More. Quantity>quality

I want to visit Italy and look at their churches in some rural cities and just roam around a city without a purpose and drink white vine at little restaurants terrace. Also I need to visit Krim and inhale their air.

Instead of that I'm stuck in this frozen hell.

You could be like protagonist from Nostalghia

 

Isn't pidorburg soulful though?

Depressive threads.

Me no like

I want to vist Pietari but I can only afford Tallinna-cruises :(

For the last ten days it was like Voronezh. But now it gets more soul due to cold weather and snow. Still, the streets smell nothing, not even smell of fresh snowy air.

 

I know not what zis means

Hm, why?

Beautiful city with soul, near but unreachable.

It was a dirty city without snow and any kind of entertainment where it's always a long Sunday's afternoon and there is nothing to do and nowhere to go. Everything is bleak and soulless.

Do you really find this city butifel?

Well I too cannot travel to Finlan that easily, however I know you have a city where a Moomin museum and museum of Communism (or museum of Staling) almost on the same street. Bruh.

IMHO Pietari is a more aesthetic Helsinki with a twist. Also practicing forgotten high school Russian would be ebin before and during the trip.

Tomorrow is also a first working day here on Russia. I enrolled into new company just two weeks ago and already want to leave it for something better. Guess I'll have some interviews going the next two weeks and need to prepare.

Hm. It's interesting how foreigners see this city aesthetically assuming they don't know its history.

Also did you know we have bar culture? You can drink and find a company almost at any moment of day.

What about cafes? Don’t really care for booze or bars.

Plenty as well. Sometimes I spend there the whole night. But you can't find a company of strangers there tho. There are some famous coffee shops with rooms 10 x 10 meters that usually filled up with people you can't stand on two legs there. Nice experience.

Oh, by the way, are cafes popular on Finlan?

Fuck you, America Bernd. Created a thread and abandoned it.

So different from the sterile Fazer cafes in Helsinki, due to fire safety we would never allow an establishment without plenty empty space.

 

How are coffee shops open all night?

 

We don’t have a proper cafe culture here, socialising is done predominantly in bars over beer.

Whats uuuuuup?

I'm just ignoring the russki

Just giddings

 

Tell us more

Like everything else in here. Stores, shops, everything is open.

You are on my list nao.

Uh oh, I passed interview in one megacorporation, found out how shitty they are internally, felt not on my place and started to want to apply to another corporation, but not megacorporation this time.

They pay good monies and I'm willing to be enslaved for my wage, but conditions have to be acceptable.

Are you codegarch? & How did you find out about company culture if there was no work for 2 weeks?

Tell me about the interview process. I'm curious how it differs to how it is here

 

One of the things that is pretty sweet about my company (I'm at a SaaS company owned by private equity firm) is the work-life balance

Yes, was it obvious?

I worked a little bit longer than that, actually, holidays were excluded.

 

Nothing special. You have to know shitton of things in different aspects and be able to write code on the interview. That simple.

One detail: the higher salary, the more specific questions for the position you get. Or better say, the more specific answers the interviewer are waiting from you, and even simple mistakes could cost you the job. They wait that your answer will be almost exactly what they expect, no matter is it better or worse. If it is better answer, they might think that it is wrong.

So it's pure luck, and that's why the range of knowledge should be insanely wide — just to be able to make less mistakes on unfamiliar subjects and even know what answers are considered as mistakes by others.

Is the company Yandex?

And I am no codegarch bit I use SQL fairly frequently for some analysis. Do you know how I can become better at getting an intuitive understanding of data warehousing?

 

t. Pretty stupid guy

Almost. It's the same level.

 

From experiencing I guess. You should try to read books with examples of solving typical tasks in your favorite %warehouse technology name%. Like, you know, pic related. But if you aren't using them much, it's waste of time and I would just go into stackexchange subsite and ask for particular task there.

 

Are you a data analyst?

Mail.ru group?🤔

 

And I told you I'm pretty stupid, so kinda like your advice, I frequently don't remember things I read and I need to do them hands-on in order for them to stick. It's just hard for me to find where I can import a large data set for free.

