Does your office have a library?
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Does your office have a library?
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Re: Does your office have a library?
#2Some good questions there, for reflection or the dreaded "do you have questions for us" bit in the interview.
With regards the library. Yes, but I paid for every book in it. And most are never touched. It's frankly a little depressing.
Re: Does your office have a library?
#3Some good questions there, for reflection or the dreaded "do you have questions for us" bit in the interview. With regards the library. Yes, but I paid for every book in it. And most are never touched. It's frankly a little depressing.
Maybe if the books in your library aren't touched, that's a sign that the chosen books aren't the most valuable
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#4Yes, and it's all tech-heavy stuff, lots of equipment manuals, architecture handbooks, language manuals, etc. All stuff I've bought because I use it.
I've had a few other on-and-off contract workers on site over the past few years. Everyone was far more likely to get wrong answers off StackOverflow than reading the (recommended to them) manual. Oh well, at least the pages don't get dog-eared!
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#5It is an interesting list, some of the questions seem good, I like the ones that basically get at “are you learning from experienced employees.”
On the other hand,
> Does your company care about diversity? If so are they hiring conservatives, the religious, or people with unrelated degrees? Hell are they hiring people without degrees or from places with no major metro around?
This seems like kind of an annoying political gotcha question. If asked this question, I’d probably say “I don’t really like to talk politics and religion at work” and I’d be a little worried that the person who asked it might like to talk politics and religion at work.
Edit: I mean I’m not a robot, I know the political alignment of some of my close colleagues, but obviously no company in their right minds is collecting the data required to answer this question on a company-wide statistical level.
Re: Does your office have a library?
#6Some good questions there, for reflection or the dreaded "do you have questions for us" bit in the interview. With regards the library. Yes, but I paid for every book in it. And most are never touched. It's frankly a little depressing.
Maybe if the books in your library aren't touched, that's a sign that the chosen books aren't the most valuable
Haha, I think that's what the parent was hinting at with the "depressing" title.
But I disagree with the diagnosis! As Patrick Collison says,
> I guess I fall somewhere in the middle in the Umberto Eco theory of the library[0].
[0] https://www.google.com/books/edition/How_to_Travel_with_a_Sa...
(Quote from https://patrickcollison.com/bookshelf)
Re: Does your office have a library?
#7At my previous job, I ran a small-ish library at my desk. Just brought up all my books and had them under my desk for people to peruse and take.
At current job, I do have a good enough library - but I hardly go into the office ;D
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#8Some good questions there, for reflection or the dreaded "do you have questions for us" bit in the interview. With regards the library. Yes, but I paid for every book in it. And most are never touched. It's frankly a little depressing.
I found it a bit depressing that I was the first person to borrow most of the books that I got out of a university library.
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#9My last job was in a corporate library. My job title was "Librarian". I was technically a Records Manager. The people I worked with appreciated the work I did and the found the library, and me, useful and helpful.
Corporate librarians are out there and do good work!
Re: Does your office have a library?
#10At one previous employer, yes, and it was lovely. It was huge, and we could of course request books for interlibrary loan, request the library to purchase, or request personal purchases to keep at our desks. Checkouts were indefinite until someone else requested it except for newly purchased books. I loved going there and relaxing with a book.
I have a rather extensive personal library, filled woth books I haven't read yet. It creates the same feeling of a lot of stuff still to discover