codeonfire

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by codeonfire 15y ago
> you are now free to leave google Which is exactly what I argued was the only recourse an engineer has, so I agree. > or you are free to ask for the equivelent in added salary to cover the food. That's extremely unrealistic. You d
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by codeonfire 15y ago
> So any company - even when acting in self interest - will treat employees well. Well, the premise of the submission pretty much refutes that unless you call loud outbursts, threats, reduced equity, and demotions "well treated". >I
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by codeonfire 15y ago
So google has been canning several projects lately. How will you feel when your project gets canned and your work thrown away? How would you feel about a 25% pay cut or being forced to move to a different state, or free food being cut? W
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by codeonfire 15y ago
Every job is going to suck if you're an engineer for hire. There is no mythical good place to work, and if there were, someone like these guys would be working overtime to make it suck for you. If you're an engineer you need to be working
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by codeonfire 15y ago
>With a company, all that matters from an ethical and legal point of view is what's written down on paper and signed by both parties. Exactly, companies of all kinds can and do legally lie to your face, and write something entirely diff
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by codeonfire 15y ago
This is every company. I've never heard of any company giving more than 3-5 days. If you work for a big corp, you know how unbelievably insecure management is, any delay at all would make them look very bad politically. When a hiring man
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by codeonfire 15y ago
Well, here's the problem, Mr. big tech CTO. You hire C level managers who know absolutely nothing about how software is made to lead A level developers. All the blogs and thought about how to do software engineering correctly? Worthless.
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by codeonfire 15y ago
Generally, the most telltale sign of "not-smart" is someone being easily swayed by emotion or persuasion, gullible, pandering, and full of misplaced idealism or concern. Often not-smart people will exhibit these things and you feel embarra
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by codeonfire 15y ago
You put in two years at your current place and they don't want to pay market, you will need to leave. I would take the $95k job but leave the door open. Tell them you are going to 'try' this new job because you need a change. People go b
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by codeonfire 15y ago
All the very best and most experienced programmers (wink) will know ways to write code that both amateurs and elites can enjoy. I personally (wink) do things like extract expressions to give them meaningful identifiers, include units in pa