The Water Cooler

1:18 AM

@ChristopheStrobbe Since "THIS" is obviously an offensive word, I don't see why "grass" shouldn't be. So there you have your answer. ;)

May 23 at 16:31, by Masked Man

motosubatsu

7:27 AM

morning all

Masked Man

8:36 AM

@motosubatsu Good morning, motosubatsu :)

motosubatsu

@MaskedMan morning fella

Masked Man

Hilarious HNQ again. :) The PDF vs DOC question.

I am surprised I haven't been abused (yet) by some 20 people for my answer. ;)

Nofel

morning all.

motosubatsu

@MaskedMan I thought you channeled your inner Kilisi very well on that one

morning @Nofel

Nofel

so 2 hours to submit the project test

Masked Man

8:46 AM

@motosubatsu lol

Nofel

I haven't got 2 bits of the test

and I am thinking instead of pasting my cde on stack overflow

just tell them I lack this

so they know the picture

Masked Man

@Nofel Yes, that is a good idea. Nothing wrong in telling them what you don't know.

motosubatsu

@Nofel if you can't get there on it then yes honesty is the best policy - depending on how important those aspects are to them it might not be a big deal

what are you struggling with?

Nofel

filtering and pagination

e.g if someone click manchester, the list displays just manchester related

and when someone click show more

it shows next 3

motosubatsu

@Nofel they can be fiddly things to do.. I've seen even quite experienced devs struggle with them at times

Nofel

8:50 AM

I got 1 hour, better to tell them

if its in my court then happy

I can take less pay to upskill if provided

as i need to upskill really and i got 4 test more from other companies

motosubatsu

@Nofel I wouldn't put that to them yourself.. let them evaluate what you've done and go from there

Nofel

I have interview with them after 3 hours

motosubatsu

@MaskedMan I'm too tired today to manage to answer that one civilly, luckily yourself and others have covered what needs to be said

Nofel

shld I ask them that if i shld be coming in for the interview

Masked Man

If you claim to know things you do not actually know, you would be disappointed (or worse) when you land the job, so it is always a good idea to claim only what you know.

@motosubatsu No worries, we work as a team. :)

motosubatsu

8:57 AM

@Nofel just be honest about what you do or do not know, if they consider any lacking knowledge as lowering your "value" but still want you they may offer a lower wage as a result

Nofel

what u mean @motosubatsu

also what should I tell them of what remains and I couldnt do

motosubatsu

@Nofel well they will probably be able to work it out but a bit of an explanatory description of what is missing would probably be a good idea.. it shows you're upfront and honesty about your limitations

if it were me I'd view that much more positively than an incomplete test solution with no explanation

Nofel

how will I klnow if interview is still happening

motosubatsu

@Nofel I would assume it is still happening unless directed otherwise

Christophe Strobbe

@MaskedMan Elle, oh, Elle!

Nofel

9:11 AM

@motosubatsu I think i m gonna be expert with ajax given the number of test I got at hand

and one more added just now

motosubatsu

@Nofel that's one way of getting the practice in :)

Nofel

shld i mention why I was late

in email

as last 30 min remains

motosubatsu

not sure what you mean by late

are you late submitting the test?

Nofel

yes

I got 30 min left.

motosubatsu

then you aren't late yet

??

Nofel

9:22 AM

how to phrase, what I left is my knwoledge of lacking and I wanted to be honest

no

I got 30 mins

they need it 11, so composing email now.

" I wasn't able meet some points such as filtering on button, pagination and displaying json data from another file. I wanted to share it with you so I can show you what I lack and keen to work on"

is that line correct?

@motosubatsu ^

motosubatsu

@Nofel I'd say something like "Here's my solution to the test, I was unable to implement some features - filtering, pagination and loading an alternate file as I'm inexperienced in those areas and ran out of time"

Christophe Strobbe

@MaskedMan And those poor programmers!

