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Jan 9 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Just in: Meta has rescinded fulltime offers in London, as I confirmed with devs impacted. New grads with offers due to start in February have been taken back in bulk. I know of about 20 people so far.

This is the first time I'm aware that Meta is taking back signed, FTE offers.
Meta's position until now was that FTE offers are NOT at risk. Up to even a week ago.

In October, recruiters made it clear to candidates worried about their offers that these are safe. From @Pragmatic_Eng newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-scoop-27

Then, layoffs happened in November. Now, this. 2. FTE offers are not at ri...
@Pragmatic_Eng We should acknowledge that the job market has been very rough for new grads since COVID started - even during the 2021 boom for most of tech! -, and it's getting even tougher right now.

Advice I have for folks with less experience and new grads: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/advice-for-jun…
Amazon has done something similar to Meta since December: rescind fulltime, signed offers. Amazon has not done this for about a decade, according to old-timers I talked to.

Covered in @Pragmatic_Eng in Dec: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-scoop-34 Amazon has rescinded softwa...

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Jan 10
"I received an offer from a Big Tech that could have been a step-up, career-wise. However, because I would have had to move countries and the contract has a 12-month probation, I decided to decline it, because of the current economic conditions."

I cannot argue with this.
This was someone I gave advice on how to negotiate, and they negotiated to the comp package they were happy with.

But now, seeing that Big Tech is laying off, they decided that job security is worth more than the risk of change.

It's starting: good candidates staying put.
On the questions on the 12-month probation: common in countries like the NL or the UK. In the Netherlands, a perm contract is given 12 months later by even some bigger companies, and up to 3 years by startups. In UK, the first 2 years you have little protection & can be let go.
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Jan 10
The iPhone was released in 2008, and in the early years it was one of the most exciting (and profitable!) technologies to specialize in.

That was 15 years ago. This means that there are people with 15 years of iOS engineering experience... who have only been working as iOS devs.
There's this duality in tech when technologies come and go, and some industries - and engineers - get "stuck" with one technology or the other (e.g. enterprises still using e.g. Java, Spring etc) as the industry moves by.

But with eg iOS and Android, change is constant.
Both iOS and Android has a moving window where most apps only support the last N versions of the OS. And the latest version *needs* to be supported.

This means that as a native iOS or Android engineer, you keep up with the latest: because you have to!

A pretty unique field.
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Jan 10
Ironic how bad Uber has gotten in Amsterdam, b/c the company can no longer penalise drivers for cancelling.

After waiting 10 minutes, my Uber driver drove past, looked at me, cancelled and drove away.

Ended up taking public transport after the next driver didn’t move either.
I now use taxis at the airport, which cost the same, have no waiting time and don’t cancel on me.

It’s really full circle. Tho we can thank Uber for taxis upping up their game, and the fear of scams seems to have been reduced over the years.
By the way, this is what regulating ride sharing looks like. In the Netherlands, Uber has 2 choices:

1. Ensure quality by imposing strict rules (eg limit cancellations) -> but needs to employ drivers

2. Have no control over these behaviours, but drivers stay self employed.
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Jan 9
Promotions are decided by managers, like it or not. To get promoted, you often need a manager who:

1. Has your back

2. Is influential enough with their peers to get their way

3. Knows their way around promotion politics, and has enough allies (screenshot from @Pragmatic_Eng) There is something discomforting about building alliances wi
Screenshot from my article on performance calibrations, politics, allies, and strategies.

Strategies like this one:

newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/performance-… Strategies During calibration, you’ll observe several stra
A common reason I've observed an engineer get a worse performance outcome (==bucketing) than perhaps should have been the case was b/c their manager was either brand new and didn't come prepared to the meeting, or because they were in bad standing, also having few to no allies.
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Jan 9
Every now and then I hear from non-technical founders asking how they can succeed with their tech startup.

I can’t help because my view is that you don’t want to outsource the core of your business. If you are a *tech* company, this means you want a founder to know technology.
Now, there are plenty of businesses where tech is not core, but it's a cost center that it's fine to outsource. Like if you're selling something online, but the core of the business is sourcing this thing and marketing it, and you just need a webshop that you can outsource.
I've observed it's cool to say a company is a "tech company" even if technology is not a core competency and not part of the value proposition.

Just know that if, as a founder, you are unwilling to learn tech, and don't have a technical founder, you are outsourcing tech.
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Jan 7
If this is true then I am not a talented person at all.

I never liked replying to emails, and esp not quickly. I have been a pretty terrible email respondent most of my professional career.

In my experience, responding to emails fast alone tells nothing about a person tho.
By the way, you’ll note that people who are good at X often project that those who do X well are some of the most talented people.

It’s why fast email responders will often say that the best people are fast email responders. They both care, notice, and are also good at it.
The email things stressed me out most when I was an EM. I DID try the “inbox zero” stuff and other productivity things but it never stuck with me.

I did go thru emails once a day and get back to urgent ones. Over time learned that anything else urgent, will find me other ways.
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