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by vbtemp 5y ago
My other comment here was cheeky, but I think what happens is the following: Applicant A has the precise set of skills Business B needs desperately at that moment. Business B is willing to pay whatever needed to get Applicant A ASAP (becaus
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by vbtemp 5y ago
Over the past 4 years, my salary more than doubled. And my role is two rungs lower on the "career ladder". Every time I switch companies for a reduction in job title, I get a 50% raise. At the current rate, I'm looking forwar
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by vbtemp 5y ago
I see what you mean. If I could refine what I said, I'd put it that for those flagship mega corps, you generally know that it will _at least_ be competitive, and it's just a matter of how far beyond it.
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by vbtemp 5y ago
> I am always surprised to see comments that make it sound like jobs (or, employees) are fungible commodities that can be bought and sold purely on price. This!! - At every company and institution I've worked for, I've never re
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by vbtemp 5y ago
Am I alone here in feeling like that all sounds incredibly exhausting and like a pretty draining place to work, and not-so-subtly seeks to attract workaholics? It's like there's lip-service to things that we as software engineers
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by vbtemp 5y ago
Fair point, however there is so, so much that is ambiguous and indeterminate. Some jobs, let's say line-chef or administrative assistant where roles are very clear and variance between a individuals is relatively low, often do have sal
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by vbtemp 5y ago
Probably because they were hired after you. Normally newer hires have much higher salaries than old timers for equivalent role/experience, it's like that everywhere
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by vbtemp 5y ago
I completely agree. Just let the market be. Trying to optimize it will just create other unforeseen consequences. A normal part of an interview process is discussing salary, and if they won't give an answer then you know they are not t
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by vbtemp 5y ago
What's so fascinating to me about our civilizations that look like fungal colonies on Petri dishes from a cosmic perspective, is that if you zoom in enough you see all sorts of individuals doing and creating all sorts of fascinating th
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by vbtemp 6y ago
I may misunderstand, but I read it this way: The "pro-science" team is so obviously and transparently hypocritical and self-serving in their use of logic, become extremely defensive to any kind of criticism, and basically resort t
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by vbtemp 6y ago
I think you are spot on. I also think much of the "anti-science" right is a reaction to the "anti-science" left, which has lots of ideologies that cannot be defended by pure reason alone, and need to be defended instead
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by vbtemp 6y ago
Most people in most teams are pissed off, their projects are behind, and their software is a mess. No one in a well-functioning, high-morale team would write something like that. In such scenarios, people pursue greedy-like algorithms for a
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by vbtemp 6y ago
I've gone back and forth on this so much. At the end of the day, any top-down rule-based system is going to have the same problem. I've been at companies that have extremely strict, transparent rules for salaries with the explicit
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by vbtemp 6y ago
Ok, thanks, I think there was some confusion that you submitted a non-functional webpage to HN.
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by vbtemp 6y ago
Where is the repo? Its not available at all from the website
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by vbtemp 6y ago
Fair points all, and I thank you for your illuminating comments.
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by vbtemp 6y ago
I will wager that since development began in 2001, and this is still in alpha stage, that this game will still not be ready by the year 2041. See also: Lindy Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
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by vbtemp 6y ago
I think when this conversation comes up, a lot of different things get overloaded. There are classes of "work" where output linearly scales (more or less) with input: For example, if you;re a truck driver, time spent with your but
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by vbtemp 6y ago
It sounds like you may need help, and I hope you find it.
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by vbtemp 6y ago
> it was a false economy - if we'd just worked normal hours ... we could have achieved the same result, without all the mess along the way. Nearly 100% of the time I was on teams that grinded down to the bone, things turned out poor
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by vbtemp 6y ago
I mean, what the hell is with all this 60-90 hours per week stuff going on? Am I an incredibly defective human being or something - I cannot even fathom working anything even CLOSE to that (in software/tech, maybe if you're in med
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by vbtemp 6y ago
I love this. First time I was a engineering lead, things were going great, to the point we simply weren't busy... Long lunches, chill days, making good friendships. The younger staff became worried that they weren't busy and didn&
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by vbtemp 6y ago
I heard that they have the best work-life balance of any of the big tech co, in exchange for having the lowest salary/equity. Oh well...
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by vbtemp 6y ago
A good distillation of what you're saying is here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...
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by vbtemp 6y ago
This is exactly right. A team that crams agile sprints with tons of "tickets", makes features that aren't fully thought out (necessitating more "tickets" to fix them), and has steady influx of general bugs cropping
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by vbtemp 6y ago
Thank you! Fixed in an edit
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by vbtemp 6y ago
Company (or team, or individual) A "the best" is perceived to not work hard. They are perceived to be underutilized. They miss out on so much potential revenue they don't make it to the next round. Company B is obviously inco
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by vbtemp 6y ago
In an idealized world consisting of perfectly rational econ agents company A would win out. However we live in a world of people full of cognitive biases and driven by fear, greed, sentiment, and a whole slew of not perfectly rational driv
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by vbtemp 6y ago
I tend to be skeptical of statistical analyses like this. At the end of the day, it's usually someone who is paying or funding a task, and someone who will perform the task. The person performing the task wants to please the person fun
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by vbtemp 6y ago
> It would have been nice if the popular press had been a little more honest about the biology You are not alone with this sentiment. Some years ago, in my 20s/early 30s-something friend groups, any time the topic of declining femal

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