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A lot of employers who only pay cash have salaries similar to companies that pay cash salary plus equity. Perhaps the equity won't be worth anything, but often times it's extra on …

This is not true at all. It only has to do with if you have "substantial risk of forfeiture". If they are your shares to own forever, the IRS considers receiving them taxable. This…

> Today’s entrepreneurs would do well to note that Microsoft made minimal use of venture capital. Microsoft’s only VC only owned 6.2 percent of the company. Gates didn’t trust them…

Isn't this based on letter frequency? In languages like German, Z is a fairly common letter. Y not so much. Whereas in English it's the opposite. They put the more commonly used le…

Is there a more Amazon word than "table stakes"?

I know several people that worked there back in the growth days of the company. They had all drunk the kool aid hard on the work connecting people and making the world a better pla…

Leetcode performance isn’t going to be representative of 3am incident response though. If that matters, you’re probably better off asking a classic “tell me about a time you respon…

It's a business, not a jobs program

I agree with you that most American cars are junk. I hate all these same features plus others like the weird headlight controls, parking break on the floor in non-trucks, not to me…

You can more smoothly interpolate a function for points on a surface using hexagons than with squares. For Uber, think about things like surge pricing. If you compute a surge % for…

> Growing up, making friends was a breeze This is why I already feel doomed in my 40s. It was hard enough when I was younger and it was supposedly easier.

Nobody is checking their email on vacation in an internet cafe in 2024. Losing your phone is a real pain these days.

Also timing the media cycle with the Republican convention just finishing up. No time for much of a convention bounce

That’s because their “products” are internal but used to make all their revenue. They’re not selling products to customers in the traditional sense.

When I looked into it and talked to some hiring managers, the big names were offering cash comp similar to total comp for big tech, with stock (sometimes complicated arrangements t…

It's cheapest overall for an employer to pay market rate for new hires and give existing employees small, regular raises. If you need to hire someone, you're going to have to pay m…

> Why should someone living in Indiana make less money than someone living in NYC for a remote tech job? Because on average they'll accept less money. Someone in NYC is more likely…

Crazy reading about this here. I just had this problem. Spent a couple hundred bucks for the local mechanic to track it down to parasitic drain from the SOS module (“Starlink”). He…

I feel like going into eBay, I expect it to be the bargain basement race to the bottom. There’s no veneer. It is what it purports to be. Meanwhile Amazon is full of fake reviews, c…

Plenty of states don’t have a tipped minimum wage right now. It hasn’t changed tipping culture there at all.

It seems pretty revealing to how some people view work from home not being actual work

WARN requires certain employers in most circumstances to give 60 days notice or pay at least 60 days of severance when laying off

Companies absolutely take perf and years of service into account for layoffs. It’s not always the same process or formula but those are popular terms in such a formula, along with …

I agree the processes are almost random. There’s really very little correlation between a rating and value produced. I’m increasingly convinced the best systems are those that spen…

Reading this article brought back all the things I disliked about being manager. My anxiety shot up as I was reading it. I’m glad I prematurely ran out of text at the subscribe to …