I believe you mean thawb. A fraud is a term for a deep geological formation filled with water, in Scandinavia.

No, that’s frog. Fraud is the opposite of frozen.

Die - Dice
Pie - Pice
Tie - Tice
Lie - Lice

Time has flown. Clearly I joined a bit later. But surely cake day soon.

A lot of what you’re saying is spot on and I respect your experience in this and the other comment.

I don’t hire for fun though. I hire for a diversity of perspectives, integrity and authenticity. We teach people how to constructively challenge and go after problems or objectives that may have no off the shelf solution (if they do, we may acquire it).

The problems are usually P&L quantified and prioritised before they get to us - we only have to do that legwork if it’s something we’ve generated.

It does feel like a playground to a degree and I do love the work - perhaps yes it’s less ‘professional’ and structured. We do have experienced devs and architects who I would hope aren’t reproducing problems - but it’s often our job to find a technical solution (if appropriate) to a problem, not to ‘productionise’ it or maintain it. This involves a handoff to others in the business and they ultimately determine how it is rolled out.

I get that this isn’t typical of the market and thanks for your response / take on this. One thing we have to be careful of is being ‘institutionalised’ and that will come across as naive, perhaps it is, but that has been a help.

R&D, software and embedded systems. Small team, hugely collaborative by its nature and sometimes find ourselves faced with problems / puzzles with no apparent solution or precedent. Hugely rewarding when we can crack them.

I do genuinely feel for other respondents who seem to be bitter or cynical - despite the banter.

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Wow. What’s happened to you to make you so cynical?

Yeah ok people.

It’s not possible to flourish in my line of work without genuine engagement, and a tenacity beyond curiosity to solve certain problems. A jobsworth will not do.

Neither, on the other hand, will a soulless boss or employer, manage to engage.

So keep up with the downvotes and good luck.

Seriously though. I wouldn’t hire someone with that attitude.

Another comment that’s helped me with a new perspective, thanks. The times I’ve worked with Romanian teams, they’ve been dedicated to our company/project.

Fair enough. I see your point. Apologies.

Makes sense. It’s actually quite cool. Our internet signals. Encoded in (I’m guessing) light waves instead of radio waves, with similar multiplexing/ways of maximising signal bandwidth?

I’m staggered by how small these are and how flexible they are.

Seriously? I’ve upped both quality and throughput by specifically hiring Romanian dev teams. They’re (in my limited sample size, admittedly) excellent.

We didn’t cheap out at as low as 50% though.

Is there an ELI5 for fiber optic questions? Am interested in how they’re made, properties of different types, and how signals are sent/repeated etc.

Or several gnarly roundabouts in the UK

100001111 = maybe not

Someone else’s comment from the thread saved me posting it:

They are using a Signal clone that is run by a group of Israeli intelligence officers??

I don’t think that part of the story has broken yet properly. When you go to google maps for the address listed for that company you actually get a company called “Cyberint” which seems extremely not good.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/L7vVHw5x4VdgS8859?g%5C_st=com.google.ma…

Worse… when you take a look at the bios for the company on their website I see that it’s filled with supposedly “ex” Israeli intelligence officers including the CEO among others.https://www.telemessage.com/team/

That seems like a MUCH MUCH bigger deal than they currently known story.

Like several orders of magnitude bigger than the original signalgate story.

The implication here is that a bunch of Israeli intelligence officers have maybe the best access of anyone in the world right now in that they have a real time feed of every conversation that the US national security advisor is a part of.

Whoa…

Oh bollocks. How do I cancel the voicemail I left Randolphilus.