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same in my thanks for this thread: I had a second phone screen and I got to press both people on work/life balance since I’ve worked with other teams at this company where there can sometimes be ‘hey what are you doing this afternoon? Wrong answer, you’re grabbing the flight to Hong Kong that takes off in 2 ½ hours to fix a problem over there. Yes I know you didn’t bring any clothing, just expense whatever you need.’ The manager and engineer both said ‘yeah there might be OT/a weekend here and there depending on the product cycle but after a recent incident where we had to keep people on call during thanksgiving week, we are going to be more aggressive in adjusting scope so we don’t have to work you too hard’
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Oh snap, I suddenly have an interview coming up for a QA gig. The team seems really cool and talking to people on the team and others around them, they’re big on actually giving a poo poo about work/life balance. Some people had to be on call over a holiday and the manager legitimately felt bad since he’s been on teams before where that’s the norm, so they’re changing procedures and how they scope things so that doesn’t happen again. Post your best advice for prepping for interviews as it’s been a very long time since I’ve done one
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Feb 16, 2018 17:06
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Pollyanna posted:what kinda company? what kinda size? what do they do? large tech company in the consumer electronics space. Position is a bit hazy but it apparently lies between ‘care and feeding of dev boards used for automated testing’ and ‘embed with engineering groups to deal with bug reports and tell them how to QA things’. The team is apparently almost doubling in size so what everyone’s responsibility will be exactly is a bit up in the air. My résumé is strange: a long period of low-grade computer janitor punctuated by wild 6-month stints with what are essentially internal internships where I tell contract manufacturers how to do things right and finding and fix their mistakes. The thing which I always have a lot of personal concerns about is that despite me having a very broad knowledge of platforms and tech in general, I’m not proficient with programming per-se (and that’s what everyone says that they want). I’ll duct tape a shell script together and push it out to a bunch of fixtures on the factory line to gather some specific test data, but I’m not coding up full-featured apps over here.
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Feb 16, 2018 22:15
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Found out that QA division is pretty much universally built on Python, which I at least have a non-zero amount of experience with (my life’s story is ‘know just enough about everything so that you don’t sound like an idiot when asking someone for help’) thanks for the advice YOSPOS, gonna spend the weekend pondering the bullet points on my résumé and figuring out what my greatest weaknesses are
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Feb 17, 2018 19:00
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non-competes should be illegal because gently caress someone owning your brain
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Feb 18, 2018 21:05
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oh gently caress yeah, just found that my company has a Safari Books Online corporate account that I can just sign up for and use to cram Agile buzzwords.
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Feb 21, 2018 00:30
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welp, had my interview with another org internally. It was essentially a full day of interviews and I had probably had too much coffee. I seemed to hit it off with the PMs that they brought in when I said "yeah I really sometimes struggle to not over-communicate about statuses" and their responses were along the lines of "oh god that would be wonderful. Our lives are nothing but people saying that they're fine and then then 4 days before a milestone firing off an email that things are just hosed" Everyone had their own way of trying to grill me on my root-cause strategies, and I keep being paranoid that I repeatedly froze up with the hiring manager, but at least it wasn't me bullshitting about stuff I didn't know. also virtually every person kept asking about why the group I have had an internal internship with didn't pick me up (the answer is because they LOVE re-orgs) so I'm now concerned that I'm just damaged goods. btw thanks YOSPOS, because the one question I kept asking people was 'Who sets milestones and what happens when it's looking like they aren't going to be hit' and that seemed to impress everyone I asked.
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current recruiting status: it’s been 3 weeks since interview and no response yet so I guess I didn’t completely bomb, because they’d let me know immediately if that were the case right 
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its been like a month since my interview with the other group at my company so now my division manager is talking to them because they really need to figure out headcount for the upcoming year, and if I'm going to be whisked off they really need to get the ball rolling on backfilling the opening ASAP
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update: after having different managers yell at each other, I finally officially found out I didn’t get the position with the other group in the company, but the recruiter is shopping me around to other teams in the division and at least 2 are interested, and I should have some phone calls next week. separately, I just submitted for a stint to go be an EPM in manufacturing operations for like 6 months because they’re working on some super-cool stuff and they’re usually pretty thirsty for talent
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had a really fun talk with some people over in ops for an internal temporary gig, and they repeatedly said ‘yeah we are a new team and we need all the help we can get’ so I guess that bodes well for me ‘why do you like ops?’ ‘you work with everyone and learn a bit about everything and despite it being a crushing workload it’s fulfilling at the end of the day’ ‘is international travel okay?’ ‘I have a fully valid China visa’ ‘oh dang, that’s extremely good’
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welp, found out that the group who ghosted me wound up hiring someone else on my team 
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ThePeavstenator posted:help I'm getting an intern how do find the happy medium between micromanaging and explaining everything down to where the power button on the computer is vs leaving them to the wolves congrats you get to learn how to be a manager without having any real complications of you failing at being a manager because hey they're just an intern
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Jimmy Carter posted:had a really fun talk with some people over in ops for an internal temporary gig, and they repeatedly said ‘yeah we are a new team and we need all the help we can get’ so I guess that bodes well for me update: I got accepted and found out a bit more about the scope I’ll be taking a break from my regular entry level computer janitoring to act as a PM for a multinational, large scale manufacturing project and was explicitly told ‘lol don’t bother trying to google this because what we’re doing has never been done before’ and they are not bullshitting about that. I’m super pumped but absolutely terrified because although I have touched this area before, nothing on this scale.
