Author here! Happy to discuss any of the specifics of the report, including why DataGrip is the best SQL editor on the planet. But seriously, here for any questions.
Switching between big companies and startups in my own career, I think there's a bit of a hurdle you switching between the two. Both sides view the other as a bit inferior, or maybe that the other side has missing/different skillsets. Startups view employees from big companies as slower moving and more political. Big companies tend to view startup employees as lacking rigor and prestige. Have you ever told an interviewer your company name and then had the interview say: "Hm, never heard of them"?
Thanks for the note! I get what you're implying which is that maybe it's not the engineers who are biased to stay where they are, but instead it could be the recruiting mechanisms that are biased towards homogeny. This is an interesting takeaway. I do think Startups have the mandate here to do a better job positioning their companies, and finding ways to entice big tech engineers from their companies. I do think startups offer engineers a variation if nothing else, and often allow them to get closer to the business, and thus work on more critical problems.
Jarod from Twilio here. Twilio Tutorials are a new documentation format we're releasing today. We heard from lots of Twilio developers, and non Twilio developers that the way they best learned was just having a colleague run through some code with them... a sort of annotated walkthrough of why and how they built something. What we're launching today is straight from the brains of hundreds of web developers who told us what they wanted. We hope it helps pave the path to production, and we 'd love to hear what you think of it. If you have any feedback for our team we'll be lurking on this post to field questions and hear ideas.
I serve on the Developer Education team at Twilio and Tutorials is a new documentation format we're releasing today. We heard from lots of Twilio developers, and non Twilio developers that the way they best learned was just having a colleague run through some code with them... a sort of annotated walkthrough of why and how they built something. What we're launching today is straight from the brains of hundreds of web developers who told us what they wanted. We hope it helps pave the path to production, and we 'd love to hear what you think of it.
I want to stage a real-life pac-man game in times square. I have worked out the logistics and think it would be really fun. Any PR people interested in helping us make this happen? With say a corporate sponsor?
