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by apohn 5y ago
>your work is treated like it's magic This isn't necessarily true. A lot of times all they see is the end result (e.g. a UI) and have zero understanding of the work it took to get there. What they may see is a unique snowflak
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by apohn 5y ago
>One thing I want to mention is that there needs to be a high level of trust for it to work well. This is a great comment. And it's really hard to build that trust if people have zero understanding of what your work actually entail
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by apohn 5y ago
I used to have a job like this. I was a Data Scientist (who coded a lot) embedded in a team of Business Analysts. That job did not work out at all. I was not perceived as a wizard and my work was not appreciated at all. Nobody understood
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by apohn 6y ago
That's just messed up. Saying you are a lower level on some HR chart is one thing, but cutting your salary is just unreasonable. What choice does anybody have apart from immediately looking for a new job?
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by apohn 6y ago
I've had it happen before. After I joined the company HR rep our team used for hiring even complained to my manager that my salary was out of the band for my level. They also had zero motivation to fix it. My manager (who was a grea
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by apohn 6y ago
Gmail was 100x Hotmail, if not even more than that. I think anybody who was on Yahoo Mail/Hotmail (or even something like Roundcube) who switched to Gmail probably realized how much these other companies had been holding stuff back. I
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by apohn 6y ago
Gmail also automatically saved drafts. I can't tell you how many long emails I wrote and lost before hitting the send button with other web email UIs. Gmail was not just 10x. I think it redefined what a good web based email experienc
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by apohn 6y ago
I wasn't trying to imply that all countries have similar expectations of resume format and length. I was just saying that if all the resumes from recruiting firms are atypically long, it's probably the recruiting firm that is res
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by apohn 6y ago
It's not cultural. I think the agencies are trying to put in every single keyword and "skill" to get past algorithmic filters and also make sure non-technical managers see the words they are looking for. At a past role we we
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by apohn 6y ago
IME a lot of people on the tenure track are abused and overloaded. There is a lot of politics and backstabbing as well. This passes down to students. When I was in grad school, I had more than one tenured professor tell me they would have
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by apohn 6y ago
>The advisor doesn’t pull them through the program; the student pushes and the advisor guides. I've got a PhD, as does my spouse. I think this gives too much credit to the advisors. Some of them make you push a lot harder than oth
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by apohn 6y ago
>but it does mean "hey, take a small team and do your own thing with less oversight and process overhead from higher-ups". If you are interviewing for a "startup in a big company" job, one of the first questions you s
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by apohn 6y ago
I wish I could give you more than one upvote for this. I work for a huge company. For every person I've worked with who I thought needed to go, there at at least 10 (probably more) who have become ineffective because of management,pol
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by apohn 6y ago
>A 1660 Ti 4gb RAM laptop gpu, runs about as fast as Collab CPU does According to the chart on that page you linked to the Lenovo Legion (with the 1660ti) is about 30% faster than the Colab GPU. The Lenovo 480s (CPU only, no GPU) is abo
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by apohn 6y ago
IME 2-3 nights to get used to it is about right.
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by apohn 6y ago
I used to have a job with a very heavy travel load and had the same experience. First 2 nights at a new location was terrible, even if it was a really nice hotel. Some of the customers I used to work with had me visit them multiple times.
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by apohn 6y ago
>Apply to medium-to-medium-large sized How would you define medium sized? How many employees and/or how much revenue? I'm asking because I feel like a lot of people have different ideas of what they consider "medium.&quo
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by apohn 6y ago
Agreed. Hard to find meaning at work if you don't know what it means to find something meaningful.
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by apohn 6y ago
>How much time do you think you would need to find meaningful work? Are you sure you can find work meaningful? I think lots of people eventually reach a point in their job/career where they stop trying to find meaning in work and t
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by apohn 6y ago
And to people outside of Engineering, SWEs have flexible hours, can work from home, are paid really well, can take breaks whenever they want, can actually go on vacation without constantly checking their email, and can switch jobs easily. S
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by apohn 6y ago
Tech sales works if the company you are working for has a good product that sells and a good sales culture. Lots of people are in software sales jobs that are basically just dealing with internal sales politics and customer politics to get
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by apohn 6y ago
> I did have to do engineering and got the hard technical questions all day long. It's not your run of the mill sales job, the sales person used me as their tech arm. It was mentally exhausting. I had a role similar to what you are
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by apohn 6y ago
>Honestly, I don't understand why you would buy these when there are a lot of established professional audio companies offering better sound at a cheaper price. Probably because most of these companies have been "upgrading&quot
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by apohn 6y ago
>Just it existing is a threat to the other providers. In my area (a suburban area near Raleigh) it seemed like AT&T really got moving and deployed Fiber after Google put out the "coming soon" flyers. I hope Google keeps p
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by apohn 6y ago
Consider taking unpaid time off and recover. I work for a large company in the US. We have both unpaid FMLA and unpaid time off. The difference is that with FMLA the company still subsidizes health insurance to some degree. If you are in
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by apohn 6y ago
>For home office use you can't go wrong with a Brother HL-series laser printer. Cheap as beans, and (unlike HP), toner cartridges don't cost more than the printer itself. Can't upvote this enough. Get a B/W Laser Pri
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by apohn 6y ago
>It kind of paints this clear career trajectory path for engineers when I think the real world is infinitely more chaotic and random. Whenever I read an article like this I wonder if such a workplace exists, or does the author hope it ex
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by apohn 6y ago
I've been in Analytics + Data Science (most of that in customer facing roles) for close to a decade now, and I'm one of the first people to say there's a ton of hype in AI/ML. However, the real issue with the hype is un
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by apohn 6y ago
I dislike these types headlines because I've interacted with a lot of people who see this as evidence that ML/AI is BS and destined to fail. The reality is that a project with unrealistic expectations is going to fail regardless
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by apohn 6y ago
>If you think about it, that's the natural outcome. Why? Because people in corporations don't have the incentive to benefit the business but to progress their careers and that's done through meeting the goals for their pos

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