Posts tagged #jobs on Dynamo Geeks: 33 posts from the community, most useful first.
First: this is not legal advice. Immigration rules are detailed and every case is different. If you are affected, talk to an immigration attorney. This post is what I've learned from 7 years on H-1B and from helping two colleagues through layoffs. Every few months there's a new headline about fees or rules and our desi group chat explodes. Most of it is noise. What isn't noise is the 60-day grace period, because…
Candidates almost never see what happens after the interview. I've been a hiring manager for six years and have filled in some hundreds of these forms, so here is what is actually on it and what I write. The form Ours has five fields, and most companies I know use something similar: Problem solving Coding Communication Ownership and attitude (with a specific example required) Overall: Strong No / No / Yes / Strong…
I was laid off in February after nine years at a large tech company. I've kept a spreadsheet since day one, partly because I'm an engineer and partly because counting things is how I stay sane. People keep asking what the market actually looks like for a senior backend engineer right now, so here are the real numbers, February through July. The funnel Cold applications (career pages, job boards): 431. Any human…
Every second DM I get is about notice periods. "Bhai new company 30 days mein join karne bol rahi hai, mera 90 days hai, kya karun?" So here is everything in one place. I am not a lawyer. This is what actually happens in practice. Why 90 days Most service companies and many large product companies in India have 60 to 90 days in the appointment letter. Startups are often 30 to 60. Read your own letter tonight, not…
Mga kapatid, madalas akong tanungin "Kuya, totoo ba na may nahi-hire kahit walang CS degree / kahit taga-probinsya / kahit matanda na?" Kaya nag-ask ako sa ilang students ko kung pwede kong i-share yung stories nila. Pumayag sila, pinalitan ko lang yung names. Joy, 27, call center agent for 6 years Nag-aaral siya ng HTML at CSS ng 4am pagkatapos ng shift niya. Walong buwan. First job: WordPress developer sa isang…
I've been managing for six years and I've run something like 2,000 one-on-ones. Most of what I know about being a manager came out of those 30-minute meetings, including the ones I ran badly. Here's how I run them now. The basics 30 minutes, weekly. I reschedule if I have to. I don't cancel. Cancelling tells people they're the first thing to go. It's their meeting, not mine. They set the agenda first. I add my items…
This happened three years ago and I still have the email saved in a folder called "never again". I was at a service company. Got an offer from a mid-size SaaS product company, 75% hike, my first product role. I negotiated my 90-day notice down to 60 with a partial buyout, served it, did the handover, had the farewell cake, collected the "all the best" emails. Six days before my joining date, at 7:40 pm, an email:…
Yesterday I created this topic. Today I am writing the story that is the reason it exists. It is 1 am and I am still a little angry about it, two years later. Series B fintech. Recruiter call went well. Then the take-home arrived: "should take 4 to 6 hours". The brief: A payments reconciliation service with a REST API Unit and integration tests Dockerfile and docker-compose A README with design decisions "Bonus: a…
Dekho bhai, har hafte koi na koi DM karta hai: "bhaiya offer aa gaya, 30 din mein join karna hai, notice 90 din ka hai, kya karu?" Toh socha ek baar mein sab likh deta hoon. Mere dono switches mein yahi scene tha, aur juniors ke saath 20-25 baar ye dekh chuka hoon. 1. Resign tab karo jab offer letter haath mein ho Recruiter ka "you are selected 🎉" wala mail offer letter nahi hai. Offer letter mein ye sab hona…
