gargs

Location: Amsterdam

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not immediately

Technologies: iOS (native) -- Swift, Objective-C

CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmgargs/

Email: saurabh@gargs.com

In the same vein, I consider it a dark pattern when companies don’t have a a public email for recruitment purposes. Ideally, every opening should have an associated email answered by a real person. It’s kind of rich to expect candidates to upload custom cover letters, CVs, samples of work, but only expect them to receive template replies. Some companies even state that replies are not guaranteed.

The one thing that the Internet changed in a very negative manner that ultimately brought us here is -- the expectation that everything is/has to be free. No one wants to pay for anything anymore; people don't want to pay for information; paying for correspondence is just a terrible idea; and so on.

You could control who you interact with, only so far. When no one you know reads the newspaper, while depending on 'social media' for all their opinions, you're going to run into a lot of noise. There's just no escaping it, unless you use this same social media landscape to join some nice new group of intellectuals that actually meets offline.

We just need to start paying for things.

I downloaded this app called 'Unobstruct' the other day. It does just this for mobile safari.

https://itunes.apple.com/nl/app/unobstruct/id1255281426?l=en...

Longest train ride by distance is the Avadh Assam Express - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avadh_Assam_Express

I have fond memories of traveling on it in a non-air conditioned second class sleeper.

By definition, life expectancy increases with age as a trend owing to better postnatal care over the past few decades. As the infant mortality rate has gone down, the life expectancy has gone up.

Just tried to set up the 2 factor authentication. Easy. But, would it be possible to provide a phone number fallback? The set of printed codes is nice, but the chances of losing them are far higher than losing your phone or having to deal with a corrupt authenticator app.

iOS already does this, at least for exchange calendars. It is quite beautifully implemented, too. It breaks down suggested time slots by attendance.

> The most significant shift we’ve made is requiring every final candidate to work with us for three to eight weeks on a contract basis

I guess that's another, more polite, way of saying that 'we require that you don't need any kind of work permit sponsorship'.

It doesn't get mentioned quite as frequently, but one major benefit of using their mobile site is the capability to use iOS share and content blocking extensions. Find something interesting? Just open it in a new tab so that you don't lose your position in the feed.

Yes, but for people already working in any Schengen country, they don't need another visa to travel to Germany.

Immigration laws could be a reason. There are plenty of expat developers spread around Europe, for whom, it's much easier to travel to any city in Germany than apply for a UK visa. Arguably, this process is about as complicated as obtaining a US visa.

Well, then, I would blame the non-ITs (managers) for a bad organizational model where they don't have enough work for their IT department.

I have a sense that this might hold true for more non-development IT roles as it is very rare for actual developers to sit around watch movies doing nothing unless they're truly in need of a break. Engineers love to code...or the good ones do.

Seems like what the US government is trying to do with the whole H1/L1 visas. Companies like to have immobile employees that they know would not go back to their home country. At the same time, it plays well with the whole immigration debate because no one complains about it, what with the lobbying efforts keeping it down to a murmur.

The startup visa scheme is another such proposition, but at a grander level. Banks want entrepreneurs that won't give up on a bad idea, but would instead keep toiling away rather than have to move their entire family back to their home country.

No one wants to speak from the perspective of an employee because, frankly, the biggest proponents have never been ideal employees. What kind of a talented engineer would want to put themselves into a situation where they lose their freedom to switch careers or engage in a personal idea? So sure, there is a shortage of talent, but not because of a lack of immigrants.