I would love to finally move away from iCloud. Files and the rest is easy to replace, but not Photos so far.One reason: I love to scroll through my Photos on the Apple TV. I cannot believe no-one created a comparable experience on this platform yet!Has anyone recommendations?
I am currently working for a StartUp, earning decently well. Unlimited vacation days and very high salary. I have an offer from one of the better known tech companies I always wanted to work for. However, this comes with 35% less salary than I am making now.Any one experienced with this decision? I think it would boost my CV, and let me work with nicer people overall. I don't really like my...
As everyone here probably, from 2010 to 2020, it took me not more than 2-3 weeks to land a new job, and could probably have 3-4 offers in that time span. I am an experienced Engineer, 15 years, published books.When I am applying now, 50% of applications through direct job posting yield no response. I go with recruiters and have a 99% chance of getting to the second step of the interview.After...
My guess is they profited _a lot_ from the crypto hype. Exchanges sprung up right, left and centre and they all needed customer call centres etc. So Twilio grew through that. Saw super high growth and thought: All is well. All the while the "real" customers didn't get the features they needed, and quit Twilio after a 6 month trial period.
Twilio tried to expand into Europe and failed miserably. Customers (especially German ones) wanted exact locations of data, exact routes of packet transportation, wanted features Twilio promised on Slides but never delivered.
I was part of at least 4 customer meetings (the biggest in Europe) where the clients just called Senior levels in and told them off.
Twilio was great when it just handled voice and text messaging. It never grew substantially, it never delivered features customers were asking for years. Messy code base, hired product owners with no clue what they should actually build.
Jeff was famous for over-promising and under-delivering. 1 year into my Twilio career, it was clear that the company would fail hard. Colleagues and I had bets on when Jeff will be fired or the company sold. Well, the last few months have been telling.
A sad story, since they had a great core product, really smart people, great people working there. But especially through the pandemic, they grew an insane amount without actually building anything of substance.
Not sure if that‘s the audience here, but after 15 years in the field, I am loosing appetite for the ever repetitive nature of software engineering! Now I switched stacks (did Mainframe, Backend, Frontend, Systems Engineering, p2p…) But all companies I consultated for or was emoloyed with were winning or failing not based on technology, but product market fit etc. None of the technical choices...
I used WISE (Transferwise) for more than 5 years now. I live in Europe and had US clients in the past. Now a simple transaction from my WISE EU account to my local bank account is paused for more than 3 weeks, and in the last year or so, my whole account was put on pause to “proof my legitimate business”.I am too afraid for my account being shutdown, and I can’t accept pausing transactions for...
Can't wait to get the final version on my doorstep!