If you don't know me, hi, get to know me. Here some of my published works: 📹 WeAreDevelopers.com 2024 summer congress panel in front of 1000s: youtube.com/watch?v=1o4NNUXB… 📹 Summer 2023 - speaker in front of 100s at Swiss Life .NET User Group Event in Zürich "AI in software engineering good or bad?" youtube.com/watch?v=JhazdIzd… ⭐"Why software engineers don’t get jobs: Four horror stories" medium.com/@iwaninzurich/why… 📗 Long guide: Coderfit - All you need to know for your programming career: gumroad.com/l/cdrft 📗 Short guide: "5 salary negotiation hacks that can save you CHF10’000 in two minutes" gumroad.com/l/5-salary-negti… ⭐"Five years after moving to Switzerland. Why I am still here." medium.com/@iwaninzurich/fiv… ⭐Eight reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in IT: medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eig… ⭐Switzerland: How buying real-estate can kill you financially and two reasons to go for stocks instead: medium.com/@iwaninzurich/swi… ⭐"Making technical recruiting suck less" at Europython 2016: youtu.be/u6PTaTDHUG4

6 yrs ago best podcast I ever recorded. Summary: almost all predictions, eg regarding drop of salaries of tech became true!! Albeit for other reasons... and much more! listen in! Totally worth the ONE HOUR: youtube.com/watch?v=vvNp0zzY… What do you think?

My favorite: You come to Switzerland, keep your foriegn number 44, 49, 39 on messenger apps (, and complain it is hard to integrate :D ) You understand the social signal you send if you don't switch to 41? Am I insane or right? :D 🙈

Simple cold outreach. ✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️ Well, it is not alwys that easy :D How do *you* win new business?

Pray! Tough times. Who else became religious suddenly? 🙈 Claude: *Pondering for 45 seconds* Is AI praying longer than humans now? 😂

Who else loves me for helping them with their Swiss job search? I love y'all too! Good luck

WHO ELSE SAW THIS COMING? IS AI TECH DEBT ON STEROIDS? Do such stories even undo all the *GOOD* we get from AI? Discuss!

The bad side of being young: You don't feel mistakes as much. So you can do the wrong thing for 10 years and not even notice. Your body recovers from no sleep and booz. Your career has "time to fix it later." Until you're 35 and realize you spent a decade doing the wrong things. If Ice Cream, ONLY if it is Swiss-Italian.

"Hey Ivan! It feels a bit surreal to hear from you! I always see your LinkedIn posts, and I never expected to see you "in person"!" Am I Now FAMOUS? 😂😂😂😂

Who else got a ping from me via email , sms AND SNAIL MAIL recently? 🙈 Finally! - Cold Mails Social Media pays off. I hope I can make the mails smarter though!

Sorry that I have to ask this: Do politicians think the average Urs, Reto, and Remo are dumb? If you enable 500M EU citizens plus the rest of the world to compete with local Swiss workers, salaries DO NOT GROW. Yet house prices do bc more ppl 1 1 = 2 etc. :D Also: Can one of you 9000 IQ politicians explain Japan to me? No immigration and everything functions perfectly. Yes I am an immigrant myself and I see no problem having this opinion.🌈 Peace.

I understand the SVP initiative, even if it's controversial. My target audience, tech talent earning 100k-200k CHF see their quality of life declining: • Train delays • Longer wait times for doctors (esp. for kids...) • Housing prices the upper middle class can no longer afford In my recruitment agency, I've focused on Swiss talent for 10 years because that's what the market demands. Swiss SMEs never liked relocating people. They want local talent who understand the culture, the language, the way things work in CH without having to teach this. However Switzerland is turning into a place where life is only WORRYFREE if you're either very poor (relying on social benefits) or very rich (10M CHF net worth). Sad. Very sad. To be fair: The middle class is getting squeezed, everywhere.

why. is . your. business. admin. site SO BAD. always loading screen. swisscom. who else thinks this? : (

New study: People who use AI for writing show weaker brain connectivity. AI users also had the lowest sense of ownership over their own work. Clean Coding Jesus Martin Fowler calls this "cognitive debt." When you delegate everything you forget who did what and where is what. This was always the case but AI acdelerates this. Do you notice this?

Candidates write CVs with AI that no one reads. Companies write job descriptions with AI that no one reads. Then we wonder why hiring is broken. 🙈 Meanwhile the actual hires? No CV and no job texts, just personal intros lol Do i have followers from Schaffhausn btw? :D

Everyone's timeline is spammed with the Ferrari Luce. A properly maintained 50 year old car has ALSO a very low environmental impact - ok? Drive less, but if you drive, drive with STYLE. I compiled some cool car pics to get your sanity back.

Posted a task on Upwork for some data entry and coding work. Every single one of the 500 reply is AI-generated slop. "Hello sir, you mentioned X, I will deliver Y with excellence and attention to detail..." - They flooded Upwork, WhatsApp, email, LinkedIn. I'd rather spend 50 hours debugging with AI than 5 minutes reading "proposals" and deal wiht people who wrote them 🤮 How does one separate now good suppliers from bad if everything now sounds exactly the SAME???😭

How to win at your job without working: Point out a broken link, help fix someone's site. support people. This screenshot of me writing to a semi-warm lead before we even had any relationship, apart from a phone call where he rejected me politely. He will come back and I will report here about it or free beer is on me.

Everyone's worried AI will replace developers. That's the wrong fear. AI will replace companies that need meetings to prepare for meetings, 39 versions of the same document (all marked "final"), and three-page emails just to write "approved." I work with companies on both ends of this spectrum: Some make hiring decisions with 2 people in 5 min. Others need a committee to approve changing a comma in the job posting. With all due respect Swiss work culture sometimes errs on the side of the latter: Throwing this electroscooter was not approved in Zug's central recycling center and I was asked to drive to Sihlbrugg :D

LinkedIn in 2026: "Successfully collected all receivables without the use of intimidation or violence." Everyone deserves a second chance. This person knows how to write resumes and visually describe what they did!! DO YOU???? :D

I got more viewers on this post than St. Gallen has citizens!!! 😅We're actually naming files now 0001-CANDIDATE-NAME.pdf