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Is it even possible to get a cute gf while being employed as a programmer, mathematician and other "nerd professions"? I mean, an actual gf, not a gold digger.
What do you even do? I assume you must have vision correction to get rid of glasses and gym so that you look like you do manual labor for a living.
But even then, she will find out your real job one day. What do you guys do?
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sirs, I need opnions on how to lie on my cv.
I have 8 yoe, work with java, spring, aws, kafka, kubernetes, oauth2, sql/nosql, know how to use splunk... the typical microservices/cloud env but not uber level of microservices. Never ever needed to use graphql or any advance concepts of nosql DBs. All the places i worked so far were mostly about secure integration of services and pod performance.
Now, im looking for a job and it seems all job listings are bloated and i cant properly guess what i need to learn next. I see java+golang , java+kotlin, java+node backend jobs. My last interview was asking for java, flask, nodejs, like wtf?
Im planning to spend the next 6mo learning a new tech. I dont know if golang or kotlin will make it easier to get a job.
Also do i need to learn bullshit like graphql, 2phase commit, aerospike db, grpc? I bet the retards asking for this shit think they are uber but receive like 10req/min on their apis.
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Is it even possible to get a junior level dev job in your 30s? I have almost 15 yoe but I've basically been junior level the entire time and I don't have the skills to get a senior level job with the insane hiring standards that exist today.
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>Finally get a job after 6 months of rejections
>It's a children's hospital, underfunded
>Spend the first day trying to build my work PC out of spare parts
>Fail because I can't find a working PSU
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>>108041989
unc is chopped hahahahaha
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>>108042459
What I mean is that I don't have the skills to compete with anyone that's at the senior level today. At some of my previous jobs my title technically was "senior" but that doesn't mean anything. The bar for web dev was way lower in the 2010s and I just don't have what it takes to be senior level today. The expectations are just insanely high now.
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>about me
>technical skills
>experience
>education
or
>about me
>experience
>technical skills
>education
I don't have a degree so education goes last
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>>108042628
I've spent probably 1000 hours working on personal projects in the past year and that hasn't made me any more qualified for the expectations of a senior level job in today's market. I don't even see what I can do on my own that would make me senior level, since most of the qualifications are things you can only learn by working in a large highly organized team at a big company, and most of my 15 yoe is working at small startups where I was usually the solo dev learning new things on the job. I wish I could just find a job like that again but they've all gone extinct. Nobody wants to just hire someone to just build something for them, unless it's for like $100.
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>>108042993
it's just a template and I got hired into a 250k job with it
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>>108043042
>250k job
Why do people come here and lie like this? Nobody except the top like 3% of software engineers are making anything close to 250k a year, and nobody who's in the top 3% is posting on 4chan of all places.
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>>108043140
in reality it's even more. really depends on the massive size of the bonus.
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You guys think it's worth a $20k pay increase to go from fully remote to fully in-person? I've been remote since I started working as a dev 6 years ago so I have no idea what working in an office is like but it seems like it sucks ass.
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>finally have creative hobby project that i'm excited to work on
>can't stop thinking about it all day, can't concentrate at work
>too tired in the evening to get anything serious done
>tiredness overshadows excitement
i feel like quitting right now
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I studied a bunch of difficult interview problems and then I got an easy one and I absolutely failed the crap out of it because I can't do interviews. they're not good. it's not fun to think like that or to think out loud or to do something in front of someone unless it's pissing and shitting
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>>108043317
honestly, start waking up at 5:00 a.m. and then have your coffee and work on your creative project with your best energy of the day. and then go to work. and then go to bed really early because you have a creative project you're working on.
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>>108042796
>most of my 15 yoe is working at small startups where I was usually the solo dev learning new things on the job
That's a good thing retard. Just spin it better.
>senior dev experienced with building teams and infrastructure from scratch in dynamic a startup environment
boom
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>go sit at McDonald's with my laptop in my spare time and browse /g/ like a burnout
I never thought my life would come to this... I guess I have 300k in the bank so that's nice... I might buy one of those 140cm dolls for a few g
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>>108043233
for $20k no not really
still, i personally don't mind the office since there are plenty of cuties and my coworkers are chill
2-3 days on-site is a good compromise, but fully on-site sounds awful unless you live right next to the office
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>>108043800
That's pretty much what I already say in my resume. I can't lie and say I've "built teams" though because I've only ever worked alone or alongside a designer. But it doesn't matter. I've applied to almost 400 jobs in the past 2 months with a total of 2 responses. Nobody wants to hire someone who's never worked in a large team of devs. Also, all but 1 of the 7 startups I've worked at no longer exists. I'm assuming when people look at my resume they think I'm making up these companies or something.
