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by angarg12 3y ago
You are right that big scale and high margins means that a small effort can have an outsized impact. I use ARR as a proxy for the importance of the project. To give you the details, the relative impact is in the 1-10% range for my org. This
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by angarg12 3y ago
A few implicit assumptions in your comment. > After 15 years at a FAANG you must be drowning in money I have 15 yoe total, not all in FAANG. And almost all my career is in EU anyway. My net worth is probably an order of magnitude smaller
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by angarg12 3y ago
Yes, but the market is particularly bad now. I have 15+ YoE, and currently working at FAANG. I've spent the last few years leading a team of engineers to deliver one of the top priority projects of my org with estimated impact of +$100
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by angarg12 3y ago
I don't know about fake jobs, but as a ML Engineer looking, my experience has been appalling, despite all the AI/ML hype. I'm tempted to write a blog post about it, but the highlights are: * More than half of recruiters ghost
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by angarg12 3y ago
I used to love ultra modern white-box architecture, but recently I gained a new appreciation for the buildings of my home city in Europe that were built in the late 19th and early 20th century. These buildings are very ornate and I find the
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by angarg12 3y ago
I'm in FAANG making close to that, and I have been testing the market for a few months. I found less than a handful of companies that could beat my current comp. The vast majority of companies I've talked to seem to top around 250
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by angarg12 3y ago
As others have said, expert-level material tend to not lend itself well to a book format. Instead I find a lot of advance level knowledge is usually shared in tech blog posts and tech talks. The quality of these tends to vary a lot, so you
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by angarg12 3y ago
Same here, have a Model 3 for 1.5 years and so far my best car ever. Parts and material aren't top notch but I feel I get my money's worth. Unless the car becomes a pile of junk under me I don't see all the hate. As with any
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by angarg12 3y ago
These days hardware and tech have come such a long way that building a service that supports millions of customers isn't hard at all. A colleague and I spent the last 3 years at work building a system that supports tens of millions of
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by angarg12 3y ago
For us blast radius is a reason to intentionally limit the size of our servers. We could have smaller fleets with bigger servers, but then if anything went wrong it would impact a larger number of customers. That being said I'm partial
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by angarg12 3y ago
I naturally developed this as a key technique when I interview software engineers. Repeating back a long-winded technical explanation servers several purposes: * Makes sure you indeed understood what you think you did. * Gives you some time
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by angarg12 3y ago
There is always hustlers, but the current web of AI is undeniable. I'm a ML Engineer and for the past few months I'm getting as much activity in LinkedIn as at the cusp of 2022 job market. In the startup space, I see 2 major trend
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by angarg12 3y ago
Relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/882/
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by angarg12 3y ago
> there's a large population of anti-social or outright criminal people around. Have you ever been to Germany? one of the safest countries in the world, never had any issue with safety there. And going back to your main point, yes,
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by angarg12 3y ago
I worked as a programmer in Spain (my homeland) between 2008 and 2014. My yearly salary was 16k euros, putting me in the bottom 25% of earners, or just about the poverty line. Considering the american market, people have a hard time believi
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by angarg12 3y ago
Assuming this story is real, there are several smells * Colleague writes quite a bit of code, and merges it without anyone reviewing it or providing feedback. * OP rewrites the code from a colleague without communicating, and again merges i
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by angarg12 3y ago
> Helen Toner was a relatively unknown 31-year-old academic from Australia—until she became one of the four board members who fired Sam Altman > Toner graduated from the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 2014 with a degree in che
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by angarg12 3y ago
And where does Visa factor in all of this? I have lived and worked in 5 different countries in my adult life and I can attest that some countries make it much easier than others to move in (I'm looking at you USA). Visa, immigration st
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by angarg12 3y ago
I'm interviewing for Staff level positions and this came in the email of one of the recruiters > For the technical interview, visit leetcode.com and do practice questions at a medium/hard difficulty in Algorithm, Data Structure
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by angarg12 3y ago
Probably much slower, due to all the memory thrashing and lack of pipelining optimizations.
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by angarg12 3y ago
> It took me a while to fully grasp this because, in my experience, much of the software being built never really gets to production, at least not at a significant scale. If you work for organizations where most of the software built is
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by angarg12 3y ago
The housing crisis of 2008 was probably one of the most economically destructive events in Spain, where I'm from. On the runup to 2008, you would hear stories of people buying a home and it going up 10-20% year over year. You'd li
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by angarg12 3y ago
I spent the last couple of days trying to set up some software waddling though open source repositories, fixing broken deps, pinning minor versions, browsing SO for obscure errors... I wish I had a Docker container instead.
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by angarg12 3y ago
We already have a role, research scientist, which would fit your first description. Most of what people in the ML Engineer role would do in my company fit your second description. But of course not everyone in the company, let alone the ind
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by angarg12 3y ago
I work for a big tech co and I have been involved in defining our hiring process for ML Engineers for the last couple of years. Right now the loop to hire ML Engineers is the same as Software Engineers, swapping one coding round for one ML
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by angarg12 3y ago
Here is an argument in favor of WFH that I hardly ever see: Growing up in a second rate city in a country with little tech scene, my and my colleague options to advance our career was to leave our city or our country behind. Having to choos
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by angarg12 3y ago
Currently I work for a big tech company that mostly doesn't employ PM roles, so I can give a first hand take on this. My feelings so far are mixed. I've worked in PM-heavy organizations before and I agree that those suck. But at t
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by angarg12 3y ago
One thing OP seems to gloss over is that there is a strong correlation between places where people want to live in, property prices, and rent prices. In other words, the places where people pay 1k for renting a room are not usually the ones
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by angarg12 3y ago
When I finished my degree in Spain 15 years ago, programmers weren't a well paid or well regarded job. In fact I used to live paycheck to paycheck (making less than some of my friends in non-tech jobs), and programming was considered &
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by angarg12 3y ago
> One of the commonalities I have found is that in most organizations, developers have no idea how to run the full stack, there are conflicting understandings of how things operate and people tend to be cargo-culted into the first patter

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