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> I wonder how many jobs they’ve applied to while bragging about their millions of monthly NPM downloads. I used to work for a company where it was ok (manager
by midrus 5y ago
> I wonder how many jobs they’ve applied to while bragging about their millions of monthly NPM downloads.
I used to work for a company where it was ok (managers won't say anything, even if explicitly pointed at the situation) to remove company company code, create your own NPM package (on your own private NPM account) and add it as a dependency of the company codebase(s).
This and some other similar behaviours were the reason I left that company. But I'm the loser of the story here, as those guys are now working for even bigger companies with bigger salaries than me.
- itronitron 5y agoThey must be quite the 10X programmers to be able to contribute to open source like that while still holding a full-time job. (/s)
- midrus 5y agoWell... if the actual Open Source work you do is in your day job except that instead of committing to the internal codebase you commit in your own packages all day and then update the dependency in the project, I don't think you need to be 10x.
- pizza234 5y ago> But I'm the loser of the story here, as those guys are now working for even bigger companies with bigger salaries Another way to look at this is that a lower-paid SWE is paying for their mental health and morale. In my books, that's a winner :) With the assumption that those engineers whose high/er salary in big/ger companies is not achived through mastery (Netflix is certainly not going to hire the Jon Schlinkerts), they're likely going to work with, say, "moral peers", which is typically undesirable for mentally healthy people.