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KidDynamite posted:getting tons of "your background is great but we're pursuing other candidates" and also talking to sourcing recruiters and then the hm declines to continue the process. seems market is very saturated for ios eng. have you looked into android development? we’re scraping the bottom of the barrel for talent, and it’s a relatively painless transition from iOS to android, other than some lifecycle differences
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what’s wrong with staying at a company for a long time anyways? if they’re treating you right and you’re happy then it seems like a win/win, tho obviously you’d want and need to make sure you’re keeping up with the market and they’re willing to work with you on that
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Sapozhnik posted:i wanna be in embedded but not so much that i want to leave the six figgy club (or get as close to leaving it as makes no diff, low 100k doesn't buy what it used to even back in 2015) as far as I know from people I went to school with, the embedded krew get paid around $175k with the caveat being you have to live in Detroit and go into an office for GM, Ford, Stellantis, or The Germans and Swedes (tho I don’t remember if they’re open to remote positions again or not, but do offer hybrid schedules with 2-3 in office days) or get paid closer to to 135k for one of the suppliers that still have an tech centre here have also none of the Japanese companies have tech centres here. Hyundai Mobis does, but when I interviewed there they had to ask if I drank and if I was willing to go to Korea for a month for training, but they paid the same as a tier 1 supplier with slightly worse healthcare an upside is that 110k+ goes a pretty decent way here, and 175k is pleasant to be at
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I had a bug make it to prod this week because I forgot some users use gigantic font, and because of their hoojfont, a button they need to press to use the app was shoved below the bottom of the viewport and you couldn’t scroll to see it
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rotor posted:from a hiring perspective, IDEALLY i would hire people contract-to-perm because that would let me bounce clowns if it became clear that they were clowns. But, understandably, no one likes that, so the next best thing is to be real sure they're not clowns up front. this is how we do it and it’s still aggravating because whoops the talent pool willing to deal with that is actually a puddle and also I still feel bad having to let people go, even if they made my job harder and made me have to do more work
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I will say the upside is I’ve never heard of an FTE getting canned before, so the job security is really nice, and the pay and bennies are good enough with the work/life balance
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rotor posted:anyone who makes me do more work deserves death, nothing less and nothing more idk, I’m the idiot who accepted my role, and I’m also the idiot who hired the other idiot who made more work for me. I don’t particularly know what’s going on in the other idiots life rn, so unless an absolutely ridiculous PR comes through or they decide to go full aggro on someone, I don’t really have a full-picture way to diagnose the issue and offer resolutions and see how they go beyond “hey we need this for the release this week that you’ve had a month to work on, either poo poo or get off the pot” I’m just glad everyone recognises that not every hire is going to be as good as my first three were. that was definitely the scary bit when new hires ended up not working out. I thought it’d reflect poorly on me, but instead it just solidified their opinions because I apparently noticed issues early and started trying to get them on the right track and then didn’t lose a year or two to it
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PokeJoe posted:usually the worst or newest devs are willing to do contract to perm. if you want good devs you gotta do perm from the get go. what kind of skilled person takes a poo poo contract w no bennies yup, when I started out I was newish to mobile development and really cut my teeth here, and they actually sought me out from my previous technical consultant role because they hoped I could pick up the ropes quickly, and lucky for me I did ![]() but ya I’m hoping we get that changed next year
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Captain Foo posted:yeah but i don’t want no scrums to the tune of “no scrubs”
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Captain Foo posted:that’s the joke, yes drat
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we don’t use story points, we just have a monthly release and we tell the scrum lords if we can do something by this UAT or the next UAT simple as
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Kernel Sanders posted:my one weird trick is to work at places that developers think are boring - banks, insurance companies, manufacturing. they pay well, don’t understaff and i never think about work outside of work. same, op highly recommend
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bob dobbs is dead posted:says in levels.fyi that geico pays median 120k tc (as low as 66k) and state farm pays median 110k tc for dev? figgyland prime COL means 120k in not SV is probably the same or similar spending power as $230k in SV $175k in the Midwest is very comfortable
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KidDynamite posted:this eastern european man just got very angry when i asked if they had any plans to update their process to use a modern architecture within their ios app because they use mvc. lmao
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in android mvvm is slowly being phased out in favour of Clean or MVI, since view states better support composable functions for the new UI library
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we are going through the process of researching clean arch before we begin transitioning to compose from legacy xml views and woof
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in android your viewmodel interfaces with a repository to make network calls and then sets the result to an observable like LiveData or a SharedFlow/StateFlow that’s built into Kotlin, then your view observes and does stuff based on the result
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AWWNAW posted:I was using MVVM and XAML to do windows desktop apps ten years ago. I had no idea that metastasized ya lol it’s the standard way of making android views
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Asymmetric POSTer posted:why not just code everything in one giant file, something monolithic perhaps ah yes, the burrito architecture
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is MVC the one that’s event driven? and you’d use like EventBus to pass data around to your views?
