Relatively underhand change by Google early last month to limit all Google Drive consumer accounts to 5m files/folders regardless of whether you've reached the storage limit or not - paid or unpaid.
Causing chaos for lots of people, especially if you're utilising Google API's for storage and document editing for your own apps.
This was not announced, is not documented and was rolled out without notification.
In my experience of senior positions, they're typically ignored if you apply through Linkedin. You're better off going direct with a nice cover letter.
I used to always write custom cover letters to companies I was interested in and got responses often. This time, I got lazy and started submitting applications with resume only. The response rate stayed about the same. Cover letters don't really matter for me
I see cover letters as the the same as CVs/résumés: it can be a vector of either bs or interesting content.
I wouldn't write a cover letter unless the company explicitly asks me to, or unless I can add additional information that wouldn't be fit into the CV. For example, when I applied to Digital Ocean my cover letter was the correct place (in my opinion) to say that I've been a customer if theirs since 2014.
For the record, they were interested until I said I would have liked to work remotely (since they bragged extensively about remote work on their careers webpage).
I’d love to hear more about “engineering team rescue” :) Are you referring to being suddenly dropped into a project that needs help (e.g. because it’s behind s schedule), and having to quickly ramp up?
Software engineer, data engineer, product manager, engineering manager/CTO looking for contract work (remote or SW England based) primarily. Relocation eventually for the right role.
Elephant Healthcare | London, UK - Full-Time | https://elephant.healthcare
We’re a startup in Shoreditch building a healthcare management platform for Africa/Middle East markets. Heavy data/analytics platform, responsive web with mobile clients to follow. Tech stack is AWS, MongoDB, Node/ES, Rambda, React, Redux, RxJs. Looking for the following people for engineering:
* Mid level front-end engineer
* Mid level back-end engineer
* Senior Engineer (Platform) - with approx 50% spent doing back-end engineering and devops with the team.
Up to 50-90k GBP with equity and benefits depending on experience.
Email us with any questions at jon dot holloway at elephant.healthcare
Ometria's mission is to stop impersonal ‘one size fits all’ marketing campaigns and make the way retailers communicate with their customers more personalised and engaging. We are bringing the technology of the hyper-growth retail giants, like Amazon, to many more retailers utilising advanced data modelling and machine learning techniques, and this involves processing many millions of data points quickly and reliably.
We’re building out a B2B SaaS platform to support this using Javascript and Python (Flask services) on AWS and Kubernetes at scale.
Blis | London, UK | Onsite | Full-time | circa £80k | Senior Engineer, Data Platform | https://www.blis.com/
Blis are looking for several engineers to join our engineering teams working on location/behavioural solutions for programmatic adtech.
We're around 30 engineers building out a data platform using Spark, Scala, Python with Druid, Cassandra and PostGIS. We build API's and apps using JS/JVM tech.
Tech We Use: Scala/Java/Python/Docker/Kubernetes/AWS/Ansible/PostgreSQL/Cassandra/Druid/Redshift/Luigi
Qualifications
- 5+ years of commercial software development experience.
- Experience with JVM technology (Scala a plus, but not essential)
- Rapid development, aptitude for picking up new tech quickly
- Excellent communication skills
Causing chaos for lots of people, especially if you're utilising Google API's for storage and document editing for your own apps.
This was not announced, is not documented and was rolled out without notification.