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i was going through The Questions and i made a few personal additions i plan on asking next go-round, feedback welcome! - when was the last time you missed a meal with your family or a personal event because you were stuck at work? Translation: variation on the “do people have good work/life balance at your company” type question. - what are some of the tools (software, hardware) you have been provided with that help you do your job? Translation: oblique way of asking “are you provided with the best tools to do your job?” - do you fix bugs before you write new code? How do you decide what a bug is? Translation: do you take software quality seriously, or do you just try to push as much crap out the door as possible?
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Rex-Goliath posted:the last two are pretty good idk if i’d phrase the first one like that yeah i need a more oblique and less aggressive way to ask that e: aggressive is the wrong word but i think you get my point
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Nov 12, 2018 18:33
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how about "when was the last time you had to work overtime?"
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Nov 12, 2018 18:49
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Ploft-shell crab posted:re: salary negotiation lmfao can his rear end immediately if you don't take either of these jobs
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Nov 13, 2018 14:21
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Roughly half of my jobs were via referrals and the interviews were either skipped or a formality.MononcQc posted:In some cases you might even be able to bypass interview processes altogether because someone vouched for you very hard (though that might be a red flag, you want to interview them as well). Agreed, if there is no formal interview you still want to ask your questions about the company before accepting any offers!
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Nov 21, 2018 14:59
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I'm extremely bad at networking too  In addition to making it hard to job hunt it makes it hard to hire more people.
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Nov 21, 2018 20:51
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that's a good question, how much of a gap do y'all consider "safe"? i've seriously debated taking 6 months off work to travel but it's also something i worry about a bit i have a friend that did it a few times and didn't seem to hurt his career vOv i guess i could keep my consulting business active during that time and do a bit of freelance work, so i actually wouldn't have a gap...
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Nov 30, 2018 14:27
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thanks, will do, assuming i can tear myself away from the exciting world of overpaid computer touching
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Nov 30, 2018 15:18
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qhat posted:I took 9 months off to do just that and I struggled to get in the front door at a lot of places when I came back. Just be prepared for a prolonged job hunt, many HR and recruiter will assume you are broken goods with a large gap, but it's okay because at the end of the day you're not and you only need to succeed at one interview to be able to go to work everyday. yeah i definitely wasn't thinking 9 months, i was thinking more like 2 months off and then start looking. but i'm changing my mind. i'm about to hit my peak earning years so time to really put in the hours
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Dec 1, 2018 20:56
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pointsofdata posted:They have to unless I go swear at a customer or something, it's part of my contract. i was gonna say no but you're required to give 3 months notice before you leave?
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Dec 5, 2018 19:36
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i mean i sorta gave 6 months notice, as in i quit because they refused to budge on a raise i wanted so my employer asked if i'd take a 6 month contract at rates far above what my desired raise is vOv
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Dec 5, 2018 19:39
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Kevin Mitnick P.E. posted:i like salad. according to the internet dietary vitamin k has no toxicity at any dose so i figure im good get the caesar, it comes with a free colon cleansing treatment
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Dec 5, 2018 19:56
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TheFluff posted:one to three months notice is a very common contract clause in countries other than the us, yes. goes both ways tho (for layoffs - getting fired isn't really a thing that happens) crazy i'm in canada and i don't have to (legally) give any notice at all (convention is 2 weeks though) employer has to give me notice though, depending on how long i've been a full-time employee
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Dec 5, 2018 23:28
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Anyone got some good resume templates for developers? re: summaries i have a "Highlights" section up front. as someone that reads a lot of resumes during hiring i kinda like them, if their summary sucks i bin the resume. i also put in soft-skills there, which is something i look for with senior/lead positions and rarely comes out in the work experience section then again maybe i like summaries because i get so many resumes that are more than 2 pages (and i NEVER read past page 2) i guess a case could be made that you're repeating your cover letter with one, but do people even do cover letters anymore? the resumes that get passed to me for review never have them
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Dec 6, 2018 14:10
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opinion check - as a developer, should you list skills you haven't used in years? how about skills you haven't used professionally? my current rule of thumb is list things i've done professionally from most to least experienced and leave off anything i never want to do again or haven't touched in 10 or more years i wonder if i'm shooting myself in the foot a bit by leaving off things i've learned and messed around with but never used at work
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Dec 8, 2018 15:22
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ADINSX posted:I don't have a skills section, I prefer to list the technologies used at various projects in bullet points under my work experience. that's something i'm struggling with - including technology used within professional experience blurbs vs having a skills summary up top. i'm doing both now, partly because when i scan a resume i love having that summary up top but it is nice having it in context as well. this gets repetitive though i've given up trying to fit into one page, i'm pushing 20 years experience now so i think two pages is reasonable as long as i make the first half of the first page really pop
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Dec 8, 2018 22:21
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ADINSX posted:Yeah I do two pages as well, with the knowledge that the second page will likely not be read (its just older jobs and my education/awards section). scan is the operative word, i don't spend a lot of time in there. i'm more interested in what they put at the top of the heap i also read their experience section obviously for resumes that don't have skill section or put it near the bottom i won't see it and skip straight to the experience blurbs Notorious b.s.d. posted:you want a double match between the body text and the "skills" section at the bottom, in order for the "applicant management system" to flag you this is my understanding as well
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Dec 9, 2018 14:49
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i've had interviews where it was just "we just want to put a face to the name, you've already got the job" and there was still pressure, if only because i still had to judge the company i was potentially joining (and i didn't do so hot there, tbh) admittedly a different kind of pressure, but still valid, as anyone that's joined a poo poo company can tell you
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Dec 12, 2018 01:21
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Feisty-Cadaver posted:all of your questions should be geared towards answering the question: this
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Dec 13, 2018 01:27
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Ciaphas posted:it's statements like this that remind me i'm not as much of an impostor as i think well all have our blind spots my dude. just keep interviewing, keep studying, and you'll get a new job eventually e: also yeah i'm pretty convinced that having interviewed devs for the last 8 years or so has made being interviewed a lot easier. easy for me to say since i haven't been interviewed in 3+ years but still....
