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In all cases, you'll want to keep it to yourself, is my advice :)

Yes my point was more "this policy is nothing special or more lenient than the usual"

I didn’t read it as “significantly” affect work performance at all, it seemed more like it anything that DOES affect work performance is a problem EDIT: Also it seems like they don…

Even in the US you can quickly get to sw eng level after a few years in the trades, which are booming right now And bonus, it’s a direct step from there to starting your own busine…

Thanks for sharing. What are you doing for income now? Are you retired?

This is what I hate about this industry at this point in my life. Just this morning I was fantasizing about being a dentist instead and just be able to work for as long as I like, …

Glad for you that you found this clarity

Learn to live on a ~50-75% of your salary is what I’ve been telling people. The good times for American engineers are gone

Why would you care what happens after you pass?

Bingo, exactly per my thoughts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38986460

Do you worry that you won’t be able to keep up with the industry and get obsoleted and forced out of work or a certain comp level before you want?

Are you in a high cost of living situation that’s hard to get out of? Do you have kids? If NOT, I would start by thinking if there’s ways you could drastically cut down your cost o…

One question I’ve set out to answer is: what would I do if I were fired tomorrow? Understood that not everyone is in the position to switch to lower paying careers, start over, etc…

Still young without dependents? Great. Have a family and esp these employees in high CoL cities? Very tough. Speaking from experience. Been there done that. "We'll have all this ne…

Cause they pay 2-3x as much, that’s why.

Unless you’re truly special, The days of multi hundred thousand total comp packages are over - you’d better learn to live as though you’re on a ~175k salary, and if that’s too low,…

Absolutely. Total comp, not to mention hiring in general at publicly traded tech firms has dropped significantly since the “software recession” and mass layoffs. The current good t…

It seemed free roaming was still widely accepted in the 90s though? What changed since the 2000s?

Bingo, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38937293

What makes it hard is the stigmatization of letting children roam free unsupervised, and the isolating nature of suburbs coupled with both parents being working parents. Kids can’t…

This mode of thinking is very prevalent on the left but it’s actually the opposite on the right, which is instead anti government. So it really isn’t a universal shift.

All this talk about “community” - what “community”? It simply doesn’t exist anymore even if you wanted it - short of arranging to stay near your extended family and in laws, what e…

From reading your first paragraph I thought you were heading to an opposite conclusion, but yes, completely agree that we should make it easier to go public

I know there’s equityzen and probably other marketplaces, but I think the main issue is most even late stage startups ban secondary trading This knowledge might be outdated, I quit…

Separate of what did or didn’t happen here, I hope more companies crack the secondary market puzzle. The current environment really sucks for startup employee liquidity and might b…