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I am a 130 iq stable genius (tested). Companies should literally be begging to have me work for them.
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>>108655807
watch your tone, subtard
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>>108655916
Do american companies just rely on the military to train their workers?
Mate of mine joined the local utility provider (nuclear) here and they spent a full year training him (half of it spent in giant barbecue and drinking fests with the boys) before he was even allowed to work on anything
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>>108655946
Imma be real the government/military is the largest educator with college benefits/certification training/general training. The job experience itself varies but most of the time it covers alot of gaps in training even if you aren't doing your job.
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>Work in IT
>I reminded daily what the term midwit really means
>The job i work is the IQ test for myself :C
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this is my life now
working 10 hour shifts at a job I hate
nobody is coming to save me
every hour outside of work must be dedicated to studying / projects / applying for more jobs
I am alone in this hell
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>>108656049
kek the real hell is that part you mentioned about needing to ALWAYS study and do projects like its unbearable desu you have legit no time for anything else..
Work, commute, daily life chores already takes up all ur time but the last 2 hours you have need to be dedicated to advancing ur career because these jobs pay nothing if u dont.. Its just sad really if u have other interests u are just fucked
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>>108655708
>I'm gay
same but not necessarily by choice, im just too autistik and banging femboys and twinks is easy
Today I worked on some OIDC shit
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>>108656181
>autistic
>working on dynamic OIDC bootstrapping providers into authentik
>mispell "autistic" as "autistik"
im not surprised
>>108656187
By acknowledging that times are tough and to keep your head in the game, apply yourself, and keep doing what you love (and hopefully its IT shit you can include on your resume).
t. was laid off in 2024 and got a new job last year
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>>108656200
Its just so fucking gay. I was doing good work for my company, overworked, but they wanted more money for AI. My buddy still at the company says moral is in the toilet and everyone is even more overworked and the company is doing just fine. Like we are good valuable employees but everyone has to be a greedy fucking jew
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yeah i think this is going to be a big problem in like 5 years. same thing with H1B. and also cutting federal funding for research grants.
if you're not hiring and training entry level engineers, you're not going to have mid and senior engineers. and hiring foreigns because they're cheaper is hypocritical when the administration wants to protect american manufacturing. it's literally the same national security risk.
and research grants fund the university labs that grad students cut their teeth in before actually going into the workforce.
it's shortsighted in an incredibly obvious way.
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>>108655800
If you're smart then why are you broke and unemployed bitch
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>>108656368
NTA does it matter what the Masters degree is in?
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>>108656366
We've reached peak "line go up" territory and they're going full slash and burn for some reason
I'm no commie but I don't see how that can be sustainable, how every industry leader can be fine with it, or how the government can be fine with it (well this part I can understand)
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Mon-Fri: 8 hours work 1 hour commute 1 hour exercise 4 hours projects 2 hours eating/bathing
Sat: 4 hours chores 4 hours video games 4 hours warhammer 4 hours d&d
Sun: 4 hours gardening 4 hours video games 4 hours warhammer 4 hours d&d
How do I sneak in an hour or two of video games on weekdays once I have a tech job?
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>>108656511
yeah nigga i wish i was from yurop ok? I am tired of the retard nigger slaves in America. I want to chill in spain with all the broke bros and my broke family closing shop at 3 PM and fucking off the rest of the day
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>>108656413
It's not sustainable. Stock faggot here, there isn't anything these AI data centers can do that is profitable yet. Right now there is insane demand but that's because prices are low. If they need to jack up prices to the point that its actually profitable, or at least breaks even, the demand is going to plummet
Which is stupid because traditional data centers were already profitable. Whether it was the google cloud or amazon's aws or microsoft's azure, normal boring data centers made money. Like a ton of money. But the AI data centers are 1) more expensive to make 2) more expensive to run/maintain 3) burn out easier 4) can't do anything that is more profitable than normal data centers
so yeah, my tech exposure is only 6% for a reason lol
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>>108656382
because like a true 130 autistic supergenius (not you midwit iqcel larpers) I would rather neet all day and waste my intelligence dumping 2000 hours into a factory building autismbox simulator or fps and working on obtusely autistic personal projects with zero commercial usecase instead of being a goyslave working on bean counting software for globohomo inc and getting my "good goy" resume points so I can pass hr foid stacies shit test for my next job
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i definitely think it's not sustainable but it has downstream consequences that persist even after the bleeding stops. it's similar to low birthrates. even if companies "decide" to flip and start investing in domestic talent, new students have already been dissuaded from pursuing the major because of how bad they've heard employment is. plus, however many graduates that worked shit jobs or switched careers and now their skills are weaker than they'd otherwise be.
it's just kind of weird that the country is experiencing this "golden age" of programming and AI, where you'd figure companies would invest hard into the workforce to take advantage of it.
i think the firing because of "AI efficiency" is a smoke screen for interest rates being fucked and companies not having as much money to throw around. but i guess "we can't afford to pay junior engineers" sounds a lot worse to shareholders.
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>>108656626
i've lived my life through cycles of
>luck into a high paying do nothing job
>leech until I get fired
>neet for 2 years until savings run out
>repeat
this iteration is just a bit harder than before
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How exactly will AI become profitable? I don't see the mass market adopting it and I don't see adapting it for the mass market either. All I see is tons of chatbot garbage comes in all stripes, yet people don't really show interest.
