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by smm2000 11y ago
It's just not true that almost everyone who applies to Google has intellect required to perform well. Easily 50% of people who gets to onsite loop are not able to do Fizzbuzz. Phone screens are just sad. If you think that everyone who
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by smm2000 11y ago
I am saying that supply and demand are not working in SF/NY and a few other places. Or to be more exact supply is non-elastic - increase in demand does not increase supply. In cities with available land if there is a demand for housing
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by smm2000 11y ago
It's true in SF, NY and few other places in US where cost of housing is determined by ability to pay. In the rest of the country cost of housing is a cost of building a house/rental property with a reasonable margin on top - with
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by smm2000 11y ago
What do you mean by comprehensive health check? What tests should I do? I do yearly physicals, but I feel they are mostly "feel good" exercises.
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by smm2000 11y ago
Intern salaries at all big companies hover around 7K-8K/month or so., milk cost around $4/gallon and so on. You do not need collusion to come to the same price.
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by smm2000 11y ago
Nice trip but your daily driving distance is insane. 428 miles/day is ~7 hours driving per day. It's pretty much driving the whole day. I recently did 2500 miles/20 days trip and felt that I was driving too much.
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by smm2000 12y ago
I have never heard about companies charging both sides of payroll tax on bonuses - is it even legal? Anyway, Google does not do it and California does not have any extra tax for bonuses so it does not matter in this case. With that, I agree
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by smm2000 12y ago
TIL that even students from top CS program have no idea about taxes if they think that housing stipend is taxed higher than ordinary income. He is not alone though - compensation director at Box tried to convince me that higher salary is si
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by smm2000 12y ago
I am in top 1% US population by income, graduated from elite university with almost 4.0 GPA and I am often incapable of buying stuff in advance. I am sure I am not the only one. Last month I had to go to store at least twice in the morning
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by smm2000 12y ago
When deciding between two offers just monetize all perks that you expect to use including convenience factor. Parking not provided? Subtract (Daily parking rate + parking_time hourly_rate) 200 / (1-marginal_tax_rate) from salary. Provi
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by smm2000 12y ago
Many people who work long hours find their work enjoyable and would rather work extra 2 hours than do boring household chores that they hate. I am one of them - cleaning up house is like pulling out teeth for me.
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by smm2000 12y ago
CFA requires bachelor degree, four years of professional experience and series of exams with cumulative passing rate of 16% - so it's not just certification.
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by smm2000 12y ago
Boosting scores of kids from poor families will disproportionally help poor white kids. And the last thing universities want is more poor white kids.
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by smm2000 12y ago
That gandola won't be cheap to build. Better solution is to auction spots or set price high enough that only limited number of people can afford it.
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by smm2000 12y ago
Three internships at well-known companies(Wolfram and GE), CS degree from Stanford, knows Python - with that resume you can get 10 offers in two weeks if you schedule interviews right.
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by smm2000 12y ago
Magnitude of crime is different. If somebody breaks into my car in San Francisco and steals a bag, I totally expect police to laugh at me if I ask if they plan to investigate it. On the other hand if young female student is raped, her newbo
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by smm2000 12y ago
18% number is bullshit debunked many times. When you control for occupation, working hours, etc between male and female - the difference in pay is only 2-3%
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by smm2000 12y ago
If you base admission only on test scores, welcome to the world with 50% Asian, 50% White (with 40% of them Jewish), ~0% of black and ~0% latino student body at elite universities. I am not sure this is what you want when you talk about mor
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by smm2000 12y ago
For mid-career (Senior SDE) position it will look like Salary 165k-195k Bonus (15%) 26k Stock grant: 200k-400k over 4 years You will get refreshers so after 2-3 years you may have $100-200k stocks vesting every year.
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by smm2000 12y ago
Realistically 0.575 reimbursement rate overstates actual expenses. I have spreadsheet with all my car expenses for last 8 years inclsuding car depreciation and it works our to about 0.37/mile including gas.
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by smm2000 12y ago
That's exactly how Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and most other big companies view software engineers. Engineers go through standard interview process (3-5 technical interviews, 1 behaviour interview) and then companies assume th
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by smm2000 12y ago
Article speculates about it and does not provide any data. Anyway, it's difficult to argue that kids in black families with 200k+ income have less access to resources than kids in white families living below poverty line. Besides it do
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by smm2000 12y ago
Income does not really explain white-black gap in IQ. Blacks from families with >$200k/year income do about as well as whites from families with income <$20k/year. SAT test is not IQ test but it's probably highly corre
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by smm2000 12y ago
What he said is racist but it's still true - IQ in most countries in Africa is abysmally low. Problem is that saying it loud today in US produces the same effect on your career as saying that communism is not the true path to future w
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by smm2000 12y ago
To be fair in most big tech companies people take all of Christmas->NYE off without reporting it as PTO. Unless your manager is literally nazi, marking it as WFH and sending a couple emails a day qualify as doing work.
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by smm2000 12y ago
What's App founders were not looking for position as engineers - they were looking for position as senior managers. The fact that those two guys can write code is not that relevant. Jan managed 150 people at Yahoo - FB had in total tha
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by smm2000 12y ago
Uber emails you a map with your route on it and a final price after each trip. If you are unhappy with the route, you can complain and uber will refund whatever you overpaid compared to optimal trip. They can also easily implement algorith
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by smm2000 12y ago
I am waiting for Tuvalu to issue law saying that for $100 you have right to delete any information from Google worldwide.
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by smm2000 12y ago
I seriously doubt they would have been able to deliver site with complexity of Opentable in a couple of month even if working full time. Do they have track record of building sites like this in that short timeframe? In two month you could d
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by smm2000 12y ago
While theoretically it's true, it's not true in practice. I worked in two big tech corporations and in both all interviewers who did more than 15-20 interviews converged to 50%/50% hire/reject ratio. Candidates are not

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