41–50 of 447 posts
Well I just tried to use glassdoor to try and grasp how it is to work at apple as a software engineer. Glassdoor is terrible. I think there is a business opportunity here. Make a site just for developers. Hackerdoors or something.
county libraries.
Yourself? Not to be snarky but whenever there is someone with another interest in play, conflict can arise.
“My job would be great except for the clients and employees*” - Me.
(my employees are awesome people - this is more about dealing with HR Issues that inevitably crop up.)
In my 10+ years of experience, that's the rule rather than an exception. It is very rare to find a Project/Product manager who actually has decent technical knowledge. I think I've found one or two in my whole career (one is now product VP, the other moved to Switzerland).
As someone working for a US company in Mexico, I take offense at that :(.
Stripe comes to mind. I haven't worked there so I don't actually know.
I work for a small financial SaaS in Boston. 30-50 people. Nobody offshore. I've worked here for 18 years and 11 months and a couple of days. Yes, we're hiring. The best thing about the company are the people who are already here. The basic hiring criteria are "clever, competent and kind". That doesn't mean we never have disagreements, but they tend to be technical disagreements about the best approach to reach the s…
These are all signs it's a company that happens to be doing tech instead of a tech company.
Well I just tried to use glassdoor to try and grasp how it is to work at apple as a software engineer. Glassdoor is terrible. I think there is a business opportunity here. Make a site just for developers. Hackerdoors or something.
I've known first hand of 4 small companies where management asked employees to write 5 star Glassdoor reviews and which I know they were terrible places to work.