It's almost like they're throwing money in fire and hoping for a miracle. No doubt you can make a quick buck from their stocks now, but then what? -90% and another 15 years floundering at the bottom like it was after 2008?
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>>108656703
AI models get cheaper over time, the issue is they need to keep making them smarter to compete with each other, and that all costs money.
Someone could profitably run Haiku 3 without issue, but it's too dumb to do everything.
All the money is being poured into training, not use.
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Is there ever a situation where someone being jobless is their fault?
I know someone who has nearly 10 years of dev experience but now hasn't had a job in a year. He said he's looking and has sent out 200+ applications, but no luck.
Also, a lot his positions were typically around 1 year and then he would get let go or leave on his own for various reasons.
Is the market actually this bad or he is doing something wrong?
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>join new team
>they use documentdb
this shit is even worse than mongo how did anyone greenlight this
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>Chegg, Inc., is an American educational technology company. It provides homework help, digital and physical textbook rentals, textbooks, online tutoring, and other student services, powered by artificial intelligence
AI bubble is popping.
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don't forget to check out your favourite linkedin puzzles today!
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>>108656847
Chatgpt didn't come out until late 2022, the tail end of the big coof.
How is it surprising to you that an edtech company got super valuable when people couldn't even go to the library?
>>108656865
I remember seeing games mentioned while rooting through the email settings years ago. I didn't think they would actually do it. Absolutely desperate.
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>have you set your professional development goals yet, anon?
>what kind of progress are you making towards them?
>you do realize you should always be learning, right? cant let yourself stagnate! always improve! love the treadmill!
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>>108656511
I literally have to. I graduated in 2026. I unironically get paid worse than the janitor at my company, and I took it because I applied to 400 jobs in 6 months.
>t. cs fag working hell desk despite internships because I went to a mediocre college that I could afford
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>I learned better troubleshooting skills from random video games than i ever did doing puzzles.
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>>108656966
You mad :3
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>>108656876
Chegg was pivoted to use AI and did 2 rounds of layoffs claiming they improved productivity. Didn't save their stocks and you know why? Because stock price does not depend on anything! It's pure fiction today.
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>>108656822
my last job used some 40 year old db that i have never heard of and couldnt even google lol
It's a huge company u have absolutely heard of top 5 in its industry.. extremely old archaic everyone there worked there for 30 years doing the same thing.
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have you thought about pooling your money with your boys to do investments? I was talking with a friend of mine I graduated with about doing some gay scheme with like 4-5 of us to buy property or whatever and split all the costs/profits. assuming the people I go in with are trustworthy and reliable, why not? is this a retarded move or are we clever? why don't I hear more about people doing this?
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>>108657309
Consider some points
>first and foremost, your friends are now business partners
>this will result in a contract
>this contract will likely provision for someone to have the right to sell his share, meaning the others will have to buy them out
>everyone will have different ideas on the property because it's 5 people
>who's deciding on administration, maintenance, etc.?
now does that sound like a great idea, or a horrible idea
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>>108657326
100% I think there are pain points but that's the trade off. either frontloading the whole thing as one person or splitting it among many. I think an ideal situation would be if you had like, multiple properties in the pool to actually get hedging and scaling benefits that you wouldn't get as an individual. if you had like 6 multifamilies between 3-4 people, it's less devastating when one of them sits empty for a bit.
we're all in our 30s and are pretty established, so I do think it's different from than if we were all like 20 years old. I think there's stuff to work out but the juice looks like it's worth the squeeze from the angle I'm looking at. but maybe instead of 4-5 I pare it down to like... 2-3 real niggas
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>>108656783
>Also, a lot his positions were typically around 1 year and then he would get let go or leave on his own for various reasons.
That's a big red flag. It means he's always at junior level at every job and never got intimate with the codebases and systems he worked on.
>10 years of dev experience
In that anon's case, it would be like claiming you've got 10 years experience brushing your teeth.
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>>108657309
I have no clue on businesses like this (or any other except for small time stuff), so take my opinion for what it is: an opinion from some anonymous retard from the internet.
>assuming the people I go in with are trustworthy and reliable, why not?
that's a big assumption.
>is this a retarded move or are we clever?
like the other anon said, there are tons of "what if"s. you better ask a lawyer. I'd also suggest asking >>>/biz/, but consider that they are retarded, if not outright malicious, though some of them might give you some useful info, maybe.
> 4-5 of us
that's too many people already. not only you have a lot of "what if"s, you also dilute responsibilities too much IMO.
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I 100% agree with >>108657481 . it's really, REALLY odd to have ~1 year of employment with each employer. also,
>he would get let go or leave on his own for various reasons
yeah... that doesn't sound suspectful at all.
