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Weird circumstances surrounding feedback interview after on-site interview
What do I take of this?
It is definitely a glitch because no companies would send a flurry of no-reply email notifications that look like they want to hire you for a position.
In reality, if a ...
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Weird circumstances surrounding feedback interview after on-site interview
I think the more interesting question is:
Does what was sent through interest you?
If the answer is 'yes' - then I would essentially let the recruiter know. Glitch or not, a hand has been shown and if ...
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Weird circumstances surrounding feedback interview after on-site interview
What do I take of this?
Nothing much. A glitch is a glitch and there doesn't seem anything happening here.
Does this mean my chances of getting hired are good or are negative feedback interviews a ...
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Should I be concerned that one of my direct reports still has one to one meetings with my manager after I was promoted?
Based on my experience where I have always had good relations with everyone. I would go to my boss and suggest, as an aside something like "Do you think that things would flow better if that ...
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Should I be concerned that one of my direct reports still has one to one meetings with my manager after I was promoted?
I would not be as sanguine as the other respondents. This is not something to not worry about. It’s always a game of chess in the corporate world.
Your subordinates like you have hopes and dreams and ...
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Effects of being fired from a co-op on future employability
they could avoid listing it on their resume?
In the United States you decide what items to put on your resume. As your experience grows you can skip some jobs without hurting your narrative related ...
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Effects of being fired from a co-op on future employability
In addition to the other answers: These days, if a company is called to confirm information on a resume, their lawyers will almost certainly tell them to only acknowledge that the person worked for ...
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Effects of being fired from a co-op on future employability
Could they discuss with the HR and have it considered as a normal termination of employment instead of a performance-based firing?
I highly doubt that you can convince HR to change the reason for ...
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Effects of being fired from a co-op on future employability
If I've understood correctly - they had an Internship, the Internship changed into something else, then they got fired?
In which case...
No one cares
And here's why: An Internship is generally ...
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Received job offer restricting cell phone use, permitting workspace searches -- is this normal?
After discussion of why the employer has done this, if it is justified to have a one-size-fits-all solution, and if there are legal issues or not, I find there is really only one question that matters:...
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What are your thoughts on hourly based full time job?
Opinion :- If you're feeling unappreciated and neglected at work, talk to your manager on where to improve. Schedule a meeting with him/her and understand if there are expectations that is not met. In ...
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Do software industry employeers care that you failed a subject or two in university?
I'm going to answer this from the perspective of someone in Australia who has been working a software job for 8 years now. I failed 3 subjects throughout my course and had to retake them (yes that ...
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Do software industry employeers care that you failed a subject or two in university?
I think you bark up the totally wrong tree. You still are years away from graduating - your main problem is not a failed course or two, it is having skills that are marketable AT ALL in a time where ...
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Do software industry employeers care that you failed a subject or two in university?
It's not quite as simple as "I failed a class", there are lots of different ways that can happen and they can be handled differently. Here's what I've observed from both sides of the ...
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Do software industry employeers care that you failed a subject or two in university?
In CS, most people that join my company as developers or cloud-, DevOps or CI/CD engineers get quite little head start from uni. The technologies we use are just too new to already be in the ...
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Do software industry employeers care that you failed a subject or two in university?
Answering from the UK.
In 2005 I was in my second year of a BA in Philosophy and Computing.
The first year of my degree did not count towards my final degree, and in my second year I failed my Data ...
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Do software industry employeers care that you failed a subject or two in university?
This probably doesn't apply to the industry as a whole, and this is united-states based.
As someone who has had the unfortunate experience of interviewing a lot of Covid-19 graduates.
I have found ...
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Do software industry employeers care that you failed a subject or two in university?
I've been working as a software developer for the past 11 years and have had numerous jobs, spending an extraordinary amount of time looking for work. I also spent most of the 15 years before that (...
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Do software industry employeers care that you failed a subject or two in university?
Want to eventually go for a software engineering job with some defense
companies
The work that defense companies do tends to involve more scientific programming, so they may care about the ...
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Do software industry employeers care that you failed a subject or two in university?
In the US, no. All that matters if you can do the job. Many employers will do the contract to hire thing, that is hire you as a contractor, and let you go early if you prove to not have the skills.
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Do software industry employeers care that you failed a subject or two in university?
First-year classes may be ignored, since you were still learning how to be a college student and passing subsequent classes provides some evidence that you did, in fact, eventually learn the material. ...
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Do software industry employeers care that you failed a subject or two in university?
You mentioned that you failed the 2 courses during your first year in college. So, you still have 3 more years to improve your GPA. Good luck.
You don't need to have a perfect GPA to get a job in the ...
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I’m being assigned basic work, how do I respond?
If the fundamental problem is that you've been caught up in a chaotic and thoughtless allocation of staff resources, then I'd focus on explaining this to your manager.
It’s hard to propose a solution ...
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I’m being assigned basic work, how do I respond?
Find a team or department that does what you want, and talk to their manager to find out if they have an opening that you could fit into. Then you can make a solid proposal to your own manager, ...
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I’m being assigned basic work, how do I respond?
I would attempt to get the manager to see my viewpoint, but only once. After that if I wasn't seeing a clear way forwards to what I want then it's showing a lack of respect for me and my worth so it's ...
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How can I give feedback about unproductive one-on-ones with my manager?
First of all: Weekly one-on-ones are quite excessive and consume a lot of time. So the first thing I’d try is tell your manager that you are quite busy, already have a lot of meetings and ask if they ...
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