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Notorious b.s.d. posted:wow some p. deece 6.5 figgies itt no joke, I have fig envy; I need to up my fig game soon, maybe this year.
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Emacs Headroom posted:A lot of it is really just bay area money. A friend of mine just did a pretty thorough search and got a spread of offers from 1.25M over 4 years to 2M over 4 years (some had significany amounys in ISO form which depends on liquidity events and performance though) I live in Seattle though. I think I could probably make a dece 6.5 if I shopped around, but I like the people I work with and I'm the tech lead of a pretty important team doing some cool green field cloud stuff. If it wasn't for those two things I'd be hitting the books for interviews
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Congrats on dem figs and on a job you really enjoy. I really need to check out Chicago, it seems like a really cool place and its basically the only big city in america thats still affordable
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Gazpacho posted:"I hear you're looking to sell a house" Not a great analogy since that information is public
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Pollyanna posted:how much stock should i put in glassdoor reviews e.g. https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/athenahealth-Reviews-E18207.htm it seems like theyre biased towards people unhappy with the company? but then again they have good information in them like that one review where the company called african american employees "AMFAMs" which is kinda weird The only useful reviews on glassdoor are the negative ones, unless you really care what the HR plants have to say in their 5 star reviews (negatives? Sometimes we move TOO QUICK) edit: for reference the lovely contracting company I used to work for had a higher review than this, 3.2 is pretty bad...
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Feb 22, 2018 18:26
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Pollyanna posted:which still annoys me because a company should have loyalty to its workers over its profits ahahaha
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Feb 22, 2018 18:34
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Penisface posted:I wrote my resume in Google Docs, converted it to PDF and put the link to the PDF as a QR code on my business card. Not sure if this life hack gained me any offers, though. A neat idea but you could just put your Linkedin URL since thats all Linkedin is
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Mar 3, 2018 15:22
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Penisface posted:That would require a Linkedin account which I consider a sort of scrub thing to be honest. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Its a good way to accumulate recruiter spam and keep track of former co workers. I try and respond politely to people with interesting opportunities that I'm not ready for at the moment, and will probably go back to them and hit them up when its time to move on. Better than applying through someone's website. I don't know why anyone would post articles or read those posted articles, but I find it odd if someone doesn't have an account and have used it to get more information about a candidate than would fit on a single resume page (please don't give me a resume with more than one page)
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We might be hiring but I don't know much about the android team
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Mar 7, 2018 22:40
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FMguru posted:there is only one thing you need to know about the android team Well we have plenty of that so
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Mar 7, 2018 23:07
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Pollyanna posted:never expect a company to give you a pay raise, theyd rather pull their own teeth out with pliers They'll give you a raise it just probably won't match what you could get by jumping around. Especially if you're in a competitive market and they know you can do just that. On the other hand, if you're looking for a promotion, it might be easier to find it at your current job where they know the kind of work you do.
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TimWinter posted:A friend shared this video with me and "That's what the money is for" has become a regular response to "well, X is a good idea but obviously so-and-so won't want to do it" at my workplace since then. Season 1 was good but I was mainly into it for the setting
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Mar 17, 2018 19:18
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HoboMan posted:what's a good bs answer for "what does your dream job look like?", all my dreams are long dead hope they're a bunch of dorks and recognize this https://xkcd.com/1346/
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Mar 19, 2018 15:50
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:job postings are an adverse selection problem just like job candidates -- the worst jobs go unfilled the longest Can confirm; microsoft shops are garbage tier poo poo for idiots
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Mar 23, 2018 18:58
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It probably means nothing. Just like lovely real estate listings use meaningless unverifiable adjectives ("cute", "stunning"), boring companies that have nothing to offer need SOMETHING to talk about in their job ads
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Mar 28, 2018 17:37
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dragon enthusiast posted:how acceptable of an answer is "I'm looking for a new job because my current job is in a backwater shithole and I want to move to civilization" very if you phrase it differently.
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Mar 28, 2018 22:30
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qhat posted:Not knowing about joins for a position that involves SQL, junior or not, is unacceptable. That's like admitting you don't know what inheritance is for a programming position. just know the difference between left and inner and you'll be fine. I've used cross join maybe a few times in my career, and basically never use anything else.
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Mar 30, 2018 05:13
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Symbolic Butt posted:oh that's a good interview question, I have no idea Is it though? The whole point of a declarative language like SQL is that I don't give a gently caress how the tables are joined, I just want them joined like this. Some dorks in the 70s figured out the best way to do it, and as a sex-having brogrammer I benefit from their effort.
