{"id":19568,"date":"2024-09-21T23:25:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T22:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=19568"},"modified":"2024-09-27T23:38:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T22:38:29","slug":"daily_3492_-_saturday_work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2024\/09\/21\/daily_3492_-_saturday_work\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3492 &#8211; Saturday work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3492_Saturday_work.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nI have given up entirely on tretton37 &#8211; seriously, I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if the company doesn&#8217;t survive until the end of the year &#8211; so now I&#8217;m looking for a new employer. That means phone calls and meetings and interviews &#8211; and coding tasks. The first one I did was a small and simple one &#8211; I think I banged it out in an hour and a half. The other company I&#8217;m in serious discussions with has a bigger task, so basically I&#8217;m spending most of today working. I started after a leisurely Saturday breakfast and decided that I will stop when it&#8217;s time to cook dinner, and whatever is left undone at that point can stay that way.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a serious time investment, and I might not be willing to do this if I was interviewing with more companies. But I&#8217;ve only got three right now that I&#8217;m interested in, so I can invest a bit more in each one. And I actually prefer this to the other coding task, which was almost too simple, and for which the feedback I got was roughly &#8220;this looks really great!&#8221; and that was that. Makes me suspicious. Are they desperate? If my code &#8211; admittedly nice but nothing earth-shattering &#8211; looked so great to them, what kind of low expectations did they have? They say they&#8217;re selective but this coding task wouldn&#8217;t winnow out many candidates.<\/p>\n<p>I want to be challenged, and I want colleagues who will challenge me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have given up entirely on tretton37 &#8211; seriously, I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if the company doesn&#8217;t survive until the end of the year &#8211; so now I&#8217;m looking for a new employer. That means phone calls and meetings and interviews &#8211; and coding tasks. The first one I did was a small and simple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,9,768,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-geeky_things","category-photography-2","category-career"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19570,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19568\/revisions\/19570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}