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Ask HN: Devs – how does it get decided what you work on?

Posted by lukker on Sunday July 26, 2020 @06:03AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I’d like to hear from other software developers who work for a company (not one man shows).For context, I work for a smallish (40 people, 8 devs, 4 are in my team) company that builds a retail consumer app (both mobile and web). The company is less than 5 years old and is having reasonable growth. I joined about 6 months ago and the code base was super messy, which was apparently due to the...

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Re:U.S. Economy Shrinks at 4.8% Pace, Signaling Start of Recession on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @11:02AM (#23020087)

There is a good free e-book that can shed a bit of light on the mechanics of why markets can rally when the real economy seems to be in deep recession.

https://www.principles.com/big-debt-crises/

Basically when money printer goes brrr then prices of financial assets tend to go up. The unfair bit about this is that these kind of assets are mostly owned by the rich, which makes the wealth gap even bigger.

Re:Ask HN: How did you find your current job? on Sunday August 19, 2018 @10:40AM (#17794473)

Same for me! I also got the feeling that I was viewed differently (in a positive way) from the candidates who came through recruiters. Most probably because they've had previous successes with hires through HN.