Would be fun to believe that something I wrote inspired parts of this one, but in reality it's probably just a case of great minds thinking (and sounding) alike :)
Anyway, I'm glad to have found this great text. I agree with the author's statement that "there’s a distinctive lack of good information online", because I felt the same way writing mine. Thanks hn and whoever (re)posted this.
Sure, but what I meant is that they might (and I could be wrong) having the old school mindset where your manager is your boss. I worked at Ericsson and I can confirm that's the case over there. Instead, manager should be someone on your "level", just doing different things. We like to say: engineer leads craft and influences people, manager leads people and influences craft.
I've been in the industry for ten years, and this is the first time I hear about asking for things like "e-commerce experience". My CV consists of telecom, e-commerce, fintech, mobility and music industry.
Is it really like that somewhere? In the US, or in particular domains, or in particular technology space? If it matters, I've mostly been working with JVM, but two quite different paradigms - Java (OOP) and Scala (pure FP; I understand everything the haskell guy talks about).