allthecybers

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by allthecybers 2y ago
The entire Slow Horses series has been great so far. Not many shows have clever writing that makes me laugh, enough suspense to keep me hooked, and has enough plausibility to make it a worthwhile watch. Gary Oldman combines slovenly, cunnin
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by allthecybers 3y ago
I've been rated in top tier/exceeds status for the last two years as a Senior level tech employee at a FAANG. This is after working up from entry level at hire, and promoting two times. Despite high performance and successful deli
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by allthecybers 3y ago
I've never felt as stuck in a job as I have this past year. I've been searching for about ten months so far. During the great resignation, it felt like there was so much career portability and possibility. Want that dream job in a
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by allthecybers 3y ago
My Apple Watch will unlock my home and car.
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by allthecybers 3y ago
What if your car key is a smartphone app or a card in your wallet? Those were the keys that came with my car.
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by allthecybers 3y ago
I understand your points. My macro point was that the smartphone introduced several very sticky conveniences, so I kept my smartphone instead of adopting a light phone or similar device. Instead, I am working on treating it as an appliance
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by allthecybers 3y ago
I'd love to quit my smartphone and have looked at options like Lite Phone to replace it. The only issue is my smartphone is now my GPS, my payment method, my home lighting controller, my car/house key, and my health tracker. Plus,
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by allthecybers 3y ago
> These days, questions for TGIF are pre-submitted and voted on. As Google has grown into a leaky behemoth, employees tell me these meetings have come to feel so scripted and benign that they no longer bother attending. I enjoyed this ex
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by allthecybers 3y ago
I never bought into the hype of the autopilot system. I was hopeful that they’d figure out how to completely self-drive but wasn’t will to pay money for it. My neighbor paid $10k for FSD and had the moment of summoning the car with his phon
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by allthecybers 3y ago
The one interaction from this article that tells you all you need to know about working at AWS: > Employee question: It often feels like "employees come last" at AWS due to its heavy focus on customer satisfaction, the employee
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AI fatigue: Inside growing tension at AWS(web.archive.org)
6 points by allthecybers 3y ago|1 comments
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by allthecybers 3y ago
I saw several 2nd and 3rd level connections on LinkedIn sharing their story of working at AMP and the passion that drew them to this product. They also detailed about being let go without much notice. It almost makes it feel like big tech i
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by allthecybers 3y ago
This is a head scratcher for sure. Replace a bad CEO who over hired relative to productivity, with a guy who presided over an unprofitable consumer hardware business and had to layoff 10,000 people. You’d think between Amazon and the Bezos
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by allthecybers 3y ago
Well said. I agree 100%.
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by allthecybers 3y ago
So they’ve abandoned being the world’s best employer by forcing return to office and return to hub. Now they are publicly abandoning customer obsession by putting ads in the middle of a movie. Unless of course you pay them extra on top of a
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by allthecybers 3y ago
I wrestle with this frequently as I am on the cusp of Senior to Principal promotion. Principal means more money but diverting from my preferred sweet-spot of tactical and strategic technical leadership. The optimal answer for me is to stay
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by allthecybers 3y ago
I totally can’t get why he (Jassy) and these other CEOs can’t just level with people and say “we need to keep our tax breaks and we’ve invested a lot in corp real-estate. We need you to come back.” People would be upset and rightfully so, b
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by allthecybers 3y ago
Interesting assumptions. In our case you are incorrect. We really don’t ‘spend a lot more’ on anything. Our house was purchased in 2020 under what the bank would fund us for. We are already priced out of our own neighborhood. We have one ca
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by allthecybers 3y ago
Our household income has been in the ballpark of ~$200k for the last three or so years.
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by allthecybers 3y ago
My spouse and I have been talking about this quite a bit lately. Even with two incomes from tech employment we are watching our budget since it feels like everything is extra expensive lately. The income gains we’ve made have only allowed u
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by allthecybers 3y ago
This is a really good point and something that isn’t pointed out often enough. There is massive carbon footprint and people impact to deliver things that quickly. Even though being a Prime delivery driver is a job to work, the way DSPs are
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by allthecybers 3y ago
This is the thing that got us to cancel. My wife logged in and realized the price had steadily increased every year. We really haven’t missed it for a second and if we have to order something on Amazon, it gets here at basically the same sp
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by allthecybers 3y ago
> What gives me hope is if you ever take a break from social media you realize how worthless it all is. I agree with this sentiment. I left Facebook and don't miss it in the slightest. Left Twitter long before it was fashionable and
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The Misallocation of Tech Talent(world.hey.com)
1 points by allthecybers 3y ago|0 comments
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by allthecybers 4y ago
I don’t think you have to be a devil’s advocate in this case. I 100% agree. There seems to be a very obvious effort to reduce comp and benefits in tech. Or mismanagement is no longer being masked by uninterrupted stock growth. Even Google w
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by allthecybers 4y ago
They used to be happy to throw stock at you but base increases were like pulling teeth. Amazon never replaces things they clawback from you. Layoffs and RTO? Could you throw us a bone and improve some PTO or perks? Nope. Here’s a mental hea
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by allthecybers 4y ago
Amazon seems to be flailing and aggressively eroding even their threadbare reputation in the industry. Comp has always been on the low side, benefits barebones, PTO low, demands and stress high, but you had the incentive of a solid stock aw
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The Earth's Best Employer initiative at Amazon is failing(web.archive.org)
3 points by allthecybers 4y ago|0 comments
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by allthecybers 4y ago
Once the initial hoopla around many of these web based ‘services’ (Gmail, Netflix, Facebook, etc) has worn off, we discover that many of the business models are downright hostile to consumers. I feel like we are seeing the cracks in the web
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by allthecybers 4y ago
This is a good question, and if you just look at it from a surface level the companies that were stupid enough to over-hire, are also stupid enough to lay off for no measurable ROL (return on layoff). But if you look at it through lens of t

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