irvingprime

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by irvingprime 5y ago
No employer has ever given me the feeling that my software dev skills put me in a position of power. Quite the opposite. Every place I have ever worked at has acted as if 1) My skills are unimportant (except when they want overtime. Then, n
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by irvingprime 5y ago
I get between 8 and 15 emails from recruiters most days. They found my resume at any of a half dozen sites. It is rare for one of these emails to be even a remote match for my skills. No, no one read it. They used some sort of keyword searc
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by irvingprime 5y ago
The checkbox option you offer is no good. Nearly every job listing I see contains a list of requirements, almost all of which are unnecessary to the job. THAT needs fixed much more than the admittedly clunky and annoying application process
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by irvingprime 5y ago
Bingo! I always ask for salary, tech stack, industry and client name. The first three are to help me decide if I care. The last one is so I can research the company, position, salaries, etc. I find it slightly annoying if they don't gi
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by irvingprime 5y ago
In my experience, recruiters (not all of them but some) lie about EVERYTHING. Why not the money?
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by irvingprime 5y ago
Legally, it's easy. But getting the HR bureaucracy to go along with it is a long and unpleasant process. The last time I fired someone for doing no work at all and arguing over everything, it took about 8 months. Unfortunately, my comp
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by irvingprime 5y ago
No. One of the reasons those leetcode interviews happen is because existing credentials, such as a bachelor's degree, don't work. Adding another one that some hirers will value highly and others will be skeptical of doesn't s
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by irvingprime 5y ago
Legal. Illegal. Don't know. You should ask a lawyer. I can tell that you are not comfortable with this. You suspect it's illegal and might still be uncomfortable even if it's not. Were I in your shoes, I would be looking for
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by irvingprime 5y ago
If you mean you want a way to quickly measure how distributed ownership of a particular currency is, that sounds fine. You should be able to develop a decent visualization from blockchain explorers themselves without too much trouble. Well,
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+100
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by irvingprime 5y ago
Bingo!
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by irvingprime 5y ago
I somewhat agree. I've been through a lot of terrible interviews. The last year or so I've started walking away when they get too annoying. For example, I refuse take home exercises. I used to do them, I don't anymore. Too mu
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by irvingprime 5y ago
Software is never finished. There are always new features to be added, tech debt to be serviced, security and functionality updates to be put in place, new technologies to try out, to see if they help. No UI is perfect. Even if it was, the
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by irvingprime 5y ago
I looked at the job description. What is toxic about it? And what does your taste in music have to do with it? It's not in my line but if it was, I would at least talk to them. Why not?
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by irvingprime 5y ago
+100
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by irvingprime 5y ago
+1000 for duolingo. Back in April I saw that they offered Yiddish as a beta. It sounded like fun, so I tried it. Duolingo is excellent for establishing a habit because it let's you set a daily goal and it gives you reminders and little
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by irvingprime 5y ago
Is this in your contract? No? Then forget it. This is neither normal nor reasonable. Do not accept it.
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by irvingprime 5y ago
In my experience, if you mention to people there's not enough testing, most of them will agree. They've probably been fighting that fight for a long time. Cut your team some slack. Before you go telling them they're doing it
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by irvingprime 5y ago
I've interviewed for a number of companies lately. They don't sound that unusual to me.
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by irvingprime 5y ago
I, personally, draw lines about what I'm willing to put up with and what I'm not. When the interview process begins to resemble a gauntlet or even a hazing, I walk away. Why? Because they are showing that they don't respect t
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by irvingprime 5y ago
The hardest thing to learn about being a manager is that you can't measure your productivity the same way anymore. You aren't working tickets, or as many as you used to. You can't count lines of code or features completed. At
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by irvingprime 5y ago
Compared to jira search Confluence search is quite good.
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by irvingprime 5y ago
Remote Senior Development Leader/Architect. Location: Fingerlakes region of NY. Remote: Yes, Only Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Some python, some javascript Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com&#x2
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by irvingprime 5y ago
Software engineers use our skills to profit routinely. We do this mostly by switching from one job to another where we will get paid more. The reason we do this rather than using our "leverage" to get more where we are, is that ma
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by irvingprime 5y ago
The fact that you don't have enough time to do both could be a red flag indicating that the business is going to be hard to scale up to the level you need. Are there aspects of the work that can or should be automated? Are there aspect
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by irvingprime 6y ago
Fair point
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by irvingprime 6y ago
You sound like someone I wouldn't want to hire.
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by irvingprime 6y ago
Completely agree. I've found that these kinds of questions select for people with good memorization skills more than for people with depth of experience. I would rather someone could tell me the trade offs between different solutions t
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by irvingprime 6y ago
You have a bad boss. You may also be a bad employee. (What do you mean no new assignments? What do you spend your days doing??) 1. Update your resume. You should do this regularly even if everything is fine. 2. Ask your boss where you can h
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by irvingprime 6y ago
Because my boss's boss has sent down a directive that there will be NO MORE MEETINGS. This then requires every manager to meet with everyone they have ever talked to (not just their direct reports) to explain that there will be no more

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