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>>108041739
your shit is fine as is, but dont put it on your resume unless you're prepared to talk about it in depth.
avoid golang, it's memetier. if you want to work with faggots, just do python
avoid kotlin unless you want to make android shit.
your main problem is likely your stack explanation on here isn't showing us anything particular that makes you more useful than an extra 2 hours per day of a sr dev + ai. you need to have something that is clearly useful in todays day to be taken seriously. bullshit crud apis are the past and a bare minimum not a "check out my cv!"
>>108041954
market yourself as a "code detective" that enjoys fixing bugs made by other developers. this translates to "im a little bitch who can't actually write new code" but reads as "oh this guy specializes in fixing bugs"
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How much of the supposedly horrible job market for SWE in the US at the moment is people not willing to move where the work is and not willing to take jobs that aren't 5 times the average salary of the area where they live?
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>>108044450
I set my search area on LinkedIn to anywhere in the US and apply to 30-40 jobs a day that I know I'm qualified for, regardless of what the pay is, and my response rate is under 0.5%. Even jobs in the middle of fucking nowhere that pay $40k a year get >100 applicants an hour after they're posted.
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i'm so fucking tired
idk how many more days i can do
please lay me off
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>had a job interview
>was just algorithm trivia nonsense
>got asked to prove graph coloring was NP
>i burned a PTO day for this
these chucklefucks want to hire a professor on an interns salary
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>>108044980
worked for me, they hired me right out of school and paid for the clearance, fuck there's a recent (little over a year ago) hire on my team whose degree is in math and had never done any programming before getting hired
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>>108045000
Someone in another thread said it costs $40k to get a security clearance. Why would any company pay that much money unless it's some top tier applicant from MIT or something. But then you wouldn't have trouble finding a job anywhere if that was the case.
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>>108043233
>You guys think it's worth a $20k pay increase to go from fully remote to fully in-person?
depends on your personality, but if the question is about money, try calculating cost vs benefit, and you'll quickly realize that the benefit is close to $0 or maybe even negative
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>>108044959
this, can confirm
>>108045000
this is also my experience
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>>108045045
That worked 5 years ago, it doesn't work now.
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Anon who was asking about getting an associates degree last thread.
Still thinking about it, but I took a look at the syllabi for the courses.
Any course that's a specific programming language seems very surface level and like it covers the same concepts but for different languages. Variables, pointers, recursion, objects/classes, functions, loops, objects and classes, except like it's multiple different courses to cover that in C, C##, Java, Python, and probably Javascript too. There is some stuff on like PowerBI, SQL, Data Structures, and PHP, but idek bros.
Rn here is what I know.
>have English degree
>think being a writer is too unrealistic of a goal/career
>currently work IT help desk
>have dabbled with scripting before and enjoyed it
>considering associates degree in "application development"
>looking at course info and local jobs
>realizing this probably wouldn't be enough to get a job
shieeeet
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bros...
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>>108045994
i will repeat what i told you last time:
1. associate's degrees are a meme. get a bachelor's or don't bother
2. tech degrees that aren't explicitly titled "computer science/electrical engineering/computer engineering" are a meme. yes, this includes infosys and ESPECIALLY cyber security (worst offender)
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>>108046016
2026 Truth nuke:
Nobody cares about the "meme"/"non-meme" division for hiring.
Associate are ok, but in twg people are elitists who want to be top-notch code nonkeys in sf. For helldesker these are enough.
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>>108046016
yeah...
really starting to regret my bachelor's in English lmao....
Don't know how much I agree on the second point.
I think some IT classes could help in getting a like junior sysadmin position or something. This is the "cybersecurity" degree at the school I'm thinking of. I don't think you could get a full of cybersecurity $100k/yr job like is pushed by seemingly everyone, but I do think learning Unix and AD would help in a sysadmin job.
I will say cybersecurity is the biggest meme of all. Schools and youtubers and seemingly everyone pushes "learn cybersecurity in 6 months and get this $100k/year job!!!" I did a cybersecurity bootcamp and am no where near qualified to get a cybersec job. Maybe, MAYBE as a NOC analyst, but even then, I kind of doubt it.
Idk, I'm a bit of a tard who fell for the "follow your dreams!" thing in college, then fell for the "cybersecurity!!!' after college. Worried another degree will be more of falling for it again.
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I feel like an associates will be a piece of paper to make my resume look nice, but what will really get a job is like two or three really cool webdev projects.
