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Rising Team | Senior Software Engineer | Remote (US, Pacific Time adjacent) | Full-time At Rising Team we are transforming how the world's leading organizations develop high-perfor…

I mentioned this in a sibling comment, but one idea I have is instead of doing this extra work which is unrecognized, you spend your extra time on gaming the presentation and appea…

In an attempt to have a positive framing around this, with the disclaimer that I haven't actually fully tried this, one idea might be to spend the extra time on all the politics st…

Rising Team | Software Engineer (3+ years of experience) | Remote (USA, Pacific Time Zone) | Full time Our mission is that everyone in the workplace feels deeply understood, suppor…

Rising Team | Software Engineer (3+ years of experience) | Remote (USA) | Full time Want to work at a place where you are understood, supported, and empowered to reach your goals? …

Waitbutwhy has a great series about this: https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html Basically absolute freedom means less freedom overall because the strongest take over. Lim…

Rising Team | Senior and/or Lead Software Engineer | Remote (USA) | Full time Want to work at a place where you are understood, supported, and empowered to reach your goals? We env…

Agree with doing all 3. Additional thoughts: 1. Can you ask to chat informally with the person leaving and see if there's a reason they all left? Might be interesting to know. Is t…

Rising Team | Senior and/or Lead Software Engineer | Remote (USA) | Full time Want to work at a place where you are understood, supported, and empowered to reach your goals? We env…

Yeah, you're right, I did get a bit dramatic there. This was helpful, I understand your comment now, thanks! I want to note that like you I did say that the majority at FB don't ca…

Ha really? I mean, no one paid me, but thanks? Seriously, have you ever worked at a place where people (outside of leadership) care strongly about making sure the company does the …

I used to work at Facebook. I understand the vitriol. It's very easy to paint that picture. It's a very one-sided picture though. Hands down, of all the companies I've worked for, …

I'm obviously biased, but my company, Rising Team, is a great place to work. Our product helps managers understand and care about their team members. We envision a world where ever…

I used to run support groups to tackle the rampant helplessness I saw around me. The way it worked is that the person would describe their situation and then everyone else would as…

Rising Team | Senior Software Engineer | Remote (USA) | Full time Ever feel mistreated at work? Did you feel comfortable bringing it up? Looking for a place where everyone understa…

Yes it's okay to say you're happy. And yes, you need to help your team members learn and grow. If there are no opportunities to learn and grow, you're going to get bored and leave.…

The thing with Emacs is that sort-lines is a string you can copy and paste into a buffer, whereas in Visual Studio it's a command that you have to execute. Disclaimer: I don't know…

I use both Visual Studio and Emacs. In general Visual Studio does a pretty good job and it is my day to day editor. But there are some things that it's simply not worth bothering w…

It seems like you feel that you being open and friendly has hurt your chances at promotions/raises and then when you try to correct for that it also hurts your chances. Instead of …

That's great that you are setting boundaries! To add to what you wrote. If someone doesn't respect themselves and their own boundaries, then it's going to be harder for others to r…

I have things I like and things I don't like about it. I like it because I see it as a guide that helps people understand how to grow and also a framework for fair compensation. Wi…

One funny downside is that if you do enough startups you end up with a few that do really well later on and then you're kicking yourself for not joining. I have to remind myself of…

I used to do this as well and I still advise others to do this. It's worth reframing it. From: I love my current work and there's no way I would leave... To: What would be so aweso…

Rising Team | Full Stack and Frontend Software Engineers | Remote (Pacific/Mountain Time Zones) | Full-time Have you ever had a manager who helped you achieve heights you hadn't im…

I'm wondering if it would help to align incentives and motivations. I feel like right now it's possible your team members are not motivated to solve these problems. It seems like i…