Do you know the reasons why management is moving away from working remotely?
In an effort to attract and keep more talent the company for which I work allows working remotely more and more.
Without that option the turn over rate for engineers would have doubled in the last year.
The reason they went remote was to save money on real estate. They could sell buildings and get rid of leases.
The specific reasons they no longer want to go remote has not been shared with us other than the usual 'we want more teamwork'.
It's a shame. I tried to apply to other internal jobs, but they won't allow me to work remotely because of the new policy. So now they've severely limited their candidate pool and may have to look outside the bank and incur the costs that brings.
- No politics. If the whole team agrees that something benefits their work then we will try it out. I do not have any respect for managers sabotaging team decisions because of gut feelings. Hard facts count. I can help getting those, just ask.
- Working fully remotely from Europe.
- No BS. No, your video serving backend written in Ruby which does 3k requests/min isn't something to brag about. No, you do not need to brag about your Sales guy who brought in 200$ more revenue this month. Let me fix this bug for you in production and save a few servers of your AWS bill.
- I don't care if it's Ruby/Java/Scala/Go/Erlang/Self Invented Foo
- No Perl.
- No quizzes during interviews.
- Even though I am only a software engineer everyone around me says that I get stuff done. Ownership does not stop at QA/OPS/PROD/Customer Support. I love finished products, not pushing lines of code to git. Empower me.
- Smart colleagues
Looking at these few criterias I should start paying people to find such companies.
Building automation is already available for all your automation needs. Quite expensive but working well. I cannot see what Apple brings to the table other than control devices. Big automation vendors will probably just write a wrapper for that custom Apple protocol and be done with it.
Does it matter? With the first product users could win money, travels, cosmetics and other prizes for solving knowledge based puzzles.
The B2B product saves time by automating specific QA work flows when testing mobile apps/ xbox/playstation/wii games.
I am in the same position as you: Want to invest money in a startup. So I had a look at different seed investments/crowd funding sites like [1] but often they are heavily tied to your physical location cause of funding/financing laws in your country. Found a couple of german sites that act as a funding mediator which looked quite nice: They analyse businesses, providing regular business insights, earnings, spendings and so on. But mind you, I am a total beginner with that so I am easy to impress.
The pitch itself is bad. What is your slogan? Tools like a pro or something for digital rebels? No screenshots of nothing? Not even a demo game? No disarming arguments why I should lock myself into your closed source middleware?
Better: use Moai (open source, can fix bugs on your own, can add features, etc.) with Testflight (ios only I guess).
I really do not know who the target audience is for this product. Too expensive (3 seats 150$/MO, lol) for newcomers (the video is surely targeted at those) but missing meat for 'real pros' - yo!
Great feedback, thanks! We have almost solely focused on making the best workflow for game dev possible, with things like updating the games live on your mobile phones while they run and a proper editor with visual editing. I really agree that we are currently sending a mixed message, we need to be more clear of what kind of service we are and what you can do with it.
Uhm, all I read was whine, whine and more whine.
- Too long unemployed and getting weird looks at interviews? Create your own consulting company, say "provided consulting to <your expertise>". Swallow down that your customers where your mom, aunt, uncle or your next neighbour. Why did you apply for this job? Expanding your horizon, sharpen your skills, new adventures, the whole shebang
- company having requirements no one can fullfil? guess what, the company is probably shit anyway
- get a job at some coder shop, even if it is below your standard
- if you have done consultancy for any money house - please don't call yourself anything technical (like speed traders) but go rot in hell
In an effort to attract and keep more talent the company for which I work allows working remotely more and more. Without that option the turn over rate for engineers would have doubled in the last year.