It's easy to get bitter about these things.
"Experience" seems to be code for: "we've spent fifteen years painting ourself into a corner and now we need a guy who will get us out of it in three months or less".
You are however not allowed to give any feedback whatsoever about their processes, priorities, organization, promotion strategies, retention policies, etc.
Having experience usually means that you've acquired a holistic view of software development. Usually the hard way.
But they want solutions, not advice or opinions.
I've met a few devs that makes a living like that. Get in, solve problems. Keep quiet. Get out. Wait for them to call back in a couple of years.
Most consumer electronics companies are like this.
It's not only a yearly release cycle but a Christmas release cycle.
New Shiny Thing has to be in the stores by late November so all development has to be done in August so the factories can start producing the first trial batches.
I never buy products when they are first released.
I prefer to wait at least 3-4 months so that production has had time to tweak all the settings and weed out the funky first component deliveries.
Also the software devs will have fixed the worst bugs by then.
That's extremely serious because the call you're trying to make could be an emergency call. A bug like that would have top priority in the org I used to work in.
If I'd had to guess it cancels the call because there's a crash in a process somewhere. Possibly because of audio handover between apps.
> state puts refugees in the same areas (Rinkeby, Vivalla, Tensta, etc ...).
No it doesn't. Refugees are placed in municipalities all over Sweden but most choose to move to the big cities as soon as they can and end up in these districts because they are the cheapest.
> slightly elevated crime rate.
Citation needed. Compared to what? Casual crime is very high compared to traditional Swedish society. Also a lot of crime goes unreported because the locals don't trust the police to be able to do anything.
> That's where the integration effort stops.
Simply not true. There are oodles of integration efforts all over Sweden at many levels; public projects, local initiatives and on top of that immigration heavy areas gets more public funding than average for schools, after-school activities, park/street cleanings, etc.
> Even professionals who move to Sweden for work have a hard time integrating in Swedish society.
That's because Swedish is a small language and most professionals don't plan on staying.
Most Swedish professionals speak English on a native speaker level and most large Swedish companies has English as the official corporate language.
In my experience most non-English speakers that comes to Sweden spend their efforts on becoming fully proficient in English while the English speakers are delighted to find that they can use English everywhere in society.
Learning Swedish has a very low priority and after a couple of years most expats grows tired of the cold, darkness, taxes, low salaries, etc.
There's a person waving a knife or gun around in public threatening to commit suicide.
Now what?
There's a person threatening suicide in public and then pulling out a knife or gun when the authorities show up.
Now what?
It's easy to be an armchair law enforcement expert and dream up scenarios where the good guys always wins.
But reality doesn't conform to your utopian ideas.
Redefining words in order to win arguments. Nice.
Defunding means exactly that. I know this because that is what happened to the police forces that were defunded. Not entirely defunded, but they ended up with less money in their budget.
> the typical day-to-day work for a police officer doesn't require violence or the threat of violence
Says who? Are you a cop? Do you have cops in the family? Are you a law enforcement expert?
Do you have any source or statistic whatsoever to back that up?
Depends on the context, I think.
She took the limo ride because it's was available.
Alcohol is alcohol.
What if it was another person sitting in an ordinary cab drinking whiskey straight out of the bottle saying to his/her friends "Thank God we're getting out of THAT, right?"
I would like to see how this kind of immigration is defined. I once worked for a company that was founded and went through the startup phase outside of the US.
Once it was somewhat mature and had a steady income stream the CEO moved to the US and put the new head office there.
This was because the US was the biggest market and it was vital to be close to the biggest customers.
Would this CEO count as an immigrant who started a profitable business in the US?
The analyses on why movies looks like they do today has been done to death already.
What happened was that piracy and other forms of commodification gutted the entire middle segment of movie making. What remains today is indie movies and Marvel-style blockbusters and very little in between.
It's not just that people would spend less on watching movies or watch pirated content for free. It's that they would rather spend their entertainment money on streaming services, computer games, etc.
You could in fact make the exact opposite creativity argument by looking at computer games. Since the late 90's we have gone from Half Life to Half Life: Alyx.
The actors started to call the movie "The Abuse" while filming it.
James Cameron almost died himself on another occasion. He lost his air while submerged and the guy supposed to check on him didn't do his job correctly.