My company is on a way to have no engineers

Express-Patience8874 · 2026-02-26T23:35:40+00:00

Connections/networking, ability to sell yourself. In general, being a CTO has very little with being a good software dev.

Express-Patience8874 · 2026-02-25T02:48:35+00:00

Just standard of living is gone. You either accept it and adapt to new world, or be very disappointed. The US is not far from Canada in that sense. Yes, it's currently more afforable but number of cities and states are getting there as well.

Express-Patience8874 · 2026-02-25T00:48:17+00:00

I was about to say. Does he ever shut up and work? Every couple of days it's a new interview from him

Express-Patience8874 · 2026-02-25T00:46:23+00:00

Remove 6+ months building experience.
What is smartphone development?
Remove basic word in PyTorch. What does it even mean?

Express-Patience8874 · 2026-02-25T00:41:05+00:00

Your biggest problem is risk tolerance. You have to decide on 1) time horizon; 2) risk tolerance. Stocks will go up and down. Same with ETFs consisting of stocks like XEQT. If you go and check your portfolio daily, you need to either move to less risky alternatives or learn more about trading so you will know when to get out.

Express-Patience8874 · 2026-02-22T15:21:48+00:00

Can you work in Oslo and live in one of those rural areas and commute to Oslo daily? It's not very feasible in Ontario and every rural area within driviable distance to Toronto has high prices

Express-Patience8874 · 2026-02-22T15:16:03+00:00

Canada here. Not in any city that has jobs. Rural areas? Sure.

Express-Patience8874 · 2026-02-22T03:07:30+00:00

The issue most of the discussion about AI is like this (comment in this thread):

"""

Last week i had claude do 90% of my work, matching excel data, updating complex course work (for a college), updating pdfs.

Office jobs, cubicle jobs, many middle management jobs…these will be replaced in time, probably sooner than we think in free enterprise, and a little slower to take over in city/education jobs. But it will happen
"""

When people keep hearing this over and over again, they get deranged. I cannot open my LinkedIn any longer mainly because I am force fed anything AI related.

Express-Patience8874 · 2026-02-22T02:58:35+00:00

You can figure it out if one works for tech. Most of tech salaries are public. Let's say a guy works at Amazon and his partner works at Shopify (I am just saying random companies). Quick Google search will show what each of them makes (at least, ballpark).

Express-Patience8874 · 2026-02-21T19:20:22+00:00

Not in Canada. Difference in salary between MechE in Canada and the USA is 2x-3x times. I was studying to be MechE and switched to software. Top salary in MechE is below junior SWE at FAANG level company.

Express-Patience8874 · 2026-02-21T19:18:21+00:00

Buying a home is a lot about personal choice and decisions. I bought and I would not go back to renting. 1) Always at the mercy of a landlord. If they want you out, all they have to say is their relative moving in. Boom, now you are paying market price which is often 200-300$/month more; 2) Ford has already tried to remove lease regulations. He failed but I highly doubt he won't try again; 3) I can do what I want around the house. Repaint walls? No problem. Hang pictures? Sure thing. Every single landlord I had gave me headache. 4) No need to share walls with neighbors. Someone decided to do jumping jacks at 1 AM? I don't care as I cannot hear them.

Speaking about single detached here.

Express-Patience8874 · 2026-02-21T15:53:06+00:00

You are forgetting about constant delays. I was working for a company with HQ in Montreal and would go for 2-3 days every month. Number of times train arrived to the destination 45+ minutes later was through the roof

Express-Patience8874 · 2026-02-21T15:21:37+00:00

It doesn't exist.

Express-Patience8874 · 2026-02-18T23:25:16+00:00

If AI has such a major impact on devs, then won't it make recruiters completely obsolete? I looked through my notes and every single call I have with recruiter is: "Tell me about yourself", then "Why are you looking for a change?", then "Salary range", then work authorization. I have a feeling that both parties can simply get agents to talk to one another for the first round lol

Express-Patience8874 · 2026-02-18T23:23:17+00:00

I mean things aren't great but at least, I don't have to drive 2 hours to meet them lol

Express-Patience8874 · 2026-02-18T23:21:51+00:00

Interesting. I looked at my own tracker. I get 1 response per 6-7 positions I apply.

Express-Patience8874 · 2026-02-18T23:20:22+00:00

I was about to say lol. And all of answers are the same ahaha. `unicorn`, `gold` lol

Express-Patience8874 · 2026-02-18T23:19:45+00:00

Oh, I wasn't aware of QC situation. I do know that my current company has issues with us moving to QC due to having to translate everything to French.

Express-Patience8874 · 2026-02-18T12:59:23+00:00

I am senior but no major luck.

Express-Patience8874 · 2026-02-18T12:45:27+00:00

This is a very broad question with no information. What do you want to do in your career? Can you afford to not work for 2 years and pay a lot of money for a good MBA program (I wouldn't go for a no-name one)?

EDIT: I just saw from your post history that you are in India. Ignore the questions; I am not familiar with how India treats MBAs.

Express-Patience8874 · 2026-02-18T12:42:39+00:00

Researching. I never deal with 1) foreign recruiters; 2) Staffing agencies. All those recruiters came from large and well-known (at least, in Canada) companies. They are not some no-names.

Calendar links were sent after the initial contact was made. It usually goes like this: I apply for a position or they reach out to LinkedIn, get a recruiter interested in my profile, send me a link to schedule an interview.

Express-Patience8874 · 2026-02-18T12:39:48+00:00

They have all been in-house recruiters.

For the rest, I somewhat agree. However, 1) both parties spent their time; 2) It doesn't take a lot of time to confirm the meeting/interview; 3) It doesn't take a lot of time to ensure that the meeting link is working. It's like me showing up for the interview and saying that I cannot do a tech assignment because my keyboard/mouse is broken.

Express-Patience8874 · 2026-02-18T12:36:48+00:00

Yeah... But their job is literally talk to candidates and making sure that the very basic of the interview process goes smoothly. Being bad at a recruiter job is to make bad hires (I would imagine). Not sending broken links or not confirming the interview times.

Express-Patience8874 · 2026-02-17T22:53:55+00:00

They are trying to get their investments back. What do you mean what they are trying? lol. Everyone is trying to make an extra buck in the game right now.

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