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Reply #1295 on: February 01, 2014, 06:44:42 PM

I had to get a pre-hire screening for the public library.

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Reply #1296 on: February 01, 2014, 07:31:11 PM

Although it may not have been the smartest thing to do in today's job climate, this month I left the army after 12 years, and am doing something I should have done ages ago; going to university. Chemistry here I come!!!

Also, I am going to assume that music is the same as the last time I was in school. The Limp Bizkits are still popular, right?

There have been at least a few service guys in just about every class I've been in.  The perks that you guys get for going to school (as well as internships) make me batshit jealous.  Good for you for taking advantage.  Couple tips, remember that ACE credits are typically accepted at University if you're military.  This means most gen. ed. online classes will count towards your degree.

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Reply #1297 on: February 02, 2014, 09:48:06 AM

Any ASP.Net C# folks looking for a job in the Austin area?
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Reply #1298 on: February 02, 2014, 10:56:23 AM

Is that a person that exists? I don't even know.

I'm still looking for the Right Job.
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Reply #1299 on: February 02, 2014, 11:45:36 AM

Is that a person that exists? I don't even know.

I'm still looking for the Right Job.

Yes that is a person that exists but I really have to question a persons intelligence and/or sanity if their life choices led them to specialize in that particular nich.  I tried a full court press to get them to switch to PHP but they are not willing to admit defeat at this time, I was however given the nod to continue the good fight.

edit - It is really tough to convince your coworkers that they should switch platforms when Asp.Net developers make on average 15% more than php developers.  Of course the php average is being heavily influenced by the mom and pop 5 page brochure website types, where the C# Asp.Net guys are almost entirely enterprise devs now.
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Reply #1300 on: February 02, 2014, 03:36:28 PM

I know one of those guys, but he went immediately from his doctorate in computer science (C#/ASP.NET focus) into being a ghost hunter.

So.
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Reply #1301 on: February 02, 2014, 10:33:12 PM

As far as I can tell the only advantage is that it is pretty much impossible to hide your secret sauce (or bad code) when you use a scripting language and this is the true reason enterprise software providers insist on using Java and C# for web projects.
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Reply #1302 on: February 02, 2014, 10:36:51 PM

wat?

Byte code decompilers will trivially reveal the all the secret sauce of programs written in byte code languages including Java and C#.
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Reply #1303 on: February 03, 2014, 01:18:21 AM

wat?
Byte code decompilers will trivially reveal the all the secret sauce of programs written in byte code languages including Java and C#.

I honestly don't think they think that way.
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Reply #1304 on: February 03, 2014, 01:18:42 AM

I know one of those guys, but he went immediately from his doctorate in computer science (C#/ASP.NET focus) into being a ghost hunter.

So.

Good ole Egon.

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Reply #1305 on: February 12, 2014, 09:40:19 AM

Layoffs coming.  Again.  Ohhhhh, I see.

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Reply #1306 on: February 12, 2014, 10:11:53 AM

Duck, motherfucker.  cry

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Reply #1307 on: February 12, 2014, 10:14:13 AM

"Hey, you've got a great skillset, do good work here, and you'd be really good in another area.  But we're lazy, so we're just going to fire the lot of you."  Pretty sure that's how it's going to go down.  Maybe with a side order of "hey, we're going to have this group of Chinese guys come in, mind telling them how to do your job?"

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I actually expect to survive this, but anything is possible.  The cuts preceding this across other geos does not indicate that they are killing our area.. yet.  But the threat of moving everything to China is still very much there.
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Reply #1308 on: February 12, 2014, 11:27:59 AM

The management of the ratio of onshore to offshore resources is a high priority for IT businesses.

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Reply #1309 on: February 13, 2014, 12:35:38 PM

Maybe with a side order of "hey, we're going to have this group of Chinese guys come in, mind telling them how to do your job?"

That is nicer than, hey we are going to lay everyone off, if you want severance you need to go to China for 3 months first and train your replacement.
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Reply #1310 on: February 13, 2014, 06:45:33 PM

You could always move to China and be "that American white guy" that the company can use to claim your product is American.

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Reply #1311 on: February 14, 2014, 08:02:43 AM

What if you're an American Asian?

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Reply #1312 on: February 27, 2014, 09:40:44 AM

Survived.  Again.   Team is going to be smaller, however.

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Reply #1313 on: February 27, 2014, 09:41:17 AM

Survived.  Again.   Team is going to be smaller, however.

Great news.  Hang in there.

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Reply #1314 on: February 27, 2014, 09:59:34 AM

Congrats on surviving, Rasix.

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Reply #1315 on: March 25, 2014, 05:53:17 PM

So, since my last post in this thread quite a few wtf worthy things have happened, including me having to fight the company lawyer off from trying to dock one of my team member's pay when they resigned (long story I don't feel like going into on a public forum).  Luckily I was successful and he got everything that was owed to him.  That pretty much pushed me over the edge.

Fast forward to today, I have two job offers with startups here (several other interviews in progress but going to decline them).  I took the more established and fully funded one which looks like a very very good opportunity, with a really good set of fellow software developers from meeting them (with a very silicon valley type of culture).  It's going to be really fun working with engineers that are smarter than me and the software I'll be working on will give me a lot of very interesting problems to solve.  Also, the pay raise (both direct and indirect via benefits and travel) is quite nice as well.

