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Moving forward in the programming world
I have been placed in a recent position where my job title does not adequately represent what my current duties entail. I am worried that this classification will affect me later in my career as the ...
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Interview: how to ask development process/culture related questions
I just watched a presentation about simplicity by Rich Hickey at InfoQ where he goes over the constructs programmers use to produce artifacts and how those constructs make various trade-offs when it ...
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What can I do about multiple coworkers who constantly question my knowledge?
At my current job, I have coworkers who still throw interview questions at me even though I've been working there for 6 months. I though it would end after I got hired but then it continued on and on.
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How to measure an IT workplace?
During an interview, usually the interviewee is the one being measured.
However I believe as an interviewee we should also question the measurement of the IT company that we applied for, but how?
I ...
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What are some good questions (and good/bad answers) to ask at an interview to gauge the competency of the company/team? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What questions do you ask about a company before deciding to work there?
I'm already familiar with the Joel Test, but it's been my experience that some of the questions ...
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How can you tell if you're really going to be working with the “smartest people”?
In the same vein as this question, it seems like in every interview an engineer says that they're working with the smartest people. Well it's statistically impossible for every company to have the ...
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How do you know a company is worth-working at or not? [closed]
I'm leaving my current company, and I'm looking for a better place to work. But this time I'm confused. I don't want to walk in and out in six months again. I want to find a company which I can work ...
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How to avoid to be employed by companies which are candidates to DailyWTF stories?
I'm reading The Daily WTF archives and especially those stories about IT-related companies which have a completely wrong approach of software development, the job of a developer, etc.
Some stories ...
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During interviews, how do I gauge a company's respect for my position?
I'm a web developer who previously joined a software company not knowing their value and respect went to big data analysis, not their website. Sure, they needed a public-facing website, but I ...
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Good questions to ask a potential new boss?
I first asked this question on Stack Overflow, but it turns out this is a better place for it.
Imagine you were working as a software developer. Imagine that the manager of your team leaves and your ...
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What questions do you ask about a company before deciding to work there? [closed]
Sort of like the Joel Test I guess, except you don't need to limit it to checklists of yes/no questions.
