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Re:Ask HN: How to attract perm Snr Engs when the contract ma... by heywherelogingo on Thursday May 06, 2021 @12:16PM (#27065465)
What do software staff have to do with laying rural fibre infrastructure? What do octogenarians have to do with software managers who these days are usually younger than the engineers, either because they went straight into management having negligible interest in tech, or because they soon found out they weren't any good at implementation?
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Re:Ask HN: How to attract perm Snr Engs when the contract ma... by tharkun__ on Thursday May 06, 2021 @10:53PM (#27071526)
Wanna live in a nice place with a garden for reasonable prices in your own house? Rural Germany is for you. Remote work from there? Yeah, not on 36k modem speeds you're not!
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Re:Ask HN: How to attract perm Snr Engs when the contract ma... by mschuster91 on Friday May 07, 2021 @05:53AM (#27074161)
> What do software staff have to do with laying rural fibre infrastructure?

The rural fibre point was only to illustrate how German Mittelstand is blocked on not just the treatment of their tech staff.

> What do octogenarians have to do with software managers who these days are usually younger than the engineers

Micromanaging octogenarians are who are calling the shots in way too many Mittelstand companies, often against the express demands of their younger staff and management level.

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