"They have asked the court to block Tesla from securing separation agreements with laid-off staff, arguing that by offering only one or two weeks' severance, Tesla is in violation of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, and the company should provide staff with 60 days' pay plus benefits."
Are there really any significant acquisitions happening just for some database? I don't think this happens unless the data is absolutely massive and very unique.
Yes, and Doctors are the most valuable segment in the world, a bit more than bankers. Because while bankers have $ to spend on consumer stuff, it's a bit hard to target them with financial services. But Doctors are gateway to the entirety of Healthare.
There are companies that specialize in how Drug Sales teams are organized - who to target, what regions. That's 'very valuable'.
Literally just ads for drugs. That's it. If Pfizer had a tool that was used by 10% of Doctors, and literally just slipped in some sponsorship, it'd be worth a fortune.
No doubt everyone involved would be wary of a 'drug recommendation engine owned by a drug company' ... but that could be mitigated. And frankly, some 'bad actors' wouldn't care.
There are ample opportunities.
If I were a VC someone came to me and said 'I have a tool that Doctors really like and 2% are already using it on a weekly basis, and we are growing and this could be 10% or more in the future' ...
... I would just write them a check.
So long as the CEO was not insane, and they looked legit.
It'd be worth a fortune.
That said, it's hard to tell if it's that kind of tool.
That said, my 'spidey sense' says there are big opportunities there because Doctors and Pharmacist are overwhelmed, but it's probably a hard problem, and there must be other participants.
My biggest problem with Mozilla is that I pay them a monthly donation and it is real hard to cancel it. They had no problem accepting it. It's just a bit too nasty.
I'd add that there are now so many bootcamp candidates that want a J-O-B and have a passing interest in computers that just filtering them out gets old. The only realistic option for a small team is to reject bootcamp candidates from the get go. You will of course have a few exceptions, but good luck finding them.
A comp sci degree really is a much better filter for junior devs.
I hire bootcamp grads because I don't see too many comp sci grads with github repos that include working code - and in the rare case it almost never includes comments in the code nor passing tests. It's just a job - I'm measuring ability not passion.
A github is really a much better filter for any dev.
Most of the time I’ve seen one, it’s been full of code that is irrelevant, poor or both. Or someone has touted that they’re a committer to a significant OSS project and a git blame shows they’ve done virtually nothing except a readme.
You'd be sad to here this but I have seen lot of people cheat in this, by copying projects and changing small things, thus I don't think it's a good filter in practice. (Unless everyone in your company can spot bullshit while hiring).
And this is not specific to bootcamps. Any measure popular enough will be gamed, Leetcode or GitHub.
In my experience after applying to a few dozen jobs in my quest to switch from IT to SWE, not a single one has taken a serious look at my GitHub projects.
Your rabbitmq connection churn should be at zero pretty much all the time. If you're seeing connection churn increase with volume you need to fix your client code.
