I understand, but that's such an "old world" style. It's like building a datacentre, in the age of cloud computing, simply because owning big iron is an indicator of success (all the big boys have datacentres, right?).…
Do you have any suggestion on how to spot a "bad manager" in that regard? My recent experience left me a bit scarred.
You also need to maintain the culture. A phenomenon I just went through is a company that started remote-first, then someone had the brilliant idea to get an office for this or that geographical cluster of people, and…
> salaries are still very high Much less so than in the US, though. To be honest I think that's more an effect of different cultural values ("novelty" and "bootstrapping" here are not as celebrated as in the US), but…
See my reply at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16916590
> I'm pretty sure most employees would prefer that as a severance package instead. Possibly, but I think the employee should be given a choice. If even just 1% of laid-off people took the choice and succeeded, the…
>when a company is at that point, it's usually because other options have been exhausted. Definitely not the case for me at the moment, but I won't bore you with the details. I don't think it would be cruel at all. If a…
Throwaway account because I'm currently in the middle of being laid off ("redundancy" in UK). I thought I always had that somewhat-cynical outlook by default, coming from a leftist family; but still, the unfairness of…
I understand, but that's such an "old world" style. It's like building a datacentre, in the age of cloud computing, simply because owning big iron is an indicator of success (all the big boys have datacentres, right?).…
Do you have any suggestion on how to spot a "bad manager" in that regard? My recent experience left me a bit scarred.
You also need to maintain the culture. A phenomenon I just went through is a company that started remote-first, then someone had the brilliant idea to get an office for this or that geographical cluster of people, and…
> salaries are still very high Much less so than in the US, though. To be honest I think that's more an effect of different cultural values ("novelty" and "bootstrapping" here are not as celebrated as in the US), but…
See my reply at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16916590
> I'm pretty sure most employees would prefer that as a severance package instead. Possibly, but I think the employee should be given a choice. If even just 1% of laid-off people took the choice and succeeded, the…
>when a company is at that point, it's usually because other options have been exhausted. Definitely not the case for me at the moment, but I won't bore you with the details. I don't think it would be cruel at all. If a…
Throwaway account because I'm currently in the middle of being laid off ("redundancy" in UK). I thought I always had that somewhat-cynical outlook by default, coming from a leftist family; but still, the unfairness of…