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by apohn 4y ago
I came here to post the same thing. I used to be in enterprise software sales and consulting and have been involved for RFIs/RFPs across multiple industries. I don't know a single person who thought the process was sensible or ef
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by apohn 4y ago
>It is easier if you are not married. I realize that every decision is easier in theory when only one person has to make a decision, but sometimes having a spouse and kids can make things easier. Most of the people I know who went back
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by apohn 4y ago
I actually know more than one person who did this or their parents did this. The made it work because they all basically retired early (e.g. late 40s, early 50s) using the strength of their US/European currency versus the currency in
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by apohn 4y ago
How does this work at companies that are very distributed geographically? The WARN act talks about "mass layoff affecting 50 or more employees at a single site of employment." I'm genuinely asking this question - I'm no
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by apohn 4y ago
>As a European the severance for a large company doesn’t sound all to different to what I am used to. IME 14 weeks minimum is really generous in the US. I've been at 2 companies where it was 1 week per year of employment. At one co
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by apohn 4y ago
>I'm finding ways back but started to realize this .. it's probably one-way ticket. When I ask myself the question about when I'll get back to the way I was, I also have to ask "Does that include being that person tha
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by apohn 4y ago
>I'm not well off like most people on here, I can survive 4-6 months with no salary, which I'm likely going to have to consider given my firing seems imminent at this point. >My mind knows what needs to be done, but my body
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by apohn 4y ago
There's a good book (albeit, a bit repetitive as you read it) about the fall of of GE. If I remember correctly the book basically confirms what you said about Immelt inheriting a lot of problems that were hidden behind accounting comp
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by apohn 4y ago
>I wouldn’t go so far as to call them stupid When I think about the workplace, I've usually interpret this version of stupid as a way of saying that there is a type of personality where the compulsion to do something completely over
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by apohn 4y ago
>Vegeta would be impressed. lol. I'm glad somebody got this reference. It's pretty dated at this point. Nowadays it's all about people going bald after working out.
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by apohn 4y ago
Unfortunately this is what happens in real life. And those people have the ability to completely derail sales opportunities because they don't know when to stop selling because they a) can't recognize when they can't win the
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by apohn 4y ago
There was a German General who classified people into 4 categories based on if they were hardworking, lazy, smart, or stupid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord#Cl... His comment on Type 3 - &qu
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by apohn 4y ago
I would not take any of it so seriously. This is really common across multiple companies. I'm work in a Data Science org and get so much crap like this. I think there is some CRM that automatically sends these emails to all the email
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by apohn 4y ago
>That bike salesperson is (probably deliberately) steering you away from the secondary market. This interaction happened many years ago. I wish I could give that person that much credit about being so savvy about the secondary market, b
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by apohn 4y ago
>It feels like every time someone gets into a new field now, there's always the expectation they'll 'go pro' or turn it into a day job. I think the nature of this has changed recently, but I feel like things were like
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by apohn 4y ago
>There may be something going on that you're not aware of and interviewers don't want to tell you. 100% Agree.
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by apohn 4y ago
So you are saying a COO is an officer-Donkey? :) But to go back to the parent post, what the COO said "If they weren't donkeys they'd be running their own business." Maybe some COOs run small businesses they started wher
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by apohn 4y ago
>it's actually quite amusing how many parents say it gets better when the children leave the nest. then why have children!? There are lot of places in the world where there is no expectation that the children will leave the nest. Th
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by apohn 4y ago
>I don't know what they do. That's the secret. With some parents, when you find out you realize they probably aren't parents who spend much time with their kids. I have a friend who founded a startup a year before becomin
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by apohn 4y ago
>6 years ago, a COO once told me, "Employees are donkeys. You use a carrot and stick. If they weren't donkeys they'd be running their own business." A COO is an Employee too. Therefore he is a Donkey as well :)
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by apohn 4y ago
>Has anyone come back from being burnt out to love what they do again? I remember reading a post on HN where a person said they took them close to decade to be close to feel mostly fully functional after a major burnout. I'm sure s
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by apohn 4y ago
>This advice is going to be hated by a lot of people but.. care less. I think there's a nuance in this that's easy to be missed. It's possible to care about the quality of your work but not care about the various forms of
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by apohn 4y ago
At my last job we had the following. 1.Active directory password expires every 60 days 2.Extremely crazy requirements around the AD password 3.Only place you can change password is using the Windows login screen 4.No easy place to lookup th
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by apohn 4y ago
Yep, similar experience, and I was an undergrad 20+ years ago. In the undergraduate institution I attended grading on a curve was not common outside of Chemistry classes. I specifically remember taking a chem class where the majority of th
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by apohn 4y ago
I used to work in PreSales. I worked with lots of people who were ex SWEs/SRE/insertTechTitleHere who transitioned into PreSales/Solution Architects (SAs). At least a few of them did this by first doing an internal transiti
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by apohn 4y ago
>Why not? Because I understand that I have no control over them, no way to prevent them from making bad decisions, no way to prevent them from being managed poorly (as most companies are). I think this is a necessary attitude to adopt, e
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by apohn 4y ago
If I'm the interviewer and an interview has clearly gone badly and both sides known it, I usually just ask the person about something they are working on at work/personally/coursework, or whatever. People are usually happy t
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by apohn 4y ago
>Sadly, a new risk with "100% remote anywhere" culture. I think this is a new risk when it comes to hiring engineers. This kind of fraud has been present outside of Engineering orgs for a long time. I used to be a hiring manag
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by apohn 4y ago
Sending in resumes via online applications is a somewhat pointless exercise. Any number of IT systems or HR personal will filter out good candidates. You need to find a way to contact recruiters directly. I've got a story that illust
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by apohn 4y ago
I had a good chuckle at this one. Every job I've ever had is like this. Even if you get a promotion and a raise, the raise will be a fraction of what somebody getting the same title from outside will get. So what's the point? I

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