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Should I reveal productivity tricks to peers, or keep them to myself in order to be more productive than the others?

I am working as a Software Engineer and working with team on one of the products. While working I have developed some productivity tools and tricks which can automate some repetitive tasks and improve productivity significantly. Now I am confused,…
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I reported the illegal activity of my boss to his boss. My boss found out. Now I am being punished. What should I do?

My direct supervisor has repeatedly performed actions that go against conduct of the company and of the state laws. I brought this to the attention of his boss in hopes of covering for myself when and if he eventually gets caught. My direct…
anon
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Stressed at work with no obvious source

I work as a software developer in a small company. I graduated from university a year ago, and have been in this role for about that time. Periodically (about once a month), I become very stressed or anxious about something at work, and I can't…
anon
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I accidentally did my colleague's work better than he did. Should I say anything about it?

My colleague and I both work for a small startup. We have been both allocated different sections of the product to work on, with different areas of expertise. We both have the same boss (the company owner). Last week he was tasked with creating some…
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How to tell the boss that his "All hands on deck" approach doesn't work?

I'm on a development team with a total of five developers. The owner of my company quite often tells all of us to drop everything we're doing and focus on one singular task. The problem with that is that a lot of the tasks he wants us all to work on…
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Should I include controversial achievements in my resume?

I'm writing a resume for a position in computer security software development. Should I include the facts of slightly borderline nature I'm well proud of? For instance, I've programmed and currently running one of the most elusive and notorious…
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I'm being promoted and my salary is going to decrease

I have been working at my current company for about three years. During the last two, I have been managing a small group of developers and several projects. These responsibilities came gradually, without any change in contract or salary. Especially…
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Lunch with the CEO

I'm having lunch with my CEO in a couple of days. I'm an Engineer who's pretty involved in a product that the company sells, but I don't know too much about the business side of things. My company is mid-sized, about 1500 people. I sit in the same…
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Can I criticise the more senior developers around me for not writing clean code?

I am a junior developer. Although I already programmed in different languages for the last 5 years I still have a hard time debugging more complex issues. On the other hand I like clean code and try to write expressive, short functions wherever…
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Giving feedback to someone without sounding prejudiced

I had this situation at work where a colleague (not my report, but junior to me by 5~10 years) was pushing people so strongly to work on a project that it caused a few of those people and their managers to come to me and either complain outright…
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My co-worker is secretly taking pictures of me

I started working at my first real job (not student work) in autumn of last year. In my job there are mostly male employees. I am a (like I want to believe, good looking) female – age 25. We have two work groups and one boss, age around 60, for…
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How to turn down request from prospective employer for current employer's code?

I obtained an interview with the development team leader and CEO of a startup company. At the end of the interview, the development team leader asked me to send him an email with websites' links to some of my previous projects, which I did. They…
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How can we protest a deadline that is too short?

Our Project manager made a project's presentation and assigned it to our team. The amount of work was estimated at 3 weeks. Our team members discussed the project and we calculated that the amount of work is 5 Weeks. We explained to our project…
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Finding balance between freedom and productivity

Preface: I am working in a company where most of the employees are in their early 20s. We have a very open culture and office. This is great to have a very friendly and low-stress working environment. As a byproduct, productivity is low and almost…
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I cry easily when confronted or chastised. How will this affect my professional career?

It sounds silly, but I've always been quick to tears. I underwent therapy to try to fix it, but really I never saw any improvement. Recently, I was speaking with my HR manager about some personal issues I had in the office, and to my surprise I…
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