Earlier quoted context omitted.
Was curious myself, based in on his other comments, it's Poland.
Yeah, but then you have to breathe in coal. Dirtiest air in the EU.
This site disagrees with your opinion http://airindex.eea.europa.eu
We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage
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Re: We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage
#392But HR isn't the only problem. In my experience having worked for a company that hired heavily for several years, it was the engineers who lacked the talent necessary to conduct proper interviews. Great candidates were being rejected by the truck load. Us engineers, we're great at engineering but many of the junior and mid-level ones don't have much experience interviewing people and usually no training whatsoever. S…
I worked at a non-tech company in the southeast before my current job at a FANG company, and the lead data scientist at this company wrote up the most ridiculous interview questions I've ever seen. WAYY harder than FANG questions, and this company honestly needed business analysts far more than it needed ML researchers. The salary was like $100k for a junior data scientist position. Some of the questions were things like describing forward mode vs reverse mode differentiation, describing Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, and explaining Judea Pearl's concept of causality. Considering there were like 30 data scientists in the whole city, I'm not sure what the point was other than to make potential candidates feel stupid.
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#393Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've posted this elsewhere (forgot here or reddit). I'm gainfully employed. A former colleague who is now in a hiring position at a new company reached out to me. Said they have several openings and are having a hard time hiring good people. It would be a much longer commute, working/rewriting some older tech to be cloud ready (I did that at my current and previous employer). We started talking about salary. I told h…
> I told him what I made. Never make that mistake. Never ever disclose your salary information to someone that you potentially could work for. I think a situation where we were required by law to disclose, or a company where such a thing was common (GitLab) would be exceptions. But otherwise, I've found it to be a huge mistake to disclose your exact salary or numbers to anyone.
I’ll happily tell someone my current salary but I’ll never accept a new salary that I’m not happy with. I also try to accept 10-20% below market. You can get away with a lot when they think you’re the schmuck who didn’t know what he was worth.
Re: We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage
#394It does not surprise me that this is out of Atlanta. One of the former Atlanta Business Chronicle writers that covered tech rightfully calls it the Bangalore of the South. https://twitter.com/Urvaksh/status/1092948535627137024 https://twitter.com/Urvaksh/status/893087188451196928 Tech in ATL is a second class citizen and the salaries reflect that, plus there is a glut of marketing and business people. The other issue…
I would have loved to stay near Atlanta since it's near my family, but you're right. It was difficult to find tech jobs there, despite Georgia Tech having a world class CS program. So I moved to the Bay Area.
Re: We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage
#395I've been looking for jobs recently. Have a background building pretty robust Node/React apps. At the 4 places that have given me an interview. I've been told that I don't meet their needs. The reason for this. I'm unable to solve their pet coder wars function challenge. Being a self taught programmer, not having a 'learned' background has proven to be a hindrance. Because I don't have the traditional algorithmic cho…
> In the time I've been working as a programmer I've had the need to use recursion one maybe two times.
That may be the case, but I've also worked with a programmer who said he'd never needed hash tables.
As you can imagine, this said more about the solutions he arrived at than the usefulness of these data structures.
Re: We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage
#396So this is a person who built a website about writing efficient resumes, yet is having a hard time finding a job in the current market?
Ye. He also seems to have a quite big ego.
Re: We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage
#397Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is it not a promise? I fail to imagine it being said in a way that isn't one.
It is a verbal promise, not a contract. They just broke it. They were unprofessional.
The only reason it's not a contract is because the job offer wasn't closed yet. This is more similar to false advertising.
Re: We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage
#398But HR isn't the only problem. In my experience having worked for a company that hired heavily for several years, it was the engineers who lacked the talent necessary to conduct proper interviews. Great candidates were being rejected by the truck load. Us engineers, we're great at engineering but many of the junior and mid-level ones don't have much experience interviewing people and usually no training whatsoever. S…
I ask candidates to tell me about something they created they are proud of, and why. All you have to do after that is listen.
> I ask candidates to tell me about something they created they are proud of, and why.
Never be proud of anything that you created - since it probably is not of "top of the world quality". Even in the rare case that it is - it is very likely that even "top of the world" can still be improved.
Re: We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage
#399I've been looking for jobs recently. Have a background building pretty robust Node/React apps. At the 4 places that have given me an interview. I've been told that I don't meet their needs. The reason for this. I'm unable to solve their pet coder wars function challenge. Being a self taught programmer, not having a 'learned' background has proven to be a hindrance. Because I don't have the traditional algorithmic cho…
I'm in a similar boat -- my educational background is hardware engineering, but, I've been a Linux nerd/SRE for the last 20 years. I found a great position that would be perfectly in line with what I'm doing now -- specifically managing teams of SRE's for a startup in NYC that would allow me to work remotely, but, during their "technical" interview, I was asked to "humanize" a number using any language that I chose.…
On the other hand, imagine if you asked a programmer to write some novel code and they said "sorry, I can't. There was no Ruby gem or SO answer for this so I don't know how"
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#400As an employee, it is valuable to me that my company will not hire someone who doesn't think our business does something important ("get over yourselves, you're not curing cancer"), or who thinks the right way to ask business decision questions is to ask if "you're morons", or who has a problem with the company asking very basic probing questions, such as confirming you've thought through the challenge of changing fr…
I so dislike the ball-gargling exercise of "why do you want to work here?" It's often a "well, I need a job, you're hiring, and what you guys are doing looks at least marginally interesting to me" - I ought not need to find whatever product/service/market they're doing/in inspiring - I should just want to do it for the pay offered.
It's "why should I hire you, over anyone else?"
Given two candidates for a Phd, which do you accept:
- the one who needs a Phd because that earns more money (duh!) - the one who has been obsessed with X for years, did research into X, has burning questions and wants to dedicate some years to answering them, and found your place to have the researchers who publish the most relevant, interesting and insightful papers over the last few years.
I ought not need to find whatever product/service/market they're doing/in inspiring - I should just want to do it for the pay offered.
You don't need to find it interesting. But if another candidate will do it for the pay offered, /and also/ likes the product and has a clear plan for their life, expect them to get the job instead of you.
And, expect you'd do better if you /did/ find a job offering where you were also interested and motivated.