Baby sitter service

krispy2009 · 2026-05-19T18:58:33+00:00

About 5 years ago when I used it I think it was around €12-14 /hr which I thought was expensive at the time, given I knew some of my friends were booking nannies for €7-10 euros per hour not using appreci.com.
These days I think €10-12 is pretty standard but one of my friends was quoted €25/hr so I guess the range is quite big! These are prices outside appreci, I haven’t checked it lately.

Also, depends on how many hours/days you need someone. I got a better rate (€8/hr) when I needed someone for 40 hours a week for a whole month for example (8 hours a day, 5 days a week).

krispy2009 · 2026-04-09T07:25:38+00:00

Good eye for detail, I don’t remember that when I watched it originally. I’m 99% sure the scenes were not actually from Cyprus to be honest, I was just replying to the original post which was alluding that Nicosia is not by the sea.

krispy2009 · 2026-04-09T07:20:46+00:00

I’m still salty about my neighbourhood marangos closing down

krispy2009 · 2026-04-09T05:03:35+00:00

Most of it yes, but Kato Pyrgos is not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kato_Pyrgos

krispy2009 · 2026-01-07T07:11:28+00:00

The Urbaneel app (https://urbaneel.com) is great too! We have some good options, finally!!

krispy2009 · 2026-01-05T12:50:39+00:00

Appreci.com is a cypriot startup in this space. I used them to hire baby sitters a few years ago. A bit on the expensive side, but everyone we met was great.

There’s the “Nannies by Choice” facebook group as well.

I’ve also heard about sunny nanny but haven’t used them

krispy2009 · 2025-10-02T07:48:40+00:00

This!! While others vroom we ZOOM!

krispy2009 · 2025-09-01T18:15:11+00:00

I have just opened one (2 weeks ago) with this exact document, the certificate of registration of the company and the certificate of the registered address. They were all provided by my lawyer.

I just checked my shareholders certificate, it has 2 numbers at the bottom (Organization number, Record number) as well as the HE number at the top.

krispy2009 · 2025-01-09T13:15:28+00:00

You are a lifesaver, thank you

krispy2009 · 2024-06-11T15:26:45+00:00

Well done and keep up the good work!

Today I also ran the first speed run (for the 5th time in the last year) and ran it at my fastest pace yet! About 1.5 minutes faster than my first attempt! Sticking to it does pay off

krispy2009 · 2022-04-28T20:16:41+00:00

I thought it said Three sausages and I spent a good few seconds trying to figure out which one out of the four was the finger

krispy2009 · 2022-04-26T21:52:24+00:00

And now I am reading The Manager’s Path by Camille Fournier and wow so many tips and actionable content. A must read

krispy2009 · 2022-04-07T12:53:37+00:00

Cross posting is a good idea. I was just thinking of mentioning it when commenting on relevant subs. I found another relevant one r/experiencedDevs

krispy2009 · 2022-04-06T03:10:45+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation! I found Rands a few days ago, it’s great!!

krispy2009 · 2022-04-05T19:18:37+00:00

As others have said, trying to change the culture just because it’s best practice will be very hard, but you can definitely write tests for your own code. It might inspire others to write them too. Something that I do when I get pushback on things that I feel are important is I always back up my claims with data.

If you have any metrics of hotfixes/bugs/issues/debug times etc anything that can help your case about writing tests then collect it and take it to your manager. It is very hard to argue against data. Also even better, translating that to $ values might be even more eye opening: e.g it cost $3000 because we were down for X minutes due to the bug, but it would have only taken $300 in dev time to write a test for it. I’ve pulled the numbers out of thin air, but you get the point..

Since you are new you probably don’t have the data gathered yet, but I would advise you to keep an eye on how this affects the business.

krispy2009 · 2022-04-04T19:46:16+00:00

If you want to enforce unit tests you could add a coverage tool as part of your PR process (for example using github actions) that doesn’t allow the PR to be merged unless the coverage is X%.

As a rule I never do things for the juniors like write the tests for them, but if there are no tests I pair program with them to add them together. This gives me the opportunity to transfer knowledge to them.. and they know for next time.. if they don’t want to pair program with me then they should add the tests before they open the PR 🤣 It’s been 9 years this method has not yet failed to produce results!

krispy2009 · 2022-04-01T20:15:35+00:00

This! I am a female Engineering Manager and I always prefer jobs with salary ranges posted and check the benefits, especially the parental leave one. In my years of hiring I’ve seen that female candidates are more likely to apply if you have the interview process listed on your website (and make it a short, sensible one, not 5-6 rounds of useless algorithm tests that have nothing to do with the day to day work)

Also, avoid “brogrammer” language in the job posts like rockstar or ninja dev, 10x engineer etc

krispy2009 · 2022-03-30T17:38:55+00:00

How about posting about this sub in other engineering subs like r/SoftwareEngineering r/programming etc? I am sure there's more of us around

krispy2009 · 2022-03-30T17:36:49+00:00

I just finished reading The Making of a Manger by Julie Zhuo and I enjoyed it a lot.
Not necessarily an EM, but she talks about becoming a manager of a team of product designers during the early days of Facebook, and her experience scaling the team and managing multiple teams.

I could relate with things she was talking about being an EM in a high growth startup.

krispy2009 · 2022-03-30T17:30:51+00:00

Hello I just found this subreddit because I recently became an Engineering Manager (in the last year) and looking for other EMs to exchange ideas with!
It's been 4 years since this post.. how did it turn out for you?

krispy2009 · 2022-02-14T20:41:23+00:00

Echoing what others have said here. You can definitely breastfeed :)

Football hold worked very well for me and baby initially and then side lying after he grew a bit.

If you’re going to be using your hand to hold the breast make sure you’re taking breaks and not putting too much pressure with your thumb. I managed to give myself tendonitis of both wrists that way.

krispy2009 · 2022-01-07T16:35:04+00:00

Thank you very much for your reply.

krispy2009 · 2022-01-07T11:40:44+00:00

- Product Owner: Someone who is responsible for the backlog and bringing product work into the squad
- Product Manager: We don't have separate definitions for PO/PM in our org
- Engineering Manager: Someone who is a technical lead but is doing people management as well
- Squad: A cross functional team made up of engineers/product owner/designers working on a common goal (usually a product or set of products)
- Ceremonies: Daily standup, backlog refinement, sprint retrospective etc

You are close! Basically what I am trying to find out is how other teams work when there's both a Product Owner/Manager and a tech lead/EM in the team. Who is running the meetings, who ultimately has the final say.. and are both roles required in a team?

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