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by amznthrowaway5 6y ago
Yeah talent matters a lot and only a small percentage of the population is cut out for intellectually demanding activities like leetcode or any type of programming. People on forums like these are usually living in a bubble, you shouldn&#x2
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by amznthrowaway5 6y ago
Exactly, these comments would result in bans if they were about black people instead of south asians.
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by amznthrowaway5 6y ago
> Read it again. That’s precisely what happened, followed by clicking the person’s profile to move on to fundamentally shaming the person rather than the problematic idea. If this was about the groups in his profile, it wouldn't be
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by amznthrowaway5 6y ago
Or black people, any criticism of black people would be met with outrage. So much hypocrisy.
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by amznthrowaway5 6y ago
The evaluation of programmers isn't nearly as objective as the evaluation of athletes, and I'm not convinced modafinil and amphetamines have a statistically significant advantage (how much does programming ability even matter for
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by amznthrowaway5 6y ago
At the top level in all competitive sports almost everyone in on banned PEDs, they are simply too advantageous. Even the women take testosterone.
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by amznthrowaway5 6y ago
The people using the dishonest tactics will tend to win out, same reason almost everyone in sports uses steroids. Being dishonest is just far, far too advantageous, which is why the "selling yourself" game is disgusting to many.
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by amznthrowaway5 6y ago
But the giant hedge funds and billionaires aren't corrupt at all and we should all just believe them? Get real, most economic theory is all nonsense to cover for corruption and insider trading. Everyone can see how bad the economic ine
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by amznthrowaway5 6y ago
The "scientists" are often far less valuable or have outright negative contribution.
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by amznthrowaway5 6y ago
This is my experience with more sr members at multiple "faang" as well, there is a lot of cheating especially at more senior "engineering" levels, a lot of these people realistically wouldn't cut it as tech support.
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by amznthrowaway5 6y ago
In my experience taking credit for others' work is far more important than doing good work or taking credit for your own work.
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by amznthrowaway5 6y ago
Why would someone "deserve" to be left behind for not boasting about their performance? If people are doing good work, they should be rewarded appropriately.
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by amznthrowaway5 6y ago
Can you go into more detail? Because Graeber's post seems quite convincing, and DeLong fails to coherently reply to the accusations. Graeber went into detail about why DeLong was impossible to ignore, including DeLong apparently creati
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by amznthrowaway5 6y ago
Why do you suspect this experience is so rare and unrepresentative, as opposed to yours? It is a company wide problem in the cases I've seen, the scientist positions are not even expected to have junior software engineer level competen
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by amznthrowaway5 6y ago
"In fact, most data science and ML engineers are quite skilled in systems engineering, because you have to do so much work with GPU hardware issues, underlying scientific package management, efficient data transportation, etc." Th
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by amznthrowaway5 6y ago
If you have an understanding of the product, it is not difficult to come up with a convincing story. MS pay is actually competitive for external hires, although internal raises aren't usually very high.
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by amznthrowaway5 6y ago
IQ points less or more? I assume you mean OOP requires 10-15 IQ points less, but it is very hard to do OOP correctly so I don't think that's true.
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by amznthrowaway5 6y ago
But how strong is the effect? It's not just a binary judgement. People can heavily bias based on features that are borderline irrelevant. Also, you may end up hurting a lot of innocent people by generalizing too much based on some feat
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by amznthrowaway5 6y ago
I've worked on beloved products and I also disagree. These orgs are full of cutthroat psychopathic politicians much more than people who care about the products. They often run on their monopoly status and fail to create any new value.
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by amznthrowaway5 6y ago
Lots of people get these degrees simply for the status aspect. I take meaningful Github OSS contributions much more seriously than PhDs, given all the garbage I have seen in academia. I don't understand how that can be called anecdotal
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by amznthrowaway5 6y ago
Well my point was meant to be that it is not a good indicator. I don't know if they fail as much as non-phds, but there are just so many better signals than the PhD itself to go off of, a PhD by itself is not impressive. And it's
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by amznthrowaway5 6y ago
My point was a PhD alone should not be taken as an indicator of skill, it is a very weak signal at best and is no substitute for good evidence of ability. Showing that most who are extremely successful have a PhD does not prove that having
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by amznthrowaway5 6y ago
> But it is important to remember what you are doing. In a PhD you should be pushing the boundary of knowledge. As a programmer in a company, you should be solving problems to generate value for your customer and your company. You don&#x
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by amznthrowaway5 6y ago
Meaningless spam, advertises as a guide to PhD and gives a few meme images. Academia is very political, I saw senior folk looking down on writing actual code while glorifying corruption and the publishing of fraudulent or meaningless papers
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by amznthrowaway5 6y ago
Leetcode implies all of those, and just like in mathematics competitions, being able to solve these problems implies a high level of ability.
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by amznthrowaway5 6y ago
Banning discussion of fraught topics doesn't just affect the discussion about the fraught topics themselves, it also leads to biased and often meaningless discussion of every single other topic where the fraught stuff is an important f
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by amznthrowaway5 6y ago
Eventually the accumulated sweatshop tech debt and incompetent management with no technical understanding result in teams not being able to accomplish anything, and situations like the one OP and his team are stuck in.
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by amznthrowaway5 6y ago
Getting special bonuses is more about being part of an inner circle than being a "top performer" or inventing critical algorithms for s3. Yes, the people truly behind a lot of the important stuff are standard engineers making with
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by amznthrowaway5 6y ago
I've seen bonuses like this at Amazon. You forgot the detail where some clown who has been taking credit with no technical understanding of the project gets the bonus while the people who delivered the actual value are ignored.
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by amznthrowaway5 6y ago
The perception m0zg outlined still seems correct. The system encourages deceptive reporting of metrics. If you can take credit for improving things with metrics, while causing far more damage in the process or making no real contributions,

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