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I just cancelled my Adobe subscription after trying to cancel for more than 6 months, so many dark patterns that caused my wife to sign in for a renew when she didn't want. To actually cancel you have to say you want to actually cancel in 3-4 different screens, where there's always an option to renew instead for a whole year that you cannot cancel.

I am never going to pay for Adobe while this practices continue.

I do that in big tech too for ~100s of CVs per role, what's the big deal ? The alternative seems to be for me to lose control over who I want to work with to algorithms or people with less context

Maybe you found a great company from the get go, those exist as well !

My pay bumps went something like: 1.5x, 1.5x, 2x, 2x, 1.5x, 1.5x, 2x (note that I changed countries twice so some of the bumps of 2x were also for a more expensive cost of life )

In only one of the companies I stayed more than 2y and was pretty great, I went from senior to senior manager within 4y. Now I’m at 2y again at my current company and am pretty happy, unlikely that I will change again.

The healthy part described by the parent post was along the lines of healthy work environment, not pay. Apart from my current company I’ve never worked somewhere that would give more then 5-10% increases per year, they were more like 0-5

In the beginning of my career I changed jobs quite often for better pay. That gave me a lot of big increases. In one of them I stayed less than 6 months.

I have close to 15y of experience now, and I've mostly only worked on healthy companies - I can think of 1 that wasn't. I have worked in ~8 companies give or take.

I interviewed a couple of folks from Google recently and it was mindblowing how they "work", it's very unfortunate. I feel for some of the people who only worked there their whole lives (e.g: from recent grad within the last 5y), it is unlikely that they actually know how to program.

Nonsense were a lot of your replies in my experience :), this "measure everything" is very much another cargo cult. Software engineering is complex, people are complex, thinking you can come with a true metric and who doesn't have it doesn't know what they're doing is the nonsense in my world view.

Have excited engineers, pay them well, have them work on something that is aligned with their career & deliver value to their customers, they don't really need much more than that. All the rest is simply trying to "processi-ze" what is a human

Companies can be wildly different in how they operate, how decisions are made, and what trade offs they prefer, what culture they have.

Simply adoption something that worked in a previous place isn’t a way of usually making decisions, imagine a company with 100 engineers where they all came from different companies and have different ways they solved the cicd problem - how do you move forward from that ?

Decision making can be complex - can also be very simple, depending on the company ..

Having joined a company that uses Slack for the first time it was crazy how good it was on searching for issues that other people had. I can quite literally copy and paste the error message above and see other people that had the same issue and how it got solved or not on a thread. I can also bump the thread or go to the channel or reach out to who answered.

It’s pretty great and one of the amazing things on having a lot as chat, it also allows you to easily reach out to anyone very quickly and feels more personal than a ticket in some archaic bug system that becomes a black hole after it gets introduced.

Be careful with your assumptions - it’s not like Google has created much of value in the past N years with its current culture, its original culture (book how Google works) seems much more like the cowboy you criticize

Digital Ocean and Linode both are pretty okay, I used mostly DO

Maybe you're not the only expert in HN ? For someone to write what you wrote after 20y of experience is a bit interesting - and you did write a lot !

I might have more YOE than you do for example, and might have worked on bigger companies/infras than you did - what does it matter to the opinion at hand ?

You're conflating different things - this has nothing to do with Pet vs cattle.

Even in your confusion, State still exists in the real world and needs to live somewhere, it also is unfeasible to always recreate big states.

I believe it's due to Ruby being its language of choice. Ruby is mostly a dead language in the Ops space, unlike Python.

Having inherited a big mess on Puppet of some people who used the flexibility of Ruby to automate 5 datacenters, but then left the company was also an interesting experience..

Maybe because Python is already in use by pretty much every company that makes money in this (and others) domain ? Some of what you mention looks like pebkac problems as well.

It is consistent after this change, yes. Or even better for beer, since there are parks you can have a beer.

I lived on Chilco & Nelson for many years... people simply have Starbucks cups with beer inside or other equivalent methodology of "wink wink". As long as you aren't being an ass there's zero problem..

This is not a problem British Columbia has. Alcohol consumption and selling is already quite restricted in BC.

I am also from Brazil and have been in Vancouver for 10 years. This is a big exaggeration, both on the beer and the "areas to not go" (unless you mean some parts of East Hastings).

Vancouver is one of the safest cities in the world, and beers are now legal in many parks. I never saw a police ticketing or complaining someone having a beer on a park.

I do support this change in policy.

Great question, seems a bit difficult to gather a non-biased (if that exists) opinion online - be it on reddit or hackernews.

I am debating moving from another country to it to be closer to executives on my company (L1 possibly green card), but still unsure, I make very good money where I am and would make very good money in Bay Area. But my life is already pretty settled on a big tech company..

From reading online, doesn't look like the best place to raise a family, and costs are obscene even for high paid employees. Traffic also feels like would be a big negative impact on my life if I moved.

Canada should be very simple to get a work permit

I suggest you look for another job, and don’t know how you can work in such toxicity

since when is 1TB+ medium to large scale ? That easily fits on a single computer running Postgres, can even run almost all of it on memory depending on the server..

Interesting. That's different from companies I've worked at, where the sw developer usually asks for clarifications and can fight back if they have something else that they feel should be worked on that has a bigger ROI for the company. Companies I've worked at recently have been much more bottom up than top down

At a lot of companies I've worked at, the engineers are empowered to decide on what to work at, it's not like they're 100% booked by PMs. Even if PMs, they can argue.

"Your manager tells you what to work on" isn't how big tech runs for the most part, in fact it's a bit sad to think that some people work like that

Napkin math and ROI, no one is asking for the cents.

For example, build system improvement on 10% of build time across 200 developers who on average get paid 300k a year - that's a very easy math, no ?

Same for time to deploy, improvements on time to fix a bug, etc. etc.

You can extrapolate and compare initiatives and projects on t-shirt sizes and ROIs. Knowing where yours sit as well.

What places I've worked at ? Mostly business that made some money and were stable.. apart from a start up that was VC funded and made no money

> because I wanted to be the decision maker on the technology and business issues that I developed with my own team and I wanted to do great things together with my team.

Why if you have no experience ? I never understood that. You have 5y of experience, which isn't a lot, in small start ups. And you want to be a decision maker ?

I would course correct to try to work in bigger companies and learn, instead of dictate.

The fact that you're all the time in hackernews probably means that you're very bored in your actual work, as well with the "FoMO" on AI. I don't think you're on a good position to judge what you're judging, or to give business insights. I believe all of your takes are bad in this thread..

It's crazy that you don't know. I've been in this industry for 20y and apart from when I was extremely junior I always had a sense of the business impact of my work.

Those using Secret Managers, could you share some articles on your set up ? Very interested ! Vault seems quite complex for some simple use cases

Bumble (Dating app), met a lot of great people over there.