The way to better leverage this is to build your own company, I know this is not as simple as saying it but the gap is widening and it doesn't look good for employees.
Plan B -> keep trying to get jobs in software, trying to adapt to still bring some kind of value to the table.
Plan C -> run my parents kindergarten, but the birth date drop is making this option challenging.
Plan D -> real estate broker and fix and flipper.
Plan E -> Buddhist monk
We have an annual performance review period, in the one from the previous year I was thinking about asking for a raise but I didn't do it because my boss told me he talked with the CTO and they decided to give me a raise. The % was a bit lower than what I was going to ask, but it felt weird to ask for more after they did the job and finally decided the number.Now the new performance review is...
Hi folks, I’m a software engineer and I’ve been building AI related products for the last five years.I had a meeting with the company owner (ex work colleague) some days ago, the company has like 30 employees and they develop traditional software products and they also do some outsourcing. He asked me if I was willing to join the company as a partner in order to build an AI division inside the...
I've been working at a new job for about two and a half months as the first data scientist of the company and now my boss wants to look for another one. I was given the option to choose which kind of tasks I'd like to perform from now on in order to look for someone who could complement with me. And we're also getting a frontend/backend implementation team.I've been doing the "whole" stack:...
I'm working full time as a data engineer/scientist but I also have one ongoing customer (a previous employer).Another previous employer is launching a startup and has recently pinged me because they need to build a series of data pipelines and ML models for their product.I've to talk to them about specifics but I don't see myselft having enough available time to make it work.I've been thinking...
I'm preparing to interview for one of the big software companies. I've to spend some time every week driving to some places and it'd be nice to learn something while at it.Is this something realistic? do you do it? what kind of podcasts/videos would you suggest?
I'm working as a data engineer and I realized I lack some skills when interviewing for a new job: design patterns, good practices, object oriented design, query optimizations...On my job I'm very deep into SQL queries, so it's difficult for me to learn those kind of skills on the job. So I'm feeling stuck.I'd like to make some courses and read some books in order to brush up on that kind of...
Thanks for all the comments, you're all being very helpful.
A friend of mine is starting a position at a new startup whose founder is a former colleague of him. He recommended me, we had a quick interview and I've already received an offer.As the title says, the salary is almost half of what I'm earning at my current job so clearly I'm not considering it, but before rejecting the proposal it'd be nice to give it a shot and see if they can improve the...
My manager has already been aware of my lack of knowledge but I'll talk to him to know if they still want me there. If I keep my job I for sure will be asking for more help at the start of a new project.
Hi folks, I've been working as a software engineer for about 10 years but always in small companies with few or none programmers or as a freelancer. I've been able to always have work on my desk because I'm always moving and talking with people in the industry but some months ago I decided to go to work on a proper medium software company.I'd been assigned a medium complexity task and I've...
Hi folks I was wondering if there's the possibility to write a bot that interacts with other bots/human agents from several online sites. I tried to come up with ways to do it but no ideas so far. What do you think?
Hi folks, I've been interviewing for several weeks looking for better income and challenges. I'd need to work as a contractor because I am living in South America and all the interested companies are from the US.The things is, being a contractor means that the company can no longer need my services whenever they want and that's the reason I've been having troubles deciding to follow this path...
I have a good professional network but it's mostly local (Argentina). I've been planning to live here all my life but it's not a good place to live anymore. I'm planning to relocate to Europe so I had to start with the interview process again and being a "generalist problem solver with software" is getting difficult to get good job offers.
Hi folks, it's time for me to look for new jobs but I've realized that I've been constantly following an "expert beginner path". I'm pretty lost about what to do next so I need your help.I've always worked at small places that needed a programmer to create small projects, some years ago I worked at a startup with no success and the last six years I've been working as the sole developer of a non...
I decided I'll resign by the end of the year and I'm thinking if it's better to tell my boss about it now or to tell him when the resignation date is close.If I tell him now is good because I give them enough time to look for a replacement but is bad because I'll be in a weird limbo for three months.If I tell him days before leaving they'll have less time to look for a replacement but I'll...
Hi! I'm a fellow hacker from Buenos Aires, Argentina. The country is in a long process of continuous decadence and this pandemic made the things even worse. Along with the daily changes of rules that we have to experience and adapt, the insane amount of taxes, the inflation, the devaluation against US dollar and the growing insecurity it's becoming a pretty difficult place to live.I've a pretty...
I'm Software Engineer with a focus on AI from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I've been working locally for many years earning something like $3k or $4k usd per month but since last year our currency (Argentine pesos) has devaluated a lot against us dollar.I'm now earning something like 1k usd per month. That money is enough to live comfortably (I don't rent) but lately I've been thinking that's not...
MercadoLibre is the Amazon of Latin America and has an open and official API (https://developers.mercadolibre.com/) where anyone can request data about the transactions made on the platform. For example, you can check in real time how many iPhones are being sold by a specific seller.I've already developed a script on Python that uses Redis pubsub queue which interacts with node and d3js to...
Fast Forward Labs (now part of Cloudera) was something like a research lab building prototypes "focus on taking technologies that are just becoming possible, and making them useful."I've been thinking about it and came to the conclusion that it'd be a great fit to me to be working on something similar. I'm a Software Engineer working for several years as an AI consultant for several companies,...
Hi folks, I’m a software engineer and I’ve been building AI related products for the last five years.I’ve been looking to start my own business and here are now two possibilities to pursue that goal:1) Partner with an already in motion software consultancy.I had a meeting with the company owner (ex work colleague) some days ago, the company has like 30 employees and they develop traditional...
Hi, I'm a Software Engineer focused for about four years on Artificial Intelligence products. I'm now trying to start my own company, the main focusis to build and sell AI related products but I would consider doing consulting projects in order to get to know problems in the industry.An old coworker started a software consultancy doing general software project for different companies and I'm...