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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
That’s definitely not true at companies without incentive systems.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
It's funny/depressing to think all of my depression stems from not being able to do these problems fluently.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
> Stop worrying about owning a house A lot of my friends are already putting money down on houses and are making hundreds of thousands in options trading on principal that I _don't have_. I'm falling behind permanently and even
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
> Coffee and seltzer water In my experience seltzer water ends up making me even more hungry. Is this typical?
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
FB and GOOG provide more stock and more refreshers. I think its hard to say AMZN engineers have come out ahead consistently. I only have about ~40 stocks up from about 35 before the refresh cycle (unvested) and that's unlikely to go up
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
>You have the opportunity to leverage that and either get promoted from within or change jobs. I think the real problem is I'm not capable of doing so, at least according to the fair labor market. > Are you really struggling maki
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
The perspective is inverted. From the perspective of a Harvard/Stanford/CMU/MIT undergrad working at Amazon is failing, which is nothing to say of IBM or Cisco (this is what I've understood after talking to several). I
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
> Lots of teams in Google have restrictive travel policies and never see the pointy end of a plane. Which ones do and don't? Because all of the ones I've heard of have pretty loose ones compared to my organization. And yes, Ama
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
It's total compensation including everything. My base is only around $109k or so. I'm not in California or NYC and I joined out of college so base isn't as good as industry hires. I fully understand shaming $150k, new grads a
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I know several people making $350k at companies like Lyft two years out of undergrad.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I've always passed interviews that focused on behavioral aspects, I've frequently struggled in algorithm focused loops (bombed 2/4 in my Google onsite because, again, I'm intellectually inferior). Besides, until recently
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I think G's ones are supposed to be. They claim themselves to be the top 1% of intelligence. No disagreement on the good recommendation as a signal, but I doubt that'll matter to the HC if I can't pass 3/5 rounds at the
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
The only thing to see looking inward is a void. I see too many people talking about their Tahoe Google offsites (jbd@ on twitter claims a bunch of her coworkers just work from Tahoe during ski season) or their Colorado skiing weekends. Anyw
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
> These companies you aspire to do behavioral interviews, and I’m guessing you’re failing them. Don't know why people say this. I'm usually pretty good at behavioral interviews. The problem is the algorithmic interviews (again,
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
You're $100k off - I make $150k a year. I'd be more satisfied with a quarter million a year to be clear.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
Haha, you don’t but I do know you from the Pythonista list.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I've studied hundreds of hours, failed HC for full time once and I've concluded that I'm mentally incapable of doing so (I blame my parents due to the slight heritability of IQ). "Just move" is something someone wit
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
Levels.fyi is good, but it's still polluted with TC's from multiple regions in the US (California + NYC have higher base and higher TC by 15% due to taxes). In addition, promos always happen at the low-band and aren't negotia
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
Of course. I'm well aware that I'm considered mentally defective (or maybe just garden variety low IQ) by the hiring committee. That doesn't really change my observation here.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
Last I checked Alibaba was 3rd in the international market and Oracle cloud was growing. Steve might be referring to Oracle getting 3rd place.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
Trips to Europe or to random conferences in first class? Trips to _any office_ for "face time"? Massages? Bonuses of any sort, including peer bonuses and holiday gifts? Refreshers? Society thinking that you're "smart&quo
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
A "couple dicks"? It's endemic, dude. You can't be given everything you could ever dream of and _not_ end up like this. By comparison, I have nothing. zilch , for my hard work. Neither do most people working on core tec
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
The answer to why this is, I’m beginning to realize after talking to dozens of Googlers working at Google as acquaintances, friends, former coworkers, HN comments and twitter personalities is - Google has an active disrespect if you’re not
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
> I show up with a problem ("hey, this thing keeps getting corrupted because X and Y") and suddenly it's because I'm "from" G or FB or something and I "want unreasonable things" from their stuff. S
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
With all due respect, your accomplishments even before college (since you went to Cornell) were far more significant than my own (and almost definitely more significant than mine will ever be). I’m not sure how I can use the help of a thera
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I think it's fine. I just think since I make 80% of what an equivalent Googler makes, I'm probably valued at 80% or less as a human. Realistically I don't think many people care deeply, but the folks I'm being surrounded
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I work at a FAANG (albeit the least respected one) and yes, I do feel this way.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
Pretty remarkable that the "elites" are still demanding pity (or at minimum asking people to discuss their "disillusionment") but there's nary a peep for people like me who didn't have the privilege of membersh
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I wonder why the "at Google" is necessary for the title. I'd be very surprised to see an organization not use some sort of design doc before building things - the only thing that would be different is the scale and scope of t
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I noticed you named the engineers that worked at Google, but not the top contributor, Gyuho Lee. Is that because he works at AWS?

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