I have the chance to move from my engineering career (full-stack robotics, software engineering, cloud background) to assist a law firm as a patent agent in my respective fields. Has anyone made this transition who can offer some input on how that transition played out and what they learned?
I have no data to back this up besides trends I've happened to notice personally, but it seems that private companies with an established market and solid plan still aim for an IPO. Why is that? It seems to only abstract away the initial mission of the company to a board of directors who may not share the same goals, and lead the company towards a slow death as investors have their turn at trying to make what they can from it in the short term. Would a company like Google actually be better off now if it hadn't IPO'd and was still following it's mission?
To be fair, I have used the feature exactly once, but something didn't feel right afterwards. I dont want payment systems where I am doing something whose essence is not about getting paid. There are separate services where we can donate to developers if we'd like to, and developers who are seeking contributions can easily find and leverage those and link to them. Once the dominant open source hosting and sharing service financially inserts itself between its community of contributers, it becomes their financial interest to make more transactions happen between said contributers, and its easy to see GitHub becoming a payment system first instead of an open source community first. Private repos made sense; Sponsors sends chills down my spine about the future of GitHub and open source in general.
I've been living in Tokyo for a little over a year and a half on a work visa and have noticed there is a significant shortage of investment in in-house software development at traditional Japanese companies. There is an even bigger shortage of talent in AI. Japanese companies typically outsource software development to smaller companies within Japan or companies overseas. These consulting and outsourcing companies are often started by someone who previously worked at a place like Amazon, Softbank, Google, etc and become quite successful, sometimes with business models of simply reselling cloud services from Google or AWS. After hearing about these people breaking into the market and becoming successful, I thought it would make sense to give it a try myself. I have a background of 3 years combined at Amazon.com and AWS in the US as an SDE, and have been in my current role as senior engineer in AI at a big Japanese company for 1.5 years doing humanoid robotics development. I'd be particularly interested in helping Japanese companies identify and introduce automation and AI into various parts of their business. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!
I've already accepted an offer at one of the big tech companies. I applied to a competitor because the offer was for a position that I don't exactly enjoy, and thought I'd be honest about my offer acceptance. They said they would like to honor my commitment with the competitor and withdraw my application.
The site is cleverly constructed in the sense of invoking sentiment to support a campaign through fearful, shocking and distasteful pictures, supporting links, and quotes. The inclusion of the war pictures, of Dr. Rice in a menacing manner; this website reads more like one of those slander campaigns you'd see on Fox than a disgruntled Dropbox user. Perhaps the competitor? A disgruntled employee? If that is the case, and although we support the campaign, we should still question the motives of the creator of this website. It's a very opportune time to drive users away from Dropbox by jumping on the Dr. Rice wagon.
