gord1anknot

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   by gord1anknot 7y ago

   It depends on how you see your career evolving. If you pick computing you will have to shift gears, eventually - which isn't to say you will switch OUT of computing, but rather you will eventually need to ADD to it. Right now, computin
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   by gord1anknot 9y ago

   I agree that the interviewee should know a answer. I don't like the spite/table flip answers suggested elsewhere for sure - I expect a prospective employee to be cooperative and marginally helpful no matter what. However, speaki
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   by gord1anknot 9y ago

   In some job markets (afaik Silicon Valley, and most high-prestige medical or legal positions) you can get multiple offers within a few days of each other, and this matters for driving up compensation, particularly the signing bonus when pre
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   by gord1anknot 9y ago

   I actually got asked this once, right out of college, by a consulting-focused subsidiary of a certain publicly traded company that dealt with open source operating systems that shall go unnamed. IIRC I said something about being smart and w