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by qthrowayq0909 3y ago
This is a perfectly sane, at least from business point of view, argument. It is being treated with a tantrum of downvotes. That in turns shows a lot about the state of affairs in a certain bunch of programmers. Most importantly that they pu
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by qthrowayq0909 3y ago
Tried to raise to management and/or team lead. It's really their job to handle a$$holes (not to mention to not hire them in the first place). But, most of the times they either didn't care or were spineless so next up is movi
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by qthrowayq0909 3y ago
New era of hype definitely.
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by qthrowayq0909 3y ago
That sounds like a sweatshop from hell. I also find it hard to believe that 5+ years rolled by without incident in such a place. Could it be that you were just ignorant of similar cases? Anyhow, that was clearly a toxic place where you shou
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by qthrowayq0909 4y ago
I'm just saying that the demographics of the audience were probably skewed in the beginning of the thread.
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by qthrowayq0909 4y ago
Not to state the obvious but the fact that this commend is the most upvoted in this thread kind of proves one of the premises wrong. It seems that a lot of people are for transparency (I certainly am) despite them not being too vocal about
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by qthrowayq0909 4y ago
" I've been in the market for a couple of months, and I have no idea what employers are looking for" IMO that's because they (employers) too have no idea what they are looking for. It's a mess and only getting worse
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Ask HN: How do you manage in this job?
2 points by qthrowayq0909 4y ago|1 comments
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by qthrowayq0909 4y ago
Yup. They're also good at that. But the bottom line remains. Anything of real importance still gets invented there. Btw, I am European, living in EU.
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by qthrowayq0909 4y ago
Most of these things were invented decades ago. At more recent times EU is good at inventing paperwork and red tape. And suits and scandals.
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by qthrowayq0909 4y ago
because HR-wise a company needs to be sure it is working with whom it thinks it is working. See that under the prism of rising interview scams.
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by qthrowayq0909 4y ago
Tangent, but I think things like that will spell the end of remote working and remote interviewing.
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by qthrowayq0909 4y ago
Legalese is a way for the lawyers and those who can afford them to wrap up the other party in a piece of paper and make him/her sign off to things that normally wouldn't. A side-effect is chocking up a lot of entrepreneurship&#x2F
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by qthrowayq0909 4y ago
Thanks for the reply! With regards to payment I don't see that clause so things look ok there. But noticed another clause essentially forbidding me to reveal anything related to the said contract _including_ even the fact that I'm
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Ask HN: Weird consulting contract or is that how consulting works?
3 points by qthrowayq0909 4y ago|6 comments
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by qthrowayq0909 4y ago
How do you trust accounting to some unknown overseas guys? It just seems too scary to me...