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paycheque so big it had me YAML’in
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the only usecase I can think of would be environment dependent values if uat x else if beta y else if prod z
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The Figure City
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I-69 cuts through somewhere north of me and if that’s how Michiganders said it I’d have a laugh every time lol
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Californians can be redirected to Ohio instead of MI or MN tia
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Achmed Jones posted:lotta people jealous that their state isn't as nice as CA itt imo socal is paradise so yeah I’m extremely jealous
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LA has 200 more sunny days than Detroit does and I can imagine how much better my mental health would be
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KidDynamite posted:is 85-125k NZD an acceptable range for a senior ios eng position? i want to gtfo of america so will to take the haircut but not willing to get fleeced compared to locals. gut reaction is absolutely not. 125k nzd is like 75k usd, except housing is similar to SV or socal, and you live on an island that almost everything is imported to it’s cheaper than Hawaii but not by much
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shitface posted:I got $250k to move to Sydney but I think rent at least is more reasonable (less unreasonable) in NZ. Still, no, absolutely no. don’t do that I need to update my resume
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I will take the boring job at the boring company making big bux and then spend my afternoons and weekends getting headbutted off the side of a mountain by a goat every single time, and anyone who isn’t cool with that proposal probably has American Labourer Syndrome and, unironically and in the most polite way possible, needs to find a hobby that is unrelated to work imo
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what are you doing this weekend? oh I’m going hiking/skiing in the alps, which happen to be in my back yard, and then I am going to take a train ride to Berlin to go clubbing and be back by Sunday afternoon
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bob dobbs is dead posted:120k is not big bux in figgieland. nor is 250k aud (160k usd). they are respectable normal figs, or a fair tad below normal this decade yeah, that’s largely why I’ve stayed in Detroit. I have a mostly boring but frequently interesting job with a TC of around 165k, and the Detroit COL is cheap as hell lol I would take a pay cut to have the alps in my back yard since I think the Swiss col is equivalent or maybe slightly more than here, but tbh idk if they have a private insurance scheme or what since the Swiss do their own thing. Sydney would need a raise for a move since it’s dollarydoos and the col is nuts due to housing
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reading is for yellow bellies
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Bourricot posted:i appreciate the feeling, but allow me to lol at the bolded part: zurich to berlin takes over 8 hours by train (and that's without going into the notoriously bad reputation of deutsche bahn about delays) yeah for some reason I was thinking Switzerland was where Poland actually is ![]() München it is!
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are there tech jobs in Norway unrelated to the oil industry tho? cuz I’m fluent in Norwegian and wouldn’t mind moving back lol. plus I would have to convince my American wife to relocate which even on paper is going to be A Tough Sell
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Asymmetric POSTer posted:my man, you live in loving detroit and moving (back) to norway with the wifey is a hard sell? we did actually do an engagement picture in a theatre they were tearing down so lol but no the main issue would be a lack of family support. my family has largely left Ireland for the US right before the GFA was signed, and we floated around a few different countries before ending up here as well, so losing that would be a massive blow even though the QoL would be better in Norway. I think eventually it may be something to consider, but not while the kids are all under 5 ![]()
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Gildiss posted:Also the haircuts just wtf lmao never seen a mullet before? did the eshays make it over or are they still an Aussie thing?
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I interviewed a guy today, and for the first time in a while I was impressed. he built a dumb dog.ceo app and got it running all while using extra stuff like Hilt for DI and Compose for the views, and even used a sealed class to control the state of the api result. it’ll be really nice to have four experienced devs on our team, tho hopefully we don’t have a lot of free time on our hands due to it
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one time I took a project over and the EE’s had been using SharePoint as their source control
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