wozmirek

Qualio | multiple roles | Full-time | Remote (EU only)| https://www.qualio.com/careers

We are hiring for several technical positions:

* Technical Support Engineer

* Senior Software Engineer

* Principal Software Engineer

Our mission is to help teams building life-saving products get to market in less time, with less cost and less risk. We're bringing fresh thinking to a slow-moving industry that's ripe for change, and it's working - Qualio is the fastest growing platform for life sciences companies, and is used in 80+ countries.

With dual headquarters in San Francisco, California and Dublin, Ireland, our team is distributed across North America and Europe (tech). Join our remote-first global team where we want everyone to do their best work and help our customers succeed in bringing quality products to the world.

Contact - ping me, Mirek, product manager here: mwozniak (at) qualio (dot) com or just apply at https://www.qualio.com/careers :)

Gluing + painting models and miniatures! I've been bad at manual artistic things always, so I kinda combined my passion for the history of warfare with that thing I'm lacking and... here I am, gluing German tank models :)

Hey - I also do boxing! What helped me way more though, was practising kendo. On that later. [1]

Find a psychotherapist. Therapy will allow you to unlock the flow of your emotions and deal with anything better. You can also treat it as a kind of work coaching. I went through psychodynamic and gestalt therapy and I've managed to suggest therapy to several of my friends. I'll even go as far as to offer to lend people money so that they go to therapy. Sometimes half-jokingly I call it the "gym for the soul/mind", since it's best if you go there if you're feeling well and it makes your "body" (mind/soul) better prepared to handle things now and in the future. Think how people who lift heal faster after accidents.

DM me if you want to chat about therapy or kendo!

[1]: Kendo is Japanese swordsmanship and it focuses on the spirit more than the body. You must shout during Kendo. You must be aggressive. You have to forgo your "safety" for the sake of "killing" your opponent. "" because kendo is about emulating fighting with a real katana :)

Good point about feedback for the manager, I forgot to mention it. Depends on how well you get along with your manager, but I went as far as to say "you were joking about thing X (usually hiring/firing/PTO/performance etc. topics) which I didn't like".

I prepare the agenda on my own, it's usually 2 to 5 points. My issues, worries, what I struggle with, what I plan to do in the long run, I ask for general feedback every few months.

Sample agenda:

* I did X in situation Y; could I have handled this better?

* I have too many things to do, so which is the priority: A or B?

* I'll do this big thing over the next month, wdyt? etc

I respectfully disagree. Manager's job here would be to:

- work with devs to make sure whatever gets into the work pipeline is well understood

- everybody agrees on the planned work scope

- prevent anyone from adding "just this tiny thing" into planned scope| - visualise all of this tough, tough dev work, especially the ad-hoc work (putting out fires, for example)

- keeping both management and devs accountable

- and more!

Also I disagree with the bridge metaphor; while true, you can't use the bridge when it's 50% done, you should ideally be able to to use 5% of the planned feature. If you can't, then maybe it was planned out badly and shouldn't go into planning in the first place?

If there's a person that's "working hard" in a team and a person that's "hardly working", then the team has a big issue and should do everything to fix that.

However, This takes a lots of guts on part of (both!) the manager and developers and always has an emotional toll.

https://bluemarblepayroll.com/about/ might be able to help? needs your employer to set this up tho

Ah, so by 18 interviews you also meant e.g. 8 interviews during a full day? For some reason I thought it was spaced out, like you had 18 calls :D

Interesting bit about the 18 interviews. While your company sounds like something really cool, I'd probably not go through all those interviews unless a) they're brief and we move through them quickly (like, in <2 months tops), b) I know about the process in advance so I can prepare and c) I'm paid for my time, starting from after the screening interview.

Regarding c) - 18 interviews, each taking at least 30 minutes (screening would be 15 on average but other would make up for it), that's roughly 9 full hours of my very own time, if not more.

Mullvad. I LOVE their signup process and it's really cheap (€5/mo for up to 5 devices at one time I reckon).

Same here. I'm afraid that we're being sold a compact, minimalist lifestyle that's a way of downsizing our dreams about living places. IKEA is guilty of this, advertising mini/micro flats where you usually sleep on a mezzanine and cook in the corridor.

