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I've written a self-hosted search utility for HN threads posted by whoishiring which I'll be using in my upcoming job hunt in a month or so. It performs regex-based full-text searches of top-level comments in threads posted by whoishiring. I hope it can help someone in their hunt!
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I'd say it's more of a security concern than anything. The thinking being that you don't want a potentially disgruntled employee with little to potentially lose have access to your systems.
I was sure someone would say this. As a comparison: Romania is a relatively poor country, full of hotheaded invididuals ("Balkan" mentality). On top of that, we're apparently EU's #2 expat community in terms of total prison population. So both hotheads and also a lot of criminals (most likely thieves). And yet we still allow our folks to walk unescorted for a few weeks inside the company premises. After all, how many…
As for the paranoia part, it is definitely a bit of paranoia on the part of the company management but paranoia for a reasonable reason: there are numerous examples in the US of someone getting laid off or fired and returning to the office with a gun. From the perspective of management, why take the chance? If there is any hint that the termination will not be pretty you make sure someone escorts the person out and you have shown yourself to be taking due consideration if something unpleasant happens.
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I was sure someone would say this. As a comparison: Romania is a relatively poor country, full of hotheaded invididuals ("Balkan" mentality). On top of that, we're apparently EU's #2 expat community in terms of total prison population. So both hotheads and also a lot of criminals (most likely thieves). And yet we still allow our folks to walk unescorted for a few weeks inside the company premises. After all, how many…
Let's consider the counter-argument and ignore any possibility for vandalism, theft, hacking, or other destructive activity by a recently terminated employee. Why would you want them walking around the building? What possible benefit is there to this? Why not just give them a hearty handshake, a thanks for your work, and tell them that they will be paid for the remainder of the termination period but don't show up at…
Non USian here: regardless of who gave notice, the lame-duck period is normally used for wrapping up whatever work/project the departee was working on and handing it over to a colleague or manager. People generally are more worried about getting bad references than office shootings.
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The dating scene is messed up for men in the Bay Area because eligible men vastly outnumber eligible women. It's as simple as that. All the unnatural relationship dynamics flows from this fact. More men study computer science, math, physics, and engineering than women do. Silicon Valley is a magnet for people in those fields. Silicon Valley ends up with way more single men in the 20-40 age bracket than single women.…
It's actually not quite that bad, but there are some areas where men outnumber women by over 40% [0]. The ratio is a little better in Silicon Valley, at about 1.14:1 [1]. The SF/Oakland/Hayward metro area fares a little better at 0.93:1 overall [2], but that doesn't take into account how difficult is is to access SF from the East Bay and vice versa. It doesn't take much of a skew to really mess up the ratios. [0]: ht…
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actually this is the right advice. To find a job IS a full time job. No one wants to hear it but after running NemCV and getting data on around 15,000 job hunters, I saw that the people who treat looking for a job AS A JOB get a job over 10x faster than those who don't... Here is a link to the meetup we have run for 5 years too: http://www.meetup.com/get-your-dream-job/
It's too bad I'm thousands of miles away from you. I would go to that meetup. :)
1. Contact my list of (currently) 14 local recruiters from different companies with my resume, and tell them what type of job I'm looking for, salary, and location within the metro area.
2. They send me a list of jobs with the descriptions abd salary range - something you can't usually get without a recruiter - and I tell them which one I want to be submitted to.
3. Keep a list of the jobs, status (submitted, phone interview scheduled, in person interview scheduled, waiting for response), recruiter information, etc. so I don't get double submitted.
Historically, since 1999 and three years out of college, it has taken me about a two-four weeks to find a job, usually paying significantly more.
The last round I just went through. I had 13 prospects, 7 phone interviews, 3 in person interviews, trying to schedule the other 4, and will probably have four offers by the end of the week. This is with me being picky on location, salary, and environment.
I'm not trying to say that I'm a special snowflake. I know a lot of people that I work with that could do the same.
I've been coding since I was 14 (I'm 27 now) and went to uni; I usually never have a problem with technical interviews, but I applied for Facebook just to try out their interview process (because one of my academic-minded software engineering friends told me that he didn't pass the third interview - So I was intrigued). I thought that their questions were mostly good but the interviewer makes you code live in realtim…
I agree with him. I'm not applying for a code monkey position. I'm applying for a senior software Engineer or architect. Someone who can use modern tools and create solutions.
I had two coding tests during my last round of interviews. One on a computer onsite where the interviewers left me alone with a computer and IDE and permission to use Google and the other a coding problem I had a week to complete, turn in on github, and the second part of the interview was going to be a code review.
I found both to be acceptable and relevant.
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No, you can't spot a memorized story. You can possibly spot a poorly memorized story. It's the difference between learning a speech off by heart and knowing the material backwards.
Without probing questions, no. On technical matters and some interpersonal matters, though, you can use a variation of 5 Whys to quickly drill down on certain decisions or details. The only way to pass that is to actually know what you are talking about.