I leave a review or comment to warn people if the product isn't up to snuff or just plain junk. Sometimes I'll leave a "meh" review if the product does what it says which is the bare minimum to get my money. I deal with Amazon directly for all returns. If contacted by the seller, I tell them I've already returned the product and the review stands. I didn't know that it's against policy for 3rd-party sellers to buyers.

Yep. I passed the technical screen with flying colors. But the the hiring manager gave feedback to the recruiter that he wanted someone "more current". That's codespeak for "younger".

I had a recruiter post to DICE for someone who's "fresher". I complained to DICE and they took down the job listing and I hope banned the recruiter who himself identifies as "fresher".

I leave the date of graduation off my resume and any requesting info. That, in and of itself, is a sign. I don't need to dye my hair but I have friends that do. And I made the mistake of mentioning that I recently paid off my mortgage. Again the manager refused to interview me despite one of their team who I worked with giving me a stellar recommendation.

I keep asking recruiters if I should take off experience going back to the mid-90s and they all say to keep it. This thread is telling me otherwise.

Yeah, I told my boss that they had a major security issue because they allowed anyone to ssh into the cloud instances they setup. He told me not to restrict them because he wanted the developers to work from anywhere. A couple weeks later, we had a major break in over the weekend where our account was mining bitcoins on thousands of big, expensive Windows VMs. My boss and the VP of Engineering spent the weekend locking things down.

Based on my attempt to get a job with the @SantaClaraCity, I wonder if local governments are in deep sneakers. My non-CS degree disqualified me from applying for an IT role they were desperate to fill. Will a CS degree also be a requirement for their cybersecurity candidates? No one has ever just said "you're not qualified" based solely on my degree. You don't need a CS degree to work in IT here in Silicon Valley, except in local government. So called "cybersecurity" people may not have this problem because they have a CS degree.

Actually, as a DevOops/IT person, most of the roles recruiters are sending me require on-site presence post-COVID. I won't relocate to the various places where the job is located, so I just delete those. My last gig was already setup to do remotely with my manager and devs in CO and colleagues in UK and ID. I had one guy who who worked in the same office as me. The only reason to go in was the network was much better than my home and Zoom calls were tolerable. Pre-COVID, HP did a similar thing by outlawing WFH and calling all their people to a local field office. Those > 200 mi from an office were expected to move or resign. It was really a RIF. But so many people are leaving the SF/Bay area for more affordable and habitable places, I suspect that any employer expecting them to move back will have to re-hire that position or loose their head count. Methinks, it's a way for Google to RIF but I could just be imagining this.

I think I used code for a very basic haproxy configuration that did what I wanted for proof of concept and some python code to query a web-site's SSL certificate with just using basic libraries. At most they save time in getting bare bones code running and I could go on to read more in-depth to enhance it. These weren't major projects, just "can this be done" demos. Most of the Stack Overflow stuff I've crawled through was to figure out why something wasn't working, usually an installation or configuration issue. It's gold for that.

I've been in an interview that was going pretty well but ultimately went over the allotted time. I agreed to go over and they asked me to write a script. I drew a complete blank on how to do it and said so. I'd have to do some research to figure out the best way to do it. That ended the interview.

Afterwards, I did a simple google search and there's UNIX command that does most of the work. But I didn't know that command, so I couldn't solve the problem in the moment.

I supposed I might have been successful and done well at that job, but not if I had to work with the guy interviewing me. So it all worked out.

A musician friend of mine is married to a Sysadmin. Don't laugh. It works.

She equates an interview with an audition, which totally different from playing in an orchestra.

Pre-COVID, I'd get pre-screening questions that required some research and an essay that would have taken 4-6 hours to do thoroughly. I turned those down. Short questions like "What's the difference between a hard and soft link?" are fine, but I'm not going to write an essay describing in detail at the network level what happens when I type a URL into a browser.

I've had a python coding pre-screen for DevOps gig which was minimally specified. I had to guess how they wanted the output. I'd never really coded a full python program, only on-line exercises, so I took the challenge to do it in 24 hours while I was cooking for a dinner party. I got it running and turned it in.

They didn't like my output or how I coded it. It reminded me of a similar situation with past manager -- I was supposed read his mind as to what he wanted. When I got it wrong, we had meeting where I asked all sorts of questions about what he wanted and how he wanted it, much to his distaste. He really wanted someone who'd "do what I ask and don't ask questions". I think it was a culture thing.

Ultimately, I could have fixed the code to do what the pre-screener wanted, but I told the recruiter I wasn't interested.

With isopropanol so hard to get these days, I'm very close to buying a couple gallons of sub-basement vodka from BevMo and giving it to a friend to run through his still. After 4 passes, it'd be more than pure enough to use as a disinfectant. The thing used to be his mom's pressure cooker before he converted it with teflon seals etc. And according to him, yes, the booze tastes like pot roast.

While the current vendors that provide Workman's Comp and HMO service for Tesla workers are probably doing so under a year-long contract, I'm sure that they'll try every thing they can to avoid paying for services if Tesla opens in defiance of the Shelter In Place. They'd be putting workers at risk of contracting COVID-19. Enough workers get sick and the cost per employee goes up. ICU beds and ventilators aren't cheap care. Then the litigation begins. A lot of companies that are open now with sick workers are gonna keep a lot of lawyers busy. I'm sure when time comes for renegotiation of these contracts, the price per employee will go up. Way up. And that's gonna happen regardless of where Tesla has their factory. Then Tesla will have to decide if they want to offer health insurance to the factory workers or self-insure or just pay for cheaper "we won't pay for anything" coverage from a fly-by night vendor. It took California's Insurance Commissioner years to ban Republic from selling policies in the state. They denied all claims which was why they were so cheap.

Since I live "superclose" to the restaurant I'd be ordering from, I have no problem *calling them directly*, ordering food, and going to pick it up. That's what my dad did over 50 years ago when mom didn't want to cook.

This is making more sense. I've been looking for something new on and off for a couple years now. Everytime I see something from WiPro, Infosys, and Tata down is the Southbay, I know that they won't meet my minimum hourly rate. Another giveaway is the term is always 3 months with a promise of extension.

No the virus is not spread via airborne transmission like measles. It's spread by coughing and sneezing infected secretions. Which is why you should wear a mask. The cheap ones will stop the heavier droplets. I think the N95 masks stop the aerosolized droplets that stay in the air, which is why doctors and nurses should get them first. You should check your facts instead of relying on FOX. And get that rectocranial inversion fixed by your chiropractor when all this is over with.

That's for sure. DEC sold a custom software contract to a company at SFO that cost more to build than they made in revenue. But the sales people and their management had since moved on to bigger and better jobs. That left DEC holding the contract and bound to deliver the work even though it cost more than they were paid in the end.