It is interesting that a similar thing happened when millions of manufacturing jobs were offshored to China and other low-cost sites. Now it has come to the tech industry, and every other industry where it is possible. It hurts when it comes to us. (Speaking as a person in tech in high COL). I hope we will find other roles as people found when they moved on from manufacturing roles too
It may not be depression. It could very well be stress and burnout. To start with: just to to any therapist (ie counselling psychologist or clinical psychologist), basically a therapist.
You need talking, and then they can show the way forward.
I may be wrong, but this is what I am doing as well.
I don't think you are missing anything here. Both work in different ways (I have worked with companies as large as 250k+ employees to 2 employees).
Both try to achieve different things (make something from zero, and create drastic value, v/s incremental changes and building and sustaining existing revenue streams)
As an engineer: in bigger company, you will learn how large scale projects are pulled with so many people, v/s in small ones, you know what you are learning. In startup's favour: since a company from 2-1000 employees can be called a startup, so what I mentioned about large scale projects in bigger companies, you can learn that in these companies as well.
I would suggest you to speak to more such people and get their perspective. You will figure out what both businesses offer, and based on what you want to do in your life, you can make an informed decision.
Agreed! I was in a large company for my entire career and only recently pivoted to a startup. I am enjoying learning about different types of challenges and how to go about solving them in a different environment. You end up learning so much about your professional self when you have to stretch your skills to apply to different situations.
I tried that, but I try to search in wide world, sometimes about topics that I don't even understand. So I don't know where to look. And many of my searches are like that (examples: how merchant fees work, how QC affects stock prices, effects of vitamin D3, how price parity is determined, how to focus on something boring)
All these are varied terms and most of search results will be like that, so I wonder if moderated directories would ever serve that.
I hear you. But arguably, imagine you could search a "collection" after you drilled down into your category.
Top -> Finance -> Credit Card -> Merchant Fees + Search
Top -> Finance -> Stock Market -> Algorithms + Search
Top -> Health -> Vitamins + Search
And of course, the Wikipedia is a good jumping off point for all of that information. But imagine a wikipedia-like place that then allowed you to find the top level information that you're looking for with additional search capabilities in its supporting collection.
Maybe the start of this is taking a Wikipedia article on Price Parity and then enumerating the referenced articles in the footnotes and putting a search engine over those perhaps.
I don't know. But there's got to be something better than what we have right now. I feel another leap of search innovation happening soon.
You'll have to think for yourself a bit. Which platform and country are the merchant fees about? Do you want the official source and legal text, a professionals opinion from a magazine or newspaper, or a blog post by someone detailing what they experienced?
A good search engine can and should ask you about this and present you with your choices. Or, of course, they can choose what to show you to optimise for something, be it response time, resource consumption or ad profit.
I have also worked with many companies that are pretty huge, cash positive, exploding growth, and with very complex software as their product. They made a rule of not hiring using DS&A after accidentaly coming across a tier-3 college student with no knowledge of DSA and still doing pretty well (and he didn't jump ships too), so then changed their strategy to: only test them for what you need from them.
I will give it to Google and FB that their technical scale is much much larger than that company, so they might demand engineers who can understand that.
A link shortener is a simple way for malicious or spammy email senders to cloak their malicious or spammy link in something which is not yet on a block list.
So what we find is that as new ones come into the market they are eagerly adopted and we start to see evil links. From our point of view the earlier we put in place a wholesale block the better, because otherwise they may become "too big to block" like bit.ly etc... Although even these are blocked by gmail from time to time (for example).
If security software can read email enough to observe the shortened URL, couldn’t it just see what it expands to and then judge the target URL? Link shorteners don’t seem to have any obvious CAPTCHAs.
I see a really good example in India's UPI. You can make payments upto $600 USD using that, it directly deducts from your bank account and you can do P2P too.
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