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by romanhn 5y ago
That's a very odd take. There are very few homes one wouldn't be able to afford (yes, with a mortgage) at 2M/year.
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by romanhn 5y ago
It's all fairly straightforward actually, as long as you're familiar with how compensation works at big companies (salary, stock, bonus, refreshers). Blind and levels.fyi have raised the transparency on comp quite a bit. $1M/
723.
by romanhn 5y ago
Is that still the case? I left earlier this year, but they had instituted a max on the number of reachouts a team/manager can make to minimize the "spray and pray" tactics and bootcamper overload.
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by romanhn 5y ago
The other option is that you strategically queue up those Google interviews well in advance of all others. I did that and they still managed to keep dragging their feet when I wrapped up the rest. Oh well.
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by romanhn 5y ago
Sure, I believe it happens in pockets, though it's very clearly spelled out company policy that this process is not a second interview. But people are people and supply/demand rules apply here as well. It also more often took took
726.
by romanhn 5y ago
My process with Google a couple of years back took something like 2 months before I bowed out. It included fun activities such as a hiring manager change, a re-interview of a slot, a down-level, and a resulting request to re-interview for t
727.
by romanhn 5y ago
Not a contract, in most cases, you're hired into the company rather than a specific team. To be clear it's not just two weeks to find a team, you spend the entire length of bootcamp (6-10 weeks) evaluating teams (you evaluating th
728.
by romanhn 5y ago
Thanks for this unexpected and highly enjoyable digression!
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by romanhn 5y ago
Have you spent a significant time in management roles? I worked longer hours and had more stress in management than as an IC (with about 10 years of experience in each). That seemed to be pretty common sentiment among my peers. The "ma
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by romanhn 5y ago
> if a team member isn't performing then you will have to make the call to shield them That is definitely an odd take. If there is something that will demotivate a team and cause the best performers to quit, it's an ongoing shi
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by romanhn 5y ago
The incentive is the calibrations where the org leaders get together to compare notes and align on scoring. A manager who's not aligned would not only see their reports' scores forcefully shifted, but their own performance as a ma
732.
by romanhn 5y ago
That wouldn't fly at FB. Doing busywork without producing impact doesn't count for anything. And CR comments are reviewed by managers - a bunch of LGTMs doesn't add up to much. It might unblock the team, but the goal is to up
733.
by romanhn 5y ago
This strikes me as true. I have never worked for a fast-growing company that was able to hit their hiring target, Facebook included.
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by romanhn 5y ago
It's funny, coming to Facebook from startups I thought I'd no longer deal with recruiting pipeline challenges. It surprised the hell out of me to see how much FB struggled with hiring senior engineers. The stupid hard interviews d
735.
by romanhn 5y ago
I have never heard of Facebook described as anything like "engineer retirement home". Google, yes, but not FB. When I was there, poor work life balance was everywhere - from individual contributors to managers, from engineers to
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by romanhn 5y ago
Meeting expectations is a pretty high bar to start with. The next lower rating (Meets Most Expectations) is a cause of stress because two of those in a row frequently results in a PIP at Facebook.
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by romanhn 5y ago
NCC Group is a legit outfit, a public company in fact, so this comment is not warranted.
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by romanhn 5y ago
I have also wondered if the two are related. I have aphantasia, and also the majority of inner monologue I experience is when sounding out words during reading. It's pretty much quiet all the time in my head (which I guess is not every
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by romanhn 5y ago
Funny enough, this blog post is more monolithic than the original documentation.
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by romanhn 5y ago
This appears to be more or less a straight up copy-paste from AWS documentation ( https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/operatorguide/anti... ). I'm glad to see the HN discussion because I was literall
741.
by romanhn 5y ago
Here's one for PagerDuty (second YC company to IPO) from 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=758653
742.
by romanhn 5y ago
Pretty sure this is a parody on CU-SeeMe, not an actual product.
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by romanhn 5y ago
The Y2K compliance statement was a great touch.
744.
by romanhn 5y ago
You're absolutely right, though is this case even the taste-free text is offending enough people. Being a leader means you'll offend someone, so it becomes an exercise in whom you're ok with offending.
745.
by romanhn 5y ago
Or, you know, these are different people with different values and different sets of experience.
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by romanhn 5y ago
The word solitary was used more than once, so I don't think it's a strawman. My point is the quality of the final output is going to be suspect if you take the "leave me alone and let me code" approach.
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by romanhn 5y ago
It sounds like you're burnt out on bad company/team culture then? I can assure you that there are still plenty of teams that operate similar to your early career experience. These tend to be in smaller companies. But even larger o
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by romanhn 5y ago
As an introvert who had to push himself to become one of those "people-oriented idiots", the reality you have to recognize is that software is ultimately about people. It is not written in a vacuum to make computers happy, there&#
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by romanhn 5y ago
The lack of communication for an outage this big is absolutely shameful. I put this on the leadership, not any of the engineers working round the clock. Having been in the middle of a critical service outage that lasted over 24 hours I tota
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by romanhn 5y ago
It is an interesting question, and one I think about once in a while. My recall of specific facts from books I've read is pretty terrible (not sure if this true for others, or if it is related to my aphantasia in any way). That's

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