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I don’t have any fancy name for it, but it’s the one where your company gets bought by private equity and “creates efficiency” by laying half of your company and limps across the 3 year tax mark as a tired old dog, changing hands again.
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I will add my two cents for people who believe that this might be related only to the SWE and tangent industries: It's really not. I have many friends (in Europe) who are trying to get through to different jobs in unrelated industries ranging from finance to fashion, or just trying to get promoted vertically (or horizontally), failing rather miserably. Most jobs are now hoops after hoops, not taking into consideratio…
I generally like the article but the author seems to have a really inflated view of what jobs are paying. At one point he’s claiming that a stable non tech company like a tractor manufacturer is paying 5k-10k. Even assuming that’s including taxes so divide by two, and constraining to just software employees for that claim. There is no way the average pay is nearly a million a year. The average software engineer in th…
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This is a personal pet peeve of mine as well. In written text i see online and in direct communication, punctuation is absent, words are misspelled, ideas are incoherent. It is frustrating to read because it is unclear. Even more frustrating is the over-reliance on memes and inside jokes. I, too, despise this style of writing.
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Do you actually want to understand the answer to this question?
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