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Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow Steps Down(pymnts.com)
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by romanhn 5y ago
Interesting. My signal from a generic function is that this person tends to overarchitect, if my request was about squaring numbers specifically.
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As an (ex)EM, I don't think the likelihood of a first-level manager getting fired is all that different. What is different is the timeline - it takes longer to see whether the manager is underperforming (vs helping the team get out of
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by romanhn 5y ago
Yes, it was a backup account that I moved some of my earliest emails from ~20 years ago into. Stupidly I did not set up 2FA or link it to my primary account - I never used it for anything other than passive data storage, so the security con
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by romanhn 5y ago
> At Facebook I could get by barely working a few hours a day. A note of caution that this is not the common Facebook experience. I joined being fully aware of their reputation for poor work life balance, but even then it was soul-crushi
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by romanhn 5y ago
Thank you for the extra detail. I will add that PSC exerts plenty of pressure at terminal levels as well, since two halves of Meets Most rating are likely to end your career there. Lots of weasel words from leadership about how it's no
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Yes, very stressful for both individual contributors and managers. IMO many of FB dysfunctions are attributable directly to PSC and its focus on impact. When promotions and even continued employment are on the line, short-term thinking take
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by romanhn 5y ago
Not a compilation, but here are a couple of interesting postmortems I recall from my time at PagerDuty: https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/the-discovery-of-apache-zooke... https://status.pagerduty.com/incid
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The funniest part is how quickly this got upvoted to the top. HN sure loves meta! (Not to be confused with Meta ;)
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> Never submit GitLab content to Hacker News. Submission gets more credibility if a non-GitLab Hacker News community member posts it, we should focus on making our posts interesting instead of on submitting it. I appreciate this policy,
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I suggest starting with The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier. It's a great, practical book that covers expectations at each level along the engineering management career ladder.
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Unless you're planning to spend the rest of your life at one company, your theory is not true. The next company is likely to follow a similar process, even if they're not Google caliber.
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Leetcoding is certainly a big one. Having to jump through performative interview hoops is a tough pill to swallow for experienced folks. Took me many years to put my feelings aside and recognize it as the current normal. Otherwise, plenty o
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Ten-question trivia rounds separated by ten-minute breaks. I think that the chat combined with the breaks was the secret sauce - short enough to convince yourself to stick around, long enough to have meaningful conversations with fellow pla
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Nothing that would stand out these days, but back in '97 the web felt a lot more individualistic/solitary and this game had the social aspect at the forefront. There were obviously other chat apps (IRC/ICQ), but this one did
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by romanhn 5y ago
Back in mid-to-late 90s I was addicted to an online trivia game called Cosmo's Conundrum. It was a Java applet that had a large core of players, chat capabilities and cash prizes. The game went through some iterations and the parent co
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by romanhn 5y ago
1. Yes. You're also getting an equity lottery ticket, so make sure you understand how stock options work and what information you need to make sense of the offer. https://github.com/jlevy/og-equity-compensation 2.
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I suspect that yes, interviews are getting harder on average. I also think that even if they weren't, it would still feel that way for us experienced folks (also ~20 years of experience here). For one, as you get more senior, interview
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I agree with your overall message, however there's a subtle implication that some malevolent entity is putting up this awful process. In many companies, it is the engineers themselves that are creating these roadblocks. Most of them wi
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As an ex-employee, Facebook is many things, but ossified it is not. The internal impact/metric-oriented culture means that new bets are encouraged and rewarded, whereas product teams that are keeping it safe will eventually get disband
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The coding aspect depends on the role and the company. Most of my interviews were for a senior manager role and did not have coding, focusing on system design and behavioral, with the exception of one unicorn that rejected me after a coding
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I went through Facebook and Google interviews (as well as others) back in early 2019 and eventually accepted an offer from FB for an M1 role (was previously a senior manager at a smaller company). At FB I had a coding slot, a couple of syst
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann is one of the best technical books I've come across. The author achieves just the right amount of breadth and depth while keeping the narrative interesting and not academically
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Go check out www.levels.fyi, it has a pretty accurate representation of tech company compensation. Keep in mind that salary is just one component of compensation, and at senior+ levels, not even the most significant one.
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As a 100% atheist, I disagree strongly with every single one of your statements. To elaborate, > Most anthiests seem to be nihilists Not true > they're already (claiming to be) doing that No, they're not > the logical con
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You can see some of the fitness ratings for VR games here: https://vrhealth.institute/vr-ratings . From personal experience, the boxing game Thrill of the Fight was a brutal workout - after ten minutes, I was sweating and pa
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by romanhn 5y ago
I'm part of this last Soviet generation. All in all, I would consider my childhood a happy one. I am of course much happier with my US-born children's quality of life and opportunities, but there was no point of comparison back th
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> They have experience in the tech stack of their position. You're going to severely and needlessly limit your candidate pool with this. Hire people that are looking to learn and grow, and they will pick up whatever stack you'r
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No need to be rude. From what I recall, the Oops system originally allowed any employee to request action on behalf of anyone, but they changed the policy not too long ago that you can only request help for people you know personally and ar
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It had not occurred to me to describe application architectures as Jenga towers, but I'm going to start doing so!

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