Just had a potential employer do this to me. I had two on-site interviews in rapid succession, was obviously a great fit for the position, and recruiter told me I was company's first choice. It looked like an offer was imminent.
Then a few weeks went by with no movement. Recruiter kept telling me this is normal and company was still interested. I called the hiring manager and HR person whom so eagerly threw their business cards to me while saying to call if there's absolutely anything they can do. Both voicemails went unreturned.
Another week went by. I grilled the recruiter and he finally admitted that they gave the offer to a cheaper candidate, but told him to keep me "warm" (ie hanging) in case that candidate didn't work out.
Cheap candidate didn't work out, so they sent me an offer. I soon had other competing offers. Told recruiter his offer was losing out because company had, erm, "ghosted" me. He told me that I can't take that personally, that it's perfectly normal for a company to ignore you when you're not their first choice.
I told recruiter I was going to accept another offer, but told him I wasn't going to decline his offer yet in case first choice didn't work out. I asked him to keep the company "warm". He threw a tantrum that I can't do that, but he went along with it because he wanted a chance at the commission. Funny how turnabout isn't fair play.
I formally declined the offer the day it was set to expire. I don't want to work with people like that.
I prefer to vote for political candidates on their individual merits. However, I think I'm going to have to start voting straight Democrat until this net neutrality thing is fixed.
I've quit two jobs because they were pointless like this. The punchline: I'm a software engineer, not a bureaucrat.
There was definitely meaningful work to be done in both cases. I knew what had be done & I very much wanted to do it.
However, my immediate managers were very bent on managing me, and they managed me in a way that I could not get real work done, at least not at any meaningful rate.
After wasting countless days of my life being managed in each case, I ultimately said "f it" and quit.
Is there really that much demand for new electricians? I've been seriously considering switching to that field, but the demand & pay stats I was finding online didn't seem horribly motivating.
If you want to delve into functional programming, try Erlang. It's a practical distributed functional programming language that's been in production use in telecom systems for quite some time. It's also a mind-screw to learn.
Congrats! Any tips for finding such a job that provides both a) good compensation and b) a boss that doesn't make you hate showing up to work every day?
The correct outcome is that they 1) let the kid go free and compensate him & his family for wronging them, and 2) they fire & prosecute the system administrators for misclassifying and failing to secure private information.
I've worked in multiple shops that claimed to practice Agile.
Half of them actually were doing Agile. They actually got good results.
The other half wouldn't know Agile if it bit them in the ass. They didn't get results. They blamed Agile for their failures, rather than acknowledging that "saying we're doing Agile is not the same as actually doing Agile".
Nvidia needs to accept that it's a free market and just accept that the goods will get sold to the highest bidder....just like our political offices...
Every company wants somebody that knows their full stack. Problem is, every company has their own unique permutation of technologies that forms their stack, and most companies won't liok beyond their particular buzzwords to understand how much of a problem space's theory an applicant understands.
Sounds like "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" has devolved to "censor that which we find politically inconvenient".
Also, "Peopleware" provides data substantiating that a good programmer is more than 10x as productive as a mediocre programmer. So even if a good programmer costs 2x as much as mediocre, you're still 5x ahead.
Given the option of two cheap guys that are wage-equivalent to a quality guy, the quality guy is the better buy. More bodies means more communication overhead, and communication overhead is expensive in software organizations. Brooks addresses communication in the book "The Mythical Man Month". The book "Peopleware" posits that software development is primarily a sociological, not technological, endeavor.
It appears to me that many managers would rather pay for a more-expensive army of less-expensive mediocre programmers than hire a less-expensive small team of more-expensive talented programmers.
How can we trust a firmware update to reliably clean up an infected device? After all, the firmware update would need to be installed by the currently running infected firmware. Couldn't the current firmware infect the new firmware as its being installed? Sounds like we might need to JTAG a new image straight to the hardware.
