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In my experience, the problems given to juniors are often open ended “improve this” or “fix this” type projects, but smaller scope or lower priority things that more senior devs wo…

It's a similar shape but with quite different conclusions - low drive + low aptitude: never hire Hammerstein thinks some use can be made of these folks - low drive + high aptitude:…

Sounds like this is a hill you're willing to die on

In the Bay Area I’m also easily able to order alcohol on all the big delivery services, but they all seem pretty consistent about scanning your ID for age verification before they …

Only if you assume that everyone is either a vinyl buyer or record player buyer :)

Optional.of(null) throws a NullPointerException ;) Optional.ofNullable(null) == Optional.empty()

I don’t understand. Why would the suppliers change the recipe to _add_ sesame? Is it not just that they accepted the “may contain sesame” label instead of removing (or proving the …

It did to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

They aren't saying they unfortunately _have_ fuck-you money, they're saying they unfortunately relate to wanting to have a small social circle and not have to "deal with it" anymor…

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According to David Wadhwani’s LinkedIn, he was at Adobe from 2002-2015 with his title listed as SVP and GM of the “digital media business unit” before rejoining in 2021 as the Chie…

But "relatively affordable in the Bay Area" is still relatively very expensive nationally no? Maybe the gap is just that the people surveyed overestimated their likelihood of worki…

It's not clear to me why you think "I refuse to do the thing you're asking me to do" is _less_ reasonable than saying "I will only do the thing you're asking me if you pay me $larg…

I have a similar approach that works well, you just need one more filtering step. Anyone who reacts negatively to the salary request, you ignore and move on. Don't even bother repl…

AFAICT it's pretty common among tech companies for "recruiting" to be called "talent acquisition" and "human resources" to be called "people operations" or similar

Getting RSUs doesn’t ever “suck”, but getting 70%+ less (denominated in $usd) money in your quarterly vesting than before is unpleasant - even if you knew it was coming at some poi…

What’s more common - hiring managers who see the inclusion of a GitHub as a small positive signal but don’t scrutinize heavily (or even more likely don’t bother to click into it), …

I agree that we could collectively be more mindful about why we're doing things and what we're getting out of them, but this seems like a strange example to emphasize the point. Do…

I think it's possible to recognize that 3rd party recruiters can be good or bad at their job while also coming to the conclusion that the bad outweighs the good to a degree that it…

Individual contributor (as opposed to management)

Sure I would, if someone else can pay 50% more than my perfectly reasonably manager could.

> You should behave as an employee like the employee you wish was working for you. Why should I serve my employers interests over my own? I will behave as an employee in the way th…

I’m going to w2 a bit over 300k this year as a senior software engineer for a quite large SaaS company in the Bay Area, and the general impression is that we’re a “tier-2” company …

No, it isn't: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...