Comments by "ForgottenKnight1" (@ForgottenKnight1) on "A Life After Layoff" channel.

  1. You should not worry about training any replacement. That's the company's job. Unless mandated by your contract or if the company deserves this.
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  2. And this is why I do contracting, to avoid most of this corporate bullshit.
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  3.  @ALifeAfterLayoff  Passive income streams require up-front capital to be worthwhile. You will have to work 2 jobs for a while. If your field permits contracting, you can have 2 contracts and do some afternoon-evening and weekend work, or even start an LLC and get an employee you out.
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  4.  @durianpeople  "no, you discuss salary once you pass the interview and move into offering phase" - and then you see that the job pays shit and you've been lowballed. No, you discuss salary expectations right at the first call/meeting/interview. If they are reluctant to disclose it, that should be a big red flag that this is a job that pays shit.
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  5. The best way of handling an interview on the defensive is not to handle it at all. Stop interviewing for shit companies with a shit HR department. End of story.
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  6. You mean companies like Google ?
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  7.  @ALifeAfterLayoff  " AI-generated or not, it should still be treated as if it were real" - eerrm ... no. This is like saying that you shouldn't be able to commit any crimes in a video game because it should be treated as if it were real. So based on this "logic" the majority of the game industry should be in jail.
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  8. She probably lived for free until now and reality is finally catching up to her.I wonder in what she graduated ?
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  9.  @EarthboundTraveller  "This is way over the top" - Right ? How dare you ask to be paid accordingly ? The audacity !
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  10.  @CST1992  Not all bridges deserve to stand.
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  11. Who decides who is worth how much? You?
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  12. It's so hard to get a job because recruiters are just checking their laundry list instead of doing recruiting and companies do not have competent senior staff to actually conduct proper effective interviews to fill their positions. Ah, and let's not forget the ghousters and the companies that lie about opened positions.
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  13.  @ALifeAfterLayoff  I'd really appreciate that. I am currently working as a contracting software engineer and would be interested in also developing passive sources as well.
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  14. I have a personal black list of recruiters / agencies / companies who do this shit. Whenever someone from that list gives me a call they are either blocked or soon to be blocked the moment I find out who they are.
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  15. The higher you go, the higher the nepotism goes too. I've seen people in management positions who where absolutely incompetent at understanding what their subordinates were doing.
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  16. This smells like a big ass lawsuit incoming.
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  17. 3:54 - Geo location is just another type of lowball. What if I move to an area where the living cost is lower ? Should I get paid less ? What if it is higher ? Should I get paid more ? Adapting the wages for a location shows me that you want to optimize your budget, but some of those recruiters out there use this tool wrong. 6:03 - Yes, I am probably in the top 10%. Also Hacker Rank or other similar sites are not a good benchmark, as most of businesses revolve around application building and not algorithmic solutions. Now, if you are searching for a niche category of jobs, like data engineer or maybe a position in a financial institution, where they rely heavily on statistics and their applications need to squeeze every millimeter of performance, than yes, knowing data structures and their usages inside out can prove to be very very handy. But again, that is a very niche category in software development. The pay is also better (on average, +30-40%) 6:52 - Most people don't know this because people are super iffy about talking salaries openly. So it is hard to asses an average baseline. 7:59 - Contractors do this a lot better than people who have been only employees. I know this because I've been both and interacted with both from both sides. 8:26 - This is another hard subject, because a lot of job offers are written incompletely and some just straight up lie. 9:06 - You can afford this if you have no obligations. Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet, especially with this whole spectacle the last 2 years. 10:03 - Nice :)
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  18. You can safely ignore whatever emails they are sending you. In fact, delete them and move on hapilly :) There is nothing they can do.
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  19.  @ALifeAfterLayoff  And how do you choose when you are offered 0 transparency ? What do you think will happen if I start asking in an interview: so why is this position open ? Could I have a 1:1 with a few of the team members ? What about some of your former employees ? Without these, it's a lottery :) Your only other option is to have somebody on the inside that you can ask what type of bosses, projects, clients are in that area so you can then evaluate if it's going to be a shitty job or not.
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  20. In today's economy, don't be overly jaded, but do try to be over employed. At the end of the day, only you care about you. 6:50 - and this is why your social media profiles should be COMPLETELY anonymous. So you can have that freedom. 7:30 - just play the corporate games. Once you understand that what you say must not always coincide with what you actually believe, you're golden.