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Mar 30, 2018 17:36
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Sapozhnik posted:well, if you have a seemingly-simple query that's taking forever to run then you're gonna end up looking at a query plan to figure out (a) what the root cause is and (b) what to do about the root cause Honestly the extent of my debugging slow queries is "Does the thing I'm joining on have an index? Should it?". I've looked at query planner output before but mainly just to look for sequential scans. I wouldn't disqualify someone for not knowing exactly how databases work, given that they're designed for you to not need to know that. Unless they're a DBA or someone claiming expert-level knowledge of databases specifically. Not to mention SQL is pretty common outside of the relational database world at this point: Bigquery, Spanner, Spark SQL, Hive. Just because someone claims they're good at SQL doesn't mean they know much about databases.
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Mar 30, 2018 18:31
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30k is insanely low, start shopping around. 1 year of experience isn't ideal to start looking but otoh if you can demonstrate that you've learned all the new-programmer basics (using source control, working with a team, some kind of process i.e scrum, etc) then thats the big concern most companies have: "we don't have time to train them"
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Apr 5, 2018 17:09
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Edgar Allan Pwned posted:yes im in america. Thats fair, then in interviews (and maybe cover letters) you should emphasize the amount of programming you do. Definently try and introduce source control and some kind of process (scrum, kanbahn, whatever). Both because that will look good to companies you interview with, and also because they're just good things.
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Some dumb email spam posted:Nerd Ninjas is looking for a Server Engineer to join our team! If tracking new ground in the gaming world excites you, this is the company for you! You’ll get to work on a project with novel mechanics targeting millions of concurrent users with a massive marketing budget that the world will know about when it launches. You don’t get opportunities like this every day. What a cute way of saying you're looking for people who work all the time! Haha sounds like such a fun place to work!!!
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yeah just start doing it while you're looking for a new job. Preferably a real software shop instead of being the "computer guy" for some other office.
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qhat posted:double lol at one meeting room between 450 people. Its cool, teams will just have meetings in their work area. The office is no doubt open so other teams will get to listen in, this increases collaboration.
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Shaman Linavi posted:ive showed up to interviews in purple or rainbow shirts and got the stink eye whats the name of that technique in fabric where its mostly one color but with little flecks of a different color like that? I've always liked the way it looks
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Is there a tech scene in Chicago? It seems like a cool town but idk what the opportunities are like for a city of its size.
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Relational databases definitely still have a place in the world, but work best as a view of the data, not the source of truth. Sure you can shard things out almost indefinitely; but when you want to run analytics on your entire dataset, or subsets of that dataset; you're stuck stitching together partial results from thousands of databases. The better approach (depending on your usecase of course) is to try and have a single event stream that can put data in multiple places, the database being one of them. A snappy UI can be driven off a SQL database while larger analytics can come from BigQuery/Redshift/Spark Jobs/Beam Jobs etc etc. Important changes made in the UI can be broadcast to that event stream (as well as the local database its using in some sort of "unofficial" change, to make the change seem immediate). Using a single (or multiple) relational databases might be ok for awhile, but it doesn't take "Google" levels of data for this to be a problem. I work at a medium sized company trying to transition to this model, away from thousands of postgres instances across about 100 physical servers (with really beefy specs). The Postgres servers are fine (well, ok, not really) at delivering reports over relatively short time periods, but we constantly get requests from customers for reports across DB boundaries, or for long periods of time, and that really interferes with our transactional load. Googling for Whatapp's architecture diagram reveals they do this: data gets put in a relational database but also in riak and probably in a bunch of other places they don't list on the public documents.
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tk posted:Do this it makes GDPR compliance real fun. Yeah this is the wrench that gets thrown into the model. Its fun to talk about everything as an event and the ability to recreate the exact same state by re-streaming all events from the beginning of time. But what happens when a customer leaves? Or they have a retention policy? We're working on cleanup jobs that just go through all the views and remove the relevant data; basically you have to violate the "immutable" part of the events. In an ideal world there would be "delete" events that would remove records from the views... but you still need to remove them from any copy of the event stream itself, so what can you do. I guess the main point of the post was that saying "only google cares about this" is not true; its not hard to get too much data for a cluster of databases to no longer be the best solution. I don't even think its wrong for startups to design things from the onset this way. Maybe its a little resume-driven-development, but in their eyes they either grow to that scale or die anyway, so might as well plan to succeed. I'm gonna be interviewing with a satellite imaging company next week. They produce about 5-10TB of imagery a day and deal with even more serious "big data" problems, so thats pretty exciting.
