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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Before this thread gets too stale, I did find a legal paper from Duke, 2006, talking about how certain kinds of blogging are likely protected by NLRA, "When is employee blogging protected by section 7 of the NLRA?" By Katherine
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
FWIW I am basically in the same situation. My base pay is in the same region you describe for yours, and I rarely see offers that are even 80% of what my salary expectation is, let alone other forms of compensation and other benefits. I am
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
The candidate could put their minimum acceptable salary in an envelope. The employer could put their maximum acceptable salary in an envelope. The two parties could agree with a third party arbiter that if the maximum from the employer is l
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Yes, that's correct. The point is that your employer gets to be alerted to this -- not that they could block you or something. If you're happy to sell the shares and work somewhere else, then there's no real problem either wa
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I have practiced that part and read just about everything I can find about it. Generally I say something like, "I appreciate the need to consider salary as an important part of the process, but since we have only just started talking a
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I think that's very true, but it makes the situation even more frustrating. Going all the way back to books like Peopleware , it's been well-known for a long time that even in dense urban areas like Manhattan or San Francisco, it
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
In the handful of cases where the company was OK with my non-answer about salary, and I went on to get all the way to a job offer, the salary ended up being entirely miscalibrated to a candidate of my skill and experience, and the overall i
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I am certain that at least some of them feel this way, especially given how many tech candidates are willing to work in an open-plan setting without even batting an eyelash about it. But I don't know of any other way to ensure that I c
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Not even close. For one, listening to actual sound like music or a podcast is even worse for me than the dull ambient backdrop noise. On rare occasion I can listen to music for a brief period of time, maybe 1 hour. But any sustained sounds
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I actually very much do want to work in an office. I worked remotely in one position, and while that solved the privacy and noise issues, I did not like being away from my colleagues. Working with adequate privacy and quiet does not mean
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I'm interested in what your negotiation principles are. I've always heard that a candidate should never share salary information and require the company to provide the first concrete number in the form of their initial offer. Howe
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
It does protect publicly sharing pay. I can't find the specific case at the moment, but there was a case where workers who were striking had printed up a leaflet with a bunch of salary information and distributed it to other workers an
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I've been facing the opposite problem. I've been in a lengthy job search and despite being in a situation where I really need a job, I've been forced to reject all the offers that have been made -- because the working conditi
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Most employees would be in a situation where right of first refusal means their employer would have to approve this -- and in a lot of places, the employer's going to take it as a red flag that you want to sell and it could create prob
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
> If JavaScript wasn't the best we had available to us to create dynamic UIs in the biggest distribution platform in the history of civilization, we'd be using something else. This is circular: "Because we use the thing, i
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I successfully avoided ever working in Excel when I worked in quant finance, and I also do not have a Facebook account. So... for me anyway, the title checks out.
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
The same phenomena existed in the 90s. Enterprise and corporate bureaucracy will always be the main driver in terms of which skill sets appear most in-demand. They have been since the dawn of computing. The modern misguided infatuation with
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I disagree. I'd much rather be forced to learn an entirely new profession and leave coding all together than to be required to write Javascript professionally. One thing this survey doesn't really touch on is the way the rise of J
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Always negotiate severance pay. Do not ever let an HR respresentative make you feel like it is greedy or disloyal for you to ask for fair severance pay to protect you in the event of unexpected job loss.
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
It's not a dichotomy between being able to do something about it vs. not getting utility from privacy. Privacy is extremely important. We get lots of utility from privacy and in fact require it to reach states of adequate mental and ph
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Yes, but if you pay the up-front cost of learning the interface (which, far from being arcane, is actually designed the way it is because it's ergonomic), then you can focus even more on creating than the person using the IDE. While th
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
That's not a good comparison, because mixing your own chemicals for photo development adds more time, effort, and defect rate to the process. Becoming more proficient with TeX saves time and makes for more re-usable typesetting str
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
This isn't that innovative. Creationists have been doing this for years.
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I tried to talk about this before in pre-ghost-town LessWrong, but the commenters didn't seem to like it: < http://lesswrong.com/lw/7n1/watts_son/ >.
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
As I mentioned in another comment on this thread, one of the biggest issues is framing programming as a low-status, commodity activity. I doubt Digital Ocean does this since they want good people, but a lot of firms absolutely design their
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
The problem is, there are no realistic 2-hour, or really even 4-hour, coding projects that faithfully map to on-the-job skill. 2 hours is too long for a data structures riddle, but way, way too short for anything of even a tiny degree of co
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
> Better to be completely arbitrary in the number. What!? No. If you want to go that route, it's better to simply omit any discussion about it. The worst thing is to present some arbitrary number that has priming and framing eff
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
But in this same letter they encourage you to not do an expected value calculation about the value of your compensation package. That's extremely bad advice. The more I read this letter, the more it looks like they are trying to be s
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
What's in the graph has only a nebulous connection to the example exit calculation. Those terms can change, and this still doesn't give any information on whether there is a preference multiplier or capped/uncapped participat
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
The part about exit values is a bit misleading. You don't include anything about liquidity preference or anything else that would be taken off the top before common shares are bought out. And if shares are diluted or liquidity preferen

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