storgendibal

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by storgendibal 11y ago
Yeah exactly. McKinsey burns through 100-200 associates a year in the US alone.
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by storgendibal 11y ago
+1. It's definitely not sustained. Several friends of mine at the MBB consulting firms tell me it's like a dysfunctional relationship: They'll give you a killer project, working 80-100 hours for three months. Then just when y
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by storgendibal 11y ago
Yes! Both FB and now G are organized this way. Warren Buffet is really something else.
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by storgendibal 11y ago
LOL!
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by storgendibal 11y ago
Business Adventures by John Brooks The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William Thorndike
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by storgendibal 11y ago
Yeah, I keep hearing the same from buddies out there. You can do an AB test :) Set up a Tinder profile, spoof your GPS to New York, swipe on everyone, compare your percentages to SF. NYC is dramatically higher. Worth considering whether one
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by storgendibal 11y ago
This. Tinder has tremendously magnified the advantage of the most attractive men. These same men, in a bar or club, would not spend the effort to pick up a lot of these women - they would spend their time and energy on the most attractive w
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by storgendibal 11y ago
I actually think that it's bad for all but the best looking men as well. In a bar, music festival, coffee shop, etc, men could use a combination of looks, grooming, and personality to attract a woman. On Tinder, it boils down completel
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by storgendibal 11y ago
This. There is another double-standard at play that is often ignored. Women are just as capable (and willing) as men at keeping options, having backups, and upgrading to something better. A number of my female friends are constantly complai
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by storgendibal 11y ago
I'll try to dig up their contact info
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by storgendibal 11y ago
Hi icelancer, I will see if I can dig up the contact info for that cleaner. It was over phone and I left Seattle three years ago. Will try!
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by storgendibal 11y ago
I was tempted. The atmosphere got very uncomfortable. I canceled all my recurring appointments after that cleaning. I had a cleaner through a personal referral in Seattle, who for $60, cleaned my place so well that I'd be happy just co
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by storgendibal 11y ago
Agree with all three of your points, especially #2. I still can't get over the fact that it took me 4 tries to be to sign up with HJ. Eventually I had to do it on my laptop because the web app on the phone was so buggy. And if the sign
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by storgendibal 11y ago
Higher prices, questionable convenience, and poorer service. The quality of the cleaning had deteriorated over time and the price was higher than independent cleaners I later found through personal referrals. I had 4 different Homejoy clean
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by storgendibal 11y ago
The Quants by Scott Patterson
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by storgendibal 11y ago
Lol @Navy's Army's Airforce. Did you coin that?
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by storgendibal 11y ago
Curious, are you talking salary $250K, or total comp, including (public) equity $250K?
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by storgendibal 11y ago
This!! There is another facet to your second point, I think. Even if the upside from the "sure thing" two years before they IPO is not great from a financial perspective, the career growth is much faster than joining a mature mega
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by storgendibal 11y ago
Well said. Those 12% can move abroad, with the manufacturing jobs, for example. But no, that would be out of the question.
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by storgendibal 11y ago
Wrong. The green card on EB2 takes 6-8 years for Indian and Chinese born immigrants. On EB3, it can take over 10 years. The green card process involves a per-country quota. Folks from countries other than India, China, and a couple of other
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by storgendibal 11y ago
That's good to know. I was deciding between PM at a big tech firm and consulting at a couple of MBBs. Went with the PM route, but sometimes consider going back to consulting, although I'd enter at the same, post-MBA associate leve
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by storgendibal 11y ago
What's very annoying about consulting, even at the MBBs is that the total compensation is not higher than in big tech when you include equity, at least for the first 3-4 years. Yet the lifestyle is significantly worse. After you hit As
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by storgendibal 11y ago
I've never understood how Spotify managed to strike deals with the record labels that allowed it to pursue a successful all-you-can-eat model. I know that Microsoft had tried similar models in the past but they never came close to offe
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by storgendibal 11y ago
MSR really is an incredible place to work, but also impossibly hard to get in. It's akin to getting a fully tenured professorship at a top-tier computer science program. Back when I was in graduate school, MSR dominated every other com
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by storgendibal 11y ago
Agree in general. However, with MBA programs skewing younger every year, you find people with 2-3 years work experience getting offers from management consulting firms and investment banks at the same salary levels as MBA grads with 5-6 yea
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by storgendibal 11y ago
Medicine is the same way in other countries - you go to med school as an undergraduate, with the same benefits that you mention for law school as an undergrad.
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by storgendibal 12y ago
Do you mean that it is hard to determine user intent, context, etc. in order to push highly relevant notifications to a user?
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by storgendibal 12y ago
I don't disagree. The point was directionally correct, mathematically inaccurate.
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by storgendibal 12y ago
Not sure who "he" is that you are referring to here. I've never worked in finance. I was just relating what people in finance have told me.
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by storgendibal 12y ago
No, you don't get it. The point is that is working insane hours worth the hourly wage you get in finance.

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