For someone with no experience installing and supporting linux I would recommend an 8gb Raspberry Pi 5 instead. Mainly because they are all the same and if the beginner has problems there is a wealth of information about that specific device in beginner formats.
This is interesting! I'm curious how you accounted for the layoffs at the FAANGs? They dumped a bunch of engineers on the market and anecdotally companies seem to be filling their hiring funnels without advertising.
On the 3ed page there is a plot of the funds rate to job postings that has a bunch of dots above the line until ~2.5% or so.
It 2020 being a warm body was enough to get you a job. But in this market there will be a dozen people with directly applicable experience applying as well, those people will get the first calls back.
The second list only matters once you've checked the correct box. If you go to a .NET shop and say "I've never used Microsoft products before but I'm a quick learner, look at these haskell projects" your resume is going in the bit bucket.
with the exception being if they have some constraint that means you are the only person applying to the job, e.g. they want you onsite 5 days a week in the middle of nowhere and you're the only person willing to move out there
This is actively harmful advice to someone looking for a job. The hiring team is only going to pick one person and if you want to be at the top of that list you need to be familiar with their stack.
_once you have a job_, yes then you can focus on breath and flexibility.
OP's question was whether they should focus on a specific stack to get jobs and they listed all the popular ones. The answer to that is still what I said. That has nothing to do with a company/team preferring to hire someone who knows their tech stack. apples and oranges. Company A uses React/Python etc. Sure, they would prefer hiring someone with experience in that. But then there is Company B that uses PHP/Laravel, Company C that uses .NET and so on and so forth. Plenty of fishes.
With 250 employees[0] and $20MM yearly revenue[1] a Buc-ee's can pull numbers a many startups would envy. I'd imagine managing all of that is not trivial.
Will the permission to be remote continue for someone who is hired now? The only thing that stopped me from applying in the past is the requirement to relocate.
Per provided link https://www.usds.gov/apply: "During the COVID-19 pandemic, most people at USDS are working remotely from many locations across the country. During normal times, we ask that you make Washington, D.C. or the surrounding area your base during the work week."
Agreed. If this was a truly remote position permanently, I'd apply right now and take a pay cut. I'm at the point in my career where social impact at this scale would be a higher priority than pay for me. But remote is the highest.
There are also government contractors who often pair with USDS doing this kind of work! Ad Hoc (my employer), Nava, Civic Actions, etc. are all part of a new generation of companies with related missions trying to bring modern software practices into the US government. While USDS is often on the inside cutting through bureaucracy, the contractors are often doing most of the technical build and implementation.
FWIW places like 18F are frequently hiring engineers, product people, and designers, the pay is similar, the work is related, and they are 100% remote.
Indeed. Dude is concerned about inflation for the US dollar. Last thing he’ll care about is 20-something making 200K a year sending emojis over the Internet.
Not really. The richest American, aka 1/330,000,000 is is the top 0.0000003030303%, and is non other than Elon Musk, according to Forbes, assume you're referring to rich Americans (which excludes Bernard Arnault and Carlos Slim Helu), followed by Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, Warren Buffett, and Bill Gates. All $100-billionaires. An amount so staggeringly higher than mere mortals that it does everybody a disservice to lump them in with mere millionaires. You may have heard of tech millionaire Linus Torvalds (net worth $50 million) or Urs Hölzle (Google; $10 million). The top 0.000003% have five orders of magnitude more money.
Everyone is closer to being a millionaire than any of the billionaires mentioned.
