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I love how “it was a great time” = “I worked two days a week” Any job that pays a full week and only requires two days of work is a “great time” tells you li

I love how “it was a great time” = “I worked two days a week” Any job that pays a full week and only requires two days of work is a “great time” tells you literally nothing about the actual job.

ethbr1 6mo ago
The way to read that is that parent was being paid 2.5x what their FTE hourly rate would be. In which case, I'd say they struck a helluva bargain at salary negotiation. Kudos. It's not like they didn't ask for more work to do.
mplanchard 6mo ago
Yeah I mean, I was being a bit sarcastic. As the sibling points out, I was getting paid a full time salary to largely do whatever I wanted. But, it was also soul crushing to have so little meaningful work to do. I left within a year of the acquisition as a result. The actual job was working on a python server for the acquired company, and it’s not like there wasn’t more work to do, but we were not allowed to go outside the bounds of the work that had been allocated for a sprint, which was always conservative in order to allow for more accurate overall plans. It’s certain that it was different in other departments or areas or acquired companies, but that at least was my experience.
- AndrewKemendo 6mo ago
  So, like every giant tech company with usury rats and stolen wages then :shrug:
- kqr 6mo ago
  That's interesting. Do you know what the fraction was of sprints that ended without all the work items associated with them being completed?
  - mplanchard 6mo ago
    At least for our team, quite low. We had a very comfortable buffer, which allowed us to deliver in time to coordinate with the rest of the org. It may not have been a bad strategy overall from the top-down perspective, but it wasn’t a lot of fun as an IC
panflute 6mo ago
Funny that you expect an employee to view a great time as meaning more than successfully exploiting advantage to the employers disadvantage in a relationship with Cisco.
- AndrewKemendo 6mo ago
  Imagine not working for a company that acts like Crazy right?
  - DrJokepu 6mo ago
    The person you’re responding to has explicitly said that they worked there after an acquisition (so it’s not like they have chosen to work for Cisco) and that they only worked there briefly afterwards. I don’t understand why you’re being so hostile and judgmental.
  - panflute 6mo ago
    Crazy is imagining an employer is of high integrity for your self esteem. How can a company that is high integrity compete with one that gets the same rewards while being of low integrity?
    - AndrewKemendo 6mo ago
      Simple There are no high integrity companies so it’s just a rat king

ethbr1 6mo ago

The way to read that is that parent was being paid 2.5x what their FTE hourly rate would be. In which case, I'd say they struck a helluva bargain at salary negotiation. Kudos. It's not like they didn't ask for more work to do.

mplanchard 6mo ago

Yeah I mean, I was being a bit sarcastic. As the sibling points out, I was getting paid a full time salary to largely do whatever I wanted. But, it was also soul crushing to have so little meaningful work to do. I left within a year of the acquisition as a result. The actual job was working on a python server for the acquired company, and it’s not like there wasn’t more work to do, but we were not allowed to go outside the bounds of the work that had been allocated for a sprint, which was always conservative in order to allow for more accurate overall plans. It’s certain that it was different in other departments or areas or acquired companies, but that at least was my experience.

AndrewKemendo 6mo ago
So, like every giant tech company with usury rats and stolen wages then :shrug:
kqr 6mo ago
That's interesting. Do you know what the fraction was of sprints that ended without all the work items associated with them being completed?
- mplanchard 6mo ago
  At least for our team, quite low. We had a very comfortable buffer, which allowed us to deliver in time to coordinate with the rest of the org. It may not have been a bad strategy overall from the top-down perspective, but it wasn’t a lot of fun as an IC

panflute 6mo ago

Funny that you expect an employee to view a great time as meaning more than successfully exploiting advantage to the employers disadvantage in a relationship with Cisco.

AndrewKemendo 6mo ago
Imagine not working for a company that acts like Crazy right?
- DrJokepu 6mo ago
  The person you’re responding to has explicitly said that they worked there after an acquisition (so it’s not like they have chosen to work for Cisco) and that they only worked there briefly afterwards. I don’t understand why you’re being so hostile and judgmental.
- panflute 6mo ago
  Crazy is imagining an employer is of high integrity for your self esteem. How can a company that is high integrity compete with one that gets the same rewards while being of low integrity?
  - AndrewKemendo 6mo ago
    Simple There are no high integrity companies so it’s just a rat king