New Intel CEO rehiring retired CPU architects

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 5:47 PM UTC

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It's one of the (dirty?) pleasures in the work-life, isn't it? I still treasure getting to the stage in my life when I could afford to stop saying what my salary expectation was outside of "fair in relation to the market and my experience". Recruiter H/R: "We need to hear your salary requirements to move forward with this position". me: "I would like to hear your offer". Recruiter / HR: "We won't be able to consider…

Who do you think you are screwing by cutting off your opportunities at the root? :) As the other reply pointed out, you are cutting yourself (a) out of the conversation (b) out of finding out what your actual range is. Here's a dirty secret for you - very often the recruiters don't share the range because the range is broad, they may fill the role with a mid-level or a super-senior at 2x the comp. If they tell you th…

Post by 908B64B197 » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 5:52 PM UTC

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In the same/similar vein it never ceases to amaze me how employers don't provide their employees with the best tools possible (within reason) to do their jobs. A company will give a developer a low/mid-range laptop/desktop pinching every penny they can then turn around any pay them a huge salary... Like do they not understand that running into RAM/CPU limits makes the developer less effective? I've had jobs where I'v…

I am living through this. It is especially true if you are at a company that does software, but is not their primary business. IT seems to have total control and puts very little thought into developer experience. Give everyone the same slow mid-tier machines, force everyone to use Windows whether they want to or not, then overload them with security bloat, then require a slow VPN connection. It's sad.

Post by cbozeman » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 6:08 PM UTC

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This comment is amazing... "Microsoft recently came to my graduate school to recruit for user experience design and user experience research positions. 10 folks out of my program (about 25% of us) scored and interview. Every single one of us had no intention of working for Microsoft and joked about it intensely. Microsoft had be relegated to the realm of other boring places to do our type of work but that you intervi…

That's interesting with the Surfaces. I have many friends who had/have older models, both the Book and the non-Books. They all ended up having terrible experiences. You know which ones still have them, because on Zoom calls, they'll occasionally have their audio sound like a demon trying to murder them very loudly.

Post by 0xffff2 » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 7:05 PM UTC

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Some people don't care so much about the money. I'm barely over the six figure mark in the bay area. I could probably make a lot more money somewhere else, but I wouldn't get to do anything nearly as interesting as my current work.

What if I told you that, more often than not, you could do your current work and get much more money? People, especially tech people, are quite awful at extracting their full value.

Post by heyoni » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 7:11 PM UTC

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And if there are enough jobs, then it does something, and does it well. It forces companies to spend a bit more on their employees and in some ways, redistributes wealth. Your solution isn’t better. The government cannot be everywhere the way that Walmart is. I really don’t think its impact is going to be that big. Low skilled labor will still find ways to get hired for less, off the books if the need is great enough…

The government is already in more places than Walmart is though? The government already offers jobs like that too, just that it's through the prison system and the floor is much too low