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by angarg12 5y ago
Mindset is necessary but not sufficient. Some environments encourage learning, while others discourage it. That's the trick behind the "orders of magnitude" sleight of hand. Is not that you learn 100 times faster in some comp
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I don't personally have experience with early stage startups so I can only talk second hand. I think both can provide growth in different ways. Big Tech is more consistent and structured, while startups are sink or swim. I've seen
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That's fair, but if you code for a living and growing is important for your, you should carefully evaluate where you work. Sometimes people dismiss certain companies. I remember my first boss dissing Google saying things like "how
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Wow. This article spends a lot of real estate making an argument, but provides little proof to support it. The problem is I personally disagree with the premise. I don't think that so called "vibe shifts" happen based on the
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I praise 1x programmers, but for reasons that might go against the grain in HN. I'm from Spain so our working ethic is different from the Anglo-Saxon world. "Work to live, don't live to work" as the saying goes. My princ
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I love the nuance and "see both sides of the story" tone of the article. We need more of that. The first half of my career was in a <$20k, paycheck-to-paychek job. Now I make > 8 times the median US salary, and still feel un
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When hiring at scale we value consistency so this wouldn't work well. However in my company we started an initiative called "candidate experience". In one of the interviews we allocate some time for the candidate to "fle
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My company has an initiative to bring in students for a 3 day event where they attend workshops and talks. We were brainstorming what type of content would make fun and educational workshops for students. I proposed something along OPs line
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Everyone's different and unless you account for that we will keep talking past each other. Yesterday I went to the office for the first time in a month. I hated it. First I spent over 1 hour commuting each way, which felt like a massiv
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Is this such a difficult skill that needs a dedicated in-depth post? I though this was the norm. I have always interviewed while having a job. In fact I would find it weird and risky to leave your job to focus exclusively on interviewing. H
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If you need someone to talk to feel free to DM me. I'm an engineer in FAANG with +10 yoe and I mentored junior engineers before. I'm always happy to help. To your point, this is causing you distress, and in a sense that's a g
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My advice for those people is: don't go to the office. Simply work remotely as it was agreed and let the managers make a move. Considering how insanely difficult it is to hire right now, I predict most of times they will do nothing. Ho
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Why do people simply assume big tech companies are dumb and they haven't thought their hiring process through? Amazon literally has a research team focused in hiring, and they run A/B experiments to continually improve the process
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I was going to say this. To add more: a single person (HM) might have biases for or against certain candidates. More people in the loop brings in diversity and helps to keep interviewers honest and consistent. Also these roles are usually h
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by angarg12 5y ago
Not sure how this will sit with the HN crowd, but a couple of years back I got into menswear, and I derive some pleasure from being the "best dressed guy" at the office. Beyond personal opinions on that particular hobby, I can con
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I roughly divide these skills into three tiers: * Micro-optimizations: e.g. a shortcut that saves you a few seconds several times a day. * 'Mid'-optimizations: e.g. writing an script that saves you an hour once a week. * Macro-opt
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OP is conflating concepts in this piece. Large, poorly maintained/designed codebases are difficult to work with, and these tend to happen more in old, big companies. But large companies can be extremely productive, and small companies
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It isn't clear to me from the article, but has this ladder been implemented somewhere or is it a theoretical framework? My issue with many such articles is that they propose and idea without having tried it in practice. Unless you have
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I just moved to the USA from the UK (having lived in Germany before) and the quality of the services I'm experiencing here is appalling. To get concrete, we submitted an application for an apartment let. After not hearing back for 4 da
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I was under NDA for that stupid robot that was announced recently. Had to bite my tongue for 3 years until I could tell people about that silly secret project.
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I moved to the US a few weeks ago after living in a few European countries, and I'm still shocked by seeing abject poverty right next to mindboggling wealth in a developed country. I see multimillion dollar houses literally two streets
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I stayed in my first job 7 years and my total compensation increase was 16%. An accumulated raise over 7 years of 16%. Choose to jump or not, but make an informed decision.
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I don't find it exhausting, I find it *exhilarating*. After years of proving myself, earning trust and strategical positioning I am finally leading a system that will support millions of requests per second. I love my job and this is t
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Is not about bosses and reports, it's about performance. I wasn't anyone's manager. My role as team lead was to organise, coordinate and supervise my colleague's tasks, on top of my IC contributions. For another example,
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I worked for a very old fashioned company in Germany that used a similar system to pay employees. After about a year I became the lead of my team. But since some of my colleagues had been in the company about 10 years, they were getting pai
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> designing a human process around pathological cases leads to processes that are themselves pathological. Very interesting insight! However I'm not fully behind some of the points. Saying that fixing a bad hire is easy is a very US
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I tried to train an adversarial neural network to play idle games. After several days of work it still wasn't learning anything, but I don't care.
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Exemplary Practitioner Technically Fearless Lead with Empathy Illuminate and Clarify Flexible in Approach Respect What Came Before Learn, Educate, and Advocate Have Resounding Impact Each one has a one paragraph explanation but this gives y
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The Principal Engineer community in Amazon has a list of tenets. I think one of them puts it very eloquently. Respect What Came Before
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I don't mean to be rude, but this post sounds pretty immature to me. How come when people get rejected or down-levelled for jobs, it's always the company that's wrong? I applied to Amazon with 4 YoE + PhD in CS and got offere

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