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In the city I'm living in (Italy) buildings are old (and with 2 ft stone walls, on average) so that mobile phones can only rely on wifi when you are indoors. I think this may apply to any old (like several centuries old) city. I don't know if cities of this kind are enough to make a statistically relevant case.

(Europe / Tech)

1. HR is not tech-savy and most of the time does look for distinguished engineers at the price of an intern

2. Salary is always on the low side, and salary range is almost never included in the job posting

3. Companies are not considering their employees an asset, but a liability

I totally agree

In Italy it might be possible, food is quite cheap here. Usually the "lunch voucher" we get as employees is 5,16 EUR

I have, multiple times but in the same company so let’s count as one. VBA is still a thing in banking/insurance and big consulting players are still selling VBA projects and/or XLLs in this world

Don't forget the mighty spreadsheets, the only software deemed as useful in finance :)

Am I the only one who thinks of this article after reading the whole thread? > https://overreacted.io/name-it-and-they-will-come/

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19485609

I'm not willing to enforce one commit per issue, but one issue per commit. An issue may have, of course, multiple commits (by multiple people maybe) but I wouldn't allow any single commit without referring an issue.

I totally clicked on the title because I thought the thread was about whiteboard interviews (aka BS for someone)

Let's be frank, if salary figures are missing a job listing will always be red after those with a salary range.

Then the description of tech stack and responsibilities.

My company is listed twice (!)

Italy. Factually it is like that, the law was meant to protect against unfair dismissal but over the years it has become quite clear that if you work all the time you're meant to, and you don't intentionally harm the company (or its business) you're very unlikely to be fired. And if you are, you can sue the company and AFAIK most of the times (I have no direct experience though) you are likely to win.

This law has been modified and partially canceled in 2014-2015, but people that has been hired before that date still benefits of this law.

EDIT: Look at third page (numbered 70), second column half way, to get a better explanation. https://preserve.lehigh.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=http...

The company I work for has been acquired by the same equity firm as Idera. This happened recently (it's public news, so I'm not giving away any secret). What should I expect, given I have a responsibility role and in my country you can't easily fire an employee (in my case, I can be fired only if I misbehave severely or the company goes bankrupt)?

To me this is a big "no" because I'm not in such position to negotiate a deal with another company. All I can do is send proposals to our administration with a clearly stated fixed or recurring price, that's a pity but I know it's how the business works - and it works very well too.

CentOs and Debian. CentOs feels more like "enterprise developer".

I think Java EE is a driver for Java in enterprises today. Easy management, easy deploy and widespread knowledge. Almost any IT knows what to do if you give them an EAR/WAR.

Huge, enormous ecosystem - and plenty of developers ranging from super-junior to rockstar. It's somewhat enterprise-driven ie: it never breaks backwards compatibility

In Italy a junior dev gets 28k$/year so I think even western/southern Europe may be interested.

Going with Rust too, while most of my company is starting to embrace Go. I feel like the weird guy, but having a strong Java/C# experience I think Rust complements my knowledge.

Learning by book (O'Reilly) and by nano projects / examples.

This predicts perfectly my salary (3% error) in Europe (Italy).

When I was hired they put me to work on XLST. It was 2014! So I'm really happy I'm not doing that anymore.

We write requirements on behalf of our customers after the project has been developed because everything must change daily. This is, afaik, the modus operandi for most baking/insurance customers :)

Sorry for just posting a link, but I find this to be very relevant (and I think has been discussed on HN).

> https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/microservices-are-something-y...

I wrote a small Java program to verify the collision count, just because I was bored and laying on the sofa:

> https://github.com/Qualsiasi85/collision-pi

warning: code is a mess - and may have all sorts of nasty bugs, but after all this has been done for fun and doesn't need to be "enterprisey" :)

I do like this kind of videos, they tickle my fantasy and keep alive my passion in programming (that is slowly dying because of work! :) )

I agree with your comments, but let me share my 2c on "trendy framework bs".

Most of interviews I've done to candidates ended up in discussing technology trends and googling around for cool open source projects, libraries and so. This, to me, is a good indicator - as long as you bring them up when discussing relevant problems, this means you thought about a problem and researched prior art to avoid re-inventing the wheel.

Also we tend to end up discussing pro and cons of any given technology and so on. This at the end is a key indicator you're talking to a passionate developer. And passion usually makes someone good at programming.

When it comes to soft skills, usually having such a kind of discussion you can figure out also someones behaviour in most work scenarios (to me, having a good "discussion" mode means you're likely to be fit for team work).

With fuzzy I mean that:

"foobar" may match a file named foosomethingbar.

Like this: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*VeGVAZsCVUYXrbI37...

I discovered this tool last week and suddenly fell in love with it. Is it possible to bind it to a hotkey like spotlight?

However if it where to fuzzy match like sublime’s super+p I would love it even more.

Thanks for the suggestions, these books have just been added to my shopping cart. I'm afraid to not have enough experience (5 years) and so I'm trying my best to overcome any lack of experience with study.

With 5 years of experience in (northern) Italy there are plenty of job offers in the 35-40k range, which I think is roughly equivalent to 60+k in Germany, maybe 70ish.

Note that I don't live in Germany so my numbers may be wrong, in that case well... let me know :)

So Italy is in the bubble :) Good to know

So many positions for sw. engineers and so little experienced professionals to fulfill all those job openings, at least in my zone.

Problem is that most of our work (90%) has deadlines established before getting most of the specs.

I know management should not be pushing us this way - but even being a team lead I can't change this. Time and resources are always fixed and deadlines are always so short that we can't review code nor do proper test & quality.

Part of my new years resolutions is to either change this mindset, gradually of course or change job, because working like this is not giving me the right professional experience to make the next step.