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>>108046108
Same, maybe because there’s no ownership at my current job. There’s no clarity about what I should or shouldn’t do, but I always need to be “prepared.” I kinda wonder if they’re going to kick me out, because what I’m doing right now feels pointless
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>company falling to bits
>only intermediate engineer
>have to jump ship like a rat
>skill issues and can’t because I fucking suck
>stuck in rock and hard place
>career grinding to a halt
>interview
>ai slop startup wanting a lead
>they just think that ai is magic and can do everything. lots of ideas
>already know that this shit will be irrelevant in a year
What do I do in this case? Every other job I look at just looks utterly fucking pointless. I don’t know if I’ve just become jaded or if something changed with humanity. Why everything people are creating with computers seem completely useless?
It seems like suicide not to take this job but I also have feelings of apprehension.
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>>108041659
Get contacts no matter what, I was naive about vision correction and glasses ended my bloodline. I didn't understand what a massive neg it was. No you will not look like the cool model guy in the glasses advertisement. Glasses make you look like a lesbian.
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>talk shit with the guys/male grads all day and have a giggle
>be absolute polite and professional around women/jews/management/hr, never joke around them. Always keep a certain distance from them.
anyone else? can't trust them.
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>>108043233
The extremes are usually to be avoided. Full remote makes you retarded and weird, full on site is raping your time because of the commute. 2-3 Days on site is ideal, especially if you have cutie / fun coworkers and some benefits (good coffee machine, free snacks / drinks...)
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>>108047666
Any guys from bluecollar or engineering background, ex-army or just an old guy, I relax a little bit around until they've shown me their cards. If they're consultants/full time professional services, have those gay accents/inflections, I am on my guard. I can feel my internal gut scream to give them only necessary information.
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>>108046088
You already have a bachelors degree, I would just try to worm your way into a job that's halfway between helpdesk and development, something like a business intelligence/data guy or maybe professional services, implementation/customization engineer, etc. Spin your helpdesk position as one where you were highly technical and doing some of those responsibilities already
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>>108047663
can confirm
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>>108048223
Not him, but I came from an engineering background + 2 years unemployment and doing exactly that right now. Helping customers set up interfaces between our system and external systems, helping them manage their data better, answering menial questions, because they can't pay attention for 5 minutes during a training, etc. I have no idea why they chose a mechanical engineer, either, guess small companies are really struggling for people. I don't understand half the shit all the devs are talking about. I can't code a single long of anything. Only the pay is shit now after a couple years, after everything became expensive.
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I hate my current job. There's nothing to do and everyone is just pretending to act busy so they avoid suspicion. This happened after a merge with a bigger company and it completely ruined my role and expectations. I'm trying to so hard to find something else; it's reached a point where I'm actively avoiding 1:1s with my manage because I have nothing to show them. At this point I would rather be fired than continue with this bullshit, I just hope I can find another job first before they catch on and I start having a gap in my cv
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>>108047689
Same. Gen Xer here, when they start talking in that millennial/zoomer homosexual accent, alarm bells go off and I am not friendly with those types at all.
I don't know what it is but I'm sure you guys know what I'm talking about. That financial guy on youtube Caleb Hammer is a good example of it. They aren't actually gay but it's some kind of generational thing where they all talk like faggots now, I don't know when/how it started but I strictly avoid those people.
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>>108047663
yes.
i feel the day coming where i'll lose this wfh job and i'll have to settle for an onsite. the idea of commuting every day and being in an office around other people is nearly as big of a lifestyle change as starting work after neetdom.
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I got my walking cane ready
I got my watch and chain
A long time ago, you left me in the rain
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>>108041456
hello guys.
i got a bachelors degree and ccna,
i worked in a graduate position for half a year and quit because they "trained" me for one month instead of the promised 4. It was a month of watching corporate culture videos, and then they threw me in the deep end.
every other graduate got 3-4 months training. took a year to decompress and then couldn't get back into the industry afterwards.
this was 3 years ago wtf do i do now.
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>>108049251
Thanks for the advice guy, but getting a McDonalds jobs are actually competitive here. (not america)
As funny as that may sound. I actually have no idea what to do.
Maybe I can hit the gym and get a night shift labor job or something.
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>hey channel, permission A.Y works but permission A.X doesn't appear to work
>let me see... no permission A.X
>don't have it, or it doesn't work?
