I'd imagine that chances are high that whatever name you pick for something in one language - there would be another language in this world in which same or similar word means bad/offensive thing.
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Sure there might be general immigration law blockers.
Though pretty much anywhere in Europe that I've checked or know about. At least in IT/Development, you can get a highly skilled migrant work visa without university degree.
And just to be sure - with "I can not afford moving to another country" is not money but family/personal reasons, right?
I guess depends on the height of your house - though in quite a few places even rooftop might be below or close to sea level.
Either way - if you trained/grown someone to become much more valuable for other companies and still can't create enough value working for you... Then you have a different problem.
Anyway, I'm yet to see a video of Tesla doing emergency breaks because of highway pileup where it's not only a couple of seconds after human driver could see a row of red breaking lights in front.
When it comes to base salary - sure you might get salary that's bigger than existing employees in same role. And then on first annual cycle they'll be in the same ballpark as you through combination of salary increase and annual bonus. That's because bigger companies usually look at "total compensation".
I guess if you play it right you might "inflate" pending RSUs and ask them to match it.
Though how much can you "inflate" it in the age when employeers too can go to glassdoor and check what that other company usually gives?
I used "came" and not "come" since it just feels more appropriate considering it's two different countries countries now.
I don't think I've ever heard about "split infinitive" before.
Perhaps I did - and it's just that the "school way" of learning foreign languages always confused me.
My first foreign language was German and at this point I basically can't have a conversation using it - at best I can kind of understand what someone is saying.
Though to be fair living in The Netherlands Dutch kind of highjacked it.
The way I learned English was simply pure interest. Watching Hollywood and British movies and TV series, reading computer/programming books and other "stuff on the Internet".
Teachers were equally confused by the fact I have had problems with recognizing/naming different tenses and grammar forms - and still getting it (mostly) right just by "gut feeling".
And actually I've been able to "think in English" for a long time. So long that these days I occasionally have trouble coming up with idiomatic way to say something in my native/mother tongue (Serbian).
I wish I had it 5-6 years back when I stepped up as TL (it wasn't written yet).
Actually you might as well get your team members to read it too. Unlike the title might make you think - book covers both management and tech (individual contributor) paths.
Should I focus on having some/one/few "unique selling propositions" - something I can say I'm expert in? And what would those be?
Anyway back to trying to give you (and other younger folks) some answers.
I've been interviewing candidates for a while. From technical phone interviews, over F2F, and now mostly so called Fit interviews.
And first time I interviewed someone with CS PhD that they have since around the time I was born - I was happy to be paired with another older colleague.
Not that I was scared/intimidated or felt inadequate. I was really worried about candidate getting impression we're a bunch of "teenagers" ;)
So actually on that point I've got nothing for anonOver60 - other than saying to others that instead of being intimidated, you should just be yourself and there is nothing to worry about.
If the candidate is good - being more experienced they'll know how to handle situation in a way that won't make you feel like 2nd class compared to them.
I second the idea of different/customized CV for different roles/positions. In fact each place/position you apply for should be it's own tuned/customized veraion of generic CV..
Everyone speaks English, pay is good, and work-life balance makes a lot of difference.
Commutes are generally short, you get ~26 paid holidays per year (sick leave is separate from that)...
At least for Cars 2 - Australian version (right at the start of video) is literally different from other English versions (around 3:30) - https://youtu.be/SaYmI7xANCg
Many other movies (and especially animated) have different versions with such tweaks so story/jokes still continue to make sense around the world.
Considering it looks like I'm the first one to point this out - it probably never crossed mind of Apple systems engineers that such things might need to be handled. And even if it did - feature probably got bumped by other things that impact bigger % of customers...
Technically browser would need to report different pixel density or resolution (check what https://www.whatismyscreenresolution.com gives you) to get "desktop looking" site.
Though in reality it's one/same site - so I'm not sure how much would you get with that...
Also ironically - many companies just buy into "best practices" (hype) without actually checking conversion rate/ROI between the mobile apps, mobile site (non-responsive) and responsive.
At which point we're also probably talking about corporate politics and sinking costs - where I don't find it hard to imagine someone needs to prove investment into apps was not a mistake ...
Though everything I just said is nothing more than my impression looking from the outside.
Place where I work at www.booking.com has both mobile apps and mobile website (request desktop website functionality works). And my general industry impression is based on things I know from most of my time here being in mobile web teams.
