I have heard a lot that this industry is very different. I know data scientists, web developers, infra guys but never met a game developer. I would love to hear from someone who has worked on both games and different things - is it more intense, is it more pressure, what are some war stories?
Dear HNers,Do you know of any worthwhile MOOCs on tech leadership? Books are also good.Why: I am SE looking for change in following years. Some experiences taught me there is a shortage of true leaders in the field (Peter's principle). I am looking for resources that include but are not limited to:* conflict resolution* managing up* office politics* understanding project dynamics (e.g. R&D...
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Hello there.I found myself working in analytics for at a mid-size company, previously I have worked as a freelancer and have never worked in corporate before and these things sound weird.I was wondering if you could tell me whether this is standard:* Locally-hosted network storage ran out of capacity and I have been told that it is my problem and I should delete some (crucial) files as "drive...
Hello.I've made a transfer from freelance programming (good tools, but culture is not for me) to corporate analytics (better culture, atrocious tooling).There's lot of spreadsheet maintenance, some of them are getting slowly ported to ancient OBIEE 10, but process is slow and on top of that we're migrating ETL DB and there's whole lot of 500 cols table filled with logic and complete ignorance...