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Was there a job offer / spot bonus?
Yep. I got a job offer. It was nowhere near competitive with other opportunities, though, so the talks didn't go far.
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> it’s actually too risky for a business to promote you. What if the person leaves the org?
In the longer term that is usually a good thing. If they’re the only person who fixes things, that also implies the correct knowledge sharing isn’t happening. We strive to remove any single point of failure from a hardware point of view, and for me, people are no different The only exception to this is sales, it’s usually your top biller who you can’t promote - because you want them out there selling. Luckily sales p…
Thanks for stating this explicitly.
In my next System Design interview, I am going to list single points of failures as: HW, SW, People :-).
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Did you delegate managing too?
Yes, but let me elaborate. I quickly learned the way to get promoted is to be replaceable. If you’re relied upon too much or if you’re the guy who always fixes things - it’s actually too risky for a business to promote you. Throughout my career I always made sure I was giving people below me the opportunity to step up, which allowed me to step up too. I quickly appointed team leaders as soon as a team I managed had m…
I might be wrong but this just seems almost like a ponzi scheme of some sort - keep moving up the middle management chain and getting somebody else to replace you. No offense to darrenwestall, I'm hating the game not the player.
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Yes, but let me elaborate. I quickly learned the way to get promoted is to be replaceable. If you’re relied upon too much or if you’re the guy who always fixes things - it’s actually too risky for a business to promote you. Throughout my career I always made sure I was giving people below me the opportunity to step up, which allowed me to step up too. I quickly appointed team leaders as soon as a team I managed had m…
This seems to me like a real failure of late stage capitalism. Similar to how factories in the soviet union were overstaffed with middle managers who barely lifted a finger. I might be wrong but this just seems almost like a ponzi scheme of some sort - keep moving up the middle management chain and getting somebody else to replace you. No offense to darrenwestall, I'm hating the game not the player.
I'm on a start up journey now and much happier.
Haven't totally automated my entire job but a small portion of what I do is configuring a fresh aws account some core services (SMTP, NTP, LDAP etc etc) and the associated VPC configurations before handing it off to the devs. Wrote a pretty simple python script that takes some inputs, cidr range, account name, jira ticket etc, and sets up all the terraform, ansible groupvars, ssh key generation, secret storing and a few version control check-ins. Reduced the footprint from a few hours to literally less than one minute.
I am a trader. A million different factors drive commodity prices, and their significance ebbs and flows over time in unpredictable ways. So typically you'll have a spreadsheet that monitors one of these occasional factors. You run it 98 days in a row and it's irrelevant. This lulls you into complacency on the 99th day, where you don't look at it, and on the 100th day suddenly it becomes relevant again and you didn't…
I am a trader. A million different factors drive commodity prices, and their significance ebbs and flows over time in unpredictable ways. So typically you'll have a spreadsheet that monitors one of these occasional factors. You run it 98 days in a row and it's irrelevant. This lulls you into complacency on the 99th day, where you don't look at it, and on the 100th day suddenly it becomes relevant again and you didn't…
I am a trader. A million different factors drive commodity prices, and their significance ebbs and flows over time in unpredictable ways. So typically you'll have a spreadsheet that monitors one of these occasional factors. You run it 98 days in a row and it's irrelevant. This lulls you into complacency on the 99th day, where you don't look at it, and on the 100th day suddenly it becomes relevant again and you didn't…
Would you be open to sharing more? What sort of things are you doing in Python that are new and unique, distinct from capabilities you had in spreadsheets?