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let me know if yall want to come work at Microsoft. reach out to me about it https://www.linkedin.com/in/leepenkman/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/leepenkman/

curious_baldy 3y ago
only want people from google?
bossyTeacher 3y ago
All of us? HN is quite a big place. Is HR ready to be DDossed with applications?
- altairprime 3y ago
  My employer’s (not Microsoft) biggest problem has been getting any competent sysadmins to apply at all. Maybe one in a few hundred applicants is capable enough to interview; the rest are just cookie-cutter cloud-only SREs who’ve never cared for a server before. They’d love to be “DDoS’d with applicants”, because there might be a few capable sysadmins in that pile! And we’re a lot smaller than Microsoft — so, yes, most likely, they’re ready. (Our job postings are all published on the usual job database sites under the usual sysadmin/opseng titles, and I don’t have any sort of special intake process to offer beyond that.)
  - rainclouds 3y ago
    This hits home. I wish I knew the company now.
belter 3y ago
Do you hire Humans or only LLMs?
gandalfgreybeer 3y ago
Hey guys, this is a pretty decent gesture no matter what you think of Microsoft after mass layoffs. No need to be snarky.
- rakoo 3y ago
  How is this a decent gesture ? Any employer with visibility and cash flow wants to hire engineers. Do you think employers are doing workers a favor and being so nice and humane when they go out of their way and give us poor peons a chance at a job ?
  - gandalfgreybeer 3y ago
    I don’t see how it’s anything that’s not at least a positive gesture. You can have problems with the capitalist system as a whole but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with what he wrote. It’s better than nothing. I lost my job when my company closed a few years ago in the middle of the pandemic and I am very appreciative of those who reached out. That limbo of uncertainty even if I could survive for years with what I had didn’t feel nice.
    - meiraleal 3y ago
      Positive gesture to whom? It looks sadistic to the ones they got laid off from Microsoft
reaperman 3y ago
Thank you.

curious_baldy 3y ago

only want people from google?

bossyTeacher 3y ago

All of us? HN is quite a big place. Is HR ready to be DDossed with applications?

altairprime 3y ago
My employer’s (not Microsoft) biggest problem has been getting any competent sysadmins to apply at all. Maybe one in a few hundred applicants is capable enough to interview; the rest are just cookie-cutter cloud-only SREs who’ve never cared for a server before. They’d love to be “DDoS’d with applicants”, because there might be a few capable sysadmins in that pile! And we’re a lot smaller than Microsoft — so, yes, most likely, they’re ready. (Our job postings are all published on the usual job database sites under the usual sysadmin/opseng titles, and I don’t have any sort of special intake process to offer beyond that.)
- rainclouds 3y ago
  This hits home. I wish I knew the company now.

belter 3y ago

Do you hire Humans or only LLMs?

gandalfgreybeer 3y ago

Hey guys, this is a pretty decent gesture no matter what you think of Microsoft after mass layoffs. No need to be snarky.

rakoo 3y ago
How is this a decent gesture ? Any employer with visibility and cash flow wants to hire engineers. Do you think employers are doing workers a favor and being so nice and humane when they go out of their way and give us poor peons a chance at a job ?
- gandalfgreybeer 3y ago
  I don’t see how it’s anything that’s not at least a positive gesture. You can have problems with the capitalist system as a whole but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with what he wrote. It’s better than nothing. I lost my job when my company closed a few years ago in the middle of the pandemic and I am very appreciative of those who reached out. That limbo of uncertainty even if I could survive for years with what I had didn’t feel nice.
  - meiraleal 3y ago
    Positive gesture to whom? It looks sadistic to the ones they got laid off from Microsoft

reaperman 3y ago

Thank you.