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What is happening is people who are being forced into RTO are demanding a higher salary. Basic supply and demand dynamics are coming into play. Those CEOs are now learning this per…

Thank you for saying the quiet part out loud. I read articles stating that "the majority want hybrid", but what people truly want is freedom to work wherever it suits them best. I'…

Sounds more like the early days of web 1.0

I've been working in software consulting for over 10 years. I've worked for 5 different agencies, some small, and some household names. Every single one of these companies has hire…

I got a $10,000 raise and a $1,000 bonus for passing the GCP exam. All this for 3 weeks of studying in my spare time and 2 hours at a test center.

That's funny, because I've always felt the opposite when evaluating candidates. If a candidate comes in saying certs are "trash" and "pointless" it usually looks less favorable. It…

One of my peeves has always been the accepted answer is one of those "That's not possible" type answers, only to become possible later on with a newer release.

I once worked at a (open) office where sales people were constantly berating engineers, asking for a feature or pestering for a status update on a feature/bug in progress. It got s…

It can be if they give you something to start with. One company gave out sample code and asked me to optimize it so it ran under 5 seconds. The exercise was in parallelizing or cac…

I have several certifications from Microsoft and Google and, for the most part, mean jack to an interviewer. I am still forced to leetcode and answer mind-numbing questions. On a s…

If the care facility is housing at-risk patients, they should have strict protocols in place for visitors. Shaming a wedding here seems irresponsible by the media considering these…

I've been on both sides of the table and I'll tell you a coding challenge is a much better solution than the whiteboard/leetcode/code-on-the-fly during the interview. Just keep it …

I hate to remind everyone but PC culture is here to stay. We can all complain about but the fact is no one has a solution, except for staying off social media (which I generally ha…

Two years ago someone I know was laid off. After a three-month climb to find a new job, they vowed to put together an emergency fund. After a sudden drop in rates, they took out a …

Just go to any paint store and you'll find yourself halfway there. When we were searching for gray tones we were stunned at the creative names we saw for the thousands of grays ava…

I figured it was only a matter of time before all the WFH "advice" articles would start. This guys's been doing it for 2 weeks and he's already an expert dispensing advice. I've be…

Some possible language extensions: NewObject = IT'S NOT A TUMOR DeallocateObject = YOU'VE JUST BEEN ERASED WriteToFile = COME WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO LIVE

I've been working remote for 8 years and so my commute is 0 mins. But in my experience companies that allow remote work have caught on to this commute time==money dynamic and have …

The problem probably lies somewhere between afraid of getting sued and not wanting to shake the medical groupthink apple cart. Last year I was suffering through a bout of strange f…

While the war on drugs is in its waning days, there is a (aging) segment on the right that worships law enforcement and is generally in support of more laws and heavy-handed police…

The whole "false positives" narrative is an example of the "saying something enough makes it true" fallacy. I've interviewed dozens of people, and you can easily root out false pos…

I self-published on Amazon. I got inspired by an author friend who had like 20 books on Amazon and quit his job to write full-time. Steps I took: - research the science for my stor…

I'd like to add that SPY yield if you invested today is 1.9%, but if you dollar-cost average invested over the past 10 years, your yield-on-cost would be much higher ~5-6%.