mrcold

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by mrcold 10y ago
Sounds pretty accurate for a business-oriented role. Didn't have the same experience in the engineering teams. Maybe I found only shitty companies. Maybe it's just the role itself. For example, everybody says "there are bette
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by mrcold 10y ago
That's anecdotal. My current company is great too. That doesn't mean all the companies in my country are great.
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by mrcold 10y ago
'Except in holidays' > Nice straw man. All day doesn't mean every day. 'Do you have free universal medical care for all citizens yet?' > Yes, I live in Europe. 'Not a single european country in the l
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by mrcold 10y ago
I think you drank too much of the kool-aid. You're very happy about things that are normal in Europe. And you are willing to be underpaid to get them. You don't have to be. You can get a good salary and the benefits too. It's
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by mrcold 10y ago
'again not sure which countries you speak about (ukraine or romania lol?), maybe it's like that in some, but some have very relaxed attitude' > I'm talking about Western Europe. Mostly Germany, Netherlands, UK and
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by mrcold 10y ago
In Europe software companies are more like factories. You punch in, work like a slave all day, then punch out. The socialist mindset created retarded managers. So anything deviating from the standard factory setup is seen as depravity. Euro
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by mrcold 10y ago
Is that why the pay is shit? You can get a higher salary in Eastern Europe with a 5x lower cost of living. Western Europe is horrible when it comes to the software industry. Underpaid immigrants that are just happy to live somewhere with cl
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by mrcold 10y ago
Looks like people don't like it when you criticize their idols. People forget Paul Graham is in the business of making money. Ethics and morality are not a prerequisite. They actually start getting in the way once you reach a certain l
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by mrcold 10y ago
Hacker News does it too. Narratives and echo chambers everywhere. Welcome to the future.
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Ask HN: Why do companies expect above average talent for average salaries?
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by mrcold 11y ago
I'm interested. I'm in the EU and don't need a visa. Will gladly relocate to Copenhagen to be part of the core team. How can I send you a CV?
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by mrcold 11y ago
Wait for a new idea. Each of us has very specific talents that others don't. If you can find yours, you can be the one building it better. It's all about maximizing efficiency. Ideas come and go. You don't have to jump on the
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by mrcold 11y ago
No, it's almost impossible without being a jerk. This personality trait is a requirement for succeeding. And it's mostly because of the way capitalism works. Once you enter the market, you're automatically forced to turn a pr
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by mrcold 11y ago
I didn't say anything about firing. In Europe it's very hard to fire someone. But give them a stack of cash in exchange for pursuing other opportunities and almost everybody will take it. It's actually a common practice for n
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by mrcold 11y ago
My best interviews were the ones where money wasn't an issue. They focused on getting talent first and dealing with bad hires later. So the process went like this: - "I see you have done this and that, have some years of experien
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by mrcold 11y ago
- Greed - Lack of empathy - Short-sighted thinking - Organized religion - War on drugs - Lack of quality in education - Death and sickness Or, you know, social apps and internet of things. Whatever floats your boat.
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by mrcold 11y ago
It's the future. Crowdsourcing through job candidates. I had a similar experience with a company in Berlin, Germany. They didn't care about the code or my skills. Only if the submitted solution worked against their existing tests.
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by mrcold 11y ago
Yes, I do it all the time. - Check glassdoor.com for reviews, interviews and salaries. - Read a local version of glassdoor where employees talk about their former companies. - Look at the company facebook account to see photos of the workpl
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by mrcold 11y ago
Yes, more politics. We don't have enough of it in our lives. In your broken view a good politician is a more valuable employee. And only because there is a slight chance that he will bring you some short term profit with his contacts a
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by mrcold 11y ago
Neither. It's bad design riddled with technical debt. The body is inefficient and a resource hog. It was built fast and in harsh conditions. Nothing was planned or structured, it just went with whatever was needed at the moment. This i
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by mrcold 11y ago
Pay a huge salary. If you can't afford it, share the profit. Three guys means 33% for each one. So offer 33% of all profits for the next two years, paid monthly or when the company gets money. It's expensive, but you keep your equ
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by mrcold 11y ago
Why though? There are zero reasons and guarantees that the company hosting it isn't data-mining your emails. It's just like free email, but you pay for it. With your own server, it costs way less and you control everything.
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by mrcold 11y ago
The same reason the concept of "street smart" exists. People don't want to accept when they are being stupid. Each an every one of us can clearly identify talent as the ability to do or create amazing things. But because pe
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by mrcold 11y ago
Not likely. Currently it's just guerrilla tactics from Salesforce. They want to increase stock prices and let everybody know they are willing to sell.
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by mrcold 11y ago
Most of them do it because everybody else is doing it. Every time some poor soul gets tasked with interviewing candidates, he just fires up a google search to find good interview questions. He reads about puzzles, fizzbuzz and "analyz
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by mrcold 11y ago
Start your own business while collecting a paycheck. Build what you want, how you want it. Software, cars, food. Doesn't matter. Just do it how you feel like doing it. Once you taste the freedom of creating quality instead of just ship
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by mrcold 11y ago
- "dragged down by work requests" - "ceased all communications with freelance clients" - "Not having to participate in the death throes of a company I did not have any stake in" Sounds like demanding chil
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by mrcold 11y ago
You can't really communicate with children. I agree with yetanotheracc . Getting up and leaving is the most sane approach with the least stress,
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by mrcold 11y ago
I've been wanting something like this for a while. But it looks like your implementation is not that great. - Using your real identity is an extremely bad idea. Write something stupid once and it will haunt you forever. People will spe
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by mrcold 11y ago
Choose a job you love and you will find reasons to hate it. This "work for fun, not money" mantra is only promoted by businesses and art people that can make a living. For everybody else, it's a nightmare. Working for fun i

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