Information Technology (IT)

[datznasty]

Yeah Lawyers and Doctors will be the biggest aholes.

mayne I worked at Immigration during the 2020 election cycle. I know some of them dudes was there Jan 06. Was peak Covid so everyone was kind of in and out though, would just pull up and connect their devices and print something but still, you could tell how much aholes everyone was

 

[Mark Antony]

mayne I worked at Immigration during the 2020 election cycle. I know some of them dudes was there Jan 06. Was peak Covid so everyone was kind of in and out though, would just pull up and connect their devices and print something but still, you could tell how much aholes everyone was

Damn, almost worked there too. Think I got a DHS clearance and public trust for a job that eventually never happened.

 

[Beruseruku Desu]

In healthcare it’s the nurses that be the most annoying.

So many of them have a superiority complex for their insecurities.

You know what they say about nurses,

“not all nurses are mean, but all mean girls are nurses.”

I remember doing a voip refresh on the cancer floor and some dude was screaming in pain and the nurses in the floor were laughing their asses off and mocking him

 

[Beruseruku Desu]

 

[spiderjericho]

I’ve wanted the Azure Architect Cert for a minute.

I took it twice in Feb and failed. Just seemed like they expected you to know the breadth of Azure offerings. Exam was definitely more difficult than the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam (but I get the feeling Microsoft makes their exams more difficult).

So I been doing Measureup and Tutorial Dojo questions the last few weeks and was able to pass the exam by my chinny chin chin today.

Next, I’m going to chase the PMP. I want to get out the technical rat race as I get older and move more into management.

 

[Beruseruku Desu]

I’ve wanted the Azure Architect Cert for a minute.

I took it twice in Feb and failed. Just seemed like they expected you to know the breadth of Azure offerings. Exam was definitely more difficult than the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam (but I get the feeling Microsoft makes their exams more difficult).

So I been doing Measureup and Tutorial Dojo questions the last few weeks and was able to pass the exam by my chinny chin chin.

Next, I’m going to chase the PMP. I want to get out the technical rat race as I get older and move more into management.

Don’t MS certs expire yearly? That alone turns me off

 

[spiderjericho]

Don’t MS certs expire yearly? That alone turns me off

Yes BUT they allow you to take a renewal exam, usually less than 30 questions. Open book and ya can take it once a day until your cert expires. They usually notify you six months out.

I just renewed my AZ Administrator and Network Associate certs.

Probably the best versus the expensive Cisco CU or take a trivia pursuit exam or AWS. Obviously CEUs are the best option.

 

[willypete]

Congrats pa!

Can’t wait till I can be like y’all and go after certs again

 

[Beruseruku Desu]

me doing a nslookup to a dns I already know
(I just wanna look smart)

 

[tay1]

Tech's hottest job has imploded​

The development of artificial intelligence is moving so fast, reports The Wall Street Journal, that one of the field's hottest jobs — prompt engineering — is already on its way out. Just a couple of years ago, companies would pay up to $200,000 to have someone "crafting the exact right inputs" to produce useful results from large language models. But as models have gotten smarter, and more employees are trained on prompting, there's simply less call for dedicated prompt engineers.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-hottest-ai-job-of-2023-is-already-obsolete-1961b054?mod=cio-journal_lead_pos1

 

[Mark Antony]

That should have been obvious that was coming.

 

[tay1]

Any of you ever have to present something for an interview?

Had a initial screener for a position the other day and of course it's a typical 3-4 step interview but one portion of it the lady told me they're going to send me a challenge and that I have a day or two to work on it and I'm going to present it.

Part of me feels insulted because I have the experience. The idea of me having to prove what's on my resume is kind've wild. But maybe I got an ego. It's for a "IT operations Admin" position aka a glorified service desk role. The pay is good and I have other interviews lined up but yeah I was just thrown off by that.

 

[Mark Antony]

Jobs doing all that usually end up some bs. I could understand if it was a sales engineer role but they don't even do that.

