jjrumi

Xing | Multiple positions | Barcelona | onsite | full-time | https://www.xing.com/

Xing's Barcelona office offers a great, multicultural and diverse environment. The sunny office is located in the center of Barcelona, with a large terrace. As well as flexible working hours that support your work-life balance, you’ll have an opportunity to unleash your skills and acquire new ones. We do regular team and offsite events, and we send you to conferences. Furthermore, you have the option to work on whatever you like once per quarter during our XING-wide Hack Week. Of course, we also provide free drinks and fruit as well as restaurant vouchers and German/Spanish lessons. We offer also a flexible compensation plan (health insurance / transport / nursery tickets), a competitive salary with a permanent contract and 30 days of vacation (26+4).

Open positions:

  - iOS Developer
  - Android Developer
  - Fullstack Developer with Rails
  - Team Lead
  - Agile Tester
  - Senior Frontend Developer
  - Senior Product Manager

Wow, thanks guys! You made my day with these easy tips.

Thanks for the tips and insights, man! You were lucky to be in a project willing to rewrite the monolith with different technologies.

By the way, looks like you're living in Barcelona as well ;)

"I had to study so much in these last 2 years" --> Could you give a glimpse on what have you studied/read? I'm very interested. Thanks!

This is going to sound cheesy, but you need to find an internal peace with yourself, and realise that you are enough.

Once you get there, what you'll actually feel is that it doesn't really matter (there are more vital/core important things in life) and then, ironically enough... you'll work better.

I felt the same way. My problem was I pressured myself so much I never finished a single thing. I guess you have to somewhat break free from yourself.

For instance, you can have a test result of 100% line coverage but if you have composed conditionals and you only check the first part of them... you are NOT checking all the paths of your code.

It's not a "safe" copy, it's a set of known data in memory that fakes the DB connection and reacts as it will with a real DB connection.

And yes, I have 500+ UTs.

I think tests should not go for code coverage, but for "Cyclomatic Complexity" coverage.

I don't know if ephemeral_response solves this, but the first thing that comes into my mind is caching an error (webservice doesn't respond in time or whatever). This happened to me some times.

Caching the error is a big problem when you have a system that determines if your code is stable or not and blocks deployments in production to prevent errors.

In my case, most of the time mocks are used to avoid Database interactions: They are dangerous for writing and slow for reading.

The best thing I've run into lately have been "mocking" the DB creating a copy (temporary tables with only the needed data) of the tables that the code interact with.

This way you create a "mock" of the data you're going to work with and code the test getting a more reliable test in my opinion.

Never tried to have a nap before continuing, although now that I read you it sounds like a natural thing to try. Thanks.

I'm somehow in the same situation Michael was in the 80s. I'm young, my couple has to wake up at 6 and I can stay in bed easily till 8. I've been trying to be productive in my personal projects (programming) either at night, after she goes to bed, or starting up very early at 6... but I haven't been able so far.

At night I'm brain-dead after the whole day programming at the office. On the other hand, in the morning I need at least 30 min to really wake up and start thinking correctly in front of the computer and that doesn't leave much time to do almost anything before going to work.

Anyone with a good advice?