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Pay-to-continue is a concession to the reality that an arcade is designed to generate money. The balanced and high-intensity gameplay gets you interested, the continue feature just…

What exactly are you risking (or incurring) with regards to FANG culture? From my perspective it's all upside.

Why should I incur the risk and time investment of founding a startup when I can enjoy comfort and success working at a FANG company? Startups _sound_ great, but death marching mys…

Counterfeit items, e.g. video games, are all over eBay. I’ve reported many auctions over the years as infringing and have never seen one taken down.

I might consider Myst a “killer app,” especially for its time.

IMO the problem is that people want to buy Agile. They want to pay a consultant, or go to a class, implement a dozen scrum rituals, and call it “agile.” Agile is not Scrum, Kanban,…

Most of it. Base salary caps out at $160k except for NY/SF where it caps out at $180k. Once you get into the higher levels most of your comp is stock, which historically has worked…

Software Engineers outside the US make less, full stop. Amazon has a COL adjustment for SF and NYC but it’s not as much as you might think. Not as sure about other companies but I …

What’s the benefit of being “not connected to Amazon retail?” Serving a large customer that demands scale seems useful for driving the platform forward—what is the downside?

Two companies ago I posted in the “Who is Hiring” thread. I ended up only getting a couple responses (while other channels got much more activity) but I ended up hiring one of them…

What’s wrong with working at Amazon?

You’re talking about Amazon like it is a small company. It isn’t. None of the scenarios you described are possible with Pivot, Amazon works hard to make sure the “jury” is impartia…

Ignoring stock appreciation Sr. SDEs at Amazon have a total comp target of ~$250k-$350k. Same for L6 SDMs. It’s definitely “standard” for some levels/job families.

That strict definition of “unit” testing (advocating for isolationism and banning collaboration with dependencies) is too narrow for my taste. DI can make a lot of sense, but I don…

Speaking as someone who has worked as a developer for multiple early-stage startups, the opposite is true. Early-stage startups tend to have rampant technical debt for two reasons:…

How was technical debt not one of the things mentioned? In my experience that’s by far the #1 reason for poor velocity.

My understanding is that you no longer have to pay back the signing bonus. Not sure about relocation bonuses.

Stifling an established company culture and the existing behavior patterns of employees can lead to talented people leaving out of frustration. Do the shareholders of WMT want to r…

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Too pessimistic. Some people, such as myself, haven't stopped playing these games since the 80s . I can beat SMB easily within ten minutes, but I still get a lot of enjoyment every…

I have never seen this be a serious consideration in this industry. IMO that is a fairly "old school" outlook. Anecdotally I have never had a job for more than two years and it has…

If this technology is rolled out, won't that just encourage people to buy Android devices instead?

Reduction in scope and prototyping can help reduce risk in how wrong your estimate is, but I think it is misleading to suggest that these techniques inherently "might make a realis…

Just because an agreement is consensual does not mean that there is no power differential. One party will almost always have some greater leverage over another. When the power diff…