Qualio | multiple roles | Full-time | Remote (EU only)| https://www.qualio.com/careers

We are hiring for several technical positions:

* Technical Support Engineer

* Senior Software Engineer

* Principal Software Engineer

Our mission is to help teams building life-saving products get to market in less time, with less cost and less risk. We're bringing fresh thinking to a slow-moving industry that's ripe for change, and it's working - Qualio is the fastest growing platform for life sciences companies, and is used in 80+ countries.

With dual headquarters in San Francisco, California and Dublin, Ireland, our team is distributed across North America and Europe (tech). Join our remote-first global team where we want everyone to do their best work and help our customers succeed in bringing quality products to the world.

Contact - ping me, Mirek, product manager here: mwozniak (at) qualio (dot) com or just apply at https://www.qualio.com/careers :)

Gluing + painting models and miniatures! I've been bad at manual artistic things always, so I kinda combined my passion for the history of warfare with that thing I'm lacking and... here I am, gluing German tank models :)

Hey - I also do boxing! What helped me way more though, was practising kendo. On that later. [1]

Find a psychotherapist. Therapy will allow you to unlock the flow of your emotions and deal with anything better. You can also treat it as a kind of work coaching. I went through psychodynamic and gestalt therapy and I've managed to suggest therapy to several of my friends. I'll even go as far as to offer to lend people money so that they go to therapy. Sometimes half-jokingly I call it the "gym for the soul/mind", since it's best if you go there if you're feeling well and it makes your "body" (mind/soul) better prepared to handle things now and in the future. Think how people who lift heal faster after accidents.

DM me if you want to chat about therapy or kendo!

[1]: Kendo is Japanese swordsmanship and it focuses on the spirit more than the body. You must shout during Kendo. You must be aggressive. You have to forgo your "safety" for the sake of "killing" your opponent. "" because kendo is about emulating fighting with a real katana :)

Good point about feedback for the manager, I forgot to mention it. Depends on how well you get along with your manager, but I went as far as to say "you were joking about thing X (usually hiring/firing/PTO/performance etc. topics) which I didn't like".

Yes, I realize not all of us have the luxury of being part of organization where direct, open, constructive feedback whether it's positive or negative is just a thing people do. (Many organizations will boast about values but not live them. If you live them there's no need to even talk about them.)

1:1 or not, good manager should not only make everyone safe with giving him/her and everyone feedback but also ask for it if he/she takes the responsibility of taking care of the people seriously.

Even if that's not a part of the culture then it seems to me it makes sense to try to be the leading example (with a clear, expressed explicitly if needed intent of doing this to make everyone's life and cooperation better) if it doesn't put your job at jeopardy.

However, if it is, maybe it's worth considering what future lies ahead for you in the company? This of course depends on personal goals.

I prepare the agenda on my own, it's usually 2 to 5 points. My issues, worries, what I struggle with, what I plan to do in the long run, I ask for general feedback every few months.

Sample agenda:

* I did X in situation Y; could I have handled this better?

* I have too many things to do, so which is the priority: A or B?

* I'll do this big thing over the next month, wdyt? etc

Wdyt = what do you think

I respectfully disagree. Manager's job here would be to:

- work with devs to make sure whatever gets into the work pipeline is well understood

- everybody agrees on the planned work scope

- prevent anyone from adding "just this tiny thing" into planned scope| - visualise all of this tough, tough dev work, especially the ad-hoc work (putting out fires, for example)

- keeping both management and devs accountable

- and more!

Also I disagree with the bridge metaphor; while true, you can't use the bridge when it's 50% done, you should ideally be able to to use 5% of the planned feature. If you can't, then maybe it was planned out badly and shouldn't go into planning in the first place?

If there's a person that's "working hard" in a team and a person that's "hardly working", then the team has a big issue and should do everything to fix that.

However, This takes a lots of guts on part of (both!) the manager and developers and always has an emotional toll.

https://bluemarblepayroll.com/about/ might be able to help? needs your employer to set this up tho

Thanks, will have a look :)

Interesting bit about the 18 interviews. While your company sounds like something really cool, I'd probably not go through all those interviews unless a) they're brief and we move through them quickly (like, in <2 months tops), b) I know about the process in advance so I can prepare and c) I'm paid for my time, starting from after the screening interview.

Regarding c) - 18 interviews, each taking at least 30 minutes (screening would be 15 on average but other would make up for it), that's roughly 9 full hours of my very own time, if not more.

I had one quick phone screening, then 2-3 hours on Skype, then they flew me over for a full day of interviews. the whole thing was less than a month.

Ah, so by 18 interviews you also meant e.g. 8 interviews during a full day? For some reason I thought it was spaced out, like you had 18 calls :D

yes, I met almost everyone in the company over a single day. Some guys I talked to several times.

Mullvad. I LOVE their signup process and it's really cheap (€5/mo for up to 5 devices at one time I reckon).

Same here. I'm afraid that we're being sold a compact, minimalist lifestyle that's a way of downsizing our dreams about living places. IKEA is guilty of this, advertising mini/micro flats where you usually sleep on a mezzanine and cook in the corridor.