>silence
I hate when this dude responds to me questions. Everyone else is more engaging and helpful, and it's always feels like I'm pulling teeth with a passive aggressive homo
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>ffw 3 weeks
>in a call with him sharing his screen every day for two of those three weeks
>it werks
>start giving him more freedom
>goes back to doing fuckall when I'm not literally watching over his shoulder
>now he doesn't even pretend to work, two days in a row he didn't even log in until I called him out
this shit sucks, ken blanchard was a hack, micromanaging is the only viable leadership strategy
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>>108049603
I'm not his boss, I'm his senior, the only thing I can do is talk to our management about his performance which I was trying to avoid because I thought it would reflect badly on me but I now realize that was retarded on my part
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>juggling four things in parallel
>authentication app crapped out again when I need access to that account
>two assholes on teams wont
>stop
>pinging
>me
>like
>this
>with
>pointless questions
>go do not disturb
>they call me to deliver their pointless questions in voice chat
SHUT
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UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP
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>>108049714
not trying to kick you while you're down, but for future reference, letting someone walk all over you, distract you from getting your actual work done, and fuck off all day reflects far worse on you than having a brief chat with your manager about how he's literally fucking off and refusing to work. you don't even need to make a big deal of it. just a "hey, as a heads up. the intern refuses to work. i'm holding his hand while i hover over his shoulder and 'help' him do stuff, and that seems to somewhat work, but it's unlikely he'll actually work on his own. let me know if you want me to change direction with this". then it's no longer your problem
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>>108049892
The intern could be the bosses nephew or diversity quota. A lot of times useless people are protected and you have to delicately dance around the fact that they don't do their job without looking like you're throwing them under the bus and without getting blocked yourself.
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It's fine. I'll just go to grad school and get my masters. The market will heal in 2 years and I'll be able to jump ship to FAANG making 300k+ tc
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>>108049944
Lol
LMAO
Our glownigs recently got in the news because a paki diversity hire, who was the son of a local councillor, got caught not only stealing secret docs but also had cp on his laptop - his work laptop
Government work here is reknown for neppo babies.
>>108049931
We had one of those, nephew of a director
Basically didn't do anything as far as we knew, so jokes around the office were that he was basically there as a fluffer for his manager.
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>>108050761
they are either trying to signal that they pay for the latest fad tools or they are trying to signal that they expect you to shit out things with an LLM far faster than anyone could review it because lines of code is back to being a metric people like to wave around again for some reason. It would be a red flag to me and I would press them on it, but I am a dev. For devops it's not likely to matter as much.
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>>108047663
Don't fall for this middle manager's bullshit. Full time remote has zero downsides. That's why managers want to kill it so they can make their subordinates suffer.
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gay little pings and abbreviations like yt are ok to ignore, but how do we feel about slop? Not LLM slop, but misspelled words, then not than, missing the and a and other random words, no punctuation, out of context ideas, and O instead of oh?
To think this guy is a senior manager... just how.
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>>108051144
I'd rather communicate with sloppy typists than anyone who lets an LLM do any writing or editing for them at all. I have had to wrangle retards who send LLM output full of hallucinations straight to clients that I am trying to help with issues. It is an absolute nightmare and far worse than people using AOL tier messaging styles in what should be professional communications.
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>>108051177
>but you can read the LLM output and make sense of it
no you can't. When someone leans so heavily on an LLM to produce something you have to question if they even understand the stuff in that content that is accidentally correct. To give a more concrete example of the shit I am dealing with I was recently having to help a few IT guys (indians, so language barrier is already a factor) at a client deal with an issue that was technically their networking problem but it was mainly affecting the thing we sold them so I was spending time to help them. Someone else on our end of the email chain took some internal notes I was writing about the issue as I researched it and used it to reply to them with a 5 paragraph email full of shit that didn't matter and shit that was wrong. My actual reply with the fix for their issue was a 3 sentence recommendation on some configuration to change that they were able to do within 30 minutes. The LLM nonsense was negative value communication.
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> screen share
> give solution
> colleague rerolls an llm repeatedly
> output keeps failing
> a few min pass
> i'll get back to you
> sure
could i have helped, maybe, but it was like looking at lemming fumble around while thinking they can't be that helpless
llms are gatcha for work with all the superstitions and addiction loop except you don't get a big payout only that you get to finish your work
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>>108051810
>not interested in a job where you have to work during the time you are paid
Now we've hit upon the root issue. You watched too many "day in the life of a girl who sleeps with her tech boss" videos and thought that's how things should be for every job
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>work remote in NA (leaf) for euro org
>boss put in his two weeks at start of Jan
>since then poojeeta PM and poojeeta dev (both in UK) longhouse the entire team
>stand ups go for 45 mins
>I just drop after 15 now and they don’t even notice as they cackle like hens about nothing
>tag me in random bullshit, do this don’t merge that though, be proactive be not too proactive
Today was the final straw though
>poojeeta dev @ me, sends reply to channel tags poo pm with red alert emoji
>ANON Please do not push fixes to PRs you are reviewing they are for me to implement as the implementer
>i fixed her logic for an edge case and added a single unit test
Can women just go back to child rearing? They treat every piece of work they have as a replacement for the child they chose not to have.
