IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

I don't think I'd ever entertain a counteroffer unless I was in like an alavaz situation. Where I did like the company and the job but I just couldn't deal with the lowball salary. Because to me you want to leave a job for a reason. GM could have counteroffered me 2x my salary and a promotion and I still would have left.

Noodleface said:

One thing I've always thought is whenever I've searched for jobs I've had interviews lined up by the end of the week and usually I get offers at most of my interviews (actually, all of them, but technically I've only done a handful). So I like to think even if I make a bad decision, finding work won't be so hard.

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I bitched about it in the job hunting thread but this was not my experience lol. I got tons of interviews and a handful of offers. But the process was pretty much a shit show and getting ghosted mid process is very common.

Not to mention how retarded a lot of interviews are. I'll never forget going in for a performance engineer job and being told to specifically whiteboard some python bullshit despite the job exclusively being in C and web endpoints. I solved their dumbass code problem and asked them what the point of doing this in python was and got ghosted...

Do any of you have to deal with fighting your various teams/departments in preventing them from buying stupid shit? By stupid shit I mean platforms and tools that will, "solve all of their problems" even though these people have minimal if any understanding of how they actually work or what they really do.

I am fairly close to our central procurement process now so this stuff comes my way a lot. A lot of my current tasks revolve around reducing technical debt so we can scale more efficiently. As our revenue has been growing 30%+ each year for the past 4. So consolidating weird one off processes into python applications, consolidating data sources and creating uniform data practices.

You would not believe the amount of dumb shit teams seem to buy if they have access to money. Most of this was before we forced everything to go through a procurement team that vets the product and the need for it. But still. For example. Marketing generally is full of typical marketing people but they have like two really sharp data guys and one web developer. Who has been creating our entire website alone for years.

So we are locked into a 3 year contract because marketing bought this last year when they had their own budget for this. Business Intelligence (BI) & AI Analytics Tools | ThoughtSpot then promptly stopped using it when their web developer told them to fuck themselves as they expected him to learn how to use it and create all the kewl metrics they wanted. Now it gathers dust and we still pay for it. Of course they bought the enterprise package at $20k a year or some shit.

I recently killed their greenplum servers they had for some time and never used. Because derp derp what's a database?

I got really tired explaining to Sales that they couldn't buy Tableau which would solve all their problems as we already have a BI platform and they all do the same shit. If you want something out of it you need to decide what you want out of it and then we can work on building it out.

I mean fuck man. Maybe more of ranting I guess...

Noodleface said:

Anyone dealt with people that dominate scrum meetings? Assume every company has one or two.

My status is like 60 seconds max. Sometime two minutes if I have a roadblock. We have these two dudes that always take tEn minutes each. Yes I've complained. Just venting.

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before the meeting go to a white board. As people are talking just write out the number of minutes /secods everyone take.

Like
Noddle: 0:45:
TJT: 1:00
Chaos 5:09
timmy: 1:30


Don't say anything, don't argue, if anyone ask just tell them you are writing the meetings time for no reason. Leave it there for the next day

Do it again the next day.

By the the third time, the problem will self correct itself. Usually people who take too long on scrum, have nothing to say.

If it doesn't, then leave after the first 5 minutes, just go to your desk.

I'm a team leader.
I did this for a week, because one of my guys was taking too long. He stopped.

The other team leader uses a phone Alarm and it goes off in two minutes. He uses it at the beginning of everyone speaking, he resets it back to 2 minutes.

Scrums are not for 1 guy to take over. The team leader should cut him off and say .. Take it offline after.
but hey, what do i know.

Noodleface said:

It's so passive aggressive

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Of course is passive aggressive.

Your other option is on the next retrospect meeting, to flat out tell your team, that taking more than 3 minutes on scrum is counter productive, that they are doing scrum wrong if they allow 10 minute per people.

either way confront it, or it wont change. people who do that LOVE doing that, it makes them feel important, contributing.
In my experience is the ones who have nothing to show for, are the ones that take too long in scrum.