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by morgante 5y ago
> My personal experience with individual teachers is that they work plenty, and what I saw during remote school was no exception. Yes, there are definitely some individual teachers who care about student learning and work hard to go ba
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by morgante 5y ago
Yes, politicians and teachers' unions share most of the blame. It's unconscionable how long they insisted on keeping schools closed, despite the massive impact on families and students and the minimal danger posed to kids. I fee
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by morgante 5y ago
I know, but OP specifically said salary and that bonus/stock would come "on top."
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by morgante 5y ago
L3 salary is $140k (from levels.fy). 30% of $140k allows for rent of $3.5k/m which is not actually all that generous. You're lucky to get a studio for that these days in Manhattan.
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by morgante 5y ago
I personally am really happy to go back to the office, but people who have physically relocated have an easy option to simply apply for permanent remote work. It's really not a big argument that needs to be made—the process is very sim
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by morgante 5y ago
Not everyone has the temperament to slack. I don't enjoy "phoning it in" and will work on things (including overworking) to accomplish results, even if others aren't carrying their weight. If you build an org like this,
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by morgante 5y ago
You're right that there are many reasons people might seem to be underperforming in remote work, but unfortunately it doesn't really improve the situation for managers or coworkers. If many employees are spending their time in chi
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by morgante 5y ago
The assumption is that it's desirable to have a descending climbing frequency instead of uniform. This makes a lot of sense, as when you're younger frequent climbing would help you to develop proficiency quickly and your body allo
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by morgante 5y ago
You deeply misunderstand employment law if you think it prohibits people at the same level from being paid different amounts. It's illegal to pay differently on the basis of sex, race, or other protected classes . It's perfectly
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by morgante 5y ago
That is not remotely true. There is no law saying everyone with the same job title needs to be paid the same.
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by morgante 5y ago
I would definitely not characterize big tech as having "public salaries." Simply knowing someone's level is completely insufficient for knowing their compensation. When compensation within a level has $100k+ variability, it
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by morgante 5y ago
Most people feel slighted when told that they're worse performers than someone nominally at the "same level" as them.
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by morgante 5y ago
Agreed. Renter's insurance is a great consumer purchase in my experience, since it also doubles as insurance for your property outside the home . Not having to worry about your stuff getting stolen (for example, your laptop in a caf
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by morgante 5y ago
You're starting from the false assumption that everyone on the team is paid the same. It's not like everyone performs at the same level or gets the same pay in almost any team I've seen. If someone gets a job offer, you shoul
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by morgante 5y ago
The vast majority of team communication at Google goes through Chat. The only Slack usage I know of is acquisitions (who are encouraged to move off it) and interaction with customers/partners.
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by morgante 6y ago
Quizzing on programming language minutia is a terrible way to hire. It's mostly quizzing how long people have been writing that specific language and their interest in language minutia. It's been several years since I wrote Java
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by morgante 6y ago
I guarantee that companies (at least large companies) do reconcile hiring decisions with performance review data. Google, at least, has entire teams of analysts focused on exactly this sort of analysis. Fundamentally, hiring is simply not a
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by morgante 6y ago
More accurately: such an environment requires paying a premium to compensate for the decreased job security. (As with any market, employees expect to be compensated for their higher risk with higher returns.) Netflix, for example, and Amazo
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by morgante 6y ago
The death toll from the KGB and associated state violence is likely in the millions, not a few dozen people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_repression_in_the_So...
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by morgante 6y ago
Why? None of those cities have reformed or rebuilt their police departments. You're just spreading FUD.
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by morgante 6y ago
Looking at the police brutality over the past 2 weeks, including blatant attacks on journalists and peaceful protestors, makes it clear that they have not been "reformed."
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by morgante 6y ago
That's a trite dismissal. Nobody actually thinks that we can have no law enforcement. That doesn't mean that disbanding systematically corrupt departments and rebuilding from scratch isn't a good idea.
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by morgante 6y ago
That's been tried for years and clearly hasn't worked. Incremental reform has failed when you have corrupt unions and entrenched cultures. Yes, you should usually try to incrementally fix bugs in a codebase. But sometimes it'
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by morgante 6y ago
Nope. Camden disbanded their police department and has seen crime drop: https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/01/what-happened-to-crim... Disbanding the police doesn't mean no public safety measures. It me
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by morgante 6y ago
All those things have been tried and reform is more limited. The biggest problem is that unions protect all the bad applies in "solidarity" so even with body cams and abundant evidence of brutality nothing happens. If you actually
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by morgante 6y ago
Realistically, that's what will come from "abolishing" the police. That's not necessarily a bad thing! A big problem with existing departments is decades of corruption, poor leadership, and entrenched policies. Tearing t
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by morgante 6y ago
Nobody is having a salary cut forced on them. People are free to continue operating in the same capacity they were when first offered the salary (working in SV office). If they want to change that, then they are renegotiating the terms of e
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by morgante 6y ago
People seem to be missing that this is entirely voluntary. Facebook isn't forcing people to accept a pay cut, just saying that if you choose to move then your salary will be cut. This has been SOP at big tech companies for years. If
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by morgante 6y ago
It's not being forced on anyone. People are free to continue working in SV and presumably receive the same salary they were before. If they decide to move elsewhere that's a substantial and meaningful change from the agreement the
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by morgante 7y ago
> If that's the case, what does that statistic say for the unemployment rate in the US, should social-distancing remain long term? Are we going to see >50% unemployment?? Highly unlikely. The government will abandon social distan

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