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by ditonal 5y ago
The article is a fluff piece that's comically uncritical of Google. There's obvious hypocrisy for a company that's done all sorts of user-antagonistic things to internet users as Google has, from Google AMP stealing traffic,
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by ditonal 5y ago
Google IARC is _not_ enlightened. The only way in which Google is enlightened is they have perfected the art of PR and selling employees that pro-employer policies are really pro-employee policies. If you are in California, which is where t
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by ditonal 5y ago
Index funds democratized investing. Robinhood “democratized” the worst part of investing and exposed unsophisticated investors to the instruments they are most likely to underperform on. Individual stock picking is probably worse than index
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by ditonal 5y ago
I worked as a SWE for 6 years, then DevRel for 2, and it became a huge hassle to get back to plain SWE. This was true even though in DevRel I spent almost all my time coding on demo apps and client libraries. Recruiters just see something o
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by ditonal 5y ago
You are totally confused. Robinhood is free trading and you are not a paying customer. Robinhood’s incredibly sketchy business model is being paid by Citadel for order flow. So it’s very similar to Facebook in that the consumer is the produ
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by ditonal 5y ago
Your compensation is driven by several factors, the two biggest being how much value you generate and how easy you are to replace. It has nothing to do with your needs. Even Google's official compensation policy explicitly notes that c
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by ditonal 5y ago
That's not what's happening in reality though. I gave you two notable examples but I know of a few more as well. This isn't hypothetical, many companies are actively seeking to destroy their in-person culture (outside of comp
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by ditonal 5y ago
I'm mixed on remote work, even as an engineering IC, despite claims that only management want in-office. To me, the downside of remote coworkers is we've already seen a dynamic at many companies that start with "we'll al
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by ditonal 5y ago
I agree to the extent that it might not last and "make hay while the sun shines." At the same time, I disagree it's that unprecedented. There's about as many lawyers as software developers and the compensation distributi
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by ditonal 5y ago
Yes, a new grad "feeling lowballed by 200k" was hyperbole because I waste too much time on Blind. But FAANG new grad TC is pushing that number, which is a stark contrast to my new grad numbers ~2010. But it was probably confusing
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by ditonal 5y ago
It's basically both. When I graduated with my CS degree, I was _thrilled_ to be offered 50k. Now new grads feel lowballed at 200k TC. So hard not to say that the market hasn't adjusted somewhat. At the same time, part of the reaso
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by ditonal 5y ago
I've mentioned this on HN before, but I have 10+ years experience, a BS in CS from a top 10 school, worked as SWE at Google for over 3 years, I've done 100+ leetcode questions, studied grokking the systems interview/designing
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by ditonal 5y ago
> The number of US adults with MDD increased by 12.9%, from 15.5 to 17.5 million, between 2010 and 2018, whereas the proportion of adults with MDD aged 18–34 years increased from 34.6 to 47.5 If about half of young adults suffer from a d
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by ditonal 5y ago
The obvious benefit to the company is to get the candidate to sign. Companies generally have tech sourcers use software like Gem to spam thousands of candidates, link press releases about their funding rounds, then expect candidates to be e
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by ditonal 6y ago
A lot of this "pay everyone the same, be transparent" sounds pro-employee but in practice its exactly the opposite. These companies that tend to write these blog posts on their fair and equitable compensation strategies always pay
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by ditonal 6y ago
My friend lived in SF for 3 years, then left for a year. He called me to say, “dude what happened to SF? Apparently it’s all shit and needles now.” I had to explain to him that nothing has changed. He was just reading sensationalized media.
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by ditonal 6y ago
I’m certainly not denying there’s plenty of misinformation and far fetched theories floating around. I think there’s a big middle ground between “accept every half brained idea on Reddit” and “take a 300 word corporate blog post at face val
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by ditonal 6y ago
Conspiracies happen so frequently on Wall St that “conspiracy theories” should be closer to a priori assumption than irrational fringe ideas. Were people skeptical of Moodys A+ ratings of subprime mortgages conspiracy theorists? And that’s
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by ditonal 6y ago
Totally right, and furthermore, Robinhood is facing some serious solvency issues. Their PR releases claiming this was clearing house related was already highly dubious, and is self-contradicting because they are blaming it on a liquidity is
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by ditonal 6y ago
If a physicists tells me something about how the solar system works, they don't have much reason to lie to me. If RobinHood tells me how clearing houses work, they have a huge reason to lie to me. Given what we say in cases like Enron,
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by ditonal 6y ago
Your "facts" are basically corporate PR statements from corporations that have a huge entrenched reason to distort the truth and have changed stories multiple times. I'd say your eagerness to accept RH's version of the t
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by ditonal 6y ago
The RH apologists are going on long winded explanations about clearing houses (and to some extent there’s elements of “it’s too complex for your little brain”). But even to the extent it’s true, if I put in 5k from my checkings into RH and
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by ditonal 6y ago
As someone who had the unfortunate experience of being locked in a psych ward, there’s nothing “conspiracy” related about the fear of being involuntary committed, where you get stripped of all basic rights with no trial.
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by ditonal 6y ago
Pretty ironic take given that the site you're writing the comment on was founded by pg writing a bunch of essays breaking the world down into "nerds" vs "jocks" with VCs being "high school girls". pg decid
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by ditonal 6y ago
The confusing part is that salary and stock get mixed up, but in a public company the stocks effectively cash and can basically be considered salary, unlike illiquid equity. I don’t know where you’re from, but in SF amongst my circles, seni
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by ditonal 6y ago
Any companies that offer ISOs without at least a ten year exercise window is just spitting in your face and trying to leave an avenue to clawback your hard earned and well deserved compensation. It’s not that early stage equity is worthless
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by ditonal 6y ago
Actually, App Engine is a LOT like Cloud Functions/Run. You have some code that you want to run in the Cloud and you don't want to worry about server ops. Whether that's your "whole stack" or something "ad-hoc&
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by ditonal 6y ago
AppEngine has had scale-to-zero for 15 years, but instead of having a coherent product strategy, why not just launch a different competing product every year which is missing features that already exist? AppEngine vs Cloud Functions vs Clou
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by ditonal 6y ago
One thing that happens in SV is: * Employer says "hey, we have all these convenient corporate app, wouldn't it be nice to be able to check work messages and work docs on your mobile? Just install our app to "corp-ify" yo
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by ditonal 6y ago
Scale AI is an embarrassment to YC in general, as the founders embody every negative trope we’ve come to associate with the worst of the scene. The Youtuber Joma Tech has an excellent takedown on the sheer arrogance of their founder. https

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