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>>108052075
I don't know why women love meetings so much. My old manager barely even sent me teams messages and now I have daily meetings for hours and hours. Every day we lie about what we did and every week we make excuses for why those lies didn't actually happen. I hate this performative bullshit.
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Any tips for a cybersecurity job interview?
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>>108052113
Wear a trenchcoat, fedora, and dark sunglasses
>>108052128
Beer and fags are taxed out the arse
Drugs are expensive and fund blacks and browns
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Today has been a good day. I didnt really do anything. I spent the day smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee and eating other peoples food from the break room. Sometimes life is easy.
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>>108051144
>To think this guy is a senior manager... just how
Managers use typos and random abbreviations to dab on you. They have the write :) to speak to you however they want, but you damn well better be professional back. Pussy
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>>108052410
no I don't think I will lol
when the jeets you hired over me fail to keep your company afloat and your stock tanks, I'll ask you for $400 an hour to fix their garbage
>NOOOO U CAN'T DO THAT NOOO
then I'll keep neeting lmao. good luck with the jeets (and chinks stealing your IP and sending it to china)
the neets shall inherit the earth
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I am resigning at some point this week and am not sure how to. Previous jobs where I quit it was always conveniently timed with something ending to where offboarding was simple, but I'm currently in the middle of a massive project that no other devs could take from me. The company I'm quitting is a dysfunctional circus (the ceo and cto are off vibe coding a completely different app from the one we actually sell) so I don't really care too much that the work gets abandoned, but I'm afraid that some poor guy on my soon to be former team is going to get saddled with it when it would be better for them to just abandon it.
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>>108053162
it ultimately isn't but the guy I think will get it is a decent dev and a good person but is not familiar with the area the project is in at all (I handle all infra/deployment shit on top of feature work and the project is related to the former exclusively). I have issues with some of the other people there but not him. He is significantly less experienced than me and I would feel bad if my leaving made his job suck when he may have more trouble finding new work than me.
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>apply at a modern company
attach resume, autofills info, hit submit.
1 minute.
>apply at a public institution, state government or municipality
attach resume, fill out 2x supplemental questionaires containing long form questions with overlapping answers, manually fill in experience and education and references and everything else that's already in the resume, can't do some of it because some of the required fields won't have values, answer questions again.
2 hours.
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i hate this job so fucking much
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>8 years ago
>had free reign over the system to make any kind of changes I need to
>now, after a corporate buyout
>make one tiny change to patch something
>have an entire army of overseas jeet admins breathing down my neck interrogating me
didn't know how good i had it
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My retarded fucking country forces me to pay for a entrepreneur's pension insurance. As if I will ever care about my pension I'll get after 50 years or so. This is so fucking retarded, I'm forced to pay for the pensions of current boomers. Fuck this fucking shit like what the fuck is this shit? I tried, I fucking tried but now I'll waste 10 000€ on fucking useless pension insurance. And they said I should become a private contractor. This country takes everything from you, I already pay my taxes and now this, what next?
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>>108053503
>mfw I'm one these faggots bullying app/sys managers
Test your shit nigga
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Somehow I landed an interview for a game dev position despite having no experience with game programming or engines and didn't imply any in my CV. My previous position was at a large company mostly doing internal-facing web dev and microservices. Should I try and bullshit or be upfront that I don't know anything about game dev?
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I am about to get the boot soon due to negligence.
>fucked up a Jira ticket that could potentially cost additional hours for the entire team to fix up
>management begrudgingly agreed to go through with the decision despite the cost of fixing the mistake outweighing the benefits
I was only 3 months into my role as a fresh college graduate. This slipped past my senior who reviewed my work due to outdated documentations (this was admitted by the other team).
The other senior who pushed hard for this seems to have it out against me. I'm not sure the company has enough grounds to get me fired. The blame has been shifted on me instead of the senior who reviewed my work.
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Don't bullshit. Any competent interviewers will see through it instantly. Just show your skills and your willingness to learn something new. Getting into gamedev for an experienced engineer isn't actually that hard, as long as you can show that you're actually willing to stick around and not just do it for a year or something.
