rudyrigot

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by rudyrigot 4y ago
Not all tech jobs are like that. Also, different tech jobs will appeal to different people, which is fine. Maybe this one job is not the best fit for you, and there may be another one out there that is. If I were you, I’d try a job as diffe
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by rudyrigot 5y ago
Moved from France to the US in 2013, mostly because opportunities in tech don’t compare, and also because for all the great things French culture has, the gloomy/whiny tone of the culture was always difficult for me. It was hard for a
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by rudyrigot 5y ago
I work for a FAANG-like company right now, and used to work for Apple, and worked for startups too. Some thoughts. • Engineers in large tech companies are neither better nor worse engineers than in startups on average. They just work on di
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by rudyrigot 5y ago
Ooooh, ok then yeah.
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by rudyrigot 5y ago
Sounds like he didn’t actually have a liquidity event? In which case, his net worth is mostly paper money, so while I’m sure he’s doing nicely and I wish him for this money to become real money eventually, it is just not the case at this po
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by rudyrigot 6y ago
When taking a group of hundreds of millions of people with the same trait (such as their nationality), it’s easiest to compartmentalize and expect them all to think the same and behave the same. So when inevitably individuals or subcultures
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by rudyrigot 6y ago
Have you considered a product role on a technical product?
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by rudyrigot 6y ago
We’re on my developer salary in a modest Chicago suburb house, which is enough for us by itself, so my wife was able to leave her job to focus on our 6yo daughter full time, with little financial concerns. We can pretty much last like this
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by rudyrigot 6y ago
Am I the only one to feel like the Hey people are basically having a faked marketing-driven temper tantrum? Not to say that Apple applies their rules fairly (I wouldn’t really know, but I’m willing to trust there are issues). Just that each
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by rudyrigot 6y ago
Yes, we did it at Kenna Security. About 300 paying customers, but over 1000 with trials, and overall about 6B vulnerabilities being tracked (the largest table in aggregate). Some of the tables were business intelligence data accessible to a
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by rudyrigot 7y ago
It is magnitudes simpler to hire an American, immigration laws make sure of it. Any employer will readily hire qualified American candidates, they’re just fully aware that those qualified candidates won’t happen through this local newspaper
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by rudyrigot 9y ago
Author here. You're basically summarizing my entire article in a much (MUCH!) more digest and straightforward way. So, yeah, absolutely +1000 and thanks for that!
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by rudyrigot 9y ago
Author here. I can't really agree with the view that there is a static mindset to being a good/bad developer, and you're one of those and that is that. I think there is an entire spectrum of less-experienced/less-insight
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by rudyrigot 9y ago
Author here. I agree that being able to produce advanced value is also a factor of the work environment; and not only the engineer's ability to be in touch with it, but also the environment's ability to keep the engineer in touch
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by rudyrigot 9y ago
Author here. +1. I didn't mention the multiplying effect of also empowering people, but we agree that the take that defines a "10x engineer" as someone who cranks 10 times more code is irrelevant, even though I have seen it u
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by rudyrigot 9y ago
Author here. Fortunately, none of the engineers I was referring to are on my team. ;) Still though, I believe you're looking at this right, and by worrying about that, I believe it shows that you are part of the solution rather than th
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by rudyrigot 9y ago
Therapy. I started it out mostly out of curiosity and a sophisticated misunderstanding. Turns out, after a couple of sessions, I started realizing that my therapist was particularly impactful on me when we'd talk about work-related eve
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by rudyrigot 9y ago
It's all about business/user value. You're not solving useful problems if they're solely technical and don't solve anything useful for someone else. Solve business/user problems with technical solutions, and (1
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by rudyrigot 10y ago
I'm afraid the point of parole is that it can be decided at the border, at the entire discretion of the custom officers, without needing change in laws (hence why Obama is doing it this way). So, even if there was a guideline about thi
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by rudyrigot 10y ago
On the other hand, living 6 years in Paris where there's no tipping but also has ridiculously poor service culture gets one to build some positive opinions about tipping too...
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by rudyrigot 10y ago
Absolutely, even if the salary doesn't imply any commitment from the employer, and that it's not one salary, but an interval (like, $150k-170k). When I was looking for a job recently, I exclusively focused on Hired.com and AngelLi
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by rudyrigot 10y ago
TechMeAbroad is a website that is basically what you're asking for.
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by rudyrigot 10y ago
In my experience, big companies tend to have algorithmic "puzzles" for interviews; smaller companies tend to test more your builder skills, actual engineering skills, the ones they'll need (although you find exceptions on bot
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by rudyrigot 10y ago
Write better tests.
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by rudyrigot 11y ago
Thanks a lot ckluis! From what we've seen so many times of the gap between what recruiters expect from a job applicant, and what graduates can show off after a regular school, we 100% agree with your insight. :)
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by rudyrigot 11y ago
Techcrunch puts it better that we do: "Here’s the problem. Learning technology-related skills in 8 weeks is really, at best, the tip of the techberg. We’re selling students an unrealistic short-term outcome. Because of this illusion, w
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by rudyrigot 11y ago
Hm, it's definitely good advice, we're going to look at ways to make it clearer. Thanks a lot, arenaninja!
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by rudyrigot 11y ago
Thanks stevepm! Fixed!
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by rudyrigot 11y ago
We think Full Stack not in the web stack. But more of "every layer of a system" - from the servers, infra, to the front end of an app.
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by rudyrigot 12y ago
Trying to define "startup culture" could feed your reflexion. I did that a few months back, and made a blog post about it: http://rudyonweb.net/what-startup-culture-actually-is/ Hope that helps!

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