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Next Time a Recruiter Pings You, Ask What You're Worth(medium.com)
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by calcsam 12y ago
Do you want to be a really expensive Japanese sushi knife? Or a high-quality, extremely versatile Swiss army knife? Those are the two career paths illustrated. Different people have difference preferences.
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by calcsam 12y ago
Coding interviews are specifically designed to tell whether people write clean code. If you can get to that stage, you'll probably be fine. Just the fact that you're thinking about these kind of issues tells me you're heading
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by calcsam 12y ago
You need to be more specific: 1. How does the startup salary compare to your current salary? 2a. What is the startup option package as a % of the company? 2b. What is the vesting schedule? 2c. Also -- (i) how big is the startup? (ii) How m
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by calcsam 12y ago
A long piece; reporting on his past life as a junkie: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/magazine/20Carr-t.html?pag...
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by calcsam 12y ago
> We could have given referrers a bonus or a percentage of the recruit’s wage, but we found a way that not only is more fun, but also more in accordance with our company culture. > Therefore, every time an employee refers someone who
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Jon Stewart says he's leaving the Daily Show(avclub.com)
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by calcsam 12y ago
Well, one idea if you're interested -- you could email me at samb@zenefits.com and I can put you in for an engineering role here :) A lot of the other engineers here actually came from similar roles at, ie, GS and DE Shaw. More general
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by calcsam 12y ago
When you say quant finance, do you mean you're an Excel ninja? Or that you do your work in code? That will make a big difference.
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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4692598
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In one sense the author is right. In another sense, saying "I have no idea what I'm doing" is a status play. Those a bit down on the totem pole don't have the luxury of publicly questioning their own competence.
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Aline Lerner. She used to be an engineer and she gets us. http://blog.alinelerner.com/
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"A less rhetorically gifted Oxfam staffer might have written instead that the world’s richest 80 people own around 0.7 percent of global wealth. That’s a lot, but it hardly seems staggering." http://www.nytimes.com&#x2F
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The issue isn't that your boss is frustrated per se, it's that he seems to have little to no leverage with his boss -- to the point that he vents to you. Power is an inherited property, so if your boss has little leverage, then yo
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by calcsam 12y ago
To get some ideas, watch The Social Network.
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TechCrunch has a source saying 43,000 over the next year -- ie, 11,000 per quarter (scroll to bottom): http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/26/sources-say-ibm-planning-on...
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by calcsam 12y ago
This is a general principle; the meanest people are, as pg once put it, "the nervous middle classes" on a status hierarchy: "Another reason kids persecute nerds is to make themselves feel better. When you tread water, you lif
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by calcsam 12y ago
You cite the Capitalists' Dilemma, but Christiansen's argument actually suggests that the strategy of building companies to be bought by Apple/Google/etc is a good one. Why? Because they have tons of $ on their balance s
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The Current State of Machine Intelligence(medium.com)
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Note that all revenue numbers are gross not net . In other words, they represent total fare $, not the 15% of fares that Uber actually gets.
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Sure, if you're planning to run a lifestyle business do whatever you want. But if you're not, consider when you have an interested potential investor who's mulling over your business model and asks offhandedly, "So you&#
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Congrats Teespring!
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Finding Your Second Engineering Role(medium.com)
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The term was popularized most recently by Mark Suster: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/10/25/choose-your-vc... -- One of the terms we coined there was a “seagull.” We used it to describe certain of o
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Post your resume on Dice // reach out to recruiters. Get another offer. Wave in front of them as a bargaining tactic. I'd happily bet you $50 that your next offer will be 25% over your current one. my username at gmail if you
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Kudos! We (Zenefits) just finished integrating with their API; the development process was really smooth, and Jonathan and Daniel have been great to work with.
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Zenefits (YC W13) -- Software Engineer -- San Francisco, CA -- www.zenefits.com About us: Zenefits is redefining the way companies manage their mission critical HR systems, like payroll and benefits. Most of the engineering projects involve
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Next target: Yahoo.
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Most VC firms also get to value their investments at the value of the last round of funding, so this creates a paper win for them with LPs. The main reason why you'd want to do this is if you are raising another fund...
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A simple way to get around this for the WSJ is to search the title on Google News. Click through and you just jumped the paywall.

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