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:) I meant ownership in terms of features / products. The money becomes a non-issue after a point. To answer your specific question: Yes. You do receive shares / sign-on bonuses and these amount to be very big. But they usually ha
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>Why? 1. Because we are in a super competitive market. The talent pool at the top end is VERY contested and for every offer from one of FB/GOOG/AMZN/TWTR/MS there is a competing bigger offer elsewhere. 2. The top end
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Most of these articles that deride long work hours don't account for the following: 1. When you are the smartest in the room, you can get away with 40 hours because what you produce in 40 hours will be orders of magnitude ahead of what
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I agree with henrik_w below. Experienced/Senior engineers lose a lot of their potency if they go dark during office hours. It is a criminal waste to let developers lurch around trying to solve a known problem. Managing distractions is
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How do you account for illnesses / Old age / injuries / a reasonable setup for your children etc. on this forest living? The main problem with romanticizing the unabomber life style is what it misses: All the benefits of regu
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Late comment but: I look at it as a necessary evil. I usually solve it by having a note of the intermediate understandings / thought process on OneNote when I am debugging something deep. It probably takes 2 minutes to get back on the
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I work on AWS DynamoDB Storage Engine. AWS DynamoDB is an infinitely scalable / infinitely provisionable / hosted low latency key value store. It is growing beyond the basic key value store definition rapidly with indexing etc. Bu
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Very good stuff. Don't let up!
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Most of the good programmers are here by choice. Even if this choice meant being the nerdy kid in the room through school / life. To be fair - no one thinks of a doctor/lawyer as a geek, but our job comes with that distinct tag. I
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Preface: I have interviewed around 300-500 people in the last 10+ years, spread between Microsoft and Amazon. This applies for finding a job with one of the Industry titans (Amazon/FB/Google/MS/Twitter etc.) 1. Prepare w