Regular keyboards. I once handed a keyboard to a supervisor and told him I thought it was broken. He took the keyboard with both hands, slammed it against the edge of a bench table, and sent every key on the keyboard flying. His manager came through the door and asked him if everything was okay, he told him that he verified that the keyboard was broken and handed it back to me. Just another typical day at the video game office.
Not Google. Most companies I worked for after Google don't have enough work to keep me busy. If I start doing the work of two or three other people, management might decide to lay those people off. Either management keeps me busy or I'm browsing the Internet because there's nothing else for me to do.
I got stranded in a receptionist-less lobby of a busy biogenetic research company for 90 minutes. People kept coming and going, smiling at me in passing. The recruiter kept calling me everything 15 minutes to ask where the hell I was for this interview. Someone approached me and asked for my name. The hiring manager in a lab coat assumed that I was a venture capitalist because I wore a business suit and tie. After the interview and a tour of the labs, I met the CEO who was dressed in blue jeans and T-shirt. I didn't get the job because I was "too rich" for them..
Why is "performance under stress" a relevant metric?
At Google, everyone works at the speed of light, moves to a different cube every three months, and gains an average 27 pounds in weight from eating at the cafeteria (roasted duck and mac-n-cheese on Fridays is so good). Some people may find that stressful. Every company I worked at since Google claimed to have a faster pace work environment, but they were all slower than Google. I often find myself browsing the Internet for the rest of the day because I finished my work in the first five minutes.
If you're not one of the cool kids at [high school | college], you're not going to be an engineer at Google. Being a contractor gets your foot into the door to demonstrate your abilities. Also, roasted duck and mac-n-cheese on Fridays is a killer combo at one of the cafeterias.
The easiest way to get a job at Google is to become a contractor and skip the tricky interview questions. Only engineers and management are full-time employees with stock options. Everyone else is a contractor. I've done help desk, inventory and data center at Google.
When I had an interview at Accolade, which got bought up by Infogrames and became the new Atari, I got asked the following question: "If two of your coworkers were having a fist fight out in the hallway, what would you do?"
I blurted out, "Does that happen a lot around here?"
My interviewers laughed. I got the job and worked there for six years. I've seen game controllers and keyboards destroyed in fits of rage, but no one ever got into a fist fight out in the hallway.
The correct answer to the question is to take bets.
My five-page resume that I put on the job search websites is loaded with buzzwords from the last 20 years. Recruiters love this version. I give the hiring managers my two-page resume that summarizes the last three positions and/or last three years. For my current I.T. job, I had to provide my long resume because 10 to 15 years of I.T. experience was a requirement.
If an Indian recruiter calls with an incomprehensible accent calls, I answer "yes" to every question on their script. If they get confused by a "yes" answer and repeat the question, I answer "no" for that question and "yes" to the remaining questions. Surprisingly, this works every time. I've gotten a few interviews this way.
I once had an Amazon package walked off the doorstep. I waited a few days just in case it was a late delivery, called up Amazon on a Saturday morning and the replacement package arrived 12 hours later by special courier from a distribution center that was 800 miles away. Needless to say, I was impressed.
For my current IT job, I need my badge to log into my Windows laptop and a security token to access my administrator account. I still have a username associated with each account, but I never have to type in my login name.
I worked IT help desk at eBay for a while. Since eBay doesn't have a phone number on the website, some users would call the operator to get the corporate phone number and start dialing extensions to find someone to pick up. I got few angry phone calls and couldn't help them, redirecting them back to the website. My coworkers and I used to joke around about angry villagers storming the cubicles with pitchforks and torches.
If you believe you did not get the latest job because you did not know the IDE you have a serious problem.
You have obviously never dealt with a recruiter or HR drone following a checklist. If you didn't have what's on the checklist, you didn't get the interview or job. I was once turned down for an interview because I didn't know "Red Hat GUI" for a Linux job that was 99% command line work, which I thought I was perfect for because the Linux command line 99% of the time. Since I didn't know "Red Hat GUI" and that box couldn't be checked off, the recruiter hung up on me.
Tell that to the HR drone who writes up the job description. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft Visual Studios is listed as a requirement for the job applicants you want to interview.
