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Heylel

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Cali next Monday. Not real optimistic on the backgrounds of my interviewers. Only one of them lists a skill related to my background on their linkedin.

Either they won't give a shit, or they'll be lost. If I'm lucky they'll be lost and interested enough to want to hear more.
 
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Heylel said:
Cali next Monday. Not real optimistic on the backgrounds of my interviewers. Only one of them lists a skill related to my background on their linkedin.

Either they won't give a shit, or they'll be lost. If I'm lucky they'll be lost and interested enough to want to hear more.
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Are they maybe bringing you in to fill a skill hole?
 
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a_skeleton_03 said:
Are they maybe bringing you in to fill a skill hole?
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That's exactly it. It's a specialist position, but they don't normally hire specialists. Hence, I have a trio of generalists who I'll need to interview with.

That's not a problem per se, but it likely means they're going to be looking for answers a little different than I'm prepared to give. I took a strange path to get where I am. I started as a specialist, and have been gradually expanding to more generalist roles. That's the opposite of what typically happens. It means I have a deeper background in my specific area than most, but I have also struggled with some fundamentals that I had to learn on the job because they were never related to my niche previously.

Basically I'm worried that they're going to want me to do freshman stats shit that I never took, when I've spent the last 10 years using a calculator.
 
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Start the new job tomorrow. Gotta drive 2. 5 hours to orientation for 3 hours then 2.5 hours to report to my job site
 
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Heylel said:
Basically I'm worried that they're going to want me to do freshman stats shit that I never took, when I've spent the last 10 years using a calculator.
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Guessing on the company since you said Menlo they want you to be a a guiding hand for a program most likely and not the guy doing the number crunching and so I doubt that will be much of a concern. Maybe Mark like those gotcha questions in an interview though and mandates them!!
 
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a_skeleton_03 said:
Guessing on the company since you said Menlo they want you to be a a guiding hand for a program most likely and not the guy doing the number crunching and so I doubt that will be much of a concern. Maybe Mark like those gotcha questions in an interview though and mandates them!!
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Heh, maybe. I've heard they're not too bad about gotcha questions. I just don't want to be forced to discuss generalist stuff the entire time when it isn't what they're hiring for.

The gig is the first researcher on an internal startup team of 6-7 engineers dedicated to accessibility projects. The first UXR they ever hired, who is now head of accessibility, is backing the project so it has some pretty major traction. It's a job I want to do, so I hope things go well and the offer is enough to be worth moving.
 
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Heylel said:
Heh, maybe. I've heard they're not too bad about gotcha questions. I just don't want to be forced to discuss generalist stuff the entire time when it isn't what they're hiring for.

The gig is the first researcher on an internal startup team of 6-7 engineers dedicated to accessibility projects. The first UXR they ever hired, who is now head of accessibility, is backing the project so it has some pretty major traction. It's a job I want to do, so I hope things go well and the offer is enough to be worth moving.
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I hope you get it and it's worth it. I don't think they bring you out from where you are without knowing they are going to need to make it worth your while.
 
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a_skeleton_03 said:
I hope you get it and it's worth it. I don't think they bring you out from where you are without knowing they are going to need to make it worth your while.
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Probably. I'm just unaccustomed to being the guy who is worth flying out for a job interview. Moving coast to coast isn't cheap, and it's strange to me thinking that it's even worth their time. Surely *someone* in the Valley already has the qualifications.
 
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Heylel said:
Probably. I'm just unaccustomed to being the guy who is worth flying out for a job interview. Moving coast to coast isn't cheap, and it's strange to me thinking that it's even worth their time. Surely *someone* in the Valley already has the qualifications.
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The people deciding whether a candidate is worth interviewing in person rarely ever have to deal with the financial consequences of that decision.
 
