betterthanlast

hace 4 añosdiscuss

Agreed. I got offered an interview at Google years ago and passed on it hard. On the one hand I feel like I should regret the money they I may have made, but honestly I regret nothing... Sometimes the fit matters more than the money and I would've hated my life there.

betterthanlast

hace 4 añosdiscuss

I'd like to second this.

Hang in there, we're probably going to be hiring starting in January. Right now things are kind of on ice because of the holidays.

Even if we wanted to get started today (and it's tough with our own department's senior people taking time off), it's hard to move the HR people and get the budgets approved, it's hard to get the GM sign off on a hire if we want them (though that's kind of a formality, frankly), etc.

In January the world starts turning again and those things get easier.

Hard as it is, try to hang in there, it will get better in a month or so.

betterthanlast

hace 4 añosdiscuss

The problem is that this works both ways.

I hate mandatory fun with a fiery passion. I absolutely dread these events (I’d do a happy hour any time, but these artificial things kill me).

Having said that, I’ve had several people on my team ask me for them.

Because of how I feel I know that others will hate them too and won’t be comfortable skipping the social event, but if I don’t organize something retention still drops.

It’s gotten more complex with remote work since we can’t do a quick thing “after work” but actually leave the office early that day so people still go home on time and because Zoom socials are awkward and unsatisfying compared to in person events and we have people on the team half a continent away now.

I think we’re headed towards a “retreat” type strategy where we either bring the people who are far away into the primary location for a week, or we all go somewhere. I don’t like either one of those options.

betterthanlast

hace 4 añosdiscuss

My company moved mandatory fun to Zoom.

I joined the first half of the first call back in 2020, nothing after that.

It will hurt me in the long run, but I can’t stomach mandatory fun.

betterthanlast

hace 5 añosdiscuss

I make a curl request to IFTTT and include an image url (in my case green checkmark or red X).

Good: it took virtually no time to set up and it’s been running for years and years.

Bad: everything gets the IFTTT logo.

betterthanlast

hace 5 añosdiscuss

I finished a hiring round a few months ago and I’m going into a bigger one now.

We were flooded with applications, 90% of them real bad fits. We were also hounded by HR to move quickly.

I already couldn’t do my job and was expected to.

A follow up after an interview is absolutely fine. A follow up right after an application before hearing back either way will likely get you dropped.

betterthanlast

hace 5 añosdiscuss

You can confirm this.

It’s a standard request for our big clients. Everyone wants single tenancy.

We don’t offer it to anyone at all.

We still service many of the biggest players in our industry.

Edit: I should say, some things are separate for everyone. Most things are shared resources and we don’t bend on that. It’s relevant to our ability to scale with no real notice.

betterthanlast

hace 5 añosdiscuss

It likely also depends on the company itself and where they’re at in their lifecycle when it comes to this stuff.

When I set up my original laptop (a MacBook Pro) for my current job I asked them if I should set up a new Apple ID or what.

They said to do whatever I wanted but that people mostly just used their personal ones so they could easily text and make calls and all that from their machines.

I asked someone in the C-Suite a question about our antivirus and he said he didn’t know, he never got around to installing it (years later I got him to finally encrypt his damn drive).

The same guy got us all to install steam on the company laptop to do a random end of day hour of gaming when it was relatively quiet. That would not fly today.

Fast forward a few years and now we’re less startup-like and more corporate and there are very clear official rules about how to set up encryption, what the mandatory corporate antivirus is, certificates, MFA and password rules and expiration policies, and a Meraki router in each office that is actively and seriously monitored (to the point that I gave them a heads up before wiping and resetting 4 laptops in one day and putting them on WiFi to download what I needed to get them up and running again to avoid worrying anyone).

I’ve always had a personal laptop, but I could’ve easily fallen into the trap of using the work laptop for everything back in the early days.

These days we have real HR, real security teams, serious network policies, semi-regular external pen tests, etc. That makes it easier to remember that this is a job and personal stuff doesn’t belong on corporate hardware.

Back in the day, some people would also clone their work setup (VPN, PKIs, ssh keys, etc) on their home computers to avoid having to carry their laptops home every day in case of an incident.

These days that’s a fireable offense (as it should be, there are times when my work laptop holds many millions of dollars in clients’ IP, plus millions of our own IP, and PII that’s subject to GDPR and CCPA regulations).

I found it easier to be lax with my work laptop usage back in the earlier days when things felt less serious and structured.

These days, I filter my jokes and I don’t screw around on the company laptop, and both feel like parts of a natural evolution of the workplace, if that makes sense.

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