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by faangiq 4y ago
Getting the business and funding to pay your founding eng salary is a substantial amount of work and risk. Viewed a different way, you’re getting a lot of the upside with almost zero risk.
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by faangiq 4y ago
The big guy needs his cut.
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by faangiq 4y ago
It’s not bad at all. Companies forced this by not rewarding people who stay.
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by faangiq 4y ago
Their reputation is well known as a low quality underpaying sweat shop. So no one wants to work there.
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by faangiq 4y ago
Prototypical boomer. Rode the wave, cashed out big.
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by faangiq 4y ago
If you want to signal poor social skills, by all means.
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by faangiq 4y ago
Uber dumped their bags on your 401k years ago. The ride is complete.
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by faangiq 4y ago
Apply to big companies. Super easy free money.
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by faangiq 4y ago
Hardly. Fed is about to pump the market again.
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by faangiq 4y ago
Reminder that Biden could have solved this on day 1 but chose not to.
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by faangiq 4y ago
It’s get screwed by Amazon or get screwed by some union boss. The only winning move is not to play.
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by faangiq 4y ago
The AWS ones are cheap and I genuinely learned useful skills. Not helpful on my resume but certainly don’t hurt either.
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by faangiq 4y ago
Someone is getting promoted for this 100%.
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by faangiq 4y ago
Facebook is one of the most objectively evil companies on earth. So they can f right off.
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by faangiq 4y ago
Your job is to sell this person upwards. Be the tide that lifts both of you. And don’t fall into the trap of ignoring them because they’re your superstar.
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by faangiq 4y ago
Coinbase has been a Trojan horse from the start.
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by faangiq 4y ago
Yep it’s a churn n burn shop.
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by faangiq 4y ago
Must not know any crypto punters. They were all in on this.
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by faangiq 4y ago
Also ETH is nonsense with no use case.
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by faangiq 4y ago
This is good. Managers need to leetcode to prove their IQ.
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by faangiq 4y ago
It doesn’t suck. Almost everything else sucks.
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by faangiq 4y ago
Don’t be silly. It’s a game theoretic certainty that they will indeed pull an Oracle.
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by faangiq 4y ago
Execs need jail time and asset forfeiture over this. Quite simple.
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by faangiq 4y ago
There are a lot of insolvent investors out there that have been papering over this somehow. When the music stops it will be insanely brutal.
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by faangiq 4y ago
Yes value was destroyed by these deals/builds not properly accounting for risk of a shift to WFH. Basically all the companies involved lit money on fire to the tune of $500b. Other areas benefited but this was pure vaporization of mone
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by faangiq 4y ago
I take it this is Google? They’re notoriously, comically bad at this. I’d ping the initial recruiter too. You have nothing to lose.
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by faangiq 4y ago
Western languages invented all that fancy computer stuff. Maybe we should keep them.
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by faangiq 4y ago
The main benefit is it allows some absurd accounting gimmicks that paper pushers have optimized over decades. It’s also a jobs program for all sorts of useless middlemen.
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by faangiq 4y ago
Mostly not. About 90% of the US economy is engaged in non-productive value-destroying work. (Middlemen, govt, corporate nonsense.) The tech sector is the only exception broadly speaking and it powers the whole world. For the rest we have bo
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by faangiq 4y ago
Yep.

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