webcam answers to interview questions in some online timed bullshit thing

well yeah, you have to get through that first.

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin

Boiled Water posted:

no you don't, you can and should tell them to gently caress off

not unlike me, when a recruiter for a small tech company asked if I could re-do their personality test to give a better result. Please. If you're gonna disregard your own cargo cult why even go through the steps?

I've always had to fill out a resume at least and do a phone/webcam interview first. I agree the personality quiz is dumb as poo poo.

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin
Saying there's nothing to do in the Valley is a new one to me. :psyduck:

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

they still need to, whether your state is "right to work" or not. "Right to work" just means you will have a hard time forming a union.

there are still very good reasons to avoid firing an employee without cause. it's a legal hassle. unemployment insurance ain't free. etc

He meant at-will

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin

qhat posted:

I mean I have to give thirty days because of my contract, and also it's the professional thing to do because I'm at the centre of some pretty critical projects so I'll need to train my replacement. But if they say they want me to end sooner then that's ok because I'm gonna take the severance they need to pay me and get the hell out.

Lol. If they would be hosed because you left today, that's on them not you.

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin
Lol, that absolutely is free work. Their chat app uses mongo and they are using docker-compose to manage micro-services. gently caress that poo poo.

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin
The only people I see doing poo poo like that is green engineers with no self worth.

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin

Kilometres Davis posted:

Why would you give more than a 2h takehome when you have to read the submissions?

I wouldn't do a take-home at all. I have projects I can show you and several contributions to many prominent OSS projects.

Even green engineers I interview I will ask if they have any code samples/projects on git. I find it makes for much more meaningful conversation.

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin

KidDynamite posted:

I don’t code outside of work. I have a few other time consuming hobbies that I enjoy way more.

Which is also why I listed ”code samples.”

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin

iospace posted:

What the hell? That's dumb

Same sentiment.

I have clauses in my contract that state “anything pertaining to the business and their projects” but everything I do? I would refuse to sign that bs.

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin

qhat posted:

Official offer came through, total comp is 37.5% higher than my current role excluding options (which I also get), plus a 10k signing bonus. Can't hand in my notice soon enough.

Congrats! Tell us how the resignation goes!

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin

Ploft-shell crab posted:

Is your company really going to come after you for your “fartz as a service” project or a bug fix you drop for some OSS project? Who’s watching your GH repos and why would that even be in their interest if they are?

Did it make > $0? Then yes.

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin

Rex-Goliath posted:

since he just tweeted it by any chance does someone have a link to the original post where that goon mailed his signed acceptance letter to his boss and hr by mistake but we all know was the biggest dick energy move in yospos history?

I remember that. It was wonderful. :allears:

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin

JawnV6 posted:

so y'all are saying that NYC companies absolutely refuse to match what CA enshrined in law? still don't understand the attitude some folks cop when they're getting clowned like that

The East coast still doesn't understand that working remotely is a thing and that they have to compete with good states like California.

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin

Munkeymon posted:

:catstare: I don't think I've ever had an Epic recruiter hit me up but I know my reply would be laughter

I bet there was a green engineer many years ago that went "I just learned linq/lambdas and now it is my hammer for everything."

That Green engineer made a gigantic pile of poo poo code that took months to clean up.

This happens in every language.

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin

ThePeavstenator posted:

My boss told me that I'm about to be promoted. This is my first non-internship job. Am I supposed to negotiate the raise they offer me?
Yes, always negotiate.

qhat posted:

Only if your promotion results in a significant change/increase of responsibilities. I mean I guess you can try, but if you're just doing the same thing then there's a good chance they'll just laugh you back to your desk.

No, do not listen to this guy.

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin
Just LOL if you don't negotiate at all. What the gently caress is this horseshit advice? The worst they can say is "nah, take it or leave it."

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin

DONT THREAD ON ME posted:

the worst part about interviewing is that the payoff is having to go to work

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin

raminasi posted:

i got drunk and bitched to my boss that i felt underpaid and that i wasnt learning anything in my role. he said well youre not wrong and texted me a job lead the next day with a guy he knows.

Moral of the story: Booze fixes everything.

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin
The best three jobs I have ever had were startups. My current one was bought by shell and made me a large chunk of cash.

Edit: I am also 100% remote with a one week at HQ every quarter.

How to be successful at a remote gig: Be in a very specific niche that has a negative unemployment rate.

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin
lol. You work your rear end off for a few years at 200k+ and then chill for a few years and do what you want.

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin

jit bull transpile posted:

no I moved to work at an unspecified apple office. I'm making way more than Wisconsin figgies but not the crazy 200k plus rsus plus bonuses people constantly mention in here as normal.

I can’t speak for anybody else, but I’m in an extremely niche market with my skills and can charge a premium. there’s a negative unemployment rate for Embedded Linux Full stack engineers with a focus on infosec. :v:

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin

Stringent posted:

what does full stack mean in embedded linux?

For me it means everything from kernel drivers to the web front end.

Edit: And the systems stuff as well.

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin

Rex-Goliath posted:

we haven't had a yospos salary survey in a while

I would venture a guess and say most people in YOSPOS make at least $80,000 American fun bucks a year.

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin
I went from 40 to 60 to 75 to 90 to 150 in a span of 12 years.

The 150 I am currently at has a up to 10% bonus at the end of the year as well (got 8.5 this year.)

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin
I don't have a degree, but at my first gig, my boss handed me “C++ Primer Plus” and told me if I read it and completed all of the exercises in the book he would mentor me. I did complete the book and he held up his end of the bargain.

Then I read through ”The Linux Programming Interface” which also helped me a great deal. I know it's not formal education, but I don't think my career has been held back either. :shrug:

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin

Schadenboner posted:

What "should" a L2 help desker be making per hour in Milwaukee on a permatemp contract?

I just got asked and I have no idea what my "ask" should be?

:ohno:

Don't ever give a potential company a salary expectation until an offer is made.

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin

iospace posted:

Question: if a company requires you to submit an expected salary, what should you submit then?

$1

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin

ADINSX posted:

$420,069 obviously

Nice!

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin

Progressive JPEG posted:

good morning interview thread, getting ready for my flight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB2yqeD0Nus&hd=1

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FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

by vyelkin

the talent deficit posted:

i worked for ibm for fourteen months and when i left i still hadn't been assigned a manager or a project

drat, I would love for that. I would just do contract work while collecting my pay from IBM. double paycheck.

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