But why talk shop on a date at all though? - A shared niche interest is not sufficient basis for a good relationship. - I’m a woman in tech and I don’t necessarily wanna talk code on a first or second date, I’ve got…
If my meetings happened as described with no one rescheduling or derailing them then actually my meeting life would be fine. I want to go to the meetings described on my calendar. But nearly every time “It’s a trap!”
Edit: *Inmon
Better to have “nothing but prod” than something bad, imo/tbh.
Sorry to be that one avoids-the-question comment, but: Without design sessions to figure out your data store design (look up Kimball, Immon), and then monitoring/testing to make sure everything is running smoothly, any…
At some companies you can get a negative performance review for not being on Slack during working hours. “Needs to be more responsive / better team player.” In other places you might be expected to be online beyond 9-5…
I think you’re right to connect “co-location” with “cruft”, though. “Co-location for the sake of the flourishing of cruft” is a management philosophy.
I’m just as curious about how the managers were trained to be process-driven. Manager behavior seems to me just as if not more important than IC behavior here. Since managers have power, and engineers usually don’t…
I totally agree with you. I like all-remote teams. I’m wary of teams that are part remote and part collocated, especially when the leaders are part of Team Collocated and I’m not.
Sadly it sounds like your options are to leave or to stop caring so hard about your job. I wish I had better advice, I am also familiar with micromanagers who make bad macro decisions. They are too into how work makes…
Sink deeper into that tech hangover and use your tech skills to fund yourself
Yep. Everyone is gonna start to see tech the way tech sees finance and military contractors
I avoid any company that has forced arbitration as a condition of employment
Can anyone give advice about how you built your personal website(s?) while having strong professional interests in multiple areas? I’d be really grateful to see an example. I have a career in tech and also a career in…
Colleges themselves are not the only institutions keeping records about students. For instance, you can send people your transcripts and proofs of graduation through https://studentclearinghouse.org/, a nonprofit
But why talk shop on a date at all though? - A shared niche interest is not sufficient basis for a good relationship. - I’m a woman in tech and I don’t necessarily wanna talk code on a first or second date, I’ve got…
If my meetings happened as described with no one rescheduling or derailing them then actually my meeting life would be fine. I want to go to the meetings described on my calendar. But nearly every time “It’s a trap!”
Edit: *Inmon
Better to have “nothing but prod” than something bad, imo/tbh.
Sorry to be that one avoids-the-question comment, but: Without design sessions to figure out your data store design (look up Kimball, Immon), and then monitoring/testing to make sure everything is running smoothly, any…
At some companies you can get a negative performance review for not being on Slack during working hours. “Needs to be more responsive / better team player.” In other places you might be expected to be online beyond 9-5…
I think you’re right to connect “co-location” with “cruft”, though. “Co-location for the sake of the flourishing of cruft” is a management philosophy.
I’m just as curious about how the managers were trained to be process-driven. Manager behavior seems to me just as if not more important than IC behavior here. Since managers have power, and engineers usually don’t…
I totally agree with you. I like all-remote teams. I’m wary of teams that are part remote and part collocated, especially when the leaders are part of Team Collocated and I’m not.
Sadly it sounds like your options are to leave or to stop caring so hard about your job. I wish I had better advice, I am also familiar with micromanagers who make bad macro decisions. They are too into how work makes…
Sink deeper into that tech hangover and use your tech skills to fund yourself
Yep. Everyone is gonna start to see tech the way tech sees finance and military contractors
I avoid any company that has forced arbitration as a condition of employment
Can anyone give advice about how you built your personal website(s?) while having strong professional interests in multiple areas? I’d be really grateful to see an example. I have a career in tech and also a career in…
Colleges themselves are not the only institutions keeping records about students. For instance, you can send people your transcripts and proofs of graduation through https://studentclearinghouse.org/, a nonprofit