tibiahurried's comments

I called it ticket, you can call it card. I did not say it to be heavy. But should also contain enough info to get started or at least point to the right person.

TL;DR:

  - Meeting -> Outcome -> Create tickets -> Assign

  - Developers: write scripts; value automation over documentation

In my experience, people don't read documents.

When they need something they will ask.

A meeting should always have an outcome in the form of actionable work;just create tickets and assign them to people.

The ticket should capture all the necessary information to work on it. If a document is needed, it should be linked to the ticket.

As for developers, scripts, tools, automation works better than a boring, soon to be outdated document.

basically they can't fire people at will, but you have to give three months notice. Sounds like enough time to find another job.

If I am not mistaken, when an employer let people go they should also pay what 3 months of full paycheck? It is easier to let people go, but also expensive.

> the cost of childcare for both children encroaches the income of one parent alone

That's the case in the US. In countries where family welfare policies exist and where governments incentive and support families: that's hardly the case. Childcare is pretty much free or does not cost as nearly as much as in the US.

I think the US may be an advanced country for many aspects, but it is just ridiculously behind when it comes to healthcare and families.

This tech is clearly not ready for mass adoption. I am surprised, to say the least, that they are allowed to sell cars with that, clearly not safe tech, on board. Where are the regulators?Pretending that it is all good?

I keep saying: do you wanna solve the house crisis for good? Make it so houses cannot be used as mean of investment. See Denmark. A foreigner can't just buy houses there. You have to live and work there.

For as long as wealthy people and funds keep buying all the houses and rent them out, you are never going to solve the problem. Never, ever.

Don't get me wrong, I know what 1:1 are for. I know all about that, and I am not saying there are not good managers out there.

I was just trying to be honest and share my experience from small/medium/corporate companies. Maybe I was not lucky enough, but in my experience good managers are not the common case. Company politics and product/customer priorities often win over people requests for change.

That is why, if I am not happy in doing what I do, I simply move on and get another job. That is just way easier.

haha no one, I am happy as ever Lol, just being honest

I don't disagree. But this cynical comment comes as average on decades of experience.

I never, ever trusted any engineer manager and HR. In my looong experience, they rarely (read never) have at heart the interest of their reports.

They are there to progress their career, as well as every body else. So, if your promotion, or having you moving to a different team gets in the way, rest assure they will make everything in their power to fight it.

Simply put, I don't pay any attention to the things discussed with my manager around my career. I attend my 1-1 because I have to. I honestly don't get any value out of it.

I have enough experience to know how to progress my career.

There are only two things that keep me working for a given company:

- working on interesting projects, making an impact

- being payed well enough

There is also the fake "high growth". I worked at startup where the CEO was growing the organization like crazy, just for the sake of showing that the company was growing, even though it was not. We were on-boarding engineers almost every day and did not have any work for them to do.

I am talking like teams of more than 10 engineers that took months to deliver simple features. Most of the engineers were spending their time fighting their IDE, local setup and finding a purpose.

Best project I worked on, it was in a team of 3 people: manager + 2 engineers. I built the whole backend and the other guy the frontend stuff. Worked like a charm! We delivered on time and things just worked.

Sometime, less is better.

Exactly! It annoys me so much reading about big tech co, pledging on becoming carbon negative, produce zero waste, etc ... but still force thousands of people everyday to commute and pollute just for the sake of it.

They really don't care.

uhm I am not sure about Sweden being the 'Silicon Valley of Europe'

As european, if had to look for a tech job in Europe, I would consider:

- London

- Amsterdam

- Berlin

Still, it is so sad to see companies who could avoid their employees commuting and polluting, fighting to get their employees back to the office! This shows how overall businesses and people don’t really care for climate change.

It’s hard to find co-founder or even early employees because financially it is not convenient: at least for the 99% of the startup. There are the lucky ones who managed to be in the right place at the right time, but that’s definitely not the majority.

If I really wanted to go through the excruciating pain and insane work required in a startup I’d rather try to work on my own ideas and not for others.

But I prefer FAANG rest and vest!

I honestly don’t care much for the signup/login page, I only have one must to have requirement : keep it simple and make password managers work, please !!!!

Google 2020 :

- revenue 182B

- earnings 40B

The fine is 0.5% of their earnings or 0.12% of their revenue. Basically nothing.

They should start fining in the order of B not M

The Data Economy is what enables "free" product for the end-user. Think about email, drive, video. Users are now used to get most of this stuff for free. And that's possible thanks to the Data Economy.

End such economy basically means the users will start paying for the internet. Never gonna happen.

About time!