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>stayed home yesterday because didn't get a lot of sleep this weekend
>go to work today
>at staff meeting, supervisor brings up in front of everyone how she's waiting on me before we can proceed with important project
>other supervisor questions something else very rudimentary that makes me look dumb
>after staff meeting, get a call from my office crush
>she tells me she's upset because her supervisor chastised her for something I allegedly told her to do
>tell her I don't remember that and ask if she has it in writing
>she hangs up on me
>afternoon implementation meeting goes further to shit as we keep catching vendor in lie after lie to the point where my boss just leaves the call
>bust my ass to finish a different project with only an hour left in day
>senior team member tries to pressure me into a client call and I feel like shit for refusing
>go home
>some asshole clipped my trashcan and its splayed in the road
>mailbox has letter from appraisal district saying my taxes are going up again
>don't even take my shoes off in the house before I start tearing up
>cry myself into a nap
I'm nοt sure if I'm just depressed or my job is actually shit
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>start new job
>get first jira ticket
>can't start on it because missing a core requirement
>dude who has to make a decision has more important stuff going on so i'm stuck holding my dick til he gets back to me
on the one hand i feel like this is a valid excuse to have not made progress. on the other hand, the window for me to give the impression that hiring me wasn't a big fat mistake is rapidly closing
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>>108656783
market is pretty fucked, it gets flooded with thousands of people who have years of big tech/FAANG experience every other week so employers can afford to be super picky. when that's who you're competing with, having blatant evidence that you're a serial job hopper doesn't help
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>>108657409
i meant longer term. there's stuff that scales with having multiple. stuff like having maintenance guys or having solid leases or just learning how the game works. going from 0 properties to 1 property is a big jump but it's probably not so bad to go from 1 to 2, or 5 to 6.
so you kind of spread the knowledge, for one. but the other thing is hedging. if you have 2 properties and one is fucked up, that's a much bigger deal than if you are splitting 6 properties and 1 is fucked up.
also getting my foot in the door is a lot easier if i'm three-waying a house with 3 people, than if i'm all-in with just me. and we'd get to the multi property stage a lot quicker since it's proportionally less. it's literally a third less. if we could each buy one, then we could collectively buy three.
and it also opens the opportunity to diversify. maybe some multifamily, maybe some small bay industrial, townhouses, etc.
>>108657495
fair point. this was really a thing we were just shooting the shit about. talking about investments and stuff and then going "you know, fuck, we could just go in half-and-half on something. i bet you so-and-so would be up for it too. we could probably get a handful of guys and split a place for basically nothing".
reason why i didn't go to biz is because i'd like to see what my fellow autists think about it, and i think you guys have some good points. smaller is probably better, but it might be worth actually discussing it further and maybe seriously considering it.
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>>108657732
are you american? if so, you probably would get fired.
don't tell him anything at all, dumbass. like this anon >>108657753 said, he isn't your damily.
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>>108657309
>assuming the people I go in with are trustworthy and reliable
well for one, there's about a billion stories of people going into business with their buddies who they thought were trustworthy when the only thing they had to trust them with prior to that was showing up to happy hour
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>>108657593
>at staff meeting, supervisor brings up in front of everyone how she's waiting on me before we can proceed with important project
Don't make your team wait on you
>other supervisor questions something else very rudimentary that makes me look dumb
Don't fail at answering "rudimentary" questions
>tell her I don't remember that and ask if she has it in writing
Don't be a socially stunted autismo (near impossible for most of /g/, I know).
Follow these simple steps and your work and life will improve dramatically.
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>senior team member tries to pressure me into a client call and I feel like shit for refusing
Unless it's some kind of giant on-site commitment that will make you work late into the night, why the fuck would you refuse in this situation?
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>>108657593
>Demanding accountability from women
Oh man i nearly got the ass chewing of my life in the military for asking an Officer(female) to do that very thing for her very important meeting that i couldn't go to since she never told me anything. Glad my bosses checked both my email and hers to confirm it. More so she admitted that she didn't bother to contact my leadership about it which would've been the first step on stealing personnel for work from another section. I was never luckier since.
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>>108657593
have you heard the parable of the second arrow? it goes something like, you're walking in the woods and out of nowhere you get shot with an arrow. it hurts and you're bleeding. and then you think about it, and you're pissed. you can't believe someone would have the audacity to do this. you're going to have to go to the doctor, get it removed, fuck this is horseshit.
that's the second arrow. the first arrow is the pain. sometimes unavoidable shit happens and you get fucked. but you can dodge the second arrow. it serves no purpose to get pissed about the thing that already happened. you're just suffering more for nothing. someone cuts you off in traffic-- that sucks. but calling them a nigger and laying on the horn and being pissed off for the rest of your drive is avoidable. dodge the second arrow.
also, you need something more substantial in your life.
it's spring, consider ordering some seeds and starting a garden. or just put them in containers. peppers are easy. onions, garlic. tomatoes. depends on where you are, geographically, but consider growing some food. it's satisfying.
perhaps start going to the gym?
do you like riding bikes? you could get into mountain biking and riding trails.
you need to have shit outside of work. that shit is so unimportant. it is bothering you so much because you don't have other things in your life that you can identify with.
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>>108657835
we're about to be in a global recession over this iran shit, i wouldn't be starting a property business right now. even if the war ends this week, the energy supply chain is gonna be fucked for a while
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>get into netflix
>been here for a couple years
>work closely with a staff eng
>he's genuinely the smartest dev i've ever worked with
>super kind and charismatic too
>last week he tells me he's leaving for anthropic
>take him out for drinks
>he gets drunk and starts talking about /twg/
Unironically baffled that some of you are competent. Could have fooled me.
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Yeah but 200 jobs? We live in a medium city in a midwest state, ain't no way it's THAT competitive....
Idk, ty for replying though. I guess maybe I'm baffled since I haven't job hunted in a while and only did like...~15 apps when I got my job.
