interviewing: The Land of the Rising Fig

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Ploft-shell crab posted:

might not make it at my #1 because I bombed an OO design question

# ¿ Oct 6, 2018 00:29

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# ¿ Apr 19, 2024 10:23

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Jabor posted:

remember that even if you do end up being able to take an appropriate amount of vacation, such a policy also means "you won't get paid out any accrued-but-unused vacation when you leave"

yeah there are three aspects to the unlimited vacation scam
1) they dont have to hand you a check for unused pto when you leave
2) people feel pressure to not be seen as "abusing" the system, they calibrate the threshold for abuse against their coworkers, the effect is a ratcheting down of people taking time off
3) the intentionally amorphous definitions of "getting your job done" and "abusing the system" give management an excuse to fire/downsize people in a way that makes it harder to sue for wrongful termination

# ¿ Oct 9, 2018 13:25

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MononcQc posted:

trust your coworkers above your management

trust only your fists

# ¿ Oct 10, 2018 01:42

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ADINSX posted:

Your co-workers will never help you

# ¿ Oct 10, 2018 01:50

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my bitter bi rival posted:

I asked "what's the most impressive thing you've seen out of someone else you've interviewed recently" and she said "nothing, thats why we're still interviewing" lol :jimfromtheofficeface:

bordering on dadjoke territory there

# ¿ Oct 10, 2018 05:19

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CPColin posted:

Not if the river empties into an endorheic basin!

dont sign yuor posts

# ¿ Oct 19, 2018 04:55

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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some helpful tips

https://twitter.com/dasharez0ne/status/1054037422089080838

# ¿ Oct 22, 2018 15:44

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fritz posted:

update: phone screen went great, then went back to current job chat room and im being yelled at for a segfault that i dont think is mine, gonna take that xanax anyway

just one?

# ¿ Oct 24, 2018 23:18

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akadajet posted:

never stop looking until you have a firm offer in hand

until you are handed your building access badge and have confirmed that it works

"firm" offers sometimes evaporate in the eleventh hour

# ¿ Oct 26, 2018 16:25

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Notorious b.s.d. posted:

besides, let's be honest: the reader of my resume can probably guess the kinds of shoes i wear

# ¿ Nov 4, 2018 06:38

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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i always figured that contacting you months after you apply was a sign that the guy they hired didnt work out so before they start the whole expensive hunt up again why not see if any of the better qualified applicants they passed on are still available. a longshot (esp in this labor market) but hey if it pays out it can save the company a lot of time and effort and money

# ¿ Nov 8, 2018 13:36

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jesus WEP posted:

taxes down musulmans out im sure he doesn�t mean all that stuff about our people tho

hes just saying all those things to get elected, he doesnt really believe them. if you were smart and savvy like me, youd understand this!

weve had a lot of fun in this thread tracking farmers slowly coming to realize that trump wasnt kidding when he said hed launch a scorched earth tariff war with china to punish them for all the bad deals theyve forced on us

the result:

the silos are full so now soybeans are piling up in the open, hoping to find buyers before they rot

# ¿ Nov 9, 2018 20:51

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Arcsech posted:

do the interview. not for higher comp, but as a safety net. offers can fall though and you don�t want to have canceled the interview if that happens

yep yep

keep interviewing and applying right up until they hand you your building security badge

# ¿ Nov 11, 2018 05:05

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Tetramin posted:

Yeah, I think I kind of knew that in the back of my mind already, I just wanted an excuse to kick back knowing the hell of job searching is over. I�ll keep it up for the next week and a half, hopefully nothing gets derailed with the offer.

as a wise man once said, "interviewing and recruiting is garbage," and its entirely understandable to want to be quit of it as quickly as possible, but job offers have been known to evaporate at the 11th hour, so play it safe and keep grinding

it might even be an interesting experience - going to an interview with an acceptable offer already in your pocket is like playing with house money

# ¿ Nov 11, 2018 05:36

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raminasi posted:

my boss told me today in a surprise 1-on-1 that the bonus pool he's getting to work with is stupid small and that the only way i'm going to get what i deserve is to find a new job (not in those exact words but that was the sentiment)

this training video has some helpful suggestions for getting the raise you deserve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbwOYMFtw1k

# ¿ Nov 16, 2018 01:47

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Rex-Goliath posted:

this is a good boss and it's a shame you're gonna have to leave him behind

come to rest in a better company, settle in, and then recruit your old boss to come work for you

# ¿ Nov 16, 2018 07:33

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Notorious b.s.d. posted:

cobra was passed in 1985, son

cobra lets you keep buying in to your previous employers health plan after you get let go

if your previous employer shuts down, theres no health plan for you to cobra into

# ¿ Dec 3, 2018 01:29

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Kevin Mitnick P.E. posted:

last cobra letter i got said i could have my lovely hdhp for the low low price of $1500 a month. before that was an actually decent plan with copays and a maximum out of pocket that would have made healthcare affordable when i was on the phones, if premiums were 0. $3300 a month on cobra

every time i get a cobra letter the reaction is the same. who is buying cobra coverage. are they on a respirator or some poo poo

as far as I can tell, cobra is good for one thing only - if youre in the middle of some complicated, expensive medical procedure like chemotherapy or (this is a big one) pregnancy

# ¿ Dec 3, 2018 03:15

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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this guy got pretty good results with his interview technique
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCXbib9MahE

# ¿ Dec 3, 2018 16:48

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
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non-profits offer decent benefits (sometimes) and generous time-off allowances

what they dont offer are market rate salaries

# ¿ Dec 6, 2018 18:32

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PokeJoe posted:

a friend with unlimited vacation got from thanksgiving to the new year off this year.

a large part of the scam of unlimited vacation is that people are afraid to be seen as taking advantage of it, which ends up being self-reinforcing (as people calibrate their vacation-taking against what their coworkers are taking, and the whole thing ratchets downward)

(the largest part is they dont have to pay you your unused pto when you leave, of course)

# ¿ Dec 8, 2018 07:19

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game companies are famous for

1) paying below-market
2) demanding enormous amounts of crunch
3) firing you once the game ships

if your tech chops are good enough to work in gaming, theyre good enough to work in an industry that doesnt have all three of those characteristics

so dont work in gaming

# ¿ Dec 10, 2018 18:44

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Symbolic Butt posted:

I just like graph theory ok

agreed that there is something likeable about graph in theory

in practice however...