Masked Man

May 25 at 15:29, by Masked Man

inline Word* getOffensiveWord() { return this; }

Nofel

thnx @motosubatsu shld I mention in the end. I look forward to our interview at 1?

motosubatsu

@Nofel yeah.. sounds good

Masked Man

9:34 AM

@Nofel Looks like you are all set. Good luck.

Nofel

Thanks @MaskedMan and @motosubatsu

motosubatsu

@Nofel no worries.. good luck!

Nofel

Thanks

I bet they gonna laugh at me

for a lead developer role u donno how to do pagination

motosubatsu

@Nofel I wouldn't go in assuming that

Nofel

9:53 AM

shld I ask recruiter who put me forward @motosubatsu?

Magisch

@MaskedMan Thats evil and I like it

motosubatsu

@Nofel No.. just submit your test with the e-mail as discussed and then go to your interview and take it from there. No need to overthink it, just try and be calm (easier said than done I know)

Nofel

@motosubatsu ur confusing me, first u say don;t go now go in

I put this in email "Just wanted to ask you that was I put forward by a recruiter or did you receive my application by LinkedIn? If you can let me know because I have a bit of confusion about our 1300 interview today."

coz recruiters r screwing me

motosubatsu

@Nofel honestly I'm lost.. I thought you were asking if you should ask the recruiter about the missing bits of the test

as I understand it you have an interview booked in for 1pm today right?

Nofel

yes

motosubatsu

10:01 AM

so what's the problem?

Nofel

I read the recruiter has put me forward as lead but a lead shld know that stuff which I missed

should I be going in knowing I missed that stuff and its a lead role

motosubatsu

@Nofel "lead" is a vague term at best

Nofel

yea but even with junior level ppl dump same amount of pile as lead

motosubatsu

yeah they might consider that required but you don't know that.. and there's no point fretting about it now - if you don't go to the interview then you're 100% garunteed not to get the job

Masked Man

@Nofel Just go to the interview and deal with stuff as it comes. Don't overthink this.

motosubatsu

10:03 AM

if you go your chances improve

@MaskedMan this, a thousand times this

Nofel

ok

Magisch

10:33 AM

don't overthink this is almost always great advice

Masked Man

It is my catchphrase as well over here. ;)

workplace.stackexchange.com/…

motosubatsu

10:55 AM

@MaskedMan the Word-CV question has his the top of HNQ.. might be worth protecting it?

Nofel

11:12 AM

@motosubatsu got reply from employerer saying nothing about if he don’t expect me to come

What sort of question to ask to know what sort of work culture is like in the company

Magisch

Work culture is subtle and not something you can easily suss out in an interview

Masked Man

@motosubatsu Good idea. Don't hesitate to do it yourself. You are a trusted user. :) If you feel like any question needs to be protected, you would be most certainly right.

motosubatsu

@MaskedMan ahh but I have to wait a couple of days or whatever to protect them - you don't boss

Masked Man

The OP has kinda expanded the question a bit. I think his points 2 and 3 are off-topic here since they ask about specific software and file formats. Due to a certain conflict of interest, I don't want to edit those out right away. If you have some time to spare, please review the edit and remove the off-topic bits if you find it appropriate.

motosubatsu

@MaskedMan yes boss :)

Masked Man

11:27 AM

@motosubatsu Oh right, sorry about that. I sometimes forget about my own superpowers. Didn't mean to be condescending.

I didn't get too many chances to use the protect privileges as a "regular" user (usually because enderland would protect everything) so I wasn't really that much familiar with how that works. :(

motosubatsu

@MaskedMan no worries.. figured that was the case, it's easy to forget - especially with protect as it's not a frequently used function

@MaskedMan I've edited out #3 as a explicitly being off-topic, #2 is sort-of on topic (albeit ridiculous) if you look at the last sentence. Of course it's also based on an inaccurate assumption but that's not my place to correct in an edit.

Masked Man

Thanks.

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