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Pihr | Front-end engineer & Designer | In the Stockholm area | Full-time

At Pihr we develop software for pay equality between genders, our goal is to remove the gender pay gap. We have a proven product that that's been on the market for a few years but are now expanding rapidly.

We're currently looking for the following people to join us:

* A front-end engineer that will take command of our front-end efforts: https://pihr.teamtailor.com/jobs/1467225-front-end-engineer-...

* A Graphic/UI designer that will work on both marketing and UI efforts: https://pihr.teamtailor.com/jobs/1471633-ui-designer-graphic...

Our tech stack is .Net, Python, Angular, Microsoft Azure

"I'm going to a club to watch some guys taking their clothes off". Gender neutral?

My dad was a math and physics teacher and he had a very similar theory around the working memory. However he also thought that the problem for those students that had difficulties with math was that the working memory was often filled up with other stuff than the math that they were working on. It could be anything from difficulties to concentrate to problems with holding the pen correctly and therefore the working memory was overflowed.

Pihr | Front-end developers | Stockholm

We're a small, profitable company whose mission it is to make the workplace more equal through technology. We build software for analyzing the gender pay gap in organizations and highlight to those customers where there are inexplicable difference in salaries.

We use dotnet and Angular to build our services and now we are looking for senior front-end engineers that can help us shape the future of our applications, https://pihr.teamtailor.com/jobs/1139376-front-end-developer. Or reach out to me, mille.besso at pihr.se

Life changing in that it changed my professional life. Steve Yegge's piece that all programmers are typists, http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/programmings-dirties.... It's been a while since I read it but my recollection of it is that your tools matter and that you need to practice to get good in using your tools. Prior to reading this I was so focused on solving "the problem" that I never realized that I spent a lot of mental energy on the tools rather that was much better spent on solving whatever I worked on. This realization has changed how I approach technical stuff in my day-to-day job.

Why would it be more productive to work in the office and have the children at day care than working from home and have the children at day care?

Another way of looking at it is that later in you career it seems to be a lot easier to pick up CS concepts while it's a lot harder to pick up math if you don't have it from the start.

Pihr | Frontend and fullstack engineers | Stockholm, Sweden | Full-time | http://pihr.se

At Pihr we work to close the gender pay gap with technology. We've been around for a couple of years (being profitable) but depended on external partners for our development and now we are building our own internal team to handle development. As one of the first on board you will have a lot of influence on the work we do. Out technology stack is C#, Angular, Azure.

More here: https://pihr.teamtailor.com/jobs/1139365-senior-full-stack-d..., https://pihr.teamtailor.com/jobs/1139376-front-end-developer

I have used similar discussion points as in this article to argue that parental leaves, long vacations and other similar employee benefits build resilient teams and products. If you have to plan for people going missing (without the possibility for immediate replacement) you are forced to spread knowledge in the organization and you can't be too dependent on individuals.

PIHR | Stockholm, Sweden | Remote (but in Sweden)

Pihr is a small tech company building services for equal pay analysis. Although we have been around since 2012 now is when it takes off and we are expanding in the Nordics and to the rest of Europe. We have multiple positions open:

* Fullstack Engineer (.net, C#, Azure Functions/App Service, Angular). https://pihr.teamtailor.com/jobs/1139365-senior-full-stack-d...

* Frontend Engineer (Angular, Typescript). https://pihr.teamtailor.com/jobs/1139376-front-end-developer

Given that there's a fair amount of statistical analysis going on we appreciate interest in maths and statistics.

So first of all, there are (or should be) a lot less interruptions when working from home. People tend to disturb folks that they see, it's a lot easier to give address someone at the other end of the room or across the corridor than it is to call, email or chat with someone. With these disturbances gone, you are more likely to be more productive from the start when working from home and so a little slacking off here and there probably does not make you less productive than what you were at work.

That said, self motivation and lack of external pressure can be a problem. When I feel I have a hard time to focus on something my last resort is the pomodoro timer. I sit down, set a timer at 25 minutes and force myself to no break focus during that time. Once the first period is over it's usually no problem to keep going since I've gotten into something by then.

In Sweden (don't know where this company is located) it's usual with collective bargain agreement and if you've been employed for along time (5+ years) it's not uncommon with 3 months notice. It is usually accompanied by 6 months if your employer wants to let you go (but it's not easy if you're the employer to let people go). Most of the time, these periods are negotiated when someone resigns though.

I've seen it once and I haven't seen an explanation until now. My wife and I were kayaking on a lake in Northern Sweden and far far away we see a boat that is just moving slowly, lifted up in the air. It was completely calm and we could not hear it (very far away), it was ghostly.