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Addictive!

Nobody needs a Lamborghini. But everyone _wants_ a Lamborghini

Definitely not in a Lamborghini

Yup, that pretty much sums it up...

I had a similar experience, but I joined AWS support, in a pretty challenging role (big data profile). My first 3 months were training (almost none of it on any big data technologi…

Ive always held the belief that story points were specific to a team, and a result of the work that specific team does and/or services, products and customers they support, which w…

Agree with all of your points. I had everything documented in a business case format for management to consume with references to more technical topics, in a wiki. So, anyway, I th…

Funny but true!

But didn't hesitate to go back and use all my notes, research and contacts to quickly backfill all his lack of details with my stuff!

Dude, I had a colleague, senior to me, do the opposite. I had an idea that I struggled internally to get off the ground for months and months. I pretty much did all the research, f…

"Fall back on blaming the process when failure comes around and avoid ever pointing fingers or owning it." Some organisations can do this, but I've see plenty that might outwardly …

My simple answer: Don't. You're always hovering somewhere between a sysadmin and a software engineer, but never quite get the cred for developing software but still cop all the cru…

I joined a scale up in the BNPL space as head of data engineering. It was one of the most poorly managed IT environments I'd ever seen. There was so much technical debt, that basic…

My observations working in a large financial institution who have in the last couple of years adopted SaFE and therefore hired product owners and scrum masters is that the majority…

But is a programming language really a tool? I guess it's a tool that creates other tools..

Totally weird! Tell me more!

I am the %8!!!

Because it was there?

Haha, omfg a classic... One of the "questions" on their apply for job form is TL;DR Optional field is REQUIRED and only option is "Yes" "At Thoughtworks, we are intentional about m…

I applied for a role at ThoughtWorks once and their form was an interesting one. They as all the usual details but they an an option in leui of uploading your CV and other details …

That's almost exactly what my thoughts were. Its not a role, it's culture/mindset/ "this is how we fold security into our development and operations". An expectation perhaps. I've …

Yet another 'digital container' of disparate information to house your data and make it difficult for someone find it across an organisation. As someone who was working in a scale …

Mind blown. So many variables to consider, so many options. Excellent read.

To me this sort of seems like an optimisation problem. As a business you're after some monetary metric, and cash flow and ideally enough to pay your staff (haha, been there working…

I was in a very similar situation around 2 years ago. I came into a lead data engineer role at a startup-going-scaleup. I saw technical horrors, mismanagement, lack of ownership at…