Pairing in Factorio for an hour could replace a round (or two) in an interview loop. I'm convinced it would produce much stronger signals for engineering teams on how folks approach solving problems in a collaborative/team setting.
Readit Newssmithrj commented on Space Age release date factorio.com/blog/post/ff... · Posted by u/franknord23
smithrj commented on Half of Workers Around the World Are Struggling with Burnout bcg.com/press/11june2024-... · Posted by u/achenet
I used to think my burnout was from long hours, but I recently got a chance to work on a greenfield project at work and loved every second of the 60-70h weeks just building something really cool with a small team.
The burnout nearly vanished during this time and only recently has started to reappear and I have a much better understanding now of what causes burnout for me specifically.
smithrj commented on Amazon confirms corporate staff cuts that could hit 10k employees wsj.com/articles/amazon-t... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
> World's best employer
This is the first ever that I hear this label attached to Amazon. Do they claim it? I've never seen them in the #1 spot on any top employer / best place to work ranking. I just googled again just to make sure, but perhaps I missed something.
They added it as one of the two new leadership principles last year I believe.
I recently switched from Gmail to Fastmail and have been really enjoying it so far, unfortunate they are having these outages right as I was getting familiar with the service.
smithrj commented on OSSU: Path to a free, self-taught education in computer science github.com/ossu/computer-... · Posted by u/axiomdata316
Another solution would be to have apprenticeship as you had them in olden days: You can become an apprentice at one or preferably a few craftsmen (IT companies) for a given number of years. They'd teach you, pay you and in the end evaluate you. You can do that in parallel to following something like the given materials in OSSU.
Germany has apprenticeships as far as I am aware, I don't know enough about it though.
edit: Yes! Having certification and teaching done by one organisation _IS_ a huge conflict of interest. Splitting these up without changing the fundamentals (courses and exams/assignments) woudln't do much to fix this I think as you'd either have clumsy evaluations or organisations that just help each other out in order to gain from a slightly different system.
This exists actually for software development. I went through the AWS Software Development Engineer Apprenticeship when I made a career change from Military & Government work into Software.
Similar programs exist at Google, Lyft, and a few other tech companies.
Apprenti, the non-profit that administers the AWS apprenticeship, is doing pretty great work getting people into tech form non-traditional roles.