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>>108053846
Is SWE in the USA really this ride or die or is this just a new grad having a meltdown?
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>>108054126
That seems a little black and white. You’re going to make mistakes as a new grad. Speaks volumes more about how you react to mistakes than making one at that stage IMO. Already being in cover your ass mode that early doesn’t seem good lol
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>>108054162
if a new grad is being given significant enough work that if will take effort from the entire team to fix then it's not soma random intern ticket, they're treating you as a proper dev
I have never made such a mistake and I've been working for 4 years
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>put an nvidia p40 in the home-lab setup i deployed for the sole purpose of testing a production stack with internal MCP tool functioning
if they ask i'm going to say that this will help me optimize mcp tools so they spend less on tokens since apparently they only pay for services and dont own much [or at least dont own 'most' of what they deploy], like for VMs and AI calling
and yeah, using the p40 helps i think, it made me fully aware that things need further optimized because im new to this. As a chat-bot, it works, as an agent that is supposed to use 10+ recursive tool calls before responding to a user; it doesnt quite fit the demands.
First i tried ollama, and it didnt meet my requirements. Then vllm but i couldnt get my docker image to support it. Now im on llama.cpp which seems to be the better option. Have any of you tried intensive recursive tool calling locally? My MCP is also probably a massive detriment and i need to completely re-write it (and the prompt) to reduce tokens used
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>>108046088
This anon again.
So /g/entlemen, what do you think is a good qualifier for "this person can handle a web dev job"/"I would hire this person for a web dev job" ?
Trying to get some ideas for research/projects or just ideas on how to break into web dev (I know that's a faggy meme thing to say)
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Today I met with my manager in his office and he smelled like ass
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Thoughts on just skipping the job post queue and reaching out to CTO/CEO on LinkedIn for smallish companies? I feel like this is mostly interpreted as high agency and it’s getting me interviews
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Should I apply for a dev job with a well known defense contractor, or will that blackball me from Big Tech since I'll be assumed to be a retard for having ever worked there? It doesn't seem to be a contract for anything people respect like aerospace. The nice thing is that it's a significant pay bump, and it gets me out of a location I've come to hate.
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>>108055117
Where I work, I've only ever seen White employees do this
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>>108052113
Explain what happens when you connect to google.com and learn what dns tunneling and log poisoning are. Be able to explain what a SIEM is. These questions came up a lot. Do a live demo of a personal project.
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>>108054108
>how does /twg/ deal with burn out?
asian boypussy
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>>108055257
wish that was me
why cant i just be a cute japanese girl wearing cute clothes and cook and sew and snooze all day
no i wont be a tranny i am an ugly man
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>>108055274
Yeah but then youd be forced to fuck me for 50 bucks an hour. God I cant wait to go back in May. Last time I saw Nanako a few months ago I was unemployed and he gave me a big GOOD RUCK and raised his fist up when I left. Now I have a comfy wfh job.
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>>108055274
Wear kigu and you can be the cute feminine male
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>>108055816
Unironically considering adding this to my resume
I have 1/4 of a page empty, why not
>increasing shareholder value
>dreaming in code
>modded minecraft
>studying documentation
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>be sysadmin and only it person
>paid around avg sys admin range here
>trying to teach myself intune and implementing at same time, migrate our email off Gmail, fix the fucked up network I inherited, add door controls, upgrade to ipcams, and also improve our in house app
>Boss thinks access has been "discontinued and no longer being developed" so dump a fuck ton of money into developing an app that could've been just hosted in azure instead of paying for the same shit but in Indian flavor
Fuck it, they can pay me for some certs and equipment and then I'm bailing the fuck out.
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by that point, why don't you just leave your job and find something more bearable?
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>get bored with current job
>some roastie recruiter begs me to have an interview
>first interview is a phone call with team leader
>thought we would just talk about my background and what not
>suddenly starts asking questions about Python
>who the fuck asks technical questions over a phone call
>decorators, generators, iterators, how are they implemented with dunders
>completely forgot these details because I deal with them once a year maybe
>get rejected
Kek nice wakeup call I guess.
