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12:45 AM

@DavidK It depends on what level you're at. If you're going for a management role and you don't have any management or senior titles you're unlikely to get a second look, however if you're a programmer going for a programming job then the title won't matter so much as showing that you've been involved in large teams / organisations will (for first stage, a lot more obviously comes out in interviews)

The degree part really matters by region as well. Australia, for example, puts no stock at all in education and a majority of people haven't done much beyond a diploma. Job experience plays the biggest role here. As I understand it though the USA is very different and degree's / where you went to school matters a great deal over there.

@MonicaCellio Interesting in comparison to here where most roles now come through linkedin and use that as your resume. Not much (in large corporate) relies on traditional resume/cover letter here in the past few months.

Monica Cellio

@Codingo that varies within the US, by company type and industry and maybe other things. Large stuffy companies sometimes rule people out based on lack of degree (or penalize them in job grade/salary), but many other companies don't worry much about that, at least for software developers.

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Dawny33

3:27 AM

Another awesome answer from @Lilienthal. You're on fire this month :D

A: What are some ways to prepare for an interview for a job that is based overseas?

Are there specific questions to ask an overseas employer that might not be relevant for someone in your country/city? A couple of things come to mind: What strengths does the hiring manager expect an international candidate to bring? Conversely, what weaknesses or problems does he foresee...

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Lilienthal

10:25 AM

@Dawny33 Technically last month :)

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Lilienthal

1:06 PM

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Q: Disciplinary meeting

Been summoned to a disciplinary meeting. I think I'm going to come out of the disciplinary with just wrapped knuckles rather than a final written warning because I am bringing a union rep with me and they have made up allegations which have taken them almost four weeks to corroborate their stori...

collaboration

Maybe this is harsh but I can't possible take any adult seriously who uses the term "sickies".

David K

1:26 PM

Thanks for the tips everyone! I forgot about the term "ABD", though I'm not sure that would come off positively on a resume. Gives me some more search terms to google though :)

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Dawny33

2:59 PM

@Dawny33 Defaming a country just for few instances is bad.. India is a culturally rich nation with many languages and religions and all these differences have never stopped any one's growth and progress... — aProgrammer 4 hours ago

Just confirming. Did I?

Lilienthal

@Dawny33 Nope.

In my experience it's a typical knee-jerk reaction from nationalist Indians to pretend like everything is perfect and nothing could ever be out of order.

Reminds me of the cab drivers in Mumbai who swore that every single person in Dharavi was happily employed and there were only a few thousand people living there...instead of half a million.

Dawny33

Ha ha Dharavi is the slum of Mumbai. (Largest one in India for heaven's sake) :D

Oh boy! But, we love to act patriotic, though! ;)

Lilienthal

Well yes, that was the point. :)

Added a comment of my own.

Dawny33

3:15 PM

A lot of questions from India recently, here. (3-4 of 'em)

enderland

3:27 PM

@Dawny33 so totally random question, but have you seen the movie Slumdog Millionaire? I watched that recently... I am curious what people from India think of it

Dawny33

3:44 PM

@enderland That's the slum @Lilienthal was talking about :D

I dozed off mid-way through the film, though!

Dharavi

Dharavi is a locality in Mumbai, India. It houses one of the largest slums in the world. Dharavi slum was founded in 1882 during the British colonial era. The slum grew in part because of an expulsion of factories and residents from the peninsular city centre by the colonial government, and from rural poor migrating into urban Mumbai (then called Bombay). It is currently a multi-religious, multi-ethnic, diverse settlement. Estimates of Dharavi's total population vary between 700,000 to about 1 million. Dharavi has an active informal economy in which numerous household enterprises employ many of...

Lilienthal

It's been too long since I've seen it.

Did walk through some of the poorer areas of Mumbai (though still not the actual slums) and that was an eye opener.

I'm looking at this section of code and it just makes me want to break down and cry.

They get a number of table rows and need to figure out how many have a given value in a certain column, then determine how many of those have a value in another column.

So instead of just counting the bloody thing in a filtered loop.

Or extracting the set with the column twice.

They first dump the entire table into a temporary variable, remove all the rows that don't have the required value in column A.

Then copy the remaining rows to yet another variable and repeat the operation for column B.

Before looping a final time to count the number of rows they have left.

The code won't even fit on my screen.

And this was written this summer....

Dawny33

Oooh That's scary :D

Noob, maybe

enderland

@Lilienthal I'm officially more competent than our consultant team at a tool I've been using for ~7 months. :|

highly paid consulting HERE I COME