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faangiq
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faangiq
4y ago
Just quit. It’s not worth saving these people if you’re not getting paid to.
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faangiq
4y ago
Comp is still 2x less than it should be
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faangiq
4y ago
CryptoKitties is the only interesting blockchain use case besides BTC. It’s over for ETHcels.
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faangiq
4y ago
It’s not going to stop. It’s going to get much worse. And you will be happy.
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faangiq
4y ago
The best acronym will get you banned in many places.
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faangiq
4y ago
Maybe your resume is fucked up? If you have a pulse and work at FAANG you should be buried in people trying to hire you.
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faangiq
4y ago
You are the product not a customer. The customer is their investors, you just provide transactions to skim on their behalf.
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faangiq
4y ago
No. FAANG and their wannabe competitors started paying more over the past 15 years. But all other tech jobs have been stagnant that’s correct. It’s because companies view engineers as code monkeys. And they’re right for the most part becaus
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faangiq
4y ago
Why don’t dating sites ask leetcode hards?
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faangiq
4y ago
Yes of course. Are you qualified to be interviewing?
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faangiq
4y ago
Just say no.
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faangiq
4y ago
How about make your drivers use semi decent phones that don’t lag GPS?
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faangiq
4y ago
FAANG is a big place. You can get in to a low tier team yet still get paid just as well. At any top tier team, this skill level will not cut it. You might squeak by for a year or two, but it will be painful.
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faangiq
4y ago
Think of it as a jobs program for PM types. The chance of getting useful feedback, and then caring about it, is approaching zero.
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faangiq
4y ago
They’ve committed to obviously bad choices before like the touchbar.
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faangiq
4y ago
You’re at least ten years late.
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faangiq
4y ago
The world heavily incentivizes and rewards overconfidence.
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faangiq
4y ago
Sad how this kind of behavior (“have fun in jail”) is lauded in the VC world.
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faangiq
4y ago
A more reasonable estimate would be tens of billions. Even that may be an order of magnitude too low.
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faangiq
4y ago
I’ve also enjoyed various interviews at Google. But their overall process is ridiculous.
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faangiq
4y ago
This is common. 1) switch to a more creative environment, 2) get good enough that you can make even a boring environment creative.
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faangiq
4y ago
Cool. I wish more people that had “made it” thought of “giving back” in this way.
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faangiq
4y ago
A massive improvement would be listing probabilities of various symptoms. Typically you go to WebMD/similar, look something up, and it includes every possible symptom. This creates low signal to noise and makes it difficult to diagnose
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faangiq
4y ago
You get the government you deserve. If the people are dumb enough to be fleeced like this, they should be.
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faangiq
4y ago
Nothing worth solving is boring.
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faangiq
4y ago
What kind of jobs are applying to? Your xp sounds like “rando IT guy” so it might not be translating well.
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faangiq
4y ago
CS has a ton of people in it and they produce a lot of garbage papers. Oh you retrained your ML model? Boom, new paper.
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faangiq
4y ago
Hmm. Perceiving a pressure difference from 6 floors of elevation does not seem legit. Do you have some condition that would exacerbate this?
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faangiq
4y ago
Crazy. Did not know!
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faangiq
4y ago
This is fairly comical given that tether itself is a criminal enterprise.
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