andreasgonewild

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by andreasgonewild 12y ago
Unbabel is unique in that they offer Valley level compensation in Portugal. From what I could see at the time, this was a good move.
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by andreasgonewild 12y ago
And just for the record, everyone hasn't loved it so far. The last thing I did before being fired was opting out of surfing because I didn't enjoy it at all. I got the feeling that most of the employees would rather have done some
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by andreasgonewild 12y ago
And I'm sorry about the cursing, reading the comments brought a lot of stuff up to the surface again.
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by andreasgonewild 12y ago
Have you had any experience with the Portuguese state or legal system? I'd probably still be standing in a queue somewhere.
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by andreasgonewild 12y ago
No, the contract was presented and explained to me by the founders, at the time they treated me like royalty so it didn't even cross my mind to question them or waste money on a Portuguese lawyer. And where I come from, having a contra
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by andreasgonewild 12y ago
So, I know Java, I don't love it but I know it. I also have extensive experience from about 20 other programming languages. Your point being?
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by andreasgonewild 12y ago
None of your business and has nothing to do with this.
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by andreasgonewild 12y ago
My personal finances are none of your business and have nothing to do with this. Get a life.
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by andreasgonewild 12y ago
Exactly, this is more about not wanting to live in a world where corporations can get away with behaving like this. I'm not worried, I know my shit and I'm sure there are others out there like me.
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by andreasgonewild 12y ago
That's not really what happened though. I had a contract for a minimum of four months on the apartment. Which wouldn't have been a problem for me even if I quit after three months. I deposited the last months rent when I signed th
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by andreasgonewild 12y ago
Again, this isn't about the lack of safety nets, this is about behaving like total jerks and getting away with it. I did try to flag problems, I added more tests, I proposed improvements and went ahead and implemented them. And here we
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by andreasgonewild 12y ago
The problem here isn't that I didn't have a safety net, I'll survive. The problem from my perspective is they behaved like total jerks and were getting away with it.
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by andreasgonewild 12y ago
The whole contract was written on paper in Portuguese. I still don't know if the clause is in there or not. They certainly didn't mention it when they explained the contract to me. Naive, yes probably, but I prefer not suspecting
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by andreasgonewild 12y ago
The surprise was that my job didn't seem to include flagging problems or improving the code.
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by andreasgonewild 12y ago
Kind of hard to tell when the entire f cking contract is in Portuguese and you depend on someone else to explain it to you. I still have no idea if the clause is in there or not. What I can't get through my head is why you'd write
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by andreasgonewild 12y ago
I wasn't surprised to find bad code there. I was surprised that my job didn't seem to include making it better. Unbabel is based in SF and is unique in offering SF level compensation in Portugal. Perhaps I was naive in expecting t
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by andreasgonewild 12y ago
You have got to be f*cking kidding me! I've studied more Esoteric literature and practiced more Yoga than most. Have you considered that maybe, just maybe, you have no idea what you're talking about?
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by andreasgonewild 12y ago
I'm all for finding stuff out by myself if the company culture embraces failure as a method of learning. Unfortunately, at Unbabel that's not the case.
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by andreasgonewild 12y ago
On the other hand, and this is really the point of the whole thing to me, maybe next time they'll think twice.
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by andreasgonewild 12y ago
To me, being employed as a senior developer doesn't imply being able to figure out the whole system and assigning tasks by yourself from day one. I didn't bitch and complain, or twiddle my thumbs for that matter. I asked for help,
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by andreasgonewild 12y ago
From having lived most of my life in Sweden and three months in Portugal I'd say it's mostly the opposite. The further south you go the more things slows down. But I agree, some of the parameters that got us here are probably cult
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by andreasgonewild 12y ago
With all due respect, my personal finances are none of your business and have nothing to do with this.
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by andreasgonewild 12y ago
Thanks. At this point this isn't about me anymore, it's about transparency and telling both sides of the story. In my opinion Unbabel behaved like total jerks and were getting away with it. I'm getting to old to let stuff lik
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by andreasgonewild 12y ago
I only learned about the loop hole in Portuguese employment law from this discussion. That's one thing I really hated about Portugal, they just don't offer any information in English, even the signs in the museums are in Portugues
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Failing the startup game at Unbabel(esoteric-code.blogspot.com)
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