ashwinaj

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by ashwinaj 10y ago
> H1B visa holder does not have access to I-140 petition I have the I140 petitions from the two employers that I had applied with. This sounds like you are talking about consulting companies who hold their employees hostage. No legitimat
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by ashwinaj 10y ago
You're right about that; you are only free to change your job for a "similar" position elsewhere.
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by ashwinaj 10y ago
About the risk taking, I spoke for myself and not for anyone else. Life is not a bed of roses, I've accepted that. When I got my H1B visa, I was aware of all the risks it involves. I've said this in previous posts as well, nobody
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by ashwinaj 10y ago
EDIT: and other positions which doesn't necessarily require A players
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by ashwinaj 10y ago
> they cannot change job Correction: You can change jobs, but the green card process needs to start again but you keep your priority date. EDIT: You can change jobs to another "similar" position i.e. the job responsibilities sh
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by ashwinaj 10y ago
> That's the thing, this is Facebook, arguably the A-player requirement is sound. I would argue otherwise, not all roles in FB require A players. Not everyone in FB is working on AI, machine learning, ad optimization etc. There are
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by ashwinaj 10y ago
IMO first fix the hiring process for engineers. Asking someone to implement a splay tree, B+ Tree and other obscure algorithms (which is usually Googled 15 mins before the interview or is a pet interview question) in 45 mins is pointless. I
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by ashwinaj 10y ago
> Asking a person to traverse and modify a linked-list (a very common problem) or to implement a B-tree are not 'tech outside their job' No. No one in their daily jobs implements a linked list or B-Tree. There are predefined li
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by ashwinaj 10y ago
Whether we like it or not, English is the defacto "business" language. Most (if not all) places in the world conduct business in their native languages(s) and English. So why would I want to learn Mandarin, which I've been to
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by ashwinaj 10y ago
I find it hard to understand why people "expect" perfection from code written by humans. Shit breaks, people make mistakes, deal with it. Is anyone in their right minds to expect perfectly written software, while at the same time
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by ashwinaj 10y ago
Fair point. There's no cure for ego or being delusional.
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by ashwinaj 10y ago
Funny thing, I was having this discussion with my friends at a dinner party to do something on our own (a non-tech business idea). No cigar... It's so ingrained in a lot of people that having a stable corporate job is the best you can
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by ashwinaj 10y ago
Totally agree! I fail to understand why is this a 'problem'. FB can do as they please (fail or succeed as a consequence), they aren't a tax payer funded institution answerable to the public at large. In effect, people are dic
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by ashwinaj 10y ago
I don't think any past or present employees are surprised by this. Cisco has always been a volatile place to work (at least since the dot com bubble) where these layoff rumors start every 4-6 months; and more often than not they do occ
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by ashwinaj 10y ago
It depends on where you are located? I've found recruiters/HR in silicon valley being cognizant about the fact that titles do not really matter if you are in a startup.
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by ashwinaj 10y ago
"Debates or putting down other people’s ideas wasn’t permitted" If I had a dime...
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by ashwinaj 10y ago
To each their own. When I read such articles I wonder what the motivation is? Clearly the Bay area, whether you like it or not, is a phenomenal place which has stayed at the top of the tech pyramid since it's inception as "Silicon
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by ashwinaj 10y ago
I'm not sure if I can disclose our product details, but we're using etcd2 as a consensus algorithm for a data storage cluster.
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by ashwinaj 10y ago
On paper, yes. But this argument has been around for quite a while and we haven't seen any major companies moving operations (ever after the recession). The company I worked for in Austin was a remote location and HQ was in SV. Hardly
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by ashwinaj 10y ago
Yup, but these aren't "tech" companies. These are traditional manufacturing, finance, insurance (I've heard about State Farm moving to Richardson, TX) etc. Apart from AMD (when it was on the brink) moving it's HQ to
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by ashwinaj 10y ago
I was in one of the so called "low cost tech hubs" of Dallas/Austin in 2008 during the recession. Anecdotal, but people in tech were doing a lot worse than in SV due to lack of jobs. If you were a reasonably good engineer in
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by ashwinaj 10y ago
With the exception of NYC (maybe to an extent SF) I can't think of any other city where people exclusively live in high rises or buildings. Most cities have a small cluster of high rises downtown (usually commercial and a small numbe
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by ashwinaj 10y ago
Yes, I'm aware of white flight. It's 2016 and the claim is that America has supposedly moved on, but it surely doesn't look like it. Or no one wants to talk about it since it's embarrassing.
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by ashwinaj 10y ago
One of the comments I get people who visit India (I'm Indian) is that how is there a slum next to a swanky high rise or classy residential/commercial areas (at least in most big cities). I don't really have an explanation for
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by ashwinaj 10y ago
This. (At the risk of getting down voted) Cisco is a sales driven company not an engineering company. Barring a few business units (and that too I'm being generous) there is absolutely no innovation or drive to build new products. It&#
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by ashwinaj 10y ago
C++ is very hard. IMO, that's why people dislike it. I was writing a test output parser in Python: ~50 lines of functional code in less than an hour. Testing the script for about 10-20 mins and tweaking it to my liking. The same in C++
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by ashwinaj 10y ago
Well you can choose to ignore what a non-technical manager says (if you don't care for him/her). I don't know what your programming experience is, but if you've done some moderately complex projects this might sound obvi
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by ashwinaj 10y ago
I think she's trying to imply that we should not jump into coding without putting in some thought on all possible scenarios. Obviously there is no way that anyone can tabulate all possible scenarios, but the time spent on dwelling on p
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by ashwinaj 10y ago
Does anyone know how to open multiple folders in the same editor window? Either I'm stupid or the VSCode developers have completely overlooked this.
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by ashwinaj 10y ago
As opposed to confronting reality and not being in denial? We have a difference of opinion. I'd rather be told the truth than have someone showing sympathy which is of no use whatsoever.

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