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by angarg12 4y ago
Maybe you can answer a question that is nagging me. I recently moved to the US, and ever since I keep getting messages on LinkedIn offering contract/freelance jobs. However the hourly rate is so poor that it would pay less that my curr
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I agree that Staff engineer is in practice the closest thing to the old Architect title. I still think this approach is better. If nothing else it's a shift in the responsibly of architecture. In the most rancid organizations there are
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This is where the fractal nature of the role helps. In your example, a mid level dev would oversee the architecture of the service. This dev would work to the junior to ensure their approach fits the rest of the service, and review their wo
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> I can see, that I’m indeed a Systems Architect, and not a Software Engineer anymore. I find this distinction harmful. Are we going back to the days where there were programmers who did the grunt work and architects who told them what t
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The concept of writing to think more clearly might be starting to become trite, particularly if you are a hardcore techie. However I can't overstate how useful this has been for my career and for me personally. If you haven't writ
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“I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.” ― Kent Beck
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With something as fuzzy as "happiness" there can be many scales. This is one of the beefs that I have with the "love your job" culture. People reduce job satisfaction to a single line, where you either love it, hate it,
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Unfortunately we haven't figure this one out yet.
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I've spent the last couple of years at the two bottom levels of that scale. It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize one of the root causes: my wife and I have fundamentally different personalities that are at odds with each o
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Since you talk so casually about travelling the world, please read your contract and local regulations to know what you can and can't do. For example, one can't just move to San Francisco and work from there. If you can, understan
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I'm afraid my expertise is interviewing devs so I can't help you there. I'd also need more details to give more tips. From the sound of it I'm not sure a BSc in ML will land you a PM job. I can also say that we are an ap
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I moved to my current team in my mid 30s, so there is always hope :)
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Spark in Scala, Pytorch, Docker, bunch of infra... We run in AWS and have a ton of proprietary tools.
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Usually you can tell people who are purely academic. They excel at domain knowledge but are almost naive about building real world systems. They might come in as juniors. I don't think we would loop anyone as mid level or above unless
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I moved to a Machine Learning Engineer role a few years back. I just did an internal transfer to a ML team with no previous knowledge. The team trusted me to pick up whatever I needed on the job. Now I interview tons of people for MLE roles
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My first reaction was "damn that looks good!". I guess it was the nostalgia taking over.
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I work in big tech, and that's pretty much how it works here. We don't have "architect" roles, instead every engineer owns a certain part of the system. The difference is scale and complexity: a mid level developer might
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by angarg12 4y ago
> I don't think chat services (IRC, Matrix, Discord) are a good fit here At least I'm not alone. I find the quality of the conversation in random online communities lacking. I toyed with the idea of joining vetted professional
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by angarg12 4y ago
Thanks, I appreciate choosing simplicity. As a software engineer looking to optimize for comp (among others) I'm interested in how reproducible those numbers are. If someone got lucky and their initial grant is now worth several times
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They did, but my new grants came in 2021, when stock was at the highest. Stock price more than 3x in the 4 years after I joined. Now my grants are worth less than when they were granted. So I got overpaid for a few years and now I'm ge
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by angarg12 4y ago
Hi Gergely, thanks for bringing salary transparency to the EU! Some of those numbers make me consider moving back ;) Since this is early stage here is something for your consideration: so far I'm not very keen on how many of these webs
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I have a much more cynical and pessimistic view that's pretty much not on brand for HN. I spent 3 years working on a videogame as a personal side project. Although I was passionate about it, thing is it was a very niche idea. Sure, may
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Incremental games taught me.
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Sounds to me like intolerant groups that abuse tolerance to push their agendas, or authoritative regimes that invoke free speech to push propaganda that undermines freedom. Would you say those belong in the same category.
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Ask HN: How to deal with overwhelming criticism and self-doubt?
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I believe many companies also incentivize this. Not many people get praise, raises and promos by saying no or simplifying things, much less juniors. Once you've built something and put it in your promo doc, no one wants to remove it or
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If you work doing ML in production, you know how incredibly difficult it is to get an extra % improvement. The idea of exponential growth that accelerates into the singularity is a sci-fi concept that I have never experienced. From the outs
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I've lived in a handful of countries and UK is where I experienced the most intense classism. Unlike other countries where class is mostly defined by money, the UK tends to define it in the old school heritage and upbringing sense of t
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The point of 1 is that whoever is oncall shouldn't be working on features/sprint tasks, but actually fixing the underlying problems of the system. This is second to addressing the pages. Of course if your system is so deficient th
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This article should be called "being on a sucky team sucks". It sounds like OP just has experience with one bad on call. I've also been there. I even heard of teams with +100 high severity issues per week. But it doesn't

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