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by angarg12 3y ago
It drives me nuts when people point at engineers making $1M on a startup exit, without counting the average income over their tenure. If they worked in the company 5 years with a 100k base salary, the income averages to about 300k per year.
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by angarg12 3y ago
For a more elaborate explanation of a similar mental model, check out the "pacing" section in Will Larsons article about a 40 years career. [1] https://lethain.com/forty-year-career/
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by angarg12 3y ago
We resort to away teaming when what you describe doesn't work, usually by telling both teams that both goals are important, and they need to figure out how to deliver. Since away teaming is an accepted technique, it's usually cons
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by angarg12 3y ago
Fellow amazonian here. I have been on both sides of away teams and I agree that it sucks for everyone involved. You explains how it looks as the host teams. It also sucks for the guest team. * You have to work with an, at best, passive team
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by angarg12 3y ago
So OP claims that data-driven ads are a scam using the anecdata that she is getting served irrelevant ads. I'm not going to argue about whether ads are "worth it", but working on the other side (serving and optimizing ads), I
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by angarg12 3y ago
517 interviews as an interviewer.
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by angarg12 3y ago
> Formulate high-signal questions (to get interviewers thinking). Interviews are often won or lost by the questions you ask the interviewer at the end. Half of the battle is preparing well and showing up to answer the interviewer’s quest
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by angarg12 3y ago
Deliberate practice is a well studied phenomenon. My favourite talk in the subject is this one from Veritasium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eW6Eagr9XA
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by angarg12 3y ago
That article has been analyzed to death. Here is a good one from another ex-Amazon. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35853148
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by angarg12 3y ago
I've conducted hundreds of interviews and I agree about the tech stack, but disagree about culture. Tech is usually easy to pick up, and highly company specific. Any good engineer should be able to learn new tech, and things will chang
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by angarg12 3y ago
I never heard about having to do this during an interview, but it sounds concerning. My advice would be to not play mind games and just interview as yourself. Interviews go both ways, so if your interviewer is a psychopath you'd want t
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by angarg12 3y ago
I kind of see your point at the macro level, but in our case we are both working in the same product, and contributing to the same bottom line. I see no strategic advantage on shifting resources from a high to a low performing team. And of
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by angarg12 3y ago
I'm not brave enough to start my own company, but I'd definitely like to try a much smaller shop where people can't play politics so hard.
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by angarg12 3y ago
> is it common to roadmap features your team can’t deliver at their current size? that sounds like a problem. Remember, we had the headcount last year, and we planned our roadmap accordingly (in fact my company tends to plan at least 1 y
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by angarg12 3y ago
So recently I was discussing with a colleague how misalignment of incentives has shafted our team in a certain Big Tech. I'm part of a high performing team, and for the last few years we have been delivering high quality output while h
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by angarg12 3y ago
I lived in 5 countries in 10 years, and I'm not up for geo-arbitrage to scrap a few more dollars in my income. If I got a global remote job, rather than moving halfway across the world, I rather move close to my family and friends. Plu
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by angarg12 3y ago
The comment I'm replying to mentions europeans in Silicon Valley, so probably their experience is closer to mine in Seattle than someone in Alabama. Other than that I explicitly address in my comment that my experience is particularly
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by angarg12 3y ago
I'm a relatively new immigrant to the US, Seattle area, spaniard but moved from the UK. I'm actually extremely tempted to move back to Spain and my experience in the US so far has been very negative. Very high cost of living, infl
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by angarg12 3y ago
The second part of the article makes it clear that the author has never worked in online banking (I have), and possibly any other complex domain. > Have you ever heard about those three web engineers who figured out that secure online ba
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by angarg12 3y ago
Me too, and I wouldn't apply most of OP rules to my day job. They just aren't a good fit. Sometimes using the right tool (e.g. Docker) actually decreases the overall complexity of the system, even if it raises it locally.
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by angarg12 3y ago
My opinion on career ladders and titles has zigzagged back and forth over the years. Today I'm in the camp that titles are, to put it succinctly, somewhat useful. Sure, you could be idealist and say that everyone should be judged on th
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by angarg12 3y ago
OP makes the same mistake that those chaps who use Kubernetes to run an app with 10 lines of code: thinking that there is one right solution for every kind of problem. OP's approach might work for a personal project or a small company,
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by angarg12 3y ago
I guess using ambiguous terms like "smart" and "dumb" is the downfall of this article. You could replace them with "good developer" and "bad developer" for whichever definition of good and bad you cho
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by angarg12 3y ago
Funny that you mention this, because it reminds me to a developer archetype that I noticed a few times, that I call "80/20 optimizer" for lack of a better name. I was thinking about writing an article about this. I call them
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by angarg12 3y ago
I find the article amusing but it feels like it is missing a clear closing statement about why this matters. My take is that "dumb and get things done" is dangerous because they can do harm quickly, unlike dumb and lazy which at l
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by angarg12 3y ago
Sure, but why would I move to the boonies in the US to get a remote job? I might as well move back to my home country, with my family, friends, and no worries about immigration status. If the solution is to move to a rural area, I double do
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by angarg12 3y ago
Thanks for your comment, I think the HN crowd might be more understanding. In the general population, someone making 6 figures complaining about cost of living (particularly tech workers, since we are usually blamed for the problem) is frow
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by angarg12 3y ago
I moved from the UK but I'm not british, so not sure how useful my experience will be to you. Since I am married and an introvert I haven't really socialized that much since we moved. People seem pretty open although it seems to m
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by angarg12 3y ago
According to the stats, we make top 5% income of our area. It sure doesn't feel like it. Makes me wonder how people in much lower income who hasn't inherited their home can make ends meet here (the answer is probably not very well
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by angarg12 3y ago
I'm a new immigrant millennial to the US (from the UK of all places) and for me the American dream is dead. I know I'm playing the world's smallest violin and I will gather little sympathy since I am one of those tech workers

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