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some random recruiter posted:Hi raminasi, "we're migrating all our poo poo from .net to javascript for, uh, some reason. and in case you were wondering, nobody will have any idea what they're doing."
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i hate drinking with my coworkers, and moreover, religious prohibitions on alcohol are so common that it's an exclusionary venue unless the company's footing the bill, lunches still require people to put money in to get social capital out, which unfortunately disproportionately affects the people who could use it the most, i.e. interns and juniors. this isn't a dismissal, i just think about how to square this particular circle a lot and i haven't come up with any answers.
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May 4, 2018 00:37
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DELETE CASCADE posted:If it’s a group lunch that can’t be reimbursed then the seniors/leads/managers rotate the duty of picking up the tab. You’re not gonna split across tons of credit cards are you? This person then messages everyone with the amount they owe so they can settle up via Venmo or whatever. Whoops, looks like they conveniently forgot to message the intern i'm not sure exactly how to fit this into our existing routine, because we're not doing sit-down every day. what we do is go somewhere casual, pick something up, and take it back to the office to eat together. like "today we're doing sandwiches" or "today we're doing the greek truck." so putting it all one one card is actually more complicated than everyone standing in line and ordering and paying for their own thing.
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May 4, 2018 01:48
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i know how much the interns and juniors make and i am not worried about their ability to buy lunch haha comp is only half of the equation though. do you know who's got huge debt loads? who's supporting sick parents? maybe you do, idk, but i don't in my case and i don't feel comfortable making that judgment, especially when it's only the juniors (and the hard-core vegetarian) who bring their own lunch every day.
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May 4, 2018 03:42
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is gitlab the one that accidentally blew away a bunch of customer repos once?
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May 7, 2018 00:59
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Fiedler posted:Postmortem of database outage of January 31, 2017 haha i never actually read the postmortem. i'm the gitlab lol posted:
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May 7, 2018 03:03
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Fiedler posted:That poo poo isn't worth it unless they're offering at least 6.75 figgies. this is one of those pieces of job hunting advice that only apply if you're not in urgent need of a paycheck
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May 17, 2018 21:43
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TerminalRaptor posted:In my experience you learn more about a person when they fail to solve a problem in an interview then when they succeed. Interviewers know people are nervous as hell at these things and sometimes choke on things they'd normally have no problem with. I read this kind of thing a lot and it does not square with my personal experience of a 100% correlation between solving the whiteboard problem and getting an offer
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Jun 1, 2018 14:08
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ADINSX posted:It might also be a sign of a company thats somewhat desperate for people. I know we pay under market rate at our company, and I've been in interviews where we're desperately hoping they'll get our (relatively easy) whiteboard problems just so we can make the offer. I was unclear in my experience, solving the puzzle means I get an offer, and not solving the puzzle means I do not get an offer. “oh it’s ok if you don’t get the right answer, we just want to see how you think” is, to me personally, a crock of poo poo.
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Jun 1, 2018 15:11
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PokeJoe posted:Is it 3rd party? If so, no. If it's internal you'll have a better shot with them anyway keep in mind that the recruiter will probably get salty as hell if you do this. the company will at worst be a little confused but won’t end up caring.
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Jun 6, 2018 12:46
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Space Whale posted:I just went from imposter syndrome to c level is excited about me typical imposter syndrome progression is now to not trust the c-level's judgment, watch out
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Jun 6, 2018 22:13
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qhat posted:I've learned that no matter how much even the hiring manager insists that it's okay, you're always going to get a whiny baby in the on-site interview who will disregard everything else in your experience so they can nitpick on programming language. I went into an interview round without database experience on my resume and making it clear I didn’t know much about databases and one of the interviewers still insisted on asking me technical questions about databases and getting disappointed when I couldn’t answer them got an offer anyway, but declined it because that guy would have been my boss
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Jun 8, 2018 14:56
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:it's not reciprocal because the candidate doesn't benefit directly from the process isn’t this equally true of literally every step of the interview process
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Jun 9, 2018 18:14
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Gazpacho posted:If you don’t wanna do the exercise then walk away from the job opportunity. Glassdoor (iirc) gives each candidate (e: who passes the interview round) a two week paid on site project and I flipped when I heard that. I’d rather take an unpaid quick project any day these are unfortunate because they’re great for people currently unemployed in that city but completely untenable for everyone else I did a shorter version of that somewhere and it worked pretty good (even though I didn’t get an offer because an unrelated part of their hiring process was a pile of farts)
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Jun 9, 2018 22:55
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it is 100% for your spouse, but it's super illegal to treat you any differently depending on whether you have one, so they have to weasel it that way. if they figure out what you're actually doing they're going to assume that either you're an idiot or you're trying to grift from them before even being hired, and it will not be a good look for you.
