Has that worked for anyone here? The most I get after answering a cold email/LinkedIn message with my salary requirements is something along the lines of "that's doable," and finding out later the client had an appetite for a senior with the budget for an entry level.
It seems to be a popular trend with a lot of well known companies, oddly enough, many of whom on the face tout a cool, hip remote-only culture.
"Please take an hour to fawn all over us and how amazing it would be to have an arrangement where you trade your labor for piece of our profit. Thanks for that, we're moving in a different direction. Next."
Honestly nobody should be reading too deeply into the Wework thing. When you take away the name recognition, it' a shared office space that charges 3x it's competitors and is out of coffee creamer 2-3 days a week. Turns out it doesn't have rock solid business value after all. Whoop-dee-doo.
No, and there's absolutely no need to be. It's perfectly fine to be concerned about climate change, but if you're experiencing anxiety or depression, it's best to seek help and overcome that. It's still a vast and complex discussion of what to be done, but as soon as you subject yourself to the climate hysteria (with the latest outlandish and untrue(https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/no-climate...) claim being that the world will end in 12 years), you're being manipulated by politicians, media outlets, and other charlatans for fun and profit.
Glassdoor has made themselves next to meaningless since they'll take money from anyone who wants their bad reviews taken down and honestly we need a new player in the area who actually cares about transparency over taking bribes.
You may benefit from seeing a neurologist over possible migraines. Everyone's symptoms/triggers are different, and some factor of the screentime, workload, thinking with programming, and stress could be giving these symptoms.
Cal Newport mentioned in his last book Digital Minimalsim about the benefits of learning and accomplishing something with your hands in the real world, and how it's argued to further energize whatever else you do it, be it digital.
Something that's a switch of gears from "deep, isolated knowledge work" to more action, people, managerial oriented work. Project management, realtor, small business owner, recruiter.
If I'm tasked with something, it may take me a day or it may take me a week depending on how well I can think my way to a solution. Maybe it never comes, maybe I'm spending days searching the same SO answers for a morsel of insight or inspiration from poorly written documentation to solve a problem. Drinking coffee, staying up late, maybe it bleeds into personal life, that urge to keep looking into it to finally put an end to the task and deep dizsatisfaction.
I'm often jealous of people in other jobs that aren't this way, that are more "just hustle and do it," where at the end if the day, you either did the work to progress your position/project/whatever, or you didn't. And if you just got up in the morning and physically and metaphorically "showed up" for the job, there was a far lesser chance you'd just stare a screen to no discernable result for 8 hours and feel a sense that no progress was made.
I dont have to ask anything, the interview process normally speaks for itself. If they have the emotional intelligence to have a mature discussion about their company, product, and after questions to you, they sell themselves as a potential employer, it's a good sign. If it's mostly inane gotcha questions followed by an email to do 3 hours of leetcode monkey tricks, I've seen all I need to see about the how they view the quality of leadership.
Those have been some of the best interviews in my experience. I've also never been disappointed by the leadership or management of my soon-to-be boss when they demonstrated in an interview that they had the emotional intelligence to make a hiring call based on a mature discussion (like oh, I don't know, almost every other industry) rather than demanding a few hours of monkey tricks in Leetcode to convince them.
Something I'm struggling to understand about the hype of orchestrating a container architecture for everything you do is, if it's so incredibly nuanced, full of pitfalls, and k8 takes 80 hours of instruction/practice to full grasp how "easy" it makes life (despite there being layers on top of it like openshift that most orgs are gonna use anyway) and takes at least one "devops" person on a six figure salary to make sure it all doesnt crash and burn.. what was the point?