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My Bootstrapped Micro-Startup Got Acquired

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Re: My Bootstrapped Micro-Startup Got Acquired

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Congratulations Danish! :) I help him with this writing of the blog post 50% when we are on the ferry ride from indonesia to singapore. I'm glad a domain .xyz can build a microstartup "side project turn to profitable business" and you get acquired. I'm really proud of you!

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Re: My Bootstrapped Micro-Startup Got Acquired

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Swiss, Scandinavian and Finnish and probably Danish and Dutch jobs pay way better than Berlin or London Jobs do.

Average developer salary in the Netherlands is 50k...

I'm a senior in the UK with about two decades of programming for money and I make less than a junior on the west coast of the US.

Even in London that would possibly be the case, it's just the way the market is.

Re: My Bootstrapped Micro-Startup Got Acquired

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Why is a new grad R&D Engineer strange? that's certainly most of the people recruited at the first place I worked (UK) started as. OK they wont be at the same level as the Boss (the President of the Mechanical engineers at the time) What sort of people do you thein NASA JPL etc. recruit from university in the main.

I don't work at JPL, but I do work at a different NASA center. I am one of only two people in my team of ~15 that does not have a graduate degree. There are only three with master's degrees; the rest are PhD's. You have to be both talented and incredibly lucky to secure a full time position without a graduate degree here.

That's not what the previous person was saying - they thought it was strange you had new grads as RnD engineers.

And I know all about v high end RnD I worked on campus Cranfield Uni at BHRA in the Math modeling and Nuke section

Though I was a technician, who of course you need to remind the "engineers" how ohms law works :-)

Re: My Bootstrapped Micro-Startup Got Acquired

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post #84

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I don't work at JPL, but I do work at a different NASA center. I am one of only two people in my team of ~15 that does not have a graduate degree. There are only three with master's degrees; the rest are PhD's. You have to be both talented and incredibly lucky to secure a full time position without a graduate degree here.

That's not what the previous person was saying - they thought it was strange you had new grads as RnD engineers. And I know all about v high end RnD I worked on campus Cranfield Uni at BHRA in the Math modeling and Nuke section Though I was a technician, who of course you need to remind the "engineers" how ohms law works :-)

>... they thought it was strange you had new grads as RnD engineers.

Yes, and I'm saying that we don't hire new (under)grads as R&D engineers. We hardly hire people with undergraduate degrees at all regardless of experience.

Re: My Bootstrapped Micro-Startup Got Acquired

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post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not what the previous person was saying - they thought it was strange you had new grads as RnD engineers. And I know all about v high end RnD I worked on campus Cranfield Uni at BHRA in the Math modeling and Nuke section Though I was a technician, who of course you need to remind the "engineers" how ohms law works :-)

>... they thought it was strange you had new grads as RnD engineers. Yes, and I'm saying that we don't hire new (under)grads as R&D engineers. We hardly hire people with undergraduate degrees at all regardless of experience.

Ah Grade inflation then :-)
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