Idk, if you guys were in my friend's position, what would you do to get employment, prefebly in a SWE position
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>>108658023
you keep doing it. i'm trying to move to north carolina to be closer to my family, and i've been applying to jobs throughout the state since december last year. i've had like 5 interviews, no offers. probably 150 applications. i've got 4 years experience in ML. shit's rough. just keep rolling the dice. and also lie more. lie on your resume.
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>>108658023
>I guess maybe I'm baffled since I haven't job hunted in a while and only did like...~15 apps when I got my job.
i got my old job in 2021. literally had three interviews my first week of looking and started my new job three weeks later. got laid off last year and only had three interviews in 9 months before finally getting something. i'd kinda thought people were exaggerating as well before my experience
idk about any advice except to keep cranking out applications and just pray, mostly feels like luck. if he's got any friends he can leverage to get a job, definitely do that
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>>108658044
two years is the minimum before i'd even consider quitting, even if i hated the job. first year is basically still onboarding and doing baby tasks. it's not the end of the world if you have one job like that on your resume, but if you get like three of those in a row, then an employer would need to be truly desperate to hire you
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>>108657913
>Unless it's some kind of giant on-site commitment that will make you work late into the night, why the fuck would you refuse in this situation?
Managing work/life boundaries so you can get out the door by five instead of getting salami-sliced
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>>108658117
unless the software you're working on is "hello world" tier, that's pretty typical. if you aren't leading a team by the time you leave a company, your employment was basically a wasted investment from your employer's point of view
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>>108655875
LMAO, imagine having to work and believing being employed is a good thing.
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>Managing work/life boundaries so you can get out the door by five
Occasionally helping some people out to build relationships and a good reputation in the company will do way more for your "work life balance" than autistically telling every one to fuck off because it's 4.59pm and you NEED to be in the parking lot before the clock strikes 5.
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>>108655964
As it should. Losing know-how due lack of knowledge transfer to new generations just because corpos are greedy fuckers is a national security issue.
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My boss has a new project that I’m sure I’m going to have to build that will be a bunch of AI agents with different tasks. One of the agents, aptly named the “observer agent” will automate white collar tasks by observing the human worker, taking notes, asking questions, and will create a program to automate that task. I’m not trolling. He wants to automate this entire process. It is by far the most AI psychosis-pilled shit I’ve ever heard and it’s completely absurd. Automating tasks is one thing, but having it do the whole pipeline, especially gathering business requirements is so fucking stupid. Does anyone else have an employer like this?
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>>108658314
I don't understand it fully. He wants one agent for notes, one for questions, etc. One agent to specialize in each task a human does?
That's more than what Cursor/Claude etc do.
Even a pipeline to generate properties for some bullshit transcription is enough etl for 1 project. Your etl will be way more complex.
What does he figure the cost for all the LLM API calls will be? Lower than a white collar mans 6 figures?
I'm guessing he got this gay idea from up north, the sociopaths. Ime the clueless managers don't understand ai in the slightest. Even the term LLM trips them up
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>>108658321
You can do something kinda close to that by having a WFH job + say at home wife. Especially if you control your hours. At one point I would work over 13 hours for 3 days to meet my 40hr quota so I have 4 days off. It's a bit brutal, but caffeine drinks are cheap.
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>>108658370
I did wfh with a gf. I did not even come close to being unemployed
dragging ourselves out of bed at 9am was cute but rough. Sex whenever one would walk and come for a hug... ok I'm done talking about this... it hurts.
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>>108658339
>Is it any worse than having jeets do the work?
It's just as bad, they're both shit
>>108658355
>I'm guessing he got this gay idea from up north, the sociopaths. Ime the clueless managers don't understand ai in the slightest. Even the term LLM trips them up
Well, he is the manager lol and not technical in the slightest. Dude sees it create a login and some backend KYC logic (nothing face-detection related, just CRUD) and thinks it can do anything. I genuinely gave vibecoding a shot on this last project I had and it was a complete mess but the third in command of the company, who was also a part of the project, won't explicitly admit that it took just as long to vibecode it as it would have taken to do most of the project by hand with some AI use. He'll beat around the bush and will hint that was the issue but he'll never say it, and then him and the co-owner of the company will talk about how AI can do this and that, but can't tell you the difference between a model and an agent (there isn't a difference, kys if you disagree)
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>>108658314
anon, did you read the news today? do you work for Meta?
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/meta-will-use-employee-tracking-sof tware-to-help-train-ai-agents-repor t/
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>>108658467
you are becoming hysterical, here have a sonic-branded fidget spinner
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>>108658618
I'm not anon, your the poor fag here.
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>>108656041
lighten up homie, you get paid a lot, aren't going to get replaced by claude code or a jeet lying about his education
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>>108658719
I get paid 150k a year with 3% yearly pay raises. MSP's are hell however you never know when you will lose your job year to year. I try my best. Hopefully getting a CCNP and my masters degree will back me up for future employment.
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What are the chances I'll get blacklisted somehow if I write a webcrawler for seek that applies to jobs for me?
I feel like they ought to have some insane bot detection to keep their platform usable for employers despite third worlders existing
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>>108658964
Same anon. I have Comptia ITF+/A+/Net+/Sec+ and Cisco CCNA with a Masters degree. The actual masters doesn't matter for IT jobs however. Sec+ is required for goverment IT jobs and likely required for programming jobs. I would recommend looking into Systems Admin aka server administration if you want to flex your programming skills in a job that will respect it.
