redundo_twa

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by redundo_twa 8y ago
I understand, but that's such an "old world" style. It's like building a datacentre, in the age of cloud computing, simply because owning big iron is an indicator of success (all the big boys have datacentres, right?). I
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by redundo_twa 8y ago
Do you have any suggestion on how to spot a "bad manager" in that regard? My recent experience left me a bit scarred.
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by redundo_twa 8y ago
You also need to maintain the culture. A phenomenon I just went through is a company that started remote-first, then someone had the brilliant idea to get an office for this or that geographical cluster of people, and slowly but inexorabl
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by redundo_twa 8y ago
> salaries are still very high Much less so than in the US, though. To be honest I think that's more an effect of different cultural values ("novelty" and "bootstrapping" here are not as celebrated as in the US
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by redundo_twa 8y ago
See my reply at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16916590
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by redundo_twa 8y ago
> I'm pretty sure most employees would prefer that as a severance package instead. Possibly, but I think the employee should be given a choice. If even just 1% of laid-off people took the choice and succeeded, the entire economy w
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by redundo_twa 8y ago
>when a company is at that point, it's usually because other options have been exhausted. Definitely not the case for me at the moment, but I won't bore you with the details. I don't think it would be cruel at all. If a
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by redundo_twa 8y ago
Throwaway account because I'm currently in the middle of being laid off ("redundancy" in UK). I thought I always had that somewhat-cynical outlook by default, coming from a leftist family; but still, the unfairness of this pr