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The biggest feature I miss from Google is the constellation of citc and the distributed build system that revolves around it. Most is described or implied by "Why Google stores bil…

I've worked in JS for around 12 years now and welcome this change of keeping JS as a scripting language but incrementally retiring it for performance-intensive general-purpose appl…

I worked on the vendor (not auditor) side of accessibility audits, which have similar structural issues as security reports. The amount of latitude individual vendors have in shapi…

Even if content license holders don't require Netflix to go above and beyond, building sophisticated DRM is a moat against other streaming services. If Netflix can build a sophisti…

There's no secret sauce. The typical aphorisms of software development are generally correct and apply here: * internalize the cost of core changes and don't push them downstream u…

I worked on the infra team for a TypeScript-based product downstream of the author. His and his team's approach and writings influenced at a lot of my thinking about core developme…

Winners: The investors who bought Airbnb shares at $68 whose shares are now worth $140. Losers: Existing Airbnb shareholders who have shares in a company that could have raised $7B…

Disclosure: I work at Google. You can consider looking at Glassdoor[1], bearing in mind this includes data from several years ago before the wage-fixing bust and excluding natural …

H-1B applications often exclude expected value of bonus and RSUs (mine does) and can understate comp at bigtech by ~60k (entry level) to ~150k (mid level) to ~300k+ (senior+).

> This is really terrible. Since nobody's name is actually on it, I assume their marketing team wrote it. The founder put his name on it https://mobile.twitter.com/stewart/status/7…

Thank you for the reply again :). I saw your comment previously and I think you make a great point. As much as I criticize the chart for being unfairly pessimistic about equity ret…

To reiterate my comment another time this was posted in a comment thread: I feel this graphic, while informative and delightful, is insidious in its choice of scale and its lack of…

I feel this graphic, while informative and delightful, is insidious in its choice of scale and its lack of comparisons. On scale, it makes it seem like +3% to +7% real returns is "…

I work at Google on the main website as an SWE (non-lead). I have about 1.5 to 3 hours of scheduled meetings a week.

From reading your post, I feel the biggest issue you are facing is that there is nothing differentiating you from the common "wacko" inventor who thinks they have the next great th…

> While Google does make a lot of it's earnings from Ads, Google Cloud is supposed to surpass it's Ads business in the next 4 years. Where do you hear this goal? Google Q2 Ads reve…

When I was recruiting programmers I always read them, though maybe 1 out of every 10 applicants included one. Most companies (including the one I was hiring for) cannot compete on …

My numbers (n=1, though this is widely true among the transplants I know) worked out in spite of the cost of living. Here is my math, though obviously the number will vary based on…

I've found nytimes.com content to be great and exhibiting great technical, artistic, and journalistic merit[1]. As a result, I visit it daily and and it's the first time in my life…

I believe the way Google's hiring and compensation committee's work makes it so that short of bluffing your current compensation, not disclosing your comp is equivalent to saying y…

We gave candidates an option of a take-home screen (build a web app that consumes our single-endpoint JSON/XML API and renders content) or a live coding exercise (implement a least…

Yeah "hit the ground running" was decidedly not the standard for bootcamp grads. This was our more senior unicorn hire. Like any shop though we did have simpler more isolated work …

Roughly, someone who at the start can work independently on an existing business-critical[1], medium-sized[2] app to first fix bugs without adding major tech debt[3] and then take …

I felt similarly incredulous when we first started searching. I'll add some details for color. Our hiring needs didn't feel too crazy to me. We were a multi-million dollar a year e…

Just sharing my experience here: I've been hiring in SF and found some boot camp grads, usually stronger but still far from mid-career, with expectations around 90-115k. Most of th…