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by rifung 8y ago
> Is making your co-workers your friend group a new thing? Is it a side effect of working so many hours you don't have time to hang out with anyone else? Well, at Google we have things like Memegen where people post memes, and those
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by rifung 8y ago
> Workspace can become toxic Well this is why I tried to specify only keeping people who were performing poorly not because they were unpleasant to work with. Do people quit because they feel like their coworkers aren't smart or h
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by rifung 8y ago
> In one case of a company being way too nice, some dude I worked with took almost 2 years before being fired, when NO ONE wanted to work with him. Imagine how many things we could have done with the 150k+ a year he was paid during that
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by rifung 8y ago
> Especially if you’re not in the top 80%. I think you mean top 20%? Top 80% means you're not in the lowest 20%.
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by rifung 8y ago
> For comparison being in the top 2% of any Olympic sport would land you a spot in most Olympic teams. I think this is off by multiple factors of 10? 2% is really not THAT high.. In any sufficiently large city you can probably find 98 ot
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by rifung 8y ago
> the fact that few, if any Americans share that concern is certainly very disappointing. I had thought Americans better than that in my younger years, apparently not. I would not be surprised to know that this is correct, but the only t
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by rifung 8y ago
> One thing I find strange about this is why Google is so keen to get this government business in the first place. They’re amazingly profitable already, one of the most successful companies of all time; is defense work really something t
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by rifung 8y ago
Well perhaps they will come back in VR form? Also, I know it's not exactly the same but at least there are awesome driving games.
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by rifung 8y ago
Yep exactly
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by rifung 8y ago
> Join FAANG and you will get to work on projects that will impact millions of lives. Yes but that doesn't necessarily you will find your work will be meaningful. I work at Google and of the coworkers I've discussed this with,
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by rifung 8y ago
> Yes, Amazon has lower base salaries than FB/GOOG, but they've always been pretty generous with RSUs and their stock is damn high right now. Actually my salary was very similar at Amazon when compared with Google and my friend
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by rifung 8y ago
I work at Google, used to work at Amazon, and had an offer from Microsoft. From my experience, Google/FB pay much more than Amazon and Microsoft if we're talking about total compensation so I think it's a little more rare tha
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by rifung 8y ago
> I think answers here will be skewed, since people who work on trivial programming tasks often don't visit websites like this. This is a big assumption you're making, and given the answers, it would appear that assumption was
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by rifung 8y ago
> Yeah. That generally how you fool people you are a good person. You do stuff that appears to be good hearted. Companies do that too. Just like politicians. Companies aren't people though; they're made up of people. So, where
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by rifung 8y ago
Definitely was serious =] I also hope for peace but I do not believe there will be peace without our military. I suppose it's a difference of ideals but I do not see why it would be considered "evil"
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by rifung 8y ago
And why is that evil? Are people who join the military evil? Police?
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by rifung 8y ago
> There is nothing that will stop this. The military will find a defense contractor to do their bidding. But Google can voluntarily elect to remove themselves from this sector. Let some other company do it. Let someone else figure it out
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by rifung 8y ago
Although I agree with the point you're trying to make, I'm not sure this is the best example. If Microsoft/Nokia just sold (near) stock Android phones, I would have bought them in a heartbeat.
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by rifung 8y ago
Frankly I'm surprised it took this long to happen. It's a bit sad that people had to die when we could potentially have prevented it from happening.
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by rifung 8y ago
I agree but also think it's worth acknowledging the trade off you're making. If you never touch a piece of code, then at some point nobody remembers or is able to understand what it's doing. I think this is worse than changin
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by rifung 8y ago
> I can do everything you can do. Sorry but how would you even know? I understand your frustrations well since I don't have a BS. Still, as much as you seem to want to talk about how capable you are, you can't seem to understan
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by rifung 8y ago
Well, maybe I should have said it was an attempt at a proxy for general intelligence? For what it's worth, I agree with you. When people start studying for interview questions, then something is probably wrong..
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by rifung 8y ago
> This isn't how we use whiteboards every day so why should a candidate be expected to use them this way during an interview. I work at Google, opinions are my own. I think your assumption that Google interviews based on what you wi
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by rifung 8y ago
> All of this despite having years of proven open source contributions. I wonder how experience in open source maps to professional experience. My impression is that employers seem to value professional experience much more. I've ha
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by rifung 8y ago
> A metal body is heavy, prone to dents and attenuates radio. Why are you so keen on having one? I like how it feels and looks. Is that so wrong? I have used an X1 Carbon for the last year but when I can I will probably go back to the MB
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by rifung 8y ago
I use a Thinkpad with Linux for work and I agree that the keyboard is better than a MBP's. However, even though I use the keyboard more than the trackpad, I find that I still rather use a MBP because the difference between the trackpad
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by rifung 8y ago
This question itself shows a little bit of privilege. What keeps me going is having to pay the bills. And even after you pay bills you have to worry about retirement, and if you have enough for that you can worry about your family and frien
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by rifung 8y ago
> That would improve the quality of life of your workers currently required to be near SF by allowing them to relocate to lower cost of living areas I don't think you can assume that people would consider this to be an improvement i
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by rifung 8y ago
To be honest, I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or serious. I'm guessing serious? I don't think it would be unusual for them to make a statement that while technically true is misleading.
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by rifung 8y ago
I work at Google. For a company of this size, the culture is extremely dependent on your specific team/org. I think I probably hear more about politics at Google from HN than from actually working at Google.

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