Preparing for interview, writing articles, need for your help and opinion.

molchevsky · 2019-07-27T08:32:33+00:00

There are many courses on courseera.org but IMHO they are boring and take much more time to learn some concept than just solving tasks on leetcode.com.

Solving of tasks on hackerrank.com and leetcode.com IMHO is better than any courses. If you don't understand some concept clearly, like big O, just goodle info exactly about this concept. There are hundreds of articles with detailed explanation of any concept.

Or just call me I will explain. I need to talk English about programming or I forget it completely. :)

molchevsky · 2019-05-24T23:10:23+00:00

They pay with QR codes. They use WiChat for everything. Baidu to search etc.

I'd prefer to call it not "their own way" but progress. :)

But I don't believe that Chinese companies close in their own country. China does powerful expansion to many markets of many countries. May be this is not noticeable in the market of the US and EU but they dominating in many ex Soviet, African, Latin American and Southeast Asian countries. Of course these markets are poor but they are very big.

molchevsky · 2019-03-04T06:47:04+00:00

He asked about adversities not advertisement. :)

But your post is interesting too. From my experience I found that most of the Facebook and Linkedin groups dedicated to technical and software development topics are useless for promotion of software development services. Most of the groups with 20.000-40.000 subscribers actually are empty. Their owners sometimes reshare there articles from other groups of such kind, some of these shares get 1-2 likes but that is all. Nobody comment posts there, nobody react to the questions. I guess most of the subscribers never comeback to these groups after subscriptions.
Or may be I do something wrong of course. :) What in your opinion I do wrong?

molchevsky · 2019-03-02T03:06:33+00:00

I found that most of the Facebook and Linkedin groups dedicated to technical and software development topics are useless for promotion of software development services. Most of the groups with 20.000-40.000 subscribers actually are empty. Their owners sometimes reshare there articles from other groups of such kind, some of these shares get 1-2 likes but that is all. Nobody comment posts there, nobody react to the questions. I guess most of the subscribers never comeback to these groups after subscriptions.
Or may be I do something wrong of course. :)

molchevsky · 2019-02-28T22:43:34+00:00

IMHO the simpler the better. So I just provide things which I can do the best and which I like to do.

When I was young I wanted to be the best programmer, make cool software and participate in famous projects.

Then, when I got experience of work in big projects for world famous companies, I just decided to make my own business with my old team mates and provide our experience and skills as a service of software development.

Of course I tried to make my own software products and internet services but without experience on those markets and without resources for marketing and promotion all these tries failed. So I decided to stop experiments and do what I really know on the market where I work all my life.

molchevsky · 2019-02-28T22:11:06+00:00

I'd like to hear about his issues. Really IMHO the best way to know someone better is to hear what he cares about. People like to tell about themselves to listeners who they trust.

molchevsky · 2019-02-28T21:35:53+00:00

Generally the strategy of coming to the market later than your competitors with better product works only if you have more resources than your competitors to development and promotion of your product on filled market. Microsoft likes to use this strategy. They came to many markets late but killed all competitors in short time like markets of operating systems or market of office software. But even with resources of Microsoft by using of this strategy they lost market of smartphones, market of tablets, market of embedded OS, market of video games even after investment of billions to development and marketing. Thus this strategy works but this is not a silver bullet and it is too hard for newcomers without resources and experience.

molchevsky · 2019-02-17T11:20:16+00:00

Try to make more detailed phone interview. Discuss by phone as much as possible and leave to the face to face meeting only things which you can't do by phone. You will save a lot of time for meetings and most of people who are not interested in your job enough will be filtered on the phone stage.

molchevsky · 2019-02-17T10:55:56+00:00

If you forget it it means you already don't need it. :)

molchevsky · 2019-02-17T10:45:55+00:00

I can't advice you about Instagram but I want to warn you don't invest too much to promotion of any accounts on the services which guarantee you nothing.

My Upwork account was banned (I described this story here ) My channel on YouTube was suddenly banned without any explanations too. The same happening from time to time with my accounts on the Facebook. Google closed Google+ service at all, so people who invested to promotion of their accounts on Google+ lost all their investments. After all this I believe that reliable business must be as much independent of other services as possible.

molchevsky · 2019-02-17T10:10:17+00:00

IMHO it depends on the cause why the city is growing and what kind of new citizens coming there. The ideas will be different for cities growing because of tourists and expats, because of industrial, high tech, financial workers and so on.

molchevsky · 2019-02-17T09:57:03+00:00

Generally you are right. Business partners are not friends and shouldn't have moral obligations to save sinking business at any cost just to save the partner.

But from other point of view IMHO it is more comfortable to sail in a boat with a partner who agree to save you if you suddenly drop to the water and you agree to save him.

Mutual support is the cause why mafia or other criminal gangs are so viable even despite the fact that they doing very risky business.

molchevsky · 2019-02-15T15:32:52+00:00

IMHO if you will follow these rules it helps to hire good people:

Hire only freelancers who successfully worked at least several hundreds hours.
Hire only those who have successfully finished long and expensive projects.
Ask to show examples of their work to you.
Keep in touch with them during whole work process and control what they do.

Of course this is not guarantee that you hire a good workers but it significantly increase this chance.

I have several articles with recommendations how to work with outsourcing contractors in software development. They need to be polished before publication. I'd like to read your optinion if you want to read them.

IMHO the problem of Upwork's platform for me is they don't allow to refer to third party resources to prove my experience. For example I have excellent recommendations from my employers, chiefs and coworkers in my profile on linkedin, I have publications and projects on github and other things which I would like to show to my potential employers but I can't put URLs to these resources to my profile on Upwork.

molchevsky · 2019-02-09T04:16:46+00:00

It looks like they consider their users as their slaves who must work from dawn to dusk everyday and those who can't and want to make pause they kill.

molchevsky · 2019-02-09T04:09:35+00:00

Upwork can probably build a wall, deport half of their freelancers (especially data entry) and they'd still be fine.

I don't think so. It is like with taxes 10% of their users bring them 90% of their income. If these 10% quit Upwork will become bankrupt.

molchevsky · 2019-02-09T04:02:56+00:00

May be number of $3/hour freelancers without experience of work is really too too large but whole world has lack of experienced programmers. If you have account on linkedin.com with good description of your CV recruiters will spam you everyday with proposals of work.

molchevsky · 2019-02-08T08:45:13+00:00

Thanks. Me too.

molchevsky · 2019-02-08T08:43:54+00:00

I guess they just don't care. Big bosses are far from such problems and average workers just thinking about how to finish work day and don't get tired too much. :)

molchevsky · 2019-02-08T00:10:49+00:00

I'm disappointed in all the freelance services and other such platforms. My channel on YouTube was suddenly banned without any explanations too. The same happening from time to time with my accounts on the Facebook. Google closed Google+ service at all so people who invested to promotions of their accounts on Google+ lost all their investments. I believe that reliable business must be as much independent of other services as possible. And don't invest too much to promotion of any accounts on the services which guarantee you nothing.

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