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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago

People tell me I don’t have company loyalty.

But then I ask which companies have employee loyalty.

This guy gets it.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The very first lesson you will learn from your very first job is that companies have no loyalty to anything but the bottom line. The days of guaranteed lifetime employment at a company disappeared decades ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Tis not true, the very first thing I learnt from my first job is that people don't really care to even try doing their job if they can get away with that. Well, this also doesn't apply to a 100% of people, same as your point about companies probably

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

“Having hired over 500 engineers personally in my career, if your resume came across my list, I would definitely pass.”

Way to tell on yourself, dude. Even if you worked in this role for 50 years, that means you still go through 10 engineers a year(save for the amount that needed to be hired for company growth). Seems like way too much turnover for any company that is worth working for

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Also: big, fat, fucking, ego-driven lie.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Quoting my response from elsewhere:

… FAANG. Hiring 500 engineers and bragging about it something you can do when you’re just interested in shareholder value not customer experience.

I wouldn’t hire the guy in the article because I haven’t seen strong candidates come from FAANG and I’ve been very happy to lose the people I did to FAANG because they weren’t good engineers, they just knew how to leetcode and tunnel vision trivia.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That could also be read as you’re not hiring the right people for the job, or your company is so shitty to work for that people leave ASAP. Maybe you don’t pay well and once people have a bit of experience for their resume, they leave for a decent raise. Or more benefits.

Regardless, if I hear someone say that I will definitely be suspicious and have more questions. It’s not the flex he thinks it is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's not decided that was all at one company.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Why are companies allowed to prioritize immediate money over literally everything, but when an employee does it suddenly "work isn't all about money"

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

...the youth of the naaation...We are we are...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Thank God it's already here. I would've been so sad...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

P.O.D.? On my Lemmy??!?

I wish I had more than one updoot to give!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you feel so alive for the very first time?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I can't deny you, I feel so alive

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Singin' we will we will rock you!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

No idea why this is controversial. As a compsci researcher I have always been exploited for their spreadsheets that only satisfy government officials and not the society.