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i don’t ship bugs, i ship experiences
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# ¿ Feb 8, 2025 16:16 |
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never, under any circumstances, ask someone why they aren’t customer obsessed
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ADINSX posted:Probably the most surprising thing about working for Amazon is people will actually quote these while speaking like little nuggets of wisdom from dear leader my company has tried to install this a few times, originally because they brought in an ex-amazon guy as ceo and he brought in more amazonians, but it has never taken root except ironically in private, thankfully
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if you genuinely believe you’ve never shipped a bug to prod, just lie about it. make up a time you did. saying you never have is just going to sound fishy as gently caress
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rotor posted:idk i always think an hour isnt really enough you're right about it not being enough time, but my brain has developed a hard-checkout response at minute 45 of every meeting. that's when i go from ~50% attention to <10%, and i can feel it happening, like a whooshing in my head so i just try not to interview anymore. time consideration aside, i hate it and it sucks for all parties involved
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if my interviewer can't quickly identify one of the many things far more wrong with me than my headset size, i don't care to work for such a sloppy outfit anyway
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thus does rotor administer the controversial “clown test”, which he claims to be 100% accurate, though none have passed it yet
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rotor posted:what? what? EIDE Van Hagar posted:i am gonna need you to whiteboard this with you: we have sixteen human resources in the car and we need to get at least four of them stuck in the rungs of this ladder and one to fall backward into this bucket of whitewash. ok my bad, maybe it’s eide that does the clown test, not rotor
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rotor posted:huh? oh
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i fled to infrastructure where i have no pm, don’t estimate poo poo, and nobody understand what i do enough to give me grief about it
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Captain Foo posted:infra is no escape from the inexorable pull of scrums it is where i am, but that's only because of my seniority. don't worry, there are plenty of other horrible things that ruin my days
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rotor posted:my yospos hottest take is that agile can be done well and is good, actually (if u do it well) mhmm and how many times have you seen that happen
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the engineering teams here mostly operate on kanban, except one that switched to scrum on purpose, at the urging of the devs on that team. how hosed up is that?
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rotor posted:twice (out of like 12 places) ok that's honestly more than i would've expected. i think it takes something of a unicorn pm/scrum master/eng manager to work well. somehow the attributes "not overly process driven" and "competent at running any process at all" don't naturally coincide often
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i am a moron posted:I’m being a little too harsh though. It isn’t just the stuff they see as beneath them, it’s also anything they don’t understand. Which might as well be anything besides writing code yeah, in my experience it's less stuff they see beneath them and more stuff they're afraid of. even when it's super simple. even when you've taken great pains to make something complicated simple to do for them, as a treat lead a horse to water etc. etc. also: post hole digger posted:they may hate doing ops work, but at least they will insist on having access to absolutely everything and wont have any understanding of best practices or how any ops work is actually done.
