Kontroversial Keith

Tag: work

  • Work: Paying Higher For Positions and Demanding Smarter People

    There’s this problem in the job market where employers want to get away with murder in terms of paying people as low as they can. The end result is that for certain type of jobs, you create a sort of vacuum in terms of intelligence just due to their nature (e.g. airport security, customer service,…

  • Looking Towards the Long Term

    Things are slowly starting to settle for me with the new job. Some really nice things are coming up that ought to help put into place my long term goals. But the major point for me is that I’m really looking to ease up and just find a nice rhythm as opposed to working at…

  • Frustrating Experiences with Tech Recruiters

    Today was a very frustrating day for me as I learned that the job I was applying for ended up getting cancelled and that I was passed over. Now, normally this situation wouldn’t have been so sensitive to me except for the circumstances involving a particular recruiter and agency that I had been using. I…

  • The Best Code Written and Myth of Academia

    Yesterday, I had lunch with some friends and two people mentioned that they lacked a proper college degree. Somehow they felt that having a proper college degree has hurt them in some way. While that part might have some truth, it’s not the whole story. The conversation led me to de-construct the notion of academics…

  • 3rd Longest Company I’ve Worked For

    Today, officially marks (via LinkedIn at least :p) my 1 year 3 month period at Steelhouse. This makes it the 3rd longest company I’ve worked for. My next goal will be to hit the 2nd longest company mark, which would be in 8 months (again according to LinkedIn :p), beating out Hartford Life Insurance KK.…

  • Fulfillig Albeit Brutal Week

    These past two weeks quite a roller coaster ride in terms of intensity at the office. Crunch time was about us but for the most part we managed to deliver the product. Management was quite happy and we got our first customer on board. Although it’s still in a beta (pre-alpha?) phase, the whole point…

  • Long, Productive Week

    This week was truly brutal. The first two days I was living off of Redbulls (despite my exigency not to down those things anymore) as I had things I needed to accomplish. I only managed to hit the gym once this week as I just felt physically burnt out. From Friday, I started getting a…