 

[tay1]

That's how I'm looking at it. I understand having a technical interview where you answer a few questions but this one just feels like they're doing too much and if it's starting like this, it's not gonna get any better. The salary is nice though. That's the only reason why I haven't cancelled yet.

 

[Beruseruku Desu]

I know software engineers get leetcode challenges in interviews.

in my field, some UC engineers that get tested for interviews.

explain SIP handshake, explain how a phone registers in CUCM, explain web-rtc, ICE, STUN, and TURN.

 

[MakeNTGreatAgain]

i would play ball, they giving u time to prepare which is fair, if they want u to doit on the spot thats where i draw the line

 

[spiderjericho]

I know software engineers get leetcode challenges in interviews.

in my field, some UC engineers that get tested for interviews.

explain SIP handshake, explain how a phone registers in CUCM, explain web-rtc, ICE, STUN, and TURN.

I’ll be real…I might only know the phone registration part lol.

I’m failing UC interviews.

 

[Ricky D]

I’m gonna be ****** when I retire from the Army.

“Bruh I don’t know why this **** works. I just know how to get it to work and troubleshoot if it breaks”

Go on with all that other ****

 

[willypete]

I’m gonna be ****** when I retire from the Army.

“Bruh I don’t know why this **** works. I just know how to get it to work and troubleshoot if it breaks”

Go on with all that other ****

That’s really what I tell people at every job

 

[Ricky D]

That’s really what I tell people at every job

Idk man, maybe it’s different in the civilian sector but there’s been plenty of times where me and my guys will spend hours troubleshooting something. We’ll go home for the night, come back in the morning, turn it on and everything works. I can’t explain that ****

 

[tay1]

Idk man, maybe it’s different in the civilian sector but there’s been plenty of times where me and my guys will spend hours troubleshooting something. We’ll go home for the night, come back in the morning, turn it on and everything works. I can’t explain that ****

If it's something network related, I just blame DNS

 

[willypete]

Idk man, maybe it’s different in the civilian sector but there’s been plenty of times where me and my guys will spend hours troubleshooting something. We’ll go home for the night, come back in the morning, turn it on and everything works. I can’t explain that ****

It’s like that in all sectors lol.

I’m known for just telling my team or even leadership I just try a list of different things (usual troubleshooting and some random ish I find on google). Nobody never wants to believe I really don’t know what I’m doing half the time. I just use logic and common sense for the most part

 

[spiderjericho]

Maaan. I’ve been doing government contracting for two+ years.

Today, I had a unique recruitment and initial interview.

First, the recruiter was a Ukrainian head hunter representing a sub contractor on BICES. At this point, I’m like sketch. But I do know there are some head hunters who may have a deep European or Indian accent.

They only do initial interviews in the early evening.

During the interview, I start out with a guy who doesn’t identify the company he works for. Then he’s like you’re going to work on a MPE project but he doesn’t know the customer.

Finally, two other gentlemen get on the call. They do say it’s BICES but don’t really say what the role is but they keep emphasizing Zero Trust. I don’t get asked any real technical questions besides have I ever worked in a hybrid cloud environment or if I have worked with hashicorp (which I assume they’re talking about terraform).

When I spoke to the head hunter, the pay was lower than what I was willing to accept. But she said she was going to float my salary desires.

When I left the call, I couldn’t tell if the interview was a success but that they were going to present my resume to the customer. Seemed like a waste of time. But can never have too many interview reps. I applied for a role with BICES/GD IT back in January and aced that interview but they weren’t paying what I wanted.

 

[tay1]

Applied to a job April 14th. Got the interview availability email April 30th. The earliest available interview is May 13th

Sometimes I wonder if other fields have to go through the shenanigans IT has to offer.

 

[willypete]

Applied to a job April 14th. Got the interview availability email April 30th. The earliest available interview is May 13th

Sometimes I wonder if other fields have to go through the shenanigans IT has to offer.

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