VirusNewbie

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by VirusNewbie 2mo ago
Not true, they get paid at least a whole level (or two) above what we make. When I was discussing offers a few years ago, the GDM candidates regularly had six figure differentials even though they were the same level. Maybe this isn't
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by VirusNewbie 2mo ago
> because even Gemini doesn't understand Google-internal tooling. this is false, it's very good at internal tooling.
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by VirusNewbie 2mo ago
He means the chief scientist part. Before Demis had no influence on cloud, tpu development, day to day dev tools, etc.
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by VirusNewbie 2mo ago
What? His influence is going to be larger.
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by VirusNewbie 2mo ago
The reason the 'middle class' is smaller is because more families have become "upper middle class". All the data shows this. You can argue that housing is too much or that inflation hasn't benefited the right thing
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by VirusNewbie 2mo ago
Lol what? You think most people on HN who live in america are not millionaires?
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by VirusNewbie 3mo ago
Microsoft pays significantly less than most other big tech companies. I'm not sure why they go this route, or if they think having a few super highly paid engineers to manage/lead the lower paid ones is the way to go, but it may
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by VirusNewbie 3mo ago
How did they make a killing with post IPO stock if they weren't getting big grants? Their stock went up 50% over a 15 year period. Not great.
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by VirusNewbie 3mo ago
yes but sometimes a VP gets fired, new VP comes in, and says "we'll outsource this" or "we'll use this home grown team doing something else" and unfortunately tons of people are caught in a layoff, even if they
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by VirusNewbie 3mo ago
how are these long term commitments structured? Can the big companies default on them? pay a small penalty? I think that probably makes a large difference.
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by VirusNewbie 3mo ago
Amazon and MS were never really in the same league as Google and Apple. I don't really believe NVIDIA pays near as well as the latter two companies either (per level, not accounting stock appreciation), though obviously if you joined i
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by VirusNewbie 3mo ago
Early Microsoft (well, and current micorsoft) did not/does not shower their employees with massive stock grants. Google was one of the first tech companies to pay so well that people switched industries to get into tech both to work
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by VirusNewbie 3mo ago
How sad. :(
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by VirusNewbie 3mo ago
My brain chemistry tells me i'm better than most people and deserve more. Is that...selfish?
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by VirusNewbie 3mo ago
Is that effective surveillance? I know SMS is plain text, but anything interesting is probably on iMessage, or RCS, or SSL web, no?
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by VirusNewbie 3mo ago
100% amazon. real world experience is worth 10x more than degrees.
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by VirusNewbie 3mo ago
I have jetski/antigravity in one tmux pane and nvim in the other at all times.
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by VirusNewbie 3mo ago
Culture. XAI employs were bragging about spending all weekend at the office. Many tweet that they have been fired after 8 months. Some get fired right before their first big stock vest. The team is mostly H1Bs. Do you think they don’t ha
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by VirusNewbie 3mo ago
>rouble is, they have zero engineering or leetcode experience. Sounds like they want the perks of working at FAANG, and not that they want the job, right?
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by VirusNewbie 3mo ago
This happened to my wife at a small PR firm. She told them she doesn't have a laptop (she didn't really have a functional one) and they just bought her a personal one as a 'signing bonus' and they have her bring it in.
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by VirusNewbie 3mo ago
I'm sorry to say but it sounds like you cannot afford dogs. They will likely be better off somewhere else with someone who has some financial means. You need to figure out how to rent a room, or even a garage or ADU from someone. I
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by VirusNewbie 3mo ago
>Did you read the SRE handbook before applying? Yes, but it wasn't really necessary. Google isn't trying to hire SREs, they're trying to hire SWEs and specialists who they can turn into SREs, if that makes sense. Though
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by VirusNewbie 3mo ago
I'm a SWE SRE at Google. That means we had to do a SWE interview with an emphasis on system design. So I'm expected to be able to do both operations for oncall, but also do RCA and implement fixes and changes to make the systems
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by VirusNewbie 4mo ago
I do all the time now, buying stuff for my wife! Sweaters, lingerie, etc. because it's usually from brands she's been browsing and they target me.
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by VirusNewbie 4mo ago
I'm talking about recruiters that you talked to throughout an interview loop, not randos.
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by VirusNewbie 4mo ago
I agree that the online hackerrank quizes where it isn't even a video call is dumb because so many people cheat and if you don't, you're at a disadvantage. Lots I agree with here, but... > I would promptly remove them from
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by VirusNewbie 4mo ago
My point is you and I are still working for money because we want things/security etc.. I really don't get the sense that people who have tens or hundres of millions of dollars are doing it cause they need more money. It's
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by VirusNewbie 4mo ago
Err, maybe some of those, but there's a reason Apple is using GCP and TPUs for training their custom gemini model.
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by VirusNewbie 4mo ago
How much money do you have? or are you just commenting from the peanut gallery?
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by VirusNewbie 4mo ago
Google is competing with nvidia (TPU), AWS (GCP), Netflix (youtube), Tesla (waymo self driving), OpenAI (Gemini), Microsoft (Workspace), Apple (Android)....

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