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

If only Shadow Master was a job title. I create technical shortcuts with no oversight that the company is now completely dependent on and nobody other than me understands it. Also I didn't document shit so I'm indispensable now. Give me raises.

TJT said:

If only Shadow Master was a job title. I create technical shortcuts with no oversight that the company is now completely dependent on and nobody other than me understands it. Also I didn't document shit so I'm indispensable now. Give me raises.

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At some of these companies it could! Heck at Palantir you can be a fucking "legal ninja."

I shit you not, look at their careers.

110k + 10k sign on bonus to be a "software engineer" aka IT.

Hard pass. I'd probably blow my brains out before month 3.

alavaz said:

What area is that in?

What kind of company is it? I've never heard of a hygiene department or whatever that just refactors code.

I also kind of hate the "engineering" title in IT. Or rather, I hate the lack of integrity that it has.

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It's banking.l in rva area. Have you even heard of a "hygiene" department? First time for me. If so what does that mean to you.

alavaz said:

Nah never heard of that being a thing. I've seen "maintenance coders," but those are usually old dudes who need something to do until retirement.

110k would be good money for the south though. If it's DC or the north east, that's not enough.

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It's real good money for the area but I don't feel like burning down my career potential so early in life. Would be taking two bits to the back of the head.

Hachima said:

To me it sounds like it is an SRE team without using the more commonly used name. Site Reliability Engineering - Wikipedia At places like Google they often have teams that use a mix between SRE - Platforms (more IT/Sys Admin) and SRE - Software Engineering for more software developer type coverage.

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Sounds about right! Now if only they would have used this god damn title and been upfront with what the fuck the teams do. Recruiter again straight up lied to me saying they do development when the lead said otherwise.

Gonna get the offer to tell them to get fucked (in a nicer way)

Noodleface said:

Use it as a chance to practice your negotiation skills

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Negotiate what? I don't care about the money (to an extent). I care about the work. Out of the two groups I interviewed for they said this was the one they wanted to put me in.

No point in negotiating money if I won't do the work.

Noodleface said:

Wait didn't we warn you about this?

Foler what I mean was just toss some numbers at them, some benefits, some extra PTO, etc. Just so for the next job you really want you're confident about what you can ask for.

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Will do but I'll be honest, this seems to be overpay for the area so I'm not sure how relevant the info will be.

Just fucking salty I got sold a shit sandwich and this dicks won't admit it's IT and not development.

Starting to lose motivation. Dunno what to teach myself anymore. Been doing some spring boot and hibernate. Shit is kinda AIDS tho if you're new to backend/databases. Debating whether to keep slogging through spring and jump into nosql as well or shift over to python or back to JavaScript.

May be doomed to forever be full time shitposter on this forum. I hope not.

110k + 10k sign on + 10k relocation I can keep even if I don't use all of it.

No budging. Recruiter seemed a little pissy when I hinted I'd have to look at the docs and another company is supposed to be getting back to me (not really true) but fuck him and all 4 interviewers for being disingenuous pieces of shit. Jokes on them if they think money is a key deciding factor.

Fuck that. 2 years into my last job I wanted to blow my brains out every other day after work. Not doing that again. Honestly just want some place where I can be relatively happy, I know it'll never be perfect.