Anyone work at atlassian? How’s it there?
Most Tech Jobs Are Jokes and I Am Not Laughing
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The worst case comes when the stated objectives of the company or organization (what it does to make money) are very different to those of the employee's skills. For instance, the employee is employed in some technical area of a company that has nothing to do with technology such as banking, finance, the arts and various government bureaucracies. > My worst job was working for a government bureaucracy that had noth…
Trouble is tech services are needed by such organizations, in my case it was IT and electronics. It's when things go wrong as they sometimes do, and mainly when users screw up using the services—no matter how much has been plowed into training—that it comes unstuck. Management wants assurances that services will be more reliable but they don't have the interest or understanding to be helpful, this lack of understandi…
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep, declaring that everyone around you is an idiot is pretty much never a good strategy…
Isn't honesty the best policy?
I know you’re just joking, but clearly you’re never met a real-life narcissist. It’s incredible trying to explain to them that they’re wrong about something and seeing the expressions on their face as they literally struggle to understand how they could possibly have failed
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#34I've spent most of my career in startups (bootstrapped and VC-backed) and I find that it's much easier to find a good fit with a team in a startup.
The interviews will generally be with the founding team for early stage startups, but even for a startup heading into series A, you'll still probably meet with the C-suite for culture fit. If you get into an interview, it's almost always high on engagement because the team is small and the mission doesn't lose fidelity through layers of management (why this role? why now? what problems are being solved for? what type of candidate is a best fit?)
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#35Someone, please, tell the dude that remote work exists.
The best of them, most technical, are all taken by us, Eastern Europeans/ex-USSR.
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#36The beauty of engineering cannot be found in a "corporate world". It's in the open source ecosystem, where the innovation happens
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#37I understand the frustration. But if I were looking for a job, I simply would not publicly announce to the world that I am this much of a dick.
Yeah he sounds completely insufferable. If he came across like this in an interview with me I would be very put off.
On the one hand the idiocy and incompetence in these interviews is not unusual for corporate hiring of all kinds. So it's reasonable to be infuriated.
But there's more than a hint of narcissism in the writing. Which is incredibly toxic to work with, because every interaction becomes less about solving problems and more about aggressive assertions of dominance and superiority.
On the upside, if he's as smart as he wants to be, he'll be able to solve his problem.
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#38And yet the author has not posted (I scrolled back to October I believe) in “Who wants to be hired” nor would I bet they’ve scanned through the “Who is hiring” thread. Maybe they post under a different name and I’m wrong but that seems like missed opportunity.
For my own part I greatly prefer smaller companies and startups. I honestly don’t believe they are really that much more volatile than bigger companies (see layoffs) and I abhor the “process over progress” mentality at larger companies. That along with layers and layers of bureaucracy to get anything done. At a smaller company I have a direct impact and there is simply no room for people who aren’t competent.
Side note: “Competent” is high praise in my book. Most people don’t meet that bar IMHO. I am not, nor am I looking for “10x” developers. I’m looking for people that care, can learn what they need to learn, can think critically, and can work well on a team with others.
I have numerous other complaints with the blog post, not least of which being annoyed that employees at companies the author looked at didn’t have GitHub activity. Not everyone programs in their free time. I mean, I do but I know many extremely competent people who don’t. Judging a company by that seems silly.
I got my current job through HN (in 2019) and I’m currently hiring others using HN and have managed to find a number people who are working their way through the interview process (side note: contact me if you are in the US and want to work with PHP/Quasar/Vue). It’s not easy work but it’s working and I’d bet it’s working better than using an incompetent conman, I’m sorry, I think the common term is “recruiter” or something like LinkedIn/Indeed.
Yes, trying to get a job without using your network is more difficult but it not impossible either. That said, I have no clue what it’s like in Melbourne, maybe it’s different there. I’ll end with this: it’s just silly to drink shitty tea just so you can complain about it.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep, declaring that everyone around you is an idiot is pretty much never a good strategy…
Isn't honesty the best policy?
I don't think it's about being honest. Organizations are difficult to manage. Join a shitty org and try to make it better. You're not entitled to some role doing something you love in a perfectly run organization. Such things don't exist and if you think you're smarter than everyone else, manifest this organization somewhere
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#40> The tea causes me to radiate an aura that makes the thought leaders I know slightly uneasy around me. I don't know them, but I love this person. Very Douglas Adams-esque writing style, too.
Douglas Adams wrote often about the absurdity of powerful groups vs the common man.
The author of this post is no Arthur Dent.