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by SubuSS 11y ago
Actually my pet theory is this: Interviews for experienced folks are more meant to keep them in their current companies rather than to filter the incoming new ones. This acts as a gentleman's agreement between the giant companies to ke
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I don't know if part time is that rare a thing. My family has a couple of doctors who have the option of switching into emergency care / drop in clinic care etc. where they can decide how many hours to work. In fact their hours ar
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by SubuSS 11y ago
So why don't you do the part time thing and let her chase her career dreams?
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The problem with giant boxes (full of RAM / SSD / Disk) is giant failures and huge recovery times. This is worsened in case of RAM because now every power blip is a full on recovery situation. Have a big enough data set focussed o
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by SubuSS 12y ago
A ton of interesting comments - let me add my opinion in there too: - Intelligence IMO is two fold. Speed of processing and domain knowledge. Clearly one with a lot of the former, gathers the latter faster though. Right now - The only thing
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by SubuSS 12y ago
Great article. Perhaps because I suck at grammar, I didn't even notice the language issues. Interesting that HN is getting bogged down analyzing grammar rather than the actual content. Were the mistakes so bad that they detracted you a
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by SubuSS 12y ago
Let me know if you want to work for our team in Dublin! We build distributed databases - pretty much as high tech as it can get :)
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In theory, a very valid point. In practice though, humanity is very varied and is of a thousand inherently contradicting beliefs. Unless we find a way to ensure that local interests ( that the locals have worked so hard to build and conserv
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by SubuSS 12y ago
I don't know how effective it is to go via a recruiter. But it is indeed effective to talk to a technical person directly and establish a rapport. For example, if you wanted a job with Amazon and are qualified, I would say send me a ma
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Yeah - as a guy named Subu, that was not a good title to read :)
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How is that working out? FWIW - I spent about 7 years in MS and now >5 in Amazon - I overall like the MS model, at least from a developer perspective. It gave you a lot of time to focus on getting your complicated piece right with unit t
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by SubuSS 12y ago
How is the media reacting in Brazil? If only they showcased him alongside the famous footballers... I come from India which is fanatic about Cricket. You would think media will understand the need to give India's chess grandmasters the
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by SubuSS 12y ago
So how do you handle the mundane / repetitive parts of your own job? Let's say you decide you want a decidedly western theme for your new project and want the assets switched over for a reason your employees/peers don't
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by SubuSS 13y ago
Can you point me to one such perf benchmark? Thx.
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At least from a big company perspective: This breaks down. Any set % for coding doesn't work because there are so many 'big company' problems to deal with already that take up enough of their time. Either you will end up fixi
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by SubuSS 13y ago
To address that, as the article mentions - Bar raisers interview in another part of the company. They can't bar raise for their own team. And in a 110k employee company, to think one extra hire will obsolete you is extreme paranoia. Yo
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by SubuSS 13y ago
> He's the boss, and they better shut up and do what they're told. Hypothetically let's assume you are a manager. You have a team of smart people and like any other team, everyone wants to work on the hardest problem. Part
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by SubuSS 13y ago
I don't know about the culture where you come from / where you are, But isn't being in public just that? Being in public. When you get out there, you do open yourself for social interaction and conversation / nods /
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by SubuSS 13y ago
So everyone supporting this, don't you have on calls in your team? (assuming you work on a live product). Don't you have subject matter expertise split enough that you might be needed when your component conks? Don't you have
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by SubuSS 13y ago
So I see different rates in different websites. What prevents me from buying in one and selling in another? Do these automatically account for the exchange rates? from a quick look it doesn't seem so - I am wondering if short term trad
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by SubuSS 13y ago
The problem is companies are looking for engineers while you are talking about this in terms of programmers. In most companies, it is about shipping and making a difference to the bottom line. It doesn't really matter if you are a good
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by SubuSS 13y ago
Can you explain that a bit more? How is it better off to pay your debt if it is 'free debt'? Wouldn't it be better to keep/invest the money elsewhere and pay the bare minimum? This assumes elsewhere provides returns that
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>We will continue to invest in a generous rewards budget, but there will no longer be a pre-determined targeted distribution. Managers and leaders will have flexibility to allocate rewards in the manner that best reflects the performance
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It depends on the numbers involved too. Many companies give you a market rate and a bonus (sign on / stock RSU/ cash bonus etc) on top of it to incentivize extra work / ownership. My case: my base salary is pretty competitive
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by SubuSS 13y ago
Most of my hobbies are related to my product - so no issues there. But even in the main project, there are some issues that require the personal attention of senior engineers. These will require time aside from the regular co-ordination &#x
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by SubuSS 13y ago
How often does that work? Doesn't it become obvious that you aren't one after the first deathmarch?
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Amazon doesn't foist a 'keep up' requirement on people. You can just do your job, make a bunch of money and have fun working here for a long time. There might be a little bit more work compared to other companies that build p
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by SubuSS 13y ago
Different strokes for different people I guess :). I respect your choice.
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Just because there is a possibility that my work could be made obsolete, I can't stop working. That is a non-starter. Why do you think people keep working on various fields like physics when most of them are theories that might be disp

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