 

I am a manager of data entry type of work but I do a bit of analysis myself and frequently collaborate with the data analyst/data science teams day-to-day.

 

Are you a full stack engineer?

My posts have been substandard. I'm afraid to post anymore.Don't want a ban.

Unimaginable!

SpB Bernd has ignored me

Yep. I'm working on Russian oligarchs.

Probably nowhere. Especially assuming you would need to run some queries on the data. At least I haven't heard of anything that's relatively free and can have huge data sets you can't process on your desktop.

 

Just ask your local programmers to make an interface for your day to day tasks, it's normal thing to ask from your dev department to make the task less complex. Can you do that?

 

Most of the time I don't work with the front-end, but usually I apply as a front-end developer. Hm, I'm something between an architect and back-end developer.

Sorry, I wasn't here for a while, but came back.

I own Prosus stock so technically I am your owner :DDD

Tell me how is the corporate culture so bad.

 

And in a weird way I'm glad I haven't been overlooking some sort of free software I could have been using. Still, it sucks

 

And ofc at work we use snowflake and have all the infrastructure necessary, but it's not so easy to play around with this data. Perhaps I should say it's not as interesting, and after working I would rather play around with other datasets than the same stuff from work.

I wonder if I buy the same stocks does that mean that I'm working on myself, lol?

 

It isn't. It's good, it's nice and I would dream to work with such good people as I see here. Only technical side is saddening me. I haven't seen such low quality of work. Maybe it's not even that low compared to what you see on average, but it's unforgivably love for such huge product. Have you heard about technical debt? They has a lot. Tho it won't harm the product, not in the way. But it's pain for engineers, and very rarely for the end users.

So, are you interested in your work, not as in job, but as in hobby and could potentially do something similar after work hours?

I was joking ofc. Me owning .0000000000000001% of the company means nothing

My entire department is riddled with tech debt so I know it so. And I can imagine how hard it is to transition for a huge corporation. Lots of potential pitfalls there

How would you be able to take what you see and fashion it into a question in your next interview to determine if there is a lot of tech debnt there?

Not particularly. I've done this from time to time but I spend a lot of my week working and really do get tired of looking at the same shit

If I correctly understood your question, the I'll say that low quality of work stops me from working productive and fulfil my purpose as a highly skilled engineer because these skills are unnecessary and basically I'm simply overskilled.

Wasn't you saying about good work/life balance ITT or was it another American Bernd?

I've thought about it and I think we actually need more posters. Please bring some quality posters from k*hl.

It was a badly formulated question. In short, how do you plan on understanding whether a lot of tech debt exists in any given company? Of course, they will never say so directly

 

It was me earlier and I meant things like holidays, benefits, time off and such. I worked 10 days all of December.

I also generally push myself and work harder than I need to. That's just how I am.

I simply won't be able to do this. This why I applied to the work I have in the first place — to see how things will go. In Russia we have 3 months time when you can easily quit the job, hence be easily fired is also a possibility, so both sides use that time to understand needs and capabilities of each other.

In America, if you took and offer and wanna leave in several weeks, is it considered as something shameful?

an offer*

Makes sense

And there's usually a 90 day probationary period, but the reality is that unless you're a highly skilled/experienced individual (and it sounds like you are) it's not so easy to jump ship very easily

 

Anyway, I'm gonna watch the bears game now. Thanks for the conversation friend

I'm bored and has no work to do except for watching graphics and waiting for the right time.

Also I became a little bit friendly with a co-worker (male) and had a chit chat with him almost for an hour.

Actually I'm sitting at home, sipping coffee and listening to Depeche Mode.

Fucking noice Bernd.

Sorry, I’m phoneposting atm.

Understood.

Here is some rare DM for you, m8.

 

How did the interview for the gayme go?

Also I used to use that pic a lot back in the day with a weird filename, rate

Thanks m8, will listen to once in peace and quiet.

Dunno. I know we all look similar, but I'm different Russki.

How was the song? Did you like it?

Thanks or the reminder. Been years since I listened to their songs, very nostalgic.