My room window was just above neon sign for video/movies rental shop (VHS stuff - where I'm from it was called "Video Klub"). And naturally I used paper, scissors & glue to make my own sign to hang from my window as of course I wanted to "tap into" people looking at VHS-shop neon sign...
And let me tell you - business was doing awesome ... Until one day an older neighbor (like a grandpa) asked my parents what's up with sign hanging from one of our windows saying "Strip Klub"?!? (context: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_strip)
And in the ~25 years since then - I've had plenty of those "not the brightest idea". However over time, most of them these days are good, though almost all are either a bit too late or too early, so I didn't quite yet come up with million bucks idea...
I still keep trying - and it's the combination of knowing two things:
1) The only reason everyone can walk (that is able to physically) is because they kept trying until they did it!
2) On your death bed - only things you'll regret, are the things you wish you tried but didn't ...
Keep trying!
Changing ssh port from standard (I literally forgot, is it 22?) to something else is one of those things you pick up in the field.
Usually only once you actually had to maintain production servers. And hopefully before some of the fancy things (e.g.: port-knockers) failed and locked you out :)
Changing port is super simple to configure and yet it cuts out 99.9% of noise (if not 100%) from brute-force attempts that otherwise might make you ignore alarms ...
For us fit interviews make sense enough that we started doing them for every candidate, instead of just for ones that passed the technical parts, and I'll try to explain ... Maybe you can see something that could be useful for you.
There's ~1000 people in our IT (and we are hiring - poke me if your interested), 50+ different nationalities, 95% of us are expats, we mostly do Perl code on BackEnd, expect everyone to have good commercial awareness (put ideas on backlog, push back on ProductOwner ...etc) and overall try to have the least bureaucracy/processes as possible.
You can write code, push and roll it out into production within 30ish minutes - with no stamp/approval required (though on call sysadmin will ask you why are you doing it at 6am on a Sunday).
IMHO quite an interesting setup for being majority part of publicly traded group (Nasdaq: PCLN).
Most often you're not interviewed by people you'll work with (interviewers are not from same team).
Fit interviewers focus/check commercial sense/awareness, motivation, flexibility regarding approaching things like tools and technology (we don't introduce new technology unless you can make a good commercial argument for it), follow up on anything raised by recruiters and technical interviewers, and also answer candidates questions.
Indeed most of reasons we would not hire someone are noticed in other parts of interview as well. Besides being the ones who answer the most questions to candidates (besides recruitment) - fit interviews tend to be helpful for cases where everyone else is on the fence.
If someone aced the tech parts - it's extremely rare fit interview is so bad we don't make an offer.
BTW - everything mentioned is my personal interpretation ...
If anyone has specific questions I'll try to answer them.
And IMHO you're mixing causation and correlation when you mention state-controlled economies as a cause of this. It mostly fails because (for one reason or another) country is effectively blocked from trading with the rest of the world, and doesn't have enough variety in materials/resources to be on it's own.
We didn't have so much crime (definitely no violent stuff like kidnaping), and cellphone was still big grey brick Fox Mulder would pull out of his jacket ... So sharing knowledge you've found bread or milk was spreading slower.
For those asking how come farmers aren't making huge money in such cases - they still need to buy other stuff and that's equally/proportionally expensive.
In case of Yugoslavia, I think pretty much all petrol/gas was smuggled in (because international sanctions) from nearby countries.
Once you consider that mass producing food means you need to power machines (like tractor) and ultimately transport it somehow to consumers ... Imagine how many jerry cans had to be smuggled ...
And IMHO you're mixing cause and effect when you mention state-controlled economies as a cause of this. It mostly fails because (for one reason or another) country is effectively blocked from trading with the rest of the world, and doesn't have enough variety in materials/resources to be on it's own.
And if it turns out company is so bad and reacts like you've described - then you at least know you really don't want to be working there anymore.
And when someone in the future asks you "What did you do (to improve/change situation)?" you can say "I tried! I gave it my best - specifically this and that and ..."
I can think of million other things that might or might not happen.
And I know only one way to really find out - try and see. Are there other ways?
There's not even one example where they reacted in a "nice way"?
Seems you haven't told them how such thing make you feel?
Maybe it's not personality, and perhaps they don't know this stuff is bothering you...
Definitely talk to your manager, and try talking to your team as well.
Focus on observations/examples as well as how those situations make you feel.
I agree that life is too short, and IT is full of "difficult" people. Instead of running away from it, get better in dealing with them.