Hey all - looks like the only open positions on the site right now are for Ph.D candidates but as soon as we get postings for other requirements or education levels I’ll share those out! Sorry for the confusion!
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We're looking for summer interns at Spotify! I highly encourage any student to apply 💙
lifeatspotify.com/students?j=int
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How do you handle breaking changes in your Design System?
Rose Marantz who works on our web system at has shared a bunch of insights and tips into how we handle breaking changes in Encore:
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For the first time in my life, I'm excited to get up every morning and go to work.
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To be fair all I used it for was watching YouTube right now so I hope whoever took it needs it more than I do 💙
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Shoutout to me for leaving my iPad on a flight. It’s now in someone’s home north of Stockholm 😫😭 Yes I did mark it as stolen. Yes I’m trying to erase all data. No I don’t have any hope of getting it back. Ugh.
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Four and a half minutes ago, I did not realise that Sweden has a Christmas tradition of arson against an enormous hay goat, and now I am watching a 24-hour livestream of a wicker-man goat 900 miles away like my life depends on it.
I will never know peace again.
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Christmas in Berlin 🎄🥰
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Instead of collecting souvenirs I collect ink 🦋❤️
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Want to be promoted?
1. Tell your manager
2. Ask them for a bullet point list of things they’d need to see from you to feel comfortable promoting you
3. Continually check in w/ them to see how you’re progressing against that checklist
This will increase your chances of success.
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Am I really giving a conference talk if I'm not out here editing slides until the moment I walk on stage?
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Y'all saying this is clickbait, but the premise of clickbait is that it's misleading. If I've read the books and picked out the best tips and applied them to my career/life, how is sharing that knowledge clickbait? Some people want the tips but don't have the time to read.
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Next year I want to give a conference talk along the lines of:
"I've read 50 career/management/leadership/teamwork books. Here are the best things I've learned"
Would this be interesting? Also leave your title recommendations in the replies below please :D
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Instead try:
📚 The Making Of A Manager
📚 Engineering Management For The Rest Of Us
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Hi yeah, no this book... I DO NOT recommend it.
It started out strong talking about strategy but holy heck if you follow this you will destroy your credibility and trust with new team members.
Horrifying.
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Hold up, you're advising new managers to reduce the responsibility of low performing team members so they can't "destroy value", hopefully encouraging them to leave the team" just because you don't want to help them improve their performance and communicate areas for improvement?
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What a steaming pile of garbage.
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Hold up, you're advising new managers to reduce the responsibility of low performing team members so they can't "destroy value", hopefully encouraging them to leave the team" just because you don't want to help them improve their performance and communicate areas for improvement?
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Word to those looking to get into management: take the advice in popular management books with a grain of salt. Many are US-centric and won't be directly applicable in other countries. Also, I cannot get behind any book telling you to put your team through a JUDGEMENT TEST.
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Second, the author suggests testing each person's judgement with a hypothetical situation.
So you're asking me to put my new team members through a judgement test with a hypothetical situation? How is that going to do anything but destroy ANY trust they may have had in me?
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I understand sometimes you need to make personnel changes to improve the team performance, but coming in as a new manager and firing some team members instead of helping them improve performance? That's going to destroy trust with new team members.
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I'm reading The First 90 Days and I'm horrified by some of the advice...
First the author says that as a new manager you should come in and quickly assess the performance of your new team, so you can quickly remove the low-performers and bring in A-performers.
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. invites you to #ReactDayBerlin!
Attend in person or remotely to hear Emma’s talk about building high-performing cross-cultural teams, meet 35+ field experts, join 10+ workshops, and socialize at the afterparty.
Get your ticket here:
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I think winter has arrived ❄️
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If this app goes away I’m over on Instagram sharing baby pics (occasionally) and my life in Sweden 💙💛 same handle as twitter
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Hot take of the day:
Excel/Google sheets is much more difficult to me than any programming language 😂
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Decided to bring in all of the programming/career books I own to the office so we can create a library for the team. One of our team members is working on barcode image recognition that will print a QR label we can use to keep track of who has what.
I love this 📚
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Tech layoffs affect immigrants the most!
5–15% of the 100k+ layoffs are H-1B holders.
In 60 days (30-45 in practice), they must find a new job or be deported from the US.
Families who've been here 10+yrs are told "We don't need you anymore. Leave."
10+ tips to stay–
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My cat decided it was a great idea to spill my coffee all over my desk, soaking my keychron and audio interface.
It was, in fact, not a good idea.
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Am I the only one confused AF about what Mastodon is and how to use it? Why is signing up so confusing?? Tbh that alone deters me from creating an account.
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If you're an engineer who was laid off and you're looking for a new role, don't limit yourself to a specific job title in your search. There's no standard for eng job titles.
One company's Director is another's Manager.
One company's Staff Engineer is another's Senior Engineer.
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update: im staying in icu and responding well. my mom (my angel) will need help taking care of me and with bills by herself while I recover.
Can you all help her? she doesn't know im asking.
her cash app is $IrneathaMyers
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We're doing a team 'ways of working' event where we all create a Mural of our preferred ways of working and whatnot.
I just edited the large Mural for EVERYONE with my info... I...
Today is definitely a Monday.
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So turns out my partner made cardamom buns not kanelbulle but dang they were 🔥
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First week back at work and while I’m so happy to be back and I love this new role, my anxiety is at an all time high 🫣 please tell me the impostor syndrome and constantly questioning my decisions gets better
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My Swedish partner is making kanelbulle (cinnamon buns) while I work and now I'm thinking he should be on parental leave full time 🧁
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Did you know that Harvard has free Resume, CV and Cover Letter resources - including action verbs, templates and samples?
I've compiled a list of them -
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