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Ask HN: Allowance for kids?
35 points by romanhn 9y ago|48 comments
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by romanhn 9y ago
Yup, this is a great recommendation. There is a chapter on managing managers.
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by romanhn 9y ago
Are you actually interested in more responsibilities? Not everyone is. Have you proactively asked for it or have gone above and beyond to contribute outside of your normal day-to-day activities? Or do you tend to wait for opportunities to c
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3x in 3 Years: Scaling an Engineering Organization(pagerduty.com)
2 points by romanhn 9y ago|0 comments
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by romanhn 9y ago
Author here. Not a lot of material out there on how engineering organizations evolve as they scale, hope you find this interesting.
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3x in 3 Years: Scaling an Engineering Organization(pagerduty.com)
2 points by romanhn 9y ago|1 comments
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by romanhn 9y ago
OP - do yourself a favor and read this short book (or just the first few chapters applicable to you). It's the best, most practical book on software engineering management that I've seen, and I'm only half-way through it.
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Otto Warmbier: US student sent home from North Korea dies(bbc.com)
1 points by romanhn 9y ago|0 comments
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by romanhn 9y ago
Nah, the standard software engineering interviews don't represent the day-to-day reality of a software engineer. That's why they're so frustrating and impractical. So maybe you can build some deep learning bot that can pass a
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by romanhn 9y ago
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13668870
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by romanhn 9y ago
From the man himself - http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009/01/communicating-with-...
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by romanhn 9y ago
The sad reality is that technical interviews in the majority of cases do not represent the day-to-day aspects of the job you're interviewing for. The heavy emphasis on algo questions were popularized by Google as a way to filter throug
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Calling Someone’s Baby Ugly (2012)(simpleprogrammer.com)
1 points by romanhn 9y ago|0 comments
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by romanhn 9y ago
Are you providing friends-and-family support? If they are stubborn about moving on, you should be stubborn about continuing to support them. I think you can make a very reasonable argument there. None of the answers here actually address yo
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Food Testing in 1902 Featured a ‘Poison Squad’ Eating Plates of Acid(atlasobscura.com)
5 points by romanhn 9y ago|0 comments
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Better Code Reviews Through Empathy(pagerduty.com)
3 points by romanhn 10y ago|0 comments
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PagerDuty raises $43.8M to help businesses streamline digital operations(venturebeat.com)
5 points by romanhn 10y ago|0 comments
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by romanhn 10y ago
Even though my experience is from a few years back, I absolutely cannot recommend Drupal for complex, custom applications. See my write-up here: https://github.com/rshekhtm/VentureTap/blob/master/README.m
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by romanhn 10y ago
Am a hiring manager. As long as the tattoo is not intentionally offensive (think swastikas, 14/88), I wouldn't think twice about it.
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Introducing the OnCallClub: the sleep-deprived’s best friend(pagerduty.com)
2 points by romanhn 10y ago|0 comments
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by romanhn 10y ago
I similarly have mentioned having a family in the past during interviews. If interviewers dislike the work/life balance considerations that come with kids, I'd much rather find out about it in that interview than on the job.
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by romanhn 10y ago
Specifically on the OKRs - the objectives themselves should be inspirational. What is the end state that you're trying to achieve? The underlying key results is what will be measured, so that's where I'd drop any project-orie
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by romanhn 10y ago
This seems similar to "The Old Reddit Switch-a-roo" ( http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-old-reddit-switch-a-roo?fu... )
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Identity management software provider Okta files for today’s second $100M IPO(techcrunch.com)
2 points by romanhn 10y ago|0 comments
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by romanhn 10y ago
Haven't read it yet, but just yesterday someone recommended this book to me: The Ten-Day MBA by Steven A. Silbiger. Supposed to provide a very practical coverage of business realities, despite the silly title.
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by romanhn 10y ago
The Last Question by Isaac Asimov is a classic one - http://multivax.com/last_question.html
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by romanhn 10y ago
It is both sad and unsurprising that we bash algo-centric interviews in every other thread (rightly so) and yet so many of the answers here are focused on abstract algorithmic questions. We really do this to ourselves.
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by romanhn 10y ago
Sure, but there are instances when that's not the case, e.g. early exercise implemented by company after the fact, or holding off buying until you're reasonably sure that the shares won't tank next month.
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by romanhn 10y ago
The caveat is that you lose whatever taxes you paid on exercising unvested shares. Gotta be really careful with that, as the taxes could cost way more than the exercise itself.
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Ask HN: Non-technical readers of HN, why are you here?
307 points by romanhn 10y ago|185 comments

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