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Fortune 500 companies announce that they are killing their IT depts and outsourcing to $SERVICE CO$ all the time. When you go for the next job interview do you
by uighbuiybv 17y ago
Fortune 500 companies announce that they are killing their IT depts and outsourcing to $SERVICE CO$ all the time.
When you go for the next job interview do you want to say.
I was developing Rails apps to link facebook to Xbox for iPhone users.
Or
I was a level 3.2 group manager responsible for coordinating all inputs from level 3.3 staff and collating them for level 3.1s !
And I have technical experience writing macros in XYZ running in our custom ABC billing system.
- tptacek 17y agoAgain with the straw man argument. If you're worried about being the 3.2 group manager responsible for etc etc etc, manage your career better. Crappy roles and big companies aren't synonymous. So, let me respond. What looks better on a resume: "I was developing Rails apps to link Facebook to Xbox for iPhone users", or "I designed, implemented, and successfully deployed the first 3 revisions of Instant Bloomberg for Bloomberg, which provided IM capabilities to everyone with a BB terminal". Because Bloomberg is notorious for crappy 3.2-group-manager-of-GS-integration-backend-foo-XYZ development jobs, but I have a couple friends who got to do Instant Bloomberg.
- zaidf 17y agoCrappy roles and big companies aren't synonymous. Talking about strawman, crappy startups and startups aren't synonymous either.
- tptacek 17y agoNo, but risky startups and startups are.
- jbellis 17y agoThe difference is that at a startup, virtually everyone gets to work on something meaningful. At Bloomberg, a handful out of hundreds.