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Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by karmajunkie »

daveloyall wrote: post #414
karmajunkie wrote: post #370

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just out of curiosity, any reason you're using Camel for that instead of Mirth? I've been out of the healthcare sector for a few years but at one time was doing essentially that same thing to build out the state biosurveillance network in TX. Mirth was a great fit for it at the time, I'd imagine it still is.

I haven't started yet. Just putting feelers out. I haven't evaluated Mirth. It seems like a consumer oriented product. The marketing around it is so deep that I can't find a list of it what it's not good at... Camel appears to be basically a library. As a programmer, I find that appealing.

I'd take a closer look at mirth. It's highly capable, and I never had any major issues with it. You have a number of options for integrating with it, and I imagine those have expanded since last I looked at it. Email is in my profile, feel free to drop me a line, I kind of miss my public health work :)

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by phrotoma »

debunn wrote: post #412
phrotoma wrote: post #406

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I worked at RBC during that time and can add a bit of context. Rumour was the CIO at the time (Morteza Mahjour) had staked his job on reducing operating costs of the tech services & operations division by bringing in an offshore firm called iGate. I wasn't laid off but plenty folks I know were and I left anyway. The cost savings plan turned out to be a bust, projects ran over budget or never got off the ground at all…

Yes - the Ontario Teachers Federation (the parent body that manages the different Ontario teachers' unions) was made aware of the outsourcing shortly after it was announced in July. They questioned Ron Mock (OTPP's CEO) shortly afterwards, and voted to have OTPP reverse the decision: https://twitter.com/oectagovernor/status/768170531468095492 Sadly, this has resulted in no visible changes to the decision. The OTPP fu…

Wow! I have a few friends who teach in Ontario, will be interested to hear their thoughts. Thanks for the background info.

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Post by vertex-four »

tbrownaw wrote: post #395
vertex-four wrote: post #390

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> Instead of adding friction to the employment market, implement a decent social safety net that includes provisions for voc ed / retraining. Sure, except that nobody wants to do that for some abstract reason of "fairness", so the problem needs to be mitigated another way.

Really? I thought it was that it smells a bit too much like communism. Which seems to be gradually becoming less of a problem over time, even here in the USA.

Well, "why should I pay for my neighbour's re-education when they should've just picked right in the first place?" - if you are lucky enough to pick a field which grows for the rest of your life, and you're a reasonably good worker, you're never going to take advantage of that and so your neighbour gets more than you from the Government. Not fair! /s

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by neokya »

muyuu wrote: post #337
issaria wrote: post #230

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Chinese developer working in a Berlin startup here. I agree the Berlin startups do hire a lot of foreingers (there is a report stating that 49% of employees are foreigners), and it drives the salary down, but I can say my salary is the same level as others developers, as developers has such a huge demand here that you can change jobs freely, unlike American H1B visa. Also because the EU bluecard has a salary requirem…

Yeah but the requirements of the EU bluecard are in line with the EU average - low for Germany.

Not really for Berlin. It's more than average pay, see http://www.nuberlin.com/2016/01/average-salary-in-berlin/

Also note, 38K is for person with science/engineering background. Otherwise, lower limit for EU Bluecard is around 48K

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by neokya »

1474295912 wrote: post #96

VisualMeta GmbH in Berlin. They're a 'start-up' backed by Axel Springer, Berlin. They fired about 60-70 people recently, some of them on their first day of work. Most of their devs come from non-existent countries (China/Eritrea/Pakistan etc) and they're paid abysmally (€32-34k). It's a surprise that this news wasn't covered at all in Berlin start-up press.

I just had to wonder what you meant by 'non-existent countries'.

According to this meaning here, these countries don't exist?

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/nonexistent

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Post by neokya »

expertentipp wrote: post #141
elcct wrote: post #137

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Care to elaborate?

Berlin startups are infamous for hiring foreigners from countries with low salaries, ideally from outside of EU (so no free movement of workers with Germany) and paying them below the market salary. Low pay + dealing with German bureaucracy + sky rocketing prices of everything in Berlin = person has a problem. As for Axel Springer - their understanding of internet innovation is quite... "skewed". e.g. as some kind of…

> dealing with German bureaucracy

This is too much exaggeration. If you can find another job, dealing with bureaucracy is piece of cake. You just go to Foreign Registration Office and change company name.

Re: Ask HN: Who is firing?

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Post by NovembReporter »

germanthrowaway wrote: post #153

There is a big german gamecompany that hasn't paid 300+ employees in 4 months so they are bleeding employees instead of firing them.

Sorry you're stuck in a bad situation. I'm a reporter for a US publication. Any interest in chatting off the record? I can give you more details if you get in touch, and guide you through the process of remaining anonymous. You can email me: germanthrowawayquestions@gmail.com

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Post by carimura »

mkteer wrote: post #85

My friend's company Iron.io laid off ~20 employees in SF (almost the entire company). Apparently their series A round brought in 12 million just a year ago.

Hi All,

This is Chad, CEO of Iron.io. It's true that we had to make some hard decisions and say goodbye to some friends. That said, a majority of the team is still here and dedicated to operating and growing the company. IronWorker fires up millions of containers per day for our 300+ customers, and we are fully committed to both expanding the service as well as releasing a new, open source sync service, next week... stay tuned.

Feel free to reach out to me to discuss any of this, or if you simply want to talk serverless computing.

email: chad [at] iron.io twitter: @chadarimura

Chad

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