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>>108658467
retard
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GEM
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>>108659443
CCIE no wife, no life, expected to work 24hr's+ at any moment's notice.
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>>108658964
nta, and I have no idea what that anon is doing, but if you want to get paid more, your options are (regardless of your location):
>get into FAANG or adjacent companies and learn to deal with corpo bs
>get some business knowledge, move into tech consulting and learn to deal with (even more) corpo bs until you make director or partner
>move into management
>play the early-stage startup lottery and get lucky
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I graduated last May and I've been working as a Software Engineer at a startup for 7-8 months now. We overhauled our app and I've been the lead developer on it. For the past 4 months, I've been working 10-12 hour days and nearly every weekend (told to or the workload is so much that I have to). The work is stressful since my manager is non-technical with an aggressive temper. Most meetings end up with me being demeaned or yelled at when I push back on things that are near impossible to implement. There is also no senior on the team so I'm constantly worried that I'm going to run into a problem that I don't have the skill or experience to solve. Right now I'm doing all the development, testing, deployments, and sysadmin support.
Every day I start work with dread and I wake up anxious to a crazy amounts of Slack messages because my manager is in Europe. I haven't been able to sleep well and my latest health / blood checks were horrible (I'm 23 and fit). All day, it feels like I have a fight/flight response and I start physically shaking during demos and when I see new designs in Figma.
Everyday I tell myself I'm going to quit tomorrow and I just need to make it through today.
I've tried applying to jobs, but no bites. I have just under 1 YOE and the market is rough so I'm thinking about trying to change careers or enlisting in the military.
I know this general has been negative and I hate to contribute to it, but I'm lost on what to do.
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During university i used to be able to tackle on 6 courses per semester, 4 final projects, and 2 classes with lab quizzes. I pushed through after dinner and did it all on weekends too. I ended up only having 2.94 gpa anyway
It's been a year and 5 months since i graduate and now i just dont know what to do. I know i gotta code everyday regardless and keep making projects, apply for jobs, prepare for psychological tests, do take home tests, prep for interviews. Sometimes there's just chores coming up over the days and i dont want to play catch up at night / weekends.
I thought i could start learning to draw too with all these abundance of time but i just wont start.
My most productive day is probably just applying, do some take home test if any, then scroll/sleep for the rest of the day.
I tried getting qa jobs. Getting admin jobs.
400 applications, 21 take home tests, and 6 interviews so far
Maybe im just that type of person who cant see himself doing this thing for more than 6-12 months. I just cant seem to tolerate doing something like webdev for at least the next 5-10 years when i cant even stick to a routine for more than a month.
I know im getting older (turning 25 in may) and being unskilled for so long is harrowing. I know that if my end goal is working in government and passing the selection so i dont have to send out applications again for the rest of my life and getting my pension taken care of i still gotta be able to do basic CRUD.
I know that turning 30 our bodies will start to breakdown and if i dont utilize the youth i have now to gain opportunities i will just suffer worse down the line.
I keep seeing people with compsci degree but they're able to find work in visual development, game art, animation, and i just cant help but jealous, but i know they can achieve that through putting their hours too every day.
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>>108660239
Did Reddit not give you the answer you wanted?
https://old.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1ss5q7f/im_quittin g_tomorrow/
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>gained like 40lbs because of stress eating
>haven't done a single thing at work all week
starting to think maybe it is time to try my new job called unemployment. shit seems kinda swell to relax for a month. go have a run at 10am when all the annoying cars and people are at work/school.
take walks in the park, go to the gym when it's not crowded. just actually get back into my hobbies. meh money feels like it'll work itself out but i don't think I can take the work bullshit anymore, i've been so disillusioned with it and if I hear optimizing pipelines and streamlining workflow with AI one more time i'm gonna snap
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Clicking through all my annual mandatory HR trainings this morning
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>Hour 2 of the "standup"
>Camera must stay on
>I have spoken 1 time
I hate this fucking job. Let me code. Stop endlessly talking about code and let me do my fucking tickets REEEEEE
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Another day slacking off.
I wish my previous job as a lab assistant didn’t have such a shitty salary, and that I’d never gotten into web development so I could still enjoy technology.
Also fuck AI.
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>>108661465
That has nothing to do with workers laws, all mean people should be brutally and slowly slaughtered, I dont care if they were molested by uncle handy every Easter from 1 to 12 or that their brain is 5% lead, mean people must be destroyed. And communists + authoritarians.
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>Error: Our system thinks your post is spam. Please reformat and try again.
huh? is gb2r banned or some shit? kek
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>>108660475
also, go back to >>>/r/eddit
>>108661593
>t.bootlicker
I bet you suck your bosses dick under the table
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>got rejected after another interview despite doing fine and being able to answer all their questions
What the fuck do I even do at this point? Even my sister who is not even as technically smart as me is somehow coasting by easily with this stuff.
