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by eshvk 10y ago
> H1B where their employer is their board? But it's still a lottery I don't understand how you plan to start a business when you are being employed by someone else? As in I don't think you can be listed as a founder in the
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by eshvk 10y ago
> Mexico still feels too dangerous to me. About three months ago our nanny was scared to go home because of the crime. When I was in the military not too long ago, you needed a General’s approval to go. Some areas are probably good but
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by eshvk 10y ago
I moved from SF to Manhattan and found the prices and the process of finding an apartment easier. Most of my San Francisco friends dare not move or move to Oakland. People move here in NYC all the time, paying roughly the same in rent accou
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by eshvk 10y ago
> Deep Neural Networks can learn features from essentially raw data. Usual machine learning starts with features engineered manually. What does this mean? What is "raw data" and what is a "feature engineered manually"
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by eshvk 10y ago
The Pareto principle applies to a lot of Machine Learning projects. You can get surprisingly far with very simple heuristics. OP can probably tune something that works well for him. Making it work at scale for a massively different demograp
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by eshvk 11y ago
Erik hired me for Spotify. At the time, amusingly enough the three BigCo offers that I had involved pressure tactics exactly like this. Very glad I pushed back on the pressure back then to work with his team.
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by eshvk 11y ago
I work for the NYC branch of a Swedish company. 1. Salaries will be lower in Stockholm compared to NY. You are also taxed more but you will end up saving more because cost of living is cheaper than NY. 2. Finding an apartment in Stockholm i
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by eshvk 11y ago
rolls eyes I have been playing with their stuff internally for a while now and no one told me that we would get a discount for a tweet. I tweet about shit I like. There is no giant conspiracy.
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by eshvk 11y ago
> I find it quite depressing Quit being so dramatic. There are enough good places in EU. There are loads of exciting startups in Stockholm, Berlin. Google has some interesting stuff going on in Zurich and London. > the interesting st
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by eshvk 11y ago
I would strongly doubt this opinion unless you can back it by hard evidence. I think it is more likely that a bigger company has done this many times and can handle the subtle details of applying and doing it well.
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by eshvk 11y ago
I prefer the dating analogy. Why would a guy or a girl go into a relationship and terminate if standards aren't met as opposed to stopping post X dates? I want to work with a coworker who has my back in the trenches. If I don't ge
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by eshvk 11y ago
This happens at the developer level too. Of course, occasionally there may be a candidate who is just not there yet. So companies ask you to wait, some for X months other for X years and then reapply. An engineering position is sometimes ab
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by eshvk 11y ago
Sure. But other EU countries are way more friendly. For example, Sweden I believe gives you a path to citizenship of close to 5 years. In the U.S., it would be > 5 years assuming non spousal green card.
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by eshvk 11y ago
I think you should absolutely ask to go see them. Reason: you learn way more about people in person than you do on a phone/video call. In fact, if I was in the startup and I was planning on spending roughly 10X that amount every month
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by eshvk 11y ago
Just apply online. The website has a bunch of ML open positions!
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by eshvk 11y ago
It depends on the gig. When we hire at Spotify, we look for people who are good at Machine Learning. Can code, design systems well. We get people who are at both ends of the spectrum; prefer hiring people somewhere in the middle. ML at scho
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by eshvk 11y ago
> After all, as long as the results are there, the time and place of work should be of little consequence, right? I am not sure I agree. My experience has been that remote work requires greater discipline. Complex projects have twists an
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by eshvk 11y ago
> If they are offered an identical position at a company they believe in, they will leave. The way I see a position is a combination of money, culture and people. It is possible to surpass money. Sometimes people leave for that. Sometime
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by eshvk 11y ago
Very cool. What time zone/country do you live in? How often do you meet face to face?
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by eshvk 11y ago
> As a developer it seems I am subordinate and I am not privy to any business decisions or direction which is information that is not communicated, and we are often not consulted. Either your company has a bad culture, or your Product Ma
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by eshvk 11y ago
I would recommend Colorado. Denver or Boulder. Both places are chill, have a tech industry. I would argue that they have better weather than SF. The geography is incredibly beautiful.
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by eshvk 11y ago
Apart from the weather, is there any other reason you would prefer Sweden over Spain?
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by eshvk 11y ago
Agree. - Most (all?) work visas in the United States require a degree in the field of specialization. - The "buying green card" program requires one to invest at least a million dollars and create at least ten jobs for two years b
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by eshvk 11y ago
A PhD especially in ML is not about Software Engineering or learning how to write code. Learn how to do research, write a proposal, survey the breadth of the field. Find interesting problems. Attempt to get to the stage where you either pu
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by eshvk 11y ago
Because it is a hard problem to solve. I think most good organizations make remote work an exception rather than the rule. I think the reason is because very few people are able to manage the trials of working for a large organization and w
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by eshvk 11y ago
Have you thought about switching tracks within technology? Management is a hard tough problem. Becoming a good manager with a technical background can help you solve problems at a bigger scale without having to actually program your way (a
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by eshvk 11y ago
1. I think you are being underpaid if you are going to live in SF and get paid 105K for a company that is both well funded, and very well known. Unless your equity is very very significant. 2. Companies don't disappear in two years; if
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by eshvk 11y ago
Is there a reason you keep emphasizing your age? 22 and the "Crushing it since 1993" thing?
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by eshvk 11y ago
There are many people in their twenties clearing > 200K at Google/FB/Apple. A lot of them don't call themselves [JS/ML/Scala] engineers and build systems that scale well, have good leadership abilities, and can h
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by eshvk 11y ago
I am kind of conflicted by this message. So I sympathize with the situation you were in, I was on an H1B for three months during which my company went through layoffs. It was kind of ridiculous in that the layoffs were on a Monday and my Gr

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