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by hkarthik 10y ago
Generally within the first two weeks. The variance here is usually based on familiarity and affinity for our technology stack, as well as experience level. I also try to make sure all new engineers have a team mentor available to ask questi
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Steve Bannon quote: "When two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think [...]" he didn't finish his sentence. "A country is more than an economy. We're a civic
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I work with a lot of ex-Facebook folks. In general, they speak highly of it. Positives: Teams are fairly autonomous, platforms are stable and support experimentation pretty freely. Great for product/growth oriented hackers. Titles are
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It's less this and the fact that their radical transparency is something that resonates with certain folks who will buy the product because of it, regardless of whether it checks every box on their feature list. For some companies, the
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The logical exit for these smaller tools companies as growth slows is to get acqui-hired by the Twitters, Facebooks, and LinkedIns of the world. However when your entire team is remote, that makes these companies steer clear of acquiring yo
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This will cause a housing crashing in the lower cost of living places like Texas where an H1B holder routinely makes less than $80K a year, but can still afford to buy brand new homes in the best school districts. Their employers will not a
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by hkarthik 10y ago
Remote work optimizes for the individual employee, and often the short term gain of finding early talent before you have an established brand and network effects where talent starts gravitating towards you. However, at the later stages of a
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This comes at no surprise. I predicted that at some point desktop computers used by designers and software engineers would start approaching workstation class pricing (around 4K USD or more) as laptops took over. This will reflect the depre
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Yup, the signs of a slowdown are there. The smaller startups and companies that use these job boards have cut back on hiring as their revenue growth has slowed down. The next step for them will be layoffs. The big tech companies are still h
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Identifying talent is not enough. You also need to know how to sell and close this talent. I say this as an engineering manager at a top tech company who got into hiring largely due to feeling like I could identify talent. Selling and closi
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I went the opposite route as most. I was remote for 3 years from Texas and then moved to the Bay Area for work. And I have a family of four. Key aspects that make it work for me are the following: * Accept a long commute to a more family-fr
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@pjlegato I think it's a fair point, but as a local resident I don't see the "attack on our property values" argument come up much with blocking new development. Again, it's something only a very small minority are
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Having recently moved to the Bay Area in the last year from Texas, I've been observing the NIMBYs and I've determined that it's very nuanced issue. I live in Dublin, CA, one of the far East Bay suburbs that is actually constr
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The difference comes from experience with banks versus experience with credit cards. These are very different in terms of implementation. Companies like Stripe initially focused entirely on inserting themselves into the Credit Card ecosyste
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Any sufficiently complicated Sinatra app contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Rails.
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by hkarthik 10y ago
In big companies, the most successful Staff Engineers forge a symbiotic relationship with a manager at the equivalent level. The two build trust where the Staff Engineer makes tech decisions and sets direction for the manager's teams i
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by hkarthik 11y ago
Question is very vague. Are you looking for a career in "Product" as in Product Management? If so, you are asking the wrong question. Best way to get into Product Management is to move into it after doing something else (e.g. engi
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Well that answers the question quite succinctly.
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Curious which Texas startups are considered unicorns? Last article I read didn't mention any. Google only pulled up this recent article: http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/blog/techflash/2015/09/
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by hkarthik 11y ago
I totally agree. I just moved my family of 4 to the Bay Area and we chose to just buy outright, despite the huge sticker shock and more limited availability. To meet our needs (space + good schools + public transit commutes to SF) we were l
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by hkarthik 11y ago
I believe this is because they are using compass which is a ruby-based scss/sass framework.
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by hkarthik 11y ago
StormPath ( https://stormpath.com/ ) can probably achieve what you want. It's not part of AWS, but available through the AWS marketplace: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00CX845OE/
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It's not "normal", but it's quite common among startup founders. I think this says more about VC backed startup culture and the personality types that it attracts, than anything inherently wrong with an individual. The p
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If I had to guess, YCombinator is starting to diversify it's funding strategies for early stage startups as it starts to diversity the types of startups that it invests in. The same funding terms simply won't work for an e-commerc
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by hkarthik 11y ago
I did this back in 2009. Here's how to do it. Pick a technology stack that you want to get a job in and build a side project in your spare time. Attend meetups with experts in your local community and learn how to make it awesome. Buil
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by hkarthik 11y ago
Look for a "Papers We Love" meetup in your city and ask questions in that group. the Github repo is also very useful. Details are here: http://paperswelove.org/ Zookeeper was actually inspired by Google's Chu
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It's a good question, and a difficult one for me to answer as I'm still trying to figure it out. One possible defense against this is to regularly refresh talent, and encourage high performing individuals to swap between contribut
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In many companies, Product Managers act almost entirely towards their own self interests (launching innovative products, stamping their name on major initiatives, and generally one-upping each other along the way). Any leaders who push an a
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Another recent engineer turned manager here. I can attest to losing touch, as I've had to work extra hard to see where things are trending in my spare time. If development wasn't also a personal hobby, this would be exceedingly di
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Nor should it. As a manager, I try to let the team and the PM work out the individual tasks, and ensure there is consensus and follow through by individuals. Handling external pressures, clearing roadblocks, and resolving team conflicts are

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