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>>108661757
Ok dunning-kruger faggot, I expect your apologies soon
https://www.modbus.org/news/modbus-organization-replaces-master-slave- with-client-server
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day 8
>helldesk + compliance bundled up in one
>have two supervisors
>supervisor A (helldesk)
>boomer y in dept x called (not sent a ticket, called) he can't get his computer to turn on. figure out why while he talks your ear off
>3 of the printers in dept z are down (again), figure out why
>drop these laptops off in building 3 (15 minute walk from my office)
>supervisor B (shitpliance)
>engineer x made a minor revision to forms x,y,z,xx,xy,xz
>print out 10 of each copies and stamp them all
>oh and we have to replace the physical copies on the manufacturing floor, go walk around the building and do that
I need to escape
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>>108661914
what they're actually paying for is compliance, continued support, dedicated installation and rollout, security, and custom features.
but since youre so smart you should dm elon on twitter and ask him to pay you a billion dollars for your vscode wrapper with chatgpt integration.
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ahhh fucks. I got let go. they gave me a couple months of severance, but I'm gonna start applying tomorrow. how bleak is this economy? any good job boards? I hate fucking linkedin but the easy apply makes it less shit.
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>I wrote The Dilbert Principle around the concept that in many cases the least competent, least smart people are promoted, simply because they’re the ones you don't want doing actual work. You want them ordering the doughnuts and yelling at people for not doing their assignments—you know, the easy work. Your heart surgeons and your computer programmers—your smart people—aren't in management. That principle was literally happening everywhere
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genuinely the most annoying thing about it is it wanting to update itself damn near every day
no idea why archfags voluntarily sign up to have every piece of software act like this
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>>108661914
Good for the Cursor team, I was sure they had missed that boat now that alternatives from big players have more than caught up. I still believe that this deal will mostly fall through and they'll get left with nothing, but I haven't looked into it, so really don't know.
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Maybe saturday will be chore and d&d day and sunday will be garden and warhammer day. Then maybe I can game Friday and Sunday evening and for an hour or two on other weekdays. I just need a 60k tech job so I can rent a 2 bedroom apartment.
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>managed to justify cancelling all meetings by saying I can achieve higher productivity gains through this with the help of AI and transcription tools
You guys should get on my level, you're just doing the AI grift wrong.
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Need some working advice, but when should you comment on something in a mass chain vs just letting it be? I seem to always fall into the trap of I sorta know the answer and direction we should probably follow but as soon as I say it, it's
>oh I guess you're in charge of this now, go figure out the rest, you're responsible for this now
>oh acktually we don't want this team involved now they're involved great.
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>>108662563
>t. only ever worked for small shit startups that go nowhere
better hope your software is up to standard with compliance when the FDA or DOE or SEC or any of the other gorillion three letter glowies come showing up to your door to run an audit of all your shit
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>Big AI Project happening in my company
>Scope creep out the wahoo
>All of the "high-level" stuff has been mapped out but nothing technical
>all the technical stuff is done by indian outsourcing
>It's a complete shitfuck
My boss has been ranting about it to me but I'm REALLY trying to not to get me to drag me in but if I end up agreeing too much I might be looped in but I can't really be "meh whatever" to this since it'll seem like I'm disengaged.
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starting to learn window server today. Downloaded server 2025 on my virtual box and set up 3 PCs
mom's friend said he can get me a windows server job maybe if i study it in the next few weeks and might get an interview. I have never worked with it in my previous jobs so here we go. Wish me luck bros
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>>108658116
>first year is basically still onboarding and doing baby tasks.
Tell that to my boss lmao. Not even 10 months at my job and she criticizes why I can't be the lead dev for the project when the other external lead has been in the project for over three years now. My official job description is software developer.
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>>108663340
>Not care about what my literal boss says to me?
Yes. You shouldn't give a shit about what anyone who doesn't matter to you says or does.
I'm not saying you shouldn't talk back (although most of the time it's better to ignore the whole situation), just don't invest yourself into it.
In couple of years you'll probably work at a different place and have a new cunt of a CEO anyway.
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>>108658117
>be me
>join a team
>5 months later all my seniors leave
>mfw im stuck holding the ball
>2-3 months later I get new juniors
>they're stupid as fuck
>get burnt out and leave a year in
probably happened to me twice
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>>108662008
I've made the decision that I'm going to quit
working here for another six weeks should give me just enough money to make the minimum payments on my bills and neet for 3 months as long as I put everything else on credit cards
so that's my plan, work another month then put in my 2 weeks
fuck this boomer hell
no job is better than a shit job
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>>108663895
>anon, please consider back seat maxxing and using this an an opportunity to become more emotionally resilient
I cannot back seat max.
One of my supervisors already told me that she's worried I'm getting bored and going to leave so she's trying to assign me more work. And I got a warning today for being on my phone and laptop too often during down time.
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>>108662008
Sounds like a fucking easy job dude holy shit at least they're not yelling at you or straight up ignoring you not teaching you anything. Sounds like normal workload to me compared to this guy
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>>108663879
Dont please.
>>108663966
Being on your phone i get it but why they think it's bad being on your laptop? It's just an 8 hour job right?
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Had one of the best interviews to date last week and the hiring manager was telling me they would get back after they return next week. Took up an entire hour for the interview, good conversation, answered their spelled-out behavior questions, they kept referring the job as, "when you start," or, "you" whenever speaking about the role. Said they liked my suggestions when asked about their company could improve on, asked if I'll do a drug test. I mean, sounded pretty probable I was being considered. Then today, I get one of those automated messages saying they're not moving forward with my application. Like wth? How they go from sounding promising to straight out they supposedly finding a better candidate? Should I email the hiring manager pretending I didn't see that auto email from their HR dept?
