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If I am fat and unattractive, is it better to opt for a phone interview over a Skype interview?

I have been offered the choice of a phone interview or a Skype interview for a software engineering position. I've heard Skype is generally better because you can see the person's face. But I am a 200 pound woman who wears glasses and I'm not very…
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My boss blames the company going under on me

I have been working with a company since it started. I was the only one who coded in a specific language on the team and I had a lot of work to do. It was very obvious from the beginning that this was work for more than one person. I told my boss…
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Co-worker team leader wants to inject his friend's awful software into our development. What should I say to our common boss?

In theory, he is on the same level as me. In practice, he is above me (as de-facto team-leader). I am working in development/devops, with a partial overlap with his projects. We just had a meeting with the company wanting to sell this crap software…
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Should I keep asking candidates to include a specific word to filter out candidates who didn't pay attention to the job ad?

I am looking for a developer. For that I posted an ad that looks like this: We are searching for a BlahBlah developer part-time in-house. You will be responsible for: ...... Flexible schedule. Please put sunshine at the top of your cover letter,…
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Anxiety attack at work, caused by colleague, how to handle?

I have a colleague who thinks he knows everything better than me. Sure, he knows many things, but not everything. He knows quite some things better than me, but I also know other things better than him. Yet, he believes he knows everything better…
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How to politely avoid eating with a colleague

About my eating habits: I usually go to a nearby restaurant to eat. Sometimes I bring away the food and eat it in the company kitchen, but sometimes I go with a group of random people there. Background: I am female, my colleague is male. Cultural…
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How do I avoid giving up my password to coworkers?

I work in a big company in Germany, where we all have our computers administrated by IT people. To access my computer I have to input a username and a password to log into my account. DISCLAIMER: I know that system administrators could access a…
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Junior Developer doing well but management wants to fire him

I am a technical lead in a medium-sized company managing a team of just over 50 developers. We have many senior and mid-level developers and a few juniors. One of our junior developers has been working with us for nearly a year now and he's a good…
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How do you grow in a skill when you're the company lead in that area?

I'm a member of a small startup. When we decided to look at including a bit of AI in our product, I was asked to investigate, simply because I found it interesting and had taken a few AI/Machine Learning courses at uni (undergrad). Today, I'm now…
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Asked to sign an NDA after a one-month internship

I applied for an internship job, worked there for 1 month and then left. I did not sign a contract and was not paid for this work. Now they are asking me to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). Is this a reasonable request? I don't much care to…
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Potential client wants to pay in free stuff not money, how should I respond?

A potential client wants me to design promotional material for an event. However, in their initial solicitation, they said they would pay me with a free pass to their event which they claim is "$X value". I am only interested in this work if I get…
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Employer has changed offer after I already accepted

I got a job offer from a reputable company that I have accepted after negotiating with the technical manager who I will be reporting to. Strangely, I got a call today from the HR telling me that there was miscommunication between them and the…
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Is this fraud? And if so, to what extent am I responsible?

I am the most senior technical employee at a small company providing software as a service to other businesses. The company only has about 10 employees, so one of the directors does a lot of the sales & marketing. One client they are trying to get…
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I flunked a technical test because some of their expected answers were wrong! Should I let the company know?

A company I completed a technical test for sent me the list of their expected answers and why they thought my answers were wrong. One of them was a SQL query which, if one were to implement it as they suggested, it would be much slower than my…
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Is being tested by a "customer" a common or appropriate recruitment technique?

A friend of mine, who works as a cook, recently had an experience with a difficult customer. She made an order for pizza, then sent it back for not-being gluten free, then she sent it back because it wasn't vegetarian, then she sent it back for not…
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