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Everything aside, I do agree with sentiment and would go on to say the nature of HR depend on the company. As it was alluded to later in the company. In my previous company, HR used to tell everything to the manager. Seriously everything!! In current one so far it looks good. But, let's see
Anyone got a good read on how can one sell oneself?
It's a great resource for anyone starting out.
This! The biggest pro is the freedom to say politically incorrect things.
Even my HN account is anonymous.
(That I think is holding me back too.)
I cannot imagine myself working like Evan.
I agree. My previous job wanted to employees to finish work ASAP. There were no incentives for quality. Performance was judged on the basis of how fast one can push things out irrespective of quality. As a result there was lack of engineering.
And it was really enlightening. I would heavily recommend it. It starts off by teaching different types of implementations of different parts of DBMS. Then goes on to teaching about how distributed systems deal with various problems.
Can you cite any source?