Wow, this is really interesting. I have never considered a shotgun approach before when looking for a job. Can I ask you how you chose the 137 companies?
1) Does the company work in the Tech that I know (at the time I was Java, C, SQL, JS, and R mainly)
2a) Did the company recently have any bad press? (Smaller companies were harder to judge on this, but larger ones are easy. i.e. JP Morgan Chase was not on my list, However Capital One was.)
2b) (This was only used if I was unsure after 2a) If I knew someone in the company over my professional network, or a frined of a friend, etc. I would reach out and ask them about the company. Most people responded to me which was nice. Come to find out we would talk about our mutual relation and then I could ask them about what they do. I also got some good general advice as well.
3) Does the company 'smell bad'. This was something I didn't really use until I was applying/in the process of getting hired. I would keep my nose out for bad signs. (looking at you Cerner (Great Engineers I chatted with, but their recruiting was a nightmare to deal with, but that may of just been me)).
If you can't tell, I did my best to logically choose and look at data in a very organized fashion. This was due to the amount of data that I knew I was going to manually be mulling over. I needed a way to figure out to to translate my research/feelings of one company to the research/feelings of another.
(Also, you have no reason to believe me, but I did get to last round interviews with Google. I never even applied with them. They reached out to me via LinkedIn. At first I was like 'This must be spam trying to phish me or something', nope real deal. I was keeping a Blog on Blogger about Software Engineering, School, and other semi-professional things. I blame that for them reaching out to me.)
Does anyone have any knowledge of how this compares to Azure's offering? I have used Azure Event Hubs for a pretty simple task, and liked it. Curious if AWS IoT has anything Azure doesn't.
Neither of those have any built in rule functionality. You have to set up machines to pull messages and process them.
This offering is quite different in that it builds in declarative rule support for filtering/forwarding the data to other AWS offerings like DynamoDB, S3, Lambda, etc.
That said, you're still going to be writing a lot of code to turn it into a useful application or monitoring system.
I don't know if I agree with you that the midwest is a terrible place to be for tech. I'm located in a medium sized midwestern town, working on interesting web applications and using modern technologies. I am paid well. No, I don't make SF money. But my rent is 30% of what I'd pay in SF as well.
If you want to make a living working for trendy unicorn startups, then the midwest certainly doesn't have as many of those. But if you are on top of your career, and are happy to keep your skills up to date, then you can find many interesting opportunities here. And if you don't want to keep your skills up to date, there seem to be plenty of places looking to hire people to maintain old enterprise apps written in VB...
I find this job market to be absolutely fantastic. I have lots of opportunity coming my way on a regular basis. And since there is a lower supply of qualified engineers, I feel as though I could command more salary.
I can make enough money here to live an extremely high quality of life, and raise a family while doing so. For me to go to a tech hub, I would need to receive one hell of an offer.
Cool idea, I look forward to seeing more. FWIW, I think your anticipated pricing is pretty reasonable (maybe you want that feedback?). I put my name on the mailing list.
Is there a way to get data from each sheet in a workbook? I'd love to use this, it is so simple. But it only seems to get the first sheet in my workbook.
Awesome! FWIW, my needs don't require any sort of "relational" concept as some comments have suggested, I just need to be able to do all existing operations on each sheet in the workbook. I guess being able to get a list of the sheets in the workbook might be useful, as well, or get a sheet by name, but for my use case I already know the name.
This is great! I want to build an app that can insert transactions on the go into my existing budgeting spreadsheet, and this really takes away a lot of the dirty work.
