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Can you do a post-mortem on what happened there?

Don't know about London, my experience is based on the US. Get a dog, go to dog parks. Dog people are friendly and easy to start conversations with.

> start forcing time tracking for the first time Is it just a time sheet/app where developers track their time or is it spyware like Upwork's screen capture tracker? Be wary of any…

For me, most courses move too slow and it is really hard to find anything specific from watched videos. With books & written tutorials, I can scan whole page in 1-2 seconds and ski…

As a Pakistani-American, I can confirm, this is exactly how many people from my culture also work, though not as extreme as 9-9. We may take long lunches, go for multiple coffee br…

Massages, spa, food, vacations

I graduated in early 2000s, and I heard same things from CS students/graduates and self-taught developers. They all said the golden age of computer science was 60s, 70s, 80s, or ea…

Excellent point. Perhaps focus teaching skills that help them no matter what they do in their life like social skills etc.

Thank you! Until this job search, I usually had two interviews, one technical screen and one behavior interview. And this was for senior roles. And usually, I almost always got off…

Glad that I am not alone. Just got another rejection email. No LeetCode, problems seemed realistic, I solved them all. Really have no idea what they were looking for. This was my 4…

Once someone explained tolerance vs philosophy of tolerance that made sense to me. Tolerance is just a word that means that you are okay with things that you find annoying/repulsiv…

> WHILE also saving them money on unemployment insurance payments In Texas, severance package has no impact on unemployment payments. I was laid off once with 3 months of severance…

I agree, it seems it is really all about luck once you are good. But if one wants to become lucky, first they need to get really good.

Not yet, but I have bookmarked this post and will likely buy a few books from here: Ask HN: Books to read when you transform from SWE into SWE Management?[ https://news.ycombinator…

I am interested in so many things that I can never dedicate enough time to just one hobby to get really good at it. Only solution I see is that if I dedicate my free time to just o…

You are not alone, I think many of us have made similar mistakes. I have also recently made a bad career mistake, I was being promoted to management but without salary increase so …

Wouldn't it would be great if pricing was simpler. I work for a Cloud provider too, and I keep pushing for simpler pricing models. My team/service does actually uses simpler per un…

Yeah if I am just playing or learning around new tech, then please delete everything instead of billing me thousands of dollars. If my business runs of AWS, then rate limit or even…

Same experience. It is so hard to have a conversation about any of the security requirements with our security team because they have no idea what they are asking. They only know t…

Currently, living in an upscale townhouse in DFW suburbs, 10% of our combined income goes to mortgage and HOA. Looking for single family residence since we have kids now, and it se…

Yes, they should be. It is not their concern what I do on social media. It is unfortunate that there is so much power imbalance that most employees are afraid to criticize their em…

My current Fortune 500 tech company's contract explicitly said that if I moonlight, I cannot work for their competitors. And if I get a second job or contract work, I should discus…

I am so confused with comments in this threads. Since when did tech employees became so submissive and scared? As far as I know, having 2 jobs is not illegal, not unethical. Many, …

While I would love to work for Meta due to engineering challenges & caliber of their engineers but sometimes I wonder if I would be able to sleep at night. Makes me wonder if those…

> growing up in the 90's when people would pay $100/month for television that was 33% ads? At the same time, thanks to these ads, I remember spending a lot less time in front of sc…