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outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

bob dobbs is dead posted:

yeah, they're mostly clawing back the remote to be seniors only again, and lots of geographic restrictions

i got the mandate that my next hire be in figgieland unless i'm willing to personally move to figgieland, in which case my next hire can be remote

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outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

fig diego

outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

figago

outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

figzhen

outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

Armitag3 posted:

thank god someone cleared that up

"California Postin'" is slang for child porn

outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

knox_harrington posted:

"HR hiring manager" is a weird phrase unless this is a HR job. in general the HR interviews I've had have been very basic and just asking general things about my CV, how you work in teams, general culture/"fit" stuff.

could be a matrix organization. at my last university gig, i had one manager who did just hr-like poo poo, and other managers for the projects i worked on.

outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

sounds like a guide to yosposting

outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

you can also refuse to even talk to anyone who doesn't post a realistic salary range and tell the recruiters as much

outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

jesus loving christ dude. you're trying to go from uber to oracle?

outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

just get it over with and start giving peter theil your blood

outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

feedmegin posted:

OK Mr Trice let's see how you do, then *fires up IRIX box*

*trades finger guns for real guns*

on it.

outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

i would like a new job where i am paid large amounts of money to nap and snack all day while doing no work. please advise how to interview for this role

outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

i have to count drugs illegally

outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

echinopsis posted:

but not in a remuneration kinda way

if you can count pills legally for a little money, you can count them illegally for a lot of money

the more you know!

outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

have you considered becoming a roadman?

outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

boss just stopped dead in the middle of a mostly technical conversation during our 1:1 and said "you're not interviewing, are you?"

said no, but now i kinda feel like maybe i should be

outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

yeah, i was talking to my boss (formerly a high up at apple) recently and i'm pretty sure there's no way i'd survive a week at a faang

outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

i don't hesitate to criticize anyone and everyone from the ceo down, and i believe healthy organizations effect change from the bottom up in addition to from the top down.

faangs are very much top down.

outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

it's time for the scoffer letter -- a detailed list of all your perceived shortcomings

outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

Mantle posted:

I remember reading a story about a woman being personally recruited by gaben to run some sort of VR (?) thing and after she joined, she was ignored/isolated by him (?) and got fired. Can't seem to find it online now.

jeri ellsworth

https://www.wired.com/2013/07/wireduk-valve-jeri-ellsworth/

the problem with valve is that you either have to be willing to work on projects run by other folks, or you have to be able to convince folks to work on your project

if you join with the intent of leading a project, you have to sell that project to the other engineers or it dies.

outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

i interviewed at valve for a network gig many years ago and it was so loving weird

some softball stuff generic stuff like "design an elevator", but some of the interviewers really seemed like they didn't understand the topic they were interviewing for. in particular i remember one troubleshooting question where they were reading from a script about "a user in germany is intermittently unable to do %s" how do you troubleshoot it?

every troubleshooting step i responded with involving logs, tracing, or error rates was met with "uhhh, the problem document doesn't specify"

lunch at el gaucho was fun tho

outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

don't forget the early exercise option.

ask if you can early exercise on day 1, then file an 83b and pay taxes on the diff between strike and fmv (probably $0). bonus points if the company still a qsbs and you can start your five year timer right away

in some wild situations, the company might even offer you a loan to exercise your options that is secured by this stock, so if the company goes tits up, you don't lose a penny.

outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

Its a Rolex posted:

I'm not asking for the full cap table, I would expect pushback on that

A simple "is this X% of the whole company, or X% of the employee equity pool?" is all I asked, and couldn't get an answer. They're the ones who brought up that this was even a possibility

yes, totally reasonable to ask how many shares are outstanding. also totally reasonable to be told you aren't privvy to that

outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

rotor posted:

Ive been employee … 16? something like that. I got 0.5% which was i think closer to normal for that time (~10 yrs ago)

i got 0.3 as employee ~20 about a decade ago, and 0.7 more recently as either the first or second (hr and i started the same day) full time employee outside the founders. i might have pushed for more than 0.7, but they brought me on at 170 cash with a bump past 200 within a couple months, so i didn't push for more equity. maybe before our next round i'll ask for a little more.

they also gave me a loan secured by my stock, allowing me a no-risk tax-free early exercise, so that was nice.

outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

Corla Plankun posted:

being forgotten by, and not having to worry about, my coworkers anymore is the main advantage of leaving a job; and now I have to actively maintain a rolodex of trustworthy bosses because it is not enough to please hiring managers now, I must also have--verifiably!--behaved in a way that they liked before I ever met them

none of this is new. references have been a thing forever. poo poo, it used to be expected that you provide references on your resume.

the only thing that has 'changed' here is that you got away with not having references when you were inexperienced. now that you've been around the block, references should be available.

if you're burning all your references, that's on you

outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

back before i had established a decent set of references, i tried to have a classmate fill in as one

instead of saying good things about group projects and such, they basically said "yeah, i sorta know him". hiring manager loved my other reference, gave me the job, and told me to never use that reference again

somehow 20 years later, bad reference dude is still one of my best friends

outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

the cs bachelors at my university was unaccredited, and you entered a 5 year program ending with a meng.

you could guarantee only a handful out of any graduating class had real world experience beyond their three coop semesters

outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

i went to riverside once

never again.

outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

san diego or la jolla

outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

in a well actually posted:

ohio

no one will ever ask why you left

ohio is a solid conversation terminator

i thought kentucky would be similar, but that just leads to "but you don't sound like you're from kentucky"

bitch, what the gently caress do you know about kentucky accents beyond what you saw on justified

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outhole surfer
Mar 18, 2003

lord fifth posted:

to clear my name i would like it to be known that never in my life have i considered applying for a job at oracle corporation

qualcomm is just as bad

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