rericks

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Ask HN: First month job anxiety. Am I actually an impostor?
187 points by rericks 8y ago|88 comments
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by rericks 8y ago
I recently joined a FANG and this is something that causes me a lot of anxiety. Our repos are hundreds of thousands of lines of code; how on earth can I, as a new hire, decide unilaterally that something needs to be added or reworked? I&#
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by rericks 8y ago
Thank you for the advice! Selfish aside, but is there any chance I could ask you to upvote the question? It's not going to appear in the Ask section until it has more votes, and I'm afraid it's going to sink off newest soon.
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by rericks 8y ago
Thanks for the reply. It's more F&G than N&A, culturally I think. Idling is probably a misnomer—I have some minor bug fixes, code reviews, and design docs to work on. But I feel like I've been basically writing no code for
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Ask HN: First month at a FANG job–feeling useless?
8 points by rericks 8y ago|9 comments
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by rericks 8y ago
True, but the problem is this: > Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer's business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer... If the compan
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by rericks 8y ago
The hiring manager made it clear that exceptions are very rarely made in this regard. This is a sizeable company with little flexibility about these things (from what I can tell). > If the company pushes back you really don't want
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by rericks 8y ago
I already spoke to a lot of them during my interviews, everything seemed to be good.
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Ask HN: Unicorn job offer after years of freelancing, need advice
10 points by rericks 8y ago|12 comments