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Space Whale posted:Luck turns around fast: this loving owns and I want a twitch stream of flight plans being figured out in real time as weather evolves
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Fiedler posted:i'd work for facebook but they probably expect you to actually use facebook, so... can confirm: my friend works there and they require you to have an account because all of their internal tools are built on it. Whenever I get invited to their office I bring a tote bag and stuff as many snacks into it as possible. Last time my haul included a case of Red Bull and a carton of gum.
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Munkeymon posted:that happened to a iirc 747 carrying tanks the other year and someone caught it on dashcam. whole fuckin plane visibly shifts suddenly mid-takeoff and then falls right out of the sky like in a disaster movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Airlines_Flight_102 an MRAP wasn’t secured properly so it rolled backwards and destroyed all the hydraulic systems
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found out that I bombed so hard at an interview recently that they had to redefine the job listing, and immediately after they hired someone from my team. Whoops. anyways, I have an interview coming up that's fairly PM-y and doesn't involve programming. Post your best strategies on how to re-phrase the question of 'how do you prioritize opposing requests from different teams?' because that's what the job primarily is.
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ultravoices posted:This. Sending a follow up email is professional and in fact looks good. Can Confirm. I'm going through an interview process right now and had to email the recruiter like 5 times to get things set up right despite them being in the same company and they can see my calendar. Would've probably not gone anywhere had I not kept the ball rolling.
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the hiring manager talked to me effectively immediately after I finished my interviews to tell me I aced them and I'll be going on to the Final Round imminently. Talking about how making sure to have empathy for the customer when making decisions seems to be a good way to convey that you're not a person whose approach to projects consists of 'if Jenkins lights up green ship it'.
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Sep 21, 2018 05:53
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lol forget I said to talk about caring for the customer. Asking around, the thing that the people I interviewed with liked the most was that I know about the struggles of working with hardware and the priorities of engineers working on it. Customer Focus is not really what people care about with inter-team collaboration.
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Ciaphas posted:just kinda wanted a nice ev i guess I'm seriously considering the Honda Clarity plug-in if this job goes through since employer pays for car charging juice at work. will work the gas/brake for you in heavy traffic, much better and bigger interior than the Volt, dealers give out mad deals on them all the time, is a Honda.
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just got an offer for 3x my current salary which, while rad, makes me really question the journey I took to get here because I spent way too many years doing stuff that really did not make me happy in the hopes that I would get a job like this. I don't know if there's something special about this time of year, but in the last couple of days, multiple people from my past have texted me going 'heyyyyyyy how's your current job? because we've got something open over here right now'. The thing that almost killed my offer was that I appeared extremely internet around the edges and I had to convince them that I'm not going to show up and just be an edgy dick to work with, so I guess make sure you keep the YOSPOS in an airtight container out there. anyways, the impostor syndrome is kicking in and I'm terrified because for once in my life I'll actually be responsible for something that has Real Implications if I gently caress it up.
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oh cool so my signing bonus is almost as much as I make in a year, what in the literal gently caress was I doing with my life to not know that this was a thing that actually happens
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like a month in and my manager emailed me going ‘okay here’s the map of how our company does salary tiers let’s make a game plan for getting you bumped up a level’ which is rad, and followed up with an email to our team that he wanted to make sure all our email auto-responders specifically say we aren’t responding to anyone during the break and if it’s truly an emergency to call upper management instead. I am now feeling less bad about slumming it for years because this is actually a good work environment. It also helps that a friend texted me this morning about how they are probably quitting since their CTO is cost-cutting and switching over to C# + React Native.
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I'm extremely fortunate in that my company does not care at all about how much overtime you subject yourself to so now I take mass transit and do all my inbox janitoring on the bus and bill for that time.
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interviewing post-mortem: I've had a bunch of conflicting thoughts as of late about new job, which boils down to "job good, Bay Area not good". Then my manager told me during my annual review they misjudged me and that they should have brought me in at a higher pay-grade, so to make up for it they unloaded the RSU truck on my face and now my thoughts about the matter are even more conflicting.
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FamDav posted:did you end up staying at the same company? I assume no, but sounded like that was your path awhile back. oh yeah I'm gonna be here for a bit, since I have a feeling it would be fairly hard to get my salary even close to matched if I went back east. on a related note, the one upside of working here at least is that they always pick the god-tier health/benefits package. I went to the ER the other week and the billing person wheeled over their laptop and said 'okay your copay today is… uh, wow, I didn't know we had a plan with that much coverage…'
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it's been maybe a year since I'm in my current gig and I'm now somehow the most senior person on the team due to everyone else getting promoted out so we're hiring like crazy. I've got multiple friends who don't want to listen to me advising them to interview for the open roles because they think they're un-qualified, despite me yelling at them 'stop impostor-syndroming yourself and get paid 3x as much'. Any advice with that?
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I guess im hopping on the 'my phone is listening to me' cultural brain virus I was chatting with friends about how the bay are is 'meh' and for what I'm making now I might as well be living back in NYC where I can buy an entire goddamn apartment building for the cost of a house in the Bay Area. My weekly 1-on-1 with my manager the next day was about the things they're assigning me to this year so they can promote me to the next salary level.
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2 years ago I was essentially paycheck-to-paycheck. Somewhere in that timeframe something changed because I logged into my company stock account and unironically mumbled to myself 'that's weird, I wonder where that extra $12k came from' and just went about my day and now I've mildly horrified myself at the thought I got changed by the money.
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I for one am extremely curious as to whether my company which has historically been extremely anti-WFH will change their tone, seeing as how anyone who says "I feel more comfortable working with my family on the east coast" has gotten approval to do so. I am not sure how well I could tolerate having to keep 12-9 work hours or knowing that my chances of career progression at this company might stall out. On the other hand, I could buy an entire goddamn apartment building in NYC for the price of a house here.
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