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by romanhn 5y ago
Watched the whole thing, got really excited (as I always pre-rinse) and then discovered that my dishwasher doesn't have a pre-wash basin. More research is needed, I suppose, to convince me to move away from rinsing (which I would love,
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by romanhn 5y ago
Resting Bitch Face: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resting_bitch_face
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by romanhn 5y ago
Have you worked at a FAANG? I'm sure it depends on company/team, but it was pretty common for externally hired senior engineers to struggle (and sometimes flame out) due to consistently high and enforced expectations, different mo
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by romanhn 5y ago
When so many companies focus on hiring senior engineers, we shouldn't be surprised that junior engineers are optimizing for the title. I did the same, negotiating a senior title with like three years of experience. It's silly, thi
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by romanhn 5y ago
Not sure which FAANG this is, but when I was at FB, uplevels on transfers were not a thing, regardless of manager promises. Downlevels were, if you were switching functions.
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by romanhn 5y ago
The title rollercoaster was a great opportunity to disassociate my worth from my title. My last three jobs went something like this: started as Senior Engineer -> left as a Director; started as Manager -> left as Senior Manager; start
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by romanhn 5y ago
The other comments are all correct, but they didn't address your last point. Yes, you will indeed pay taxes on the $1M value, and yeah, high property taxes is definitely something to plan for when buying property in California. The kic
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by romanhn 5y ago
Facebook is absolutely well-known for its terrible work-life balance, borne out of high expectations and a high percentage of overachievers.
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by romanhn 5y ago
As a fellow (ex)FBer who absolutely abhorred PSC, I applaud you, sir. As a former manager at said company, I would absolutely hate you for making my PSC hell-period even more hellish, as I would still be on the hook for delivering your pack
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by romanhn 5y ago
Except MK Ultra turned out to be a thing
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by romanhn 5y ago
Is this true though? In my cohort of early-ish employees that went through a modest IPO, there was definitely some discussion of QSBS in an ex-employee group. That's where I even found out about it, in fact. Buying options (years after
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by romanhn 5y ago
To be clear, this is just for the state tax exclusion. The 20% capital gains exclusion on federal taxes is applicable in all states.
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by romanhn 5y ago
TL;DR: Assuming you have the bandwidth, please double-click on these concepts, leverage the learnings therein, and then take it offline to iteratively ideate further.
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by romanhn 5y ago
Not that odd, since it's a common acronym for a variety of contexts. Point of Contact, Person of Color, etc.
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by romanhn 5y ago
Yes, Chuck Feeney: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-54300268
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by romanhn 5y ago
Depends on your definition of valuable, I suppose. Directors and equivalent ICs (L8 / Principal level) or above can and do get over $1M in annual compensation even before appreciation. At F/G anyways.
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by romanhn 5y ago
Those shows most definitely assume prior knowledge of the universe. That said, having avoided "superhero movies" for years (due to not being impressed with random one-offs that I watched), I finally bit the bullet and watched the
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by romanhn 5y ago
I don't mean to pile on, please take this as advice from someone who has been in engineering management for quite some years... You seem to have some preconceived notions about managing people (and engineers specifically) that will, fr
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by romanhn 5y ago
Check out Larry Harris' Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners. Might be somewhat dated by now, but I bet still very relevant.
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Homophone of "read"
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by romanhn 5y ago
That was not the main argument of the parent comment, this was: > There's a class ceiling where only a certain type of person gains entry It is true that working hard alone is not going to get you into a VP role, but working hard on
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by romanhn 5y ago
This has nothing to do with class, similar to how declining a junior engineer for an architect role is not classist. A VP Engineering role is a senior management position, and being a fantastic programmer is not a reasonable transition poin
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by romanhn 5y ago
A friend of mine, a non-technical manager at Google, similarly struggled to fire an obvious underperformer for over a year, so I totally believe it.
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by romanhn 5y ago
Blind is a pretty toxic place, but the data is legit. It was invaluable for both interview prep and salary negotiation. There is no magic to getting into these places - it's all about time put in to practice the, by now well-understood
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by romanhn 5y ago
I've never thought of 10x engineers as someone who can crank out 10x amount of code. Influencing others to accomplish larger goals is the best way to scale yourself reliably. And then there are the rare unicorns who can do both, e.g. J
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by romanhn 5y ago
That's a great one. An observation that I've made over the years is that junior engineers tend to shy away from asking too many questions, afraid of appearing incompetent, whereas the most senior engineers asked the most questions
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I would approach this by bringing up (one on one) concrete examples of where this person displayed a lack of tact (without calling it as such). If the other party reacted strongly, analyze that and get this person to understand cause-and-ef
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by romanhn 5y ago
Don't worry, a lot of that is experience, though at a certain point you have to get intentional about your growth, as not everything comes naturally to most people. And senior engineers are regular engineers too. Well, most of them :)
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by romanhn 5y ago
A fantastic list. I find #11 to be especially critical to one's career growth: > How to give up your baby, that project that you built into something great, so you can do something else This is the only way to really scale oneself,
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by romanhn 5y ago
The app stores are the gardens, and Facebook is ultimately at the whim of the gardener. Also, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_platform

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