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A career ending mistake

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Re: A career ending mistake

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

For what it's worth, there are companies who walk the walk, I've been lucky enough to work for a couple. However, I think they are almost always smaller companies.

Do they walk the walk for everyone though? I find that the stuff that's out of view and only affects a small percentage seem to exist almost everywhere.

In my experience, some of them do. However I think that in general the larger the company, the less that is true. In a smaller company everyone is on the same team. In larger companies you always find there is someone who gets shat on because someone three levels up doesn't think of them as actual people.

I see it as like the corporate version of judging people by how they treat waiters or shop staff. You don't judge a company culture by how it treats its rare as unicorns tech staff, you judge it on how it treats the easily replaceable staff with low market pay rates. If it treats the latter like shit then the only reason it's treating you well is because they have to.

Re: A career ending mistake

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post #122

It's completely unsurprising to me that HN likes to take career advice from someone who doesn't know the difference between 'careen' and 'career'.

I thought this too, but google backs him up as being correct.

It's completely unsurprising to me that HN likes to get information from a search engine that doesn't know the difference between 'careen' and 'career'.

This may indeed explain how the author came about their incorrect definition, though.

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