Fiedler posted:

if you land a gig at a big tech company they'll double (or more) your comp and pay to relocate you. some of them are even located in places that aren't terrible. all you have to do is prove you can write code on a whiteboard. they all have at least hundreds of job openings.

jit bull transpile posted:

yeah my last gig was 70k also and I got no bonus or stock of any kind. apple was a real upgrade but seeing the millionaire crew bragging up in here hosed with my head.

perspective successfully reattained.

Star War Sex Parrot posted:

for context it's a graduate degree from a #1 CS school. the kids are basically all heavily recruited and juggling multiple offers from top firms

Scionix posted:

CS at UT, which was like top 15 when I was there, was a lot of very hard things about advanced statistics, dynamic programming, operating systems, memory management, esoteric data structures, and specialized programming techniques that not a single person I've interviewed with has given one iota of a poo poo about

School was so much harder than having a job lol

jesus WEP posted:

working for IBM: bad idea or terrible idea?

Maximum Leader posted:

you know they're going to make you use lotus notes right

Dijkstracula posted:

One of my closest friends is at IBM and I've met a bunch of their colleagues, this is the impression I get.

Like, as of 2013-2014 their team was building cgi-bin scripts in Perl 4, and if I'm reading between the lines correctly my friend didn't get any stock grants, so it isn't clear that you'll have anything to add to your resume or be able to stack those figgies, but eh it's a job I guess?

Sapozhnik posted:

ibm employee, sobbing: please sir, you can't just call everything we do watson
ceo: *points to break room coffee machine* watson(r).

ADINSX posted:

Cool this is good advice, have you tried closing your laptop and jamming it up your rear end?

cheese eats mouse posted:

holy gently caress rescinding the chase offer was like breaking it off with a needy guy you went on one date with

I’m moving to nyc

Flat Daddy posted:

pro: having unlimited jobs to pick from and therefore near guaranteed financial security in a time when almost no one in this country or world has this
cons: surrounded by people that share my interests, personality, and career choice aka NERDS!!!!

KidDynamite posted:

so my recruiter's boss reached out to me because the recruiter is on pto. she's calling me today at 2pm with "good news" now to make it till then without telling my director(who put me on pip for refusing to work weekends and is onsite from head office) smdftb during the team meeting today.

Ciaphas posted:

i've given up on understanding figgies past six, someone dragged logarithms into this

quote:

Our niche is trying to be people's 2nd dev job, so our pitch is mostly to people inclined to quit. We don't hire juniors as then the more experienced people quit if they are forced to deal with them. So everyone we hire is poached from somewhere or applied to the posting. And then we basically take what we can get.

quote:

The other side of this thirst for young talent is a familiar one to anyone in business: the newest generation of workers often seems, well, different from other generations. Much has been made of the millennials. They’re confident. They’re optimistic. They’re an ADD generation. They’re suffering from separation anxiety after having spent their early years receiving the constant attention of helicopter parenting and winning trophies for finishing in 16th place. They have been told they’re the best, and their opinion is equal to anyone else’s, even those far older and more experienced than them.

It’s enough to leave managers in their 30s, 40s and beyond scratching their heads and feeling very much like grumpy old cranks who want those drat kids to turn down their music and get off their lawns. Digiday asked agency executives, with the promise of anonymity to not offend the delicate sensibilities of their young charges, to share their frustrations in managing the ad world’s next generation of leaders.

street doc posted:

This thread got quiet.

I have a solid lead for new role, passed first two rounds remotely, including 1 full day round with entire team. Next step is on-site, but it’s been delayed and is now TBD. Can’t tell if they’re fishing around for other candidates, or if it’s still on.

DELETE CASCADE posted:

who the hell knows aws/react/angular/python AND ALSO cobol/jcl/plsql

like seriously the overlap of that venn diagram must be the empty set

Devonaut posted:

Bored Online posted:

i completed it and was immediately met with a 3hr hackerrank assessment

im not particularly stoked about this interview pipeline or the company in general but its
a company that isnt disappearing, i know someone there, and itd give me practical experience which im not getting as a sysadmin rn soooo

qirex posted:

my first two interviews with google [main goog and youtube] were like this, love getting belittled for not going to grad school by someone who's been doing my job for one sixth the time

still don't understand why you'd ever ask someone with a full decade of relevant experience about college courses

FMguru posted:

PIZZA.BAT posted:

ha yeah the guy i was reviewing it with mentioned, 'so wait she built her resume in latex but didn't list that as a skill?'

i responded by asking if he'd want people to know he knew how to use it.

'ah.... good point'

Quackles posted:

This happened to someone I know:

Founder: "We didn't consider your Masters in Computer Science to be relevant experience. I don't really put much stock in education because I'm not educated myself."

This was for a developer job.

PokeJoe posted:

Got a new kind of recruiter email today, she attached her headshot to the message

qirex posted:

we're interviewing for a director of our team [I noped out of applying] and this guy we talked to yesterday, when asked the insanely normal question of what types of things would you do you do if senior management says they don't want to give our team the resources it needs? answered "I'd threaten to quit"

verbatim

barkbell posted:

oh ya ci/cd was a nice to have stretch goal along with pagination and some other stuff lmao

RokosCockatrice posted:

*me, mid drawing a "1" in front of some numbers on a recent paystub*: they're wrong, this feels legit

huhu posted:

I'm now 3 for 3 with being told pay bands in the first interview. I'm loving this.