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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Fuck
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Compare this to Amazon, which has constant turnover, without free food, arcades, ice cream, movies or celebrities with the added benefit of lower-than-average pay. Most of us sadly don't have the privilege of "leaving" anytim
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
>I know a few earlyish employees at Facebook, and they are easily the happiest people I've met at any company. Does anybody have any suggestions about how to become like this?
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Also, for the record, AWS is hardly top of the industry in terms of talent. It's not Google or Facebook. I've never heard of an ML researcher joining Amazon when they could have joined Google/FB/Apple.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
I see.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Obviously what happened to her is disgusting and terrible. It has no place in this industry or society. But its remarkable to see this posted to HN. Google’s culture is all sorts of peculiar to me - people quit Amazon all the time, and Im s
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
I have, but I haven’t gotten much better. The average Stanford freshman can (and does!) easily outperform me.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
People have tried to talk sense into me in the past but I’ve been somewhat distrustful. The black box analogy is a good way to reframe my thinking. Thanks!
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Ask HN: How did you get better at coding interviews?
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
I wish I could do that.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
> I have a target of ~170 total comp as an SDE II with just under 4 years of experience out of college. This is honestly lower than I expected. I have friends who are new grads at Facebook that make more than that with 0 years of experie
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
I have no doubt I'll get another interview at Google at minimum, the question is if I'll be able to pass it. The answer is a resounding "no" if I couldn't pass it now.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
New grads at Amazon, FB, Google etc have about the same responsibilities. The only thing that affects pay significantly is other offers for matching, education (sometimes Masters/PhD get more) and location (+10% in more expensive areas
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
>Surely you can be hired on technical merit. My dozens of failed interview loops after 4 years of interview preparation have proven that I do not, in fact, have technical merit. If I can't pass a new grad loop at Google I doubt I ca
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
I’m 22. It’s less about the money and more about the fact that it’s lower tier.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Im of the opinion thats the only optimization function worth using. I dont know of any others in the state Im in - I just graduated from a mediocre state school and cant pass interview loops, but everyone that has attempted to convince me o
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
I couldnt get into any of the companies you mentioned and picked Amazon as a last resort. What should I do now? Ive contemplated suicide but i dont know if thats a wise choice.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
Its because Amazon is very easy to get into today. It has no prestige.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
This is incorrect because i cant pass a Google or FB loop and im convinced its eventually going to lead to my suicide.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
This is not what ive heard. Hours are worse at FB (esp. the cool infra) because of nebulous “impact” metrics than Google despite the nice perks. Google is far better in this regard.
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by sadamznintern 8y ago
I interned at Amazon last year in the Alexa org (non-frontline team in ML). My team was rarely in the office before 10:30 or after 6, even during crunch time (we launched our feature during my internship) but i did see code review responses