Location: Berlin, Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: some HTML, Markdown, Git, atlassian cloud admin, bits of RoR. Usual management apps: trello, google apps, office.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mirekwozniak/

Email: wozmir at gmail dot com

Not a developer, product/project manager, more on the technical side. Also great at building organisations.

Nope, though I'm using a photo from an (unpaid) photoshoot from a startup accelerator, made by a semi-pro photographer.

Confluence.

What's your experience with Android One? First time I hear about it but I'm intrigued, doesn't it come from Google anyway? So the "secure" claims are kind of empty?

Lemme try it for a week and I'll get back to you with some better feedback :)

Just subscribed. A bit worried there's no more explanation behind it (also giving out my phone number and email, ummmm, okaaaay). I don't think I'd try it if you would have asked me for cc details though ;)

Sweet, thanks! Just got it and checking it out :)

"It will pass." - a kind of a stoic saying of mine. Applies to both nice and bad things, but mostly to bad things, especially to bad things that are growing/happening sharply.

Nothing strong can last for a long time, so it will pass :)

I'd chalk it up to the stress of moving. I used to live in US and then moved to Germany. It's normal.

Well, of course. It's the same as with reading any official communication from the Russian government ;)

I'm talking about the premise that may appeal to 50% of the citizens. We (as in being able-bodied men, we should take into considerations people with disabilities, weaker, older, frailer) might get outvoted.

Oh, I agree with you m8. I'm terrified with the surveillance stuff. I'd exchange then my "safe(r)" with "more sense of "safety"" (double quote deliberate).

Side note, that colleague originates from Bucharest? Just wondering if it's the same with my wife who feels unsafe in Berlin while she feels safer in Krakow.

While I'm terrified by the system, I do remember watching a BBC (I think?) report on this. There was a young Chinese woman there, who felt safer.

This made me think - what would women - and women, not the young men (me being one) choose when given a choice of the social credit system or being able to walk around the city safe(r)?

Quite general question, yet I do believe they would choose the latter; and I wouldn't blame them.

Hm, what if I don't want to receive advice and just to give it? Advice doesn't equal advice.

Frankly speaking I was expecting I could get paid through this. Right now it seems like giving away my advice for free and you making a profit out of it in the long run. Or am I wrong?

For me this one, even if not about the methodology itself but rather the mindset: Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time.

Disagree with the high regard. As you said, it's not russian type of servitude/slavery, but at the same time, being a Polish (well, not really Polish - living in a land of a certain polish-slavic ruler) peasant was bad.

If the plague hit Poland, then... but that's a what-if ;) I find the difference is really well explained by the description of the Refeudalization process [1].

source: being Polish, currently living in Berlin

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refeudalization

Magine TV | Berlin | Onsite, Full-time | https://de.magine.com/

Magine TV is a cloud-based service for watching live TV. We are re-imagining TV from the customer point of view. We want more and more viewers to find the TV they love, and be able to consume it how, where and when they want. We have brought the digital world together with the broadcast world in order to deliver TV in the best way possible, bringing together all of today’s possibilities.

Looking for a Product & Data Analyst

What we'd need from you:

- 2+ years relevant work experience in Digital Analytics using the mentioned tools and technologies

- Preferably in a B2C subscription business or in the video, music or entertainment industry

- You know SQL well

- Understanding of web and mobile development technologies for both front-end and back-end, especially a strong understanding of JavaScript, HTML, CSS

- Python / Jupyter Notebook is a big plus

- fluent English, written and verbal

- German is a plus but not mandatory

What we've got in store:

- nice, quiet office in the centre of Berlin (near Alexanderplatz)

- work with a considerable amount of data

- structured way of how we work, building a documentation culture here

Ping me at mirek.wozniak (at) magine.com (I'm the product manager here) or apply directly using the link below.

More info and how to apply: https://magine.teamtailor.com/jobs/111689-product-data-analy...

Sounds great! :)

All's cool, I already see the air full of drones (if I can't have my flying cars in 2020, drones would suffice), I'm truly worried about the noise though.

While hoping that electric cars will make cities less noisy (I can feel it in Berlin with more and more electric cars and scooters), the buzzing sounds of drones is already too loud for me - and I've seen only several so far.

That's going to be terrible, having dozens of them buzzing around, like your typical high-pitched scooter, but next to your 3rd floor window.

Any quiet drones in development? ;)