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>>108056480
because I have job security and can't imagine Just Another Software Engineering Job to be "more bearable", especially with the flexibility and "unlimited" PTO that I have
the issue I have is how demanding it feels and how they keep tracking our performance like we're robots
I don't even care anymore about the promotion they've been dangling in front of my face for a fucking year, it's obviously not going to happen and although I don't make much it's enough I guess
I'm just a whiny bitch and I just enjoy weed and the occasional whiskey
I'm on another one of those periods of sobriety since last week to "clear the fog" and simply not appreciating it
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>>108052128
Depends on the substance, I've been an on and off stoner for several years (since before my first tech job) and the worst part has just been a little complacency-induced guilt which is not that bad, considering
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>>108057413
>how does it work in reality?
peer pressure to not be the one guy who takes more than others
i.e. it results in people taking less because there's always some tryhard who doesn't take pto.
i'm just guessing though, haven't been in one
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>>108056815
>can't imagine Just Another Software Engineering Job to be "more bearable"
>how demanding it feels and how they keep tracking our performance like we're robots
>flexibility and "unlimited" PTO
LOL, LMAO even. you can't imagine because you are burnt out and your brain is in the process of being fried.
take a month-long vacation and see if that flexibility and unlimited PTO are real / worth anything.
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you'll hear a lot of may mays about it but as for the ACTUAL IMPLEMENTATION it's usually that you're allowed to make your banked vacation day count go negative and just have to make up for it later, or it's normal vacation days but their use is more easy than normal and it's more "unrestricted pto" than "unlimited pto"
in very Very VERY rare cases it actually is just "ask your manager when you can just like not come in but there is no upper limit on vacation/sick days per year" but that is super rare
but usually not because hr roasties need to have their hands in everything so as soon as that kind of thing starts to get tracked by some oracle shitware instead of by your manager using a spreadsheet, now it works like the "your days can just go negative lol", and before long it just becomes "you have a defacto count of days so lets just make it a facto count of days but not have as many rules on taking them"
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I'm on a meeting that could have been a docx, it's been one fucking hour, my salary is barely subsistence tier, my boss is a fucking retard, and most important of all, I'm fucking stupid. I'm tired and depressed, bros, sorry for blogposting, but I'm a friendless loser with no one to talk.
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>>108059210
it's okay man we're all in the same boat. sometimes turning your brain off helps. sometimes it doesn't. every deliverable i hand in comes back with like 20x more work and it's just like holy fuck none of this shit matters...
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>>108057413
I simply request time off whenever I want for however (reasonably) long I want and she approves it
I just tell them "I'm not feeling well and need to rest" whenever I want
it's pretty nice and is probably the main reason why I'm still at this company
>>108058137
when I have weed I use it a lot for months, I hit a vape cartridge a few times every 2 hours or so, and if I'm smoking that's twice a day (1g joint)
for the past 5 years I did sober october and some other 2-4 week breaks throughout the year but decided this past october fuck it, I'm done doing that and can decide whenever else to take breaks
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you're right that I'm burnt out and I recently took a 3-week international vacation but came back to the same old bullshit, so yeah it didn't help in that regard
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>>108059355
my boss does the same, just ignore it. i do and i've been here for longer than i thought i would have. for somethings i just go autopilot, i'm probably moody as hell working in the office but i have the most happy default responses people think im a nice guy lmao
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but I like programming
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>>108058128
it works like that in companies with set pto limits too. also if its a multinational, expect major seething from americans whenever the europeans take any vacation whatsoever. my last company had limited pto days and i cooked the books to take almost double weeks off lmao.
pic related
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Who /slacker/ here?
I had a three weeks vacation on christmas where I did pretty much nothing but sleep 9-10h a day, read, play video games, and go for a walk in nature and I have felt really good since then.
I'm not looking for a better paying job anymore, instead I'm just slacking off. I wake up and watch 90s anime, work for a couple of hours, then workout on the clock, do house chores, so when the clock strikes 17:00 I have no obligations.
And since I'm in a better mood people are happier with me at work.
I've seen the light.
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>>108059627
sorta here, it's ruined by my weekly 1:1s or weekly team meetings where my boss promises big initiative. but not really pushing or passing the buck on any of them. so it's this whole kinda "well......are we going to do any work on this or not?"
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>>108059344
learn about secure coding, move to security, either to the offensive side (as an "web API security specialist"), or to the defensive side (secure coding, specialized in web APIs)
>>108059302
>you're right that I'm burnt out and I recently took a 3-week international vacation but came back to the same old bullshit, so yeah it didn't help in that regard
how many hours do you work in a week on average?
maybe you should try getting another job then? have you tried talking to ex-coworkers
>>108059355
I feel like the constant "tech company is firing workers" news is a campaign to make us feel bad about taking time off instead of enslaving ourselves for big corporations.
