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Lol. This guy was involved in a massive scam in the online poker world years ago. not sure if he's completely changed. I don't know what he's doing in the SW wo

Lol. This guy was involved in a massive scam in the online poker world years ago. not sure if he's completely changed. I don't know what he's doing in the SW world. Source: https://www.highstakesdb.com/2375-haseeb-qureshi-admits-to-chip-dumping-quits-poker.aspx https://www.highstakesdb.com/2375-haseeb-qureshi-admits-to-c... http://www.cardrunners.com/blog/internetpokers/the-girah-scandal http://www.cardrunners.com/blog/internetpokers/the-girah-sca...

akhilcacharya 10y ago
He explains himself here: http://haseebq.com/about/ http://haseebq.com/about/ If you didn't see his previous posts he's clearly a pretty skilled self-teacher - negotiated up to 220K offers at Google and Airbnb despite going to a bootcamp.
- paulcole 10y ago
  >he's clearly a pretty skilled self-teacher I think it's pronounced "self-promoter."
  - Hydraulix989 10y ago
    Yeah, this is just sad. I know people personally that worked their asses off learning systems programming, algorithms, and advanced mathematics at top-tier four-year colleges with absolutely fantastic technical CVs that got offers that aren't even half of that. These are surely some of the smartest people in the world, too, but I suppose they don't play the "bluffing" game all too well (er, "negotation" -- call it whatever you want, ex-poker player). I'm not sure what makes this guy who ostensibly got his hand held through a three-month "learn to copy and paste Ruby from StackOverflow" camp eligible for a salary that is higher than some surgeons make. Without reading the article, sounds like he successfully bluffed to one company that another offered him some really high salary X, and then he went straight to the moon (or should I say, made out like a bandit) from there. As much as we like to think our hiring process is meritocratic, when confronted with someone with just the right physical characteristics or the right charismatic charm, our human social biases still seem to have a lot more power over us than we'd like to admit. I remember that one study that successfully correlated inches in height/stature to substantial dollar increases in salary.
    - tamana 10y ago
      You don't understand how supply and demand works, or that job offers are for how smart you are and what you can do, not how hard you worked in school. In fact, people who work harder to learn something are usually less talented than people who learned it quickly. The computer details aren't the hard part of software jobs.
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    - jc4p 10y ago
      I wouldn't call it sad at all. It's all a game, and these are the people that are playing to win (by their definition of "winning", which is a lot of people's: maximizing monetary gains) I agree with a lot of what you say (and in fact, I work at a company that doesn't allow negotiations at all and has an open salary calculator: http://stackoverflow.com/company/salary/calculator http://stackoverflow.com/company/salary/calculator ) but I wouldn't call it sad at all, I would call it playing the game. I'm saying without any attempt at being rude: You're thinking way too much like a programmer.
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      - jcadam 10y ago
        Thanks for the calculator. It's good to get an idea what some companies are willing to pay (I have an offer from another company that merely matches my current salary (though they have better benefits), and I've been agonizing over it). There's a possibility I'm above market rate already -- I live in a low COL area and that calculator about matches my current salary if I'm a skill level '2'. One thing that struck me, that location adjustment for high COL cities isn't nearly enough. If I was working for SO, I'd definitely want to be remote.
    - arkadiyt 10y ago
      I disagree. From his about page: > I quickly rose to the top of my class, and after two months into the three-month bootcamp, I was asked to join the instructional team. Three months later, I was promoted to Director of Product. That wouldn't have happened if he wasn't good at what he does. Clearly he is doing something that is more than just the right charm. Also, letting go of whatever opinion you have about his technical skill, absolutely everyone should negotiate their salary. I never have though, for many of the reasons outlined in his first post. Thanks to his writing I will definitely negotiate whenever my next change happens and apply his techniques - his writing has provided a huge amount of value to engineers everywhere in the same position.
  - caminante 10y ago
    I'm dubious of the guy's background and claims. I'm concerned he's smurfing here on HN. Here's why I'm concerned: 1. The grandparent links to two articles as "sources." One's a guest blog by the subject. The other's a self-quote of the subject extracted from a full interview, which is linked but both the site and the link are dead. And the grandparent's only comments on the account are in this thread, supplying the "sources." Here's a 2013 non-HN thread accusing him of smurfing accounts for publicity [0]. 2. His publicity and claims seem intentionally difficult to prove.[1] (Note: another low-credibility source.) 3. His LinkedIn profile lists 99th percentile standardized test scores (LSAT and GRE). Normally, this isn't notable, but my "BS" pattern-matching is flagging this within the context of #1 and #2. [0] http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip-sponsored-online-poker-report/quot-return-quot-haseeb-qureshi-1400162/ http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip-spons... [1] http://www.thepokerpractice.com/poker/haseeb-ashton-griffin-recounts-70-miles-prop-bet http://www.thepokerpractice.com/poker/haseeb-ashton-griffin-...
    - selimthegrim 10y ago
      Exactly how long has he been hanging around engineers? Who the hell boasts about their general GRE score?
  - sremani 10y ago
    So What? As long as his content is living up to the hype, I have no problem. I actually regret people who have so much to give and add value, do not promote themselves so much and morons and fillers take up the space. At least for me, the dude is insightful and his long form articles about tactics are worth his "self-promotion".
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akhilcacharya 10y ago

