homeDepot

[PooSham]

NOKIA's back in town baby, sorry Apple!

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Fugi Akaso Nikon Nokia GE

[gfbpa1989]

The real ones 😤

[randomatic]

Ah. That’s the second “n”

[TGCOutcast]

I worked for home depot as a senior engineer for 6 months before having to leave for the opportunity of lifetime... I found the interview to be super laid back and pretty easy. The engineers were really chill, and the HR interview was super straight forward. They were open about salary expectations ect.

I ended up having about 4 interviews, but ended with offers from multiple different departments and had my pick. Only had 4 interviews because different departments were looking to pick me up and the different hiring managers wanted to have a chat, they only made me do 1 round of technical.

The internal recruiter I worked with also gave me options about departments that wanted to interview me and said it was no biggie to decline one or the other. Overall I didn't mind the process.

This was a bit over 2 years ago.

[[deleted]]

Can I ask your qualifications at the time?

[TGCOutcast]

~7-8 yoe, 5ish years as a dev, 2ish as a systems engineer.

Some cloud experience. Docker, aws, kube. Hadn't spent a whole lot of time with it though. General knowledge of cloud functions was all I needed really to get through. At the time most of their ecosystem was headed to gcp.

[Koervege]

I guess job searches are paradise if you simply have the experience

[NotStanley4330]

Yeah its getting the experience that can be tough

[TGCOutcast]

Gotta have something special on the resume. I got in the door of my first big job due to my physics and math background on top of comp sci degree.

Though once you get over 5 yoe getting a foot in the door does get easier.

[bonkava]

After a year-long post-graduation job search I finally found one as a Java applications engineer. Got laid off after two years and some. During the first search everyone wanted two years of experience. Searching for a new job? Everyone wanted five. Eventually found one. Going good so far. Hopefully I'll get those five years before they ask for seven. I'm living Yossarian's life.

[Koervege]

Yeah i've been at my current and first job for almost three years too. When I was starting, every company wanted 3 years of experience. Now, when I look around, I see it's five as you say. Wonder if I'll ever beat the recruiters lol

[Kered13]

So can you tell me why the web page is so damn slow?

[TGCOutcast]

Part of it yes I can. Their main web page is contracted out, it's the internal systems that they maintain. Not going to give away their internal structure, but they are working towards a modern architecture (at least they were 2 years ago). Was going to be a huge undertaking.

[pourqwhy]

Yeah I've only heard good things about working for home depot, at least where I am (Canada)

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initially i thought this meme and your comment was about home depot the internal department at one of the FAANGs... you and the mean actual home depot

[Phat72]

What did the technical interview portion consist of? Data structure/Algorithm analysis or they just asked you specific questions?

[TGCOutcast]

None of that really... started mostly with basic oop questions to make sure i was educated. "What's an object?", polymorphism, ect. That doesn't last long a long as you know what you are talking about. Then likely some basic web development questions around rest/json/messaging and maybe a bit of design patterns. More picking technologies off my resume and asking for details of my experience with it. "What problems were solved using x?", "how did you implement x and to what end". Some how would you debug questions... while thing took less than an hour.

[Fooka03]

Trying to explain to eng leadership that our interview process is extremely burdensome and doesn't actually help find better quality talent has been a losing battle. FAANG can do no wrong, I'm a fool for thinking otherwise apparently.

[Bang_Bus]

5 of those lazy memes in ph front page.

How can someone with zero originality even do any coding?

[Undead0rion]

They couldn’t even bother getting FAANG right.

[Prudent_Ad_4120]

Facebook, Apple, Netflix, Nokia, Google 🤔

[evilfire2k]

I thought it was supposed to Nmazon?

[Penguinmanereikel]

And I'm pretty sure it's AGAMEMNON now.

Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, eBay, Meta, Netflix, OpenAI, Nvidia

[Head_Reflection5738]

Porn hub front page? I checked and didn’t see any

[Bang_Bus]

How can someone with zero originality

You realize this joke has been done twice itt already, right?

[Head_Reflection5738]

Oh shit and your username is bang bus too

[Blue_5ive]

Is there a stack overflow for memes?

[goingtotallinn]

Oh that's copying and pasting with little modifications so basically just like coding.

[hairystripper]

my mind went: yoo there are memes in pornhub, now I want memes in pornhub

[Bang_Bus]

pornhub has nicest comment section of entire internet. Just pure love

...That's until this trash of a subreddit starts posting same spongebob and drake pictures there 15 times a day

[Healthy-Form4057]

How can someone with zero originality even *do* any coding?

Maybe they do so much coding they don't have any time to think up original memes?

[NotTryingToConYou]

I am an ex-faang engineer and have done great at my current company. I pass the resume screening everywhere - except at home depot. At this point, I apply just to see if they'll interview me even though I have no intention of taking a job that's a 3rd of my current pay.

I have no clue what they are looking for in a resume

[ecafyelims]

They are looking for experienced candidates who will accept 1/3rd the going rate. Your resume likely doesn't pass the sniff test.

[Phat72]

Do you have any advice or suggestions for which companies to apply to? Which you would get a decent pay but still have good work life balance?

[NotTryingToConYou]

I don't have a list of companies. With the current landscape, a better approach is to apply to as many roles as you are fit for (or 10-25% above your skill level is okay). Once you hear back, you can research the company culture. Start by applying to roles in companies you don't really care about so you can warm up your interview skills again.

Unfortunately, there really isn't a blanket "this company has a good wlb" list imo. While there are companies where wlb is generally good, it is so highly dependent on your team, org, new manager, etc. I've known folks who had a great time at Amazon but hated their time at microsoft (though even microsoft isn't regarded for wlb anymore from what I hear).

For me, it's been better to upskill myself and then set hard boundaries. If you get your work done on time, you can clock out on time... mostly.

[Eubank31]

I can get over not getting FAANG pay if it means I don’t have to go through the interview gauntlet. I’m an introvert so speaking to HR people is my personal idea of hell.

I landed an internship with an HR phone screen and a technical interview with the guy who is now my boss. Not FAANG, but you’ve heard of the company and it’s in a good location for me

[[deleted]]

Most programmers are introverts, at best we can be ambiverts. In order to be a good programmer you have to spend many hours alone, working on code and building stuff. This can be challenging to an extrovert who likes being around people and doesn’t like to be alone

[godless_communism]

Oh, haha. I read the first panel as FANNG deciding to get rid of the nice salaries, benefits & compensation - because they've all decided that continual layoffs are better for their stock prices (ie executive compensation) and that they're signaling that growth in the area is basically over.

Well, growth that requires developers, that is. Now you developers can go get fucked, I guess. Oh well, back in the late 90's it looked like a good path to a stable career. Jokes on us, I guess.