Point of View on Teddy Ferdinand

[IT] Salary is not the only recruitment criteria

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 07:07:00 +0000

Because of my professional background, I’ve worked for a lot of companies, either as a service provider or internally.

Salary is often:

A taboo subject, you should not talk about the salary you receive and even less with your colleagues
Seen as the only criterion for recruiting: If we don’t recruit, it’s because we don’t pay enough, if employees leave, it’s because of the salary

Today, I give you my vision on this point.

Turn off the Internet: AWS is no longer responding!

Mon, 30 Nov 2020 17:53:04 +0000

A few days ago, an incident impacting the AWS cloud provider had a significant impact on many companies and services directly affected by this instability.

I saw on social networks many reactions, often beside the subject (unfortunately) and I thought it could be useful to give you my analysis of the subject.

Rewind

Let’s start by recalling the incident a bit.

On Wednesday evening (French time), AWS encountered a growing number of errors in some of its services in the us-east-1 (North Virginia) region.

"We need to recruit women in IT."

Fri, 17 Jul 2020 19:45:09 +0000

I see and hear regularly that “we need to recruit more women in IT”. However, there is a lot behind this sentence.

In this post, I will give you my opinion on the presence of women in IT jobs.

False preconceptions

For several decades now, we have been repeating over and over again that IT is a man’s world, we repeat it so much that we end up believing it’s real…

Is teleworking (really) the answer?

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 20:00:00 +0000

Since the beginning of containment (in France, 2020/03), telework has become the norm for many, including myself, however, the return to the office is looming, and I can already hear the first discontents about it. A short post about my point of view.

Let’s talk about CoVid

With the spread of CoVid and containment, teleworking has become mandatory for many companies so that they are not forced to close down. Some companies even boasted that they were in the business of teleworking the most when 2 months earlier they were struggling to allow 2 to 3 days in a month… but nevermind.

My teleworking setup

Thu, 11 Jun 2020 20:18:00 +0000

Like many, I’ve been “forced” to telework for several weeks. Long before CoVid, I already regularly teleworked and I had invested some time (and money) to have a setup that allowed me to work as well as possible from home. A little overview…

The Amazon links you’ll find below are not sponsored, and are simply put as a reference.

My need

I have a desk with a personal computer, I have two screens, a keyboard and a good mouse. My goal is to be able to use this equipment on my own and my client’s PC.

Why do I care about my personal data

Mon, 25 May 2020 11:41:51 +0000

I’ve been in IT long enough to know the value of personal data. It’s very valuable data for companies, allowing them to target their audience ever more effectively.

I worked for 3 years for Médiamétrie which, in France, carries out studies and surveys for companies as well as most of the audience measurements for TV channels and radios.

What often comes out of the studies is the same thing, what is interesting is not the mass, it’s the CSP (socio-professional category). Knowing that TF1 had an audience of 12% the day before is a piece of information, knowing that “people in charge of purchasing” (from memory, commercial name for “housewife/man”) aged 30 to 40 years old represented 26% of the market share is much more valuable.

All operating systems are bad!

Mon, 02 Mar 2020 08:25:00 +0000

I’ve been working in the IT world since I came of age, a little over 14 years now.

One of the only constant rules I’ve always found is that the OS you love is always better than all the others.

The gems I’ve heard around me

Among the phrases I can often hear, I could mention a few:

How do you want to develop under Windows?
A MacBook is a PC with a 1K apple on it.
Linux is like a Mac, but without the stability

I could go on like this for a long time.

The impostor syndrome

Mon, 24 Feb 2020 06:57:00 +0000

Just over a year ago, I started this blog. More than a hobby, it has helped me to gain confidence in myself and my abilities.

I’ve already talked about it in the past, because of my non professional training, I’m often surrounded by highly qualified and competent people, and I’ve always had this discomfort of not feeling in my place, of being an impostor in my position.

A human problem more than a technical one

When I look, however, in all my missions, I have very rarely had negative comments. My clients have always been satisfied with my work. Nevertheless, I felt like I was usurping a job that I didn’t deserve as much as people who had studied long and hard to achieve it.

GAFAM: Smile, you offer your data

Tue, 18 Feb 2020 07:33:00 +0000

GAFAMs, they are everywhere, sometimes clearly visible, like when you go on Google, sometimes much less so, like for example Amazon which owns the IMDB site.

What are the GAFAMs?

I make this little point for those who don’t know what the GAFAMs are. What is commonly called GAFAM are none other than :

Google
Apple
Facebook
Amazon
Microsoft

These five companies now largely dominate the Internet, and it is very difficult to really do without them.