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current interview status: cancelled because the candidate is afraid of heights and we're on the 34th floor of the tallest building in Seattle lol
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Rex-Goliath posted:i had this exact same hangup over my last job. it's not worth it Yeah I did it with a company I trusted and it worked out in the end. I wanted to leave Mexico and got a couple of job offers in Germany, but my company counter offered with a position in Seattle if we could land this one client. I stuck by for another year, during which time I flew to Saudi Arabia and installed our software and got it accepted by the customer. On the day I was leaving back to Mexico the client said they had to put a hold on our project and we were all like WTF. Turns out some VP was embezzling money and submitting giant POs from our company and others and then pocketed the difference. All of the projects under his care were effectively poo poo canned,  that guy.After that fiasco I started job searching again and got an offer from Amazon and ended up in Seattle anyway lol. After a year at Amazon I wasn't happy and my old boss offered me that position again but I had them match my Amazon salary 
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Fiedler posted:Typical. I was mostly pissed off about their paternity leave not existing, and then once they added it, it was only for employees that had been there for +1 year. gently caress em
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Bloody posted:oh gently caress thats the job i wish i had I would expand that past SDLC into the whole product development
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Space Whale posted:So if people think SQL can't scale horizontally (sharding?) and you gotta do stuff in the Not necessarily, it depends on how much experience the team has on building and maintaining a distributed database. Lots of cloud providers have NoSQL databases as a service that deals with a lot of that for you. It could be that storing documents in a NoSQL db is the right move, and they were just shoehorning it into a sql database because of momentum at the time they made the product and now they see an opportunity to do it right. But probably not, and go with what Sapozhnik said
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and you need to go NoSQL is this a redflag?
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Space Whale posted:So how does sharding actually work? Is there a load balancer or do the SQL servers just talk to each other? Distributed Hashing and black magic or some poo poo
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Apr 27, 2018 21:35
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Amazon uses their leadership principals to asses current and new employees. http://whartonmagazine.com/blogs/learn-from-amazons-leadership-principles/ The personality test is to see how well you'll fit in. Study up on those and have some specific experiences in the past where you demonstrated those principals.
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Captain Foo posted:we've decided to go with someone else laffo, but yes that hit too close to home I guess that is why I enjoy this lovely startup where I'm at the top of poo poo mountain
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You didn't mention telecom, but there is a lot going on in that space that is pretty stable and isn't as shady as some of the stuff you mentioned.
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May 29, 2018 18:11
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Space Whale posted:The poo poo I could tell you about Charter. Don't work for them directly, they are all poo poo. Sell software/hardware/services to them to get the fat checks. The startup I'm at is working on mobile network optimization algorithms that we deploy in their core networks. It reduces their CAPEX spending on new base stations, saving them literally billions of dollars over just 3 years. It's amazing going to all these different countries across the world, installing a server and watching their network capacity grow 30%, then coming home to a PO a few weeks later.
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the talent deficit posted:
bad hire includes weirdos that cause sexual harassment lawsuits that costs way more real dollars than whatever costs come from unfulfilled roles.
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Maximum Leader posted:Yes but a smaller shop isn't going to have hundreds of engineers reinventing the wheel over and over again hahaha of course they are, just that each time the project will not cover all their existing cases and they will never adopt it, so next year another team can a stab at reinventing the wheels
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say you did it all yourself and your teammates just cheered you on. seriously just say you did X and it was part of a larger blah blah that resulted in more clicks/users, reduced costs, etc don’t put free time projects if they aren’t active, someone will check your github and see it hasn’t been touched in months
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chmods please posted:i got the money i asked for so i'm gonna say yes to the new place double check if your employment contract has a non-compete clause or doesn't let you accept offers from vendors/partners and if it's enforceable in your state
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raminasi posted:i need help decoding some standard interview-speak: when interviewing candidates sometimes they'll ask "what's your day to day like?" and i know that "idk, come to work, do work, go home" is not an acceptable answer to this, but i'm not sure what they're actually asking. Do you do a daily standup meeting, at what time? How much time do you spend in meetings? How much time do you spend code reviewing vs programming vs pair programming? Do people take long lunch breaks, or everyone eats at their desk?
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Jul 24, 2018 15:36
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Mao Zedong Thot posted:it's actually pretty weird even for a startup with like 10 people, in the states Yeah even my stupid startup when it started with like 6 people had health care cause that's the only thing that makes sense. No 401K though, even 8 years later
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Also it's not unreasonable that if you get hired on as a higher-level position that they would give a bigger salary as well
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Peeny Cheez posted:Yeah, well, unless you're doing something meaningful, which like 99% of us probably don't, what other factor is really important? A Passion for Big Data? The Need to Crush Code All Day Every Day? For me it just shows that a person doesn't have drive, and inevitably when they finish their tasks will just twiddle their thumbs and dick around on YouTube instead of learning about new languages frameworks, techniques that could be useful down the line in other projects. I don't expect someone to go home and program as a hobby in their spare time, but if you've got some downtime at work at least use it for something that makes you a better a programmer or whatever.
