mav3rick

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by mav3rick 7y ago
Pay is well above average. Regardless of what HN spews, Google foundationally made search and mobile more accessible around the world. I don't know what "great" company you work for but it's hard to top that for impact.
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by mav3rick 7y ago
It's funny how he knew this from outside Google.
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by mav3rick 7y ago
You do your best on your projects. No one thinks day to day how their perf will be. What a stupid way to live.
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by mav3rick 7y ago
And many companies unlike Google don't let you take food home. Or serve it very late, so you are working late. This is not the case at Google at all. The parent comment is so off the mark. These kind of posters have an image in their h
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by mav3rick 7y ago
They know nothing about Google culture. What they know is from HN threads and The Intercept.
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by mav3rick 7y ago
What "pressure" you feel is entirely up to you. Most managers at Google don't micro manage you.
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by mav3rick 7y ago
So true about the young couples bit. Look up "Stay Uncle".
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by mav3rick 7y ago
For all those downvoting ...what's the solution ? Go to phone call expensive taxis ? Uber is such a useful utility, most people won't let it go away. Too big to fail
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by mav3rick 7y ago
What's wrong with that ?
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by mav3rick 7y ago
You didn't answer the core point. People don't sit at home if there are no taxis. That's never happened. And if cyclists take cars now, it's probably because it's safer to do so than riding around traffic. These are
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by mav3rick 7y ago
Go back to pre-Uber. No one called expensive taxis and used private cars, including the cyclists for non trivial distances. Uber came and solved the first step. Maybe some cyclists even take it for trivial distances. But that's blaming
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by mav3rick 7y ago
Chrome has its own Windows builders as well on each platform.
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by mav3rick 7y ago
That's on them and not Uber to calculate and make the choice.
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by mav3rick 7y ago
This is such a bullshit argument. What you're basically saying is people wouldn't have driven their cars and stayed at Home if Uber wasn't a thing. That's such an inane argument. Ridesharing is good and reduces overall t
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by mav3rick 7y ago
How do I know op's standards are the same as Carmack's ? What I consider great maybe average after all ?. Same could have been said when Carmack said he wanted to work on VR. "it's a retirement letter"
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by mav3rick 7y ago
Jesus, technology evolves. This is a good start.
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by mav3rick 7y ago
You cant project your colleagues on a third person.
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by mav3rick 7y ago
Op is from Amazon, hence the comparison.
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by mav3rick 7y ago
> Handful of people that did... I know at least 20 that made the opposite move. All vow to never go back to Amazon. I can't hurt the brand any more than it is on HN :) Thankfully, the Google name is respected way more in the real wo
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by mav3rick 7y ago
The average Google offer is way higher than Amazon. There are stats to prove this. Even without the offer the benefits are way better. The hiring bar is higher. Look around you...very few people make the opposite move. You will probably ret
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by mav3rick 7y ago
Have you used Nike+ ? It's 2-4 day shipping, 30 day returns with wear and tear. It's fantastic.
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by mav3rick 7y ago
There is no greed in demanding to get paid market rates. Please stop peddling that as a negative trait.
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by mav3rick 7y ago
Your post also exaggerated and extrapolated everyone working there as "slackers". Not too mention the combative attitude HN has toward Googlers anyway. "How can they work their morally" etc . Anyway I won't engage f
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by mav3rick 7y ago
"From the people I know " Cherry pick the 5 people you know. 99% of people will join Google on HN. So will most of Amazon. Don't kid yourself.
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by mav3rick 7y ago
It's Google so people post negative things here without reading the article.
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by mav3rick 7y ago
You have no idea how hard people work here. Some of the smartest and diligent people work here. It's a big company so your friends maybe doing 9 to 5. But HN will never mention all the people who put in the hard yards at Google.
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by mav3rick 7y ago
Unlike other companies Google employees atleast protest. In many cases they win. No company is a saint. It's a bit rich asking everyone to leave their jobs. 99% of HN will work for the most money. Google still tries its best unlike Fac
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by mav3rick 7y ago
Sorry. Acknowledged.
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by mav3rick 7y ago
This is egregious as well - "They won't know anything about algorithms either, but they'll cost less and can be worked like slaves." It's hard to have a logical rebuttal to something like this. It's engaging i
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by mav3rick 7y ago
Affect "culture". You mean Xenophobia ?

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