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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
I'll check it out. Thanks!
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
IMHO, the sweet spot for me is still writing raw html, css and php and throwing it up onto a shared server somewhere via sftp. Quick, easy, and extendable. It's too bad the good WYSIWYG editors have died out.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> On the other hand, I've had to make it known to my current employer that they need to pay me well in order for me to stay for a long time. This is the primary problem. American companies aren't willing to give 100% raises yea
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Google Reader.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
I'd create a laptop for power users and a new OS to go along with it.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> Them having another job would be almost the strongest indicator I could imagine that they will not be successful. As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, many people successfully work multiple jobs.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
The vast majority of jobs don't ask technical questions during the interview? Have I just been the unluckiest applicant of all time, then?
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
As an interviewee, I don't care. Most take home tests aren't that difficult and don't take that much time. And it's coding, which is much more enjoyable than meetings. Plus, there's the fact that I don't do wel
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Mine were all bay area startups too. No FAANG. Crazy.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
How does that "ban them from working at at[sic] a competitor at the same time"? So, you fire them. They'll still have the other job and can get another.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Section 16600 of the California Business and Professions Code provides that "every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind is to that extent void."
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> You absolutely can ban them from working at at a competitor at the same time. How?
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
To be fair, the earlier in the process you can disqualify a bad candidate, the less money and time you waste. It's generally positive to re-assess the pre-employment screening when it fails to do it's job. That said, making the pr
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
How do you find a job, then?
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> There's generally non-compete clauses in employment contracts in my experience. Non-competes are illegal or unenforceable in the following US states: California, North Dakota, the District of Columbia, Oklahoma, Maine, Maryland, N
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Creating a login can be automated. You're not filtering for qualified job applicants by doing that. You're guaranteeing that the only applicants you ever see are bots.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
How would you know? Companies aren't going to tell you they rejected you because you failed to fill out an informally required field that was marked optional.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
When is "way back when?" 2007-2011, the interview consisted of one or two hours in person on location. That's it. 20 minutes with HR, 20 minutes with the hiring manager, 20 minutes at the whiteboard, 20 minutes with a VP&#x2F
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
I much prefer the take home test to a live coding exercise. Different strokes for different folks.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Then they have no business complaining about how hard it is to find qualified candidates.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> Never assume malice when incompetence will suffice ;) Please stop saying this, especially if you have no actual evidence of incompetence. It's the equivalent of clicking your heels together three times because you really, really d
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
It's also well within their legal rights to not hire somebody because the hiring manager doesn't like people who wear plaid. Not such a useful heuristic.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
This entire thread is about pre-screening job applicants so you know before hiring them that they're working multiple W2 jobs so you don't get "scammed" and accidentally hire somebody who is already working multiple full
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
And how are you supposed to know that before hiring them?
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
These guys are doing a better job of it than most governments[0]. It's amazing the variety of items these guys are able to create out of used plastic bottles. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/c/BrothersMake/videos
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Yes, I am.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> “Plaid will store your plaintext password and use it to periodically access your bank account.” That's terrifying. I'm looking into privacy.com as an alternative to using my real debit card number online because it gets stole
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Is Brent Simmons no longer working on it?
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Not to my knowledge, no.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
The article is 5 years old. At the time, a lot of non-FAANG companies were moving away from this style of interview in favor of take home tests. That didn't last long.

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