ozzythecat

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by ozzythecat 4y ago
I was at amazon for over 10 years. The burn out hellscape culture, often where you’re managed by some H1B manager who’s afraid of themselves getting fired (and having to leave the US) if they don’t meet their forced attrition quotas: it’s
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
For a lay person: how is this information useful, or from knowing the answer to which of these two models is correct, does it allow us to extrapolate and solve some other piece of some puzzle? Stated differently, what is the impact of these
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
I was in the Seattle area for about 10 years and recently moved to the east coast. I don’t recommend Seattle. Skyrocketing cost of living, increasing homelessness, and progressive politics that are real communism with local politicians sayi
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
Leetcode might help with interviewing, but I’d say that’s about it. I don’t think I’d optimize my general learning and discovery with trying to pass arbitrary interviews. Real world coding has very little to do with leet code problems. Debu
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> The main problem with promotion-oriented culture is that it’s very hard to align promotion-criteria with business objectives, and so engineers end up doing a lot of work that doesn’t necessarily most benefit the product, users, or busi
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
At my previous company, productivity increased on some teams. Other teams saw a significant drop in productivity, and for certain high performers, it meant they changed teams or left the company. As we continued hiring managers and engineer
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
I’m going to use this post as an opportunity to tell people about Amazon. The company has some of the most incompetent managers, who under pressure, will throw their own people under the bus. By incompetent, I mean “yes” men who tell 10 dif
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
I don’t think anyone is saying “they took our jobs”. I think it’s not so black and white. 1. There’s a race to the bottom to show infinite growth. This is the way of American capital markets. And this leads to cost cutting, bringing down wa
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
At Amazon, a director would either bring the Indian immigrants. Hell - he will bring them from his own city in India. But if you’re asking me what I would do - I’d probably look for anyone who is a competent hire, without favoring H1Bs, and
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> who graduates a bootcamp today will need about 4 - 5 years of highly focused coding to become as productive as the Indian L4/L5 engineer that they would be compared to in this real comparison First of all, I think it’s disingenuou
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
I’m charactering it that way, although it’s less blatant. Ask any amazon director and they’ll go in and on about hiring being next to impossible in the US. Entire legions of Amazon are either entirely in India or H1B or OPT Indian nationals
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> But the main advantage of the bootcamp to me was not technical, it was the network. Apart from providing a friend group which will likely end up in referrals down the road, the best bootcamps will introduce you to companies and have re
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
I think this question is difficult to answer. What are your goals? What are you trying to achieve? Learn a novel skill - because of curiosity or to primarily acquire a job? I can speak to my brief, very limited experience in the space. My f
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> In this comment, it appears you took the word "expert" and defined it to mean "people who aren't actually experts" and then used that to dismiss them. I hope you can understand this isn't a useful way to a
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
Many of these statements come off as being passive aggressive, but to the authors credit, sometimes you don’t have much else to respond back with, or just don’t engage at all, which can cause its own issues. What made me chuckle a bit is ho
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> Thousands of Americans are alive because of Arthur A. Allen. And thousands of people are alive around the world because of the work he did here. No one knows who he is. No one pays any attention to him. They furloughed him as if he’s u
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> All you're saying is that you like your narrative & you intend to stick to it despite any contradicting evidence that may be presented. Not at all. I’m simply saying that anyone can fudge the numbers and claim to have “data” t
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
I spent over 10 years at Amazon and considered quitting after my first three days. I continued to consider quitting every year for over 10 years. My point is / “considering quitting” is absolutely meaningless. It’s a clickbait story.
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
I’d like to make a meta response to your post not about specific points you raised but how you made your point. I’ve been a fairly progressive or at least liberal my whole life. I also like to look at what the data tells us. I’m not certain
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
I think there’s something more fundamental going on in the US. First, I’d want to say that we as humans love to simplify complex things. There are large macroeconomic trends at play that are boring or hard to explain, and it’s easier to bla
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
The base salary bumps aren’t in very significant amounts. Some engineers getting paid at the bottom of the band have had their compensation increased with another $30K-$40K in salary, but I don’t know of a single person anywhere even remote
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> American workers across various ages, industries, and income brackets have experienced heightened levels of fatigue, burnout, and general dissatisfaction toward their jobs since the pandemic’s start. The difference is, more young peopl
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
I keep Excel spreadsheets with simple todo lists for things I need to do… for example, taxes, renewing a drivers license, purchases that are easy to forget, books I want to read, etc. It’s sort of todo lists and one line notes, all saved i
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
The reality is that American/capitalist enterprises are in a sprint desiring infinite growth. They will do whatever it takes to increase the bottom line, whether it means screwing over customers, or in some cases, misrepresenting and d
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
Amazon is probably the worst offender. They paid below the rest of the industry while providing no benefits like other big tech companies. On top of that, the corporate culture discriminated against women, viewed people yelling at each othe
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> People think that if a young guy comes from a disorderly or deprived environment, he should be held to low standards. This is misguided. He should be held to high standards. Otherwise, he will sink to the level of his environment. In m
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by ozzythecat 5y ago
I cancelled because it’s not worth the time investment. Good shows are not only difficult to find, but Netflix will release a season or two and unreasonably no longer continue on, without closing out the story. They try to cater to a mass a
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by ozzythecat 5y ago
You hit the nail on the head. I love the physical build, performance, and overall quality. I also feel very comfortable in MacOS, I don’t like how Windows renders fonts, and I could just never get into Ubuntu. In my case, I went from a 2015
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by ozzythecat 5y ago
I get news from all of the providers you listed, but they don’t produce the content. The actual content is from the big media companies like CNBC, CNN, Fox News, WSJ, and NY Times. These online media are content aggregators. They help socia
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by ozzythecat 5y ago
You hit the nail on the head. Actually, we used TurboTax, got annoyed with the constant upsells, and the $80 fee (it was advertised as free), and then my husband redid our taxes using another website (freetaxusa). It was actually free.

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