You really don't want them treating you like you aren't qualified for the job. Your big challenge is to figure out how to do it well enough during your grace period that it doesn't happen.

I think I’m doing pretty well so far, but how long is that graceperiod? Like six months?

That's a good question. Asking questions here and talking about how unqualified you are is fine, it's what anonymous forums were made for, be more careful telling people at work that though. At least until you know who to trust.

You might try looking at some job postings for technical project manager and look at the job requirements and start talking with your manager about the ones you haven't done yet. Things I've seen recently that you haven't mentioned are scheduling and tracking progress to completion and tracking costs. Not everything is going to apply and your position sounds closer to product owner than project management but knowing what is expected is going to be the best way to get up to speed for the position.

Ive been scheduling, tracking progress, but not costs. Costs are hard to gauge here.

You should look into figuring out costs, but it may not be in your responsibilities. The idea is to make sure you know what your going to be asked to do so you aren't caught out by surprise.

Knowing how much stories cost lets you talk about how much money you have invested in WIP and what changing focus in the middle of a sprint actually costs.

I don't think my boss even knows what he wants me to do. He's told me things he wants to get done - i don't think he cares too much how they get accomplished. And TBH he could accomplish them without me if he really wanted to. Maybe he's too busy or overwhelmed with managing the entire codebase by himself to deal with the admin stuff. That's what I think.

I think the role I'm taking now was one performed by one of the weakest dev on the team, and she seems like she was better at it than me - i hope i am not stepping on toes.

I think I actually have accomplished a lot. I identified a major architectural issue and gave my team a nice 2-4 week project to work on when I'm officially full time.

I've been assigned another project this week.

I have other ideas too, like they don't back up their code base at all, insisting it's based on "trust" and I'm like **** that. My boss wants to trim our branches, and the reason there are so many is because they use them as archives. I say let's just write a script to backup all our **** on our servers once/twice a week or whatever. It would be so easy, and safeguard them against 1 malicious employee wiping all their **** out.

I’ve been having this conversation a few times lately, so I might as well have it here.

It’s not enough to have a good reason to do something. You need to do the most valuable work and not just valuable work.

Protecting a small startup from a malicious employee isn’t the most valuable work to do. Startups have all sorts of risks and you need to make smart choices about which ones you eliminate, which ones you mitigate, and which ones you ignore. A malicious employee is going to **** your company regardless of if you back up the source code.

There might be others reasons to do some sort of backup, but it needs to be really valuable.

You also need to take into account that people generally estimate effort and benefits in the best case. So your backup scripts might be harder to write than you think. And they’re going to fail more often than you think. And they’re going to take ongoing testing and maintenance. And so on.

Obviously I’m missing context here but I doubt this is a story worth doing.

Are y'all not using git or some other remotely stored version control system? Because if you are then there's not really much people can really do, I think? Everything should be reversible. Obviously you do not give people direct access to the repo outside of the version control system.

Has anyone here interviewed with Apple?

I sent out resumes this morning to Apple, Marvell, and Micron and to my surprise all three of them contacted me within a couple of hours and conducted phone interviews.

I'm confident I'll get offers from Marvell and Micron without having to go through too much because of referrals and ex-managers working there, but Apple is another story.

They want to do a second phone interview that includes technical questions next week, which doesn't leave me much time to prepare. Everyone is moving so fast!

That's how numerous companies go busto. If you can't measure your costs, you can't know what your margins need to be to make a profit.

It’s a startup

Friends, but not directly. As far as I remember it was a pretty standard process. A technical phone screen, then flown out for in person interviews, followed by an offer shortly after.

I don't think it dragged out because my last friend that went to Apple had the offer around the same time frame as all of his other offers.

I just found out my Mom doesn't understand the difference between closing an app on her iPhone and uninstalling it. Her battery is dying fast, so I tried to explain to her about closing apps (which Apple doesn't think matters anymore but I don't believe them and no I don't want to hear it Kerowo).

If she thinks she needs to close an app for some reason: "I make it jiggle, then hit the X. Then I can always open it again from the app store."

I tried to explain the difference between un/installing and closing/opening using her PC. But it's possible she never really understood the difference between closing and uninstalling there either. She just knows the X makes it go away until she needs it again.

And my Mom is an order of magnitude more computer savvy than my dad. Computers are fun.

It'd be easier to teach her to just reboot it every few days.

MS buys github?

RIP Github

**** man using git is like 99% of my job

I actually think MS's new CEO has been pretty awesome so I'm optimistic that github stays cool.

Now, will all the other companies keep their repos there?

They should at least keep mirrors, so I don't see how this will be bad.

https://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard...porter?orgId=1

man if I was a higher up at github I'd just quit tomorrow and hard fork the ****ing thing and be instantly worth 9+ figures. Gitlab tries but its not there. Huge opportunity rn I'd guess but what do I know. Why the **** would any big company "contribute" to github starting tomorrow? My fortune 100 uses github enterprise and I'm pretty sure stomachs are churning somewhere at this moment.

Most of the higher ups are going to make a bunch of money on this deal and will likely have agreements in place to stop them from doing anything crazy.

And even if not, nobody is going to value a new alternative coming out of nowhere anywhere close to 9 figures.

Most big companies have already come to terms to doing business with Microsoft / Google / Amazon. And Microsoft is probably the least offensive to most of these companies anyway.

Isn't there a project that will encrypt your git repo before it puts it on GitHub? If there isn't there is probably a market for that.

What is github better than bitbucket at?

My team has expanded on the main project I'm on, and is now over 20 people. I'm not sure our stand ups are remotely effective with this size team - today's took 40 minutes. The sponsor joins them, and it's hard to avoid it becoming a continual status update.

20 people isn't a standup it's a department meeting. Team sizes over 8 are definitely frowned on for just that reason.