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  1. Experience

    Company ne bola hafte mein 3 din Gurgaon office aao. Main Noida mein rehta hoon. Ek hafte ka hisaab

    Scene ye hai ki hamari company ne Noida wala chhota office band karke sab kuch Gurgaon (Cyber City) shift kar diya. Mail aaya: "To boost collaboration, all employees are expected in office 3 days a week." Main Sector 62 Noida mein rehta hoon. Toh ek hafta try kiya, honestly, bina complain kiye. Ye raha hisaab: Route options Metro: Sector 62 se Blue Line, Rajiv Chowk pe Yellow Line, phir Rapid Metro. Ek side lagbhag…

    Rohit Verma12likes11comments

  2. Experience

    July 2024: five days without internet, from inside a Dhaka software house

    Marta asked me some weeks ago to write this. Today is the anniversary, so I am trying. Sorry if it is long, actually it is the short version. I work at a software house in Dhaka, around 40 developers, almost all our clients are in Denmark and Norway. In July 2024 the student movement started about the job quota, and it became much bigger than quota. I was on the streets some evenings after work. I will not write…

    Rafiul Islam51likes15comments

  4. Experience

    fiz minha primeira entrevista em inglês pra vaga gringa e travei no 'tell me about yourself'

    mano. eu me preparei 3 semanas. revisei system design, state management, teste de widget, até aquela pergunta de "how would you design an offline first app". tava confiante. aí entra o recruiter, super gente boa, de Austin, sorrisão. "so Thiago, tell me about yourself". e eu... travei. falei "I am working with Flutter since 2020" e depois esqueci como fala fintech em inglês. É FINTECH. É A MESMA PALAVRA kkkkkk a…

    Thiago Valadares8likes8comments

  6. Experience

    Freelancing for Paris from Beirut: generator hours, a UPS and the bank that ate my savings

    hi kifak, ça va? People ask how I work for French and German clients from here. Short answer: around the generator. Long answer below 🙃 Electricity. State power comes some hours a day, when it comes. The rest is the neighbourhood generator, the "ishtirak", a subscription you pay to a guy with a very big diesel engine and a very big network of cables over the street. It switches over a few times a day and every…

    Rami Haddad16likes12comments

  7. Article

    I go to the office for the bike, not for the office

    Every few weeks there is a remote vs office fight in this topic. I want to give a different answer. I go to the office three days a week. Not because of the office. Because of the bike. Context. I live in Utrecht, the office is in an industrial area at the edge of the city, 14 km. I go with the bike. 35 to 40 minutes depending on wind, most of it on a separate fietspad next to a canal. It is boring. That is the…

    Bram Verhoeven15likes8comments

  9. Experience

    Le daily de 15 minutes qui dure 47 minutes : une enquête

    Bon. Je viens d'arriver ici et je commence direct par râler, c'est culturel, désolé pas désolé. Chez nous le daily est censé durer 15 minutes. J'ai chronométré pendant trois semaines (oui, je suis comme ça). Moyenne : 47 minutes. Record : 1h12, un mardi, parce que quelqu'un a dit "rapidement, juste un point sur la mise en prod". Le déroulé typique : 9h30 : "on attend Julien" (pas le mien, un autre Julien, il y a…

    Guillaume Mercier3likes8comments

  10. Article

    How I price on Upwork after 7 years: hourly, fixed, and the number I never go below

    My first Upwork job in 2017 was $8 an hour fixing a WordPress contact form. Today I charge $45 an hour for Laravel and React, and fixed projects are priced from the same number. Here is how I think about it. Numbers are mine, from Lagos, Top Rated Plus. Your market may be different. 1. Pick a floor and never go below it My floor is $35 an hour. If a job cannot pay that, I do not apply. The floor comes from simple…

    Oluwatobi Adeyemi13likes11comments

  11. Experience

    Our software house lost five days of internet in July 2024. Here is everything we changed after

    Actually I wanted to write this for two years. I will not write about politics in this post. Only about what a shutdown costs a small outsourcing company, and what we changed. We are 34 people in Dhaka. Most clients are in Norway and Denmark. In July 2024 mobile internet went off first, then broadband. For about five days we had nothing. No Slack, no email, no GitHub, no way to tell clients why we disappeared. The…

    Rafiul Islam17likes8comments

  12. Article

    A normal workday in Kyiv during blackouts, hour by hour (with my power setup)

    Few people asked after my air raid deploy post how a normal day looks. So here is one. Not the worst day, not the best. Tuesday. I work remote for a Danish company, Go and Postgres, team of 6. Kyiv is one hour ahead of Copenhagen, which is the only easy part. 06:40 Wake up, before coffee I check the outage schedule in the energy company app and in our district Telegram channel. Kyiv is split in groups, my building…

    Oleksii Bondarenko88likes36comments

  13. Article

    Working with US clients from Manila: the 2-hour overlap rule

    I have worked with US teams from Manila for three years. The first year I said "I'm flexible, I'll be available whenever" and nearly burned out by month eight. Here's what I do now. The time maths Manila is UTC+8 all year. No daylight saving. US East in summer is UTC-4, so 12 hours apart. 9am in New York is 9pm in Manila. US West in summer is UTC-7, so 15 hours apart. 9am in San Francisco is midnight in Manila. When…

    Jessica Tan26likes6comments

  15. Article

    In early 2024, African internet broke three times in three months. A thread on undersea cables, for people who think the cloud is in the sky (1/18)

    1/ If you work remotely from Africa, your job is attached to a handful of cables lying on the sea floor. In 2024 we all learned exactly how few. 2/ February 2024: several cables in the Red Sea were damaged, including Seacom, AAE-1 and EIG. The damage was widely reported to have come from the dragging anchor of a cargo ship that had been attacked and abandoned. East African traffic to Europe and Asia had to be…

    Achieng Owino21likes11comments

  17. Article

    Getting paid as a Nigerian freelancer: every route I have used since 2017, with what it really costs

    Every week somebody in my DMs asks "Tobi how do you collect your money?" So I am writing it once. This is from my own wahala, not from a sponsored post. Fees change, check them yourself before you trust me. 1. Upwork to Payoneer to local bank This is my main road since 2017. Upwork releases, I withdraw to Payoneer, Payoneer converts and sends to my naira account. The cost you see: a small withdrawal fee. The cost…

    Oluwatobi Adeyemi18likes11comments

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