Questions tagged [competition]
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How detailed should I be with client quotes when competitors might under quote to get a client?
The idea is that if I make a quote with all the prices of components and labor, the client may take that quote to my competitor, who may under quote to get the job. I would really prefer to have a ...
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Working with arrogant perfectionist tech lead on another team
I'm working on a large project that involves two teams: a software engineering team, and a devops team. The engineering team builds a product, and devops creates the infrastructure, build systems, ...
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Overprovisioned teams in services companies
Is it common for managers to pack more engineers into a team than there are tickets to solve in the pipeline in order to generate contests and pit engineers against eachother and get better delivery ...
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Non-compete clause in scientific programming, and course of action [closed]
I have a job offer from a company that produces simulation software for engineering applications, I am an applied mathematician.
They ask to sign a non-compete clause of a 1 year period, and worldwide....
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Applying to Work for a Competitor in a Small Market
I currently work for a small technology company (<100 employees) and I am leading the development of a new product with a team of 2-3 coworkers. It's a niche product, and I am aware of 2-4 direct ...
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How do I handle/confront an employee who is cheating in an Office competition?
I was recently promoted to a middle management position at my office where I have about a half floor of employees working under me.
As part of a company health initiative, I decided to co-host a month-...
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Part-time consultant & permanent employment - notification of work
I have permanent employment where I don't work at 100% capacity and I do my own consulting on the side for the rest of the time. I've got a waiver signed with the current employer from working on ...
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Is a paid non-compete from a non-competitor a reasonable reason to delay start date?
At my current employer in the US, I have a paid non-compete agreement (basically garden leave). If I leave the company, I am prohibited from working with a competitor for 9 months, but receive my ...
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Proactively telling the interviewer about other interviews
Applying and interviewing for leadership positions in Australia!
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OK, there is a Company X that I interviewed with recently and I really want to work for them. The interview was very very ...
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Enforceability of unreasonable non-compete agreement
I am currently working for a tech consultancy in London.
I have been contacted by another consultancy in London for a similar position, with a better title and salary. This consultancy is a direct ...
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How to avoid a competitive work environment
I've worked for more than two decades in the IT industry. In recent years, I've started to dislike it more and more. In the beginning it was nice to work closely with other colleagues and it was fun. ...
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Former employee indirectly poaching engineering talent
I'm currently working as a senior'ish engineer, and am being trained to become a junior engineering manager in the next year, so the company's success and mine are intertwined very directly.
About a ...
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How to prevent employer from preventing me to work?
I work for a big company, and I have been responsible for a successful project. I faced bullying, harassement and ultimately nepotism - once the project was confirmed to be successful, somebody tried ...
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Practical Implications of Non Compete / Non Solication Clauses
I have just recieved an offer for a job I am very interested in, but looking through the documents I would have to sign, I noticed that they are also expecting me to sign a Non Compete / Non ...
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Soon-to-be-ex-employer trying to force me to disclose name of new employer
I recently tendered my resignation at my current company (senior engineer; get along well with the teams, but my boss's boss promised big bonuses and raises they never delivered even when my team ...
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How to handle when two coworkers compete for an external job?
I recently switched to a very well-known successful company, and now my current team has 1 open Software Dev role. I sent the description to two of my former coworkers (who are both still at my ...
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Customer trying to recruit me to re-create current employer's success
My current job contract with ABC Industries has a non-compete, stating that I cannot go work for a "direct competitor" until at least 2 years after my employment with ABC has concluded. ...
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Boss hinting at promotion has made team competitive
I'm part of a small team - there's the team lead, me, and 2 other people. Aside from the team lead we're all at the same level & job title.
We've always worked very well together and our team is ...
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How do I communicate to my boss about unfair competition in my workplace?
I've worked in this small company for 3 years. My company has no Human Resource Department. My boss handle almost everything except finance and sales. He rarely come to the workplace
Recently, my ...
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Not well recognised in the team work, how to improve that?
I was the key player in my team and contribute significant amount to the team work. Actually I solve the most tough part of the work for the team. But I am not well recognized as an individual and an ...
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How to collaborate with collagues who consistently break the rules?
I work in a big, fast growing organisations. We have a lot of structure and processes and rules to follow.
One of the team we work with is more or less permanently "plotting" to get ahead, ...
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Alien Wanting Wanting Me To Create a USA Upwork Account for Him to Use
Someone found me because he noticed that while working on the freelancing site, US workers get top dollar. Therefore, he wants someone in the USA to create an account for him, and work under that ...
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Promised big promotion; new hire might get it instead; help please
I've been working with my current company for 7 years, and have received 2 promotions (i.e. from coop student, to engineer, to intermediate engineer). There are only two more levels in my company (...
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Lying in Wellness program
Our company has a wellness contest to promote healthy lifestyle and well being. The contest is focused around how much physical activity you perform. (For example, 1 mile run = 10 points). The top ...
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How do I prevent employees from either switching to competitors or opening their own business?
I am about to start my very own small scale business. However, there is a huge problem I cannot seem to solve. My business has two aspects: the business side and the technical side. I am more than ...
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Do I need to be arrogant to get ahead? [closed]
A colleague of mine is very good at PR and branding himself and does this by communicating to the whole world his successes no matter how small they are. He does this in a very arrogant way, by making ...
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How to deal with senior developer who slows me down intentionally
It's been a couple of weeks since I started my new job as a mid level web dev.
There's an ongoing project on which only me and the senior developer (who is also new here) are working on. As in most ...
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How to handle a "non-compete clause" on the employment contract?
One of my friends was selected to a large software company to work as a web developer after a successful interview. He got the agreement letter and when he was reading it, he found an unfair term. It ...
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Competition with colleagues, is it professional ?
We have a mailing list, where people can post interesting problems to work on. Less than 2 weeks ago my boss posted a very interesting problem. To accomplish it one needs to read a very mathematically ...
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What does non-competition and non-solicitation involve?
I am in Japan and I am going to sign a new contract that stipulates confidentiality, non-competition, non-solicitation, nothing else is specified. I know what that means but I don't really know what ...
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A client wants me to provide assistance with using a service of a competitor company
I build websites for customers and I offer them hosting as well. Relatively expensive but they got all support from me.
Now, I have a new client who wanted to build a website. The website is built ...
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Accepting a job offer from a competitor without burning bridges
Before I describe my situation, I'm fully aware of many such questions that are similar but I would like to ask for some specific advice. First, I'm working for an Enterprise Software company and I ...
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How do I manage the feeling of being incompetent? [closed]
I know this will come off really immature, given that I am 30 years old. I joined a university as a PostDoc after completing my PhD 6 months ago. I am yet to publish anything after joining here. I was ...
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Employees are gaming their performance metrics, instead of doing what's best for the company
I'd have expected that all employees are expected to do what's best for the company. However this appears to be an ideal that's not reached in practice, and people seem fixated on hitting their key ...
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Share a B2C quote with a competitor
I'm founding a startup in Switzerland and we need insurance in case we break things. I asked for various quotations from various insurance companies in order to buy the best suited for me. I talked ...
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How important is it to stop other colleagues' initiatives?
We all have our "territories" and tasks/responsibilities we want to protect.
I once observed somebody saying "this data is mine, this other analyst can't have it", and that data led to very ...
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