I know Office so I can develop a kernel driver
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I'm getting to learn something about Windows driver development so i was looking for a book to read while travelling on an airplane.
#notsureiftrollingorreallyclueless
Then... this:
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That guy's a troll
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As long as you are cool as a cucumber
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@Zmaster said in I know Office so I can develop a kernel driver:
#notsureiftrollingorreallyclueless
The sad part is, that story about getting a programming job on account of knowing how to use MS Office probably comes true a lot...
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@Onyx said in I know Office so I can develop a kernel driver:
@Zmaster said in I know Office so I can develop a kernel driver:
#notsureiftrollingorreallyclueless
The sad part is, that story about getting a programming job on account of knowing how to use MS Office probably comes true a lot...
This is why you always make people code in the interview, folks.
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@Yamikuronue said in I know Office so I can develop a kernel driver:
This is why you always make people code in the interview, folks.
The HR departments that would pass a candidate into the interview phase on the basis of knowing Office would also be the HR departments that would prohibit making a candidate code in the interview. :P
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@heterodox The guy said he knew C++. He just was never asked to prove it. :)
(Well, he's a troll, so it never happened, but)
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@Yamikuronue Just because it is a lie does not mean it isn't true, if you get what I mean. I have read this page for too long and seen too many of those exact incompetent programmers to belive otherwise.
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@Quwertzuiopp Yeah, I meant, that particular story isn't true, but this situation has totally happened before.
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And they're the same HR departments that pass on otherwise qualified candidates because the resume doesn't have all of the keywords used by their filtering algorithms.
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@heterodox Or they'd ignore the results of the coding interview and hire them anyway.
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@Yamikuronue
So, a "false but true" story. Sounds like perfect material for the broadcast nightly news ;)
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@izzion Or the front page
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@Luhmann said in I know Office so I can develop a kernel driver:
As long as you are cool as a cucumber
"This review is from: EdgeStar 14,000 BTU Portable Air Conditioner for Server Room (Kitchen)"
Don't the operators get mad when people (other than them ) try to use the server room as a kitchen?
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@Dreikin
I think we still have some wine stored in ours
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@Luhmann is it for the sysadmins' last night of drunk partying after they accidentally wipe the production box and are about to get fired as soon as someone realizes?
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@Onyx
Who in Belgium would drink wine to such an occasion?
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@Yamikuronue said in I know Office so I can develop a kernel driver:
This is why you always make people code in the interview, folks.
It probably has a lot of variation in differente cultures, but around here I noticed that places that use more steps like this in the hiring process usually are the ones that pay less.
I suspect that being more efficient in finding people, they manage to get competent people spending less money. That's good for them, but it's doubly bad for us. You lose much more time interviewing and get a shitty offer in the end.
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@Luhmann said in I know Office so I can develop a kernel driver:
@Onyx
Who in Belgium would drink wine to such an occasion?Well:
- Maybe you want to drown your sorrows.
- Maybe you want to get so drunk you forget you did it.
- Maybe you want to celebrate not having that sucky-suck job any more.
- Maybe @Onyx didn't mean drinking wine. Given the other possibilities, vodka would be more appropriate. Or the 150-proof rum my parents inadvertently bought for my uncle in an airport one time. (I had just turned 18 at that point (1984), so for other reasons, the rum ended up entering Britain on my duty-free allowance. I still wonder what the customs officials thought of that.)
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@fbmac said in I know Office so I can develop a kernel driver:
You lose much more time interviewing and get a shitty offer in the end.
Or you get a reasonable offer, but you're used to "bribing you to put up with our bullshit" money so it looks like a downgrade.
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@Yamikuronue said in I know Office so I can develop a kernel driver:
@fbmac said in I know Office so I can develop a kernel driver:
You lose much more time interviewing and get a shitty offer in the end.
Or you get a reasonable offer, but you're used to "bribing you to put up with our bullshit" money so it looks like a downgrade.
Corruption is rampant and more tolerated and ignored than it should here, but I never heard of code monkeys like me making bribe money.
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@fbmac Not literally bribes, but paying you a lot more than you're worth to offset bad working conditions
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@Yamikuronue said in I know Office so I can develop a kernel driver:
@fbmac Not literally bribes, but paying you a lot more than you're worth to offset bad working conditions
The way you said it looks like if we were in a factory sweatshop working to exhaustion while starving.
That's not that bad, were writing WTF code that will be shipped to a customer as soon as it compiles in a office with air conditioning for 44h a week.
Our software process and quality is a pile of WTF, the management and sales drones have zero respect for our customers or the stockholders. There is no incentive to improve because all companies pay the same thing for everyone, and the best bullshiters are the ones being promoted to management and etc. Few interesting things to code here because no venture capitalist wants anything to do with this place, so most software we have to write is equally boring.
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@fbmac said in I know Office so I can develop a kernel driver:
most software we have to write is equally boring.
Lots of boring software out there. Still needs to be written. Even exciting projects often have lots of boring bits.