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Started a job last year with a 2h commute each way so I've been getting up at 5:45 every morning, pretty envious of all you who've managed to retain night owl status ![]()
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# ¿ Feb 11, 2025 01:36 |
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partially a two-body problem constricted by bay area geography (partner does not commute south like I do and, there's nowhere we can move that would improve my commute without drastically worsening it for her) and also south bay rents are astronomical vis a vis what I pay for a 300sqft studio in Oakland
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Chalks posted:You've got to be pretty careful you don't burn out if you're putting yourself through that every day Yep this is what I've discovered. I'm renting a spare bedroom for a few nights a week down there, which has helped, but it's still, like, holy christ what am I doing with myself
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PokeJoe posted:lifehack: move to the spare bedroom and ditch your other place
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interviewing status: blocking on my application flowing through teams at BayAreaBigCo; meanwhile NYC startup is gonna fly me out after MLK weekend so I guess this means I have to remember how to reverse a linked list again ![]()
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JawnV6 posted:a yosposter literally dosed me post-lunch with this stuff lmao oops sorry jawn, I multiplex two espresso shots into one virtual single-shot americano
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<edit: probably not the right thread>
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Flat Daddy posted:would apple actually care / look at it if I made a side project macOS app in swift?
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I used to work at a Scala shop that was unconventional in the sense that nobody thought very highly of the actor model, which I guess is what the rest of the Scala community is all about these days and then would get super salty at candidates who submitted take-home tests using Akka instead of threads and locks and atomics as god intended and would not listen to me begging them to either be more open-minded or change the take-home wording ![]()
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I have to say, it feels pretty nice to not have a job to go to interviewing, recruiting, and also jobs are for suckers
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MononcQc posted:also renting if you want pets is an exercise in continuous frustration. ![]() [1]: if the government can take your land away from you for not paying your taxes, is it really your land ![]()
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uncurable mlady posted:what's the most decent place on the west coast to live
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just applied to a job at mozilla and felt bad about submitting without a cover letter, so ty for validating my choice when they reject me I'll be sure to secretly blame you all
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this is a super-common occurrence, OP, at least among big places/FAANGs, so don't worry about it
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be careful of the one pitfall of that scenario, where both companies livelock themselves waiting for the other to give you an offer for them to counter
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DONT THREAD ON ME posted:just seems like wishful thinking, like you can just buy this security product instead of investing in security engineers. i guess that's enterprise for you but if you rub a WAF over your network then you get to tick off boxes for your ISO 27001 certification, which some big prospective customer is making you pass before they consder giving you $$$
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iospace posted:Question: if a company requires you to submit an expected salary, what should you submit then?
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Rex-Goliath posted:yeah this is what i’ve heard as well. if you’re looking for a long term and steady gig to support a family you could do a hell of a lot worse than IBM. if you’re single and looking to go places with your career than ehhhh you could do a lot better than IBM 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?
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I agree with all the others, if the interviewer didn't offer help or a reformulation to help you get unstuck, that says more about them imo. Got an onsite scheduled for tomorrow (and two more for next week), hopefully these will go better than the previous one I did, where I had to implement LZW compression, got it done by the end of the interview, and then got bounced anyway ![]() ![]()
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Ciaphas posted:i got there at least part of the way on my own recognizance, just took a couple of prompts to get the solultion out in 40 of the 45 minutes we were scheduled for. we were talking the whole time, I was just stumbling from what I guess is panic
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Sapozhnik posted:What the gently caress lmao yeah and they started the interview by saying "so I'm sure you remember this encoding strategy from college, ..." like my dude I went to a b-tier state school equivalent in canada, somehow I think we had different university experiences
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so on the topic of "what would make a programming interview worthwhile", I had an onsite yesterday that was pretty interesting and different. I had to bring my own laptop in with a certain set of dependencies preinstalled, and there were questions where they'd give me a repo with a bug in it and had me track it down. This seems way more in line with day-to-day software work, and I'd have been on board with this except that what language I'd like to use and, because it's easy to whiteboard, I say "oh I usually interview in python", so I had to figure out how to use a python debugger right on the spot in front of the interviewer ![]() Still, though, seems less artificial and would be cool if that became the default.
