I have had a lot of current/potential candidates ask me to get coffee and I usually avoid it unless a) they come highly recommended from someone I trust and/or b) they appear to be exceptionally qualified. Unless one or both of those are met, I think the meetings are more often than not a waste of time unfortunately. However, if it's someone who comes recommended from someone I trust and appears to be a great fit for a role we are hiring now or in the future, I'll jump at the opportunity to meet and prioritize that.
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Yes. Only, I have never been a habitual drinker of coffee. When I started drinking regularly for a short period, I stopped once I noticed the pattern. For me, cheese and chocolate, as well, triggers a migraine.
Chocolate of course has theobromine, similar to caffeine with similar effects. Cheese? Any idea why that might be similar?
Maybe the common thing that is irritating him is the milk products in Cheese, Coffee and Chocolate.
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#43How common is it to have a peer who can introduce you to a hiring manager? I have plenty of friends, and none can get me a meeting with a hiring manager at a good company. Most of my friends are unemployed or working at Panera Bread.
Any advice?
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#44The purpose of a coffee date is to weed out people who don't drink coffee. You wouldn't want to work with such a freak of nature!
You can learn a lot about someone's coffee habits. How much sugar, how much milk. How much... whiskey.
So it turns out I love espresso, but I don't drink alcohol. Does that put me in the "freak of nature" category?
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#45How common is it to have a peer who can introduce you to a hiring manager? I have plenty of friends, and none can get me a meeting with a hiring manager at a good company. Most of my friends are unemployed or working at Panera Bread. Any advice?
Network and get more connected friends? I don't mean to be flip, but job hunting/career building is one of the cases where the company you keep is paramount.
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#46I'm also based in Sweden. I would recommend you attend to any meetup.com you are interested in. The organizers are usually scouting. If you talk to people and discuss the presentation (many don't) you'll get fika invites instead of asking for them!
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Who drinks plain coffee? Latte, espresso, chai - single or double shot - soy or low-fat, the list goes on and on!
I'd say about half the people in the Netherlands drink their coffee "gewoon" ("just")! Add too much milk and it's officially "verkeerd" (wrong). As in, coffee machines in petrol stations have a "koffie verkeerd" button, presumably for foreign truckers from far off lands where they spoil their delicious hot beverage with... (blegh) milk.
Speaking of spoiling delicious beverages with milk, have you heard what the English do to their tea?
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Yes. Only, I have never been a habitual drinker of coffee. When I started drinking regularly for a short period, I stopped once I noticed the pattern. For me, cheese and chocolate, as well, triggers a migraine.
Chocolate of course has theobromine, similar to caffeine with similar effects. Cheese? Any idea why that might be similar?
Tyramine?
Tyramine could be the cause of headaches, especially if MAOIs are involved.
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Oh. I think I have a sensitivity to caffeine, because drinking coffee causes an onset of a migraine that I don't like when I'm writing code or managing systems.
Typically caffeine headaches occur when you stop drinking it.
Some people get a caffeine headache in the morning because they haven't been drinking it while they were asleep.