gringofyx

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by gringofyx 10y ago
There's some poor English and they list a Chinese office too. Probably not Heroku.
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by gringofyx 10y ago
Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Bristol, Liverpool... probably in that order. I've heard good things about Glasgow, Birmingham and Cardiff too. The North West has been good to me and I've never really had to leave the area because t
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by gringofyx 10y ago
Reading some of the amounts listed is a bit depressing, I thought that the increased cost of living in London would justify salaries and rates much higher than the average. By contrast I know from personal experience you can earn the same o
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by gringofyx 10y ago
Conflating political ideology with corporate structuring was not my point, nor my intent. Attracting staff after 100 years of operations was my point, to clarify; I said "could" (implying risk)... not "should" (implying
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by gringofyx 10y ago
I think we're taking the extremes as the norm, and it is clouding the argument. Let's just say there is risk on both sides, nobody is entitled to anything except the chance to receive remuneration that is deemed fair, whether that
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by gringofyx 10y ago
See my previous comment to you (above) - also play out the proposal in the article over, say, 100 years, ultimately it could end up as an employee owned company.
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by gringofyx 10y ago
I did not say Google is a problem, I said that either the current mechanism or the proposed mechanism would present a problem for companies (such as Google) when hiring new staff.
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by gringofyx 10y ago
1. Not all employees are paid above market value 2. Working somewhere that software engineering talent is highly respected is no measure of fiscal compensation 3. Those advantages of upward mobility are learnt, or acquired skills that peopl
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by gringofyx 10y ago
Your argument is surely moot because it assumes that startup employees take on no risk. Not to mention conflating IPO with startup options/shares. There are many companies out there that have never, nor will, take investment or IPO yet
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by gringofyx 10y ago
Either way it's a losing game, consider a company like Google - how would they attract new employees on either scheme given that the company has been around for 15+ years? The only people who win are those who get in early, or invest b
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by gringofyx 13y ago
I know I'm going to get some backlash for this comment so hold on to your hats. By going for a degree you're going to the route most often travelled by most developers, you'll spend three or four years trampling over territor
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by gringofyx 13y ago
He didn't mention 9/11 - he mentioned the WTC "bombing" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombing
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by gringofyx 13y ago
There are two schools of thought at work, and you need to decide which one is for you: 1) You're paid to do a job, in a hierarchical management structure each tier must delegate and trust the tier below it. It's not your job to cr
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by gringofyx 13y ago
OP here - that's not the company in question
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by gringofyx 13y ago
OP here. That's not the company in question, and if they ever read this it could cost me my job - it was a previous employer - a travel company. For the record, my interview at Kaonix was probably the best conducted interview I've
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by gringofyx 13y ago
Hopefully, I've fixed the grammar. Yes, that sentence in the first paragraph stood out to me too, but I really didn't expect for the article to gain traction. I want to add that I can't suit everyone, there are things that an
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by gringofyx 13y ago
I'm a little offended - I wrote, the community upvoted - is grammar more important than the story? Additionally, it's hypocritical to comment on ones grammar and then use bad grammar yourself.
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by gringofyx 13y ago
I think the test was Myers-Briggs based http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator
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by gringofyx 13y ago
Even when I saw my own results, towards the end of my employment there, there wasn't a single overall metric result. Maybe she did some kind of averaging, or maybe she was told by management to invent a reason to reject him... since ab
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by gringofyx 13y ago
I like to read what I write aloud as a sense check before submitting it - nothing stood out immediately. My wife often tells me my (written) English is terrible.
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by gringofyx 13y ago
There were two tests - I don't know the names but maybe someone here knows more than I do about them. Firstly: You had to write a personal statement, something to describe yourself Test 1: Involved ticking (agreeing) with a list of sta
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by gringofyx 13y ago
Agree with the first bit. Doubtful about the second bit - beaurocracy seems to become magnified in London.
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by gringofyx 13y ago
Same here, humbled
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by gringofyx 13y ago
Here here, I'll second-that. Most management types are disconnected from the processes that their staff are instructed to follow. I've ran through application demos and walkthroughs with senior managers before where at the end the
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by gringofyx 13y ago
If I had the money to fight the lawsuit, I'd be right there. Also, I formally let them know I disagreed with the psychometric testing. Double also... I used to apologise to new hires for the psychometric testing, and tell them "th
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by gringofyx 13y ago
This has not been my experience - this is not intended as a slur against my employer (who are fairly awesome). But when you're in a recruitment company you get to see all the processes and the problems with those processes. I would pro
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by gringofyx 13y ago
You're right, smarter people who were hired before the introduction of the psychometric test became frustrated and weren't recognised for their abilities. I knew one very anti-social but exceptionally skilled developer that rage-q
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by gringofyx 13y ago
It was at a (large/medium sized) company I used to work at, not the company I work for at the moment (recruiter). To be honest my interview for this position was just a really good conversation - my interviewer started out with a bunch
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He got 1%, we can't hire him(codingjohnson.com)
835 points by gringofyx 13y ago|576 comments
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London, New York, San Francisco & deceptive wages(codingjohnson.com)
1 points by gringofyx 13y ago|0 comments

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