He explains himself here: http://haseebq.com/about/ http://haseebq.com/about/ If you didn't see his previous posts he's clearly a pretty skilled self-teacher - negotiated up to 220K offers at Google and Airbnb despite going to a bootcamp.

paulcole 10y ago
>he's clearly a pretty skilled self-teacher I think it's pronounced "self-promoter."
- Hydraulix989 10y ago
  Yeah, this is just sad. I know people personally that worked their asses off learning systems programming, algorithms, and advanced mathematics at top-tier four-year colleges with absolutely fantastic technical CVs that got offers that aren't even half of that. These are surely some of the smartest people in the world, too, but I suppose they don't play the "bluffing" game all too well (er, "negotation" -- call it whatever you want, ex-poker player). I'm not sure what makes this guy who ostensibly got his hand held through a three-month "learn to copy and paste Ruby from StackOverflow" camp eligible for a salary that is higher than some surgeons make. Without reading the article, sounds like he successfully bluffed to one company that another offered him some really high salary X, and then he went straight to the moon (or should I say, made out like a bandit) from there. As much as we like to think our hiring process is meritocratic, when confronted with someone with just the right physical characteristics or the right charismatic charm, our human social biases still seem to have a lot more power over us than we'd like to admit. I remember that one study that successfully correlated inches in height/stature to substantial dollar increases in salary.
  - tamana 10y ago
    You don't understand how supply and demand works, or that job offers are for how smart you are and what you can do, not how hard you worked in school. In fact, people who work harder to learn something are usually less talented than people who learned it quickly. The computer details aren't the hard part of software jobs.
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  - jc4p 10y ago
    I wouldn't call it sad at all. It's all a game, and these are the people that are playing to win (by their definition of "winning", which is a lot of people's: maximizing monetary gains) I agree with a lot of what you say (and in fact, I work at a company that doesn't allow negotiations at all and has an open salary calculator: http://stackoverflow.com/company/salary/calculator http://stackoverflow.com/company/salary/calculator ) but I wouldn't call it sad at all, I would call it playing the game. I'm saying without any attempt at being rude: You're thinking way too much like a programmer.
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    - jcadam 10y ago
      Thanks for the calculator. It's good to get an idea what some companies are willing to pay (I have an offer from another company that merely matches my current salary (though they have better benefits), and I've been agonizing over it). There's a possibility I'm above market rate already -- I live in a low COL area and that calculator about matches my current salary if I'm a skill level '2'. One thing that struck me, that location adjustment for high COL cities isn't nearly enough. If I was working for SO, I'd definitely want to be remote.
  - arkadiyt 10y ago
    I disagree. From his about page: > I quickly rose to the top of my class, and after two months into the three-month bootcamp, I was asked to join the instructional team. Three months later, I was promoted to Director of Product. That wouldn't have happened if he wasn't good at what he does. Clearly he is doing something that is more than just the right charm. Also, letting go of whatever opinion you have about his technical skill, absolutely everyone should negotiate their salary. I never have though, for many of the reasons outlined in his first post. Thanks to his writing I will definitely negotiate whenever my next change happens and apply his techniques - his writing has provided a huge amount of value to engineers everywhere in the same position.
- caminante 10y ago
  I'm dubious of the guy's background and claims. I'm concerned he's smurfing here on HN. Here's why I'm concerned: 1. The grandparent links to two articles as "sources." One's a guest blog by the subject. The other's a self-quote of the subject extracted from a full interview, which is linked but both the site and the link are dead. And the grandparent's only comments on the account are in this thread, supplying the "sources." Here's a 2013 non-HN thread accusing him of smurfing accounts for publicity [0]. 2. His publicity and claims seem intentionally difficult to prove.[1] (Note: another low-credibility source.) 3. His LinkedIn profile lists 99th percentile standardized test scores (LSAT and GRE). Normally, this isn't notable, but my "BS" pattern-matching is flagging this within the context of #1 and #2. [0] http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip-sponsored-online-poker-report/quot-return-quot-haseeb-qureshi-1400162/ http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip-spons... [1] http://www.thepokerpractice.com/poker/haseeb-ashton-griffin-recounts-70-miles-prop-bet http://www.thepokerpractice.com/poker/haseeb-ashton-griffin-...
  - selimthegrim 10y ago
    Exactly how long has he been hanging around engineers? Who the hell boasts about their general GRE score?
- sremani 10y ago
  So What? As long as his content is living up to the hype, I have no problem. I actually regret people who have so much to give and add value, do not promote themselves so much and morons and fillers take up the space. At least for me, the dude is insightful and his long form articles about tactics are worth his "self-promotion".
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