betterthanlast

4년 전discuss

Agreed. I got offered an interview at Google years ago and passed on it hard. On the one hand I feel like I should regret the money they I may have made, but honestly I regret nothing... Sometimes the fit matters more than the money and I would've hated my life there.

betterthanlast

4년 전discuss

I'd like to second this.

Hang in there, we're probably going to be hiring starting in January. Right now things are kind of on ice because of the holidays.

Even if we wanted to get started today (and it's tough with our own department's senior people taking time off), it's hard to move the HR people and get the budgets approved, it's hard to get the GM sign off on a hire if we want them (though that's kind of a formality, frankly), etc.

In January the world starts turning again and those things get easier.

Hard as it is, try to hang in there, it will get better in a month or so.

betterthanlast

4년 전discuss

The problem is that this works both ways.

I hate mandatory fun with a fiery passion. I absolutely dread these events (I’d do a happy hour any time, but these artificial things kill me).

Having said that, I’ve had several people on my team ask me for them.

Because of how I feel I know that others will hate them too and won’t be comfortable skipping the social event, but if I don’t organize something retention still drops.

It’s gotten more complex with remote work since we can’t do a quick thing “after work” but actually leave the office early that day so people still go home on time and because Zoom socials are awkward and unsatisfying compared to in person events and we have people on the team half a continent away now.

I think we’re headed towards a “retreat” type strategy where we either bring the people who are far away into the primary location for a week, or we all go somewhere. I don’t like either one of those options.

betterthanlast

4년 전discuss

My company moved mandatory fun to Zoom.

I joined the first half of the first call back in 2020, nothing after that.

It will hurt me in the long run, but I can’t stomach mandatory fun.

betterthanlast

5년 전discuss

I make a curl request to IFTTT and include an image url (in my case green checkmark or red X).

Good: it took virtually no time to set up and it’s been running for years and years.

Bad: everything gets the IFTTT logo.

betterthanlast

5년 전discuss

I finished a hiring round a few months ago and I’m going into a bigger one now.

We were flooded with applications, 90% of them real bad fits. We were also hounded by HR to move quickly.

I already couldn’t do my job and was expected to.

A follow up after an interview is absolutely fine. A follow up right after an application before hearing back either way will likely get you dropped.

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