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Post by noir_lord » Sat, Aug 28, 2021, 8:12 AM UTC

actually_a_dog wrote: post #9

noir_lord wrote: post #7

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Pretty much. I was a lead (or the equivalent since titles change) after 5 years way back in the day and I really shouldn't have been. The thing is the job titles are pretty much meaningless as I've never worked two places that had similar criteria for what they considered junior, regular, senior, lead and in some places seniors are leads (if you only have 1 senior on a team of 8 they are a lead, if you have 6 seniors…

> My favourite title in my entire career (and it was my actual title) was "Code Monkey"[1], it got entered as a joke in the HR system and everything after that sort of followed on even my business cards (remember those?) said it (since company ordered them and did a mail merge from the HR system). One company I worked at let people use whatever title they wanted, as long as it was in good taste, and it didn't imply a…

Post by actually_a_dog » Sat, Aug 28, 2021, 8:53 AM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #12

actually_a_dog wrote: post #9

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> My favourite title in my entire career (and it was my actual title) was "Code Monkey"[1], it got entered as a joke in the HR system and everything after that sort of followed on even my business cards (remember those?) said it (since company ordered them and did a mail merge from the HR system). One company I worked at let people use whatever title they wanted, as long as it was in good taste, and it didn't imply a…

I'm gonna guess the career-savvy people just went with no-joke "senior software engineer" or "principal software engineer", because the easiest way to be hired as a senior/principal and get the associated salary bump is to already have that job title on CV from your previous job.

Post by atemerev » Sat, Aug 28, 2021, 8:58 AM UTC

noir_lord wrote: post #4

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Stop using the cloud? Or maybe just stop worshiping it like it’s the answer to everything. I once had a tech lead insist we take everything out of the cloud, and do it on our own bare metal. People thought he was insane. But he did the math again and again: faster and cheaper. Turned out really, really well. Even in personal computing … do we really need the cloud for everything?

It's not even a case of stopping using the cloud entirely so much as be aware of all the trade-offs, calculate them as much as possible and make an educated choice which it sounds like your lead did. The problem is that for many dev's who've been inculcated their entire careers with the mantra "cloud first" getting them to a point where they can accurately make an educated choice takes time. Or to put it another way,…

Post by iamstupidsimple » Sat, Aug 28, 2021, 9:19 AM UTC

rektide wrote: post #8

pyuser583 wrote: post #3

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Stop using the cloud? Or maybe just stop worshiping it like it’s the answer to everything. I once had a tech lead insist we take everything out of the cloud, and do it on our own bare metal. People thought he was insane. But he did the math again and again: faster and cheaper. Turned out really, really well. Even in personal computing … do we really need the cloud for everything?

> Stop using the cloud? Is this not exactly what I just described as the problem? Governments ruining the ability to hold data safely in online locations? "Stop being an online services company" does not seem like a solution. Being able to provide online services & networks seems to power a vast amount of modernity. A lot of downvotes on my post. But holy shit I have no idea how anyone can see this as anything else.…

Post by andylynch » Sat, Aug 28, 2021, 10:35 AM UTC

actually_a_dog wrote: post #9

noir_lord wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty much. I was a lead (or the equivalent since titles change) after 5 years way back in the day and I really shouldn't have been. The thing is the job titles are pretty much meaningless as I've never worked two places that had similar criteria for what they considered junior, regular, senior, lead and in some places seniors are leads (if you only have 1 senior on a team of 8 they are a lead, if you have 6 seniors…

> My favourite title in my entire career (and it was my actual title) was "Code Monkey"[1], it got entered as a joke in the HR system and everything after that sort of followed on even my business cards (remember those?) said it (since company ordered them and did a mail merge from the HR system). One company I worked at let people use whatever title they wanted, as long as it was in good taste, and it didn't imply a…