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by crucifiction 10y ago
In most cities you also need to be able to afford private school and the public transportation options are not as dense as NYC. A city like NYC is in a completely different echelon from nearly every other medium/large city in the US.
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by crucifiction 10y ago
Seattle weather is terrible compared to the south bay area/silicon valley, but it is comparably terrible to San Francisco proper.
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by crucifiction 10y ago
I am also at Amazon currently. You are right, its not as frugal as in the past but it is still significantly more frugal than an environment like Google or similar startups/unicorns that go for that. I have interviewed people who are h
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by crucifiction 10y ago
I think this is a key problem for google. I am not sure there are many who believe that the Google R&D/moonshots are actually going to turn into businesses or executed products for Google sold by Google. Their "heart" nev
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by crucifiction 10y ago
as a thought experiment, Amazon is basically the opposite of the google culture in this perspective (door desks, soda/food is not subsidized, equipment is just barely enough, etc). now, this leads to lots of complaints from a subset of
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by crucifiction 10y ago
Working 75% of the time for 75% of the pay is screwing the worker?
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by crucifiction 10y ago
It all started with the warehouse worker complaints, which were general complaints that any warehouse worker will have and not really egregious comparatively. This fed into a media narrative and causes sites like that to pop up. When startu
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by crucifiction 10y ago
Late 2018
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by crucifiction 10y ago
It is a marketing material, not an article. Very thin on details with every point somehow being in GCE's favor? There is nothing AWS does better or they liked better?
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by crucifiction 10y ago
Except revenue continues to increase 20-30% yoy
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by crucifiction 10y ago
I doubt that tweets/second is the only metric used to determine what is shown in trending.
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by crucifiction 10y ago
Its pretty standardized actually. In this case it looks like he was a part of a "blitz" which often happens for remote locations. A normal interview process is very similar but usually has no hackerrank first, the phone screen is
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by crucifiction 10y ago
It can be. I pay about $400/month for family covergage, this is unusually high for a tech job (many of which have little or no monthly from the employee). So still only $4800 of what might be many tens of thousands of dollars extra. Ev
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by crucifiction 10y ago
Except the only expense likely to be 3-4x more is rent/mortgage. Everything else in the US is going to be the same or cheaper (car, food, gadgets, etc).
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by crucifiction 10y ago
You are right. Seattle is the bay area for people who have kids they want in good schools and to have a decent upper middle class lifestyle with cars/large house/lawn. With that comes risk adverse big-tech-co jobs that pay high bu
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by crucifiction 10y ago
She has transformed its ability to get PR pieces printed in a variety of news websites and get those links into HN. She has also transformed the amount of Google employees who respond on HN threads when GCE is brought up in any context. As
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by crucifiction 10y ago
These blog posts are all the same. Effectively this person has discovered she does not like or share the same values as the set of parents she is friends with in the US. Instead of trying to find new friends who take a similar parenting att
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by crucifiction 10y ago
"enterprises" that want to "leverage cloud" is where all of the money is. AWS is chasing that dragon too. There is way more money selling cloud stuff to Coca-Cola and GE than to software companies.
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by crucifiction 11y ago
Most of his shareholder letters are like this. Even the 1997 reprint they put in every year as part of the letter talks a lot about the company philosophy and culture. Certainly some of the stuff at the end about new programs for parents an
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by crucifiction 11y ago
The JIRA source code is available when you buy a license and it is not the pinnacle of good engineering. It is textbook Java enterprise beans gibberish engineering.
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by crucifiction 11y ago
Having worked there, I am not sure I believe you. An SDE interview is a single phone screen before onsite. Salary is also not negotiated before an onsite + offer in hand. I was a hiring manager and often matched or exceeded competing offers
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by crucifiction 11y ago
I am a hiring manager at a big software company and have worked at others in similar capacity. I have seen salary data for my employees in both Dublin and the US.
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by crucifiction 11y ago
That is where the bulk of tech jobs are, around cities where you can make that much. For example, you can make that in Seattle or basically anywhere in the bay area (no, you don't need to live in SF unless you want to). The cost of liv
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by crucifiction 11y ago
Not in tech. Per other HN recent articles its relatively straightforward to make in the $150-250k range as a software engineer at BigTech. Even if you decide to stash $30k/year after tax for your own 'safety net' (equivalent
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by crucifiction 11y ago
You were probably down leveled based on the interview. The comp will max out lower (and therefore the offer won't be able to budge significantly higher) than you may achieve somewhere that did not downlevel you.
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by crucifiction 11y ago
For a BigCo the Dublin pay is going to be roughly 50-70% of the US pay for the same job.
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by crucifiction 11y ago
Amazon is different than those companies in that its leveling options are much smaller. SDE II is a very broad range and at a company like MSFT/GOOG it would realistically map to 2-3 different job levels there based on experience and c
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by crucifiction 11y ago
The founder and the lead engineer are both former Amazonians, so its definitely not coincidental. https://www.distelli.com/about
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by crucifiction 11y ago
Right, I think thats why people are baffled at the heavy investment in jet.com. They pivoted to a neat feature but it is hardly an Amazon-killer type of feature.
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by crucifiction 11y ago
Amazon already has implemented it both with Amazon Pantry and with Amazon subscribe and save. Each of them rewards you with discounts that increase as you add more stuff.

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