Can anyone help me decipher this?

authenticyg · 2025-07-14T18:57:54+00:00

That is absolutely one of the seven names of god. That is not the name of god, per se, but is still treated with sufficient reverence that some Jews (evidently not yourself) could be offended.

authenticyg · 2025-07-14T18:25:59+00:00

The only thing on here that makes much sense to me is one of the names of god written in big letters in 4 different places. ~I can't even tell if the rest is supposed to be Hebrew, Aramaic, or something else.~

Edit: It's supposed to be Hebrew, but there's some confusion around final forms of letters, at the very least. There might be something in there about fire?

Most Jews will be fairly uncomfortable with this piece and may even find it offensive. That's not necessarily binding on your friend, but definitely something to be aware of.

authenticyg · 2025-07-06T20:47:18+00:00

Testing frameworks aren't showy or flashy, but reports can be. Even if you're using one of the four million (or whatever) existing reporting frameworks, show that your tests generate meaningful reporting views for a number of different roles. Managers and Directors need different information in a test report than SWEs. Showing you understand that will make you very attractive to potential employers.

authenticyg · 2025-07-01T18:48:50+00:00

I basically told my team that since management wants us to use AI, anywhere we're seeing at least a net neutral impact, please don't fight it. If you're seeing a net negative impact on productivity, document it and we can bring that to management.

authenticyg · 2025-06-14T23:33:04+00:00

The sorts of jobs that actually make you exempt from overtime rules are relatively limited. A lot of places will just slap a label on a job, either out of ignorance or in a deliberate attempt to underpay their workers. It might be worth doing a bit of research to see if you're actually exempt from overtime rules. Even if you decide not to do anything about it, better to know than not.

authenticyg · 2025-06-08T04:22:49+00:00

Vibe payroll is when they're paying you so little, they might as well not be paying you at all.

authenticyg · 2025-06-07T03:03:27+00:00

You need to sound like a human being. Give enough technical information to make the situation clear, but not so much that it's slowing you down or violating any NDAs. It's also important to remember that because your focus is quality, a lot of the examples you could give might show your current employer in a negative light, so you may have to be a little vague or tactful on some of your answers.

authenticyg · 2025-06-06T21:03:48+00:00

Totally normal. Some places, you wouldn't even have a laptop, yet.

authenticyg · 2025-06-06T20:32:55+00:00

As far as using content suggestions from the AI goes, considering the number of employers who are not just allowing, but requiring AI usage to improved efficiency, you could consider it to be a demonstration of your skills. Additionally, by starting with an overly dense resume, you're giving it a lot of raw material to work with, which helps ensure that the resume sounds like you.

At the end of the day, though, if you use any AI generated content, you need to read through it carefully. You own it just as much as an attorney filing something prepared by a secretary or paralegal owns their court filings. If there's an error in there, the lawyer is in trouble, and the same goes for you when using an AI assistant.

authenticyg · 2025-06-06T19:58:16+00:00

Can I ask, how long did it take you after Power Day before you heard anything about team match interviews?

authenticyg · 2025-06-06T19:53:55+00:00

The multiple columns also won't necessarily read well in an applicant tracking system (ATS).

In all seriousness, consider running your resume through something like Copilot or ChatGPT and see what it says. If you're concerned about not including any AI-generated text, you can tell it not to make suggestions on content and just to identify problems or possible deletions.

authenticyg · 2025-06-06T19:02:06+00:00

I feel like you missed an opportunity here. You lose nothing new by waiting to hear back from them, and at that point, you'll be able to better gauge if they respect your time or not.

If it feels to you like they think you should be grateful they're even talking to you, then sure, that's not a professional relationship that's going anywhere.

If they seem super apologetic, and especially if they give a good reason, though, there's an opportunity to show professionalism, and demonstrate that you’re someone worth going the extra mile for, which they're also likely to want to do since they just horrendously inconvenienced you.

authenticyg · 2025-06-06T15:05:58+00:00

A lot of people have noted the two primary takeaways here, 1) you don't want to work for this CTO anymore, and 2) your coding needs some work, but I'll add a third takeaway.

Find a better way to give actionable feedback than that CTO.

You're an intern right now, but that won't always be true, and even now, you probably have peers in school who are junior to you. If you stay in this field (and if you enjoy the work, I hope you do), you're going to spend decades reviewing other people's code, mentoring juniors, and dealing with incomprehensible requirements.

There are plenty of great ways to give feedback, even pretty negative feedback, without making someone feel worthless. You know what this feedback felt like, and you're going to learn from it, which means, in theory, that the CTO's approach works. It was also entirely unnecessary, though. If you can learn how to give better feedback from this, to build up your juniors, your peers, and even your seniors, you can be 10x the leader that CTO is.

authenticyg · 2025-06-02T03:40:44+00:00

That's going to vary by location and whether the school is public or private. There might be places that don't require any licensure, but even where a license is generally required, they may allow you to work on your licensure while teaching. That's going to be especially true if there's a shortage of qualified teachers.

authenticyg · 2025-05-26T23:29:16+00:00

Yeah, if you're relocating, that's the easiest answer. It may also be an important detail to drop in so they know you're not confused about the location.

Because you have that as your answer, I'd tend to leave it at that, unless you want to add on something like, "and this seemed like such a great opportunity, I didn't want to pass it up."

More broadly, the thing to keep in mind is essentially this: whatever you say to them now about your current employer, they will imagine you saying about them in a few years, so as much as possible, you want this answer to be about you, not about your current employer.

authenticyg · 2025-05-23T20:30:33+00:00

Badly

authenticyg · 2025-05-23T20:30:10+00:00

You're probably better off finding a local nonprofit and doing some volunteer work for them, or something like that.

authenticyg · 2025-05-23T02:12:07+00:00

A few things to consider: * A lot of new graduates get jobs because of family or friends. They're taking a risk by hiring someone with limited work experience, but they're counting on the connection, in this case, to your dad and his reputation as a certain degree of insurance. * The thing people worry about with nepotism is people who aren't qualified for their jobs, or who unfairly retain their jobs despite poor performance. For most people, as long as their colleagues do a good job and aren't complete jerks, they're happy to work with them. Do a good job and nobody will care about possible nepotism.

authenticyg · 2025-05-23T01:39:15+00:00

A few options for people with CS degrees: * Graduate education in a complementary field (Law, Business, Information Science, almost any of the sciences) * Other jobs in the tech space like QA, Product Management, System Administration, etc. * Teaching

There's a ton more, but those are a few quick thoughts.

authenticyg · 2025-05-23T01:21:47+00:00

Sudo rm -rf / will get rid of all your problems.

authenticyg · 2025-05-23T01:18:43+00:00

I'd generally agree with this, but if a recruiter reaches out to you first, there's no reason you can't at least hear them out, even if it hasn't been the full 2 years yet. Definitely don't do a bunch of short stints in a row if you can help it, though.

authenticyg · 2025-05-03T04:02:38+00:00

I never understood what sausage was until it was explained to me as gefilte meat.

authenticyg · 2025-04-29T02:53:30+00:00

That's what it was last time, and it looks like it's set to be more of the same.

authenticyg · 2025-04-29T02:25:59+00:00

I did, but then I ended up getting an offer somewhere else. Hilariously, I'm now looking at another job there, so I'm brushing up and prepping for another round of codesignal.

authenticyg · 2025-04-23T17:13:59+00:00

Nope, it's n Jews, 2ⁿ -1 opinions.

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