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When I was younger in my career I always wondered about older colleagues in senior positions who couldn’t seem to do basic tech things like save to PDF, but somehow managed to get promoted to Tech Director. I so get it now. How naive and innocent I was. I had a report train me on her team’s processes. She starts coaching me on keyboard shortcuts for spreadsheets during the process, because she’s…
Hi. I recently applied to a role in anthropic (engineering manager) to see if I can actually even get the call and I ended up getting a recruiter screen which is scheduled for next week. I am still in shock since I know they have a very high applicant pool but I want to do everything that I can do to prepare. I prepared for engineering manager interviews a year and a half ago when I moved to my…
Was there an incentive such as money involved? About how far was the move? Was the move to an interesting town/city? I feel like it’s more common for women to move to be with their spouse for work, so I’m trying to hear about it happening the other way around. submitted by /u/HappygilmoreL [link] [comments]
I wanted to share a bit of my story here, because this community has always felt encouraging. I didn't come from a CS background at all — I studied languages, linguistics, and literature. I fell into tech through pure curiosity about how languages work, and that curiosity kept pulling me deeper: from my first lines of Rust, to building interpreters, a self-hosting compiler, a distributed database,…
I loved getting my Master of Science in CS, but my SWE jobs were only technically interesting 25% of the time. What gives? How to get a job that is just as interesting? I did complete my Masters more recently than the work… submitted by /u/HappygilmoreL [link] [comments]
Just an observation. For example I will say: Oh so this does x? No , it does x I could literally say what a male colleague says and I’ll get a no, it’s “exactly what I fucking said” . And I get interrupted like crazy—like crazy. I mean I can’t even finish a sentence without someone karate chopping me. Just a bit frustrated in this daily occurrence submitted by /u/Plastic_Berry_1299 [link]…
Hi everyone, I’m 6 months into a corporate role after coming from a startup where I reported to C-suite and had full autonomy. I was hired to bring that same growth mindset here, but I’m running into some friction with corporate politics and mixed signals: Months ago, I flagged a major data warehouse issue to my direct manager with actionable fixes. They sat on it for 1.5 months until it blew up.…
I got an email for a phone screen from a FAANG recruiter and provided my availability, no response. I followed up and she apologized and gave me two different days for the potential phone screen. I sent over my availability and then no reply and those days have passed. Is this typical? I am not sure if I should follow up again. submitted by /u/Fantastic_Weekend111 [link] [comments]
I started a new job 3-ish months ago and I’m considering leaving to go back to my old company. I don’t really like the new job. The work isn’t what I expected, and I miss my old boss. My old boss recently told me she’d love to have me back and could find interesting things for me to work on. The pay would also be better. The part making me feel bad is that my current boss just went out on parental…
So I can view my GitHub repo online, but now when I try to push code changes to it, is says my account was suspended. This sucks because I need to update my portfolio site. I have sent GitHub a support ticket. Have any of you all have a similar experience? I have no idea why this is happening. submitted by /u/HappygilmoreL [link] [comments]
