lowiqengineer

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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
Unless they're part of leadership they usually do, yes.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
Yeah, I stopped going on CSCQ years ago because I knew it was just making me more depressed. Still, I know a lot of successful people personally who privately believe I'm a failure for working at the FANG i work at so the net effect is
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I currently work at a FANG. I don't think it's so much the high pay as much as it is that my peers look down on me because of the FANG I work at. I've practiced for years already (to fairly mediocre results).
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
weirdly i'm usually fine on the job, I don't feel the same way at all. I'm generally at ease even. It's tough, it's like I feel attacked by the fact that I can't solve these in 5 minutes like the other folks I
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
Honestly I'm fine on the job and I'm usually not stressed like I am when I do leetcode. I'd be fine keeping my current gig but the TC increase even if/when I get promoted is lower than the average Google new grad offer.
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Ask HN: How does one have the mindset to study for coding interviews?
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
Of course. It’s the same code words people use when they describe neighborhood schools while avoiding race. “Wouldn’t consider Amazon when planning a move” seems to have the same tenor as “Wouldn’t consider moving to a less white neighborho
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
You’re really just implying that if the experience is worse and we are treated badly (aka no company paid off sites to Hawaii or seasons working remotely in Tahoe) the only people at Amazon are there because they aren’t capable of getting b
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
My company (Amazon) is hiring fast right now. Somehow I feel like you aren’t going to consider us because you think we are inherently inferior engineers though!
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
What do I do if I'm not successful then? I've dealt with suicidal ideation before, but everyone then just told me that it was a problem of mindset. If I'm not capable of becoming successful then...what's the point?
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
What marginal benefit does a person with Merit aid going to Dartmouth or Carnegie Mellon over Binghamton or Pitt have to me? Hell, I’d even say giving them government backed loans or other aid doesn’t benefit me. We need a radical reallocat
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
To be clear, the answer is a company that requires the hard work I put in to get in. For most people out of college Amazon is their “safety” company because you can get an offer with 1 coding challenge. Unfortunately, because of this peopl
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
No I’m an SWE
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I mean these sorts of things would imply that Amazon doesn't though, right? Why would anybody accept the "worst" for no benefit unless that was the best they got? In a free labor market that just means my inherent value is lo
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I've done all of that, and the best job I got was Amazon :/ It seems like this industry only works if you're just naturally intelligent (or lucky)
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I think the implication is the average engineer at Amazon isn't capable of getting into another FAANG, because Amazon is the easiest/least well paying company in FAANG.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
Amazon was the best offer I got out of undergrad. I came very close to doing some very bad things to myself when I got rejected from Facebook and Google after my onsites and was depressed for months. Please have some empathy for people like
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I get what you're saying, but the evidence in my experience seems to prove otherwise if I can't get into Google or Facebook after trying nearly a dozen times between them. I make around ~$150k a year right now. If I get promoted t
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
Even if they aren't representative of ability it's a strong signal if I keep getting rejected from Facebook (3 times for internship with final interviews, 2 times for onsite) and Google (2 times for internship, 1 time for full tim
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I’m currently an Amazon engineer - it was my first job out of college. I worked really damn hard to get this job, and now everyone (including you, a Facebook/Google employee) seem to think I’m stupid and inferior because I didn’t pass
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
Its true - they believe themselves to be so damn smart they behave with rank condescension towards everyone else as the "top 1% of intelligence".
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
It’s pretty apparent that they think people who don’t work for google are vastly inferior human beings. It honestly runs counter to their “social justice” facade.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
Yeah, I know. But even when talking to friends at top companies it's like a stream of microaggressions when I've worked just as hard as they have to be where I am.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I'm __guessing__ that Facebook will have fully remote teams and orgs where this is less of a problem and will have ample opportunities to come to HQ. They fucking send their interns to other offices multiple times during an internship!
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
> Based on my experience with the various AWS SDK libraries, I don't think Amazon has very good developers, or perhaps they have good developers but a poor development culture Dude, have you fucking seen the Android libraries? They&
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I mean in the sense that being customer obsessed should mean you do not evil. We absolutely are still customer obsessed.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
A 5 year old gist from 1 employee (out of the current ~70k SWE's employed at the company + all that have come and gone in the last 5 years) just to shit on the quality of Amazon engineering? And folks wonder why I have depression -it&#
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
> The divide between AWS employees and everyone else employed at Amazon seems to be "2007 Google employee" against "sweatshop"; they're run mostly-separately, from what I've read. This is incredibly offensiv
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
> 'we care about our employees' or 'do no evil' LPs). Customer Obsession is "do no evil".
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
> Paying back a signing bonus if they fire you seems super rough. Is this common elsewhere? 2 years also seems high - the time I got a signing bonus, it was "pay back if you leave voluntarily in 1 year" which was much nicer tha

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