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last month a recruiter asked for my transcripts on the first contact. Meaning she wanted me to send them back in e-mail. I last attended in 2005 & said I don't generally provide transcripts at that stage in the process. then over the holidays I forgot all about it this week i got an e-mail that she'd scheduled me for a morning interview. didn't check my availablity on the day or nothing. I wrote back to the effect of "idgaf, and by the way that's not a very productive way to do things"
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MononcQc posted:im the student padding their first industry resume with things like "plays guitar", "did unrelated activity x" in highschool, or drops refs to "real passion to teamwork"
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qhat posted:Lol at good grades taking the same amount of work as a full time job
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The Management posted:lol at being afraid of professors. I am inclined to screen candidates for a relevant college degree, and find that autodidacts can be as arrogant as anyone, but programming is not legally constituted in the US as a profession and the quality of education varies muchly. There are schools that hand CS degrees to kids who can scarcely join two strings together. as for professors you better believe there are some who will lay down the law if they believe the future of their field depends on it
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cheque_some posted:internal transfers suck because you always end up still getting called for help from your previous group
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Jan 31, 2018 07:17
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like geez i learned that one back when i was bagging groceries
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Jan 31, 2018 07:18
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startup investors promote open sores because it serves their interests on both sides of the startup life cycle - every startup can build on the existing tech commons and not spend the money to duplicate it - when a startup fails (as most do) it can leave behind any new general-purpose tech that it built for the next ones
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"I hear you're looking to sell a house" "That's right" "So could you tell me what you paid for it?"
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Feb 3, 2018 08:34
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how big an organization? information gets lost sometimes. send them the job description and tell them where you found it
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The Management posted:99% or recruiters have no clue what they’re hiring for and just do a database search for keywords. so put all the right keywords in. - APIs - idea for algorithms please indicate number of years and all relevant projects
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Bloody posted:basically all good recruiters work freelance because that's where t he big bucks are. corporate recruiters are the bottom of the pack ones that cant cut it solo
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for anyone other than an embedded/OS dev the correct answer to "how do you implement a linked list" is "I don't"
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if you're writing C or C++ and don't use a suitable list library that your framework provides then you're masturbating on company time
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cool anecdote. wow!
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If recruiters cared particularly about finding qualified candidates they'd press their clients/employers for realistic criteria vs. "must have 5 years same-version experience in every tech we use"
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Pollyanna posted:q re: networking with people. a PM i worked with at a previous company now works at one that looks cool, and i have no idea how to ask "hey, you guys got openings?" in a way that isn't crass. how do people do this?
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or if it's a small company without areas, "are you looking for any ______" (your leet skills here). this isn't crass, it's constructive
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i dont mean to discourage someone from advancing their career but if you rate your skills at "hacking one-off shell scripts to collect data" that does fall quite short of what's needed to build an application of any kind rather than charging the gates with that kind of experience, you're gonna have to build some kind of small demo applications on your platform of choice and have them ready to demonstrate so that people can judge your aptitude and if your platform of choice is the web, i don't say this often, but PHP would probably be your safest bet
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Sapozhnik posted:jesus gently caress no that's a ban Gazpacho fucked around with this message at 10:09 on Feb 17, 2018 |
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Feb 17, 2018 10:03
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oh to be young again and believe that better languages/libraries make better programmers
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a few months ago I received an algorithm from one of the data crunchers that i was supposed to reimplement in product, and although the keywords were python i could swear it was a QBASIC program
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Sapozhnik posted:https://eev.ee/blog/2012/07/28/quick-doesnt-mean-dirty/ discussion of this exact use case
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ShadowHawk posted:If you voluntarily start a PHP project and put that in your resume you will run into far more prejudice than if you use any other language, even a parody one. also in general join us some time in the real pro world where much worse solutions than PHP (and worse misuse of good solutions) exist, are even not hard to find
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there is no purpose in asking about work life balance in an interview because you will never get a straight answer and ultimately establishing the balance is your responsibility
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Shaman Linavi posted:when i interviewed at epic several years ago i brought it up and the guy said something like "yeah we sometimes do like around maybe... 60 hours a week but you know just look at this place!!"
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the panacea posted:Can someone help me decipher if this is good or bad:
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Feb 19, 2018 20:10
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this week i'll probably get an offer from a company that would allow me to leave the sinking ship i'm at now, otoh i really want some downtime (spent my last substantial "vacation" looking for a job) and there's other goals that this job wouldn't allow me to realize and gee whiz i'm getting old
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meatpotato posted:ask them for a start date beginning sometime after you’ve left your current job. if you’re in the US remember that if you leave at the beginning of the month your health insurance is still good for the entire month.
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Valeyard posted:My technical direction is cold hard cash from the highest bidder
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Pollyanna posted:is it disingenuous to market myself as 2 years of rails exp if I haven’t touched it in over a year?
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Feb 20, 2018 20:36
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experience is the currency of the job market. if you don't wave your experience around, what else have you got?
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no that is not appropriate for an initial contact. by definition layoffs are not subject to being refilled, your concern is not being hired into a downsized team but rather having a dependency on one
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Feb 22, 2018 18:22
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in an on-site interview you can ask what parts of the company were affected by the layoffs, and whether they include teams that the hiring team has to interact with regularly
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Feb 22, 2018 18:29
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it's unusual for bosses to be eager to fire people they have just hired. typical situations include 1. you're hired a probation basis. this would typically be structured as a contract-to-hire so the boss bears no risk in letting you go 2. you make yourself a hazard to the company (e.g. start a fire, hit someone, steal equipment, use an ethnic slur) 2. the boss is just a jerk, which hopefully you would be able to tell in the interview
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Pollyanna posted:doesnt explain my last place then
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except for probably the third. this also doesnt make sense due to at will employment but i dont know much about that
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Mao Zedong Thot posted:how tf do you graduate with a cs degree and be literally unable to program? did i accidentally go to a good school or something?
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Accreditation is a vague word that carries varying levels of significance:
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Progressive JPEG posted:marketing genius: selling a product which does not exist, solely to determine if there is a market for it
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Consider that pissing away the years in a job using the same moldy tech doesn't help your employability either e: specifically, waiting for the "right opportunity" to come along that just happens to be convenient to interview for while holding your current job. recruiters would gladly throw me at dozens of interviews for positions i don't really want until i get sacked for low attendance Gazpacho fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Mar 14, 2018 |
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