This Business and Moment...

I have just resigned. Mainly due to an imminent RTO mandate, but also because the project and job is awful and I'm fed up being ****** off all the time.

Not a good time to go on the job market, but fortunately I have the savings to take some time off, and try and sort out working for myself. Also have some major lifestyle changes planned for next year, which I'm pretty excited about.
 
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Classic... a technical test they say should take 1 hour, but actually takes at least 1 day.
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I had a technical assignment which under requirements clearly stated they wanted that function, it's been retired and can no longer be enabled and setup in new environments, only existing environments with this enabled can use it for another year.

There's a workaround, but I'm not spending 3-4 days on this... I have a suspicion they're looking for someone to come up with a solution to the upcoming problem for free... I'm good thanks.

mid_gen said:
I have just resigned. Mainly due to an imminent RTO mandate, but also because the project and job is awful and I'm fed up being ****** off all the time.

Not a good time to go on the job market, but fortunately I have the savings to take some time off, and try and sort out working for myself. Also have some major lifestyle changes planned for next year, which I'm pretty excited about.
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Should pick up next year, I've already noticed a higher volume of job positings in December than any other month since I was laid off.
 
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mid_gen said:
I have just resigned. Mainly due to an imminent RTO mandate, but also because the project and job is awful and I'm fed up being ****** off all the time.

Not a good time to go on the job market, but fortunately I have the savings to take some time off, and try and sort out working for myself. Also have some major lifestyle changes planned for next year, which I'm pretty excited about.
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You done with the gaming industry?
 
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IC3 said:
Should pick up next year, I've already noticed a higher volume of job positings in December than any other month since I was laid off.
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Yeah, I have an first interview next week. 2nd stage interview mid January and another potential interview. No, set date yet.

Hopefully next few months the market will pick up.
 
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Rroff said:
I so hate situations like this - dealing with companies that provide a service to the business - call up X and they say "oh you need to raise a work order with Y", call Y and they are like "We'll raise a work order but this is something you need to raise with X - do you need their number?", go back to X with the work order and they say "We'll get company Z to look into it", hour later Z calls to say this is something X needs to deal with, call back X and explain the whole things and they are like "hang on", put on hold for 10-15 minutes "OK that is fixed"... whhhyyyyyy... problem is short of getting in contact with the CEO directly no one really has oversight of the whole situation so it'll just go on like that indefinitely and/or until someone high up the company encounters it for themselves.

EDIT: Best bit is the worst example of it happened to me on Friday, my boss then ran into the same issue on Monday and wouldn't believe me until they'd gone through the whole rigmarole themselves while I'm standing there raising my eyebrows as each stage goes down as I said it would, their only comment being "how ridiculous".
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Reminds me of a support process we used to have between business and IT used to take a day or two to work though the system.

I moved away from this business area for a few years and have been seconded back to it a few months ago. Now I find the process above has fractured into 3 outsourced companies, multiple contractors, and different internal business and IT teams. Has 3 helpdesks, a couple of shared mailboxes and of all these only 30% of them have documented the process. So they all do it differently.

End result what used to take a day or two, now takes weeks and I've seen it take months. Used to take 2-3 people now it often has 20 People dragged into it. Utter insanity.
 
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End result what used to take a day or two, now takes weeks and I've seen it take months. Used to take 2-3 people now it often has 20 People dragged into it. Utter insanity.
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I kid you not, I worked as a contractor with one of the top North American IT consultancies for 10 months, it literally took me six months to get access to their systems. I had six months of attending a single standup daily, and then nothing else, it was just an accepted fact that onboarding was so broken that it was normal. I spoke to one person who had been there over 12 months and had yet to complete any actual work.

I remember getting one of my accounts (you needed multiple) deleted because I hadn't logged into it for over three months, however, I didn't have the preceding account which needed to be able to access the system. I'd love to know how much money was wasted on that alone.
 
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I spoke to one person who had been there over 12 months and had yet to complete any actual work.
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One of my brothers recently worked for a bit, in IT, for one of the biggest defence companies, the guy who hired him quit before he actually started working there, the team he'd been hired to lead they'd all been there a year without doing any actual work and trying to go through the training process basically unaided, his boss just disappeared a few weeks later... he did actually turn things around but decided to move on after awhile due to how the whole company just shuffled along like a zombie.
 
