If they are douchbag of the year awards, then they are probably very legit.

It somehow kept getting worse. One interview was a guy at a desk with about 10 of those generic "certificate of achievement" thumbtacked to the wall behind him.

Definitely seems like a shiesty company. There's no way they're all making that much $

Thanks for the evaluation, I'll file it away...and I'll keep my evaluation of you to myself. But I'm not seeing any substantive responses to the points I've made...telling...

https://www.insider.com/globe-life-insurance-lawsuit-american-income-arias-agency-toxic-workplace-2023-1

Link? Please

> Nothing monolithic - either good or bad

That’s just a basic fact about any org

>I hope you understand that point better.

condescending

>I don’t think CMU deserves the bad reputation some people have about them.

My point is that this "reputation" gets thrown around when someone wants to lend power to their amateurish software projects, and in many cases, that works for them. Without question, CMU has some of the best people in the world doing things...and they have others. Nothing monolithic - either good or bad - should be assumed when the CMU letters get tossed in, but that mistake is often made. I hope you understand that point better.

Ive met a few people that worked there and it always seemed very odd to say the least

In 2020 they did a zoom interview with me, ended up being some juiced guy giving me a power point presentation. The one slide that stuck out to me was their pay structure which was literally in the shape of a pyramid with different job titles equaling different pay.

You are arrogant and have no self awareness of how condescending you come across

OK, thanks for correcting on Priya. However, I don't say that a prof in CS necessarily knows a thing about application development just because they hold a CS credential, and in this case, that really proved out. You're saying that she didn't do well managing the project because it was difficult and "not worth the trouble"...boy, I don't think that's a shining endorsement, and I think it's an admission of why the thing failed, really.

My characterization of a student with an access DB in his dorm room - truthfully, literally - was how Priya described your side of things when things didn't move along as they should have. So, thanks for correcting, but...

I think you probably had some difficulty working through networking and firewall stuff. I can back you up there - the city at the time was embarrassingly deficient in Network Admins, but...I'm not even sure why they had the role they did in the plan. There was no reason for user-submitted data to even enter the city firewall, I remember making that point. At very least, on your side you could have stood up a prototype that proved out your concept and feature development. Getting hung up on networking...not something that should have happened.

Maybe you know better now - building software can be difficult, and when you face issues, you have to take ownership, stay focused, keep pressing and finding creative solutions. What you can't do is just recede, talk crap about your own team behind their backs, shift blame to others. But, maybe not...

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A bit outside of your target areas, but might be worth checking out - Taranbee in Tarentum!

I thought the guy was related to Leonel and Marco Salamanca, from "Better Call Saul"... 😂 And at 0:12, the CGI text on the building says: "Repetative Tasks"...

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Christophah!

Yea when I applied it was made to seam like a insurance broker. Complete bait and switch they try to wow you figures and prizes people have won. They pretty much offer you a position on the spot and tell and try and get you sign up for the license… which they make money on also so even if your not a good fit they don’t care as long as you pay in to them they are good

I still have 0 idea what they do after watching their stupid videos. And I love a hiring video with someone wearing a ridiculous political shirt… and another man drinking a beer while standing beside his car… and someone boxing? What?! This is a hot mess that screams all the accusations that they now have against them…

He totally has employees a downline.

It's a pyramid scheme that sells insurance. If you join his "agency" you're becoming a part of his downline so that he can hopefully profit off of anything that you sell.

I know some Arias agents and am connected on social media. The daily staged success stories and practiced tone of confidence in their voice is absolutely hilarious when they try to speak like they invented being a winner in faux designer suits and borrowed sports cars. Simultaneously I’ve been sad for them for years though because I knew stories like this would come along and derail their actually fragile lifeline. This is a classic example of the old saying “talk shit, get hit”.

AIL is an MLM, so of course it's a shady giant scam.

I find this concept so odd. I get the support local shops but this concept breaks down if you think further ahead.

The goal of a business is to make money and once you make enough you tend to open more locations to make more money. Eventually you become the chain that then people say you shouldn’t shop at.

I’m not saying you are right or wrong. Just more of a thought I had to get out.

I interviewed there in 2021 and could not get out fast enough. From the “alpha frat bros” to telling me they raffled off a Lamborghini. Then pitched their podcast to me. It was a strange experience.