The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry

Post by closeparen » Mon, Feb 06, 2023, 5:53 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #375

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>if you weren't a top performer, you were let go If "top performer" is defined as, say, 90th percentile, does that imply >90% turnover?

No, not at all. You didn't have to be a top performer at Netflix , you had to be a top performer industrywide. Netflix basically tried to keep only people who would be rated as top performers at other companies. Think of it like a sports team (which is how Netflix always described it). They wanted the best people in the league.

Post by valdiorn » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 4:58 PM UTC

jleahy wrote: post #590

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I worked for the G company I'm assuming you're referring to :) I left because of the insane paranoid culture. I do however share the same sentiment as the parent poster - I interviewed for XTX for a c++ role when I quit and during one of the interviews I asked about on-call rota and out of hours work. The answer I got: "oh, it's not too bad. We have a weekly rota, you can expect to get called maybe 3 or 4 times... a…

That was 6 years ago and it was indeed tough back then, we were rewriting a huge trading system from Java -> C++ while trying to keep our edge. However, we succeeded and things have changed considerably since. We also have a dev working in Singapore now which makes support significantly better. We were at least honest in the interview process regarding hours, there are companies where you would only find that out aft…

Post by fxtentacle » Sat, Feb 11, 2023, 4:12 AM UTC

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fooker wrote: post #452

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> Nice European country? The grass is always greener on the other side. :) If you don’t like the idea of living in San Francisco or Chicago, you’ll hate it at most of the large European cities. Small towns are a different manner.

I'm not American. I think almost all European cities are a lot smaller and a lot less dense than Singapore is. And they have equivalent public transport, amenities, etc. Make no mistakes, I don't have any illusions about cultural differences and am perfectly aware of grass-greener-on-other-side syndrome. I just don't want to be stuck in a 700 km^2 island all my life.