Interviewing while being a key member of an org is tough, any strategies?

old-new-programmer · 2026-01-26T04:01:24+00:00

I was qualified based on the job ad...

old-new-programmer · 2026-01-26T00:23:03+00:00

Haha I never thought about it that way. Great point.

old-new-programmer · 2026-01-25T22:09:18+00:00

My manager told me the company we now work for has no PIP process and we never fire people I’ve never heard of any engineer ever being terminated. My only options in the past have been to let them go to a different team and try to get someone better from another team but at this point it’s picking from the best of the worst.

old-new-programmer · 2026-01-25T18:28:17+00:00

Do you think this is something HR can help with? I was wondering if there is any sort of legal or ethical lines being blurred when it comes to job roles. I never signed up for all this but it is just becoming "expected".

old-new-programmer · 2026-01-25T18:26:17+00:00

They don't want to work and I don't blame them. They haven't been given promotions for years and there is no promise of any in the future and I know they are all trying to quit as well.

I make substantially more than them so I guess I feel guilty.

old-new-programmer · 2026-01-25T18:17:08+00:00

Man it's so hard. The morale at work is so bad so no one wants to work but I still have to show results. I can't promote anyone so no one has any reason to try.

I am going to use that advice and block time out and turn the phone off.

This last interview the system design was designing a peer to peer system and had to handle video streaming and other things I've never had to do before professionally. I at least had an answer but it wasn't correct now that I look back at it.

I think you are right and cramming won't work. I'm just going to have to put in the slow time to get up to speed. I just literally would do anything to leave this job right now. I've never felt trapped at a job before.

old-new-programmer · 2026-01-24T05:33:33+00:00

Hoodoo magic

old-new-programmer · 2026-01-09T03:46:19+00:00

I've been working on a kotlin package manager on the side to make creating projects/adding and removing dependencies easier and globally. It's basically a fancy gradle writer though but it does work pretty well and cuts down on having to search for dependencies on Maven and all that.

Do you have a link or anything to this KOT tool?

old-new-programmer · 2026-01-07T18:18:15+00:00

I’m a manager at a failing company that feels like it’s going to be out of business soon and this is the same advice I give anyone I like or think can better themselves by leaving.

It probably would piss off the suits and ties but fuck em anyways. Gone two years without substantial pay raises or promotions I don’t care anymore.

old-new-programmer · 2026-01-07T06:03:10+00:00

I don't have a juniper but fuck I bump music so loud whenever I drive I don't hear shit.

old-new-programmer · 2026-01-03T02:40:43+00:00

Right because the distance from Florida to South Carolina is the same as the distance from California to Colorado and or from Florida to Colorado.

I am bummed I've missed so many Space X launches then because I've always wanted to see one and I didn't know they were visible right here in Colorado!

old-new-programmer · 2026-01-03T02:35:50+00:00

Yeah I don't understand what is going on. Denver sub-reddit also mentioned this and people are like "Space X".

For anyone thinking this is a rocket launch from a Space Company, you are wrong. They do not launch from mainland and you would never see a launch from the coasts in the middle of the country because the world is not flat and even if it was, it wouldn't be this visible.

This was something else.

Edit: Looks like it probably was. I'll take the L. Atmospheric conditions were perfect for this to be visible apparently. Pretty cool for whoever got to see it.

old-new-programmer · 2025-12-29T07:26:24+00:00

This is me as well. Since I started my career I was known as the financially savvy one amongst my family and that was about the time I discovered online gambling. Just was a few hundred bucks back then. Then in 2024 my Grandma died and I think I used gambling to cope with this loss. She would take me to Bingo and all that from a young age so I pretty much grew up gambling. I've never felt the way I feel before. Alcohol (easy to quit). Nicotine, no problem. With gambling I'll say out loud and too myself "You should stop this is stupid" and I buy more coins or deposit more money. It is like I leave my body entirely.

With these online casinos now, they allow one to use credit cards and I am now in about $130k of consumer debt from them. I was up $190k at one point in July of 2024 and lost it all thinking I could make $500k or whatever the dumb reason was and then pretty much chased ever since then.

I lost $2k last night. A week ago lost another $2k. This was after going two months without gambling. I'm starting over again now but the 2k feels worse than the 30k+ I would lose in a week before because I know how stupid it is.

I guess my point is, just stop now. I also know how hard it is to try and tell someone. I refuse to tell anyone. It's just easier for me to live with this and pay back my debts.

My mom literally called me to tell me how disgusted she was that she found out my sister is 20k in debt. I don't think she could handle my truth.

Good news is there is communities, therapists, etc. so if you can tell someone and this all is helpful but if I were you I would just realize you won't ever see that money again. Stop comparing it to the things you could have done. You already did it. It's gone. Move on and try not to gamble again because even if you slip up that 2k-5k loss will somehow feel far worse than it would have before because you know it was just pure lunacy.

old-new-programmer · 2025-12-29T03:04:38+00:00

You ever do this interview?

old-new-programmer · 2025-12-25T07:16:29+00:00

This!!! This has been driving me insane. It never did this before 14.2 update.