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Fiedler posted:give us an example answer to "what are you looking for in your job search" that shows the candidate has drive, please. I just realized I read the question wrong. Welp 
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Peeny Cheez posted:I don't expect my DRs to do my job for me then you're doing it wrong
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Also telecom
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Bloody posted:my favorite part of power analysis is when the EEs come back with numbers that obviously violate the requirements and just say "well lets just change the requirements or waive them" Software folks do the same poo poo
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Boiled Water posted:welp, got fired today for not performing well Goondolances, but gently caress em you don't deserve that poo poo
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DELETE CASCADE posted:counterpoint: some people are bad at their jobs, and you might even be one of them couterpoint: startups are garbage no matter what
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Bloody posted:ya every time an interviewee answers a question different from the question i asked i just mark it up as a failure to communicate clearly on my part clearly you haven't even met a bullshit artist
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Gazpacho posted:the risk of any short tenure is that people will suspect you were terminated, or might likewise quit on them. you might do it once but don't make a habit of it It's better to leave a gap in the resume than leave a 1 month turd on there that raises eye brows
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Peeny Cheez posted:What is the professional equivalent of The Friend Zone?
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Fiedler posted:just to be clear: taxes are higher in new york. median household income is lower in the new york city metropolitan area, and home prices are higher. but there is a subway in new york, so not every single thing was wrong. Seattle is getting a light rail up to Northgate and Shoreline soon 
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maybe he thinks he’d pay more on sales tax than income tax. that 2% difference really adds up!
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:the practically nonexistent property tax kinda makes up for it Vs the NYC 8.875% sales tax my spending last year equated to an extra $716 in taxes, so I think it still comes out ahead of paying $6k in income tax e: also double lol at not getting to deduct that poo poo thanks to Trump. Suck it income tax state failures
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Arcsech posted:this has been "soon" since like 2009, is it actually happening? naw man the plan wasn’t voted on until like 3 years ago and the construction next to my apartment gives me hope it’s not fake
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Arcsech posted:but suits are Businessy and anything Businessy isn't Cool
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SardonicTyrant posted:I wear a dress shirt and pants because I want to. narc
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pointsofdata posted:This sort of works but is still a big pain. Have to justify why you can't hire an American or something You just have to put an ad in the physical news paper where nerds don't check anymore, and then be like see no one qualified applied! We need jesus WEP please approve. It's stupid, but part of the song and dance
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:under the current regime experience isn't enough anymore. they are now dotting i's and crossing t's in the visa process. since sometime in 2017, to get or renew an h1b, you need a relevant degree What are you talking about NBSD? L1 is one of the few visas that is dual intent and allows for a path to residency. With that note, there are two L1 visa types A and B, where A is for managers and B is for highly skilled workers. L1-A is even better than an H1-B because there is a special class in the greencard process called EB1C which is basically the highest priority you can get and who's requirements have all been met as part of the L1-A process. L1-B has no restrictions, you can treat it just like an H1-B application for greencard.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:yah, the poo poo thing about l1 is that you're stuck I originally came to the US with Amazon on a TN visa. That one sucks because it also ties you to your employer like an L1. But I managed to change jobs to a startup by just filling out some forms and poo poo and they just mailed me a new i94 with TN status. Then eventually at this company I tried going for the greencard and so we did the L1 change and that was just fine as well. I suspect that I could change jobs again if I wanted to and switch back to TN.
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Obviously this only works for Mexicans and Canadians, but it's not as ominous as YOU'RE OUR SLAVE WE OWN YOU. I'm pretty sure if you were here on L1 and wanted to change jobs, your new company would just apply for your h1b as if you were a foreign worker and if you won the loterrey you status would change and you would start your new job. If you didn't then you'd be stuck at old job, you obviously don't tell old job you're quitting until it's a sure thing. https://www.immi-usa.com/l1-to-h1b-change-of-status-sgm-law-group/ Janitor Prime fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Nov 9, 2018 |
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Counterpoint: just don't get sick and continue to act like you'll never get sick. Once you have "enough" wealth leave to a better country before you get sick
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Ciaphas posted:got a call from a recruiter this morning!! Hey Ciaphas, have you considered applying outside your country? A few years ago when I was looking for a job, I expanded my search and started applying to jobs in contries like Germany, Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands to keep myself busy. I got quite a few phone screens and managed to land 2 job offers from Germany! Ultimately I took a job at Amazon in Seattle, but still it was nice and refreshing to have all these other places to apply to.
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