Have you tried a change of name?

If your name is associated with these incidents and you need a fresh start, why don't you consider that as an option?

Obviously this might not pass the background check phase. But not all businesses do a detailed due diligence

Do you have more than one first name?

Just switch everything to your other first name.

Also do the same as the big corps, send dcma take down notices to the offending websites.

I have absolutely, I just have worried about the optics of changing my name and having people find out, like it would seem as though I'm running from things and making it worse.

Just change your last name. People will assume it’s due to marriage (which, depending on your gender, will either be totally normal or mildly abnormal). Only the background check companies will look into it and they usually are just there to check criminal record.

If you get a legal name change, once it's done even your birth certificate is changed. Hr would never know.

That would be great if it worked like that. I know it's stupid in my position, but I like my name, and I know I didn't really do anything wrong. I feel like it would absolutely just be like letting the offending party win, if I did this. But I need to grow up and accept my new reality.

Did your employer not listen to your side of the story at all?

My manager did and I could tell they believed, but the optics of it all I imagined made it too toxic to be worth defending me over. Racist, sexist content was falsely attributed to me.

In what sense were there “optics” beyond the company? Was this incident public, or just on some forum that would only show up when people Google your name?

Some other platform picked it up and started bagging on me. Not national news public, but still.

Until HR requests your academic records, references or anything else that refers to you by your old name.

I’ve never had an employer request academic records after working at multiple FAANG companies — except perhaps right out of college, but I’m not sure even then.

Unless you’re applying for a job that’s high-profile (like VP or C-suite), or in a highly regulated industry, I wouldn’t expect this.

Plus you can probably contact your university registrar with your legal name change and ask them to update the transcript to the new name.

HireRight background check for 2 different BigTech companies required me to put the contact information of my University’s registrar. I think they did actually verify that I received the degree I said I did, despite that being over 15 years ago now.

Premature optimisation is a real pain when it comes to software design and architecture. However, abstraction is a powerful and necessary tool that can make our life a lot easier by avoid repetition (DRY - don't repeat yourself).

A good architect worth their salt will be able to find the right balance. To distill and simplify a problem down to the absolute minimum where it cannot and should not be abstracted anymore before it lose or miss its core objectives and reason to exist.

A somewhat cheesy aphorism for this is "Dry but not so dry it cracks".

Personally I like the rule of thumb that you let 3 instances of something occur before you try to refactor it into a single design.

Without examples of real usage it's far too easy to come up with bad abstractions. I'd rather have code that's easy to delete later.

I think you could investigate offering a free open source version to the wider develop community to help them experiment and use the tool before committing to purchase it.

Then later on, plan on adding paid add-on features and professional support, etc.

Yes, the basic version is and will remain free. Will add paid features in the future.

Pricing will be somewhat similar to LinqPad.

That no matter how good you are at the tech. You need to mature professionally (comms, etc.) in order to avoid undermining your full career potential.

- source: I manage a small team of senior SW engineers

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Author here. Happy to discuss or answer questions.

Just found this gem in the wild. Any other good reading material out there for continuous-* discussing the business case for such industry shift?

Oh Well, if Apple cannot do a half-decent App on windows maybe they shouldn't develop software targeting windows users until they can?

Microsoft, for example, are developing their Office suite of applications for OSX and they are not off the hook for any UI/UX issues for Mac Users. They must make the Apps work for that platform's users as they expect.

If they are marketing their platform and its services & Apps for other platforms, then at least they should give respect to those customer's choices.

I love this idea of website that facilitate business to access this niche expertise. I'd be interested to join such website in my areas of expertise and see it as a great opportunity to help in my free time (& earn some extra money too)

Currently reading this book. Although not a great fit for "history", but it is a great story kind of book with a few good points of advice here and there.

Not sure about the SSL cert. although I had previously used BizSpark credit to buy a domain name

Edit: grammer!