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Dec 13, 2018 12:44
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Pollyanna posted:graphs!!!! god I loving love graphs!!!!! they are everything in the world!!! everything is a graph!! crush them up and snort them and do a million knight moves theory problems in 15 minutes!!! universal constant!!!!!!! hail graphs!!!!!!!! shove a graph up my butt!!!!! depth first depth first depth first depth first depth first depth first depth first depth first depth first a* depth first Pollyanna posted:nobody loving uses or gives a poo poo about graphs, graphs are a solved problem. no one loving cares. stop asking graph theory questions. god drat. b& for mod sass
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Captain Foo posted:The Bloody Maneuver? lol, amazing
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Dec 17, 2018 23:38
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when i'm doing leetcode type stuff i write my code out as a comment first, write a quick little test harness to verify expected inputs+outputs, and then start writing the function to be invoked seems like this might be the way to approach that sort of interview? speaking hypothetically as i haven't done one myself.
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Dec 18, 2018 02:01
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Penisface posted:i just wonder how long they think their machine keeps ticking along before it becomes obvious that man-butt-hours are a really bad measure of productivity lol isn't their economy basically flatline? i think they already know but haven't figured out what they can do differently
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Dec 18, 2018 13:17
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maybe they're doing this because you're leaving?
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Penisface posted:i did not ask but i am pretty sure that the number rhymes with hero Penisface posted:basically not worth it to pick this hill to die on? lol just say no, wtf is wrong with you
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Dec 27, 2018 18:44
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:a background check would be 100% useless if it could be evaded by changing your name, and 99% useless if it could be evaded by changing your sex how the gently caress do you get "evaded" from what jbt posted?
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Dec 27, 2018 19:41
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raminasi posted:my reading was that jbt's objection was to the background check company revealing her deadname to the hiring company, not knowing it themselves exactly
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Dec 27, 2018 19:45
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Chalks posted:background checks are literally the act of looking at who you were in the past jfc verification of employment, educational, and criminal history does not require sharing prior religion, gender, political affiliations, or pretty much anything that can lead to discrimination i get if you're walking into a NATIONAL SECURITY situation where blackmail is a possibility but we are absolutely not talking about that here
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Dec 27, 2018 20:03
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while we're at it, for ordinary jobs credit checks shouldn't be allowed either 
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Dec 27, 2018 20:04
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Chalks posted:there's a pretty big terminology blur here when it comes to background checks vs checking references and i'm just kinda riding the wave there is no blur at all, you're the only one who doesn't seem to understand what a background check is. nobody said anything about reference checks.
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Dec 27, 2018 21:30
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i'm not even trying to be a dick, i'm gonna lay it out: a reference check is often, but not always, part of a background check other things that may be part of a background check: * employment history * financial/credit information * academic records * military records * criminal records * arrest records * sex offender status * citizenship/immigration status * driving records * medical records * character reference checks and probably more i am forgetting not all of these can be legally requested for all types of jobs, but it all falls under the umbrella of "background checks"
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Dec 27, 2018 21:36
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Chalks posted:well, i did when i said i considered checking someone's qualifications to be a reference check rather than a background check, in response to someone talking about those things, but who's counting or indeed reading ok then, everyone but you, the person that said we were wrong because you didn't understand what background checks are feel better?
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Mao Zedong Thot posted:background checks are pretty dumb agreedo
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Chalks posted:yeah, i think i'm clearer on this now. it's a US/UK confusion thing, where in the UK all of that is illegal unless you're mandated by law to do a criminal records check. it's hella hosed up and i'm honestly surprised the uk hasn't managed to make it a thing
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Dec 27, 2018 21:46
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Penisface posted:thanks for the advice, i will ask them about this definitely and let’s see how it goes oh yeah, i forgot where you are idk japanese law at all but even if they can somehow compel you to sign... this seems like something you'd ask in a "foreigners in japan" type forum? i mean i'm sure we have our fair share of weeaboos here but we're going to have a pretty heavy western culture and law knowledge bias here
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Dec 28, 2018 03:52
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:people itt talking about what a background check firm “needs” to provide fundamentally don’t get it people aren't complaining because they think it's illegal, they are complaining because it SHOULD be illegal hth
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Mahatma Goonsay posted:i managed to negotiate myself a signing bonus. thanks everybody! nice
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idk if i mentioned it in this thread but earlier this year we passed on someone because he wouldn't give us salary expectations. like, outright refused. i guess he read everyone's favourite salary negotiation article. he would have been better off just firing off a nice high number tbh, at least then we would have countered with something
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funny because my boss assumed the guy wasn't that interested in us if he wouldn't give us a number and we had 6 other interviews that day so vOv
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