@GergelyOrosz's Latest X Threads

A perspective I learned about big tech internships when I was a hiring manager: Internships are, fundamentally, a very expensive recruitment exercise that big tech does, to place "holds" on the most promising graduates, before those people graduate and start to look for jobs.

If you thought tech compensations are high, wait until you hear about the fees to headhunt for senior positions. €100K or $150K to execute a search (no guarantee a hire will be made) for senior engineering leadership positions (DoE, VPE) is where it tends to start.

How to mess up an acquisition: do what Intuit is doing with Mailchimp and their longtime employees. t.co/5CA0NS5RuU

The 2021 Talent .io salary report is out. These reports work with the data they have, and it's clear that high-paying tech companies don't use "Europe's largest tech recruitment platform" at all, resulting in data that is off from reality. A thread on why these reports are off: t.co/eMCJhLS8dB

One of the most surprising facts about the mobile platform team at Uber: it was created when there were five (!!) mobile engineers in total. This was in 2014. Screenshot is from the interview with Ganesh Srinivasan, former VP of engineering at Uber who built out this team. t.co/IoSLRH7G1d

Hashicorp’s IPO will be another great outcome for… the European tech scene. Yes, that one. Hashicorp hired engineers in the UK, Netherlands and Germany, issuing generous stock packages. Which stock will turn liquid, and we might see some EU startups off the back of this exit. t.co/tgVSiDZBYg

Yes. No company with a good engineering culture has the title “junior”. Entry-level software engineers are called Software Engineer. Entry-level PMs: Product Manager. “Junior” levels signal a hierarchical organisation where it sends the message “we don’t take you seriously”. t.co/BCQ61lWQIM

I’m not surprised the least. Uber has always been pragmatic in buying the best hardware money can buy - especially when that hardware means much faster (mobile) compile times. t.co/duC1Pzovow t.co/YUH19Aadmv

"What is your take on 'US software engineering culture' vs other cultures (like Scandinavian, Eastern EU etc)?" A loaded question but here goes: 1. US-founded tech companies dominate global markets. Not understanding how and why they succeed is ignorance at its finest.

In "why should I care about equity, with numbers": An engineer got an offer at GitLab to work remote in Amsterdam with an €93K base and 4,000 options. They figured the options might be worth €10K/year. After IPO it was worth $350K. This is how you double your compensation. t.co/nhFqjo9Bs7