I can't even
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@stacksofplates said in I can't even:
@dbeato said in I can't even:
@stacksofplates said in I can't even:
@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:
@gjacobse said in I can't even:
I just can't....
When Amazon was interviewing me, the police had to be called on their drunked staff out at the bar. So I'm not entirely surprised.
Yup definitely wasn’t impressed with my 6 interviews I had to do with them......
Sounds normal for Amazon, I have a friend that had 4 interviews and then had 4 with Google. He ended up at Google
It wasn't the number that was the problem. It's how they conducted themselves. The first phone interview was fine. The guy never called for the second. Then after around half an hour I got a call from the girl who scheduled everything in Seattle. She said "sorry he must have been pulled into a meeting or something." Then after a few days the rescheduled it, for the same guy I had on my first interview. So after a few days they realized that wouldn't work and changed who it was. Then I didn't hear anything for around two weeks. On Thursday a new girl from Seattle contacted me about an on site in Chicago. She wanted to know if I could do Tuesday the next week. I said that was fine, and never heard anything back. I called her Friday and never heard back. I finally called my initial recruiter that contacted me on LinkedIn on Monday. She said "she was having email trouble last week"??? So then that girl from Thursday called me at noon on Monday and said my flight would be Monday night. So I flew out Monday night and got to Chicago around 9. Had my interview at 1:30 Tuesday and flew back Tuesday night. So all in all I had 3 phone calls, had to write a 1000 word essay, 4 on site interviews back to back. It was not impressive.
Mine was way better. Solid initial recruiter (internal), solid phone interview, immediate flight scheduled to Seattle, then full day 8am - 3pm back to back interviews, then a weekend to get to know Seattle, then a flight home. The interviews were so so, definitely not great, but not too bad.
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People actually going through a complex decision process between IMAP and POP. What century is this?
I predict a slew of POP related questions coming in the next month as per the pattern.
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@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:
People actually going through a complex decision process between IMAP and POP. What century is this?
I predict a slew of POP related questions coming in the next month as per the pattern.
Is this a systematic/cyclical pattern (such as RAID, POP vs. IMAP, best AV, to virtualize or not to virtualize, back to RAID, etc) or are you seeing patterns from other sources?
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@nerdydad said in I can't even:
@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:
People actually going through a complex decision process between IMAP and POP. What century is this?
I predict a slew of POP related questions coming in the next month as per the pattern.
Is this a systematic/cyclical pattern (such as RAID, POP vs. IMAP, best AV, to virtualize or not to virtualize, back to RAID, etc) or are you seeing patterns from other sources?
This is exactly the kind of question that I often see then followed by several more nearly identical ones. No pattern shown on this topic yet, I'm just predicting that there will be.
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@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:
I was going to tell him this, but I can't log in to SW:
scottwilliams14 wrote:
I'm looking to setup a VMWare ESXI home lab so I can use it to follow along with some courses. I was thinking something that can handle 2-3 virtual machines. Any suggestions?https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/virtuallabs works very well until you can get the hardware set up.
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I've always signed in with my LinkedIn account, and now I don't see that option anywhere... owell.
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@tim_g said in I can't even:
I've always signed in with my LinkedIn account, and now I don't see that option anywhere... owell.
Got to https://community.spiceworks.com and press login and then this:
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Ah ha, so every once in a while you get someone who uses Vmware in the SMB and claims it is a good deal. This one came right out and basically just admitted to hiding the alternatives from his customers (lying to them about cost savings) to trick them. That's how Vmware happens in the SMB (and in SW.)
And in SMB setups, who needs hypervisor support all of the time? This stuff just works.
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@dbeato Yes, but this is what I see...
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@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:
(lying to them about cost savings) to trick them. That's how Vmware happens in the SMB (and in SW.)
yeah pretty much exactly.
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@tim_g said in I can't even:
@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:
(lying to them about cost savings) to trick them. That's how Vmware happens in the SMB (and in SW.)
yeah pretty much exactly.
I cannot believe how often on SW people come out and seem to actually brag about how they screw over their clients. He actually presents his strategy here for taking suckers, making something that is overly expensive look feasible, and hide the truth from them. And he thinks that posting that unethical strategy publicly is actually good?
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Though, I did get a good tingly feeling when I seen that my VPS host is using RedHat... it makes me believe that they are getting good support for their back-end setup.
I've never worked for a VPS host before, so my feeling may be wrong. But the idea seems nice anyways.
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@tim_g said in I can't even:
Though, I did get a good tingly feeling when I seen that my VPS host is using RedHat... it makes me believe that they are getting good support for their back-end setup.
I've never worked for a VPS host before, so my feeling may be wrong. But the idea seems nice anyways.
Nothing wrong with support, if it is needed or makes sense. And VMware is great for that. But in the example case, he doesn't get Vmware support, he's selling the no support version to the customers which just screws them.
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@tim_g said in I can't even:
@dbeato Yes, but this is what I see...
Your Filtering or Ublock is doing something there. Open Incognito and check.
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I can only imagine he's either technically incompetent and can't figure out how to deploy and support anything and somehow is able to get far enough with Vmware to get it deployed and walk away before anything bad happens; or more likely he's a VAR and lying about being in IT.
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@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:
But in the example case, he doesn't get Vmware support, he's selling the no support version to the customers which just screws them.
That's insane. I wonder who his customers are? It would be nice to see what they think of it.
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@tim_g said in I can't even:
@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:
But in the example case, he doesn't get Vmware support, he's selling the no support version to the customers which just screws them.
That's insane. I wonder who his customers are? It would be nice to see what they think of it.
Yeah, I wonder how many of them would be happy if they read the thread and saw that there were free, supported options that they hadn't been told about and how he gave them a false comparison to make his overcharing seem rational.
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@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:
Now he ONLY cares about mimicking hardware, not software, architecture, design, etc. in his lab. Basically, he just wants to buy servers without any idea why.
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Like every crazy thread, ask what the real goal is and get ignored. The entire idea of knowing what you are trying to accomplish is just so foreign!