I had a job interview at a multi-billion-dollar company a few years ago. The IT department wasn't allowed to license anti-virus or anti-spyware utilities because the software companies weren't in the multi-billion-dollar league, as any purchase from a smaller company would be seen as an "endorsement" by the larger company. (The hiring manager made it sound like the Prime Directive from Star Trek.) The IT techs spent all their time manually removing spyware and viruses from laptops. Unless the laptop got hosed, they weren't allowed to reimage the laptop. I turned down the job offer.
The principles of account security is still applicable: rename the administrator account to something less obvious. If a hacker doesn't know the account name, he will have to guess the account name and the password to gain entry. As I haven't dealt with Linux in a while, I gave examples from Windows and web apps.
I don't think Notepad (or Notepad++) has the same cachet as Microsoft Visual Studio on a resume. Getting a job is the whole point of learning computer programming at a community college. If you know C/C++ but don't know MSVS, you're not going to get a job. The same thing for Java if you don't know Eclipse or Netbeans.
While Microsoft may donate to the universities, it required payment from the community college that I attended. The dean taught C/C++ and GCC in the Linux Admin classes. The administration refused to go with open source programming because Microsoft Visual Studio was the industry norm and Java was the next industry norm on the horizon. When the funding issue did get resolved, none of the classroom computers could run VS.NET as the hardware was too old. I never used Java after graduating from school. These days I use Python and occasionally Cython (C compiler for Python).
It's recommended to rename the default administrator and guess accounts on Windows to make it more difficult for a hacker to break in. I routinely rename the administrator accounts on web applications. I'm not too sure about Linux, as I haven't used it in a while.
Security was never the primary design goal for C, UNIX or the Internet. The technology for the last half-century got "foisted on this world" because it worked and worked quite well.
Front closet is for coats and jackets after walking through the door. Back closet is typically a walk-in closet off the master bedroom for clothes and junk. In my case, I got five boxes of computer parts that I picked up over the years. Last year I got rid of the AT-to PS2 keyboard adapters and SCSI drives from the 1990's.
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Regular keyboards. I once handed a keyboard to a supervisor and told him I thought it was broken. He took the keyboard with both hands, slammed it against the edge of a bench table, and sent every key on the keyboard flying. His manager came through the door and asked him if everything was okay, he told him that he verified that the keyboard was broken and handed it back to me. Just another typical day at the video game office.
Not Google. Most companies I worked for after Google don't have enough work to keep me busy. If I start doing the work of two or three other people, management might decide to lay those people off. Either management keeps me busy or I'm browsing the Internet because there's nothing else for me to do.
Does the job description call for a programmer or a computer scientist? The two are not always interchangeable.
I got stranded in a receptionist-less lobby of a busy biogenetic research company for 90 minutes. People kept coming and going, smiling at me in passing. The recruiter kept calling me everything 15 minutes to ask where the hell I was for this interview. Someone approached me and asked for my name. The hiring manager in a lab coat assumed that I was a venture capitalist because I wore a business suit and tie. After the interview and a tour of the labs, I met the CEO who was dressed in blue jeans and T-shirt. I didn't get the job because I was "too rich" for them..
Why is "performance under stress" a relevant metric?
At Google, everyone works at the speed of light, moves to a different cube every three months, and gains an average 27 pounds in weight from eating at the cafeteria (roasted duck and mac-n-cheese on Fridays is so good). Some people may find that stressful. Every company I worked at since Google claimed to have a faster pace work environment, but they were all slower than Google. I often find myself browsing the Internet for the rest of the day because I finished my work in the first five minutes.
If you're not one of the cool kids at [high school | college], you're not going to be an engineer at Google. Being a contractor gets your foot into the door to demonstrate your abilities. Also, roasted duck and mac-n-cheese on Fridays is a killer combo at one of the cafeterias.
The easiest way to get a job at Google is to become a contractor and skip the tricky interview questions. Only engineers and management are full-time employees with stock options. Everyone else is a contractor. I've done help desk, inventory and data center at Google.
When I had an interview at Accolade, which got bought up by Infogrames and became the new Atari, I got asked the following question: "If two of your coworkers were having a fist fight out in the hallway, what would you do?"
I blurted out, "Does that happen a lot around here?"
