Niklas Lochschmidt

Proud husband and father of two 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Software Engineer and Tech Lead👨‍💻 Find me at @[email protected]

[Niklas Lochschmidt @Niklas_L]

Gonna be off Twitter for a while to try the Fediverse for real👋

[Niklas Lochschmidt @Niklas_L]

@escapedcat I had good experience with https://t.co/j85cVBr7ds and https://t.co/SlW9SffJSJ ymmv

[Niklas Lochschmidt @Niklas_L]

Last day at BRYTER 🥲

[Tobias Mende on @[email protected] @Tobias_Mende]

To whom it may concern: tell interviewees about your values and culture.

If you celebrate hustle culture, expect 8am-6pm availability and want your employees to put work first at all times - say so.

[Niklas Lochschmidt @Niklas_L]

@idanmelamed „Traditional notions of management are great if you want compliance. But if you want engagement, self-direction works better.“—Daniel Pink

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@SteveSmith_Tech Other ideas, not the greatest 😅

„No offense without a great defense - the How and Why of protecting your bottom line“

„Cash Cows - What you can learn from the most profitable teams in any company“

[Niklas Lochschmidt @Niklas_L]

@SteveSmith_Tech Are you trying to improve the sentiment towards „maintenance mode“? As a listener I am much more interested in what you want share. The word would potentially distract from that.

So „How to protect your business“ > „How to protect your business with maintenance mode“

[Niklas Lochschmidt @Niklas_L]

@schmonz Just using git

[Steve Smith @SteveSmith_Tech]

You don't want to invest in new features for an IT service any more! Is that...

[Niklas Lochschmidt @Niklas_L]

@schmonz When there is more than one team working on the same repo we would usually work on different branches and do „mob done“ and merge into main at the end of the session. It worked well for us.

[Niklas Lochschmidt @Niklas_L]

In my search for the next job, I could confirm that there are two clearly distinct engineering salary tiers.

However the only „big tech“ company on the list that I applied to was „only“ in the second tier as well.

https://t.co/qTgSBuVNrA

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@leftieFriele The company is quite young and they are still a small team.

The engineer, who seemingly designed the tasks, shared that they have made a negative experience at a previous company, where a junior got through an interview process for a senior position.

They aren’t a lost cause 😉

[Niklas Lochschmidt @Niklas_L]

I recently had a technical interview with a coding part. It’s such a distressing experience.

Even though I know that I can do everything the interviewers expected, when put on the spot like this, everything becomes so much harder.

[Niklas Lochschmidt @Niklas_L]

@abdullin For pet projects, I have no tolerance for maintenance work. Serverless is great for that. I currently use these:
Hosting and Functions https://t.co/p9dZq01ABM
Database https://t.co/FFxSoNSPdL
AuthZ https://t.co/ZK2N9ekAEX

[Niklas Lochschmidt @Niklas_L]

🙈 58 companies in total. Not all remote.

[Niklas Lochschmidt @Niklas_L]

One week ago I started actively looking for a new position. It’s an intense process:

116 inbound messages
58 remote companies on my list
14 initial conversations (~30min)
5 very promising options

I’ll do this for one more week, then I will transition to interviewing 🏃‍♂️

[Niklas Lochschmidt @Niklas_L]

2023, for me, means I will be moving on from BRYTER 👋🥲.

I am building a list, so if you know of a #remotefirst team (CET compatible-timezone) in need of a Software Engineer with technical leadership experience, let me know!

Please RT for reach 🙏
https://t.co/IP4ftLNvsE

[Michael Feathers @mfeathers]

Good article about the dangers of employee churn.

https://t.co/4aUDxs9zFK

[Niklas Lochschmidt @Niklas_L]

@ArghRich Alright! In a nutshell, my argument is this: I can do DDD and Hexagonal Architecture in almost any language or (web)-framework. But a lot of datastores have very different non-functional tradeoffs and functional tradeoff so needs more careful decision making.

[Niklas Lochschmidt @Niklas_L]

Unpopular opinion: which datastore you choose matters more than which programming language or framework.

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@JoanneD_ They created a record based on my public information, which is probably legal, but then attached a note to it regarding the reason I wasn’t interested at that time.

I never gave my consent for that information to be processed and stored, but I am not sure they need it.

[Niklas Lochschmidt @Niklas_L]

I had a call with a talent manager from a company and they referenced details from a private conversation I had, with another talent manager of theirs, on LinkedIn from over two years ago.

I am almost certain this is a violation of the #GDPR 🤔