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by rajacombinator 5y ago
Starting is a rare skill set. Finishing is even more rare.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
Try paying them market rates? If you can’t, offer equity. Or try to sell them on your “vision” or some other BS and hope you find a sucker.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
Just move and don’t tell them. Correct your taxes yourself afterwards.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
One job isn’t your career. Staying at a place that doesn’t understand or respect developers is actually damaging to your career.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
Surely they don’t or they wouldn’t have developed this reputation in the first place.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
This is too easy, you’re just wasting everyone’s time by asking this. (Maybe that’s your goal.) And yes, many candidates will think it’s a trick question. I would spend the time asking questions you can get meaningful signal from. As an asi
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
Yep. It’s another worthless Agile Cult practice that wastes innumerable man-years.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
As everyone is saying, obviously drop the “mentor” dude and his BS offer. You can do it in a polite way and if they take offense that’s on them. Additionally, you need to find an impartial business advisor. Because if you’re botching this s
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
Not to mention that Lambda School is an attempt to actually align the incentives of school and students, which is the main problem with educational financing today. Wrong target to pile on.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
Find some hard problem that interests you. Or something maybe not hard but new to you.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
Giving yourself awards is kinda awesome. We need more of this. Silicon Valley has been a bit boring lately.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
Yes. Hire a consultant to advise your company. Key terms are RPO and RTO.
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by rajacombinator 5y ago
How it really works, even (especially) at FAANG: 1. Get one thing right. 2. Sit back and make my monies.
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by rajacombinator 6y ago
Yes, for these companies it’s almost always about squeezing more value out of the code monkeys. (It also produces better results but let’s be real no MBA is thinking about that.) They haven’t adapted to understanding how much leverage and v
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by rajacombinator 6y ago
Your English is good but your plan is bad. You need more content, more structure, and a 3 year multi stage plan. (Of which 1 year is focused around getting employed.) Acquire some credentials. You are aiming too low. Anyone with the aptitud
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by rajacombinator 6y ago
The best stack is the one you know. That said, for elegance and productivity it’s python all the way.
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by rajacombinator 6y ago
“I’m paying all these code monkeys, I want them at their **ing desks.” - basically the thought process of all non-remote employers.
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by rajacombinator 6y ago
Just do it. If you have any hesitation, you’re not cut out for this type of work.
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by rajacombinator 6y ago
This somewhat depends on your capabilities as well. If you’re good at what you do, it’s quite easy to coast at FAANG even.
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by rajacombinator 6y ago
It’s all a bunch of Agile Culting designed to generate overhead and keep the manager class employed.
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by rajacombinator 6y ago
Between endless buffets at the strip club + happy hour after, how did you get any work done?
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by rajacombinator 6y ago
Python. The productivity and elegance of it are way more than 10x.
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by rajacombinator 6y ago
TLDR article but seems it, and most of the top level comments here surprisingly miss the obvious answer. Software engineers practice systematic logical thinking on a daily basis. Most other fields do not, and if you’ve worked for people fro
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by rajacombinator 6y ago
Pro move - stake out easy projects with clear deliverables for yourself; punt ambiguous or unsupported projects to new or naive people.
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by rajacombinator 6y ago
Everybody wanna be Google, but don’t nobody wanna pay no Google salaries.
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by rajacombinator 6y ago
Of course not. But it’s good for the manager industry. Slow the gears down enough and create more and more overhead.
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by rajacombinator 6y ago
Yawn. Exploiting the code monkey n00b once again. How can it be so easy, yet so profitable?
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by rajacombinator 6y ago
>counting on managers to defend against this behavior and not actively promote and drive it Good luck...
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by rajacombinator 6y ago
FAANG caliber engineers can easily generate millions in profits for companies, and it’s not easy to find them. Downward pressure on salaries is not happening any time soon.
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by rajacombinator 6y ago
Honestly they both sound horrific. Any code base that large ...

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