sadamznintern

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by sadamznintern 8y ago
What do you mean?
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
What tech interns do at trading companies, especially JS, always amazes me. Not because of the complexity of the problem domain but rather the rigor of the solution. Something like Tristan Hume's famous blog post [0] on Tree Diffing wo
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Airbnb is ~$40 an hour but they have unlimited overtime. From what I've heard Apple starts at $38 an hour. FB isn't hourly, it's $8k a month. Amazon is $7.725k a month or $7.2k if you take corporate housing. It's more in
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Sadly I think I"m far from plateued on the happiness vs. money graph right now even while I work on consumer products used my millions around the world. I really don't make enough to live the elite lifestyle these people do at $14
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
5 Rings and Two Sigma.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
It’s honestly really funny how a lot of people, even the folks on HN, have no idea how the elites live and how much better their lives are than the rest of us. People that work at JS (and 5R and 2S and to a lesser extent FB and Google) have
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Ask HN: How did you improve your quantitative ability?
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
This is an excellent set of metrics. This is what I used as well.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
For that you have to get an offer from the large company first :(
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Is anybody shocked?
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Lol, it’s not that adults can’t handle it it’s a way of saying adults don’t want to handle the bullshit of juvenile provocateurs
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Probably both. I"m just angry that I had to work hard for [relatively] little when I could have just done nothing for 4 years and been in the same spot or better.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
> Seems like you overtuned things and hit a lot of diminishing returns, where you worked hard but didn't see much for it, but now you assume people who work less hard have seen even less I know for a fact people who have worked less
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
The idea that college is a place to find yourself is mostly a statement of immense privilege. I grew up upper middle class (professional parents with masters) and I didn’t spend a moment in college finding myself, I spent most of it working
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
They don't, otherwise they wouldn't have to spam LinkedIn.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Usually blogs are for public consumption. OP ends it with a recommendation for everyone. It’s still incredibly elitist.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Yeah, I agree. For such petty first world complaints especially - idk how long OPs tenure was but considering stock appreciation and how quickly they can get promoted she was probably pulling down $350k+ yearly and that’s being conservative
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Unless something changed OP is an FB engineer. >My friends, you don't have to put up with this. You are in high demand. It is possible to "go back in time". Go seek your fortune on the open market. It's worth it. ....
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Well no. But I do make 80% or less of what they make out of school.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
> There's nothing here about thinking they're better than you. I can guarantee that most people at Facebook, Google, etc. look down on people with my pedigree and employer.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
I'm of two minds on this. 1) There's no obligation for anybody to integrate with the community around them and forcing them to is absurd, especially with the bigger problems San Francisco faces 2) I fucking hate the people that ge
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
who the hell doesn't??
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
I don't drink or anything outside of prescribed SSRIs. Honestly though, I think luck is a big factor but I think its impossible to be this unlucky this many times. At some point it's gotta be something inherent. I've never he
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
I actually just started full time 2 weeks ago. I interned there last summer.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
I’m 22. I’m seeing everyone I respect get TC over $180k and on. I don’t come close while working harder and being judged more harshly. I can’t even leave. Everyone thinks I’m a joke because of my background and lack of pedigree. I’m never g
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
I mean, I'm still making less (around 80% of what they make or less) than them. And I will for the next 4-5 years if I can hack it at Amazon FT.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
>I try to arrange my work so that my uphill climbs are always for a reason. I think this is a healthier attitude than trying to gauge some very-probably-fictitious intrinsic "IQ" attribute to find my place in the world. That&#x
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
I've thought about this a bunch. I think the reasons are: * Mediocre IQ. * Lack of grit and persistence that I can't develop * Natural lack of charisma A combination of all of these make me very unhappy and very poor.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
>There's always someone better/smarter/faster/more successful than any given person The problem for me is this is literally everyone that matters >Concentrate on one or two areas, become really really good at them
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
I honestly don’t - I used to spend time playing online games with friends but I’ve mostly stopped recently. It turns out I’m bad at them too. I tried learning to play an instrument but gave up. I might pick it up again but I haven’t found t

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