• Kissaki@programming.dev
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    7 天前

    One candidate we placed in the past told us they wanted $90k. We advised them not to say that number, because it’d get them filtered out. They ended up getting hired for close to 200.

    Crazy

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    It’d be nice if their experience shopping lists weren’t hilarious. No, I don’t have experience with every automation tool under the sun (or whatever). I’ve tried a few and worked extensively with them as they’re a tool to get the job done. I’m not running a tool review podcast, I’ve got shit to do. I’m sure I can learn to use whatever tool you’re using just fine but I’m not going to spend time trialling everything on the market just in case when that time could be used to get results with the tools I have. Holy run-on sentence, Batman.

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      19 天前

      Had that recently with job scheduling tools. They used two and I had a good amount of experience with one which is the one they use more but specific experience with the other was apparently vital. Again we are talking job scheduling tools and there was a laundry list of other technical requirements I met. I don’t think those who were hiring even understood the relative complexity of the technologies.

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        19 天前

        Ah, the thing you’re missing that the hiring people understand is that by learning one you are now unable to learn another. I assume that in situations where both are needed genetic engineering is involved.

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    17 天前

    That is (one of the) reason(s) why I don’t even consider job offers from a startup.

    I have no desire to work under a megalomaniac who thinks he runs Google when he actually has 2 employees.

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        Why bigot? If you agree that startups suck, why would that make me a bigot?

        Startups are ok if it’s your first job and you have no other choice or if you own them (or at least a significant share of it). In any other case it’s a ton of work in a volatile environment without any safeguards against abuse for very little pay.

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          8 天前

          The hate towards startups. With this attitude how is an honest innovator supposed to survive, when you lot are busy demonizing them.

          Notice I didn’t say anything about trash startups. Youtube & Canonical were startups too you know.

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            To be honest? I don’t care how an honest innovator is supposed to survive. It’s not my responsibility to risk my sanity and my financial stability for someone else’s dream.

            I spent long enough in a crappy startup. Not doing that again.

            Also, it’s not exactly fair to lump youtube in with the average startup that any random person will work in. Youtube was created by three super rich ex-Paypalers and within a year it was big enough to be sold for €1.3 billion. It was basically founded as a mega corporation, including everything that a huge corporation requires (structures, HR, good salaries and so on).

            Can’t find anything on canonical’s history.

            While Youtube was technically classified as a startup, it’s a far cry from the average 5 person startup that you’ll usually find when talking about startups.