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Re:Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bou... by JohnFen on Monday July 03, 2023 @01:31PM (#36576247)
> because they couldn't get the HR, hiring manager, and engineer at the same time.

I think you dodged a bullet. If a company doesn't have their act together enough to actually gather the people they need for a meeting that they themselves set up, it hints that there are deep management-level problems there.

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Re:Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bou... by hospitalJail on Monday July 03, 2023 @01:48PM (#36576448)
For sure, the company was a Zombie company, but the title was somewhat impressive for my age. I even worked at that company 8 years before, they were so petty when I didn't take a pay cut to be a direct hire, and they got rid of me. (Got a 30% raise at my next job, doh!)

Ended up getting my dream job to be a programmer instead of a (real) engineer. Now I make more money than ever, as you can imagine.

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