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Jul 1, 2018 18:54
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Shaman Linavi posted:i think someone here mentioned something like that, or having parents call in after the interview. it's a possibly-apocryphal helicopter parent story that makes the rounds from time to time, at least quote:when i interviewed at Epic in Madison there was a guy taking his family around on a tour of the campus after he interviewed. they almost assuredly won't get outwardly pissy. the risk is just that the post-interview conversation will consist entirely of "can you believe the guy brought his mom, wtf, pass." or the hiring team might be so insulated from the hr logistician that they never know. or they might think it's hilarious. regardless, the correct answer is definitely AWWNAW posted:Take a sex worker with you and make this a real coming of age story
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Jul 1, 2018 22:41
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i won’t speak to anything else but it’s not true that 100% of thirty-party recruiters are terrible. only 95% are. a good heuristic is to only talk to recruiters who initially volunteer the company they’re pitching. ones that do that know that they have something of value to offer besides just knowing that a position is open.
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Jul 6, 2018 15:40
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and imo if you really want highlight your mentorship and leadership contributions (which can be fine to do) use stronger language than “helped”
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Jul 13, 2018 11:37
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oh man I’ve got to give an interview at noon on a friday and I’m going to do my very best to not let my annoyance with HR color my input but ughhhhh the struggle is real
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Jul 13, 2018 15:19
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Schadenboner posted:And now I understand the origin of literally every hit I've ever gotten on the screaming hellsite which is LinkedIn. yo if you’re drawing validation from the number of cold recruiter contacts you get on LinkedIn you’ve already lost the plot. there are many ways to evaluate your worth as a technologist but that is absolutely not one of them. hiring is a total crapshoot on both ends and recruiters’ gambling strategies are cyclical. that’s all it is.
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Jul 22, 2018 12:02
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Rex-Goliath posted:a recruiter from google reached out to me directly last friday and gently caress it let’s see where this goes. the last time i interviewed with them it went horribly but that was just due to crazy circumstance rather than anything else. iiwy i’d really sit down and figure out what “a lot” specifically means and whether you could potentially find it at google, and then go from there
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Jul 22, 2018 15:24
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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.
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Jul 24, 2018 15:29
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lol @ all these hot takes about what companies with stupid personality tests Must Be Like
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Jul 27, 2018 12:00
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Mao Zedong Thot posted:sucker who works at one spotted yes and every assumption i’ve seen itt about my job based on it has been wrong
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Jul 27, 2018 16:43
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qhat posted:Or, remove your contact details from the resume so the company can't screw the recruiter out of the commission. Either way, do not use third party recruiters who want a word doc. In fact, make that do not use third party recruiters. third-party recruiters that are willing to disclose to you which companies they’re pitching you to can be ok, because they’re confident that they have something to offer you other than knowing where an opening is this “something” can be nothing more than “i have access that you don’t,” but in that case using them is zero-cost to you anyway
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Aug 4, 2018 03:44
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meatpotato posted:this might be a good time to ask this question then 90% of linkedin recruiters are trash, but not 100%. i got my current job through one. you can increase your odds tremendously by only responding to ones who name the company they're trying to place you at up front. (this can be an internal recruiter for that company, or a third-party one who's actually confident that they have something to offer you beyond knowing that an opening exists.) for example, all of those messages are bad ones that are probably worth ignoring. that being said, all it really costs you to follow up with even the bad ones is time, and if you're currently unemployed i assume you have plenty of that to spare...it's basically a low risk, low reward move.
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Aug 8, 2018 01:58
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ThePeavstenator posted:A good indicator if something is a waste of time is if the recruiter sends you a message that says they have something for "someone with your background". That means they haven't actually looked at your resume or profile beyond having it match search results. the real loving stupid ones don't even look for keyword matches, they just shotgun emails out at random. i got this last night: quote:Hi raminasi, i was drunk so i decided to send a response: quote:zero of those technologies are on my resume
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Aug 9, 2018 13:50
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Asleep Style posted:Hello friends. I am starting my job search in earnest today. Please wish me luck. good luck! remember that rejections aren’t necessarily your fault, even if you get a bunch in a row!
