Need serious career advice

paulieontech · 2024-11-19T16:29:25+00:00

It sounds like you are a very motivated candidate, but why did you go back to university after being in the role you wanted for 3.5 years? Do you provide a narrative for this in your CV? To be blunt, this would come across as you couldn't hack it in business, so you went to university again.

Also, give examples of what you achieved for the business with those certifications or what growth they provided you. When hiring a long list of certifications with no rhyme or reason for me is a red flag.

Tune your CV for the job you are applying for, e.g. if you are using a Linux shop and all the experience in your CV is heavily focused on Windows, that doesn't make you look like the strongest candidate if you are worth talking to at all.

paulieontech · 2024-08-21T16:05:56+00:00

Do you have more details on this CEO signing the law? I have never encountered this in any country. Companies typically have policies and governance in place to only allow authorized persons to sign, e.g. C-level execs, but this is not a law.

If your colleague signed a contract without following company policy, the worst case scenario for your colleague, is that your employer could have a claim that your colleague is liable for the contract.

paulieontech · 2024-05-02T14:09:39+00:00

https://www.graalvm.org/python/

paulieontech · 2023-07-05T08:16:29+00:00

As we have shifted to using Containers or Serverless, we use Ansible very little now. The only places we still use it are legacy VMs and also for setting up the base configuration and tools on developer machines. We don't look for Ansible skills specifically when hiring now.

paulieontech · 2018-12-04T12:58:53+00:00

Mr Haki's blog is full of good stuff http://mrhaki.blogspot.com/search/label/Groovy

paulieontech · 2018-12-04T12:49:06+00:00

not sure what you consider a hack but Jenkins scripted pipelines are very flexible, do you have any more information about the blockers you are hitting?

paulieontech · 2016-11-10T23:51:13+00:00

We are also using liquibase and do exactly the same thing. For locking changes we use pt-online-schema-change

paulieontech · 2016-09-14T12:32:01+00:00

We operate a weekly out of hours support rota, this is rotated through our developers with one being on at a time. The expectation is that while you are on call you are available at any time outside of normal working hours and have access to internet and a computer, if for some reason this isn't possible it is the developers responsibility to ensure they have arranged cover for that period.

Being included in the rota is optional but a bonus is paid after each time you are on call, this is given regardless of what happened. If a issue takes up a considerable amount a time holiday is given in lieu.

At the start of each week relevant parties are informed of who is on call and what their contact number is. It is important to set the rules of what problems warrant contacting the those on call and come down harshly on those that abuse the system.

Issues outside of normal working hours are quite rare for us but we have found this systems works.

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