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I've given my boss month+ warning that I'm looking for another position but it was because we'd had a lot of history together and I trusted him not to gently caress me over and because replacing me wasn't really possible. It's ok to do it imo but be verrrry careful. Even if you trust your boss, do you trust his boss not to gently caress you over? How about his boss's boss? Because they'll hear about it and they can gently caress you over too.
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qirex posted:I just remembered that rms opposed annual raises for fsf employees because he thought if instituted they would eventually earn infinity dollars its factually true and when we're all immortal this post is gonna look really stupid qirex
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CarForumPoster posted:man I gotta defend qhat AND say someones being too hard on facebook? I dislike posts from both those things! building and renting out the worlds most powerful propaganda engine to the worst people on earth is not identical to but is just as bad as building bombs. I dont post in this thread but I popped in to say that I view working at Facebook to be immoral unless you're there to deliberately sabotage it. It's been apparent for many years who upper management is and they wont have their minds changed by people inside. You may not be pushing people into the ovens, but you're alphabetizing the victim lists.
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Mar 31, 2022 17:55
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Aramoro posted:Are folk seriously discussing the objective morality of working for different companies in a thread dedicated to getting payed hundreds of thousands of dollars for little work? Yes. The idea that I can't find facebooks actions immoral because i'm paid well strikes me as odd. Do only baristas get to think facebook is evil? quote:I do love a little holocaust comparison in the interviewing thread. when the shoe fuckin fits
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Mar 31, 2022 18:23
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Aramoro posted:You absolutely can, it's just that every FAANG company and most other companies paying big numbers are also immoral, just in different ways. Is Facebook worse than Apple? Probably, both are still bad though. Sure, every company is immoral but some are far far moreso than others. Last I checked, Netflix was not facilitating genocides.
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Mar 31, 2022 18:37
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PokeJoe posted:Yeah you can draw the line in the sand wherever you want and if it's just $BIG you're after you don't have to do war crimes and make a propaganda horror machine to do it Exactly. Facebook doesnt pay THAT MUCH more than its competitors. If you can get a senior engineer job at fb, you can do it most other places and make more or less the same money. The "but i need money" argument doesnt hold water. Simply get your money elsewhere. Or just say "i dont care/prefer to remain deliberately ignorant."
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Mar 31, 2022 18:45
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Pie Colony posted:comparing fb to the holocaust or even weapons companies is exactly what i was talking about. like fb/ig/wa has some baseline amount of value. my friend went from being broke as poo poo to being a "content creator" on ig for example. i use ig to look at animal photos while i wait for the subway and wa whenever i travel do you honestly think "experiments on engagement" is the same as "facilitating genocide?" the rest of your post boils down to the dril tweet about how its impossible to tell if drunk driving is bad or not
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Mar 31, 2022 21:35
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KidDynamite posted:they know i have a job and am not in a rush. why not just reject me and move on? it sounds like their intentions changed in the middle of your interview cycle but want to keep you in the loop at some point in the unspecified future for when they might be hiring again. Which is like a 80% rejection but not 100%. They might also be fishing for a willingness to relocate to NY.
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Mar 31, 2022 21:38
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tk posted:They may actually get back to you but I'd forget about it.
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Mar 31, 2022 21:47
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KidDynamite posted:it's apple. apple would just tell you if they rejected you. this sounds like you passed but someone lost headcount, which happens.
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Mar 31, 2022 21:59
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Apr 21, 2022 21:23
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Rudest Buddhist posted:gently caress I said a number godDAMMIT
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Apr 25, 2022 21:26
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Achmed Jones posted:well there's oldjob but they only hired ninjas and rockstars, not wizards, so idk if it's a good fit and the console cowboys? what of them?
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CPColin posted:Every time someone tries to get me to "familiarize" myself with AWS I flatly refuse this thing where software engineering has become 80% configuring existing software packages is bullshit and i hate it the minute i see or hear the word "kubernetes" I check out of the convo and start thinking about the weekend
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Sep 7, 2022 02:15
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my homie dhall posted:you guys ever reject someone with the right skills just because they seem like they would be annoying personality-wise to work with? 100% yes
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my homie dhall posted:how do you word those concerns in the post-interview meeting? bad culture fit? "doesnt seem like someone who would get along well with the team" "Feels like interactions would be high-friction and cause problems" "Unnecessarily combative and antagonistic"
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Sep 9, 2022 01:05
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Achmed Jones posted:"seemed like an rear end in a top hat due to X" depending on how formal your interview debriefs are, this is good too
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my homie dhall posted:what if they aren’t really an rear end in a top hat, but they just constantly made reddit jokes the entire interview or otherwise seemed to lack self-awareness in a way that was not necessarily evil or even would impede them at their job, but you would find annoying dealing with day to day? thinking like John Candy in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles i mean idk how bad it is but if theyre just real abrasive with no social skills, yes. If theyre just kinda unfunny dorks, no.
