Our mission is to help teams building life-saving products get to market in less time, with less cost and less risk. We're bringing fresh thinking to a slow-moving industry that's ripe for change, and it's working - Qualio is the fastest growing platform for life sciences companies, and is used in 80+ countries.
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Gluing + painting models and miniatures! I've been bad at manual artistic things always, so I kinda combined my passion for the history of warfare with that thing I'm lacking and... here I am, gluing German tank models :)
Hey - I also do boxing! What helped me way more though, was practising kendo. On that later. [1]
Find a psychotherapist. Therapy will allow you to unlock the flow of your emotions and deal with anything better. You can also treat it as a kind of work coaching. I went through psychodynamic and gestalt therapy and I've managed to suggest therapy to several of my friends. I'll even go as far as to offer to lend people money so that they go to therapy. Sometimes half-jokingly I call it the "gym for the soul/mind", since it's best if you go there if you're feeling well and it makes your "body" (mind/soul) better prepared to handle things now and in the future. Think how people who lift heal faster after accidents.
DM me if you want to chat about therapy or kendo!
[1]: Kendo is Japanese swordsmanship and it focuses on the spirit more than the body. You must shout during Kendo. You must be aggressive. You have to forgo your "safety" for the sake of "killing" your opponent. "" because kendo is about emulating fighting with a real katana :)
Good point about feedback for the manager, I forgot to mention it. Depends on how well you get along with your manager, but I went as far as to say "you were joking about thing X (usually hiring/firing/PTO/performance etc. topics) which I didn't like".
I prepare the agenda on my own, it's usually 2 to 5 points. My issues, worries, what I struggle with, what I plan to do in the long run, I ask for general feedback every few months.
Sample agenda:
* I did X in situation Y; could I have handled this better?
* I have too many things to do, so which is the priority: A or B?
* I'll do this big thing over the next month, wdyt?
etc
I respectfully disagree. Manager's job here would be to:
- work with devs to make sure whatever gets into the work pipeline is well understood
- everybody agrees on the planned work scope
- prevent anyone from adding "just this tiny thing" into planned scope|
- visualise all of this tough, tough dev work, especially the ad-hoc work (putting out fires, for example)
- keeping both management and devs accountable
- and more!
Also I disagree with the bridge metaphor; while true, you can't use the bridge when it's 50% done, you should ideally be able to to use 5% of the planned feature. If you can't, then maybe it was planned out badly and shouldn't go into planning in the first place?
If there's a person that's "working hard" in a team and a person that's "hardly working", then the team has a big issue and should do everything to fix that.
However, This takes a lots of guts on part of (both!) the manager and developers and always has an emotional toll.
What's your experience with Android One? First time I hear about it but I'm intrigued, doesn't it come from Google anyway? So the "secure" claims are kind of empty?
We are hiring for several technical positions:
* Technical Support Engineer
* Senior Software Engineer
* Principal Software Engineer
Our mission is to help teams building life-saving products get to market in less time, with less cost and less risk. We're bringing fresh thinking to a slow-moving industry that's ripe for change, and it's working - Qualio is the fastest growing platform for life sciences companies, and is used in 80+ countries.
With dual headquarters in San Francisco, California and Dublin, Ireland, our team is distributed across North America and Europe (tech). Join our remote-first global team where we want everyone to do their best work and help our customers succeed in bringing quality products to the world.
Contact - ping me, Mirek, product manager here: mwozniak (at) qualio (dot) com or just apply at https://www.qualio.com/careers :)