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i applied to a place a couple of weeks ago, phone interview went well, programming assignment went very well. they asked last week for my salary expectation and i said a number that is higher than i think i could get, and higher than glassdoor estimates for the position (from one data point, lol) and i haven't heard anything since wednesday. part of me wants to think that they're just working it out internally and will come back and negotiate, but another part of me can't help but worried they're taking their time to work on a detailed "sorry, this won't work out, best of luck" response ![]() in the meantime i also responded to a recruiter who sent me an interesting position, except i haven't had time to actually talk on the phone with them since we're in crunch mode on my current project. not having time to look for a new job is a sign you need a new job, right?
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# ¿ Feb 7, 2025 08:41 |
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lol so i sent an email to nudge them and got a response which was "sorry, busy week here, when can you come in for a face to face interview?" negatives: makes them sound disorganized. positives: at least i wasn't rejected outright? and now i have an anchoring point for negotiations if the in-person goes well
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so the company brought me on-site for an interview last week which went pretty well, and the head of the division called me today to address some concerns i had and to tell me that "we're rebuilding the team and don't have many people with strong development skills* at the moment so we would want you in a hybrid role to get heavily into the development work for upcoming projects" (* the role is "systems engineer", meaning post-sales deployment/integration/devops, my background is in straight r&d but i tend to find those types of problems more interesting) and after all that, nobody has commented on the salary number i gave them ![]()
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i got the money i asked for so i'm gonna say yes to the new place ![]() i have no idea how to professionally explain that i'm leaving for a competitor. not a direct competitor, but they make reasonably similar products, aimed at a different segment of the market, and we actually offer an integration with one of their products. in the past i've jumped industries with new jobs, so i didn't bother telling anyone where i was going since it didn't seem relevant. but i feel obliged to mention it given that there's a (remote) possibility i might actually end up working with people from my current company on a project if a customer uses products from both companies...what do?
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Janitor Prime posted:double check if your employment contract has a non-compete clause or doesn't let you accept offers from vendors/partners and if it's enforceable in your state i don't have any such clause but ty this is good general advice for anyone who lives somewhere where they actually have legal meaning
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Ploft-shell crab posted:also expected work hours this. for my current job i asked about day-to-day during the interview and was told something like "some people just do 9-5, and that's perfectly fine, but of course every project is different" which should have been a big ol' red flag.
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newjob asked what kind of laptop i want, which is cool, i've never had a choice before. they also asked what kind of noise canceling headphones i want which i assume is in direct response to an offhand comment i made in the interview about not liking open plan offices and uuuhhhh first off, nice attention to detail, second off, now i need to figure out which headphones are good, lol
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# ¿ Feb 7, 2025 08:41 |
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FMguru posted:similarly, contract-to-hire jobs often never quite getting around to the "...to-hire" part of the description. just like requests for raises, something always mysteriously comes up that makes it Really Not A Good Time Right Now to discuss the issue i had an interview for a contract-to-hire role last week where the hiring manager said that most of his contract-to-hires were brought on permanently after 6 or 12 months and they did it that way because it was easier to get HR approval (legacy company, new team, growing fast, etc). also apparently they're "legally prevented from having a contract-to-hire longer than 12 months", broken only in 2020 due to a pandemic hiring freeze. idk how much to believe of any of that. they're a media conglomerate operating in california so i guess there might be some industry-specific regulation around contracts even though it's a corporate sweng job. but there's nothing stopping them from just not renewing the contract.
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