Notorious b.s.d. posted:

if you poke through this thread a bit you can find a list of leading questions written by tef, a chronically unemployed but highly perceptive yosposter, that can help you get more useful information out of the interview

Valeyard posted:

Company A said yes, will get a call from them tomorrow to see what their offer is

b0lt posted:

any company that unironically uses 'sdlc' is terrible

qhat posted:

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

Sapozhnik posted:

the good thing about working for an established business is being a very small cog in a very large machine
the bad thing about working for an established business is being a very small cog in a very large machine

startups are more likely to give you interesting work, unfortunately you'll get an uneven mix of the good and bad kinds of interesting (spoilers it's mostly the bad kind)

the talent deficit posted:

they want to know how often your manager talks to you and how many meetings you have to go to

uncurable mlady posted:

getting an offer today and i think i'm gonna take it

meatpotato posted:

i went to an on-site and wasn't asked to do any whiteboard coding
they just asked me questions about my experience and asked me to explain a few technologies i'm familiar with

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Boiled Water posted:

Visual Basic + excel place?

Boiled Water posted:

re: the old tech stack

the only thing you can do here is keep negging their stack and hope it pays off

edit: in case you're wondering i'm a gay idiot without a job so maybe it doesn't work

Cold on a Cob posted:

idk if i mentioned it in this thread but earlier this year we passed on someone because he wouldn't give us salary expectations. like, outright refused. i guess he read everyone's favourite salary negotiation article.

he would have been better off just firing off a nice high number tbh, at least then we would have countered with something

Sniep posted:

so follow up. get the job you want.

it’s Just Business

hayden. posted:

I just (politely) walked out of my first interview. I show up for the first on-site interview and it turns out it's a technical interview, which wasn't communicated at all. I sat with two engineers who said hello and then immediately tasked me with white boarding some algorithm and data structure problems, when I was really just more showing up to see if it was a good fit. They said they didn't have any questions for me, only the whiteboard exercise. I told them I didn't have a CS background and have never had a reason to memorize or frankly even use algorithm knowledge and that it seemed I wasn't what they were looking for. The job ad mentioned that they build scalable software and they recommended a CS degree (like seemingly every job listing) but it wasn't clear it was an absolute necessity. I thanked them for their time and left after a very awkward conversation about how I didn't want to wedge myself into a role when I was clearly not what they were looking for.

It was a senior level role, but the compensation range given me was close to the non-senior title roles I've been given offers to already. I guess good luck finding candidates with faang style interviews and only paying 100k in downtown Denver.

hobbesmaster posted:

i think hes saying that since it wasn't a big boy salary he shouldn't need to know data structures and algorithms

Rex-Goliath posted:

don’t undersell this. i’ll take someone who has decent tech chops who i can actually stand being around over a hotshot jackass any day

qirex posted:

hustle the new folks and tell them you're at the end of the process with a different company. don't tell company you're close with anything, imo

Buff Hardback posted:

offer letter signed

Flaming June posted:

just got an offer today at a startup that i'm only somewhat enthusiastic about. the project and team are okay, and the compensation is better than what i'm makng now, but nothing really groundbreaking. it's also completely remote with no real opportunity for in-office work since its on the other coast (i actually prefer a dedicated office space)

i was supposed to have a second offer today at a larger public company, but they are now reprioritizing and are unsure if the position will even exist once that is decided. they are far more well-known and their verbal offer (before this meeting) was higher than the startup's, with a more relevant project and a better match for a team. they were my #1 choice

startup needs an offer by eod friday. public company doesn't expect to even know if they are still hiring for the position for a week or two yet

i guess i could take the startup offer and, if public company gets back with an even better one, just jump on that instead and burn some bridges if it comes to it. if public company had to wait to hire (but they were definitely going to hire) then i wouldn't mind pushing off a start date, but i don't even know if there will be an offer now

qirex posted:

in my experience "full stack" means "everyone is real bad at front end code and they hot potato who has to glue together some react components they found"

PIZZA.BAT posted:

interviewing is garbage anecdote: about six months ago we were trying to hire a new architect. we ended up hiring one of the guys i gave a thumbs down too. turns out he’s a drat good architect!!