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>>108664080
>Sounds like a fucking easy job dude holy shit
I don't want an easy job, I want a fulfilling job. Or at least at the minimum a job that pays well. This job is neither. The company is boring as shit, it's boomer hell, and it's corporate and soulless as it gets. It's a pharmaceutical manufacturing company that's been around forever and prints money (think johnson and johnson) where everyone gets paid well except the grunt workers that are offshored and the near bottom of the barrel office workers (me) / interns / grunt team leaders. One of my supervisors has been with the company for 25 years and now she's offloaded like half her work to me, except she gets paid 3x my salary. If it wasn't for the money and generous PTO everyone else would have already quit. I don't get either.
And ironically the PTO makes my job even harder because often enough whenever I need something, the dude that i'm supposed to get it from is on PTO. it took them 6 business days to get me key permissions to do one certain part of the job because the ONLY guy that's allowed to grant that is in california, and he was off on pto for the last two weeks.
>but why they think it's bad being on your laptop? It's just an 8 hour job right?
Because they're incredibly strict about security and office policy. I brought my laptop to study, work on projects, or fuck around on leetcode and I basically haven't been able to do any of that because they stock me up with so much bullshit. I'm can't install anything on my work laptop without permission, log in to my work email from an outside device, or even stick a usb into the laptop and retrieve files.
Forget about trying to install vscode or anything to fuck around. I tried to get teams on my phone couldn't even log in. One of my supervisors (the lead helpdesk technician from this branch) had to email some other dude in india where they offshored those admin perms.
And there's probably no chance of getting an SWE job here either.
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cont.
>And there's probably no chance of getting an SWE job here either.
They've offshored a bunch of the tech branch off to india and all office software is running on ancient cheap licenses from the 2000s, or they contract the work out to other companies (also probably indians)
My dad keeps trying to feed me bullshit about how great it is and how they're really going to have opportunities for me here if I stay but I fucking hate it so much. I know it's a dead end
>It's just an 8 hour job right?
Nope!! 8 hour job, 2 hour commute, $20 an hour, and they're saddling me with overtime too. The only good thing about this job is that I get overtime (also a negative because I have no fucking time to study or apply to other jobs) and that I can stay as long as I want until I quit. They will never fire me unless I do something incredibly retarded. They don't do layoffs either.
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>>108664191
No, you shouldn't do that.
You probably did have a good interview but that doesn't mean that they didn't like someone more.
Just do more of what you did and don't overthink why you didn't get it.
Unless you're a clueless retard who is actually blowing it there is really no recourse.
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>>108664191
>Should I email the hiring manager pretending I didn't see that auto email from their HR dept?
ignore the other retard, go for it
your chance of getting the job now:
>0%
your chance of getting the job if you send that email:
>5%
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>>108664045
I have autism, and wasn't properly diagnosed until my mid 30s, so I lived most of my life not understanding why I was so different from most people, or why women were instinctively afraid of being around me.
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>>108664233
Trust me when you quit your dad+mom will start treating you like shit and until you get your next job he will start berating you everyday, saying stuff like "get any job yet? It's been 3/6/9/12 months! I still dont get it why you squander such good opportunity. What's wrong with you? Now look at you you're ended up spending the day mostly sleeping"
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>>108664200
Joining the workforce and realizing all the boomer memes are true is something really. They truly think they’re all special and main characters. It’s ironic how they themselves are guilty of the shit they accused younger generations of. The only boomers I can tolerate are the ones who rarely open their mouths. Rest are backstabbing cunts, I think I just need to HR buckbreak them. They think they’re untouchable. Seniority was a mistake, and any society that runs off seniority to such a degree is sick. The elderly should be taken care of but the way wealth and power is centered on them is just silly.
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>>108664381
I applied to starbucks a few months ago
>had to pester and call the manager lady three times because she kept telling me I would get an interview
>finally get the interview
>30 minute sitdown and a bunch of star questions (at least they gave me free coffee)
>"wow haha, we'll let you know if you're moving forward in a week!"
>get ghosted
>call the manager lady two weeks later
>"oh yeah you should've gotten an email, im busy right now ill send it again soon"
>never got an email
>gave up
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>>108664233
kek another pfizer drone posts here too
it doesnt get better, and i mean anywhere at any other company who sees pfizer on a resume and is willing to hire you (small list)
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>>108664549
It means when I apply for a job with some things listed on the job description as part of their tech stack that are things I know but didn't seem cool enough to put on the resume normally I will swap them out with some of the other less cool things on there so I fit the role better
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What's the point of GitHub copilot shit reviewing your PR? I must ignore 90% of their comment because it's useless, not applicable or irrelevant to our project.
I hate managers. They just want to spend money to use "AI".
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>Amazon is building a traffic video service for a large metro environment. Individual traffic cameras will send updates to the central service based on physical capabilities, limitations, and configurations. Due to variable volume, message queuing is planned, so it's necessary to design and support an appropriate message format.
>Rate the ideas below from best to worst.
Where the fuck am I supposed to learn how to answer this? They didn't teach me this shit in college.
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>>108664675
I get that amazon would make the hardware/software but wouldn't these questions be better if they asked civil engineers instead of SWE?
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>>108664675
genuinely no idea what they're expecting. I have no idea about when they want the data, what they do with the data, or what they use to transmit the data. unless I'm missing something I think they're just looking to fuck you over so they can say you failed the application.