My interviewers laughed. I got the job and worked there for six years. I've seen game controllers and keyboards destroyed in fits of rage, but no one ever got into a fist fight out in the hallway.
The correct answer to the question is to take bets.
Christ Microsoft
When did Microsoft become Lord and Savior? That's a whole different realm of monopoly power.
My five-page resume that I put on the job search websites is loaded with buzzwords from the last 20 years. Recruiters love this version. I give the hiring managers my two-page resume that summarizes the last three positions and/or last three years. For my current I.T. job, I had to provide my long resume because 10 to 15 years of I.T. experience was a requirement.
If an Indian recruiter calls with an incomprehensible accent calls, I answer "yes" to every question on their script. If they get confused by a "yes" answer and repeat the question, I answer "no" for that question and "yes" to the remaining questions. Surprisingly, this works every time. I've gotten a few interviews this way.
I once had an Amazon package walked off the doorstep. I waited a few days just in case it was a late delivery, called up Amazon on a Saturday morning and the replacement package arrived 12 hours later by special courier from a distribution center that was 800 miles away. Needless to say, I was impressed.
For my current IT job, I need my badge to log into my Windows laptop and a security token to access my administrator account. I still have a username associated with each account, but I never have to type in my login name.
I worked IT help desk at eBay for a while. Since eBay doesn't have a phone number on the website, some users would call the operator to get the corporate phone number and start dialing extensions to find someone to pick up. I got few angry phone calls and couldn't help them, redirecting them back to the website. My coworkers and I used to joke around about angry villagers storming the cubicles with pitchforks and torches.
If you believe you did not get the latest job because you did not know the IDE you have a serious problem.
You have obviously never dealt with a recruiter or HR drone following a checklist. If you didn't have what's on the checklist, you didn't get the interview or job. I was once turned down for an interview because I didn't know "Red Hat GUI" for a Linux job that was 99% command line work, which I thought I was perfect for because the Linux command line 99% of the time. Since I didn't know "Red Hat GUI" and that box couldn't be checked off, the recruiter hung up on me.
The Internet was created by DAPRA. The civilian application was a byproduct.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA
Tell that to the HR drone who writes up the job description. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft Visual Studios is listed as a requirement for the job applicants you want to interview.
I had a job interview at a multi-billion-dollar company a few years ago. The IT department wasn't allowed to license anti-virus or anti-spyware utilities because the software companies weren't in the multi-billion-dollar league, as any purchase from a smaller company would be seen as an "endorsement" by the larger company. (The hiring manager made it sound like the Prime Directive from Star Trek.) The IT techs spent all their time manually removing spyware and viruses from laptops. Unless the laptop got hosed, they weren't allowed to reimage the laptop. I turned down the job offer.
If you think Slashdot is journalism, you got issues to work out.
The principles of account security is still applicable: rename the administrator account to something less obvious. If a hacker doesn't know the account name, he will have to guess the account name and the password to gain entry. As I haven't dealt with Linux in a while, I gave examples from Windows and web apps.
I don't think Notepad (or Notepad++) has the same cachet as Microsoft Visual Studio on a resume. Getting a job is the whole point of learning computer programming at a community college. If you know C/C++ but don't know MSVS, you're not going to get a job. The same thing for Java if you don't know Eclipse or Netbeans.
While Microsoft may donate to the universities, it required payment from the community college that I attended. The dean taught C/C++ and GCC in the Linux Admin classes. The administration refused to go with open source programming because Microsoft Visual Studio was the industry norm and Java was the next industry norm on the horizon. When the funding issue did get resolved, none of the classroom computers could run VS .NET as the hardware was too old. I never used Java after graduating from school. These days I use Python and occasionally Cython (C compiler for Python).
It's recommended to rename the default administrator and guess accounts on Windows to make it more difficult for a hacker to break in. I routinely rename the administrator accounts on web applications. I'm not too sure about Linux, as I haven't used it in a while.
Security was never the primary design goal for C, UNIX or the Internet. The technology for the last half-century got "foisted on this world" because it worked and worked quite well.
Front closet is for coats and jackets after walking through the door. Back closet is typically a walk-in closet off the master bedroom for clothes and junk. In my case, I got five boxes of computer parts that I picked up over the years. Last year I got rid of the AT-to PS2 keyboard adapters and SCSI drives from the 1990's.