Called the CTO (my boss) to give notice.  I feel bad for the two team members I had remaining since with me gone they no longer have a manager in our office and might cut their losses and rebuild at the home office, but I've given them pretty strong hints that they should be looking for a new job for a while (even before I was).  It looks like they will get a good deal and not kicked to the curb so that's good.  I know they have been looking, no idea how seriously though.

With the job move I'm no longer going down the manager route I was going and I'm back to straight on engineer, and I'm not really sad.  If my current company was a good environment I had a very good shot at getting mentored and working my way up to director then in the long run CTO, but not worth it with the rest of the drama going on.    Also, I enjoyed the managing of tech much more than people anyways, and I'm not sure how I'd like to manage a group of developers that I don't trust or don't trust me anyway.
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Reply #1316 on: March 26, 2014, 07:33:06 AM

Sounds like you've made a good choice for the future, KallDrexx.  Sometimes, you just have to cut your losses and move on to something better.

The husband had a good job interview yesterday for a bank close by home.  He found out about the position from a friend/former co-worker who is currently working at this bank.  She's given her notice (medical reasons) but is still there to give him a good word.  Applied on Thursday, had a phone interview on Monday morning, did the personality assessments that afternoon and had an in-person yesterday afternoon.  They're moving quick but still gave him the standard boilerplate "we still have some other interviews to conduct, so don't be surprised if this takes a few weeks, blahblahblah."  Still, he's optimistic.

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Reply #1317 on: April 02, 2014, 03:43:57 PM

Very obscure question, but has anyone had any experience with someone moving from HR Systems to another field?
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Reply #1318 on: April 03, 2014, 12:04:38 AM

Meant to post this earlier, but got distracted.  Applications for Information Management Specialist’s (or IMS, the job I do) are being accepted for another week, till April 9th.  This usually only happens about once a year, so apply immediately if you are interested.

http://careers.state.gov/specialist/vacancy-announcements/ims

Cannot stress more how awesome this job is (at least, if you like traveling and seeing the world).  Pay is good, benefits are great.  Ask me any questions you may have.

There is another technical position people here may be interested in.  IMTS's are basically specialists in Digital, Telephone, or Radio.  As an IMS, I've been given training in all of those, but the IMS's role is to stay out at embassies and run/maintain the computer networks, radio program, telephone switches, ect.  If something breaks very badly, or we are getting a major upgrade, they send us an IMTS.  IMTS's are stationed at only a few regional hubs around the world, but constantly get sent on one to two week trips out to various embassies to do the sort work I just mentioned.  So they get to travel and see the world even more, but only have a few options globally to be stationed at (Frankfurt, Bangkok, Ft. Lauderdale are the major hubs, with a few other positions scattered around).  I'm sure they'll probably open up IMTS for applications within a month or two.
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Reply #1319 on: April 03, 2014, 06:16:23 AM

Oh man.  If I weren't happy with my parent's old river house a posting like that in Frankfurt or Bangkok would be awesome.  Except the whole dealing with strangers thing.

Hahahaha!  I'm really good at this!
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Reply #1320 on: April 03, 2014, 06:29:15 AM

I applied for that position a few years ago with basically 0 qualifications.  They might actually look at my resume this time around!
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Reply #1321 on: April 07, 2014, 05:27:46 AM

You never know, give it a try.
Oh man.  If I weren't happy with my parent's old river house a posting like that in Frankfurt or Bangkok would be awesome.  Except the whole dealing with strangers thing.
To be fair, most IMTS's don't seem to be the sort of people who like dealing with strangers, or other people in general.   awesome, for real

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Reply #1322 on: April 07, 2014, 06:00:58 PM

I guess it's good, then, that you mostly get to sit in caves all day. why so serious?

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Reply #1323 on: April 15, 2014, 02:25:36 PM

Apparently I was passed over in yet another culling.  As the poster for New Guy, I'm pretty happy about that.

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Reply #1324 on: April 15, 2014, 02:35:14 PM

This could be fun, I'm going to be applying for a position very similar to what I do now.  I was given a heads up for it by the person who was in it previously and the person who works with him because they both know me and know it's a much closer to home job to me.

The fun catch I noticed is that the posting is for something a bit different than the job I was told.  I asked the guy about it and he pretty much replies "Yeah, that's not accurate, management butchered the posting, you wouldn't actually be doing hardly any of X and mostly just doing what you're doing now."  So I have little experience in what the supposedly bad posting is looking for, but lots of experience with what I'm told the job actually is.   swamp poop

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Reply #1325 on: April 15, 2014, 02:40:00 PM

TIL they gave our resource action a name.  "Apollo".   Ohhhhh, I see.

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Reply #1326 on: April 15, 2014, 03:00:08 PM

"Yeah, that's not accurate, management butchered the posting,

My very limited exposure to job postings from the poster side has shown that this happens with frightening regularity.  Although management blames HR.

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Reply #1327 on: April 16, 2014, 02:24:06 PM

Although management blames HR.

Yes. They can't make job descriptions to save their life. Even if you give them the whole thing, it somehow gets posted with incorrect information!

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Reply #1328 on: April 17, 2014, 09:06:53 AM

Based on my own experience, yes.  I'm still not sure how they managed to mangle the requirements so badly.  The lesson learned here is to always discuss the real requirements in the interview.

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Reply #1329 on: April 23, 2014, 09:39:42 AM

I had a job interview today.  By the time I made it back down to the parking lot, they had already called me to schedule a second interview.  I'm taking that as a good sign.

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