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I am also a 27 year old programmer working for a very large company well over 10K employees. Unfortunately, doing well career wise is more about politics than

by fendale 19y ago

I am also a 27 year old programmer working for a very large company well over 10K employees. Unfortunately, doing well career wise is more about politics than programming. I have never worked for a small company so I cannot comment on that, but I hope for sure that there is something better than what I have experienced so far! Just have to pull my finger out and get out of there, or start some sort of startup ...

jamiequint 19y ago
if you're serious about getting out check out some of the jobs we have up at http://snaptalent.com/ads.html http://snaptalent.com/ads.html There are some YC companies on there, but also some other really cool startups.
- fendale 19y ago
  I can't see any ad's at that URL ... maybe something is broken? One thing thats kept me in my big company job is that I am in a part of the UK where there isn't a massive choice of places to work - there are other big companies, but few if any startups :(
  - danw 19y ago
    Where in the UK are you? You can always quit and move if theres nothing available
    - fendale 19y ago
      I am in Belfast - Don't really want to move, I have a lot of friends here that would suck to leave behind! Lots of American investment is hitting Belfast these days, so there are a reasonable number of IT jobs, but they tend to be big companies or bigish companies outsourcing to here, so the work isn't the best. Don't get me wrong, the company I work for is good despite its size, but like many here I wanna start my own thing - I will keep mulling/hacking on my ideas until I get something that seems good enough to release ...
      - jamiequint 19y ago
        We don't have any UK jobs at the moment so for now we've made our ads magically disappear when hit from any non-US IP addresses, we'll be out there soon though :)
        hollerith 19y ago
        Users from non-US IP addresses never want to apply for US jobs?
        LogicHoleFlaw 19y ago
        I'm in St. Louis and still don't see any ads on that page. I checked and NoScript and AdBlock are both whitelisting you, too. (What a curious thing! I'm trying to get more ads in my browsing experience! Who'da thunkit.)
- joshwa 19y ago
  I was actually wondering if there was a page where I could just view the list of jobs being advertised on SnapTalent... seeing as it's a self-selecting group of advertisers, that has very high value to me. Feature Request: Show me the company, job title, and city, please?

by fendale 19y ago

jamiequint 19y ago

if you're serious about getting out check out some of the jobs we have up at http://snaptalent.com/ads.html http://snaptalent.com/ads.html There are some YC companies on there, but also some other really cool startups.

fendale 19y ago
I can't see any ad's at that URL ... maybe something is broken? One thing thats kept me in my big company job is that I am in a part of the UK where there isn't a massive choice of places to work - there are other big companies, but few if any startups :(
- danw 19y ago
  Where in the UK are you? You can always quit and move if theres nothing available
  - fendale 19y ago
    I am in Belfast - Don't really want to move, I have a lot of friends here that would suck to leave behind! Lots of American investment is hitting Belfast these days, so there are a reasonable number of IT jobs, but they tend to be big companies or bigish companies outsourcing to here, so the work isn't the best. Don't get me wrong, the company I work for is good despite its size, but like many here I wanna start my own thing - I will keep mulling/hacking on my ideas until I get something that seems good enough to release ...
    - jamiequint 19y ago
      We don't have any UK jobs at the moment so for now we've made our ads magically disappear when hit from any non-US IP addresses, we'll be out there soon though :)
      - hollerith 19y ago
        Users from non-US IP addresses never want to apply for US jobs?
      - LogicHoleFlaw 19y ago
        I'm in St. Louis and still don't see any ads on that page. I checked and NoScript and AdBlock are both whitelisting you, too. (What a curious thing! I'm trying to get more ads in my browsing experience! Who'da thunkit.)
joshwa 19y ago
I was actually wondering if there was a page where I could just view the list of jobs being advertised on SnapTalent... seeing as it's a self-selecting group of advertisers, that has very high value to me. Feature Request: Show me the company, job title, and city, please?