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by 1differential 3y ago
I actually remember them half-joking about this - it's been years, but I would guess it's not a hard minimum
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by 1differential 3y ago
Oh gosh, the good old army and it's effective measurements techniques. I remember wanting to be a military officer after undergrad and getting disqualified at MEPS for a nonsense issue (which I'll omit for privacy) and the guy nex
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by 1differential 3y ago
you would enjoy this video - https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/112wa88/argumen...
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by 1differential 3y ago
you sir, have ruined my weekend with a treasure trove of material.
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by 1differential 3y ago
3-4 years ago I had such a bad experience interviewing with this company. The recruiter actively told me he was waiting to hear a response from someone else before extending me an offer, that eventually came in 40-60% below my expectation.
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by 1differential 3y ago
Early in my career, I wanted to try one of SF's sales bootcamps because my idiot uncle was making > 400k in BD @microsoft. I was in my early twenties and all I saw was him wining & dining and making a lot of money doing it. Well
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by 1differential 3y ago
I married someone from an IIT/IIM background and I think the public should really meet them and reduce this hype. My wife, while relatively smart and working at a FAANG - is not that smart (I'm trying to use my words respectfully)
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by 1differential 3y ago
So this seems like the Rails equivilant of JHipster - which is great because that's saved me weeks of development times 4-5 years ago.
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by 1differential 3y ago
fwiw I'm a backend engineer - primarily building out services in Java/Scala/Go. I would say the market probably isn't as good as someone with a Masters/PhD looking for ML engineering roles, but that would be anecdot
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by 1differential 3y ago
non-FAANG - I'm familiar with Disney's salary levels, and would say I'm getting offers at a level below what I would expect (or 40k-60k below on base).
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by 1differential 3y ago
Sorry for the confusion, I'm trying to interview for only staff/senior staff level roles. This company just had a job listing for "Software Engineer" to build out a new initiative so I decided check it out. And yeah, not
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by 1differential 3y ago
It's extremely brutal. I'm a staff engineer and a tech lead of ~12 engineers, I've either been getting low ball offers, or ending the last round of interviews to get no offer. I've employed but have been looking for a jo
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by 1differential 4y ago
Congrats on the launch! I actually considered launching something tangential - though I never figured out who the customers would really be nor how I would pitch this to companies. Excited to see where this takes you!