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champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER

whatever you're doing please never stop posting about it

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champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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my homie dhall posted:

you’re going to reach for cassandra? really bro?

not even once

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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Blinkz0rz posted:

it's this

they're also bad at ready logs

and pretty much any other kind of output

buddy lemme tell you: they’re just bad at everything

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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raminasi posted:

often when i read this sentiment expressed i want to ask how you can be so confident that you’re not just seeing really bad anxiety, but then i remember a guy i interviewed who denied that recursion as a concept even existed, so idk

real power move tho: try to gaslight your recruiter

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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I dislike fizzbuzz. it tells me nothing as an interviewer and even less as an interviewee

give me a problem that contains something your team use a lot. call an api and do a thing, transform some data, make a website show A Thing

alternative have some code prepared and have your interviewee tell you what is happening in said code. I tried this once and it sparked good conversation

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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PIZZA.BAT posted:

i don't think that's what they're saying, although they might be. it's more 'can you look over this code and get a good idea as to what it's doing. what would error conditions look like here? if you had to implement a change, how would you do it?' etc. i don't think they expect them to be familiar with their whole codebase or anything, rather if they're shown a chunk of code and given an explanation as to what it's supposed to be doing, can they start fiddling with it

yeah it’s this kind of thing. basically use a code example to start a conversation about code and then determine something about your candidate

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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I went and interviewed with LEGO and was rejected on a third interview round. The reason? The case I presented wasn't enough. Which I mean, fair enough. Except the hiring manager told me to not do something amazing or polished, don't spend more than a couple of hours on it.

On top of this they were extremely slow to actually get around to the interviews. From first application to actual rejection? 1.5 months.

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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I was pretty angry earlier but now that I think about it I really don't wanna work for a manager who says one thing then does another

edit: please don’t put in the newspaper I got mad

champagne posting fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Feb 13, 2023

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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Mr. Crow posted:

Don't use blur who gives a poo poo unless you've got a sex dungeon behind you.

I have a big rear end trans pride flag as my backdrop am where does this put me vis a vis blur?

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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interviewing updates: still sucks

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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dioxazine posted:

somehow i've put myself into an interview process with five technicals and then a panel at the end

thunderdome feels really unappealing right now

what do they expect to learn from the fifth technical not uncovered from the four previous?

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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nudgenudgetilt posted:

how long do folks wait before no-showing a candidate?

i was talking to our hr person while waiting today, and she said she never waits more than 2-3 minutes, while i was worried that my 5-8 minutes might be too short.

is it an online meeting? Then I'd give people way more because computers are awful.

If you've reached your waiting limit why not give them a call? You have phones right?

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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nudgenudgetilt posted:

lolwat

a primary responsibility of the job is showing up to meetings on time via computer. this particular candidate went so far as to insist we use their scheduling software and their video conferencing software for the call instead of our own. i'm definitely not calling someone to see why they didn't show up when i could instead start looking at the resume for my next call.

i'm not so cruel as to only give 2-3 minutes, but by 8 minutes you better have a pretty loving amusing story for me, and a total no-email/no-show is getting a generic rejection letter.

if you're hiring people because they're great at getting on the computer on time then I can see exactly where you're coming from. I assumed you were hiring specialist professionals whose skills are desperately in demand.

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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nudgenudgetilt posted:

where do you get the idea they're desperately in demand? i have a massive queue of applicants to work though, and it grows daily.

it was an assumption

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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In response to using LinkedIn's Easy Apply feature I received this:

external maersk recruiter posted:


SW Engineer (JAVA)- MAERSK (Copenhagen - Hybrid)

Hello champagne posting :-) I received your cv, thank you very much! It looks interesting!

Could you please apply:

https://maersk.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Maersk_Manual/job/DK---Copenhagen/Software-Engineer--Backend_R53800

Thank you very much!

Dipshit Recruiter
Senior Information Technology Recruitment Sourcer

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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dioxazine posted:

i, also being a moron, have somehow scheduled two interviews for myself back to back today and have maybe 30 minutes wiggle room if the first one runs long

:yossame: except it's coffee with four different people at four different places in Copenhagen

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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nudgenudgetilt posted:

the 24-hour response window would be enough to make me reject it regardless of salary

:yossame: it's quite the red flag

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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AnoHito posted:

it might be a good idea to make your visa sponsoring program more clear when you ask, so that candidates feel more comfortable revealing their status.

every time I see that box "are you legally able to work in the US" I know it's just a box telling me "you will not be considered"

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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rotor posted:

man you wanna talk about some fuckin bullshit try french immigration

danish immigration is the same and also real racist

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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I’m terminally unemployable. got to the last stage of rounds several times now and I just don’t get picked. it’s so much work ultimately for nothing

I did however land another consulting contract so I guess I’m just freelancing forever

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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PIZZA.BAT posted:

tell me about it. i'm doing interviews for a technical role where we make it clear that we're expecting someone senior who's going to have to be able to operate on their own in pretty demanding environments and half the candidates answered 'not very' when i just point blank asked how technical they were. like come on man i understand poo poo's hard right now but why are you wasting your own time let alone ours with this poo poo?

