I’m surprised it’s 2018 and we are using Skype VoIP to a center table multi-directional speaker phone which let’s be honest sounds no better than a landline speaker phone. When others are further away it’s hard to hear, i hear “wuh wah wubba lubba dub dub”. Having nice professional microphone(s) co...Read more
I'm a new grad and need to approach folks to understand the system that have built for the last 4-5 years. To some level I'm dependent on them for the context/business/tech. But I see some folks just maintain their availability status as "private" and then they barely reply... Wtf!! Been 2 hrs of ...Read more
Some time ago, I could not login to my Skype, saying that account was blocked for "serious violation of the Microsoft Services Agreement". Ok, I know what you may think and no - I did not do anything illegal from what I can tell. I did not share any content, harassed anyone or anything like that. I...Read more
How do you effectively learn on the job as a junior engineer when seniors do not provide ground-up training in a structured way? A lot of the Skype/Webex/MSTeams powerpoint presentations within teams or cross-team contain a lot of terms and concepts which I am not familiar with. These kinds of pres...Read more
I had first joined GM as an intern and had a great time learning about the corporate world, as this was my first real world experience. There was a program called the ambassador program, which allowed GM employees to rent any GM car for free for a week every 3 months, and I was able to rent the Cadi...Read more