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811.
by hibikir 10y ago
That's not really about the review process, but about making one of the biggest mistakes you can make: After you know your manager doesn't like you, you didn't do everything in your power to either switch teams or change comp
812.
by hibikir 10y ago
Quotas aren't necessarily the best ideas, but if 90% of your applicants are men, and men and women have the same pass rates, what you have to work on is resume sourcing. This is especially true in companies that mostly hire referrals:
813.
by hibikir 10y ago
If I have to do a very careful performance decision on something as well trodden as a sorting algorithm, I'll walk to the bookshelves, pick up The Art of Programming, Volume 3, and let Knuth handle it for me. As a software engineer, t
814.
by hibikir 10y ago
It depends on the survey mechanism: If you are only selecting scores from 1-5, aren't saying a word, and the minimum unit of aggregation is 10 people, and it's all handled by a third party, you can be truthful. But any time you en
815.
by hibikir 10y ago
There is always an in-group, it's just a matter of which one. I have worked at places where I was part of the in-group, and places where I wasn't. Sometimes it was nationality. Others, the school you came in. The gender divide is
816.
by hibikir 10y ago
Giving the counteroffer anyway will get every other member of your team searching for a job. There's this company I stayed at for a whole 6 months. I came in after negotiation a sensible salary: Nothing spectacular, but still pretty go
817.
by hibikir 10y ago
A few other things, like interstate commerce, which the supreme court interprets as so broad as to cover a whole lot of things. The amount of shared laws are staggering compared to the EU equivalent. There's also how medicare and socia
818.
by hibikir 10y ago
The assortive matching is very real, but whether that's related to salaries is another matter. I live in a far smaller tech market than the valley, and it's plain as day. We might have about 20 large employers that use the JVM. Ou
819.
by hibikir 10y ago
In my case, 2000 square foot house in St Louis with a two car garage. A large enough place to have children comfortably, market value about 200K. I am working remote for a SF company, and I looked at relocation. Anything even remotely equiv
820.
by hibikir 10y ago
I find the article to be a gross oversimplification: It's very hard to put oneself in other person's shoes. The same external behavior might be caused by very different internal mechanism. I have met people that are labeled as int
821.
by hibikir 10y ago
I'd not blame QE+low interest rates for this, because the problem is not national, but limited to very few markets. Almost anyone can afford a house in most US cities. Changes in QE wouldn't magically change demand in SF and NY. W
822.
by hibikir 10y ago
We are talking startups: Your typical early employee that didn't grow past mid level dev is out of position by year four. Even though their options are vested, chances are that can't afford to exercise them, and will be worth zero
823.
by hibikir 10y ago
You seem to describe a very different world of programming than the one I live in. I have no dislike for logic, formal proofs, category theory and such: I can live in that world just fine. However, almost none of the problems I've ever
824.
by hibikir 10y ago
It's not just that the distances are larger (My shortest commute ever, which people saw as luxuriously short, was 9km!), but also weather: We have an average of 90 days a year below freezing, and 40 over 32C. I don't know about yo
825.
by hibikir 10y ago
It's not an uncommon story: My wife's PI got cancer. 3 years in. In her case, she just abandoned the whole thing. A friend of mine's PI instead moved to UCLA from San Antonio, and didn't raise pay a cent, or provide relo
826.
by hibikir 10y ago
There are part time tasks that we might want to pay someone to do, but are not worth paying anyone for at living wage costs: The value and the minimum wage don't line up. Those are often the kinds of jobs untrained teenagers did back i
827.
by hibikir 10y ago
It depends on where you live. About 15 years ago, the geniuses of our power company decided that they could save on tree trimming near power lines. a few years later, they were bragging about the savings... and then, in the middle of winter
828.
by hibikir 10y ago
In the Spain of my youth, the regulation was way past avoiding a monopoly in commodities, and full on to protecting any incumbents on anything, like mom and pop retail. One example was (and maybe still is), to ban discounts on textbooks, a
829.
by hibikir 10y ago
Inditex has made tremendous changes in how fashion is made and delivered: It's a logistics marvel. Other companies selling clothes are either stealing large percentages of that model or dying. If you look at how often a store turned in
830.
by hibikir 10y ago
Changing the world is a great way of making sure your statement is always true: You can define what the world is, and apparently your definition is computers and electronics. Even then, I'd argue that most of the ones you listed just w
831.
by hibikir 10y ago
Oh yes. While this might not be a hard, publicly facing requirement, I have seen resume review processes that took into account things like school or whether you have worked for a hip, big name tech employer. If your sensible resume with 10
832.
by hibikir 10y ago
I think that the "caring about their business" is the grandparent's point: There are a lot of bad low level and middle managers whose whole reason for being bad is either not caring or having no ability to measure employee co
833.
by hibikir 10y ago
I Lived in Spain for a couple of decades, and I much prefer their government run hospitals to the way the US works. However, I do not believe that the US could just flip a switch and go to a public hospital system, so I would be happy with
834.
by hibikir 10y ago
Sure, it beats Java, but the VM is worse for running other languages, and that's where .NET loses. F# tries to be nice, but reified generics are more of a limitation than help in that world. In JVM land, now Java just hands you some sp
835.
by hibikir 10y ago
It's an interesting situation that has broken quite a few other pieces of the puzzle. Companies can now raise money while private for a decade. Stock options become useless, because nobody is going to work somewhere for 10 years, or sa
836.
by hibikir 10y ago
because today there are bigger problems with taking options than a 5 year schedule? a 4 year schedule was important when a company wanted to go IPO quickly, but today, where startups are private for 8+ years, and option terms make selling t
837.
by hibikir 10y ago
There are companies that think they are hiring, but aren't, because their interview process is a trainwreck that passes on great candidates, aims only at former employees at big tech companies, and don't offer those people competi
838.
by hibikir 10y ago
A high quality third party recruiter has different incentives than a real estate agent, because they expect repeat business: Few people buy more than two houses in their life, but having a good relationship with a stable of good developers
839.
by hibikir 10y ago
While I can't say that I am a big fan of the Haskell community, I fully understand why they see how extending Javascript is never going to work out: You can't just bolt Hindley-Milner to a language with prototypical inheritance, s
840.
by hibikir 10y ago
The difference in practice is nowhere near that though: I made those 60K when I graduated, in 2000! Salaries in the midwest for experienced engineers are far better than 80K: A few years ago, I made 120K as a full time employee in St Louis.

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