We should probably stop pretending to care about diversity, inclusion, and "equality" when things like citizenship, gender, and even religion matter in our hiring processes... 🤥 I am wondering why a Danish shoe manufacturer (not even a sensitive domain like space or military) should consider the citizenship of a candidate for a "Technology Solution Architect" role. From my experience in the past ... [read more]
March 23, 2024
In late 2016, I moved to Denmark with a kinda "talent work permit", named the Greencard scheme (different from the US Greencard) to find a job as a software developer who has worked with IT infrastructure tools and technologies for over 10 years. Since then, I have lived in Aarhus, Høje Taastrup, Skovlunde, and different parts of Copenhagen, and have worked for various employers. Here in this arti... [read more]
February 9, 2023
This was one of my first few jobs, and I applied to it when my previous employer laid us all due to financial problems. I was hired as a software developer with a pretty low salary, but I was happy to have a job at that time. I was assigned to work on a mix of "legacy", "legacy of legacy", and the "new" codebases. Based on what I saw, I started to wonder if, in Denmark, people at universities lear... [read more]
February 1, 2023
In late 2016, I moved to Denmark with a kinda "talent work permit" named "Greencard" scheme to find a job as a software developer who has worked with IT infrastructure tools and technologies for a few years. Since then, I have worked for various Danish employers, from small startups to the Danish branch of some of the largest international corporations. So far, I have stayed silent about this, but... [read more]
January 31, 2023
We should probably stop pretending to care about diversity, inclusion, and "equality" when things like citizenship, gender, and even religion matter in our hiring processes... 🤥 I am wondering why a Danish shoe manufacturer (not even a sensitive domain like space or military) should consider the citizenship of a candidate for a "Technology Solution Architect" role. From my experience in the past ... [read more]
March 23, 2024
In late 2016, I moved to Denmark with a kinda "talent work permit", named the Greencard scheme (different from the US Greencard) to find a job as a software developer who has worked with IT infrastructure tools and technologies for over 10 years. Since then, I have lived in Aarhus, Høje Taastrup, Skovlunde, and different parts of Copenhagen, and have worked for various employers. Here in this arti... [read more]
February 9, 2023
This was one of my first few jobs, and I applied to it when my previous employer laid us all due to financial problems. I was hired as a software developer with a pretty low salary, but I was happy to have a job at that time. I was assigned to work on a mix of "legacy", "legacy of legacy", and the "new" codebases. Based on what I saw, I started to wonder if, in Denmark, people at universities lear... [read more]
February 1, 2023
In late 2016, I moved to Denmark with a kinda "talent work permit" named "Greencard" scheme to find a job as a software developer who has worked with IT infrastructure tools and technologies for a few years. Since then, I have worked for various Danish employers, from small startups to the Danish branch of some of the largest international corporations. So far, I have stayed silent about this, but... [read more]
January 31, 2023
