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by taway_1212 10y ago
Different each time: once it was a niche AI/ML developer job with little stack preference, once Node and once Scala. It's three jobs (not two) because when writing the top post I actually forgot about one job that I've found
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by taway_1212 10y ago
Yep. On the other hand, solid sofware engineers are never really disposable - it takes probably 6-12 months on average for SE to ramp-up to full productivity on a team. Even after that period, he/she will grow still, having more influe
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by taway_1212 10y ago
Whoa. How many years would you need to work to unlock that money?
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by taway_1212 10y ago
Eastern Europe. One job was on East Coast, which is not that terrible in terms of timezone differences. The other one was in SF, which I honestly though would be too much of a stretch (but applied anyway) - it turns out they found a way to
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by taway_1212 10y ago
The HN's Who's hiring thread is pretty good - I found a remote job twice there, and I'm not even in the US.
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by taway_1212 10y ago
Be really awesome at whatever you specialty is (provided it's not something that has no business value at all) - and be able to prove it (through open source, books/talks, demoscene, robotics projects - whatever is appropriate in
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by taway_1212 10y ago
I want to not get fired and not rage-quit from my well-paying, but boring and tedious programming job. The saved money will allow me to quit sometime in 2018 and retrain to do something cooler (preferably a different kind of programming).
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by taway_1212 10y ago
Millions of programmers work on stuff that gets shipped and I'd say their job satisfaction isn't very high on average. Shipping is overrated; the culture of shipping as a cool thing is cultivated by company owners who want people
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The premise is often that, as a programmer, you are a part of tightly controlled agile/SCRUM team, while DS get much more independence in their jobs.
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by taway_1212 10y ago
From what I'm seeing, the most senior people are sadly all over the place as well. Because they know a lot about different subsystems, they're often pulled in to help on them (it's partially the consequence of aggresively gro
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by taway_1212 10y ago
I work at a startup, the CTO is extremely technical and I bet he's aware of the dynamics. I think I kind of agree that this policy is good for the company - currently, we're in an early "market grab" phase, so it's
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