retiredcoder

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by retiredcoder 7y ago
I think it is sad, it comes from your own employer (I understand you work for Google, correctly if I am wrong).
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
I have to ask this, do you see yourself as the norm at Google throughout your whole employment time there? In my experience as both interviewee and interviewer, there is a lot of power struggles involved. Just like any other interaction be
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Someone above him might have decided that’s part of the process. I am starting to think that most of those decisions are made by burocrats who have no accountability on the actual results, specially at Google where they can afford to lose g
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Me neither. Quite common deal breaker I seen is mismatch of expectations (e.g.: candidates applying for senior positions with experience to lead bigger projects, etc) but never seen gross incompetence like that (so that I am not even sure i
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
I interviewed with Google NYC for Senior Dev position once, prepared well and thought it went well. Received the green light and moved to the next phase, where I spoke with potential teams over the phone, then settled with Google Maps. Met
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
No problem. I sort of understand their view but the lack of medication or proper diagnose can also be linked to accidents, we just don’t have any data either way.
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
> That's one extra reason not to travel to countries that treat tourists/foreign people like crap. In my experience, unless you go thru an automated system when passing thru immigration, chances are you will be treated arbitrar
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Regarding about mental illness entry. I have ADHD and it is flagged in the system. How do I know? When I tried to exchange my driver license, it was flagged and the “local DMV” forwarded the application to the police department. I then had
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Hear ya. Same here, loved computers and to build stuff. For long time, I thought meritocracy was there for us, (maybe because we tend to be more rational?) And it sort of worked this way the first years but once I got up to political levels
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
You might come out as “mercenary” or “not passionate” guy for the companies but I think your pragmatism has helped the industry as whole to some extend.
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
True, I am big fan of them but there are some legitimate cases where a debugger is so practical. There is a lot of code out there that has very little logical sense per se other than elusive business requirements..
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Hehe, I’d sadly say no, chances are we don’t have the same employer but the general tech in Europe is still old IT / cost center. I am not in a stage of life for pursuing promotions to give more anedata on that, but I can see that a lo
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
My anedata for EU is that varies a lot between States. In Germany, I had salary negotiation closer to what I was used to in the US (e.g.: two competing offers, etc). In Denmark, very little room to maneuver. I had no luck negotiating salari
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
It is not just American companies but big companies treat different labor markets differently. For example, I used to work for a big company in Denmark that has a sattelite office in Bucharest. It is questionable to see that even the equipm
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Very true, I see that the higher one goes with the increasing requirement of greater influence radius turns into politics. However what I have noticed recently is that title inflation has arrived to big companies too; mostly to increase ret
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
I mean, it is not even wise politics. It is just hold on to their seats and let management know they know HR knows the attrition rate...
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
And as result of title inflation, a lot of titles are losing meaning even in big companies. I know people becoming principal eng at FAANG who are just playing their cards right.
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Specially at VP level...
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Sorry, I didn’t mean to deflect the convo towards your company’s hiring practices. What I was trying to say that lot have been said about hiring metrics and standards around here and elsewhere. Yet, at the end of the day still like arbitrar
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Sounds like one of jobs I had. They treated options/warrant as something really really special, like awards/gift. I couldn’t make them realize it was part of my compensation expectations and for that I wanted to know company valua
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
That’s another hot topic here in HN. Not claiming is the GP case but interviewing nowadays feels like human Tetris.
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
I think it is also how budget for hiring seems to be allocated. New funding round, hire a bunch, got budget approved, hire a bunch. Senior management and above seems to not like to give money with time conditions against their expectations.
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
I agree with your calculations but some managers seem to not have done this math yet. As result, what we have are poor hiring evaluations, horrible onboarding, etc.
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Crazy, huh? Capital cost are all time low. IIRC, last time I looked at margin out of curiosity with my brokerage firm (schwabs/2014), I also remember to be around 10%. I can’t help but think we are living in a unattainable economic env
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
I’d guess from the 4.5%, you are in the USA? Just asking to check we share the same context here, no need to answer.. My subjetive experience in the USA (Seattle and NYC) is that you can get 4-5% with a steady job and 20% down for primary r
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Like the sibling commenter said, there are different venues for providing rental supply, sometimes making a public or private investment. Again, I am not advocating either way as I am not in real state industry to have perspective on it.
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
That is something different than USA. There even my laundry guy was day trading with margin, believe me or not.
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Corporations (while I don’t think it is necessary better or worse) but there is a professional rental market too.
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
I was with the impression that most of the cooperatives in Denmark would not allow rentals to curb real state speculation. Well, at least in København there are so many rules that it is hard to navigate even as a tenant.
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by retiredcoder 7y ago
Classical agent-principal problem.

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