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i've been having interviews but they're with startups that have like 15~20 people and maybe a handful of engineers i don't really like that? i don't feel like it's the right environment for me, but that's also the grand majority of companies looking to hire in boston i have no idea how to get noticed by and hired at non-startup places and that's loving me up goons please help how i get job
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Captain Foo posted:what's your skillset 2.5 years rails-ing 1 year react+redux-ing typical agile familiarity fair amount of experience translating feature requests into requirements and implementations some basic sql knowledge learned clojure and elixir on the side bog standard otherwise still trying to figure out where i want to go in life
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Feb 16, 2018 16:54
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Jimmy Carter posted:Oh snap, I suddenly have an interview coming up for a QA gig. what kinda company? what kinda size? what do they do?
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Feb 16, 2018 17:09
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Pollyanna posted:2.5 years rails-ing 1 year react+redux-ing is this a bad skillset Sapozhnik posted:dont work for startups +1
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Feb 16, 2018 17:17
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Shaggar posted:you should be able to get entry level dev/qa at a real company pretty easy. what is a "real company" in this case? my criteria is "has more than 100 engineers" and "is profitable", no idea if that makes sense e.g. red hat, wayfair, amazon
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Feb 16, 2018 17:23
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i don't think i'm at the point where i have anything useful to say on the direction of the product, i've only ever really been forced into that role/had to pull weight on it due to lack of manpower/perspective. i don't mind being a tiny cog tbqh, i do care about having regular and stable work with good compensation - i am not an ambitious person large companies in general are a good bet. startups just aren't my scene. maybe red hat has a use for me edit: how about places like TripAdvisor, for example? or Wayfair? Pollyanna fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Feb 16, 2018 |
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Feb 16, 2018 17:37
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Captain Foo posted:Yeah, don't fall into the trap of thinking that only tech companies need devs or other IT staff, every company has some sort of demand for technical people that is true, though i feel the need to work with software engineers over just an "it department" - i'm not entirely sure why, i think it has to do with growth. maybe im misunderstanding/wrong Shaggar posted:if you want on the gravy train finance or healthcare is where its at. are we talking finance as in hedge funds, or as in money lenders? and healthcare as in "patient interaction and social platform", or EMRs and hospital management systems?
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Feb 16, 2018 17:45
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Shaggar posted:idk anything about tripadvisor or wayfair, but don't be afraid to interview cause you can always turn them down if you don't think its gonna be a fit. i'm more worried about whether they'll give me even a passing glance
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Feb 16, 2018 17:45
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also, what would you say is the typical time-to-new-job for an engineer? starting from unemployment i mean
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Feb 16, 2018 17:46
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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?Shaggar posted:all of the above. insurance too. true. its a matter of knowing what the gently caress to do for me, tho Shaggar posted:it will depend on where you are, but right now for the most part its gonna be pretty quick so just get out there and keep interviewing. you cant get a job if you aren't looking for one. def a+ on the be positive and confident, one of the few things about interviewing that keeps me sane. the good thing is that i apparently interview well there is this too yes 
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Feb 16, 2018 18:02
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:oh good, Pollyanna has taken over another job hunting thread i will never die
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Feb 16, 2018 18:19
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Schadenboner posted:This isn't crass, this is literally how most places prefer to hire people because (so the thought goes) good people know good people. i know it's normal but i have a tendency to piss people off by accident
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Feb 16, 2018 18:39
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japanese megacorps can get loving intense tho
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Feb 17, 2018 06:08
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like in anime
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Feb 17, 2018 06:08
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freeasinbeer posted:comedy option: they could have decent technical staff that does cool things, with some rough edges, that is being outsourced to a SaaS firm for bullshit internal politics because they aren’t a tech company at the core. glad 2 be a verb
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Feb 18, 2018 02:59
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i dont like startups and im not sure if thats me being immature and having no idea what it means to be an engineer, or if its me just not jiving with the work-50-hours-a-week-for-peanuts-and-no-stability culture
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Feb 18, 2018 21:37
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honestly the grand, grand majority of startups could go out of business overnight and the world wouldnt change a bit, which makes me wonder why the startups exist in the first place
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Feb 18, 2018 21:38
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it sucks cause you trip over startups here in the boston area but most of them arent very good opportunities prime way to get unemployment payouts tho by having shitloads of stuff to do each week so the unemployment people cant claim youre doing nothing and refuse to pay you
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Feb 18, 2018 21:46
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qhat posted:Because occasionally one succeeds and produces more money than all of losses of the other unsuccessful ones combined. that money should go to the people and not some fat cat's swiss bank accounts
