I can't fit my one plus 6 in most of my jacket pockets let alone jeans. It means I'm walking around with my phone in my hand when I go out mid work day which is super annoying. Good to see some data on how far off pocket size actually is.
I think this is great. It's much easier for candidates to evaluate companies and not waste their time if they know the salary range and interview process up front.
It stops companies shifting these things during the process to favour some applicants over others.
> But aren't most technical folks in this arena working on their own idea(s)?
I wrote a blog post* about this a while back. If you're technical and have the risk profile to start a start-up it just seems so unlikely you would do this with someone you saw online. Compared to working on your own idea or on something with a colleague/friend.
Also using it full-time, moved over my direct debits and it's been great. Ironically we went with TSB over a challenger business bank thinking they might be more reliable... Will have to find a branch this afternoon so we can pay our team as online is down
You have cabs in NYC though - is it similar? In London the city controls the number of people that can operate black cabs, sets a standard tariff for fares and runs background and license checks. They can be hailed off the street (though also through some apps). And the drivers have to take "The knowledge"[1] a test which takes a few years to pass and means you can give the average cab driver any street name and they can get you there without a GPS.
If you're still interested in tech but want to move away from programming there are definitely options. A few I've seen before:
- moving to a product/project management role (more talking to people and a lot less coding)
- a hybrid sales/engineer role on a technical product (helping the sales team and customer figure out how the product can be most useful to them)
- Developer support for a technical product (v.useful to have engineers who like communicating externally in these roles)
Otherwise people career change entirely. E.g. I studied law at university, realised I didn't want to be a corporate lawyer, then did sales/vc work at an equity crowdfunding start-up, left there to learn to code, spent just over a year building prototypes & on contract in some bigger tech co's, then started my own co which I'm now a year into (I'm 25).
So try and work out what interests you and see if you can move within the company you're at to start with to test it out.
I'm a Web developer and I could manage my own blog site but I choose not to as it would be one more site I have to maintain. I'd rather put that time into building the product for my company or sleeping/doing something else.
To suggest that any half way decent programmer should do that is the same as suggesting you write all your css from scratch instead of using a front end library to help. Doable but ultimately is it the best use of your time?
At the course I did the model was the education is completely free, if you then get a job afterwards you're expected to let the bootcamp try to get a recruiter fee from the company that hires you.
Or you stick around, freelance out the space on the projects they help you find and then give them a 10% contribution of those earnings and also teach the next cohort how to code.
I'm a 'millenial'. I also have a law degree and our lecturers were pretty hot on the importance of the right to a fair process and a fair trial above all else.
Agreed, I tend to take the number of times I'm asked a question in person by someone new as a signal that a topic is worth writing up.
It's also easier to sit down and come up with a well thought through answer that you can link out when asked again. Opposed to paraphrasing each time and potentially missing key points/clarity.
Sometimes gluing together libraries in a certain way can produce an error or behaviour that's not documented (as it's outside the scope of each individual project) as either nobody has tried to do that before or they've not written about it.
Multiple times now it's been an obscure blog post found on google that's given the answer to those issues.
I've been using the Github Project board functionality which looks a lot like Trello. I doubt there's an integration where you'd be able to port one to the other though.
Quite a few of the entrepreneurs I worked with at a UK based equity crowdfunding platform had been on Dragon's Den and the deal had since fallen through. Normally due to the terms being unreasonable compared to the other investment options they had through other angel investors.
It normally worked well for the start-up though as they used to get a lot of publicity/sales directly from appearing on the show and had found investment through other means.