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Re: Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?

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Post by twosdai » Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 6:43 PM UTC

piloto_ciego wrote: post #89

atum47 wrote: post #51

I was working for a big bank, facing moral harassment almost every day from a shitty manager. The thing with moral harassment is it don't happen out of nothing, it is gradual. The manager was testing the waters, every day making the insult a bit harder than the day before. One day he actually cursed me in a meeting with 14 other people and I decided I had enough. Reported him to HR and quit. After that I was working…

There was another post in this thread that basically said, “toughen up buttercup” that I can no longer find. While I agree that this is a dickish thing to say, I can’t help but somewhat agree with the sentiment that tech workers are perhaps a little bit better off than the average person and don’t have a lot of perspective here about how bad it can get. Not saying that it’s ok, rather that when you can easily find an…

I hear you, being able to leave a job and quickly find a new one is a great thing to have in this field, and it helps in having a great sense of job security.

The issue isn't that these jobs pay well and are great to work in so we should deal with any bs that flys. It's that people don't deserve to be harrassed, regardless of how "good" their work is.

If you make 2 million a year as an investment banker, you don't deserve to be unfairly humiliated at your job more than any part time fast food worker.

Re: Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?

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Post by azmodeus » Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 6:52 PM UTC

private-hr-meta wrote: post #76

I have the best job in my career and I was hired from responding to a who's hiring thread. wish I could give more details, but any single data point about the firm yields who it is. generally, the company was looking for a very unique form of talent driven by a certain attitude and experience. they developed tools for verifying and filtering for it. if you've read any william gibson novels the firm would fit right in…

Would love to hear more about these attributes and whether they are only used for software engineers or client facing roles as well

Re: Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?

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Post by hirvi74 » Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 7:12 PM UTC

gwbas1c wrote: post #57

peterldowns wrote: post #49

Me! When I was in highschool I started emailing companies from the whoishiring thread, managed to find an apprenticeship in SF. My thinking was that before I went to college to study computer science I should check to see if I liked writing code. Turns out I love writing code and don't care much for computer science. I've been a software engineer (NOT a computer scientist) ever since. Thank you to Mek, Stephen, and M…

> Turns out I love writing code and don't care much for computer science. I've been a software engineer (NOT a computer scientist) ever since. That was a piece of advice I wish I had when I was in high school. It wasn't until halfway though college that I understood the difference. It was abundantly obvious that the vast majority of CS students should have been in a "Software Engineering" program, too.

Why do you think such students should have been in SE instead? Because it aligns more with their goals?

Perhaps you are right, but I am thankful for my CS background despite being a SWE myself.

Understand that I am also close to the intelligence level of crayon-eating compared to most on this site. I felt like my unspectacular public state university level CS degree wouldn't even hold a candle to some of the people's education in this very thread like the one commenter who studied at MIT.

However, I still believe what I learned was extremely valuable. In fact, I am sadden by my level of understanding and I wish I knew more CS. Just because I do not apply pure CS every single day does not mean that my decisions are not influenced by what I learned. At worst, my knowledge has never been a hindrance.I refuse to believe that knowledge can ever be useless. Not applicable != useless.

Genuine question though, what would a software engineering program provide that a computer science student would struggle to understand?

Re: Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?

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Post by ownagefool » Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 7:26 PM UTC

I hired a couple who posted they're seeking employment, and interviewed a few more than that.

Re: Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?

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Post by devwastaken » Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 7:32 PM UTC

gwbas1c wrote: post #57

peterldowns wrote: post #49

Me! When I was in highschool I started emailing companies from the whoishiring thread, managed to find an apprenticeship in SF. My thinking was that before I went to college to study computer science I should check to see if I liked writing code. Turns out I love writing code and don't care much for computer science. I've been a software engineer (NOT a computer scientist) ever since. Thank you to Mek, Stephen, and M…

> Turns out I love writing code and don't care much for computer science. I've been a software engineer (NOT a computer scientist) ever since. That was a piece of advice I wish I had when I was in high school. It wasn't until halfway though college that I understood the difference. It was abundantly obvious that the vast majority of CS students should have been in a "Software Engineering" program, too.

SE programs are scams in the U.S. unfortunately. Comp sci is the only universally recognized and mostly standard degree. SE isn't even an option for many hiring/job app platforms like IBM.

Re: Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?