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Aug 12, 2018 12:08
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three years of living in boston nearly drove me to suicide just from having to deal with bostonians every day. i’m not exaggerating or joking. don’t move to boston. although people from outside the united states and people who move with significant others seem to have a much better time of it for some reason.
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Aug 15, 2018 16:28
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Bloody posted:for some thread content how do i reply to recruiters that reach out to me that sound like not idiots like what are the correct things to immediately be asking or poking at or whatever beyond "uhh sure lets chat" if your question is "how do i talk to recruiters without sounding like a thirsty moron" the answer is that even the best ones are far thirstier and stupider then you, there's basically no way to gently caress it up other than dropping a whole bunch of racial slurs into your response or something. you can verbally abuse them in emails and they'll still respond positively and ask when you're free to chat. if it's "how do i tell if they're worth a drat" just make sure they'll name the company early (preferably they've volunteered it) and they've actually read your linkedin or whatever
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Aug 16, 2018 22:02
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C.H.O.M.E. posted:a friend of mine developed a pretty severe depression as a stay at home mom because all the other women in her neighborhood were russian gangster wives who wore gold lamé gym clothes all the time and they didnt like to hang out with the nerdy asian lady yeah but it's still connected to the rest of the subway system grody, broken-down stations suck but the real problem is the service raminasi fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Aug 17, 2018 |
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Aug 17, 2018 21:52
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we get a ton of four-page resumes that lists every buzzword the candidate has ever been peripherally associated with and i just don't get it
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Aug 23, 2018 03:34
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mod saas posted:yes. page 1 is for humans. page 2 is for machines but still pleasantly formatted for humans what are pages three and for four “ah i see you’ve worked with .net 4.6, .net 4.5, .net 4.0, .net 3.5, .net 3.0, and .net 2.0, that’s exactly what we’re looking for in a candidate”
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Aug 23, 2018 11:02
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hobbesmaster posted:guidance/career/whatever people at the university probably told them to do that dumb poo poo to pad stuff out it never is, the first page is always as useless as the rest of them another fun one I feel like I see a lot is each listed job having its own buzzword section. and they repeat as necessary.
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Aug 23, 2018 19:24
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ADINSX posted:You'll have to go without me friend, after two "hey whats up" emails, one on Wednesday, and one today... I finally got back a response "blah blah going with someone else". or some director wanted the hiring manager's budget, or some vp pulled some reorganization power play, or any one of a hundred other bureaucratic horseshit things that could tank an otherwise qualified candidate don't take it personally
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Aug 24, 2018 22:05
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meatpotato posted:i got called by a headhunter today, don't want to bore you with details but the process was new to me, and a little funny if this is workbridge associates run far, far away. they are worse than useless.
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Aug 24, 2018 23:20
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ADINSX posted:Does anyone have experience with interview coaching? I see dumb ads on linkedin all the time like "Ex Googlers teach you to interview!!" but those seem like scams... The concept makes sense though, its a pretty artificial skill and I'm happy to learn it if it means my choice of jobs and more figs. yeah just do a bunch of interviews, you'll get the exact same experience but you won't have to pay for the privilege. getting this practice is a great reason to interview for jobs you don't really want, especially if you're already unemployed (what else are you going to do with your time?)
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Aug 24, 2018 23:22
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meatpotato posted:oh, it's jobspring in downtown san jose there's "wasted time" and then there's me doing phone screens and having the guy on the other end say "your experience sounds cool but it doesn't really have anything to do with this position" and me replying "well see that's what i thought," amicably saying goodbye, and then getting chewed out by the recruiter for rejecting the position for no reason. also they submitted me to one job that i think i would have liked and then never actually followed up with the company so it just kind of hung in limbo.
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Aug 25, 2018 02:29
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you don't necessarily need to have something sexy, my proudest professional accomplishment is a boring-rear end parsing library i wrote that's been chilling in prod for years without needing maintenance
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qhat posted:Even then, I disagree that these bootcamps are all you need to be an effective software engineer long term, there's just so much poo poo that is taught in a cs program that you will never get from a 10 week boot camp. Networking, distributed systems, advanced databases, security, cloud engineering to name a few big ones that I really wish people at this company had even a cursory understanding of. i think your opinion of the typical 4-year cs degree program is overly rosy also i’m surprised you expect your fresh-out-of-school hires to be proficient in distributed systems and advanced databases
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