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Does the idea of beer and video games in the office really bother anyone? Sounds great to me...
I have my own hobbies and friends to do them with. I prefer to get my work done, then leave and go do my own stuff. I don't necessarily mind beer and video games being available at work, but listing them on a job posting is a red flag that the company wants people with no social life, willing to work long hours for relatively low pay. It's also a red flag that you may be working with people who consider beer and vide…
Wanted: Ninja Rockstar Code Monkey Hacker Unicorn
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Re: Wanted: Ninja Rockstar Code Monkey Hacker Unicorn
#52I read the linked article on Implementers, Problem Solvers, and Problem Finders. I think that, given that the job market is very much on the side of programmers, that people need to be more choosy with what they take. You usually know going into it what you're going to be working on and what kind of company it is. Applying for an iOS job at a place that sells dog toys? I bet you're not going to be feeling like you're…
I consider myself a decent programmer, and I love doing it. I used to program professionally, and still do so at home all the time as a hobby. But I have a hard time imagining myself coming into work and doing it for a living anymore. I got sick of implementing someone else's half-baked ideas and not having even a tiny say about what we're building, who it's for, what the most important features are, where we should spend our time, etc. It was all: Close this ticket. Fix this bug. Implement this feature using this binary tree here and that data structure there with these fields. JUST TYPE IT IN and don't worry if the product will be successful. Most places treat software engineering as data entry. The glorious Product Managers got to do the creative work!
So I moved over to the product management side to get those things and that's great. But it's still not a "Finder" role. You don't have enough time to both find and solve the problem, and you don't have the autonomy to do it right. You're too busy running around talking to 'stakeholders', smoothing over things with marketing, reviewing ad copy, sitting in strategic synergy meetings, battling with the UI designers, and trying to keep sales from selling something you don't have. And, at the end of the day, you still don't have that autonomy or creative control, since there's always someone higher up the food chain who just wants you to do it their way and write them a report about it.
It seems in tech your choice is between being an implementer-monkey and being a sock-puppet.
Re: Wanted: Ninja Rockstar Code Monkey Hacker Unicorn
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#54White Male
Haha! I see a law suit on its way! :)
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eh it's okay if you are 20 something and single. If your goal is to fill your office with 20 something single workers, it seems fairly effective..
You can have it both ways. I don't think older and attached people would be put off by that necessarily, you would just have to encourage them with other perks.
I have worked in the Fortune 1000 company full of older "lifers"
I think it would be really hard to mix both together? Like just the offering of free beer and encouraging employees to stay after work and work till sundown.. that is going to build social circles among those people. How do you get the unwanted older guys with families to stick around? Pay them more than their worth to make up for it?
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You can have it both ways. I don't think older and attached people would be put off by that necessarily, you would just have to encourage them with other perks.
So I have worked in the young hip free beer in office environment full of 20 somethings. I have worked in the Fortune 1000 company full of older "lifers" I think it would be really hard to mix both together? Like just the offering of free beer and encouraging employees to stay after work and work till sundown.. that is going to build social circles among those people. How do you get the unwanted older guys with famil…
If people don't want to associate with coworkers and just clock in and clock out I think they probably don't belong in their job.
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My guess was the Google line and "Plan on working ~100+ hours a week during sprints. If that scares you, don’t apply." The 100 hours is a little extreme, but I've seen things similar to "If that scares you, don’t apply." in descriptions before.
Sad but true : http://www.indeed.com/job/javascript-nodejs-socketio-ninja-9... https://www.codeeval.com/company/EmailCherry/
advanced JS (jquery doesn't count, cmon).
A big plus if you've scaled products to tens of millions of users
We'd love it if you've dealt with optimizing DB clusters, hadoop, relational DBs, Mongo, Node.js
~100+ hours a week during sprints
Unlimited vacation days
it's like someone had a brain fart of a job description during a drinking session and then went "fuck it, hey Bob watch this. "
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Sad but true : http://www.indeed.com/job/javascript-nodejs-socketio-ninja-9... https://www.codeeval.com/company/EmailCherry/
wow.. so many gems in there advanced JS (jquery doesn't count, cmon). A big plus if you've scaled products to tens of millions of users We'd love it if you've dealt with optimizing DB clusters, hadoop, relational DBs, Mongo, Node.js ~100+ hours a week during sprints Unlimited vacation days it's like someone had a brain fart of a job description during a drinking session and then went "fuck it, hey Bob watch this. "
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My guess was the Google line and "Plan on working ~100+ hours a week during sprints. If that scares you, don’t apply." The 100 hours is a little extreme, but I've seen things similar to "If that scares you, don’t apply." in descriptions before.
Sad but true : http://www.indeed.com/job/javascript-nodejs-socketio-ninja-9... https://www.codeeval.com/company/EmailCherry/
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This. I got laid off a few months ago. All in all, I was unemployed for about three months before landing a new position. Whenever I checked Indeed or Monster, I saw lots of positions that required extensive J2EE or .NET skills, plus a bunch of webdev and a handful of mobile jobs. None of those I have. I have lots of Java experience, sure, but it's all core Java and thoroughly divorced from the web. I was passed up f…
And what about Red Hat? They do search Java, Python and Linux people all the time, and even Remote
I'll keep them in mind if I find myself unemployed again or if I ever decide I want to leave this company.