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0 pointsJacKTrocinskI6y ago0 comments

I work at a place that pushes stuff in and out of an RDBMS, life is good here.

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fjp6y ago

I just interviewed at a small startup, but one that has real customers and hasn't needed to raise VC money. Some customers them millions to develop their platform features, others pay them just to use the platform as it is.

No thrashing around for product-market fit, changing goals every week.

Everyone I talked to seemed so... calm. It was surreal. At my current startup job people seem to take a weird sort of pride in how frazzled and overwhelmed they are.

ethbro6y ago

If you're in debt and not making money, at least you can have the decency to appear frazzled and overwhelmed...

masonic6y ago

Are they hiring?

Traubenfuchs6y ago

Yes they are. All across the world.

Sadly, many of them already have (or plan to) do a "digital transformation". In a nutshell that means: Huge open space developer farms, firing old (expensive) engineers, forcing everything into Kubernetes, doing "sledgehammer agile (e.g. forced agile). This in turn leads to massive turnover.

rad_gruchalski6y ago

Data is the new gold.

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