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by billllll 4y ago
It reads a bit unintentionally exploitive as well. You're essentially asking employees to put the companies growth ahead of their compensation. This passage specifically: > For as long as possible, make the success of the company th
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by billllll 4y ago
I worked with Django at a startup for <1y on a team of ~10 engineers. Django migrations are easy and better than a lot of what's out there, but I thought they could be better for the following reasons: 1. Merge migrations are annoyi
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by billllll 4y ago
We had something similar at Google, where you change some CREATE TABLE statements in an SQL file, then run a migration based on that changed SQL file. It was insanely nice. I think this tool can be super useful, especially with a lot more p
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by billllll 4y ago
> Not a word is wasted on actual love. > > For the cynics that may think that I'm coping, I'm not. I'm 6"4 and in a loving long term relationship. As a 5'5" Asian man (statistically one of the lowest
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by billllll 4y ago
I see a good number of commenters mention that they also went through the same program/went through something similar. I was wondering if getting the degree translated into any professional benefits? The conventional wisdom is that deg
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by billllll 4y ago
I like your level-headed take. Having been in the trenches on a large scale initiative gone awry, my hunch would be the same as yours: the lack of strong/well informed leadership leads to bad decision-making despite all the checkboxes
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by billllll 5y ago
I would go as far as to say it's not just limited to FLOSS contributors. In my experience at Google, not every service is profitable or brings in revenue, so it can be hard to justify "impact" on those teams. I certainly reme
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by billllll 5y ago
Netflix emphasizes "team" over "family" to explicitly promote an environment where getting fired is easy. Is that really a better alternative? Whether it is a "family" or a "team," you can be assured
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by billllll 5y ago
Why is being avoidant "babying" yourself and thus bad? Taking the first example of arriving early at a dinner party with hosts you aren't familiar with, why do we need to bully ourselves into arriving early? From my perspecti
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by billllll 5y ago
It sounds like you've described a "system design" interview, which all (to my knowledge) of the big tech companies utilize for more senior roles, and which also have a wealth of study materials for. I'm also curious what
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by billllll 5y ago
The thing about "How to win friends..." that isn't explicitly stated is that you are doing the things recommended in the book because you WANT something from them. You want their friendship, so you put yourself in their shoes
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by billllll 5y ago
From my experience, there is plenty of room for open dissension at Google. One of the reasons they stopped doing all-hands (aka TGIF) is because people kept bringing up unrelated controversies in protest (Maven, Dragonfly, etc). The flip si
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by billllll 5y ago
I'm always a bit baffled at people ascribing morals to these big companies. I'd be willing to bet that many Twitter execs would kill to switch places with Google, ethical quandary and all. In that case, it's not that Twitter
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by billllll 5y ago
I'm curious if any Amazon (ex-)employee have experience with this that they can share. A lot of Amazon's practices get really severe backlash online, and yet if working for Amazon is as bad as they say, how is Amazon one of the bi
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by billllll 6y ago
I think there is certainly a middle ground between "engineers do all the decision making" and "engineers do none of the decision making." I'm not sure the author was advocating the former. Rather, I think the author
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by billllll 6y ago
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but Rust async/await isn't implemented with green threads, but with OS threads. Those can be pre-empted.
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by billllll 6y ago
> Google is doing a terrible job at it’s core responsibility I'm not quite sure what Google's "core responsibility" here is, besides to make money while meeting some bare minimum threshold for not harming society. The