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  21. What are the red flags ?
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  22. There is no such thing as "loyalty". Only money speak, the rest is bull.
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  23. They were lying or incompetent. Either way, it was a waste of your time.
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  24.  @nategibbons172  If you require references this just shows me that your interviewing process is not good enough to actually select the proper candidate for the proper job.
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  25. This whole "performance" is a big BS. For mega corporations, it's always about the money. Lower profit projects will be dropped and people will be fired. End of story.
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  26. Yes. You should never use your real name in whatever your online presence is, unless it's an actual brand or business you personally own (Like a YouTube channel, and even that, if the subject is controversial, it is better to keep your identity private).
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  27. Most people in IT have no idea how to interview. This applies to both HR and technical. They just pick some random "senior" guy and they do a canned interview.
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  28. This is because in IT there are a lot of inexperienced hiring managers and HR people, so they hire based on checking the bullets on their laundry list instead of doing a proper interview and post-analysis of the candidate.
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  29. If they avoid giving a salary range in the posting or during the very first call, that is a fat red flag.
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  30. I want to know the pay range so I can decide if I am going to waste my time or not.
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  31. Comprehensive job description, correct set of responsibilities based on title ( HR fucks this up on a daily basis in tech ), position budget or salary range on display in concrete numbers.
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  32. Things that annoy me: 1. Shit posts. This should be a professional platform, not fucking Facebook. 2. Low quality recruiters. Some of the recruiters can't even properly articulate the details of a job description. Like wtf?. Also, lots of these "opportunities" are shit. 3. Employer ghosting is just straight up unprofessional. Especially if a prospect expects a feedback and has asked you about it already one or two times. 4. Feed good stories are just spam shit. Keep that for Facebook. 5. LinkedIn "influencers" are a joke. Whenever such spam enters my feed, I block it. TLDR: Keep it professional or fuck off.
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  33. This is a stupid question, straight up. Why in the hell would I even think about exposing my weaknesses to you, a total random ? I would just get up and be like, "I got better things to do, so you can either ask me relevant questions, or this interview is over".
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  34. First, never use your real identity on social media unless it's for your own benefit, in this case, except LinkedIn, be anonymous. Don't use your real name, don't use your real picture.
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  35. Could it take OP's job ?
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  36. Why not? You have to start somewhere. Not everybody can afford college.
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  37.  @lunacarmin  Yeah, I understand your perspective now, but that's just stealing your own hat if you do this, instead of actually doing the course.
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  38. "We really need some kind of patent, or trademark, or copyright protection for our personal information" - it's already there: GDPR. It exists for years now. Too bad the US refused to implement it.
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  39. You should not care if they are slow. Are they slow ? Good. Their competitor might be faster.
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  40. It's not that it failed. It never tried in the first place.
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  41.  @ThePrimeMinisterOfTheBlock  Seems you got point 5 pretty well :)
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  42. You should not wait for anyone to respond, you should continuously interview and sign with the first company you deem to be OK for you. Discard the rest.
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  43. Funny thing is, a lot of people are more competent than their superiors in their jobs, but because of all sorts of circumstances, the less competent person is a manager.
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  44. Immediately is just a buzzword. There is no position on the market that has to be filled "immediately".
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  45. You only do this if you want more money. Why? Because that's the part they have to put in the contract. The rest, they can bullshit you however they want and there is nothing you can do about it.
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  46. That's just victimizing yourself. You should do your homework a little more about what you should ask depending on your experience and field of work. If you ask less than the actual average or expected limits of some position, the employer will be happy to give you less. Also, knowing what money you should be getting for the job helps you filter out bad jobs.
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  47. It would be really cool for someone to hack that platform and expose the data in that survey, if it exists. Just like companies do "anonymous" surveys that are anything from anonymous.
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  48. Bait and switch will result in a blacklist if the switch is too big. This is why you ask 20 to 30% more than you actually want because they will ALWAYS negotiate downwards. Also, you should ignore any jobs that do not have at least a salary range from the get go. It will save you a lot of time.
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  49. If your interviewer is totally ignorant, the better. Learn to take advantage of that.
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  50. No, it's not. You should always have your radar on, no matter your employment. Remember, the only loyalty that matters is the loyalty towards yourself and you have to care for yourself, because your boss sure as fuck won't.
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