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    7 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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        Yup! Basically everyone but employers, and cops, who are class traitors.

        As long as you are a worker — not an employer — you can join the IWW. Members of other unions (except officers), students, retirees, the unemployed, the self-employed, those in informal professions, and those unable to work may also join.

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

    The title means nothing.

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      In my experience, getting one can be more about politics and fulfilling certain management checkboxes than about technical skill and experience.

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      I’m guessing Software.

      PE Senior Engineer is a very different thing. A PE Senior Engineer has often designed tourist landmarks.

      Though ironically you can make more as a Software Engineer.

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        did senior pe engineering help you guess i was a senior software engineer posting in the programming humor community?

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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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    Decline meetings. Tbh as a senior your time is more valuable to the company fixing hard problems and architecturing solutions than doing the job of a pm / po.

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      As a designer who works closely with my boss, it actually works like this:

      He does meetings 8 hours a day, 2hrs talking to me

      I do site visits, design, meetings, solving problems, and 2 hrs a day of picking his brain so I can fit all of my shit into 10 hrs a day.

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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.