svartkanin

A company has to make profit to support their tens of thousands of engineers. Google releases an enormous amount of products for free and gets the profit from advertisement and user data.

Apple on the other hand takes the cut from their products and software.

Somehow everyone seems to want things for free and never and keep the whole cake for themselves. Using any app store as a company is like renting renting selling space where customers browse. But the app store owner takes care of the maintenance so why wouldn't they get their cut for that?

So what will happen to the guy in the United Kingdom? Will he be extradited to the US?

Location: Melbourne, Australia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python (Django, Flask), Golang, SQL/NoSQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Sqlite), C/C++, GCP, AWS, Bash, Git (Bitbucket, Github, Gitlab), CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes

Résumé/CV: https://danielg-dev.com

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I'm a Software Engineer looking for things in the backend, api and cloud space, either remote or onsite preferably in Melbourne though

ocation: Melbourne, Australia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python (Django, Flask), Golang, SQL/NoSQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Sqlite), C/C++, GCP, AWS, Bash, Git (Bitbucket, Github, Gitlab), CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dangirtler/

Email: girtler . daniel at gmail dot com

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I'm a Software Engineer looking for things in the backend, api and cloud space, either remote or onsite preferably in Melbourne though!

I workes for a big telecommunication company in Australia and they did tge same thing with theur yearly budget.

At tge end of the financial year they would hire consultants for "ghost" projects that were supposedly starting in the future eventually.

This meant that they could book the costs for the current financial year and reduced the chance of getting their budget cut due to unused money

All companies I've worked at had dev environments that did not require any licensing. The tools used where mainly free or under the free tier (sublime, eclipse, CurcleCI, AWS...)

For larger products those will require to purchase certain usage since the workload will be higher but that's a company product cost and not per dev.

Unless one is developing MS products or is dependent on MS software I can't see how the numbers mentioned add up

Location: Melbourne, Australia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python (Django, Flask), Golang, SQL/NoSQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Sqlite), C/C++, GCP, AWS, Bash, Git (Bitbucket, Github, Gitlab), CI/CD

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dangirtler/

Email: [email protected]

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I'm a Software Engineer looking for new things in the backend/cloud space, either remote or onsite preferably in Melbourne though!

How would you work around this issue if they give you a challenge? Ask for reimburse you for the time spent?

I've worked as a SE for 8y, in 4 different countries and in both product development and consultancies.

As it had been pointed out here by most people interviewing sucks. It sucked in every country for me (some more than others). The process was superficial and usually didn't give the employer a decent picture about my skillsets nor did I get a decent picture of the company's environment/tech/culture, meaning a "we want to implement a new data analysis platform and ML on top of our web app" was only a nice attraction statement.

Both parties tend to tell some fairy tales what they think the opposite would like to hear just not to miss out on a possible opportunity. It's a bad habbit that I've done myself in the past because I don't have employees knocking on my door every day with a contract in their hands.

One of the issues is probably that a company doesn't know the person who is being interviewed. Just because someone got hired by 5 companies before and has 10y experience doesn't mean they know their stuff and therefore everyone has to go through the same tidious process again and again.

Couldn't there be an evaluation of someones problem solving skills and ability to built systems, that has a value for all (or certain years) of upcoming interviews? Lets say I take a test, that evalutates my "can solve problems" and "can built awesome cloud tech" skills and provides a certificate for it which is valid for 5y. Of course you'd also able to update your skills whenever you've learned something new!

So every company looking for a new employee searches in that pool of professionals with pre-evaluated soft and hard skills for a suitable match. Not like LinkedIn where you can claim whatever you like but rather evaluated by other professionals who will vouch for you.