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Just had a potential employer do this to me. I had two on-site interviews in rapid succession, was obviously a great fit for the position, and recruiter told me I was company's first choice. It looked like an offer was imminent. Then a few weeks went by with no movement. Recruiter kept telling me this is normal and company was still interested. I called the hiring manager and HR person whom so eagerly threw their business cards to me while saying to call if there's absolutely anything they can do. Both voicemails went unreturned. Another week went by. I grilled the recruiter and he finally admitted that they gave the offer to a cheaper candidate, but told him to keep me "warm" (ie hanging) in case that candidate didn't work out. Cheap candidate didn't work out, so they sent me an offer. I soon had other competing offers. Told recruiter his offer was losing out because company had, erm, "ghosted" me. He told me that I can't take that personally, that it's perfectly normal for a company to ignore you when you're not their first choice. I told recruiter I was going to accept another offer, but told him I wasn't going to decline his offer yet in case first choice didn't work out. I asked him to keep the company "warm". He threw a tantrum that I can't do that, but he went along with it because he wanted a chance at the commission. Funny how turnabout isn't fair play. I formally declined the offer the day it was set to expire. I don't want to work with people like that.
I prefer to vote for political candidates on their individual merits. However, I think I'm going to have to start voting straight Democrat until this net neutrality thing is fixed.
Blink twice if you're under duress.
This is my poor-man's upvote.
Hey NASA, you guys might want to check out this strange orange humanoid that has been hanging around the White House.
I've quit two jobs because they were pointless like this. The punchline: I'm a software engineer, not a bureaucrat. There was definitely meaningful work to be done in both cases. I knew what had be done & I very much wanted to do it. However, my immediate managers were very bent on managing me, and they managed me in a way that I could not get real work done, at least not at any meaningful rate. After wasting countless days of my life being managed in each case, I ultimately said "f it" and quit.
Is there really that much demand for new electricians? I've been seriously considering switching to that field, but the demand & pay stats I was finding online didn't seem horribly motivating.
If you want to delve into functional programming, try Erlang. It's a practical distributed functional programming language that's been in production use in telecom systems for quite some time. It's also a mind-screw to learn.
Congrats! Any tips for finding such a job that provides both a) good compensation and b) a boss that doesn't make you hate showing up to work every day?
The correct outcome is that they 1) let the kid go free and compensate him & his family for wronging them, and 2) they fire & prosecute the system administrators for misclassifying and failing to secure private information.
I've worked in multiple shops that claimed to practice Agile. Half of them actually were doing Agile. They actually got good results. The other half wouldn't know Agile if it bit them in the ass. They didn't get results. They blamed Agile for their failures, rather than acknowledging that "saying we're doing Agile is not the same as actually doing Agile".
I find your remark to be hate speech against my free speech beliefs. Your move.
Correction: "Facebook AI will curb free speech"
Did you mean "Nobody should be deprived of the games Windows plays"?
Nvidia needs to accept that it's a free market and just accept that the goods will get sold to the highest bidder. ...just like our political offices...
Even if it recompiles cleanly on the first try (big if), there is still substantial cost in testing.
Every company wants somebody that knows their full stack. Problem is, every company has their own unique permutation of technologies that forms their stack, and most companies won't liok beyond their particular buzzwords to understand how much of a problem space's theory an applicant understands.
Totally agree. Let 'em pay for the capacity they're using, just like the carriers that charge per byte / minute / SMS message.
Sounds like "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" has devolved to "censor that which we find politically inconvenient".
Also, "Peopleware" provides data substantiating that a good programmer is more than 10x as productive as a mediocre programmer. So even if a good programmer costs 2x as much as mediocre, you're still 5x ahead.
Given the option of two cheap guys that are wage-equivalent to a quality guy, the quality guy is the better buy. More bodies means more communication overhead, and communication overhead is expensive in software organizations. Brooks addresses communication in the book "The Mythical Man Month". The book "Peopleware" posits that software development is primarily a sociological, not technological, endeavor.
It appears to me that many managers would rather pay for a more-expensive army of less-expensive mediocre programmers than hire a less-expensive small team of more-expensive talented programmers.
Funny thing is, there isn't much correlation between "years of experience" and "ability" according to the book "Peopleware".
Wow, that's an impressive record. Have you ever considered going into business for yourself as a consultant?
How can we trust a firmware update to reliably clean up an infected device? After all, the firmware update would need to be installed by the currently running infected firmware. Couldn't the current firmware infect the new firmware as its being installed? Sounds like we might need to JTAG a new image straight to the hardware.