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I love fake-Agile, it's such a hilarious concept.
We called it "agilescrumfall" at my previous job.
a lot of consulting firms call it "blended agile" heh
Questions to ask a company during a job interview
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Re: Questions to ask a company during a job interview
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Notepad++ wasn't compromised, at least not in the incident referred to in that link. > It's not a vulnerability/security issue in Notepad++
Ah yes - gotta love the HN pedantry - you are of course technically correct, however - a library used by Notepad++ was compromised for a period of time. Outcome from a security perspective was the same.
> Ah yes - gotta love the HN pedantry - you are of course technically correct, however - a library used by Notepad++ was compromised for a period of time.
No, it wasn't either. The security "issue" was that a shared library loaded by Notepad++ could be replaced with a compromised one. At no point did either Notepad++ or the library authors distribute a compromised version of that library.
Being able to replace shared libraries is not a security issue, it's the number one (or number two, depending on who you ask) reason for having shared libraries in the first place. It's like saying that if I compiled a custom version of glibc and installed it on a computer, the entirety of the GNU ecosystem was compromised.
Re: Questions to ask a company during a job interview
#453A problem that I've had is that every company says that they value code quality, emphasize developer growth, value developer's technical feedback, etc. even if they don't in practice. I've debated taking a page from old school behavioral interviewing and asking questions like: Tell me about a time that you made a decision to improve code quality or architecture at the expense of a deadline. Tell me about a time that…
You have to ask tangential questions questions and then read between the lines of the answers.
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#454Problem: Interviewers lie. I once interviewed with a company that brought me into a new, shiny, well-appointed building on the corporate campus for an interview. I did well answering their questions. And they answered my usual questions correctly. Stuff like "Can developers here choose their own tools?" and "My title is going to be Lead Engineer, will I actually be a Lead Engineer?" After I was hired, I found out eve…
I've found that a fairly reliable litmus test for the degree of influence and technical contribution you'll be in a position to make is the comp package they offer you. Your management will need to justify what they're paying you to their management, and having you be in a prominent and visible position helps them make that case.
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> Windows is a great operating system. What IT departments do to Windows turns it into a nightmare. That's a great bumper sticker. There are so many cases you find of people's Windows complaints where the questions are "Why does Windows even allow GPO to hurt users that badly?" and "Why does your IT staff hate you so much personally that they configured Windows into that particular contortion?" The Unix world has dec…
> "Why does Windows even allow GPO to hurt users that badly?" and "Why does your IT staff hate you so much personally that they configured Windows into that particular contortion?" Typically its because the GPO configuration has 15 years of kludge and your IT department is under resourced and doesn't have the ability to spend 6 months sifting through and testing all of it. In Windows environments group policy is ofte…
I think that is certainly a part of it, but I think there is a part of it that is much, much worse than that. Every time Microsoft reduces the number of user-hostile GPOs, there are certain Fortune 500 companies that complain (presumably in a lot of cash). Almost every GPO probably has at least one BDSM fetishist of IT Admin with too much corporate budget cash and not enough sense.
But a big problem is how cult-like certain GPO setups have become. Asking my IT Department casually, 90% of the worst GPO settings we enforce at my current job are "mandated" in the agreements and contracts with a certain, supposedly prophetic (but unarguably profiteer) vendor of over-priced databases and accounting software "to keep their software working as intended". (Which may be quite accurate if their software is truly intended for the slow torture they provide from a user's perspective.)
Re: Questions to ask a company during a job interview
#456"Can I talk to the last dev to work on this?"
"What happened to the last dev to work on this?"
Re: Questions to ask a company during a job interview
#457I've been interviewing with Google since 2006 or so, off and on, though I've never accepted an offer from them. I do this because I always learn several things from the rigorous on-site interviews, it's a lot of fun, and the machine that runs the process seems to not mind being turned down in the past. Back in the beginning of that time period, I used to ask (fairly jokingly) the same question: "How many servers do y…
I may have interviewed you at one point (not at Google). Either that or someone else is going around with your questions.
Neat. Either is quite possible. When I wants to change jobs, I cast a very wide net. Last time, I did on-site interviews with something like 14 companies.
Re: Questions to ask a company during a job interview
#458I have a similar problem about the question "mention 5 advantages in you and 5 deficiencies in you".
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Asking these questions a lot in interviews to candidates most people lie by either talking in generalities, or back off and are honest like "were going through that now" both give you an answer. I have not asked this directly in an interview but my normal tactic is to have lunch with the engineers and no manager which gets you lots of examples.
How do you get to have lunch with the engineers before joining the company?
you tell the hiring manager that you want to do that and make it part of the hire. If you're in town you do it a separate day.
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How do you get to have lunch with the engineers before joining the company?
Sometimes sending the interviewee to lunch with potential co-workers is an optional part of the interview. I've been on many such lunches (mostly as a potential co-worker, only once as an interviewee) Obviously, it's up to management if they want this to be a part of the interview.
definitely is but I've found that if the manager wants the hire (esp post the company deciding to move forward with an offer), then you have leverage and this is a very sane ask.