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> visiting their friends, families and having constant stream of guests over. Except that these sorts of visitations / gatherings become far less frequent in suburban settings unle…

I’m guessing you’re being downvoted by those who think your comment is encouraging unethical behavior. While I certainly don’t think it’s ethical to do so, I did wonder the same th…

Exactly this! I'm not sure why people assume WFH must mean you're literally confined to your home/apartment for the entire duration of the work day. Unless you have to frequently g…

I realize that the study was specifically talking about brainteasers, but I wonder if irrelevant algorithm questions have a similar motivation? I was once asked at an interview at …

> one issue with the SF/Seattle-type areas is that you can't afford to be out of a job for very long Absolutely true. Some years ago a contract gig I was working at in NYC was abru…

It's this scene (around the 3:55 mark in this clip): https://youtu.be/_IrCgt-Bt1I?t=3m55s

It's my understanding that all the countries in Europe where salaries for software engineers are high, have rather strict immigration policies.

I read a really interesting book that talked about precisely this (among other things), ie, how in the past people were content to be known in their little circle for whatever expe…

I worked contract for a while in NYC. The pay was great but the contract was abruptly terminated with just a few days notice about a year or so in. I landed on my feet but don't th…

I remember reading this excellent little book with very easy to understand explanations of some of the basics re. permutations and combinations, back in school: "Mathematics of Cho…

That survey shows that ~27% got in through some sort of connection, but the remaining ~73% didn't. So roughly 3/4 of those surveyed didn't use connections to land gigs. Am I missin…

I didn't interpret his post the same way as you did. I think he was suggesting that we, as programmers, tend to act in ways that are not necessarily conducive to maintaining our ow…

Agreed 100%. People seem to be focused entirely on the salary aspect, but my observations match yours quite well. I've worked for almost 10 years in the industry and with numerous …

For now you can find it on the front page of the blog: http://lemire.me/blog/

This has been my observation as well, having attending such events off and on over the years as I moved between cities. The more extroverted people connected with each other and we…

May I ask what you do that enables you to travel all over the world? I've been thinking of ways that would let me travel more without quitting my job or switching out of tech entir…

I've been thinking about this for a while myself. The current place I work at is extremely remote-work friendly, and we have people in many cities all over the US and the world wor…

> A few years after Uni, I started teaching myself Calc, Trig, Vector maths, Diff Eq and Physics strictly from what I have found on various sites, software and books. Most unis I k…

There absolutely are places even in Manhattan where you can get at least beer for pretty cheap, like $3 - $4, depending on the night. Sure, there's more than enough expensive cockt…

But it could just as easily be argued that a highly political environment which necessitates such behaviors leads to poor morale, quality employees leaving etc. etc. which couldn't…

> None of the successful asian tigers really follow a laissez-faire system. Pundits will argue they could have been more successful if they did, but I am not convinced. Great post.…

High 200s as an individual contributor? That's north of what directors at iBanks make in many cases here in NYC (and salaries here are already higher than most other places for tec…

I wish I could add more, but you've nailed it. Upvoted!

Not sure why you're being downvoted but this is a perfectly valid concern.

One piece of advice I can give is to try and line up interviews at the larger, more slow-moving places before you do the interviews at smaller firms which move a lot faster. Bigger…