jofi1

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by jofi1 3y ago
Are H1Bs hired at big tech paid that low anywhere? From what I saw, they may be given the bottom of the job level band, but it's still usually quite high. At the same time, it was obvious that having h1b engineers gave the managers a l
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by jofi1 3y ago
Yeah it's absolutely demoralizing and made me leave some teams. Have very little faith in performance reviews and role guidelines
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by jofi1 3y ago
Being the odd one out also makes you a target for things like PIP quotas. It's very disturbing to watch, especially as managers try to justify it with phony evidence to save their own.
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by jofi1 3y ago
I don't have any affiliation with them, but Together is hardly random and very important to the open source community, putting out some of the most useful work around things like new architectures, distributed training, datasets.
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by jofi1 3y ago
The career path document is to try and make the process look objective and save the company from lawsuits. In reality it encourages bsing overly complicated solutions, and promotions are limited by things like budget rather than some object
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by jofi1 3y ago
> It is something I have been wondering about: why did Meta not keep the training process going on while the loss curves seemed to go down? Could they conceivably release a Llama 2.1 being checkpoints taken a month after 2.0 was 'cu
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by jofi1 3y ago
It's often worse than random because it favors the political in-group mafia focused on climbing the ladder through any means necessary, instead of rewarding people doing good work or with actual leadership skills.