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nudgenudgetilt posted:a huge part of my job seems to be saying either "oh dear god, please don't do it that way" and "oh dear god, why did you do it that way"
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Poopernickel posted:I understand the bullshit of jira, scrum, and Agile-with-an-uppercase-A pretty well at this point, but I've never done kanban basically, no sprints. there's a single prioritized backlog and you just pull from the top of it. for the rest it sorta depends on the org/team implementing it then there's the lore about how it's borne of the toyota manufacturing methodology, which is very relevant, because building cars and software is exactly the same you see
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ultrafilter posted:Naturally, those limits are ignored by a lot of organizations that say they're doing Kanban. if we’re being honest, some orgs will even ignore the prioritized backlog. really, there is no good process without a competent and disciplined org, it’s not particularly a kanban or scrum problem but i’ll still take broken kanban over broken scrum — at least there are fewer meetings
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put some backend devs, web devs, and ios/android devs on the same team, and then tell them to establish the meaning of a story point, as a joke (i have seen this joke happen in real life)
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software engineering: constantly migrating from the old bad thing to the next bad thing
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the fabled application that when inherited by a new dev team they don’t immediately say “what is this trash”
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ADINSX posted:I read the other day that they just added loops to cloud formation, so now you can write conditionals and loops in your yaml cloud formation is for masochists anyway, they'll love that poo poo
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raminasi posted:idk about cloudformation but in terraform conditional logic is really useful if you want to make a module that can be used for multiple nearly-but-not-quite-identical scenarios. like: i have a custom aws lambda module that does all of my organization's lambda things for me. sometimes lambdas need to be inside a vpc and sometimes not, so i just expose a configuration option on the module that conditionally does the vpc things. yes, but terraform is for people who want to do work, not people who want to feel pain, any pain, just as long it distracts them from the void within their soul. that's what cloud formation is for
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the point of those "tell me about bulletpoint" questions is to gauge the candidate's ability to clearly explain their understanding of a problem and how it was solved. it's just that most engineers don't really understand how to interpret that signal, because they're probably also bad at it
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raminasi posted:at algo gauntlets yeah that is not the appropriate venue for a question like that, and they're essentially cargo culting interview behavior i guess
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hey, here's something i wish i had known in the past: a big to-do is made about exercising ISOs not being a taxable event, but there's a big, fat caveat to this. you have to figure AMT for your regular income PLUS the "value" of your exercised options (this depends on the company's FMV, which they get to decide) and if it's larger than your normal tax liability, you pay it instead. AMT uses a lower tax rate but removes certain exemptions, such as ISOs if you exercise a lot of options or they have a high FMV, this can really gently caress you on taxes, all over money you will likely never see
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raminasi posted:fwiw my tax lady said that post-2017 this is only worth worrying about if you’re in the neighborhood of $1mil or more. if you’re really risk-averse you can early exercise to avoid it, but most people are going to recommend against that and i’d agree with them. this was i think in 2019 for me, and definitely under $1mil, so i’m suspicious of that info. also, i was misled by a tax professional into believing there would be no tax implications. i no longer use that tax professional
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Fortaleza posted:Portland ftw
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complaining about californians in oregon went out of fashion a long time ago, we got that out of our systems in the 80s and 90s
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Janitor Prime posted:Did a phone screen for Pinterest, it's fully remote in Mexico that I can do from my house by the sea. i wish you luck, but i wish pinterest nothing but harm, so i’m not sure how that balances out
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the thing about californian complaining is that california is very big and populous and has a lot of immigration and emigration and hence it’s very hard to say what a “californian” actually is we are all of us californians, and we are none of us californians
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rotor posted:ok but point of fact: I am literally a californian sure grandpa let’s get you to bed
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lord fifth posted:it was a database query optimization problem and the interviewers seemed mad that my answer wasnt "precompute all possible queries and cache them." weird loving interview. they did specify up front that there was no bound on the time for database construction but, like, what sane person would take that as direction to precompute every possible query ?? i would simply memorize the database's contents and answer queries myself
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rotor posted:take the job and monkeywrench the poo poo out of the place imo quote:(12) General Devices for Lowering Morale and Creating Confusion https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184
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we're all natural saboteurs
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well look at mr helljob over here, i guess you win the Worst Career Experience award
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Raluek posted:he didn't seem very happy about it, in fact he was complaining to me that this legal obligation was making his job harder by taking away (some of) his institutional leverage, but he did give me the range. "the law is making it harder for me to gently caress you, don't you feel bad for me?" lmao
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Pulcinella posted:Has anyone ever interviewed at a company and thought the company was in way over their heads? friend, i've exclusively worked for companies i thought were in way over their heads
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Kazinsal posted:there are in fact myriad turns out most billionaires' worldviews are informed by misunderstanding popular fiction
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# ¿ Feb 8, 2025 16:16 |
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Its a Rolex posted:Then they asked if they could get a reference for my performance at my current job. sure, and perhaps i could call your wife and ask if she'd recommend having sex with you, hmm?
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