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There's some poor English and they list a Chinese office too. Probably not Heroku.

Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Bristol, Liverpool... probably in that order. I've heard good things about Glasgow, Birmingham and Cardiff too. The North West has been good to me and…

Reading some of the amounts listed is a bit depressing, I thought that the increased cost of living in London would justify salaries and rates much higher than the average. By cont…

Conflating political ideology with corporate structuring was not my point, nor my intent. Attracting staff after 100 years of operations was my point, to clarify; I said "could" (i…

I think we're taking the extremes as the norm, and it is clouding the argument. Let's just say there is risk on both sides, nobody is entitled to anything except the chance to rece…

See my previous comment to you (above) - also play out the proposal in the article over, say, 100 years, ultimately it could end up as an employee owned company.

I did not say Google is a problem, I said that either the current mechanism or the proposed mechanism would present a problem for companies (such as Google) when hiring new staff.

1. Not all employees are paid above market value 2. Working somewhere that software engineering talent is highly respected is no measure of fiscal compensation 3. Those advantages …

Your argument is surely moot because it assumes that startup employees take on no risk. Not to mention conflating IPO with startup options/shares. There are many companies out ther…

Either way it's a losing game, consider a company like Google - how would they attract new employees on either scheme given that the company has been around for 15+ years? The only…

I know I'm going to get some backlash for this comment so hold on to your hats. By going for a degree you're going to the route most often travelled by most developers, you'll spen…

He didn't mention 9/11 - he mentioned the WTC "bombing" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombing

There are two schools of thought at work, and you need to decide which one is for you: 1) You're paid to do a job, in a hierarchical management structure each tier must delegate an…

OP here - that's not the company in question

OP here. That's not the company in question, and if they ever read this it could cost me my job - it was a previous employer - a travel company. For the record, my interview at Kao…

Hopefully, I've fixed the grammar. Yes, that sentence in the first paragraph stood out to me too, but I really didn't expect for the article to gain traction. I want to add that I …

I'm a little offended - I wrote, the community upvoted - is grammar more important than the story? Additionally, it's hypocritical to comment on ones grammar and then use bad gramm…

I think the test was Myers-Briggs based http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator

Even when I saw my own results, towards the end of my employment there, there wasn't a single overall metric result. Maybe she did some kind of averaging, or maybe she was told by …

I like to read what I write aloud as a sense check before submitting it - nothing stood out immediately. My wife often tells me my (written) English is terrible.

There were two tests - I don't know the names but maybe someone here knows more than I do about them. Firstly: You had to write a personal statement, something to describe yourself…

Agree with the first bit. Doubtful about the second bit - beaurocracy seems to become magnified in London.

Same here, humbled

Here here, I'll second-that. Most management types are disconnected from the processes that their staff are instructed to follow. I've ran through application demos and walkthrough…

If I had the money to fight the lawsuit, I'd be right there. Also, I formally let them know I disagreed with the psychometric testing. Double also... I used to apologise to new hir…