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by BadCookie 2y ago
What most companies do is interview primarily referred candidates, which is arguably the opposite of DEI. It favors people in the social networks of the population already employed by the hiring company. And most people have social networks
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by BadCookie 2y ago
What would fix the problem? And what is the root cause?
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by BadCookie 2y ago
This seems fair as long as someone at your company actually watches all of the videos …
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by BadCookie 2y ago
Companies would just lean even harder into hiring only friends of current employees, but I appreciate the sentiment.
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by BadCookie 2y ago
DEI peaked in 2020-21. Please stop blaming women and other races for the tech downturn. You are barking up the wrong tree.
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by BadCookie 2y ago
An example: I was looking up what a good diet is to follow after a child has been vomiting. The AI said to avoid giving fruit juice … yet the authoritative sources said the opposite. I already knew not to trust the AI, but this was nail in
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by BadCookie 2y ago
There is plenty of discussion about how hard it is to get or change jobs in tech (even with several years of experience) in the r/womenintech subreddit, along with some discussion about what other industries to potentially pursue inste
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by BadCookie 2y ago
It ought to be the law that approved claims should be backdated to when the initial claim was made. UHC pulled this exact trick on me, denying something that ought to have been approved in order to push the date into the new plan year with
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by BadCookie 2y ago
Thank you for sharing this article. The study illustrates something I have tried to explain to people but haven’t found the right words for. As someone with (diagnosed) severe social anxiety, I would rather get a tooth drilled than do a tec
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by BadCookie 2y ago
You started by saying that you don’t understand why people focus on stack choice and ended by saying that you never interview people if they have chosen the wrong stack. Do you not see the contradiction?
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by BadCookie 2y ago
I think it comes down to executives believing that they should offshore any role that is done remotely since it is cheaper to do so. Therefore, Americans are only (maybe?) worth the wage premium that they command if they go to a shared offi
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by BadCookie 2y ago
Interesting data, but I think the percentage of remote listings is misleading. Many “remote” jobs now require you to live within commuting distance of a particular city, usually SF or NY.
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by BadCookie 2y ago
If an employer is required to allow “reasonable accommodations” but is never required to allow working from home, then logically it would seem to follow that working from home is not a reasonable accommodation … or so I had concluded, but t
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by BadCookie 2y ago
An employer can legally deny WFH no matter how disabled the employee is even if the employee has already been doing the same job from home for years. To me, that means that legal protections are nonexistent in this regard and therefore prac
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by BadCookie 2y ago
Working from home is not considered a reasonable accommodation in the U.S. as a general rule. I hope that changes someday soon.
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by BadCookie 2y ago
My 10-year-old did not understand that I was reading a book when I was using the Kindle or Libby app on my phone. He was surprised and excited to learn that e-books that I read out loud to him are available in print! This has disturbed me s
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by BadCookie 3y ago
In some states, severance pay can delay or reduce eligibility for unemployment benefits. The generous multi-month severance packages that many tech workers receive could have an effect on the unemployment numbers as a consequence—but I’m sp
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by BadCookie 3y ago
I really, really wish we had licensing! Licensing would help with imposter syndrome, too.
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by BadCookie 3y ago
I don’t think it’s an either/or situation. In your shoes, I would spend a couple hours a day prepping for interviews and applying to jobs. I’d work on my business the rest of the time. If you get a job offer you like, take it. If your
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by BadCookie 3y ago
Being able to build a tiny ADU behind one’s house in my MCOL city isn’t very appealing because it might cost $300k+ AND increase the property taxes substantially. My impression is that many people considered it and then scoffed when they re
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by BadCookie 3y ago
I suspect that the ageism effect in tech looks more like this: Programmer A has 10 years of experience with $various_old_tech and only 1 year of experience with $hot_new_tech. (S)he has a target salary of $150k. Programmer B has 2.5 years o
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by BadCookie 3y ago
The solution to the mystery, in this instance, is your second idea. “During this period, Bhargava moved back and forth between the US and India and worked a variety of middle-class office and construction jobs. Bhargava returned to the US a
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by BadCookie 3y ago
I’m surprised by the model of making new articles free and old articles available only to paid subscribers (with some exceptions). I would have guessed the opposite.
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by BadCookie 3y ago
For what it’s worth, I hold no ill will toward the new hires. I quite like some of them. But it’s obvious what is going, and I know I’m not alone in considering a career change.
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by BadCookie 3y ago
I agree. My employer disproportionately lays off US citizens and preferentially hires in Latin America. I spent part of today looking at my employer’s main competitors. One has a bunch of programming jobs available in Mexico. Another is hir
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by BadCookie 3y ago
Tokyo manages to remain affordable somehow. “Two full-time workers earning Tokyo’s minimum wage can comfortably afford the average rent for a two-bedroom apartment in six of the city’s 23 wards.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023
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by BadCookie 3y ago
I assume it’s because many people don’t feel the least bit sorry for a family that is wealthy enough to live in Atherton … But it’s not fair to take that out on you. I have a more extreme example. Riverdale High School near Portland, Oregon
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by BadCookie 3y ago
On the other hand, if someone made a jump to a new company in 2022, they were more likely to be on the layoff chopping block in 2023 than employees with a little more tenure. At least, I have seen in my own organization that the recently hi
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by BadCookie 3y ago
I dunno … I have a few friends who have physics degrees, and they basically do not use them. They are all doing web dev or data science or got another professional degree afterward. But that was in ZIRP times. Maybe things are different now
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by BadCookie 3y ago
This argument would be more convincing if The Athletic weren’t also losing millions of dollars a year. “Since The New York Times Co. acquired The Athletic for $550 million in January 2022, the site has had a total operating loss of more tha

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