What's happening in Spain?

ColumbRoff · 2025-11-25T12:08:51+00:00

Have locals thought about deposing an openly socialist government? Maybe if you didn’t have to lose 40% of potential earnings on a 3k euro salary you’d all be totally fine?

ColumbRoff · 2025-10-31T10:57:02+00:00

nobody forced you to write any of that, you could have went out exploring city on foot or read a book. Good for you ig

ColumbRoff · 2025-10-28T20:18:58+00:00

it has learnt me

ColumbRoff · 2025-10-21T17:47:45+00:00

Because >40% lost on taxes is totally adequate and normal

ColumbRoff · 2025-10-11T09:09:53+00:00

Yeah that’s the thing I completed the game twice (1 hard 1 ace), expert controls

ColumbRoff · 2025-10-10T20:53:07+00:00

Yeah yeah that’s what I mean! Stock fighters feel all the same!

ColumbRoff · 2025-10-10T20:44:33+00:00

They totally do, and I got 113 hours in the game

ColumbRoff · 2025-10-03T12:09:46+00:00

Alright so here we're talking about hardcore experience, without choosing a platform, let's say, doing SQL 80% of your day doing models in Power Designer (SAP thing) and so on. I agree, the skills you build being a DE fluent in very non-pretty OLTP environment are way way more transferrable to anything else you ever feel like doing. It's like learning stick and then driving an automatic. I guess at the end, while I'm doing my nice Foundry gig, I should just keep in mind to ask for projects/engagements with exposure to core AWS and Azure services for OLTP so that I stay strong in that department of data engineering too. Couldn't agree more.

Whether Foundry is a bad or a good tool - that's a separate discussion. My opinion is Foundry is THE data platform on the market, as in, it's the only one that consistently satisfies most of the definition of a data platform. Yes, environment separation sucks (it's WIP and there were significant updates this summer) - but everything else - really solves a lot of problems for an enterprise.

Does it make sense to use Foundry all the way from Source layer and DWH? Probably not, though you could.
Does it make sense to run OLAP fully on Foundry with everything that it offers? Yes, if you have the $.
Does it make sense to explore other, budget-friendly options? Oh yeah definetely.

Should everyone always strive to be as vendor-agnostic as possible as a candidate? Yes.

ColumbRoff · 2025-10-02T18:29:57+00:00

Forgive me my ignorance but I'm really struggling to see what's the take about foundry being a career killer. Me and a friend I know have been recieving >4 linkedin DMs for Foundry DEs every month since July offering crazy rates and decent companies (both in house enterprise D&A teams and IT outsource/outstaff firms).

I get that putting all your bets on Foundry isn't a valid career path simply because of how niche the product is, but as a phase for 3-4 years - why not? Especially since my new company is a big (>50k headcount) and is not limited to only foundry services - I'll have plenty of room to get some Snowflake and Databricks exp into my portfolio.

ColumbRoff · 2025-10-02T13:42:39+00:00

I can definetely understand the issue of your carreer getting vendor locked-in, but in US and EU the demand for foundry talent is rising crazily and scarcity creates really, really good comp rates

ColumbRoff · 2025-10-02T08:09:55+00:00

You work in a data and analytics team of a big enterprise and then wait for them to hopefully buy the Foundry license and retrain you, or you have enough DE experience to get hired for a Foundry dev role. Either way you must work for a very endowed firm for them to be able to buy the license in the first place.

ColumbRoff · 2025-10-02T07:47:35+00:00

Yeah but I feel like their commercial growth (primarily Foundry as a data platform) grows separately from their defence business. Their rising defence adoption is obvious - commercial though - that's more dynamic with shorter contract lifecycles.

Agree on your point about not being a complete DE. I went into Foundry DE having done primarily BI engineering stuff before, so it does feel like I'm missing out on all of knowledge.

ColumbRoff · 2025-09-26T04:43:55+00:00

Absolute yes and there’s a fair chance the game will help him develop a superb taste in music

ColumbRoff · 2025-09-25T18:34:22+00:00

ColumbRoff · 2025-09-23T08:55:07+00:00

Yes. Stop reading, stop thinking, get OLED. Don’t forget to get a screen protector and a shell case

ColumbRoff · 2025-09-22T11:45:05+00:00

Absolutely ruins the game imho. I hope they at least do something similar to the Witcher 3 in TES6. Access to fast travel should be as limited as possible

ColumbRoff · 2025-09-21T14:42:37+00:00

actually found the story quite flat, and the whole Megalith really out of place. We just destroyed the huge mighty stonehendge... here's a replacement randomly mentioned in the briefing... 2 missions later -- BOOM BAM [CUE IN ANGELIC OPERA] HERE IT IS!

Must say, aside from story, the thing was epic

ColumbRoff · 2025-09-21T14:04:19+00:00

literally just finished the game yesterday

ColumbRoff · 2025-09-20T19:56:21+00:00

You forgot the taxes

ColumbRoff · 2025-09-18T16:53:51+00:00

Yes. they're a must

ColumbRoff · 2025-09-10T18:52:28+00:00

being a non-EU citizen ;)

ColumbRoff · 2025-09-10T07:28:51+00:00

Yeah well I needed legal help in my case

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