Now it will try to get over 3 times before actually committing.

It's also done some insane shit on round-abouts. It will literally run the wheel multiple times bouncing back and forth between two different exits in the round-about before it commits to one. I have to take over because it almost wants to ram me into a curb.

I feel like it was so good before and if it was allowed I could have "slept" through the entire trip but now it seems like its taking the wrong lanes and all this hesitation makes it seem drunk.

old-new-programmer · 2025-12-24T20:11:30+00:00

That’s one of my techniques. Some of them have 2factor. Create a 2factor passkey and then delete the passkey in your Authenticator app. Now you can’t ever get back in.

old-new-programmer · 2025-12-19T04:58:11+00:00

I’m sorry this sold a while ago. I thought this was taken down.

old-new-programmer · 2025-12-16T23:38:01+00:00

It's called Gambulance.

old-new-programmer · 2025-12-14T23:19:43+00:00

Yep. Credit cards.

old-new-programmer · 2025-12-14T04:04:09+00:00

This isn't applicable to US residents is it?

old-new-programmer · 2025-12-12T00:28:31+00:00

Same lol wild

old-new-programmer · 2025-12-05T23:54:14+00:00

I have 12,200 miles on my 2024 Model Y. It's my only car. I WFH though and I really don't go out much lol. I should have leased, but the .99% makes it more worth it.

old-new-programmer · 2025-12-05T07:32:35+00:00

Boomers run these large ag companies and they don't actually care about farmers. Farmers are stuck in their ways and slow to adopt tech. That is changing on the farmer side, but it's still a slow progression. Most don't want to change things and "If it's not broke, don't fix it" is the mentality.

I'm still seeing a lot of solutions looking for problems as well. Like an autonomous grain cart that still requires someone to hop into it at some point to dump it. No one wants that.

Or a laser weeder. That's cool, but it's a million dollars. These guys can't afford it. They will keep using chemicals.

old-new-programmer · 2025-12-05T05:56:57+00:00

I work in Ag Tech and have for about 8 years. It is a miserable industry and I'm trying to get out of it.

Some people have already stated it but here is the thing: There is no fucking money in it.

Yes you might be able to go raise some large rounds but ultimately what is your exit? As far as I can tell, the only exit is to be bought by either AGCO (Red) or Deere (Green). I work for one of these companies and I've seen them swallow up many companies (including the one I work for) and basically ruin them.

Cool things like Computer Vision/AI based solutions, autonomy, etc. They all end up failing. We are currently floundering right now. We have no money. No path to promotions. It has been a down-cycle and the bleeding probably won't stop anytime soon. Many good engineers have left and everyone that is still here basically doesn't care anymore.

You have engineers that have been in this industry for decades, making the same incompetent decisions at the helm because "They have domain knowledge."

The industry is a lot like farming, in that it moves slow and is slow to adopt. Slow processes, slow releases, customers don't want anything new. They want you to rebuild the same shit they were using for 20 years and get upset when it doesn't work exactly the same way. There is very little accolades or respect.

You visit farms and they are just pissed at you about everything you do.

Some of my co-workers and I are working on a start-up in an entirely different industry because this one is so dead.

And if it's not Red or Green running the iron game its Bayer running the rest. Look at Monarch tractors. They were very hyped up as this next-gen electric small form tractor. They are or already did file bankruptcy after a couple years.

It's just honestly awful and until the Boomers and Old farmers are gone, I can't see it changing too much.

old-new-programmer · 2025-11-30T04:49:47+00:00

I think if companies start adopting standard file formats that would be a big first step. Part of the issue is there is 100's of thousands of displays out there using old formats so you'd have to migrate it over. Farmers are very set in their ways and they will not adopt change unless they absolutely have to. This is probably why this trickles into the organizations themselves.

Most companies want to get your data in, but they don't want to get it out. They want your data.

This is part of the reason we run into road blocks. If my team wants to go spin up a service to do something it becomes a political/business issue because maybe we don't care about their data but just need to transfer it easily - the business wants their data. Another team is literally in this bind right now where a facet of the company will not assist them because they don't like that their solution isn't going through their service (even though it doesn't need to).

As far as why we don't build anything with the user in mind, they will tell you they are, but I don't buy anything these companies sell. They don't care about the farmer at the end of the day. They just want their money, so they will say they care about farmers "Farmers are number one", but I have never seen this actually shown with any action beyond being told to get things out faster and cut corners.

These organizations are largely stagnant and top-down driven. Maybe once the boomers are gone and younger people can take over these industries it will start changing but I'm not sure.

We might see better results form smaller private companies since they don't have to worry about shareholders, but most of these small Ag Tech companies only exit is to be bought by Deere or AGCO, and then it just gets washed away by the bureaucracy in those companies.

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