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One of my brothers recently worked for a bit, in IT, for one of the biggest defence companies, the guy who hired him quit before he actually started working there, the team he'd been hired to lead they'd all been there a year without doing any actual work and trying to go through the training process basically unaided, his boss just disappeared a few weeks later... he did actually turn things around but decided to move on after awhile due to how the whole company just shuffled along like a zombie.
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Would not surprise me if it was the same place, or that they're all just similarly afflicted - I worked for the consultancy but I was sub-contracted to one of the biggest defence accounts.
 
I think I've seen possibly the dummest job advert.

The job advert requires you to be beyond masterful, a proven industry thought leader with a blog/POV/speaking..

Why advertise - you know the small subset of people that would fit this role.. they're the people you've tried headhunting and failed.. yet the advert is so bad that nobody would want to apply due to the obvious "we created a job spec, but didn't get any uptake so the board must sign off the deal for the headhunt that cost more than we'd expected".

Seriously come on. Why waste people's time lol.

They have two applicants..

It's a director of data role but it seems to be written in an architect format, so it feels like a customer facing architect with senior bells added.
 
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I had a recruiter call on friday - same as i did before (their evaluation) but azure and not aws, and contract outside IR35.. and am I interested?

I asked if there was a job specs, turns out they’re waiting on spec which didn’t turn up in my inbox..

So as a company contract outside of IR35 they have no definition of the contracted deliverables.. no understanding of skills required by any right to substitute if asked.

i suspect that’s a last friday before christmas to close off the year..

Edited: fixed late night fingers.
 
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NickK said:
So as a company contract outside of IR35 they have no definition of the contracted deliverables.. no understanding of skills required by any right to substitute if asked.
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There are some firms that don't take IR35 that seriously, I once got contacted about an outside IR35 role where they couldn't really tell me what I'd be doing, the end client wasn't decided yet (it was a consultancy). Basically they were a rapidly growing boutique looking to do a landgrab and bringing in any competent bodies they could. I actually ended up working there later on as a perm and it did eventually catch up with them where they had to start releasing a lot of contractors.
 
So the last year was interesting, I've been in the architecture space for 5 years sitting in data architecture space but took an opportunity to move into a lead architect role on a large project. I've taken lead roles on smaller projects but this is substantial so really testing my skills. My work loads gone from minimal to having to prioritise and delegate and i've got my first experience as having my own team so great for my personal development.
An upwards move in terms of roles and responsibilities, on pay it was a sideways move but to be honest i'm content with the money i am earning.
 
So back on the AI wagon again after a nice break. Recapped some of my notes yesterday and today it's breaking the back of the assignment due tuesday.

It's been an interesting 2024 - delivering a massive 'landing zone' of 42+ services, live and highly secure, then being given the shove after it's delivered (also my boss too who is now looking for a job as of Jan 1st). Finding the job market is in a right state, taking the decision to do an AI programme to upskill. I have to say it's been quite a positive experience in that it's pushed the reskilling required.

What is fun is that I can see some further 'interesting' dark clouds:
* economic recession putting the clamps on spending and open job positions -- couple with the reduced external investment specific to UK rather than larger economies to sell into. UK needs market access to survive.
* Google's AI push to essentially remove its search in favour of AI response, with a resulting drop in web-development in favour of engineering the best AI position for companies. An AI SEO essentially.. the result is disrupting business cases and that will cause more hesitation at board level.. when in reality nothing is going to change their need to drive business and they will still need development to drive change.
* AI-driven stall in recruitment coming back to bite companies top lines and increased costs in the short term, slowing business agility.
* AI needs data, and the internet has a finite amount of data. It's therefore up to companies to improve algorithms rather than rely on data or large models built with large ambiguous data from google/et al. That is expensive.. and will take time for companies to adjust and work out how to differentiate themselves if they use bought models.
* automation costs .. operational cost rises inline with re-training of AI models etc. Google and OpenAI both have a target of $100Bn in 2025.. so you know they're going to milk transactional costs of their AI models.
* Generative AI is simply innovative links between data in the existing data set.. new data points.. but we need Innovation AI - where extrapolation or geometry are used to propose new areas for research where sparse or no data exists, or suggest new axioms defining new dimensions in the AI space to follow (ie research new 'things' to lead to new areas of energy research, generation or inter-stellar propulsion etc)..

However I'll start looking at the job market again in the next couple of weeks.
 
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