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Why aren't you interviewing for another job right now instead of sharing on HN? ;-) haha Joke aside. "No pain no gain" as they say. So what's one thing that wa

• wtf_did_we_do 7y ago
  I am. I think others in the company are now too. To be told that our knowledge and expertise isn't respected was a real blow. I did also learn a lot about cloud architecture though.
  • K0SM0S 7y ago
    Ah yeah nothing like the most barebones PoC to learn a lot about something. Bird's eye view and all that. Good that you're already thinking 'next'! The blow you speak of is common unfortunately between different types, and there is always a sorta 'dominant' type in every business. Sometimes it's the engineers, sometimes it's the marketing, sometimes it's sales, sometimes it's c-execs. That's one piece of info worth having to make more informed career choices, depending on your goal — you usually thrive as part of the dominant type, i.e. "ethos" of the company. Look at the CEO and background of the managing backbone. It usually says a lot about a company's culture, who matters and who's recycled perpetually.
    • wtf_did_we_do 7y ago
      It's definitely engineering that get recycled, and our C level is made of people focused on sales. Now I know what to look for in a company, this event paid out in wisdom coins for me.