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In my experience, by the time you get to do a full round interview your chances are pretty high, about 50% in big tech.

E6 -> E7 at Meta is $1M (which sounds a little bit crazy tbh). Google L6 -> L7 is 300k, but their numbers look smaller than what I'm privy too. A generic Level 6 to 7 (staff to sen…

Hardly. Senior at Amazon is pretty prestigious. A Senior at Google is also a pretty nice title. In my experience smaller companies are more likely to give out the Senior title like…

talk to their manager. If their manager doesn't respond you go to your manager or the manager's manager.

For sure, a staff engineer asking lots of question is "disambiguating" a junior engineer asking a lot of questions is asking somebody else to figure out his/her project. Which is k…

We're programmed to take care of (human) babies. That's pretty fundamental to our species survival. Those features activates the same areas of our brain that babies' faces activate…

TBF sales didn't start dying

Lately AI = LLM (at least in popular culture).

Zoom on medium format? what's the point?

> It would maybe cost an engineer at Nest/Ecobee a day or two of work I think you misspelled a _year_ or two of work. Especially with the scrutiny that comes with software written …

Last I checked they have some money from the Yahoo settlement. But nowhere near something they can use to operate in perpetuity.

I've never seen a place that does it quite like Google. Is there one? It only works if you have one product or are a giant company as it's really expensive to do. Being able to cha…

The US Health Insurance system is specifically used to keep working class people (and most middle class) at work. You can't really go without a job here.

In fact, I think it makes the goverment's argument even stronger. Would we allow the NYT to fall in the hands of the CCP? I'd say no way, congress would act way before that's even …

We certainly _do_ want this. I think the fact that we let a foreign company own a social media platform in the first place is preposterous. As others have said, we would never let …

Yeah that's what I was thinking too while reading the article. For a tech-focused person, sure, input switching might me obvious. But to a lot of people having only active and vali…

I think here under the radar means that locals didn't know the factory was there, not that Zildjian is an unknown brand, it even goes on to say > Even in Massachusetts many people …

Heh. Resident Evil 1 feels like a (well designed) escape room.

I thought once I reached Staff at Google it would go away. It in fact made it even worse now that I have a whole slate of incredible peers to compare myself to.

> This might also be a microcosm of why the working class is pissed off in America, because looking at this experience, the optimal strategy for revenue is to blow smoke up the ass…

Easily doable, let me guess you never worked on a browser engine?

A government funding a 1 billion dollars a year software project? That would never fly in any country.

Microsoft gave up on building a Web Browser engine and you think a government can? Browser engines are really hard to build. They requires a lot of (very expensive) niche technical…

where somewhere else = Google