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raminasi posted:the big downside there is that you're requiring each candidate to have a laptop and time to janitor it to prepare for the interview (the bigger problem was that my "ancient" mac doesn't have modern video-out so I couldn't connect it to the conference room's monitor, so I needed an extra 30 seconds to dial into a zoom meeting, but even if I couldn't have done that they would have provided me a laptop anyway ![]()
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I've always wanted to believe that binexp interviews would be super rad, glad to hear that's actually the case ![]()
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mekkanare posted:I wasn't sure if there was a thread to put it in mainly, but here's what I have: https://i.imgur.com/mgMFCJn.png But yeah in general I agree, no red flags
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qhat posted:Until your RSUs are fully vested you basically have nothing. count no figgies stacked until you've actually sold your stock
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Does anyone have good questions or advice for intuition-building around comparing offers from startups vs more established companies? In past interview cycles I've only interviewed either exclusively at small places or exclusively at big places. Obviously if you're going to a public company then you have a rough idea of how high your figgies will stack just by checking the stock price and praying for not too much variability. And, I guess given my past experience I'm content with going to small places, taking whatever offer they throw at me, and hope for mega stock splits down the road or something. This time, though, I kind of have to do an apples-to-apples comparison against: - X (~1500 employees, series E, 785M raised, ~20B valuation) - Y (~80 employees, series C, 70M raised, ??? valuation) - Z (~80 employees, series C, 170M raised ~1.1B valuation) The problem here is that this set's spread is pretty wide here so I don't know how to tackle comparing these just from a "how much cheddar is going to come out the other end" perspective. What sorts of things would you ask here? Is it simple enough to ask about "valuation multiplied by percentage of ownership", or is that an easily-massagable metric?
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bob dobbs is dead posted:Value company at 1 p/e. Sucks if you dont have earnings data Is earnings data something that one can reasonably ask to see? p/e makes sense (though I guess this biases towards the more established company that is less dependent on VC funding...which is maybe the sensible point after all); at that point I presumably can equate two companies by this over the number of shares (e.g. twice as many shares at a places with half the p/e balances out)? edit: also ty for the response ![]()
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JawnV6 posted:idk the last 5 on crunchbase seem legit, redis & databricks? right, like SOMA startup darling slack dot com is up to a series h, so for better or worse an E isn't super out of the question these days
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Chill Callahan posted:ask them what their liquidation preferences look like ty, I had thought this only mattered with preferred stock (which as nbsd points out I'm not getting), so I'll explore this
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My first-choice company just bounced me...after checking my references ![]() ![]()
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Three, per their request (one former manager and two peers) I asked the manager reference if they had any idea of what went awry, since backchannel from the peers seemed to be that the company were positive on me, and I was told "I wasn't super prepared for that reference check" which is ![]() ![]()
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Tetramin posted:lol how does that happen? what kind of person agrees to be a reference then trash talks you maybe they were on the fence and deliberating while checking references, so it wasn't actually related? IDK IT IS EXTREMELY WEIRD and I'm grouchy because I liked this company ![]()
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qhat posted:Unless of course the referencer threw a bunch of curve balls that the reference found difficult to answer, so I guess it might not even be their fault. ![]() OH WELL
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Captain Foo posted:This is worth a call to your reference yeah so when I did they were all "yeah so I wasn't really prepared for the call, they asked about your projects and I didn't have much to say" which is messed up but they had two other people to talk to (they called at least one of the other two, who said the talk went well), so I don't know
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Pulcinella posted:Uhg I’m being ghosted. ![]()
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yotj update: turns out finding a remote gig after leaving two jobs in as many years is tougher than just walking into the open-office and saying "hire me, binch" ![]() Talking to a place founded by some German microkernel folks who are working on theorem-proved hypervisors tho, so fingers crossed I get to dereference a pointer again soon
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thread title: Can-We-Buy-Figgies.pdf
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# ¿ Feb 11, 2025 01:36 |
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granted 2019 feels like 20 years ago but not sure the 737 max debacle counts as a deep cut, OP I will not make the "unless the 'deep cut' means the hole it scraped into the ground on impact" joke
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