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IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.
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GL it took them 2 months to respond to my application. From combing Glassdoor that is pretty common with randos applying via their online portal.
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I imagine they get a lot of "plz blizzard i can dezine vidya gemes plz can I work there for free"
Yeah I imagine they get quite a few applicants who are far below the standard they're trying to set and it just takes a ton of man power to sift through them all. I felt pretty good I got my email saying they wanted an in-person literally 10 minutes after I hung up the phone because that means he didn't even have to think about it. The phone was hung up and he knew he wanted to see me in-person. No having to sit and think about it.
I'm still going to have to cram some more for the in-person. Glassdoor seems to indicate I have to take a written test. I was a bit surprised I didn't get a take-home assignment. Possibly I conveyed my level of competence over the phone that they didn't need to actually see my code to know I knew what was going on.
I'm still going to have to cram some more for the in-person. Glassdoor seems to indicate I have to take a written test. I was a bit surprised I didn't get a take-home assignment. Possibly I conveyed my level of competence over the phone that they didn't need to actually see my code to know I knew what was going on.
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Legal interviews are hilarious they basically chat about your hobbies and family and shit and maybe ask a question or two about prior experience but basically just sit and bullshit for 30 minutes and decide if they "like" you.
I've read the "Do we like you" is a fairly important aspect of the in-person at Blizzard. If you don't fit socially into the team and culture you better be the world's most brilliant programmer. I honestly don't know what to expect when I get there. I believe I should get an agenda prior to going so I'll know if I'm just meeting with team members or if I'm going to be closeted away for a few hours taking a test and building a program.
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Every job interview I've been to they've given me an agenda a few days prior. At EMC they even gave me the names of the people interviewing me
Yeah I'll get an agenda and the people I'll be meeting with prior to the interview. They should probably be in contact with me in a few days to arrange the travel and once that is established they'll firm up the timetable.
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Not mine, interviews are mostly about experience and maybe a meal and a lot of "see if they will fit in" type stuff. Maybe an office tour, shop tour and you never know what might pop up that they know doing such. We talk about hobbies and such, do they hunt/fish/shoot, travel etc...Nobody wants to hire someone who doesn't fit in and is depressed because they don't do anything other than sit on the couch. At least find out what their big thing is.
A lot of talk about what worked and hasn't worked at places they have worked if they are in some management type posistion. Also I'm "Mr. Rude" cause if a shop went out of business I'll ask if they were responsible for X,Y, or Z since everyone will know what happened.
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Any suggestions for a C/C++ IDE? I'm a fan of heavy IDEs, like PyCharm for Python, and would like something similar for C/C++. Kinda got thrown into a project where everyone else uses emacs or something else similarly lightweight. I'd probably be ok with emacs if I knew the project's source better but I don't. And I find heavy IDEs are much better at getting to know a project's source faster.
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The only C/C++IDE I ever used was Visual Studio. I assume it is not an option.
No other IDE is comparable from all discussions I've had with people.
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It's an option, but there's no vcproj or sln files. My company uses SCons to build everything. It's kinda nifty in some regards but incredibly annoying in others.
Vi? Would rather kill myself. Emacs has great functionality but I hate that it's all hidden behind layers of unintuitive keyboard shortcuts.
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Try CLion maybe?A cross-platform IDE for C and C++ :: JetBrains CLion
I might be biased though. I love using Android Studio which is build off the IntelliJ platform from Jetbrains.
I might be biased though. I love using Android Studio which is build off the IntelliJ platform from Jetbrains.
XCode if you're on OSX. If not your only other option for a full featured IDE would probably be Eclipse if VS is a no-go.
Ah didn't know JetBrains had a C/C++ IDE. Yeah +1 for Intellij it is by far the best Java IDE out there.
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You'd use notepad++ over something like eclipse?
At least use visual studio code - it's just an editor minus all the overhead of visual studio
At least use visual studio code - it's just an editor minus all the overhead of visual studio