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Sep 9, 2022 02:33
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4lokos basilisk posted:how to not say bad things about current company and answer the question of “why do you want to find a new job”? i think i was even asked “why i want to leave my current company” which seems like a curveball with no good answers dont talk poo poo about your current job unless there's something flagrant like "I've had 4 managers so far this year" or the company is clearly circling the drain. generally you want to just say noncomittal bullshit things like "I feel like I'm ready for new challenges" or "I'm trying to realign my career to do X and I think this position is much closer to what I can find at my current company" or even something as pedestrian as "your company is about an hour closer to me than my current place - that commute is killing me"
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Sep 24, 2022 08:13
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my number one piece of career advice (for everyone) is: do lots of interviews. Do them every 6 months to stay in practice. If you dont actually want the job you're interviewing for that's even better. Because when you see a job you DO want, that is not the interview you want to be your first interview in 8 years. It will help you get past all the bullshit and the fear and anxiety and all the rest, it'll get you experience on what people will ask and what people will say, and it will even broaden your professional network. Interviewing for jobs you dont want is cool and good and everyone should do it WAY more than they do.
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Jan 20, 2023 00:53
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if you're saying to yourself "oh i dont want to waste their time" gently caress them, waste that hour of their day, they're getting paid for it. if you're saying to yourself "oh i dont want to waste my time" gently caress that, 12 hours of your time every six months to a year is not that valuable when compared to the career advancement benefits it pays.
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Jan 20, 2023 00:55
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nudgenudgetilt posted:you went back to 2004, registered an account as jawnv6, then kept doing your thing for almost 20 years jesus christ jawn you gonna just sit there and take this poo poo??
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Jan 20, 2023 02:05
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kitten emergency posted:do you think people describe themselves as, like, tomcat devs? uhhh [raises paw]
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Jan 20, 2023 18:48
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dioxazine posted:i was being sarcastic! I ... I dont think we allow that any more, do we?
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Jan 24, 2023 01:28
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dioxazine posted:i hope this doesn't happen consistently 
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Jan 24, 2023 01:38
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apply to google, as a joke
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Jan 24, 2023 02:24
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hobbesmaster posted:oh I should totally reply to that recruiter (er sourcer) that sent me an email last Tuesday and see what they say lol you should
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Jan 24, 2023 02:48
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go play outside Skyler posted:
this is what i keep sayin
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Jan 24, 2023 20:38
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nudgenudgetilt posted:i just had an interview where i'm 99% certain the candidate was being coached. they had lots of weird audio issues getting going, lots of weird pauses before answering, and the kicker: after giving me a vague description of a past gig, the candidate said "you should explain that more", then went on to poorly expand on what they'd said. my favorite was the interviewee was really struggling with this basic question, then suddenly dropped, then came back after 5 minutes saying their internet had died and finished up the question rapidly and with no questions.
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Jan 24, 2023 23:43
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for longer coding interviews my goto used to be "write console-mode minesweeper" until i started getting a bunch of people who'd never fuckin heard of minesweeper
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Feb 6, 2023 00:37
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champagne posting posted:I dislike fizzbuzz. it tells me nothing as an interviewer and even less as an interviewee i love fizzbuzz because it tells me within 15 minutes whether its worth carrying on with the rest of the interview.
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Feb 6, 2023 18:16
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like idk maybe you guys dont have this issue, but around half of the people I interview cannot do a fizzbuzz without a lot of coaching. One person tried to argue with me about how if statements worked.
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yeah like i get it, interviews are stressful but I can only lower the bar so far. Like i dont even insist you get fizzbuzz perfectly right, but you cant struggle with syntax and you cant be confused about how if works vs if/else.
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programmer interviews are bad, especially on the low end, because its a lucrative field without any real accreditation body or process. So its flooded, especially at the low end, with people trying to fake it until they make it. edit: and i mean god bless those people, i wish them the best of luck, but if you cant do a fizzbuzz you aren't doing a good enough job of faking it.
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Quackles posted:I actually saw an opinion article in the Journal of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery for those who don’t know— basically IEEE for programmers) suggesting that programming is a profession, like being a lawyer or a doctor, and needs a professional organization and accreditation process. The article made a convincing case. yes, i strongly agree with this or a union or fuckin something
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Feb 10, 2023 00:42
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Pie Colony posted:guy who asks fizzbuzz in interviews: the dudes are not good, my dude the partial explanation is that my org is QA, and QA typically does not attract the best of the best.
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Feb 10, 2023 00:44
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Pie Colony posted:fizzbuzz is fundamentally worthless because it gives you ZERO signal if the interviewee gets it right I use fizzbuzz to rapidly winnow through candidates. You are correct inasmuch as you get zero signal if the interviewee gets it right, but as I mentioned before, it rapidly tells you who you can safely pass on. Its the first gate, not the only gate.
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Feb 10, 2023 00:48
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Pie Colony posted:you would have 200 more seconds for the good (doesn’t have to be hard) question is my point. the only way asking fizzbuzz is more efficient is if you walk out your candidates immediately after failing fizzbuzz, which i wouldn’t recommend for basic decency reasons I absolutely will do this. There is no sense wasting everyones time and it gives the interviewee a strong signal where they hosed up and how they hosed up without having to explicitly provide that feedback which my company policy prevents me from doing. In addition doesnt give them any false hope about maybe this job will come through. It may seem ~indecent~ to you or whatever but it is the kindest thing I can do in the position i am in.
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PokeJoe posted:it would make software a lot better and we would get paid more, on the other hand I don't like jumping through hoops 🤔 me neither and yet thats basically all i do all day any more so why not one more
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