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by jrott 6y ago
Working at a fortune 500 company it feels like the tools that we have for planning alone is almost as long as that list. I'm exaggerating some but this is totally a small list compared to what it could be. The amount of SAAS tools that
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by jrott 6y ago
They love us seems to never be that useful. I actually meant more in terms of there worried about foo or finding out about the dumb workaround there using. That stuff seems to be an early warning sign that something isn’t going well.
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by jrott 6y ago
practically if you are dealing with large enterprise customers it's better to use qualitative data from your account managers to figure out how much risk there is with each customer.
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by jrott 6y ago
This is painfully funny. It's interesting though I feel like it's harder to do data science right because the iterations are so much slower. If it takes all day to run a model it's hard to get in enough reps to really underst
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by jrott 6y ago
> Most networks weren't designed for everyone working from home. It just wasn't seen as in the realm of the possible. This totally seems to be the case. I've had way more problems to the connection from home being slow the
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by jrott 6y ago
> It doesn't matter if someone is privileged or not, recruiters _are_ bottom feeders. Its a shit job that nobody wants and anyone with a modicum of ability seems to get out of asap in my experience. It's totally a shit job in a
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by jrott 6y ago
It was an interesting article in a lot of ways but it definitely didn’t mention any of the more black hat tactics that companies have used for marketing.
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by jrott 6y ago
It's always pretty shocking. You even see it at big companies where you'll only have a few engineers working on the core product and then a ton of people working on supporting infrastructure (analytics, marketing and what have you
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by jrott 6y ago
> Why do managers spend 70% of their time on mysterious external meetings? What are they actually doing? usually they're either trying to get there team politically important work or to get out of politically unimportant work. If th
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by jrott 6y ago
The just so story that is told about this is with no non compete there would be no Intel. The founders would have all been stuck at Fairchild.
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by jrott 6y ago
They can always hope for the sweetheart public private partnership if we ever get universal health care
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by jrott 6y ago
> If I am at my limits for direct reports, I can start having people report to one of my reports, and my status grows. Just like multi level marketing. Absolutely it also makes it way easier to argue that you should get a promotion when
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by jrott 6y ago
Approval workflows have so many problems. I've seen people that have to make tons of approvals but it's not there real job just approve everything that comes through since they don't want to break things. Almost completely de
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by jrott 6y ago
It's such a difficult line to toe. Especially because people like working with new technology and it does seem to help with recruiting even if it makes actually operating the business harder.
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Workflows in AWS and GCP(tbray.org)
4 points by jrott 6y ago|0 comments
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by jrott 6y ago
I'm not sure if my 11 year old knows what a channel is now. A couple of years ago I remember having to explain what a landline phone was.
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by jrott 6y ago
This was a super fascinating article. The whole model is very different from what you normally hear about. In many ways it seems like the closest that VC has come to bringing back the commercial lab.
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by jrott 6y ago
The sum of it seems to be that you should strive to be really good at something. Of course that’s not super profound and I think most of us could come up with it.
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by jrott 6y ago
Seriously in any big company who can you go to ask what acronym $TEXAS means is an important question.
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by jrott 6y ago
At this point I think it was an amazing feature that became a mediocre product. I wish dropbox felt like they could make enough money just being the best in the world at syncing files.
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by jrott 6y ago
(On the other hand, the process could be captured by incumbent employees who do have that incentive). That seems to be way more common than most people want to admit. So many software engineering interviews have very little to do with the j
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by jrott 6y ago
Well Facebook has to be happy at least. Oracle has to be the company least likely to run TikTok well.
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by jrott 6y ago
so if you read the license file can you not license any of your stuff under the spite license
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Miscellanea: My Thoughts on Crusader Kings III(acoup.blog)
1 points by jrott 6y ago|0 comments
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by jrott 6y ago
This is really good. It's one of the best descriptions I've seen of what being a staff engineer is like. When I came into the role I was stunned at the amount of time that I ended up talking to people and just trying to figure out
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by jrott 6y ago
Yeah this seems like an ok experiment so they aren't totally dependent on google for income.
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Software Developer Promotions: Advice to Get to That Next Level(blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
2 points by jrott 6y ago|0 comments
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by jrott 6y ago
Absolutely. It's totally a cultural thing I've been in the opposite situation as well. The culture really has to be that getting someone new onboarded is the most important thing and not somebodies side project.
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by jrott 6y ago
I work for a non tech fortune 500 company and was committing code by day 2. It's really about being willing to figure out what the blocker's to access are and making sure they are taken care of before hand.
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by jrott 6y ago
An Oracle database expert, who doesn't understand the necessity of having a primary key? A Java developer who never heard about Map, so he kept implementing it over and over again as a set of methods, for each variable separately?) Nei

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