{"id":247,"date":"2019-09-25T03:37:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T19:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/?p=247"},"modified":"2021-09-10T07:15:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T23:15:46","slug":"belated-sigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/25\/belated-sigh\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Sigh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-017-07325-2\">Publishing negative results helps everyone learn<\/a>. Here&#8217;s my negative result: <a href=\"https:\/\/instacart.com\/\">Instacart<\/a> didn&#8217;t work out in the end. I had a great time there, but the combination of legacy code, a 3-hour timezone difference, and an on-site team of 200 programmers with just a handful remote meant that I was just not productive enough \u2014 even with many weekly video conferences \u2014 and they let me go after 6 months, back in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think it was a learning experience for Instacart as much as for me. The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Facebook,_Apple,_Amazon,_Netflix_and_Google\">FAANG<\/a> prefer onsite teams, with exceptions for specialists, and now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instacartcareers.com\/openings\/\">Instacart&#8217;s job openings<\/a> reflect that. But I&#8217;m a generalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">On the bright side<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been doing contract work in agriculture software since April, and it&#8217;s been a good match. Hourly discipline has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.helpguide.org\/articles\/add-adhd\/managing-adult-adhd-attention-deficit-disorder.htm\">good for my mental health<\/a>, and I&#8217;m fortunate to have a spouse whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hr\/Benefits\/\">job provides benefits<\/a>. If it weren&#8217;t for that, self-employed life would be much harder! Thank you Bahiyyih &amp; Purdue, and hurry up US with affordable health care for all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publishing negative results helps everyone learn. Here&#8217;s my negative result: Instacart didn&#8217;t work out in the end. I had a great time there, but the combination of legacy code, a 3-hour timezone difference, and an on-site team of 200 programmers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/25\/belated-sigh\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[22,23],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fleeting","category-the-world","tag-life","tag-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}