I recently 'had my position terminated' after 9 months as a senior dev. LAMP stack, mainly DevOps type of work, ranging from diagnosing server issues to debugging jquery to dealing with their proprietary feed system (php and MySQL). About 50 people work there, its in SoCal, and theyre pretty profitable.

There is a healthy mix of people. Asian, white, indian, hispanic. No blacks though.

There is this one shining example of diversity that recently came back from maternity leave after 13 months. Yes, thirteen. First day back I get to meet her, and she cant understand a single word I said. I politely exited the conversation and promptly forgot about her. In my mind, she was just a non-entity. Never interacting except with another indian, never contributing, never socializing.

Fast forward to 2 weeks ago. My position is terminated because 'its just not the right fit.' Not a performance reason. Just, I dont fit in as well as the non english speaking, 13 month maternity leave, non contributing indian.

Yeah, I sold my login info to a hacker site this week. Call it my severance package, fucks.

javascript programmers come in a huuuuge variety.

If you can spin up multiple redundant memcached nginx based node servers and load balance them, then use a webpack or gulp based build environment, youll be valuable for a long time.

If you are copying / pasting because you cant be bothered to learn what the code does, yeah, youll be working for minimum wage soon.

AMAs are shit. Once you involve the gen public, quality goes waaaaay down. Keep it to smaller tight knit communities for better quality.

Anything someone controls too tightly slips from their hands. The tech world if full of it.