snowpolar

"are you a boy or a girl?" " I'm a hacker." "yes but what's between your legs?" "0days"

I was amazed. This developer's code looked fine. Very clean, didn't see any issues. Nobody had made any changes to these modules after the code was checked in, and the project was still active, so it looked like it worked okay. It wasn't dead code, either.

At one SelfOrganizingCo I watched as a developer I had worked with previously was being “purge tracked” across teams before being fired. I got curious so I went into the repo and examined this developer’s most recent checkins.

This dev got fired not because he couldn't code, but because he was unable to be "remolded" and didn't make any powerful friends. Sadly, near the end he started drinking from the office stress. He's now happily employed at a competitor, and doesn't drink any longer.

one time my boss said "salad, as a food, sucks" and this other guy was like "as opposed to like, salad as a shirt?" and that guy lost his job a few weeks later

Life is short. Break your ego, forgive quickly, live truly, laugh loudly, have faith in self, never avoid anything which makes you smile

It went great, he was there since t=0 and he was perfect and everything was paradise until the pressure burnt him out then the sky came crashing down and we had a mass extinction eventhttps://twitter.com/JorgeO/status/1019333906368061441 …

There's a technique called "Imposter Syndrome Exploitation". If you find yourself being told that "You're nothing. You suck, and you are lucky to be employed at all!", etc. that's ISE in action. It causes uncertainty/fear/doubt. In my experience brutal hierarchical firms use ISE.

99.99% of the time, “rockstar” engineers acquire their status by withholding information from the team and setting themselves up as a bottleneck for key development work.

Some companies make temporary strategic hires to help recruit from your social network. You may be disposed after a critical mass of new hires occur from your social network.

We always ask ourselves “Am I good enough for this job?” but rarely do we asks ourselves “Is this job good enough for me?” A dysfunctional or toxic workplace can often skew ones own confidence. Stand up for yourself. You’re in the driver’s seat of your career, not them.

One of the worst videogames of recent years is fixed by a modder five years later who noticed a single letter typo in an .ini file that changed the game’s AIhttps://twitter.com/nesbot_feed/status/1017889113276600320 …

My last position was absolutely horrid mentally and emotionally, but honestly while you’re IN it, it’s like someone threw a blanket over my head. Not until they layed off half of engineering and I got another job did I realize that job was shit.

Consider this: In San Francisco right now there is a guy riding a Bird bike to his job at Twitter where he Tweets, wears AllBirds, codes in Swift, and checks his Nest home cameras, before heading home to sleep on his Nest mattress. #putabirdonit