6 Figures 6 Certs Random Thoughts Thread

[Obreh Winfrey]

I enjoy working from home but I hate the noise that neighbors make. I'm considering going back into the office just to get some peace and fukking quiet. At this point I think I only want shyt to open up so that child care is a thing again .

Think if I ever become a lawmaker I'm going to make it illegal to live above someone if you have kids . Punishment is a caning and breaking your kids legs.

 

[Atlrocafella]

I’m targeting mid-July to be prepped for a possible return to the office.

It’s looking like return to office will be September but I need to be prepared in case management tries to pull a slick one.

We are set to come back May 1 , hopefully it gets extended until the end of Summer, I’m trying to hit those mid-day lunches in the city with some baddies.

 

[chargers31]

My first shift bid is coming up and the day schedules they offering are . Not one afternoon to evening shift either. Hopefully I still get nights.

Then we might even come back to office next month

 

[Pyrexcup]

Q1 coming to an end already

I've been pre occupied with crypto and stock market this whole year so far so not been focusing on the getting my scrum cert or my side business. This new team is trash but it will at least free up two hours for my everyday and the workloads are lower so need to use the extra time to make more money for myself.

 

[Sonny Bonds]

First day of unemployment.

 

[Pyrexcup]

First day of unemployment.

damn hold your head, did you leave or get let go?

 

[Sonny Bonds]

damn hold your head, did you leave or get let go?

Contract ended on Friday, I knew it was coming. I’ve interviewed at a few places already.

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

Tech Companies Say They Can’t Find Good Employees. The Companies May Be the Problem.

It's behind a pay wall, copying what I can.

Many technology companies bemoan how difficult it is to find good employees. A new study suggests the companies themselves might be partly to blame.

At issue is a widespread reliance on what is known as the technical interview process. In addition to the usual vetting of credentials seen in many industries, technical interviews typically subject job candidates to layers of intense testing. Generally, such tests evaluate critical thinking and problem-solving skills. They can include brainteasers and complicated technical problems unrelated to actual on-the-job roles and responsibilities.

The trouble is this: Candidates often get so flustered from the pressure and the mechanics of the interview that their performance is significantly hindered.

Companies that rely on these stressful tests are eliminating potentially qualified candidates—to their own detriment, says Christopher Parnin, assistant professor of computer science at North Carolina State University and senior author of the study, which was published in November. This is particularly unfortunate, Dr. Parnin says, given the availability of other, less stressful and perhaps more appropriate testing metrics.

Basically they found that when solving a technical problem, 2/3 of the time, people doing it independently succeeded, while only 1/3 did when with a proctor. No women were successful with a proctor. AKA, the technical interview process is some bullshyt. And they also touch on the shyt I been saying, problems unrelated to day to day tasks.

 

[CopiousX]

I enjoy working from home but I hate the noise that neighbors make. I'm considering going back into the office just to get some peace and fukking quiet. At this point I think I only want shyt to open up so that child care is a thing again .

Think if I ever become a lawmaker I'm going to make it illegal to live above someone if you have kids . Punishment is a caning and breaking your kids legs.

might i suggest some bose noise counceling headsets as a compromise?



Also, from a legal perspective, im suprised that zoning laws dont require a minimum sound shielding.

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

might i suggest some bose noise counceling headsets as a compromise?



Also, from a legal perspective, im suprised that zoning laws dont require a minimum sound shielding.

Have some, using them right now actually. I don't mind using them, but sometimes I need a break from them, and I shouldn't have to resort to using them every day. Really the biggest problem is just the layout of these apartments. Their kitchen is right over my bedroom, which is terrible design because the kitchen/dining/living room is where people tend to make the most noise. So I've been thinking about getting one of those units when my lease is up, but that's an expensive decision.

These apartments were built in like the 80s or 90s I think, so any zoning changes came too late. It feels like it's just a couple layers of plywood, if that, separating me and them when it feels like it should be a thin layer of concrete. But I'm not up on building code . I should look into some sound proofing like they do in studios to see if I can reduce at least some of the noise.

 

[StretfordRed]

Notice period with my current job and start new one end of this month, I was just looking to chill until this Exchange exploit shyt happened

 

[chargers31]

My shift bid landed me a day shift

imma miss the graveyard shift differential and the peace and quiet during shift.

Gotta hope I can swap or I’ll have to wait until June

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

 

[Rawtid]

Last week I was given an assessment to analyze a dataset. The dataset was hot garbage, so I wasn't sure if the "test" was to identify ways to improve the data or analyze around the trash. I did the former and of course that wasn't what they were looking for. Silly me thinking data integrity and correctness was somehow more important than trying to "tell a data story" with garbage data (GIGO, my nikkas). They gave me another chance.

I redid it, cleaned the data up some: dumb stuff like the country field containing values = "US", "United States", "USA", so there are three separate categories of data being analyzed all for the same country, and turned in the best story I could muster. At this point I don't even care if I get the job or not because I'll probably be analyzing trash in the name of insights on a regular basis.

 

[Sonny Bonds]

4 hours of interviews today and I mess up in the 2nd hour. FML.