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by ditonal 4y ago
Coinbase way, way overhired and way overpaid for a weak senior leadership team. I’m not a fan personally of Brian Armstrong or Sam Bankman but the difference in leadership skill is night and day. Armstrong was in the right place at the righ
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by ditonal 4y ago
I watched the whole thing by (friend leaked it to me). Was pretty unremarkable, mostly softball questions, and to extent he took controversial opinions he expressed them in very soft ambiguous ways. Remote work being a good example, he’s sa
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by ditonal 4y ago
You are learning that perceived consensus on an upvote/downvote site doesn’t mean much because if 60% of people agree with something because of upvotes it seems like 99% do. Reddit rediscovers this every election. People often downvote
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by ditonal 4y ago
Yep. You’d think Patrick Collison of Stripe invented the internet based on the praise he receives here rather than the reality that he made a PayPal clone with some custom branding options. Brian Chesky directly ripped off a popular free p
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by ditonal 4y ago
If you can label them breathtakingly cynical, I’d label you breathtakingly naive. And label the grandparent experienced and realistic. When it comes to being “default alive” there is _zero_ consideration for the human impact. I could not ag
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by ditonal 4y ago
But engineer compensation has been larger pushed up by the FAANG companies which are highly profitable. There’s some VC fueled companies competing with them like Uber but on the whole engineer compensation went up not due to VC money but be
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by ditonal 4y ago
Just because you went through a “how to build a blockchain in 1 hour” YouTube tutorial doesn’t make you an expert on the topic anymore than someone who “built a Twitter clone in 1 hour” is an expert on distributed databases. The idea that n
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by ditonal 4y ago
Maybe it’s bad software engineering but it’s a reality that most companies have “bad engineering”, there’s always piles of tech debt and even stuff out of your control. For example, one outage related to Google Ads API changing their parame
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by ditonal 4y ago
This “default alive” advice is repeatedly shared. One thing it obviously does not address is the human element of who you cut and whether they will be “default alive” unemployed in a recession. A huge amount of YC advice in general position
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by ditonal 4y ago
The reason for the opacity is obvious, they want you to think the equity is worth more than it is. People constantly assume good faith in these things when they shouldn’t. Obviously number of outstanding shares is a bare minimum, but things
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by ditonal 5y ago
Twitter stock up 30% on the week.
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by ditonal 5y ago
Elon does not get along with the new CEO, as Elon is friends with Dorsey who got run out. One of the major points of contention is Twitter as a free speech platform. While Twitter now allows remote, it’s still centered around SF and it’s em
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by ditonal 5y ago
This is certainly true for some Googlers, but there are many true believers (at least when I was there). Many people there sincerely think Google is a special company - the company was even arrogant enough in their IPO to say they "not
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by ditonal 5y ago
Then for years Google denied wrongdoing but said they couldn't address it because it was in active litigation. Finally, the whole thing got settled (slap on the wrist but something at least), so Google employees could finally get an an
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by ditonal 5y ago
In the Hacker News bubble, working for anywhere is a negative on your CV. Amazon treats its warehouse employees badly, Google creates a surveillance state and bows to authoritarians, Facebook drives engagement with hate/dissent, AirBnB
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by ditonal 5y ago
I’ve never been offered a crypto token or asset as a form of compensation, but I’d count anything liquid and with reasonable volume as cash equivalent assuming you can sell it. Ironically I’d count crypto towards TC more than what you actua
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by ditonal 5y ago
Google spent 2 decades raving about the office, its perks, the "slides", how it re-creates the campus environment. Google made the office a huge part of its identity so this shouldn't be surprising.
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by ditonal 5y ago
The narrative that housing is blocked by rich NIMBYs protecting their land value is true BUT The less popular narrative that’s just as true, at least in California if you pay attention to the politics, is that PHIMBYs who are mostly renters
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by ditonal 5y ago
It’s a huge misconception that Meta is outpaying everyone. If you’re willing to work in the Bay there are at least ten companies that will consistently beat them. Check levels.fyi For remote, I’m not sure, maybe Meta is best but unclear exa
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by ditonal 5y ago
They were both fired because they were very expensive and a net negative on the company. Dantley has an enormous ego, and that ego led to a bunch of fluff PR pieces commissioned where he bashed other employees which started a civil war. The
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by ditonal 5y ago
Yes, unfortunately the vernacular usage of the word bipolar, and actual bipolar disorder, are significantly different. The vernacular usage of 'bipolar' implies sudden mood swings and black/white thinking, whereas bipolar dis
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by ditonal 5y ago
It’s too bad that nobody can find a middle ground between the increasing amount of heavy handed censorship on Reddit and literally all Nazis. I thought /r/gendercritical and /r/nonewnormal both fit into the bucket of “I
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by ditonal 5y ago
You literally directly contradict yourself. You link to two pages that have absolutely nothing to do with getting formerly incarcerated people into law/medicine, then immediately concede that there isn’t an effort to do so because they
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by ditonal 5y ago
Yeah it's not even true that FB is paying a premium. A thread full of people complaining about misinformation happily posting inaccurate information about Facebook. Go look at levels.fyi. Facebook pays close to market for senior engine
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by ditonal 5y ago
Everyone overthinks things but this really is a good option. I’ve also been with my wife over ten years so maybe I’m not the authority any more. But even back then online dating was a thing but I had zero success with it. But it always seem
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by ditonal 5y ago
Thanks for saying the hard things others are afraid of saying. It’s difficult to watch gems of American journalism flushes down the toilet in the name of activism such as the NYTimes. You’re right, its not a financial conspiracy, it’s an id
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by ditonal 5y ago
I wouldn’t understate the role of companies like Google that pioneereed “exploiting idealism as a PR strategy.” The IPO listing claimed “Google is not a conventional company and does not intend to become one” and their recruiting tag line w
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by ditonal 5y ago
I feel the opposite. A decade ago, it was pretty much Google, Facebook, and some elite trading firms that could pay a ton. Now so many startups have grown up, there’s a huge list of them on levels.FYI that will pay 400k+ for senior and 600k
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by ditonal 5y ago
Did the walkouts at Google change anything? Not only did Sundar enable the disgusting, predatory behavior of Vic Gundotra and Andy Rubin, but as far as I can tell, he’s still a darling of the press. Even on HN Sundar and Google get the kid
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by ditonal 5y ago
I’m sorry to be that guy, but the myth of bipolar people being super productive during mania needs to die and posts like yours reinforce it. Some bipolar type 2 people may be slightly more productive while hypomanic. For serious cases, mani

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