This has happened twice now. Apply to an open position listed in LinkedIn, Indeed, corporate website etc. First interview with HR/Recruiter. Second interview with hiring manager. Third interview with the technical team. Between the interviews and "prep", I've spent 4-6 hours for each company. The last interview basically has me "doing the job" before I've been "hired for the job". In today's interview I spent a total of four hours -- 1hr to review the code that they sent to me, 2hr refactoring code or creating/designing a new future state architecture, 1hr in the panel interview with three people peppering me with unorganized questions and hypothetical scenarios. I honestly feel like
Currently running windows7. I downloaded the Ubuntu ISO, burned the CD and verified that it is correct. When I reboot the PC with the Ubuntu CD in the tray it clearly starts the process to run Ubuntu - I get the purple Ubuntu startup screen and it looks like it is working. At the point where I'm expecting to see the screen that offers me the choice to install it or try it out, it stops and I get is a jumbled/pixelated screen. The goofy thing is that I can make out the windows taskbar and messed up looking start button. Windows never booted, just the Ubuntu CD. From this point all I can do is hard reboot. It sounds like I have a hardware conflict, maybe with the graphics driver. My mo
I work in IT (consulting) and have done so for close to 20 years. It seems that no matter what project, client or effort I'm working on we ALWAYS have something urgent that comes up that requires I drop everything and put in excessive overtime (nights, weekends). It happens on every-single-project without fail. Some are worse than others. In a way it is forced slavery, I don't make a penny more by working 70 hours as opposed to 40 (though my company does). I can say "no" to the client but that isn't realistic and basically guarantees me a bad review and at least potentially puts me closer to being laid off in favor a lower paid offshore worker.
I refuse to pay $500 for Visio and am looking for a similar tool. SmartDraw seems ok but it too is $200. Is anyone aware of any decent diagramming tools out there that don't cost an arm and a leg?
Went to a party at a nice hotel in Chicago with some friends. We had a couple of rooms and the plan was, once the ballroom party was over we would continue to party in the room all night and watch the sunrise in the morning over the lake. Good plan anyway. At the time I was one of a team of people supporting a bunch of financial applications. At the time I was 24. I was the only unmarried person and I didn't have any kids so naturally everyone asked me if I would carry the support pager for New Years. I wasn't happy about it but it rarely went off after hours so no big deal. I couldn't tell you how many times I did that while I was single - carried the support pager, canceled vacation
