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Mar 1 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
At EPAM, a company that has more than 10K employees in Ukraine, but also ones in Russia and Belarus, massive internal conflicts are raising due to the CEO not taking sides: they have yet to say Russia is responsible for the war.

Some refusing to work with those based in Russia.
Management has tried to shuffle so Belarus and Russia-based teams report into “neutral” managers (eg ones from Poland, Hungary).

It’s starting to break down. Employees demanding the company be clear if they are on the side of Russia+Belarus or rest or rest of world.
It’s not just EPAM in this position but outsourcing companies Luxoft, DataArt, GridDynamics with offices both in Ukraine and Russia where management tries to balance but anger is growing as the war progresses.

Most clients of these companies are in the US and Western EU.
Incredible: the CEO of outsourcing company GridDynamics os from Kharkiv, a city heavily bombed and attacked by the Russian army.

And a massive engineering in team in Russia.

What will the CEO do? What will the company do?

We could see this war tear companies apart.

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Sadly: likely not. The job market for entry-level positions is very, very competitive. It's also why the book is free for those without a job.
The book: thetechresume.com

Getting it free for those currently without a developer job: thetechresume.com/complimentary-…
While there are many resources selling hope for those without experience, I don't want to. Even if I would, I don't have the credibility.

Got my first dev job after years of CS studies at university, getting lucky after applying blindly.

A program I do recommend is @scrimba.
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Back to office announcements are happening and some are not pretty.

As a CEO announced a record, $1B profit, on the same all-hands said "if sw engineers all think they can work from home, we can hire someone from Asia and pay them €300."

They will have dev attrition problems.
We are talking about a traditional company - one that became far more profitable during COVID, with remote work.

Their stance is clear though, and the post-COVID strategy is this: "The new way is the old way, and we will all go back to the office."

Good luck. They'll need it.
The same company normally makes all-hands videos available to all. They did not do with this all-hands.

Later the CEO apologized for the comments and backtracked, kind-of - see the apology below.

But all engineers know where the company really stands & what they can expect.
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A big reason NFTs are unlikely to go mainstream: the ecosystem is so insecure that you can lose everything in your wallet *with a single click*.

Any action/email can be an attack: so owners will be more wary, transact less, buy less.

True for centralised NFT platforms as well.
NFTs about one thing: buy an NFT today, have it’s value go up and sell some point later for $$$.

Prices only go up if new buyers join in droves (aka it goes mainstream).

But if scams are everywhere: it both scares new buyers from joining. Also chills existing ones from selling.
A reminder that the web, in its infancy in the 90s was *never* this insecure: because payments were built on an existing credit card/banking infrastructure with plenty of consumer protection (eg chargebacks, multi-step confirmations etc, legal recourse).

web3 has none of this.
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I was giving advice to a friend who recently started a freelancing business after a decade of being an employee.

Here are 12 habits that work fine when an employee employee, but ones worth unlearning to be a more successful entrepreneur/freelancer:
1. Old habit: your time is equally valuable throughout the day.

New habit: parts of your time are far more valuable. E.g. working with a higher-paying client, or on projects with more opportunity cost. Generating valuable leads. Etc.
2. Old habit: follow the beaten path outlined in a company and career path. Get promoted to senior, then to above or a manager path etc.

New habit: carve out the path where *you* want to get to. There's less of a beaten path to follow - and why would you?
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Feb 17
Manager: "Your bonus this is $X."

Dev: "Umm... it should have been exactly $3X."

M: "No, the target is $X."

D: "No, my recruiter said I would get at least $3X."

M: ".."

D: "I have it in writing."

That manager was me, and this was a story of being burnt by a rouge recruiter.
The recruiter did put it in writing... in an email from the company domain, never shared with anyone else at the company.

This was about a year earlier, and the recruiter was long gone by then. Having left with the reputation of "The King of Closing Candidates."

Now I knew how.
So when you hear the advice "get it in writing", make sure to get it in writing AND COPY YOUR FUTURE MANAGER or other non-recruiters at the company.

Rouge recruiters exist, and getting it in writing will only help expose this unfortunate fact.
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“Odd, how ‘work from anywhere’ really means ‘work from anywhere in the country.’”

It’s how countries, taxes, visas work. If you’re self-employed, trying to work from *any* country in the world: it’s LOTS of admin.

If you’re employed, it’s just as challenging for your employer.
It’s pretty much only the tech industry where we’re privileged enough to be able to work from almost anywhere.

This does not mean we can ignore national regulations. And countries impose heavy admin and tax burdens on employment, rarely ever optimizing for remote work cases.
There are more startups acting as ‘middlemen’ to employ people in different countries. @deel and @remote are examples.

But by nature these setups are limited (you’re employed though a middleman) and they do not shift liabilities for the company to follow all local regulations.
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