one of them would straight up answer, 'oh i just had our tech guy do that' to even my softball questions. THIS IS A TECHNICAL ROLE! WE MADE IT REALLY CLEAR IN THE POSTING THAT THIS WAS VERY TECHNICAL!! gently caress

of the remaining half there were a couple that definitely had the gumption and are just talking to us at the wrong time. they'd be excellent hires a year from now when we've managed to put out the fires and have the time to mentor them, but that's not now, sadly.

two candidates though had that dead look in their eye from the beginning that i knew they'd be perfect. they've seen the real poo poo and weren't scared. production servers on fire off the shoulder of Q3. load balancers glitter in the dark against aws-east-1. etc etc

amazing that not only are these people not technical they also can't lie

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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Quackles posted:

Never heard of them. Who are they? :v:

well you see goes into 40 page rant about the free market

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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JawnV6 posted:

gently caress on-site

who's doing remote embedded, done with commuting such a loving waste

I did a three month contract working with embedded devices, remote. It was quite the thing.

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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Denmark is still insane, in that we've had the same low unemployment since the beginning of the pandemic until now, hovering at around 2% at the most. Boomers are exiting the job market pretty rapidly and there are so many positions going unfilled.

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

YOU ARE A BRAIN
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PokeJoe posted:

piss tests are bullshit imo

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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Pollyanna posted:

guess who’s back on the menu, girls

is this a coming out post?

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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goblin week posted:

it's loving insane that in states it's legal to make you piss in a cup

"before we can let you work here in our very important Customer Excellence Call Center we're gonna need cheek swab to determine your genetic makeup."

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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KidDynamite posted:

getting tons of "your background is great but we're pursuing other candidates" and also talking to sourcing recruiters and then the hm declines to continue the process. seems market is very saturated for ios eng.

*tugs at collar*

:yossame:

getting a lot of "your resume is amazing and your skillset is to die for. We don't want to talk with you"

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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Achmed Jones posted:

it's this. they are not going to waste employee time telling you what the actual problem was. even if it were free, they wouldn't do that because it might make you mad or open up liability. and if you're mad, you might not apply next year when they've decided to mash the 'hire everyone' button or whatever

companies will not generally give you feedback. they might send you words, but these words only have meaning insofar as they are part of the ritual/hiring process. their literal meaning is irrelevant to their actual meaning.

this tracks because the one time I've been given honest feedback I got real angry.

The feedback in question was "we didn't feel you shone in the interview", which is fine I guess, but the interviewers were people I've worked for as a freelancer for two years.

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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4lokos basilisk posted:

are you hiring full remote in eu?

Do you know Kafka? I'm on a project that's on fire in 200 ways but always needs more freelancers to feed the beast

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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in semi-related news I'm looking for an on-site position because working fully remote and being alone all the time is doing a number on me. Looking to go into management and very willing to relocate.

the long shot if you will.

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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Armitag3 posted:

the guy that came up with points already apologised like a million times

publicly? Link me please and thank you

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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koolkal posted:

Eh, my takeaway from that article is that he doesn't think story points should be used beyond breaking down work into small enough chunks to be worked on, but never for estimation

His ideal system seems like having points but only devs can see them and know what they are

but that's it isn't it? The moment something can be measured it'll get shoved into a kpi and from thereon out that's it we're all hosed.

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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Achmed Jones posted:

computer touching interviews are bad. and then you have academia. and then you have academia _in the humanities_

the shitshow there is a big reason for why i touch computers

science academia is the same. The boss is the worst genx person to have ever lived and his wife just happens to also have been his phd student when they met don't worry about it.

Also you can't publish without eating his boot

also your only metric is how much you publish





so anyway I touch computers for a living

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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everyone should just post to free journals like arxiv instead of the terrible money machines that are Nature et al. Quality of papers clearly don't matter to them (at least not for my field which is extremely hit or miss) so why not just post papers wherever

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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rotor posted:

i feel like the world wide web was literally designed to allow academics to publish and share their results

yeah, but

publish or perish, only you can only publish in the journal your section head likes and if he's old, and he is gonna be real old, he's gonna mandate you publish only in this one journal he likes.

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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rotor posted:

yeah i mean i get it, just sayin its very weird to me that academia doesnt self-publish. Get with the program. eggheads.

definitely, especially since no one in the whole chain of publishing papers actually gets paid except for the journal

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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Achmed Jones posted:

it's a very very broken system but "have no editorial oversight" ain't the solution. at least in the humanities. i kind of expect that the grant-funding-review process could stand in for this in a lot of cases in the sciences since people would still read and respond to the output of the prestigious 2023 Poodle Grant or whatever. but the lack of external funding sources in the humanities (among other things) means that the self-published world is an absolute cesspit

my field of chemometrics (well used to be my field but that's neither here nor there) gets published in all sorts of Elsevier journals and it's a cointoss if articles that are just through and through terrible gets through. Basically imagine someone waving their hands and going "AI" could just publish whatever the gently caress they wanted as long as the word spectroscopy was tacked on at the end.

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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ThatBasqueGuy posted:

any good additional resources on top of the OP? doing babies first data analyst job interview tomorrow and just padding poo poo out for practice and general comfort/familiarity

go to 100 interviews in order to learn the skill of interviewing.

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champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

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remote contracting for enterprises who have no clue what they’re doing also works

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