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by stadium 5y ago
It's about the same situation as a full time parent re-entering the workplace. Some companies have internship-like return-to-work programs. It's not clear if this is your situation, but maybe there's a story behind your gap
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by stadium 5y ago
> But I'd start by saying OP is fucked This is a bit unconstructive.
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by stadium 5y ago
Even if that's true (it is), I have almost never had a meaningful conversation with a coworker about where we got our degrees from. Maybe that's because the conversation usually stops after I share my no-name institution. And in
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by stadium 5y ago
> There's a set of something like ten schools from which Silicon Valley companies hire. I responded to GP's comment about hiring. Ivy-like pedigree surely helps for any career path, but that's no different for SV or anywh
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by stadium 5y ago
I might be an outlier but I went to a tiny middle America liberal arts university that you probably never heard of, and work for a SV startup. And I haven't heard the topic of where people went to school come up a single time.
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by stadium 5y ago
I clicked the link and was immediately prompted to grant location sharing permissions on my android phone.
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by stadium 5y ago
Same here. I had pneumonia twice, once in October 2019 which was probably not covid, then again in February 2020 which I am almost certain was covid. Someone of my age and general health should not get pneumonia twice so close together wi
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by stadium 5y ago
> is just a tactic to try to creates wedges of doubt to try to keep a zombie political idea going. One side is getting very desperate because of how incredibly wrong they've consistently been. Agree completely that it's used as
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by stadium 5y ago
It depends, if 3rd party marketplace and direct sales were split up into separate independent companies, the "sold by Amazon" items could easily flow through as 3rd party marketplace sales. And they would also be free to sell &qu
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by stadium 5y ago
What's to stop Amazon from splitting it's retail business into separate legal entities entities by category to stay under the arbitrary limits? Or increasing 3rd party GMS, decreasing Amazon direct sales, and decreasing the 3rd
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by stadium 5y ago
I can relate somewhat and found that when the foundation of the relationship is "helping," then after that need is gone, most of the time so is the relationship. I was hoping for some sort of deeper or more meaningful friendships,
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by stadium 5y ago
I've done it both ways. Early in my career, I followed some coworkers to a new company. I was a couple months behind the others. The perception at the old company was that everyone was poached by one of these coworkers. They got a cea
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by stadium 5y ago
I never heard of the 1-in-5 thing. The runway concept was something my dad used to talk about.
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by stadium 5y ago
> That's why the US for the most part uses trucks not trains Nope. The interstate highway system followed the railroad system. It also followed world war 2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_
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by stadium 5y ago
It also depends on your motivation. The intrinsic value of writing your post maybe is worth your efforts.
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by stadium 5y ago
> One of the big crushers of self-esteem is seeing your own post get 5 likes while a friend's gets 50. That's also a symptom of a problem outside of Facebook's control. From my personal experience, comparing myself to othe
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by stadium 5y ago
I suspect that corporate real estate will go the way of legacy costs like pensions. I'm excited for companies who can use this to their advantage, and can deliver with higher productivity and better margins than the entrenched players.
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by stadium 5y ago
Never tell your manager about plans to transfer, or even apply, until you've got a verbal offer in hand. Ask the manager for a "soft loop" which is basically an interview done off the books with no paper trail. Once you app
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by stadium 5y ago
I am not an expert, but in the US I believe that children may have citizenship by birth, but the parents may still be on a visa for some time. But most parents aren't going to leave their kids behind. The situation is improved when a
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by stadium 5y ago
Amazon has many tech workers on visas, and it can be extremely anxiety inducing around performance review time. Once a manager puts a target on your back, it's a major uphill climb to remove that target. And for someone on a visa you
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by stadium 5y ago
It's absolutely happening in software roles.
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by stadium 5y ago
OP also conflated regions and countries. I read it as they were comparing US, EU, and India as a whole. Also curious where their perspective came from. My point is that the presence or absence of cultural variation in one place does not eq
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by stadium 5y ago
Edit: weed testing at Amazon
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by stadium 5y ago
Weed testing, or any drug testing for that matter, was never done for corporate employees like software engineers, accountants, and the like.
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by stadium 5y ago
Where are you from, and where have you lived, visited, and worked to come to this conclusion? It's not at all what I've experienced as a US born after living on both coasts, a few different states, and a range of small rural and l
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by stadium 5y ago
My mental model on commute time is that every 1 hour is a year of my life wasted over a 24 year career. More than that if I work for more than 24 years.
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by stadium 5y ago
Khashoggi was casually murdered by the Saudis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khash...
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by stadium 5y ago
A good practice is that once a change passes code review and ships, the team owns it. Human error doesn't mean blame the human, it's better to look at the overall processes and system to figure out how to prevent human error the n
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by stadium 5y ago
Survailance and drone swarm assassins are two areas to be concerned about.
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by stadium 5y ago
I got very deep into a niche business domain area for over a decade, but got bored with it and more recently branched out to a completely new and broad domain area that uses the same cloud provider and similar tech as the old one. I figure

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