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Code and Crown

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From the back cover

Paige Hall is the lead backend architect holding her startup's technical infrastructure together, so when CEO Austin Hayes sends her to a weeklong elite seminar at Apex Systems during a critical pre-holiday migration, the timing makes no sense. The training turns out to be a distraction: an automated notice terminates her mid-ride back to the office, and her desk is already cleared into a banker's box, her hand-built keyboard damaged.

In the conference room, Head of People Operations Brenda offers a single month of base pay and a voluntary resignation form, ignoring the six months of severance and full bonus vesting Paige's contract guarantees for termination without cause. Brenda hints at a history between Paige and Austin, who is now engaged to an heiress, and suggests Paige step aside gracefully.

Paige built the architecture from the ground up, and the company is offering her a fraction of what she is owed. She has no intention of signing quietly.

Inside the book Opening excerpt

My boss sent me to a weeklong advanced engineering seminar at a tier-one tech giant on the company dime. On my bike ride back to the office, my phone buzzed with an automated notice informing me that I had been terminated.

I had to laugh. Sending an engineer for high-level technical training only to fire her the moment she finishes? It was essentially using company funds to upgrade my personal skill set.

Capitalists are notoriously unpredictable, and I had no desire to waste energy deciphering his thought process.

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Contents

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Chapters 1 and 2 are free to read on this page, in English. From chapter 3 the book continues in the official app.

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What is Code and Crown about?

Paige Hall is the lead backend architect holding her startup's technical infrastructure together, so when CEO Austin Hayes sends her to a weeklong elite seminar at Apex Systems during a critical pre-holiday migration, the timing makes no sense. The training turns out to be a distraction: an automated notice terminates her mid-ride back to the office, and her desk is already cleared into a banker's box, her hand-built keyboard damaged.

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