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>>108042003
Donations are tax deductable and value of same can be within reason whatever is on the receipt. That's how community colleges get equipment to tear down for their mechatronics, welding etc classes then after its expended they legally scrap it for cash. You can also donate stuff to them you don't need. It's pretty cool. The non-profit can let you carry off free shit they get in return for a smol cash donation. Look into it by getting with your local CC's trade instructors like welding as they would know the process.
Your local ewaste resellers have plenty of computers and related they'd like to write off as donations. You could end up with shitloads of quite decent hardware.
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>>108059355
I called off sick last Tuesday because I was insanely hung over, but now I've actually been ill as fuck today but couldn't call in sick because it would look suspicious. You win some you lose some. That was a great Monday night
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>>108059627
I need to be like you. I somehow lucked into a comfy job where I never really have to do anything. It just makes me depressed though, so I start doing things but then I get bitched at by the (non-technical) product owner.
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>>108060090
If you start doing this the most important thing is not to draw heat towards you.
Keep everyone happy and be polite. If anyone dislikes you he will eventually find a way to fuck you over, most likely talking shit about you to management, which could mean them taking a closer look at your performance.
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>>108059696
half my DoD coworkers were like that
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>start new job
>grind through all the HR/knowbe4 videos in a day
>one of them is a crazy long 1.5 hour sex harassment vid as usual
>today for whatever reason they loaded 4 more sex harassment videos onto my account
HR is deranged. Are we sure this isn't projection?
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>>108059677
I work 40 hours a week and fuck around most days, showing up late, taking long breaks, and ending the day when I feel like I did enough (usually 5:30-6:30)
I should try getting another job and do plan on it but like I said, I doubt it will change how much I dislike corpo
and yes I have freelanced before and it's not easier
not sure what talking to ex-coworkers would do... but I will be talking to another therapist next week, hoping that does something for me this time
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>total compensation will be 10% lower this year
>responsibilities up
>oWnERShiP!
>still want me to do gay shit like business trips
I'm quite demoralized, only upside is I defied RTO and I'm still making a decent salary.
Idk if I should try to find another job or try my hand at some AI content stuff or other entrepreneurial ventures.
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Anon's, does this get any better if you go past support? I was a Technical Support Engineer for some software company. Thankfully, it dealt with a lot of DevOp's technologies so a transition would be "easy". But this shit burned me out pretty hard that I don't have much hope.
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wait i got a promotion and i still feel like i have no drive to do anything i thought money solves everything
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>>108060699
yeah I meant to say two .5g joints but it is a lot
what am I supposed to do, somehow prevent myself from using weed during the day, and only use it at night? I might as well not use it at all
we'll see how long this current break lasts
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>>108060617
oh, so you are lazy and hate your job. I'm the same
maybe a job change would really help. try working for a startup, a smaller company or something like that.
also, for how long have you been working at your current place?
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>>108061231
it's not necessarily that I'm lazy because I do have a decently strong work ethic, do what I'm supposed to (never more), and hit all of my performance metrics
I'm just burnt out
I've been with this company for a few years
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>>108061312
well, I guess I'll share my store. I've worked for about 5 years at my current corporate job. what burned me out wasn't the work itself (though my load has actually increased over time), but the fact that these retards have been firing coworkers that I would never thought they would fire, and while my current coworkers aren't bad (though they are much younger), in other areas they've been hiring a bunch of absolute retards to replace the people they fired since a couple of years ago.
they also fired people while I was in the process of finding a house to buy. all of this left me very fucking stressed and tired, and a bad taste in the mouth. like, there is no reasoning behind most of the firing except the excuse of "going through bad times" (which is bs, like all the other internal politics bs that goes on), which is why I'm looking for a job with more "predictable", or at least less traitorious management. I know it sounds retarded (one shouldn't expect "loyalty" from capitalists and their drones), but psychologically, a change would help me, I think
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>>108047563
this has to be bait but no thanks I will just continue living in cheap places chasing latinas or in properties i own instead of commuting to your overpriced nigger infested shithole city and getting taxed more
>>108049815
same, I can't take this shit any more. Every fucking morning I wake up to 5 jeets saaaring me/ This job was so comfy a year and a half ago where i didn't do shit and would just walk around mexico city but it blew up with business. Is there any place not infected by jeets at this point?
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Any tips on documenting things better?
I've been telling my boss stuff and he understands it but then next week he has a completely different understanding of the thing and I'm just like..... did you not read my notes?
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>>108061420
>work at nice comapny
>new investor sends in the MBA's
>everything turns to shit
>MBA's panic and do even more MBA shit
>everything turns to shit covered in vomit
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kek
>>108061727
thanks anon