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Feb 18, 2018 21:53
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Sapozhnik posted:if you like the idea of working 60+ hrs/wk to make somebody who is not you extremely rich then go for it! the idea is that startups would pay you in equity/stocks so itll pay off once they make it big but 1. they dont make it big 2. they dont offer it anyway
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Feb 18, 2018 22:19
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heres my checklist for startups - what was your last series? (less than series c is a no-go) - do you offer equity? (if no then no, if yes then still probably no) - whats your work life balance like? (expectation of 50+ hour workweeks + getting snippy with you when you express your belief in a good work life balance -> no, btw ask me how i came to this conclusion) - whats your runway? (less than 18 months = dying) - can you prove to me that you will still be around in 3 years? (they all dont know if they will be around in one year so this question has no point)
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Feb 18, 2018 22:22
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someone should make startup bingo
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Feb 18, 2018 22:22
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Shinku ABOOKEN posted:ooh i love story time. tell us recent interview had the people interviewing me telling me that everyone there "values hard work" and "we work hard play hard" and then got really cagey when i started asking about pto and work-life balance. the lady talked about the employees spending most of their day at the office as if it was one of the most amazing things shed seen. it was pretty weird and i didnt like where it was going there was also a particularly hilarious line "the work life balance is great and the company is very flexible, if i have to leave at five, i can come in at eight"
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Feb 18, 2018 22:38
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qhat posted:My startup checklist: no
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Feb 18, 2018 22:38
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:this might be a good moment to point out that pollyanna has very little industry experience and managed to derail both of the prior interviewing threads too bad
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Feb 18, 2018 22:42
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Gazpacho posted: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 i ask the balance question not because i cant handle it but because they cant i need to know ahead of time the expectations placed upon me and i need to know if those expectations include 50 hour work weeks
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Feb 19, 2018 01:47
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i am reduced to connecting to and posting on the statuses of technical/hiring managers of big companies on linkedin pls 2 job
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Feb 19, 2018 16:57
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FMguru posted:also the small chance of an equity payout bonanza if the startup is a big hit goes to zero if your "startup" is embedded in a large corporation equity is worthless because 9 times out of 10 the company, even if its a small startup, will look to screw you out of as much money as possible
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Feb 19, 2018 19:04
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i would start my own startup/be the CTO of my own startup, if it was for a product that was genuinely useful and not just airbnb for dogs i would not work at a startup as a non-C level.
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Feb 19, 2018 19:05
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whotf would willingly work at a startup
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Feb 19, 2018 19:57
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here's some poo poo i saw on linkedinquote:Huge question that engineers balk at is "what are you reading?" love2be turned down for a job and told im incapable of being coached because im not currently reading a book
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Feb 19, 2018 20:01
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Blinkz0rz posted:you? and here we arrive at the heart of the problem
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Feb 19, 2018 20:19
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PokeJoe posted:i want a new job but don't want to do any interviewing or put any effort into it please dont dox me
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Feb 19, 2018 20:26
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Blinkz0rz posted:right, so don't apply to startups i was making a self-deprecating joke but this too yeah jony neuemonic posted:i think i just hate working tbqh. take work as far as you want or need it to be, burning yourself out is an awful thing and nobody should demand more from you than you are willing to give 
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Feb 19, 2018 20:29
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meatpotato posted:my advice to all is don’t compromise your principles in work. don’t work for idiots, don’t make idiotic products. best case is you’ll regret it. worst case is you’ll become an idiot. im not good enough to work for non-idiots
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Feb 20, 2018 02:05
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meatpotato posted:not with that attitude!! youre right  but what use can a lovely half-rails half-react developer be? well im sure i can learn and im sure i am useful somehow
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Feb 20, 2018 05:05
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jony neuemonic posted:you can always learn a new thing. i started on php. im considering learning SRE work which is apparently a bunch of linux work and containers n poo poo, but i always learn on the job so you need a job to get good enough for a job and aaaaaaaaaaaa
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Feb 20, 2018 15:47
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interview today wish me lukk
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Feb 20, 2018 15:56
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:godspeed wish me luck in writing an implementation of merge sort
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is it disingenuous to market myself as 2 years of rails exp if I haven’t touched it in over a year? cause I’m paranoid of people asking me obscure rails trivia as a screening/technical q
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