• ulterno@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    I care about what work I do. I tend to ask about the project at the end of the technical round.
    The HR is not going to hear about that.

    I am not interested in the company’s history, their mission/vision and other propaganda.
    All I need to know about the company is, if they will actually pay me on time for the work I have done and that they are not going-under and defaulting on payments.


    And since I do care about the work that I do, it matters to me, what will become of the project after the company gets the worth out of it.
    And that is where all big-names fail miserably.

    You are selling a smartphone/ laptop/ a cloud connected camera/ any product that uses multiple components with their own use?
    At the end of support period, you are to openly distribute the documentation for all components.
    That way, a camera out of an old smartphone/laptop won’t require reverse engineering to be reused with a Pi or sth.
    A monitor screen out of a laptop can be used as another monitor, without having to buy another controller from a shady site (yeah, I call AliExpress, a shady site) and the existing eDP controller can be reused, without requiring an Oscilloscope.
    When your web-service goes down, the user can make their own interfacer and use the camera on their personal cloud.