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Im scared that pmo + scrolling and sleeping too much might lead to the same conclusion as this
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>please rate these approaches for transmitting large chunks of data across a limited bandwidth network
>durr, better ask a civil engineer
>hurr, I have no idea
No wonder you incompetent fucks are unemployed.
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>>108664277
He already got an email saying they passed on him. Pretending to not have seen it will do what?
>Hey, uh, I haven’t heard back from you (lie) do you want to give me a job?
The answer is already no and dwelling on it isn’t helpful.
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>>108664495
It's not pfizer but it's close
>it doesnt get better, and i mean anywhere at any other company who sees pfizer on a resume and is willing to hire you (small list)
kek
My dad was insulted when I told him I'm not including this company on my resume
>erm.... you've been working at (x) company for a month and you're already applying to other jobs? 'ick
>erm... you've been working at (x) company for a year? did you develop software there? no? so you havent had a software job in two years? 'ick
>erm... you worked at (x) company? well sorry but that doesn't sound like a good culture fit. 'ick
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Somehow, despite recently graduating and with the current job market, I got an interview soon. It's for .NET development. What kind of questions can I expect? I assume it's going to be about C# and SQL obviously, but what else? I haven't done much C# programming besides some in Unity and making a couple small programs for myself.
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>>108665258
I'll try that, thanks. And no.
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Does that general really want people asking about job interviews?
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I'll have to post this in the new thread but can someone please explain to me what people who work at Meta do all day? I mean Facebook is a complete shithole joke now, Instagram is fucking cancer, Whatsapp is for european faggots, their virtual reality gay faggot shit is dead. What the fuck does this company even do? What do employees do? Are these thousands of employees and billions of dollars there just to sell ads to people? I don't get it. WHAT THE FUCK DOES THIS COMPANY AND FAGGOT KEKERBERG DO
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>>108665578
>Does that general really want people asking about job interviews?
well, as the other anon said, this general kinda sucks...
still, you could make a new thread and ask there. new threads usually get a lot of attention. plus if you post first, you'll get many replies.
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>>108665578
Are we talking technical or just general interview questions? If it's general then i would recommend reading and acting out characters out loud would help. Then roleplaying with friends or family about what you would normally expect.
If it's technical then its a sea of possibilities but studying your own resume for questions should be the first thing you do before diving deeper into the topic they actually want to hire you on for.
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>>108665897
Technical would be theory related if anything. At most other than theory you should be able to explain the technical topic in a mind map way ie you show through explanation every step of the way to get to a possible solution. If you have no solution then you should know who to defer too.
If it's a technical take home test then RIP you can get sidelined easily with entry level questions and have a interview end in 10 mins. If it's going well you could go as far as 5 hours like with amazon to determine your job placement as an engineer if you make it that long.
If it's personality then they want you to explain your prior work and weed out any possibility of you being a shut in retard. It's not easy to pass this but you can do alot with practice "100 random interview questions"
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Bash scripting is humbling. I’ve spent the last week feeling like I’m trying to learn a foreign language from a textbook written in 1978. One missed space or a slightly wrong bracket and the whole thing dies with a cryptic error message. It’s a grind.
But then I pivoted into Docker this week, and I could actually breathe again.
The difference? Context. I’ve been messing with containers in my home lab for a couple of years now—running services like Nextcloud and Valheim. Because I had that "hands-on" history, the theory finally had a place to land.
Bash feels like abstract math; Docker feels like building with Legos I already own.
The Golden Rule of the Lab: If you’re doing this at home, keep your "Experimental" and "Production" environments strictly separate. There is no faster way to have a household mutiny on your hands than nuking the DNS or the Wi-Fi while you're testing a new script. My "Production" stack (Pi-hole, pfSense, etc.) stays stable so the house stays happy, while the "Experimental" nodes are where I’m allowed to break things.
The takeaway: Theoretical study is necessary, but the home lab is where the actual "clicking" happens. If you’re pivoting careers like I am, don't just read the documentation—break something in your own rack. It’s the only way the "foreign language" starts making sense.
#DevOps #HomeLab #Linux #Docker #CareerPivot #kubecraft #k8s #kubernetes
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>>108666550
Considering its traffic cameras they would be worried about the logistics of installing these devices with underground lines i would also assume they could answer what requirements would be needed for the city/state/government they are working for. Sure they wouldn't be able to answer the full project requirement since it regards CCTV setups/servers/network storage ect but it would be worked under a project manager between the 2 in order to get a proper build out for the aforementioned agencies involed.
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>>108666597
The project requirements reguarding those cameras, for a civil engineer, would be
>part references for the cameras
>cost
>where to put them
>part references for the cables
>the cost
>where to lay them
How the software/firmware virgoids chose to cut those data chunks is not his concern
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Good points i actually literally consneed on this. It's above my paygrade.
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I'm not getting any responses at all where I'm used to getting at least 1 per 10 apps.
I'm guessing its because my last role ended October last year. Is 6 months a point at which ATS filters me?
I've been on holiday and just not felt like applying until now. What do we do in this situation? extend last job by 1 month? Add a "freelance" section?
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>get home at 5
>spend an hour making some food and showering
>spend an hour on vidya
>"im tired as shit, ill wake up early tomorrow and get some work done in the morning before work"
>oversleep
>it's 4:30 am
>have to start driving to work in half an hour