Hats off, actually a very helpful post.

Personally, I would also recommend asking about the development cycle they have. How do they plan, spec, implement and test features.

@lorentz makes sense of course

@oiledwheels lmao probably

@lorentz also wasn't your name "ibfalvy" before or am I craz?
(haven't been around for a while)

@lorentz hmm so it seems maybe he wants me to delegate my work and make more junior people work for me.. Maybe he wants me to become a manager too? Hope not.

@Demolishun I of course asked for a clarification, otherwise I wouldn't be rating here. And the clarification was a 6 minute long monologue about my time under his management so maybe I'm a dummy but it didn't really clarify what he meant.

The only thing that he made clear is that I should help others less, instead, I should get others help me more.

@Grumm ew that's a yikes as well

@ethernetzero That's what I wanna know..

@fullstackclown but why not just take one of the bits from the uuid which should already be a deterministic cryptographically strong pseudo random value? 🤔

@catgirldev couldn't people just fork it in that case?

oh no! fuck. :(
I was about to request exactly this and man I'd even be happy to pay a fee for the service... darn this sounds like stupid lazyness.

@Ceren I agree with your post in great detail and I really just can't stand people who look down on one's proud achievements especially if those achievements are easily verifiable and obviously huge.

That said, I just wanted to add that there is however an insane variation in the quality of IT degrees people might receive. Having worked in higher education (in EU), I have encountered an immense number of people with great looking CS or other IT degrees that not only knew very little about theoretical conepts but more crucially did not get *any* meaningful practical education. It shocked me how many CS and SDE courses have barely any actually practical project works, no group projects, not to mention for client projects and have interviewed dozens of "Masters" who can barely write a few lines of shitty code.

I generally dislike comparing names of universities but from my experience there is a very huge correlation between uni reputation and competency.

Now that's definitely a way to say hi.
Welcome to devrant

@TrevorTheRat That's fair and a good point. That said this manager of mine is a little bit crazy nevertheless, but it may have been true about her hands being tied for a raise..

That's really good to hear. I'm glad it worked out for you to go back and also that they welcomed you back.

@AlmondSauce oh, don't worry, I am running

@atheist exactly my thoughts. Even if they addressed everything when I asked them to, I would have remained concerned that it would have to be the same situation should I want changes again.

@black-kite but that's exactly what I did. First I said I want changes or would consider leaving. Then I said I am actively searching for another job and still nothing happened.
Happy to hear it worked out for you.

@Floydimus I would title my review "FB of all places claming your interview feedback is anonymus". Nothing can be anon if these fuckers touched it.

Anyways, good on you for writing the truth about that recruiter. Fuck him.

@LotsOfCaffeine is it just me or do you really need to click twice to toggle wifi or mobile data (only)? I use that every fucking day..

@donuts I recommend you check out the Gary Explains channel on YouTube. He made a benchmark based on a set of (imo) sensible parameters which should give a better picture of everyday smartphone performance than a 1 dimensional test.

Look for a video where he explains how he set up the benchmark and then you should also be able to find the phones you are interested in supposing they are new-ish.

That said, I don't know if his test is open source now or not. Still makes more sense than old AnTuTu imo.

@Avyy @molaram and others interested

I finally got around to respond, I've been quite busy in line with the recent developments, sorry.

My post did not fit here so I made a new one

@Avyy @molaram I'll post it here once I get a chance, sorry

Please note that I removed the original post as it contained a bit too much information and I want to make sure it doesn't come off wrongly if someone later finds it. Those of you who read it probably understand the context..

@bioDan of course I presented my GitHub profile in my CV. That's part of the reason many of the companies started talking to me. Two of the startups actually use one of my node modules. Still they asked about education.
I am not saying that they would have rejected me without my degree but it was definitely a good point. And to re-iterate, I meant good startups.

@bioDan
I have mostly been applying to startups between seed - series A, and yet all but one of them seriously cared about my education. Most of them even asked specific questions about the structure of my education, why I chose certain things and much more.

That said, I did try to apply to top startups so maybe the ones further down the pack don't care so much.

Also, if you have several years of experience of course they won't care about your education so much but I don't think that's OP's case.

as @atheist @MM83 and others well said, you need to define what you mean by toxic because if you are referring to CS fundamentals, those aren't.

I quite recently finished (a decent) uni and can confidently say that I have found several aspects of job search and (non-retard) interviews where I start with a massive advantage in understanding of concepts compared to other applicants.

On the other hand, if your university expects you to memorise Java 8 library funcions by heart and then write those down on paper without syntactical errors - which I had experienced at a previous university I left - then and only then it is actually "toxic". And then you should run the fuck away.

@milk no, definitely not. :D

Oh, I meant both watch and search history, sorry. And yeah, that's what I meant by drawback, I have literally no good recommendations. But at least I waste less time on YouTube lol

I had never even searched for the topics you listed and still get this shit so don't worry, it's definitely not you.

btw on YouTube I completely turned off search history so it has stopped most tracked recommendations but this obviously has some drawbacks as well

welcome!

@bols59 thankfully we work from home so I can avoid him even better