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by doh 7y ago
Digg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg#Digg_v4 Friendster http://highscalability.com/blog/2007/11/13/friendster-lost-l... There are, of course, others. Twitter wasn't far from
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by doh 7y ago
> C/C++, DBA/Architect, Java, DevOps, QA Those are not skills, those are positions. We don't list skills, as they are quite arbitrary and really don't say much about their potential. > Perhaps it's just me, bu
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by doh 7y ago
> Half the skills you list are relatively common Which skills? > it's not FAANG level, but it's also not 105k. 105k is minimum wage for an engineer. That's why it says minimum in the post.
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by doh 7y ago
Lets start with the fact that non-competes are illegal in California [0]. Even if they were not, that's not a great way to retain an employee and we would not like to go down that path. Problem with training is not just cost, but mostl
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by doh 7y ago
> I think this is where your disconnect is. In 2019, 10ks of concurrent users is not special. It's ordinary. Even 100ks or 1Ms are not that unusual. Really? So which services have 1M concurrent users, outside of the top 10? At 100M
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by doh 7y ago
> We can certainly agree that not everyone with a degree or experience is a good hire, but good talent is not one in a hundred. It also not 1 of 2. And that's quite the gist of it. We get plenty of interest, but people fall off quic
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by doh 7y ago
I do understand your point. I would however venture out and say, that a person that can scale services to tens of thousands of servers, has quite specialized skillset.
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by doh 7y ago
Good analysis. The reality however is, that there are hardly any people with experience in other areas. We can only follow the current distribution and don't have a decade to build out our own talent from scratch. We invest heavily in
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by doh 7y ago
> I believe the ethical thing to do would be to close. I don't think I have words. Ethical thing would be to close? Not hire immigrants, but close. Fantastic. > There are literally millions of skilled programmers in the US, and m
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by doh 7y ago
We are far from perfect and make plenty of mistakes. Hiring is no different. I’m glad you found a better opportunity than us. Just maybe a note. If you read my original post, all are our existing employees or transfers.
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by doh 7y ago
You should’ve just checked my profile. Yes, we run at the complexity of Google [0]. We do almost exactly the same thing with a bit different use case. There are not many people that could work for us at the scale we run. [1] [0] https:&#x2
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by doh 7y ago
Where did I make that argument?
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by doh 7y ago
Really. So why do need FAANG bring any immigrants if there is so much talent and it’s just a question of money, which they have plenty of.
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by doh 7y ago
Agreed. For a company of our size, we would not last long.
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by doh 7y ago
That’s what we (and others) do. There is just not enough skilled people available.
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by doh 7y ago
Because they compete against all of us and each other. Google has tens of thousands of engineers and wants more.
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by doh 7y ago
Save money implies that we make the money in the first place and then take it for ourselves instead of paying it to our employees. Almost nobody can compete with the comp provided by FAANG. Do you want 5 companies running everything in your
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by doh 7y ago
Each company treats their employees differently but we don’t. Our compensation is equal and based on position (so two people that do the same job are paid the same). We do differentiate options but only based on the current state of 409a (s
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by doh 7y ago
Remote is the new open-office. It’s quite hard to make it work and you have to be set up that way from the start.
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by doh 7y ago
We are still a small company of 40+ people and have quite unprecedented issues with H-1Bs, from transfer though extension. Literally every single H-1B extension or transfer got slapped by RFE. The amount of documents we had to produce to pr
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by doh 7y ago
I think it will get much worse. There is around $80B worth of advertisement locked in in the cable TV just in US. This all will come eventually to online and large portion to UGC platforms supporting video, so YouTube, FB, Twitter, ... Mayb
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by doh 7y ago
Barry Diller said something along the lines, that similarly to smoking, increasingly, only poor people watch commercials. The rest pays premium to get rid of them. Considering how strongly Netflix fought against the analysts prediction that
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by doh 7y ago
Pex | Multiple positions | Downtown, Los Angeles, CA; Boulder, CO | ONSITE, FULL-TIME | $105,000 Minimum Salary + Equity | https://angel.co/pexeso/jobs Pex built one of the largest search engine for audio-visual conten
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by doh 7y ago
I'm aware that we will not be able to retain this policy forever, however not going to change it before it has to. Also, I'm glad that you believe that we will get to 10k employees. Currently beyond the scope of my own ambition.
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by doh 7y ago
Currently only the C executives, mostly because we are so small and this is a very solemnly an issues. We have not let go a person for more than 2.5 years. As we grow more, we will change it too, but will try to keep it very friction heavy
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by doh 7y ago
That depends on how you define "manager". In our company, managers serve empowering function and don't have firing powers. They take full responsibility for growth and progress of the people they manage. They can report issue
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by doh 7y ago
It does. It doesn't separate them and just allows you to have different types of workers in the same system. So for us we can have the same PTO, hardware and other things equal across the board, even if the employees are not equal in t
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by doh 7y ago
I'm really happy for them. I used to like Gusto a lot. It worked fairly well when we were a few people, but as we grew, things started breaking, especially as our setup started becoming more and more complicated. For instance, we have
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by doh 7y ago
We rather look for nice, pleasant people. When I get excited to be around them, I do better job. I believe it works for others too.
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by doh 7y ago
I meant that Google would try to extract any and every information from a user, while Apple can easily just provide the most important information. Admittedly, I was trying to be a bit funny. Didn't work out obviously.

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