I really want to recruit for a ☆lovely☆ tech company or two. That's all. I reckon I have 5-10 years left in me for recruiting, I wish it could just be in partnership with someone great. Used to be there were so many companies who were brilliant/kind/world changing it was easy to find that kind of partnership. Now, not so much. I haven't recruited at all this year! Where did all the fab companies go.
@Thayer I suspect some of the issue is the global economic downturn combined with race to woo investors with "AI" isn't helping at the moment. Spending in people doing jobs needs to increase again.
@Thayer tech seemed so full of optimism and excitement
Now it just seems full of lies
and I feel like a grumpy old man
@Thayer they’re still out there (thank god, or I’d probably be raising alpacas by now). It’s a job and thus has its annoyances but there’s not a week goes by I’m not thankful to be working at a company which is doing something meaningful with a team who care, are highly competent, and also just lovely to spend time with. demandlogic.co.uk, where we’re sadly not hiring at the moment or I’d be forwarding this straight to the person responsible.
@sean do you remember how cool it was when we worked with SirTBL!!! I was so excited to open up UK data with you and Richard, and James. Felt like we were right on the edge of doing something amazing. Then GOVUK felt like an extension but also a distraction. And yeah, now I'm like, where's that buzz! Get me back on something I can't contain myself about!
@smsm1 agreed. But also mission driven tech seems to be much less these days. Just money driven.
@Thayer I wonder if higher levels of inflation and higher interest rates are a factor. The move to the cloud over owning own hardware may also be a factor. Technology is becoming more expensive reversing previous trends of it getting cheaper which won't help either.
@smsm1 I think politically outside of our lefty tech bubble I think there's much less impetus to make anything better. I get the feeling of deep self centred nonchalance as a global vibe right now.
I was reading recently about the Goldilocks point in systems. Where everything is about right (not perfect) and any additional change subsequently makes the system worse.
And I think we are past there with our current structure. Corporates need to corporate. They need to show profits and growth all the time. Most of the easy profit based mission driven stuff has been done and if not successful, subsumed or died off. So we are left with an agglomeration of the average, focused on false growth and churning out worse product each cycle.
And politically there is no heart or grit to make the changes that many are calling for, to use that creative energy for the collective good, because none of their big money donors are advocating for it.
I hope you find the small mission driven independent company that lights your fire and makes a positive difference.