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In general, Tech has no respect for people's personal time. Leetcoding is a problem. we are forced to spend substantial parts of our lives preparing for these coding interviews, and that doesn't cover design, behavioral, and take homes. my brother is a doctor who makes 350k base, you know what an interview is like for him? "do you doctor" "yes I do doctoring" "great come aboard". its problematic that our gatekeepers…
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I would love to work at a company that does something great for the world. Like work on climate change or longevity. It feels so hard to find those roles though.
The parent commentator posted some links: culdesac.com, planet.com, cervest.earth. And some job sites: climatebase.org, naturetech.io. Could you talk a bit about why this kind of information is not enough? (I was in a similar situation as you a few months ago, and it took some time to figure out how to find work that was clearly good for the world. But the specific problems for each of us may be different.)
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There are! I've been interviewing with them the last couple weeks. I also have a personal project that I hope helps (meant to help get walking and bike infra built)
Could you talk a bit about the personal project? (I would love to have more walking and biking infra! :) )
I used it to find my own house a bike ride from a train station an hour from Dublin (I work remote) with gigabit fibre for under 100k in 2019. I would never have found it with the traditional real estate sites that assume I drive everywhere.
It's just a side project though, I barely get time to hack on it.
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There are companies that you could work for that would be win-win. Companies that are making the world better and still require talented software developers.
I would love to work at a company that does something great for the world. Like work on climate change or longevity. It feels so hard to find those roles though.
Yes to 1. and 4., also a bit of 3. Also, a lot of regulatory overhead.
The world is burning, carbon emissions are increasing despite a global pandemic, democracy is in backslide, and I'm doing stupid shit that really doesn't matter. My children will grow up in a hotter, thirstier, more dangerous world. Nothing I'm doing is going to improve this. My job is cush. I work remote. I make good money. But I stare blankly at the screen and just can't bring myself to care. I eye climatebase and…
There are companies that you could work for that would be win-win. Companies that are making the world better and still require talented software developers.
PS. I have nothing to do with them.
For me burnout comes from imposter syndrome. It's being surrounded by a tech world with people who are so certain about everything, and especially that their way is right. Where there's no nuance or context taken into account. I find it exhausting as I'm constantly questioning myself. And, despite delivering projects that help people and work for the business, I always seem to be swimming against the tide of (program…