As the author of the blog post, it’s disappointing to hear that you didn’t enjoy it. My article was never about claiming to be a hardware expert, but rather about sharing my personal experience as a newcomer for those interested.
What I find concerning is the unwelcoming attitude towards newcomers like myself, prevalent in some hardware and electronics communities. My critique in the article is directed at this exclusionary mindset. It’s important to remember that every expert started as a beginner, and a dismissive approach does not benefit the community. We all have unique contributions to make, and diminishing the experiences of newcomers isn’t constructive. Let’s focus on fostering a community where learning and growth are encouraged for everyone.
Classic distraction maneuver. This postmortem is a prime example of tech porn that diverts attention from the main issue: many at Cloudflare didn't do their job properly.
I think we are talking about different things: first you need to remove the blockers from HR when screening your CV. Certifications will help.
Once you get the interviews you have to train yourself to pass the technical tests, and that’s a different story.
If you want to get real technical expertise about a hot topic and have a good technical interview, I would start collaborating with an open source project that matters in the subject you want to shine.
Regarding “production experience”, I can guarantee you that most developers in large organizations even with a DevOps philosophy they don’t really have production experience (because they are not allowed to interact directly with the environments).
Also be honest with the seniority of the role you are going to apply. Production responsibilities are strongly linked to senior roles.
Your assumption is wrong, a large corp is not an organized crime corporation.
To be a CxO of a large corp you just can’t be “people”. You have to be a person qualified way above the rest of us. If you can make millions in a different place not taking the risk of going to jail you won’t take a role in a risky corp.
May be they are psychos, but not idiots.
Try to learn on your own about the topic and then obtain an entry level industry certification about it. They are easy and cheap, you should consider them as an investment.
The hiring company will not check that kind of details with your previous ones.
That’s what our “Teleinformatics” professors taught to us early in the 90’s at the university. OSI protocols were promising but adoption was not clear.
I worked for Microsoft back in 2018-2019 and I was in charge of choosing and sponsoring T3chFest. It was BY FAR the event with the highest engage metrics per euro invested.
It was crystal clear that they were a NGO because they did not enforce contracts and deadlines like a professional event organization. But we understood it and tried to help them to cross the corporate hurdles to close the sponsorship deal.
I don’t know what is happening, and I’m pretty sure this is peanuts for Couchbase. They should fix this mess just to avoid the impact in their reputation.
Whatever decision you make, be 100% sure first he is taking all the credit and using you as a “ghost coder”. Sometimes remote working environments make us think they are not taking in consideration our work.
Try to skip a management level in an informal environment like a coffee machine and start a short pitch about “your project” with the boss of your boss.
Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t mean German technology is bad. Quite the opposite.
But trying to sell cloud infra technology in Europe saying “Made in Germany” simply it will not work. It sounds ridiculous, moreover when the parent company flagship brand (Lidl) means “low cost low quality for Eastern European immigrants”. It sounds so bizarre and out of context that I’m starting to hear about Lidl Cloud jokes around me.
My guess is your email address is in a database of breached passwords and low-profile hackers are using this database to perform brute force attacks frequently triggering some kind of account banning to avoid performance impact on the platforms.
Try creating a new email and register again in the services you are banned and wait and see what happens.
Literally I say that manufacturing is like using AWS in 2006…