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Right they aren't thinking about bottom dollar and how they should look local. They have a budget for a candidate and after salary, bonus, and moving expenses are taken care of as long as they're below that they generally don't care where they're from
 
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a_skeleton_03 said:
Guessing on the company since you said Menlo they want you to be a a guiding hand for a program most likely and not the guy doing the number crunching and so I doubt that will be much of a concern. Maybe Mark like those gotcha questions in an interview though and mandates them!!
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Yes. Mark those questions...

If it's that company they will give more a more than competitive offer.
 
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I'm noticing every state in the US has this same problem though. In Florida it's the same in St. Petersburg. The new hotness in Tampa is to pay stupid amounts of money for an average as shit apartment / condo in St. Pete. The second the economy gets a real estate hiccup these people are FUCKED.
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fucking tampaites stay on your side of the damn bay >_<
 
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fucking tampaites stay on your side of the damn bay >_<
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To be honest I think South Tampa is better anyway. Every time I question someone on their love for St. Pete I cannot get a legit answer. When they do give me a reason it's easy to come up with the same or better in South Tampa / Downtown.
 
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kudos said:
To be honest I think South Tampa is better anyway. Every time I question someone on their love for St. Pete I cannot get a legit answer. When they do give me a reason it's easy to come up with the same or better in South Tampa / Downtown.
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I'd expect Tampa to tank in the next year or two depending on how Zika goes.

Just another reason to not go to Florida.
 
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Vinen said:
I'd expect Tampa to tank in the next year or two depending on how Zika goes.

Just another reason to not go to Florida.
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Doing everything I can to get the fuck out. This job opportunity will for sure take me out. I just don't know where.
 
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They cant say "for downtown" St. Pete has a crappy downtown... it's better now that semblers protest pad is the sundial or whatever, you can get similar crap in tampa.

I do everything in my power to avoid tampa, I hate the drivers and with unapologetic "cityism" the people, and that included my family that lived there. If ikea would blow up it would reduce my visits thru tampa by 80%.

Living here and working there, both sides to the other is why you cannot be on the damned bridge during literally 65% of the day. Dammit I am going to have to go to the rustled jimmies thread! Sorry all!
 
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a_skeleton_03 said:
I hope you get it and it's worth it. I don't think they bring you out from where you are without knowing they are going to need to make it worth your while.
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The job that brought me to SF gave me considerably more than what I asked for. They aren't going to fly you out if they aren't serious about you.
 
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They cant say "for downtown" St. Pete has a crappy downtown... it's better now that semblers protest pad is the sundial or whatever, you can get similar crap in tampa.

I do everything in my power to avoid tampa, I hate the drivers and with unapologetic "cityism" the people, and that included my family that lived there. If ikea would blow up it would reduce my visits thru tampa by 80%.

Living here and working there, both sides to the other is why you cannot be on the damned bridge during literally 65% of the day. Dammit I am going to have to go to the rustled jimmies thread! Sorry all!
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Clearwater is the new St. Pete. Get in now before the hipsters take it over like St. Pete. You'll make a killing.
 
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I'm sitting here still waitin on an answer from my boss about my raise/promotion.

His direct report left, and the guy above her filling in is doing 2 jobs...He promised me an answer in 3 weeks...This is week 3. We'll see if he follows through, or at least has a good reason as to why there is no answer.

I expect something along the lines of "due to projections we can't fit it in until the end of the year, but we can do X for you then."...which I'm cool with. Puts numbers in place of mystery.
 
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What kinds of jobs are there in IT crisis management/disaster recovery?

That's the only thing keeping me at this job. It's actually legitimately fun when we get a critical system down for a major managed services customer, and have to spring into action and start mobilizing people and resources, getting people on planes with parts, staging rebuilds of systems remotely, figure out some kind of failover plan, coordinating critical business outage plans with vendors, etc. A lot of it would be a lot easier if we had documented failover plans for all of our customers, but we don't, because we suck at information management/data integrity, but the fact that our documentation sucks actually makes it a lot more fun.

Is this like an entire field of IT that one can actually get into?
 
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