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Asked to complete interview exercise, but ignoring GitHub work demoing expertise?

Recently I had two interviews focused on programming language X. For most of the past five years, that language has been my professional and personal focus. The first interview took place in-person with a tech lead and senior developer. At the end,…
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How to politely tell coworkers that their input is unnecessary or unneeded?

I am a manager at a company which has struggled the past 2 years with the changing market and due to this has had several budget constraints. Just recently I finally got a budget to redesign one of our web products that actually will be considered…
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Boys only club after work

I don't mean to be hurt, but I am. I'm a female who works in IT so aside from myself, it is almost entirely men all the time. I have never worked directly next to another female in any of my roles. This is entirely outside of work and is a new…
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How to help women feel welcome on a male dominated team?

The flip side of this question. I work as a software engineer, often as a team leader. Software development is a male dominated field, and has been for my entire career. When I have had women (and foreigners, and LGBT people) on my team, I took the…
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Why is quitting without having a new job lined up seen so negatively by employers?

I'm a programmer and I'm trying to understand why quitting without having a job matters so much. For me cash flow is not an issue - I have more than enough to live off of for 5+ years and in any case I can just meet the bills every month with…
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How can I discourage my new hire from working such long hours?

I've recently hired a new mid-level developer (not a junior but not a senior yet) and have been really impressed with their performance. My only complaint about them is that I get work-related emails and messages from them at 7pm and later,…
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How to deal with colleagues saying they don't need help in public but asking for it in private

How should I react in the following situation? It happens to me regularly. Just for context: I used to be a hard-worker, but frequently I did not get enough recognition for my work, so I'm trying to be smarter now. I'm sitting in a work meeting, a…
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My boss wants me to recreate everything I have done for my previous employer

I was working in a start up until July, and I resigned to move to another continent. This start up is selling a specific product available in a SaaS Platform for retailers, no other company is doing the same thing right now as far as I know. I…
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Received an invoice from my ex-employer billing me for training; how to handle?

About 4 months ago I started a job and quit after a month due to a ton of awful things about the organization that aren't relevant here. Today I received in the mail a letter from the company stating that I owe them money, around $5500, for time…
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Why do remote US companies require working in the US?

Many of the high-tech opportunities for remote work require that you are working in the US. Why? I am a US citizen, and I lived in the US until I graduated university. I am now living abroad. I have impeccable English, fully understand US culture,…
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How to handle "company strategy trip" that is actually a vacation trip?

The company I work for organises a "strategy trip" once a year. I put it in quotes, because while it's announced as "strategy trip", it's very clear it is a vacation trip: the destination is always a sunny location (Spain, Greece, etc.) and while…
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Can I use NDA materials to force my employer to pay my salary if I haven't signed NDA agreement?

I've been working with this company for a quite some time, we don't have any formal agreement, I haven't signed anything. At the same time among our clients were some really big and well known companies, who gave us some documents and asked for…
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What is professional language to say I don't want to work under someone for personal reasons?

I am a contractor, and I have just been offered full time employment at my current workplace. My day-to-day would change very little, but I would be put under another a manager who is a peer of my current manager. This is for business and…
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Got offer letter, submitted documents but didn't join, now they are asking for money to return my documents?

I interviewed at this software company say X. I got the job offer letter. They asked me to submit my original documents at the time of offer discussion. I submitted the final semester original result. I found out that company is a staffing solution…
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How to admit I don't know something without making myself look incompetent?

Short version: I want to look professional even in the situations where I'm unable to help other teams in the office. I don't care about creating shallow impression of being more skilled than I actually am but I also don't want to downplay my actual…
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