• lockhart@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Interview: write an optimized o log something reverse binary linked list quick sort to extract a cake recipe out of an object with an array list of football teams by hand and explain it like it’s the only code you’ve been writing all your life

    Job: meetings that could have been e-mails

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      Interview: write an optimized o log something reverse binary linked list quick sort to extract a cake recipe out of an object with an array list of football teams by hand and explain it like it’s the only code you’ve been writing all your life

      No, because that’s bullshit.

  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    There are worse mistakes than accepting senior engineer: there’s management.
    I’ll give you my IWW card when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

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    I’ve been a senior engineer ever since I started my career.

    The title means nothing.

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      More like getting paid to multitask. In most meetings it’s fine to just say ‘Sorry, I was distracted. Could you repeat the question?’ We attend meetings because we are needed only 5% of the whole time, and working our own stories in the background is a norm.

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    This is precisely why I don’t actively seek promotions. Not only are there very few paths for someone to move up with my skill set, but if I do, I won’t be doing what I enjoy doing anymore. I just want to find the medium where I can make enough to live off of and also just do my work most of the time.