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by skylark 10y ago
Because Google has a magic fountain that shoots out a cubic foot of liquid gold per second (ads), it can work on things which only tangentially benefit the business. Most Google products are operating at a loss.
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by skylark 10y ago
Facebook and Google pay 200+ total yearly compensation to most engineers with over 2 years of experience.
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by skylark 10y ago
For what it's worth, I thought their SWE interview was very fair. It was far more practical than my interviews at Google, Facebook, and Amazon. I ended up accepting an offer from another company, but I'd say the entire experience
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by skylark 10y ago
Interesting, I was considering negotiating with my employer for part time where I'd take every Friday off - have you found 6 hour days to be better? I feel like if I took a 20% pay cut I'd want to avoid commuting for that extra da
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by skylark 10y ago
While we're considering things that won't happen - how about working less? I love my job in software, but I think I'd have a better QoL with a 32 hour work week. I feel like my productivity wouldn't go down by 20% (but i
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by skylark 10y ago
Significant whitespace is great for technical interviews - you don't need to worry about matching brackets and whatnot. No brackets also means you have some more vertical space to work with on the whiteboard. Beyond that, if your inter
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by skylark 10y ago
Curious: Why would you trust a cloud service operating outside the US more than one operating within? If you use Google, your data is basically guaranteed to be secure - the biggest vulnerability is search warrants from the US government. I
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by skylark 10y ago
How will it be a major detriment? You can't just say something like that and expect people to understand what you mean.
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by skylark 10y ago
Curious why you think it was a waste of time. You can still make perfectly functional products using Angular 1, and most jobs (at least in the bay area) won't look down on you if you're not fluent in their framework of choice - th
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by skylark 10y ago
I feel like the tighter your developers are with each other, the higher the impact of turnover. I personally know from experience that when my high performing friends move onto bigger and better things, they constantly encourage me to go wi
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by skylark 10y ago
The top answers are giving good advice, but I don't think they answer the real question: "How do you write a resume when you have no professional work experience or CS degree?" DO Talk about your projects - they should have a
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by skylark 10y ago
Two different animals. Apple Pay lets consumers purchase goods from a merchant. Google's offering in that space is Android Pay. Google Wallet is more similar to Venmo in that it's only for peer to peer transactions.
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by skylark 10y ago
Fair point. Thanks for your input.
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by skylark 10y ago
Great point. While articles would have you believe that programmer skill is bimodally distributed (good vs. bad), it actually follows a normal curve like most other things. We all make some good decisions and some bad decisions everyday. I&
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by skylark 10y ago
Why should you be satisfied with using tools? If the feature is compelling enough, it should be included in the standard library.
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by skylark 10y ago
If your goal is to do something fun and easy, then jQuery or even vanilla JS is fine. If, however, your goal is to make a full fledged single page application, you'll find yourself running into a lot of solved problems. You'll def
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by skylark 10y ago
My experience doesn't line up with your preconceived notions of the Bay Area at all. I've worked at three different jobs in San Francisco, and all of them were standard 9-5 jobs. I've worked weekends under 5 times. Most of my
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by skylark 10y ago
For a new grad, your pedigree is the biggest factor in getting your foot through the front door. If you don't have an impressive resume, you might not even get past the first screen. Lacking that, you can try to get a warm open if you
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by skylark 10y ago
The long term goal might have been to get businesses onboard and charge them to accept money.
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by skylark 10y ago
I'd argue that the UX for up/downvoting is already correct. Vote up if you agree, down if you disagree. It's intuitive and how most people use those buttons. You can attack this problem from a different angle: Factor the numb
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by skylark 10y ago
No need to bite at the person you're responding to. That's a direct quote from the article.
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by skylark 10y ago
Unless you have a consistent history of job hopping, I don't think leaving one job early is an issue. If another offer is compelling, you should take it.
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by skylark 10y ago
Salary + bonus + equity
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by skylark 10y ago
165k is the standard offer for a fresh graduate at Google.
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by skylark 10y ago
My mom grew up in a time before computers and never really acclimated to technology. The things that frustrate her the least are her Amazon Echo and Chromebook. The echo is used as a glorified speaker: I set it up with their Prime account a
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by skylark 10y ago
I'm making a little over 200k right now. It doesn't feel much different from making 115k. At 115k I had enough money to buy whatever I wanted and save 2-3k/month. Now the numbers in my Vanguard account rise a bit faster than
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by skylark 10y ago
I've gotten this too. Google iCloud calendar spam. I'm guessing your Gmail calendar is linked to your Apple calendar and it's being updated that way.
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by skylark 10y ago
I'm guessing most of their money comes from businesses who purchase licenses for their developers. I've personally been responsible for four license purchases (my own + 3 companies bought a license for my work computer).
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by skylark 10y ago
It depends on what you mean by "access to your analytics data." Anonymized, aggregated data is being used to inform product decisions, but engineers don't have direct access to the production database to query whatever they w
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by skylark 10y ago
Where are you having troubles with the interview process? Getting past the initial resume screen? Passing the technical phone screen? Passing the onsite? Where are you located? Where do you want to work?

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