I_AM_A_SMURF

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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
I've worked at places where they would "solve" this problem by letting the build break while all the commit in various repositories land all at once. It's really bad.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
Beauty products, phone cases, cheap jewelry stuff like that.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
Yeah definitely no private jet. Maybe a little Cessna.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
I think your bubble might be very tech heavy. My wife (a millennial) and her friends buy things from ads All. The. Time.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
I don't understand how WFH makes this different, if you can step out and go to the barber while WFH why can't you do it while you're in the office?
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
I want to note that Google indeed did that. G bought 56bn dollars of its own stock last year (which is equivalent to a 56bn dividend).
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
Yep. My previous company laid off so many people that were _clearly_ better than me. In multiple rounds too, it was horrible. I couldn't not stop looking behind my back I had to find a different job.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
Unfortunately it could be that Twitter survives long enough to be handed off to a saner CEO which restores some sanity. I don't know how many non-tech people would notice if Twitter doesn't ship anything for a year.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
But the thing is... in tech usually it doesn't work that way. A 15yr tenured L6 is most likely making less than a newly hired L6. Why would you fire the one with experience? I've seen so many of these coming form MS and Google&#x2
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
bail off to... where? Every single big tech has done layoff except Apple. Which fair you could go to Apple but then you have to deal with Cupertino and inflated bay area housing.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
I never understood that either, maybe redbook doesn't have a strict error correction like data CDs have? That's the only thing I can think of but that seems weird though.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
lol what? the Covid vaccines were funded by the US goverment (and others).
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
What you're saying doesn't make sense. If prices had actually doubled there would have been a big spike in inflation in Italy around the time of adoption of the Euro, which there wasn't: https://www.macrotrends.net
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
The founder guy who complains about not been able to fire people that easily and at the same time that people don't care too much about the mission of the team is just too much for me. I'm glad he doesn't work at G anymore.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
Meh. I used to compete on CS and Math problems and I passed the interview for a lot of big tech companies (senior and staff levels) and I don't think at any of them I could pass the interview if I truly had never seen even a variation
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
The breakdown definitely reads SDE1-2
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
Ideally incident handling should "just" be rolling back the broken change. Fixing the problem should be done in the morning with no time pressure, not in the middle of the night half asleep with customers on the other side of the
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
That's inaccurate. VP is a really high title, most likely your manager's manager is Sundar Pitchai or someone who reports to him. TC is in the millions of dollars for those people.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
Pay at big tech companies is well known, we were competitive with that. No out-of-pocket healthcare costs actually. 14wk parental leave for both parents, unlimited sick days, 20 days PTO, something like 15 holidays etc. Not a scam.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
Or they just hire everybody else's employees? Anecdotally, we tried to hire during the past few years as a mid-sized, well known tech company, pretty much nobody showed up. It got so bad we had to stop giving coding tests because nobod
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
It's true, or was at least: https://www.businessinsider.com/why-suns-logo-is-on-the-back...
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
I mean... the Firefox build has NodeJS in it now, so in a sense Chromium is in the toolchain :-)
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
ha same! but for game cartridges. I was worried that dumpers would be impossible to find, nowadays I could just build one if I really needed it.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
Retro hardware is available, and maybe it's not too expensive, however retro hardware _with_ HDMI or otherwise clean digital output? not so cheap. A good HDMI scaler is hundreds of dollars, plus you need RGB-modded consoles to get good
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
Ah that's the catch, I didn't get anxiety from Adderall so that wasn't a problem. As others have said, I would try some other medication if possible at all, they really do help.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
meh. I make a little bit more than that at a FAANG and my job is vastly different than a one man show contractor. My work (and any Staff-level job really) is a lot more talking to other engineers and help them being productive, steer the pr
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
What level were you? I've never heard of managers interviewing software engineers at AMZN.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
Have you tried ADHD medications? I don't normally take them but they really helped me going through the interviews (I legitimately have ADHD, but the side effects are too much for me for normal use)
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
lol you can see the freaking Pantheon from the window, come on.
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by I_AM_A_SMURF 4y ago
For high earners it's still higher in EU, about 50% vs 40% but yeah it's not that significant.

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