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Post by peterldowns » Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 7:37 PM UTC

rvrs wrote: post #68

peterldowns wrote: post #49

Me! When I was in highschool I started emailing companies from the whoishiring thread, managed to find an apprenticeship in SF. My thinking was that before I went to college to study computer science I should check to see if I liked writing code. Turns out I love writing code and don't care much for computer science. I've been a software engineer (NOT a computer scientist) ever since. Thank you to Mek, Stephen, and M…

Your website says you went to MIT to study computer science anyways...?

Yes, and I learned a lot there, including that I much prefer software engineering to computer science.

Re: Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?

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Post by pavel_lishin » Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 8:05 PM UTC

hirvi74 wrote: post #93

gwbas1c wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Turns out I love writing code and don't care much for computer science. I've been a software engineer (NOT a computer scientist) ever since. That was a piece of advice I wish I had when I was in high school. It wasn't until halfway though college that I understood the difference. It was abundantly obvious that the vast majority of CS students should have been in a "Software Engineering" program, too.

Why do you think such students should have been in SE instead? Because it aligns more with their goals? Perhaps you are right, but I am thankful for my CS background despite being a SWE myself. Understand that I am also close to the intelligence level of crayon-eating compared to most on this site. I felt like my unspectacular public state university level CS degree wouldn't even hold a candle to some of the people's…

I think you can have an SE track with the appropriate amount of CS background. You'd have to, to be a functional engineer. (Then again, some I've worked with...)

One reason I also wish I'd gone along an SE track is that it would likely have given me a lot more experience actually doing what I do for work. Using version control, working with others in a group setting, actually making software.

Re: Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?

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Post by laurencerowe » Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 8:21 PM UTC

pavel_lishin wrote: post #97

hirvi74 wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you think such students should have been in SE instead? Because it aligns more with their goals? Perhaps you are right, but I am thankful for my CS background despite being a SWE myself. Understand that I am also close to the intelligence level of crayon-eating compared to most on this site. I felt like my unspectacular public state university level CS degree wouldn't even hold a candle to some of the people's…

I think you can have an SE track with the appropriate amount of CS background. You'd have to, to be a functional engineer. (Then again, some I've worked with...) One reason I also wish I'd gone along an SE track is that it would likely have given me a lot more experience actually doing what I do for work. Using version control, working with others in a group setting, actually making software .

Having done a software engineering degree (albeit 25 years ago now) you should probably not expect it to be any more practical in that way. We had only a handful of extra mandatory modules over the CS requirements (I think on working on larger systems) but no extra practical programming.

Re: Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?

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Post by cchance » Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 8:32 PM UTC

atum47 wrote: post #51

I was working for a big bank, facing moral harassment almost every day from a shitty manager. The thing with moral harassment is it don't happen out of nothing, it is gradual. The manager was testing the waters, every day making the insult a bit harder than the day before. One day he actually cursed me in a meeting with 14 other people and I decided I had enough. Reported him to HR and quit. After that I was working…

Thats so great to hear, glad that you got out of that toxic environment.

Re: Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?

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Post by cchance » Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 8:36 PM UTC

gwbas1c wrote: post #57

peterldowns wrote: post #49

Me! When I was in highschool I started emailing companies from the whoishiring thread, managed to find an apprenticeship in SF. My thinking was that before I went to college to study computer science I should check to see if I liked writing code. Turns out I love writing code and don't care much for computer science. I've been a software engineer (NOT a computer scientist) ever since. Thank you to Mek, Stephen, and M…

> Turns out I love writing code and don't care much for computer science. I've been a software engineer (NOT a computer scientist) ever since. That was a piece of advice I wish I had when I was in high school. It wasn't until halfway though college that I understood the difference. It was abundantly obvious that the vast majority of CS students should have been in a "Software Engineering" program, too.

I didn't go to college, I got out of high school, took care of my mom and almost immediately worked for an ISP as customer service, worked my way up over 3 buyouts, and 20 years to be a sysadmin for the company that everyone depended on.

Sadly something I only recently allowed myself to understand is that I really don't have passion for networking, I absolutely love coding and creating new integrations, interfaces and backend, I did a lot of it to patch holes in the company i worked for and streamline my own and others work.

I'm a remote contractor for that same company now still doing the networking and some dev work for them but really want to get out and find a company that I can focus more on the DevOps side.