IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.
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TJT
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TJT
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Our CI/CD Devops people are forcing the org to start using this for some reason Cicada
Its like using YAML for CI/CD that we've been doing for years at this point but you inject JS into it to make it gay. Shit kills me because WTF is gained from this? YAML isn't that hard to figure out even if your shit has like 20 build steps.
I hate my life sometimes.
Its like using YAML for CI/CD that we've been doing for years at this point but you inject JS into it to make it gay. Shit kills me because WTF is gained from this? YAML isn't that hard to figure out even if your shit has like 20 build steps.
I hate my life sometimes.
Nirgon
Log Wizard
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TJT
Mr. Poopybutthole
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No, data analysts would have been far more useful to the organization. The product manager's only contribution was that they talked to the customer facing group (Customer Success) which the team manager could do anyway.
Lunis
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I've made this much is the past 10 days or so. Some reddit users say they don't make much at all and some make a lot like myself, so it can be hit or miss. You have to pass a background check, and then wait until you get qualification tests to start doing the actual projects. So it's about a two week wait. There's very little transparency on why you do or don't get work, and not much support. If I had to guess why I got projects its - 1: I have no criminal record and 2: I wrote a lengthy description in the 'describe your skills/background' box when I signed up. And also taking the time to do the qualification tests correctly.
So far it's been good. It's a very barebones site, but I can confirm they do payout. All I can say is read the directions carefully on the qualification tests and take your time, it's not rocket science but my guess is some people half-ass it or skim through the guidelines and get disqualified from most future projects.
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ToeMissile
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Big Phoenix
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TJT
Mr. Poopybutthole
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I just completed the effort of a database migration to cloud (Snowflake). The project has taken this company over 5 years and we are now finally decommissioning the old systems. This is for a multibillion dollar healthcare company and it has amazed me how much bubblegum, byzantine ancient systems, workarounds, one-off applications, single user inputs and so on that have been keeping the whole mess kind of working. Just my small piece of it has been insane and I am shocked that it works at all.
I've also recognized that the healthcare industry as it exists couldn't function without this shit. Every single company mine interacts with uses peculiar file formats, extremely conditional file generation, weird data types, it just goes on and on and on. All built in the old school database way with thousands of stored procedures, views, data replication systems, and all of them are interdependent and almost none of it is documented.
Absolutely batshit.
Take for example one of our biggest B2B systems to deal with another multibillion dollar healthcare company. The "system" comprises:
I've also recognized that the healthcare industry as it exists couldn't function without this shit. Every single company mine interacts with uses peculiar file formats, extremely conditional file generation, weird data types, it just goes on and on and on. All built in the old school database way with thousands of stored procedures, views, data replication systems, and all of them are interdependent and almost none of it is documented.
Absolutely batshit.
Take for example one of our biggest B2B systems to deal with another multibillion dollar healthcare company. The "system" comprises:
- 57 different databases
- At least 100 different individual processes feeding said databases data (I honestly have no idea how many).
- 9 different completely unrelated applications hosted on various servers. Written in C# and others in Java.
- 400+ different stored procedures.
- A shitload of custom data views. No idea the total number. Well into the thousands.
- A massive in house application that actually generates the files to clients. Some of it goes to SFTP, the other part sends it to the in house print shot to put it on paper.
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Prodigal
Shitlord, Offender of the Universe
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I just assume when someone says “I need to take this call” and turns off the camera it means the same thing.
Break
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My department got re-arranged awhile ago and one of the assignments i'm in is me and 2 others so we have our own Teams chat. The other two announce anytime they go for a leak, it's really weird. I haven't seen anyone do that in my whole IT career. They must have had one hell of a micro manager in the past.
ToeMissile
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I just try to put up the ‘Be right back’ flag if I’m stepping away for more time than it goes idle/away on its own.
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TJT
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So after a yearlong battle with management I've been made the system admin of our HRIS system. Which is Workday. Workday is a huge piece of shit of an application too btw.
For the past year or so the HR people would manually generate some excel file with things like Headcount, Salaries, terminations, blah blah. Then the Finance guys would take this for their budgeting planning shit that goes to executive leadership. We got some new leadership a year ago who heard about this process and immediately said, "wtf are you doing? Automate all of this." I get this project and explain that to build this out and automate this we need to extract it into a DB that can be used by our various user interfacing BI tools.
HR fights this but eventually they have some key people quit and they have some new finance guys with more tech savy and I eventually get made admin because the HRIS people they hired have no idea how to use it. Its been hilarious because HR is so culty about shit. NOBODY CAN HAVE ACCESS TO THIS DATA BUT US!! Cunt, I signed a full transparency NDA on all data we have explicitly so I can develop this kind of shit for you.
For the past year or so the HR people would manually generate some excel file with things like Headcount, Salaries, terminations, blah blah. Then the Finance guys would take this for their budgeting planning shit that goes to executive leadership. We got some new leadership a year ago who heard about this process and immediately said, "wtf are you doing? Automate all of this." I get this project and explain that to build this out and automate this we need to extract it into a DB that can be used by our various user interfacing BI tools.
HR fights this but eventually they have some key people quit and they have some new finance guys with more tech savy and I eventually get made admin because the HRIS people they hired have no idea how to use it. Its been hilarious because HR is so culty about shit. NOBODY CAN HAVE ACCESS TO THIS DATA BUT US!! Cunt, I signed a full transparency NDA on all data we have explicitly so I can develop this kind of shit for you.
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