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I think we're saying the same thing? Their main strength is OLTP but of course you can get away with running analytics on them as well, especially when the data is small. When our company was building this out, it was the mid aughts and it was a team of people who thought the database could solve everything (I've only been here for 2 years so this is second hand). So we have OLTP, OLAP and even a nightmarish web of triggers to create business objects as events are inserted into the database. Its a real triple threat and now machines are falling over. As for how beefy the servers are, not that beefy by those standards. Ram on the order of dozens of gigabytes, no idea about the number of cores. As I understand it most of them were acquired several years ago and are getting on in age, leaving the company with a decision: Buy a new round of hardware, or move most of the data to cloud services.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:yeah this is not a fundamental problem in sql databases Yes... I know... we are in the process of stopping. Its not a fundamental problem with relational databases, but it is a fundamental problem when you say "Relational databases can be used for anything so long as you shard them and use indexes". Which is how we started talking about this. Notorious b.s.d. posted:i think my smallest server at work has 768 gb. they are 1U boxes that we use for dumb cloud-type poo poo We're about a year into the transition, and even if we weren't its not up to me, I'm only on the software side of things.
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jony neuemonic posted:current job refuses to accept this idea or the reality of their situation. they’re absolutely certain they can just dump two decades of legacy crap into aws if they just try harder. Because they realize once the immediate fire is put out the organization will go right back to creating a bunch of small new fires
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Had a really strange "technical" interview today, with a satellite imaging company I really want to work for. I already had my preliminary chat with the HR recruiter, talked about my interests and background which are big data pipelines and geospatial systems (exactly what they need for the role), additionally I used to work at one of the companies that this company ultimately bought, so I was already familiar with some of their stuff. Anyway, I get the call, and the connection quality is pretty bad and he has a slight accent, so off the bat I'm having a hard time understanding him. He tells me about the role again and asks about the project I'm working on. For awhile I think we're clicking, though he isn't saying much. I feel like I was able to answer every question he had about the project and my background, we're using a lot of the same technologies (we both use google cloud stuff), etc. He asks me if I have any questions, and honestly I don't really... I'd like to eventually get to some of the questions listed on the first page, but I'd rather do that in person, ideally with members of the team I'll be on. I've already chatted with a friend that works there, so I've got a pretty good idea about how things run. Anyway, after that, the interview sort of just... ends. He says he'll pass along his feedback to HR, and that it was great talking to me (but in one of those canned ways)... It was scheduled to take 45 minutes but we get through it in 20, and I guess I get nervous when something goes really short because it could be a bad sign (or maybe they scheduled it longer to give me plenty of time for questions) So I hope I get next steps or a "no" tomorrow.... I'm gonna be really bummed if they pass on me without even an in person interview... I honestly don't know what else I could have done. Phone interviews are the worst 
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Seconding (or whatever) the opinion that remote work sucks. Don't under estimate the importance of getting lunch with the team, after work beers, etc. Not only is it good to make personal relationships with your peers and possibly higher-ups, but these outings inevitably talk about work, and its a good time to shine especially if you're more junior (maybe you're not invited to the big design meeting, but you can always bring up ideas informally) Also theres just the quality of life... I worked remote for about a year and found it incredibly isolating. Just getting out of the house and talking to people is important, even if you have a big network of family and friends. A lot of my friends and former coworkers that are still working remote have similar opinions: they never leave their house anymore. Maybe you don't mind that, but I hated it.
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MononcQc posted:That definitely depends on personality, I find. I also think it's kinda bullshit if you have to hang out with people after work to talk about work in order to be good about work. I'd just get out of there and go for a place where coworkers can talk about something else than work when away from there. Don't hate the player, hate the game. Happy hour isn't all about work, but being that work is the only thing everyone is guaranteed to have in common, it comes up. I do agree that things can be different if the team is fully remote, thats a good point.
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MononcQc posted:the trick is to start with them on-site or in an expensive area, and then move out to a cheap place and work remote. many employers won't have the guts to cut your salary, they'll just keep it flat for years instead, but still higher than if you had a CoL-adjusted salary to begin with and then got many promotions A lot of my friends did this when they moved back to new orleans. Can confirm pro strat
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qhat posted:Col adjustments lol. I thought being able to pull in the figures while living wherever was why people worked remote, practically the whole point in fact. You can still pull in dece figgies it just might not be what your peers in a really expensive city make. To put semi realistic numbers on it, say you have some employees making 120k in a place like New Orleans, while the same employee makes 160k in SF. 120k is enough to buy a really nice house in New Orleans and live a pretty good life, its also at the upper end of the salary spectrum, which means the employee is gonna be pretty loyal. Meanwhile, 160k isn't poo poo in SF and you'll never be able to buy a house. At the end of the day they know they just have to pay you at the upper end of the tech salaries in the area. Maybe its not fair but you're not gonna do anything about it.
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FamDav posted:here's the buffer calculator if you wanted to find out how much of a haircut you'd have to take to live in the same place Those salaries seem pretty low across the board...
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FamDav posted:both of them are targeting median salary in SF for the position. I was looking at the software/senior software developer salaries. Idk what directors usually make
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