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Then you will end up turning it off to run databases because the vendor wants bare metalAround and round we go!

Medical device companies like medtronic and st jude are dinos when it comes to IT. Only one doing interesting stuff is GE that ive seen. The hospital systems are even more ancient. The only insurance provider doing interesting work that ive seen is UnitedHealthcare, others like humana centene...

Hah, there are some real big data applications out there but a lot of truth in that statement. This is why I switched to NoSQL 2.5yrs ago or so, solving real distributed and uptime problems is more fun. Now if the markets would just recover so we can go public~! 37000 shares of pure nothing...

This sounds either like UHG or medtronic given the MSP location. Though lot of dinosaurs outside of Target/BB up there.

Selling futures can cause some ugly legal/finance problems for tech companies. You should see the disclaimers I have to put in my technical decks on not-GA stuff.

I agree the hiring decisions are made for dumb reasons however the lack of understanding of even the basics of the OS and hardware interaction (hell the concept of IO!) is rampant in even very senior engineers these days. So frustrating as it means explaining it over and over on why what they...

Rabbit is kind of going out of style lately, Kafka is the defacto on many new builds due to scalability/resilience. Honestly most new architectures should be built around the queue with it being the "source of truth" with multiple data layers and applications ingesting from it. One stack I am...

I have a MS in CS, pretty sure it got me my breakthrough job due to the preferences of my boss at the time.

My wife is due June 3, crazy stuff. Baby measuring 97%ile in size at 33 weeks, so expecting a big one

Question, you talk about data warehouse design but what is the actual goal of the project? I used to work at Teradata but have moved on to a OLTP startup. I would caution against lockin on AWS if your future state may end up onprem, GCE, Azure, or another platform as well. I notice you...

Agreed, longevity can also be a big negative particularly at traditional enterprises. I see a lot of LinkedINs in St.Louis that are Current Role , been there since they graduated school. Not usually the brightest bulbs even if in senior roles.

Hard to moonlight being a Director level (getting people leadership experience is a focus for me right now). Would be a good way to keep technical skills sharp, going to be kind of hard with the wife expecting in 3 months however

I am dealing with career wunderlust, it is really frustrating. Whenever I get to where I aimed the first thought is "whats next?". For me, I want to break out of Architecture individual contributor work and be a decision markertype who is still technical but am struggling to find anywhere to...

We had an awesome Aruba thing planned (refundable thankfully) and had to cancel it. Then it spread to Florida and we just gave up

Well this is ruining my chances of taking a quick beach vacation before kid #1 is born. Not taking my pregnant wife to the Caribbean or Florida with even a .01% chance of this shit.

This looks really appealing, with a working wife who makes enough to make it unwise for her to stay home and the HUGE cost of decent daycare (1800-2k a month for non crappy ones it seems). I may have to get in the market for one.

The correct answer to GC question is "FUCK IT, USE G1" for any significant app with Java 8.

I kind of interview for sport and I found that interviews change a LOT once you get to be an Architect level. Sure you have a bunch but less of the clueless technical gauntlet crap and more conversations. Love the change, hated technical interviews but discussions are ezmode. Long way from the...

Spark also runs on storage layers other than HDFS such as Cassandra and amazon S3 or even local mode. There is a newer framework called Flink that also has some big promise for HDFS workloads. If you want to go to the bleeding edge, stream processing frameworks for big data analytics are...

The big one I see coming up is Spark MLLib, generally analytics/data science folks write R and Python (with SPSS being on the way out). Statistics depth is huge, take everything you can find.

Don't decline until you have signed the other offer in paper or docusign.

I hear they defunded their OSS group, that will take a chunk out of stream processing frameworks

Good for EMC, they were headed downhill fast without a bigger picture offering. As part of Dell they will have that.

If it is a database startup based in Santa Clara then likely.

I work with a bunch of professional drunks. Everyone is a functioning alcoholic in software/technology sales, from the SEs to the reps to management. We had our annual conference a few weeks ago, hosting 3000ppl and the entire sales staff basically got wasted every night drinking from 5 to 2...

Luckily stack ranking has been debunked as a valid performance management system and is being phased out almost everywhere.

They have the buckets because each pays out differently. You likely only get paid out on vacation time if you quit.

My company and a lot of others in tech have DTO which means its totally discretionary. I take 4-5 weeks a year but a lot of folks despite no limit take less than 2 weeks.

That PTO is really low, 4 days ... wow!

My wife tried the throw her self into work thing and it didn't do shit for her so I taught her the art of being apathetic but ambitious. Work on the parts of a role that are cool and neglect the bullshit. Workaholics I could never live with because honestly like you said it is their Hobby and...

In STL, OKC had all the educated and interesting women while everywhere else was legions of nurses,teachers and below. Met my wife on OKC as well so bit biased

Linkedin is 99% of job leads that I see these days, really is the best tool. As to enjoying the job, I have days where it is awesome but most days it is just work and a means to an end to having the personal life I want.

Imposter syndrome is real, I see it all the time at my current company. Really bright guys feel like they are just making shit up because the depth and breadth required to be a master is so much. The thing is, they are doing great work.

My guess is Pearson

Have a feeling I know who you are talking about, big user of graph databases

Just make sure to crap some rainbows on your way out. Are you interviewing with "the Google" because using hangouts for an interview is a terrible idea, but those bastards are forced to.

Tech companies can be strange beasts, most of them are really awful at interviews for IC type roles. The big dogs have an interview pipeline that is just shamefully bad in it's tech screen phase. If you got to in person and didn't bomb it, I wouldn't be too pessimistic. Not saying the experience...

Walk into the interview and own it, and make sure you don't just give short answers. Give deep answers and steer them towards what you are comfortable with so you don't get into the rapid fire technical screen crap. Have a conversation, read the interviewer and see what he is interested in and...

Consulting is a step down in comp, even for bigs like IBM/Accenture at the Sr Managing Consultant role. A lot of Sales engineers stay sales engineers for 10-20years. The other thing is startups are paying more than they are and giving equity so even for a more senior role, it's worse overall...

Yea that is the concern, you have to go up through pre-sales managment but that doesn't do much besides add work.