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by northern-lights 2y ago
10 years ago Reddit used to be a place where you would get informed opinions and less spam. 5 years ago, HN used to be a place where you would get informed opinions and less spam. Neither of them will go back to the same level of quality. N
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by northern-lights 2y ago
Could you mention here or DM a rough range for compensation?
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by northern-lights 2y ago
Could you mention here or DM the rough range for compensation?
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by northern-lights 3y ago
Not necessarily. There are costs and obstacles to moving (for example moving from India to US is extremely difficult these days).
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by northern-lights 3y ago
Same here. The reality is that what company chooses to pay is the minimal amount they can get a candidate to accept for that location. If the candidate had other better offers, then they can either reject the offer or propose a higher count
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by northern-lights 3y ago
TPM can always store the (root) private key inside the TPM, but where will the other side of the channel (CPU, HD etc.) store their private key?
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by northern-lights 3y ago
There is nothing that is safe against physical attacks practically. You can always find a point where you can do a MITM attack as the communication channels between the TPM and anything else is almost always insecure.
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by northern-lights 3y ago
Hey! What would be the TC range for the Principal Engineer position and is that in EU?
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by northern-lights 3y ago
Whether or not you agree about the board's decisions, you cannot deny that this has been some excellent drama to gossip over the past 24 hours, like a soap opera but with real consequences that might only be apparent years from now.
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by northern-lights 3y ago
From: https://openai.com/our-structure "Second, because the board is still the board of a Nonprofit, each director must perform their fiduciary duties in furtherance of its mission—safe AGI that is broadly beneficial.
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by northern-lights 3y ago
"The majority of the board is independent, and the independent directors do not hold equity in OpenAI."
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by northern-lights 3y ago
The biggest feature in Java 21 is the release of Virtual Threads: https://openjdk.org/jeps/444 For some reason, this is missing from the article. If there was any feature that would sway existing Golang developers to s
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by northern-lights 5y ago
It's always Deliver Results.
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by northern-lights 5y ago
This has been my experience and every org that I know as well. Blind agrees too. The guy above you seems like an HR plant.
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by northern-lights 5y ago
Unfortunately at Amazon, that is the norm. When the review time comes, 90% of the orgs will use the no. of Code Reviews raised and no. of commits pushed as the first line metric. Impact, customer focus and everything else is secondary.
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by northern-lights 5y ago
Except there are 14 LPs and nobody says any one LP is superior to the rest. If you need to consider "Deliver Results" supreme irrespective of anything else, then it needs to be made clear. Just do away with the rest of the LPs.
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by northern-lights 5y ago
It's called Survivorship bias. Before coming here, I too thought the same. That the stories were exaggerated, that those experiences were outliers and a minority. But then I saw my team's L6 SDE get put on Focus within a year of j
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by northern-lights 5y ago
Same. My team was down to 4 people and they put the L6 external hire in Focus (the informal coaching plan precursor to PIP) and he left. And we own critical services.
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by northern-lights 5y ago
Perhaps the attitude instead should be: Always Be Interviewing Everybody's replaceable. Capitalist corporations will replace you at the drop of a hat if they can. The only way to safeguard yourself is to be ready for it.
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by northern-lights 5y ago
The real question is - did the company fire him for that? I'd wager a guess that it did not. So, it worked out for him.
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by northern-lights 5y ago
What about Yellow? If yes, you could shorted it as RBY which is more familiar to most old genners.
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by northern-lights 5y ago
Plus the existing tenured knows how to survive and navigate the politics. If they didn't, they would've never reached tenure. This is why the average tenure is so low.
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by northern-lights 5y ago
Amazon knows very well how to protect itself. Most of the times you are so fed up that you will leave yourself when you are in Focus/Dev plan.
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by northern-lights 5y ago
If you have another offer from FAANG-like company, then you weigh your risk of survival and evaluate accordingly.
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by northern-lights 5y ago
2. is not accurate. Managers don't have to hire weak people to satisfy the quota. People are rarely ever put into PIP due to performance. Most of the times it is political.
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by northern-lights 5y ago
Then explain to me how I was rated LE six months into the job when half the time I was without a manager and without ever causing a Sev2 let alone a Sev1?
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by northern-lights 5y ago
Yes, agreed. I meant BR can't veto to hire for that team without HM being inclined.
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by northern-lights 5y ago
Yes, perhaps I should have clarified. BR can only use the veto to make a HIRE to NO_HIRE decision. He doesn't have the veto to make a NO_HIRE to HIRE decision.
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by northern-lights 5y ago
No, the OP's comment is wrong.
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by northern-lights 5y ago
> Pro tip if you're working at Amazon: if you get a PCS with no additional grant and no base increase, you're on the development list. Find another job, or do something amazing. Allegedly, the only sure-fire way of knowing if y

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