Just interviewed with a local insurance company and oh my god I felt like I was in the set of the tv show “IT crowd”. Cubicle land galore and a sales team who finds new clients via giving out gift baskets, and using a tech stack that’s old as hell (c# and .net)
Career CAP theorem, can only have two.
Outside of faang type companies cubicles are common and it’s not that bad honestly
I know. I’ve worked at a cubicle farm before. They are not that bad but the mass conformity to a system is what inherently upsets me given the power structure at play. The whole cubicle farm buildings have so much hierarchy built into the architecture. U obviously know the people in the corner offices are treated differently vs the poor folks in the no sunlight cubicles with 6 feet of distance in between are. Vs working at a remote company when you DM someone you don’t have as much of a power dynamic at play and aren’t thinking “oh shit this person has an office on the 11th floor AND a corner office AND a gatekeeping secretary? They must be hot shit”?
I worked in Cubicle farms before and I worked at less-hierarchial places. They both have their advantages and disadvantages. I prefer the less-hierarchial place, but even the cube farms with a military command structure feels better than what my company has become now.. Here responsibility and accountability flow bottom up, but power and authority flow strictly top down. It's the worst of both worlds!
First 3 jobs I had out of college were cube farms. You give up daylight for privacy and viceversa. It’s a bit like veal farming if you don’t get up and move around.
Morals seem nonexistent in the first place
Can I leave out the other 2 and just get livable wage + more money
Heck in this economy? Pick one mate.
If c# is "old as hell" then how do you describe c, c++, java, python and JavaScript?
Meh, they’re all similar. I have a particular disdain towards Microsoft maintained tech stacks like c# or .net bc I hate using Microsoft Windows (so much enterprise gatekeeping in the operating system) and prefer Linux based operating systems.
btw .net core works well on Linux. But I'm mainly being pedantic that you must be looking for an adjective other than "old". Maybe I'm a little offended as a person old enough to remember when c# was released :)
Feels like every recruiter contact I get these days "how would you like to work on murder robots for startup pay and startup hours?" At least it's interesting?
I feel u. I published two research papers on how different personalities interact with robots and the only companies doing that research and paying livable wages seems to be car companies and weapon manufacturers. Universities pay such shit wages, and I think work with militaries too for most projects since that’s where there funding comes from for those projects in my experience
Purple + Blue referrals anyone? Idc I need to fund my sushi habit
Didn’t ur company spend millions on a rebrand with an 👁️🐝 Ⓜ️? And u still call it purple and blue? But also yes- if ur offering referrals I will look into ibm roles. Tysm
I was talking about the Venn diagram. ie if anyone's working at that sort of company which is offering refs
In this right now. Pay is decent. Company is great. But I hate what I do with a passion.
How are u coping?
Everyone hates surveys