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by dasil003 4y ago
You've set up a strawman that has nothing to do with what the GP said.
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by dasil003 4y ago
You're missing the point. It's not about entitlement or rights. The point the GP is making is that in a true startup situation, either everyone rows in the same direction, or the business fails and everyone loses their job. T
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by dasil003 4y ago
No, it's just a platitude. The true assessment is not a binary proposition though, and it's not going to come out directly in a memo or PR, you have to read between the lines a bit. Consider the difference between John Foley and
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by dasil003 4y ago
The heuristics would need to be dramatically different for those use cases though
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by dasil003 4y ago
Not sure where coasting comes in. Hiring during the boom and laying off during the downturn may be exactly what shareholders want. It's up to the board to decide how the CEO is performing. This is incredibly hard to evaluate, but
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by dasil003 4y ago
This is a good summary. We don’t fire workers just because they made a mistake. It’s not even really a moral stance, it’s that turnover has overhead and risks that have to be justified, and those are particularly for a CEO. It might feel
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by dasil003 4y ago
Hard to answer this without more context as it really depends on the personalities and viewpoints of those you're dealing with. I could see a world where it could work with very technical leadership that had high trust in you, but my
728.
by dasil003 4y ago
This is definitely true and insightful, but I think it's also important to understand the difference between global logistics and operations vs software engineering teams. In the case of an airline, the job to be done is very very clea
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by dasil003 4y ago
I’m not necessarily in favor of these pay transparency laws, but this comment is paranoid hyperbole. Posting a pay range is not some slippery slope to wage fixing, nor is it some insurmountable bureaucratic hurdle. It’s frankly just an adm
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by dasil003 4y ago
You’re conflating competence with the realities of messaging at scale. In reality they are not related as both competent and incompetent leaders at large corporations have to speak in a somewhat wishy-washy way to account for the widely
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by dasil003 4y ago
The reason executives talk the way they do is because when you’re speaking to thousands of people everyone has different base context and interprets things a little different. Messages need to be coarse grained and contain little nuance.
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by dasil003 4y ago
As much sympathy as I have for the human side of layoffs that are called out here, I feel the researcher is not being intellectually honest. This paragraph is the worst offender: > Layoffs often do not cut costs, as there are many inst
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by dasil003 4y ago
Also worth noting the 14 year tech bull run and ever increasing amounts of capital looking for a return. In 2000-2010 it was in many ways easier to bootstrap as everything was smaller, complexity was less with simpler browsers and no smart
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by dasil003 4y ago
“Play the hand you’re dealt”
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by dasil003 4y ago
I'm not sure why this represents a victim mentality or some kind of penance. I don't see it that way at all. It's simply risk/reward and understanding how the economic incentives work independent of moral judgements. A
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by dasil003 4y ago
This is an uncharitable take. The ability to fire at-will is the reason companies in the US are able to hire and pay as high as they do. As a dual-national Brazilian-American who has also spent years living in Europe, the social contracts
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by dasil003 4y ago
No, I understood the example perfectly, it's you who doesn't seem to understand the downside risk. You would need a $480k loan to buy the four years of stock because you are buying it before you've done the work to earn the
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by dasil003 4y ago
That's fair criticism, my choice of verb in that sentence was poor. The reason I used it was to emphasize that with Meta they honestly be very unlikely to be offended . That said though, one should always behave professionally regar
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by dasil003 4y ago
This is a dangerous idea to put in the head of impressionable young tech workers during a difficult economic time. First of all, it's ridiculous to equate Meta with all companies. The mistake to watch out for is treating a company as
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by dasil003 4y ago
More SF/London anecdata: I got reliable low-latency 100Mbps via BT FTTC in 2011 (in SW12), which was better than anything I had ever gotten in the US across 3 states I lived in until 2018 at which point I got 1 Gbps AT&T Fiber in t
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by dasil003 4y ago
LOL, I just watched this episode yesterday
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by dasil003 4y ago
I get where the author is coming from, but personally I feel like the juice isn't worth the squeeze. The thing about git is that it is incredibly powerful, and the model is very simple and well thought out. The only problem is the CL
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by dasil003 4y ago
I'm not sure what the big mystery is. Management exists to provide an abstraction for information cascade (both up and down) and centralized command and control. The amount of management needed decreases for rote work, and increases f
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by dasil003 4y ago
Well first of all, my point was that over the last decade Google has likely paid more individuals 7 figures than JS or Citadel has. Obviously this is subject to the risk of stock performance, and if your point is that cash is better than
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by dasil003 4y ago
Mystery explained. Hope they get this cleared up for you quickly.
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by dasil003 4y ago
Man, this “guest post” on Gayle Laakmann’s site comes off super weird. What is the takeaway exactly? It bothers me because it’s designed to resonate with the broadest possible set of SWE interviewing anxieties, but it doesn’t take a stand
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by dasil003 4y ago
I wouldn’t focus exclusively on back in isolation. Ideally you want a push/pull combo to keep musculature balanced. Also, “make sure you get taught proper form” is doing a lot of work here. It can be hard to find someone who really k
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by dasil003 4y ago
This is a questionable take on two levels. First, yes, yes there is something magic about SF's geography, it's the closest major city to the largest VC hub in the world. These companies thrive on young talent that prefers to live
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by dasil003 4y ago
And a bit of haze helps the aesthetic as well.
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by dasil003 4y ago
> This is not the year when you're going to increase your salary by jumping to a cool startup as employee #3. Agreed, you won't get a big salary out of the gate because unproven startups paying huge salaries are dropping like

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