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Recruiting people who maintain & improve, not just chase the new and shiny

My work will be recruiting soon, and one thing I'd like to do is screen out people who are more excited about writing new, exciting code than fixing older code, and more generally, people who recognise that good code is about more than lines of code…
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What are the ethical concerns of giving a notice period to an incompetent employee when it’s not required by contract?

I'm a team leader and I have a developer subordinate who is incompetent. They joined the company about six months ago and have failed in every single task given. At first, I thought it was simply an issue of getting used to our way of working, to…
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What to do after an employee leaked our algorithm?

One of my company's internally developed algorithms was published online. It's a complex algorithm that took years to develop, I have a pretty good idea of which employee leaked it based on the team who worked on it and personal information on the…
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Been in the same company for 5 years but in that time it changed its name 3 times - how to display this on my CV?

I work as a UX Designer (Senior Level) in a company I joined 5 years ago. It just got renamed 3 times (!). Currently, I am updating my CV and am asking myself how to display the name changes. I don't really want to have 3 separate entries because…
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What happens when HR is the source of harassment?

The news these days is rife with the #MeToo movement helping women find their voice against sexual harassment in their company or line of work. Everyone who has come out as an expert on the topic insists that the first thing a victim of harassment…
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How should I respond to a colleague who refuses to email me task requests?

This morning one of our designers called me and asked me to complete a task. In order to have a written record, I asked him to email me, but he suddenly said he was going to talk to the manager and hung up. A few minutes later our manager called and…
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Coworker, driving drunk, was arrested; I was his passenger. Do I tell employer?

We have a "work" softball team (it is made up of all people who I work with but the company doesn't sponsor it although we do have the same team name as our company name). I got a ride from one of my coworkers so I could have a few beers at the…
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Is it appropriate to bring up Glassdoor reviews during an Interview?

During interviews, the interviewers ask a lot of detailed questions about my previous jobs and work experience, which I understand. Before interviews I always look up the company on GlassDoor and read the reviews. I understand that there will be…
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Is it rude to correct a non-native English speaker?

A Spanish colleague of mine makes occasional, but repetitive English mistakes. Would it be considered rude or impolite to correct him? I haven't actually corrected him at all, but I feel as if I should say something like "When you say xxx it can…
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My employer wants me to a sign an NDA that is backdated more than 2 years

I've worked at my current employer for a little more than seven years. We're a small startup of about 20 employees. At the beginning of 2014, we started a new project that I was and still am involved in. Fast forward to today, my employer is asking…
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Employee died unexpectedly - how should I act towards the deceased's colleague?

So, I work in a small company, we mostly do temporary projects for a very big company with many departments. In one of the departments, an employee died unexpectedly some weeks ago. I did not know the deceased, and only know his colleague from 2-3…
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How to avoid sounding like a pedant when answering interview questions which seem simple, but are actually complicated

One particular problem that gets posed a fair amount in interviews for software development positions is how to reverse a string. On the surface, this seems like a very straight-forward and fairly simple question. However, it's not: the solution…
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How can one interview somebody for a job requiring work under severe stress?

A friend of mine is working in a company which is developing and maintaining a set of mission critical products. If one of those products fail at 3 AM, it is mandatory to do something immediately to get it back online, including solving the issue in…
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How to work with a micro-manager?

I'm trying to learn how to work with my current manager. In my opinion he is too much of a micro-manager who is rude and wants an update of every single minute of my billable hours. As an example of his nosiness, if a colleague swings by to ask how…
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Agreeing without really agreeing

I've had many more phonecons in the past year than usual, and I'm noticing that in meetings with more than a few people, that a person will say that they agree with whomever spoke immediately before them, but they clearly don't actually…
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