pry86

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by pry86 7y ago
I was working in a small startup in Germany. I think our boss was around 40. He didn't want developer older than 38 :D We were just above 30 at that time.
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by pry86 7y ago
Ha! It's enough to be 30 km away from Munich, and somewhere between the villages you might have no internet or edge only. It's disappointing.
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by pry86 7y ago
And what I find the worst is that in some companies, somebody comes up with such great idea to change really complicated task, but if they would have tested their own developers, many of them wouldn't pass! I have seen this is two comp
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by pry86 7y ago
I agree, but what to do? In last 10 years I changed the job few times already, had many interviews, and 50-60 % of the companies have coding tests. Some even two (first some algorithms, then interview, and then "proper" business c
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by pry86 7y ago
That's exactly what I'm going/trying to do. I have around 12 years of experience as backend dev (PHP, SQL, queues, rest apis, e-commerce, docker - so basically whatever needed in the given company). I tried to apply for a Jav
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by pry86 7y ago
If there is a big hill, I don't think there is not limit sign, rather 120 or even less. At least that's what I see around Munich and Stuttgart.
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by pry86 7y ago
Germany needs qualified and cheap employees. A lot. Therefore especially in tech there is lot's of companies where most of the workers are foreigners. So they have to speak in English. Otherwise nobody would come :D It sucks, because i
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by pry86 7y ago
What exactly is unpleasant in Germany? If you have a guy suddenly behind you then most likely you didn't check properly in the mirror, and estimated speed of approaching car wrongly. You could also perform overtaking manoeuvre more dyn
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by pry86 8y ago
Really? Good developers are busy too. And somehow they have time to hang out too. Look all the available knowledge and OpenSource.
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by pry86 8y ago
Same with PHP and its frameworks (lots of haters comes from RoR side, isn't it?) So let's leave this aside :)
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by pry86 8y ago
Not only Amazon does that. Few times I wrote a review of a restaurant on TripAdvisor, and all of them are removed :( Good ones are still there. If they can't do that, what is the point of having user reviews.