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by angarg12 4y ago
I'm a recent immigrant to the US, and when talking to locals I need to bite my tongue to not say "for the land of the free, you sure have an awful lot of rules". As much as America prides itself on their freedoms, they have r
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by angarg12 4y ago
This debate is a bit more nuance that it might look like. Some people use the argument "you didn't give stocks back when price was going up". That's true, but there are unique feature of Amazon compensation package that
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by angarg12 4y ago
I must have expressed myself incorrectly. Generating coding problems automatically with ChatGPT doesn't mean you just throw whatever to the candidates. You can both auto generate AND curate. The part I'm against it is manually cre
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by angarg12 4y ago
You get the point.
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You can do both. Generate 10 solutions with ChatGPT and pick the ones that work best. Do this for each candidate.
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by angarg12 4y ago
I'm an active interviewer for a FAANG company. I've run some of my interview questions through ChatGPT with mixed results. I'd say that on it's current form it could easily help a Junior candidate to pass the interview,
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by angarg12 4y ago
I've been quite outspoken about the impact that ChatGPT will have in the tech interview. My solution is not subtle: I believe we should burn the leetcode-style coding interview to the ground and replace it with something else entirely,
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by angarg12 4y ago
> Andy Jassy probably never worked as an SDE if he truly thinks any of the above is motivating. No, he hasn't. He joined Amazon as a Product Manager in 97, became a Director in 2000, VP in 2002 and Sr. VP in 2006. The rest is histor
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by angarg12 4y ago
Can anyone share how compensation packages look like in these post-layoffs days?
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Not accounting for luck as a factor of success is one of my pet peeves. I'm reading "So good they can't ignore you" and although I'm loving it, it's also guilty of that. Cal Newport tells the story of a Clean T
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by angarg12 4y ago
As an immigrant tech worker on visa (L1 to be specific) I find this comment cruel and tone deaf. Losing my job means losing my status, which means having to leave the country in short notice, my wife losing her job as well, and uprooting my
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by angarg12 4y ago
Are you married? My anecdotal evidence points in the opposite direction.
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Prediction time! In 2023 we will see the first major incident with real-world consequences (think accidents, leaks, outages of critical systems) because someone trusted GPT-like LLMs blindly (either by copy-pasting code, or via API calls).
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by angarg12 4y ago
Quitting your job to focus full time on prepping for the tech interview had a good ROI during the fever dream market of 2021 and 2022. I'm not so sure that's true anymore. At the very least it has an inherent risk (dwindling savin
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by angarg12 4y ago
I suspect you'd be able to land fewer interviews if you repeated this experience now. However the most interesting stat is missing: compensation offers. I bet offers being handed today are across the board lower than even just 1 quarte
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> * They had a _full_ pipeline, interviewing every day for three weeks straight. It's a grind, but you definitely get "in the zone". Additionally, setting this goal ensures that you are being properly proactive/aggres
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by angarg12 4y ago
I know it's a very touchy subject, but it would be immensely helpful if OP posted numbers about the offers he got. Personally, my compensation is underwater due to the recent stock crash, and leadership has insinuated to expect zilch f
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by angarg12 4y ago
Most of these might ring true, and some have been extensively explored (like 2.), but overall I can't help but feel like I'm reading astrology. I need something more solid than "one guy's opinion on the internet" to
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I graduated in 2008 and entered the job market during probably the deepest recession in my country. I was lucky that I landed a grant which ensured my job for the next 4 years. This was both a blessing and a curse. Let me explain. During an
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What I don't like about the discourse on the "rat race" online is that people only discuss two extremes: either you work a high paid, highly stressing job that you hate, or you retire. I feel dumb saying this, but there are m
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by angarg12 4y ago
I'm a senior eng at FAANG nearing my 40s, so according to your napkin math I should be a millionaire. Of course is not that simple. I won't bore you with my life history, but I spent most of my career living paycheck to paycheck,
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by angarg12 4y ago
But programmer salaries already are bimodal, or even trimodal [1]. [1] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-sala...
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I called this "survivorship bias" in my comment but I think you are right, and it's probably more of a fundamental attribution error [1]. Just like how media fetishizes the weird habits of billionaires, ignoring that a) each
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by angarg12 4y ago
> You’re an 18 year old with just a high school degree. You immigrate to a new country that speaks a different language, and start work with some of the brightest engineers in the world. Soon after, you’re thrust into management. Now, yo
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by angarg12 4y ago
I'm in a similar boat (worse actually, since I'm on a visa) so I can't give specific advice, but @patio11 [1] greatly encouraged me to consider freelance/consulting as a career path. I am going through the grind of prepp
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by angarg12 4y ago
When people see a BS-peddler they throw their hands in the air and say "you can't fool everyone all the time". They are missing the point. You don't need to fool everyone all the time, you just need to fool the right peo
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by angarg12 4y ago
Hey let me tell you how I found one of my jobs! I just moved to a new room and was speaking spanish on the phone. My new neighbor stopped me and asked if I could help their son to study Spanish. I accepted to do it for free. Since I didn&#x
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For me it's not about a business, it's about a community. The fee is just a barrier to entry to filter participants. I believe even a nominal amount would keep most people out, and that's by design. Also you don't need h
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Golf clubs do the job, but I don't think I'll find many like-minded folks in there.
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by angarg12 4y ago
It's a matter of mental model. I'm thinking more "private members club" than social network.

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