Information Technology (IT)

[Mark Antony]

Some HR also plays this stupid game that forces manager's who have already chosen someone internal for the role to still post and interview external candidates. Sometimes it really is a waste of time or the internal person loses a role that's in the bag because someone interviews well.

 

[willypete]

Some HR also plays this stupid game that forces manager's who have already chosen someone internal for the role to still post and interview external candidates. Sometimes it really is a waste of time or the internal person loses a role that's in the bag because someone interviews well.

I can’t remember if it was at my last company or one I was applying to and heard the exact same thing. Y’all already have who you want for the position, but have all the applicants applying to pad numbers so it looks like these are sought after positions.

Then wonder why candidates either say eff the position and never respond back or screw them over with wasting time and resources getting them onboarded just to take an offer elsewhere.

 

[tay1]

They don’t really want someone is what I gather from that

It’s always like a 3 week multi interview process for me

 

[willypete]

It’s always like a 3 week multi interview process for me

Damn why so many weeks?

 

[tay1]

Damn why so many weeks?

I have no idea bro. Every IT job I've got hired for was always a long process. Granted they are big companies. The one I was talking about the other day was for the Clippers.

The process usually goes like this for me. I apply, then it takes a while to get a follow up that they're interested. Then comes the phone interview with the recruiter or whoever. After that comes the interview with the director, then they want to bring you in to meet the team or tour the place, then you gotta hear back on if you got the position. Then you start in a week or two.

 

[willypete]

I have no idea bro. Every IT job I've got hired for was always a long process. Granted they are big companies. The one I was talking about the other day was for the Clippers.

The process usually goes like this for me. I apply, then it takes a while to get a follow up that they're interested. Then comes the phone interview with the recruiter or whoever. After that comes the interview with the director, then they want to bring you in to meet the team or tour the place, then you gotta hear back on if you got the position. Then you start in a week or two.

So we could’ve had Clippers tickets!?

That is crazy it takes that long. Last 2 places I was at I think took less than a month only because they had to do slight investigations. Last one which was with the Navy I think I applied Aug 31st, phone screen Sept 3rd, teams interview with director and pm the following week (had something planned I believe), 2 days later sent the offer letter and had me start about 2 weeks later.

Same happened at the spot before as well which was also Navy go figure, phone screen on the 9th, interview on the 11th, offer letter and had few hours later, started on the 28th due a vacation planned and me not being back in town until 5 days before start and had to give some type of notice to the old company before leaving which was 2 days before I resigned.

Maybe it’s a location thing as well as a need? They wanted people in the roles I filled but wasn’t on a time crunch to have the seats filled immediately.

 

[Mark Antony]

Thinking back it's funny, i've smoked interviews with HR and then the manager/team and then nothing. Then others where it was either contentious or I was even a bit disinterested then got an offer.

 

[Beruseruku Desu]

Software engineer for Amazon get paged twice at night to fix an issue.

 

[tay1]

IT Job Market shrinks by over 200K jobs in the last 24 months​

IT Pro unemployment rate is 5.0% - higher than the US National Unemployment rate​

Third month in a row it is higher than the US National Unemployment rate​

IT Job market shrinks

IT Pro unemployment rate 5.0% - higher than the US National Unemployment rate

e-janco.com

 

[Beruseruku Desu]

if u invite me to a shared document and only give me Read access you can go ahead and un-invite me.

I’m not gonna be disrespected like dat. that **** better say READ/WRITE access

 

[TSCQ]

Software engineer for Amazon get paged twice at night to fix an issue.

twice at night? c'mon its not the end of the world. imagine working at trauma care center.

 

[Beruseruku Desu]

twice at night? c'mon its not the end of the world. imagine working at trauma care center.

using an extreme comparison like that is ridiculous. an engineer is hired to code and work backend systems, not get paged at 12 am like it’s a code blue.

That’s like me going to firefighters who complain about their job and saying “dude, coal miners have it harder”

… it’s dismissive comparing struggles. it’s not a competition of who has it harder

 

[Mark Antony]

On call is as normal as it gets in it. He could be an SRE where it's an expected part of his job.

 

[willypete]

Them on call times were no joke especially when you dealing with dumbasses around the world that don’t give a dam about your sleep or have consideration on holidays.

 

[Beruseruku Desu]

Are web developers finished?

 

[MakeNTGreatAgain]

Are web developers finished?

for just basic sites probably yes, but for sites that actually handle data, such as payments, inventory etc probably not but yes Ai affects all markets

 

[Beruseruku Desu]

Coca-Cola ignores ransom demand, hackers dump employee data​

https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/?f=flair_name:"News - Breaches & Ransoms"

https://cybernews.com/security/coca-cola-data-breach-employee-data-exposed/

coca cola has been breached

 

[willypete]

 

[willypete]

I can see the SecAI+ being a requirement for positions going forward how sec+ is

 

[tay1]

I can see it. I hardly see the A+ anymore.

 

[willypete]

Im already seeing it. I hardly see the A+ anymore.

Don’t even know why A+ was required if you have net+ or sec+ but here we are. The way everyone has been harping on using chatgpt, jobs will definitely have candidates getting some type of AI certs (I need to get one myself soon).

Didn’t they make A+ test 2 parts as well?

 

[tay1]

Don’t even know why A+ was required if you have net+ or sec+ but here we are. The way everyone has been harping on using chatgpt, jobs will definitely have candidates getting some type of AI certs (I need to get one myself soon).

Didn’t they make A+ test 2 parts as well?

Seems like AI is evolving too fast for study material to even be put together to study for a cert lol

I feel like the A+ should be inherently required for any help desk job. And yeah when I took it like 3 years ago, the A+ was two parts.

 

[Beruseruku Desu]

yup, A+ is 2 exams.

people think A+ is super simple but fail to realize that there is A LOT of topics covered in the A+.

While it doesnt go super deep, the amount of **** you need to remember and know is wide.

 

[willypete]

I had taken a class that gave me a voucher for it when it was still 1 exam but I felt as though the experience I already had (5 years) should have been able to supplement the cert requirement. The hardware portion seemed simple and I don’t think it was as in depth with mobile devices yet as it is now

For entry level sure, but if you’ve been a mid to senior level it specialist then most likely you have the knowledge already. But also people lie a lot so I get it

 

[Mark Antony]

Folks asking for A+ from people with any experience is annoying.