# ¿ Dec 15, 2018 04:18

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Notorious b.s.d. posted:

information technology consulting, also from the old "big five" plus the defense contractors (BAH, Lockheed-Martin) plus a few technology-specific groups

this is a fusion of management consulting, and the indian megacorp body shop model. you pay them a vast fortune, they replace your staff, and some mysterious binders turn up on your desk

they will promise you literally anything, and you're gonna pay for it, and good guess whether you get it.

i assume this is also where youd slot the big former giants of tech who settle on consulting once their prominence has faded (ibm, xerox, and unisys, and soon hp and dell)?

# ¿ Dec 19, 2018 23:47

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lancemantis posted:

which one of those categories fits reducing most of your existing staff and replacing them with people that are employees but you get to manage them like contractors, i.e. the contracting firm you pool them from is the one in charge of all their salary and benefits and employment taxes -- like employees as a service?

thats not "consulting" thats "staffing"

# ¿ Dec 19, 2018 23:50

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KidDynamite posted:

had a chat with a disney recruiter. from first impressions i don't think it would be a good time working there

people inside of disney have been calling it mauschwitz since the 1980s

# ¿ Dec 20, 2018 17:12

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DONT THREAD ON ME posted:

hey ya'll what are some good questions to ask during an interview to find out if a company is garbage

i'm totally blanking

check the thread op

# ¿ Dec 21, 2018 01:57

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Asleep Style posted:

I was under the impression that asking for references (let alone actually calling them) had fallen out of favor, is that not the case?

It seems to have been replaced by "background checks" where they confirm the facts of your resume (degrees, where you work at what position during what period) and check for things like your arrest record.

# ¿ Dec 21, 2018 17:50

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Cold on a Cob posted:

while we're at it, for ordinary jobs credit checks shouldn't be allowed either

iirc thats now illegal (for most positions) in california

thanks jerry :unsmith:

# ¿ Dec 27, 2018 20:09

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Notorious b.s.d. posted:

this is the credo of so many countries

denmark and sweden both have "far right" parties that 100% agree with their center-left parties on every issue except that all non-danes / non-swedes should probably be murdered / expelled

ive seen it called "herrenvolk socialism"

# ¿ Jan 2, 2019 23:28

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DELETE CASCADE posted:

that probably won't work, because never sell no pot where you rest at, i don't care if they want an ounce, tell em bounce

wisdom

# ¿ Jan 11, 2019 00:24

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the only thing worse than having a job is not having a job

# ¿ Jan 29, 2019 18:28

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Double Bill posted:

What about death, I heard it's good

hell yeah

# ¿ Jan 29, 2019 18:47

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san diego has low wages (so many people move there for the weather that they bid down salaries) and very high cost of living (so many people move there for the weather they bid up the cost of housing)

plus it has grown faster than the infrastructure can keep up, so lots of traffic and iffy services

pro tip: get a job with a big-city salary (nyc, sf, la) and move/transfer to san diego

# ¿ Feb 3, 2019 18:42

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Skyl3lazer posted:

Good news the shutdown ended in time for me to not lose my new job hurray

that is excellent news and i am genuinely glad for you

:toot:

heres hoping they dont shut the whole thing down again next week

# ¿ Feb 4, 2019 18:24

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fizzbuzz is some bullshit but the reason it keeps being used is because there are lots of people with sterling software engineering resumes who cant do it. its a cheap and easy test to filter out frauds

the last interview i participated in was for an it support site lead position (for a location running mixed mac and windows) and the first candidate who came in specifically mentioned he possessed the specific mac/windows integration certification on his cv. the first tech question we asked him was the easy filter "so, what steps do you do to bind a mac laptop to an active directory domain?" and he stammered and hemmed and said he couldnt remember how to do it off the top of his head, and even with multiple hints ("so, you go to users & groups...") he couldnt come close to the correct answer, and the interview went downhill from there

people will claim all sorts of wild poo poo on their resumes and you have to test them to see if any of it is true. theyre just doing basic due diligence

# ¿ Feb 4, 2019 22:55

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Boiled Water posted:

it totally is an auction

it was, and one of the bidders dropped out when the price got too high

# ¿ Feb 11, 2019 18:04

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nasdaq peaked in february 2000; by march 2001 it had lost almost 2/3rds of that value

https://www.macrotrends.net/1320/nasdaq-historical-chart

# ¿ Feb 11, 2019 18:36

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Cold on a Cob posted:

except if the other offer fell through then the backup (us) was no longer on the table, we moved on and hired someone else

so he managed to turn two firm offers in to zero jobs? wow

# ¿ Feb 11, 2019 18:38

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# ¿ Apr 19, 2024 10:23

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qhat posted:

Less than 2 weeks before my soul is officially intellectual property of electronic arts, my company is forcing every employee to attend some day long worthless "organizational culture workshop" and is also threatening to start withholding all kitchen privileges from all employees because a few people are leaving dirty dishes in the sink. I'm literally laughing myself to the door.

be sure to surreptitiously poo poo in the sink on your final day

# ¿ Feb 12, 2019 20:39

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