IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

Siliconemelons

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I work for a company that may or may not have had our leader at the White House the same day layoffs were happening touting how much they donated to the child fund.
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darkmiasma said:
Let me remove the mystery for those who suck at google.

www.foxbusiness.com

Michael Dell celebrates America’s 250th birthday with gift to seed the American Dream for millions of kids

Michael Dell pledged $250 for the first 25 million qualifying children who sign up for Trump Accounts as the federal investment program officially launched on Independence Day.
www.foxbusiness.com www.foxbusiness.com
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Our old CTO at my higher ed job was bros with Michael Dell… we were one of the first all dell computer labs etc, Michael visited a few times.

When I moved them all to VDI, I got a “talking to” by certain people for not using Wyse and “reminding” how much of a partner we /were/ with Dell and bla bla bla. They had their chance with Ardence hahah
 
Punko

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Punko said:
quit my job recently

had a pretty long resignment term, used leverage, i get paid for the entire term and get to stay at home

going to enjoy the rest of the summer
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Update on this

Had initial interview, along with assessment. Scored well on both.

Used AI as an advisor to complete the IQ tests, because the policy said nada about it, and you'd be retarded not to do it.

Soon there is an interview with CEO. I expect it to be a formality.

I drink, smoke and gamble like a degen, because I love those things. My sleeping patern consists of falling asleep when exhausted.

Sometimes I think about the people that live as expected, yet failing to stabilize. Wtf are they doing in their free time?

Even funnier are the college students that get burn-outs.

Can't do shit with the lot.

ps. had interview, starting end of augustust
 
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Noodleface

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I am leaving for 2 weeks for an international cruise and I'm getting no wifi. What makes this even more special is people can't seem to function if I'm not there. So I foresee two things happening, either they figure out how to function and I come back feeling relieved or everything blows up. I don't even care what one happens
 
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ShakyJake

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Noodleface said:
I am leaving for 2 weeks for an international cruise and I'm getting no wifi. What makes this even more special is people can't seem to function if I'm not there. So I foresee two things happening, either they figure out how to function and I come back feeling relieved or everything blows up. I don't even care what one happens
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Have fun. Hope you don't come back fired, though.
 
moonarchia

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Noodleface said:
I am leaving for 2 weeks for an international cruise and I'm getting no wifi. What makes this even more special is people can't seem to function if I'm not there. So I foresee two things happening, either they figure out how to function and I come back feeling relieved or everything blows up. I don't even care what one happens
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Enjoy your cruise! Don't even bring your work phone or laptop with you. You are on vacation. Full stop.
 
Kuro

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Got my first network admin job interview scheduled for next week. Would be like double my current pay and jumping free of "help desk" (My current role is "IT Generalist", so help desk for companies too poor to have a multi-member help desk with tiers), but it is an on-site job 4 hours west of here in a 5000 person town in the middle of Nebraska. The requirements are pretty relaxed because they know getting someone to move out there is hard. Feels like it would be a good career advancement choice but it also feels like I'd probably go crazy out there. So we'll see how the interview goes.
 
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TomServo

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Kuro said:
Got my first network admin job interview scheduled for next week. Would be like double my current pay and jumping free of "help desk" (My current role is "IT Generalist", so help desk for companies too poor to have a multi-member help desk with tiers), but it is an on-site job 4 hours west of here in a 5000 person town in the middle of Nebraska. The requirements are pretty relaxed because they know getting someone to move out there is hard. Feels like it would be a good career advancement choice but it also feels like I'd probably go crazy out there. So we'll see how the interview goes.
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Sack up. It is about as good as you can expect in this market
 
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Borzak

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Sounds like a good deal. Even if you don't love it you are making money and put on your resume for your next job. I work in a totally different world, but I've worked a few jobs that were basically resume builders.
 
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TJT

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One of the junior engineers asked me for help on something. I noticed that he was cloning the repo over and over. I asked him why he isn't just branching.

Dude tells me that he doesn't like "branch clutter." He clones the repo every single time so he only sees one branch and master. We have 7 repos we regularly contribute to on this team so I I imagine this has accumulated a lot. I tell him that this is really not how you are supposed to be using git at all. He just tells me "this works."

Kid graduated computer science in 2022.

I am losing hope here.
 
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Neranja

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TJT said:
Dude tells me that he doesn't like "branch clutter." He clones the repo every single time so he only sees one branch and master. We have 7 repos we regularly contribute to on this team so I I imagine this has accumulated a lot. I tell him that this is really not how you are supposed to be using git at all. He just tells me "this works."
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Sounds like he either never learned about merging branches, or ... he doesn't want others his experimentation in his branches to see.

Teach him that his local repo is not visible to others until pushed, and that he can merge branches, either with full commit history (git merge <source-branch>), or that he can compact the commit history in that branch to a single commit (git merge --squash <source-branch> ; git commit)

Or he learned enough git to "make it work", like someone who has learned about hammers and nails and applies that knowledge to screws, because they are similar in shape. That is not a good outlook for his career in IT, where you basically have to keep learning new stuff, as things keep moving.
 
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Deathwing

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I have a subordinate like that. There's something missing in their ability to apply introspection to their processes. If you have a repo the size of Android, might be fun to see how he copes with that.
 
Neranja

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There's something missing in their ability to apply introspection to their processes.
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I heard the term "human large language model", and the more I hear about these stories and see them play out firsthand, the more I think it is more fitting than I'd like to admit.
 
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