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Software engineers surely can make more or less in Financial Industries. Please read my original comment, which was comparing Google with other software companies.

After last year's 10% rise and bonus-structure change, Google's salary is very high now. Counting salary and bonus, not counting equity-grant, Google perhaps pays the highest in th…

A good read about the last internet bubble and Commerce One.

Coding questions are often not the toughest interview questions. Tough questions could be some "soft" non-coding questions like: design questions (how to design a class hierarchy f…

To continue coding in your spare time, you must have a real exciting project to work on: to learn a new technology, or to build something you really love. Without that passion, you…

Great writing. One issue with "Forward exercise" tough: by forward-exercising and converting to "Restricted Stock Unit", you avoid the high tax risk, but you also need to pay a sub…

A excellent idea executed beautifully matters. Perhaps startups should spend much time experimenting with, pivoting with, possible ideas before focusing on one single idea 100%. Se…

The highest-paid programmers usually become rich via: 1) Founding a business or startup. 2) Becoming an early employee of an averagely successful startup, or a per-IPO employee of …

Good example to show every area of Internet needs innovation. Bookmarking is as old as the first web browser. It's great that a great team is trying to save communities and innovat…

www.glassdoor.com also has many salary data for many companies. For example: http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Twitter-Salaries-E100569.htm

The stories of Google, Facebook, and Twitter show that VC has values. We want more investments to start-ups, rather than the opposite. Let the market decide itself: the money will …

I really wish Larry read news.ycombinator.com.

This article argues for potential. But for Twitter to be as high-valued as Facebook, it has to prove it can be adopted by average internet users. Twitter has such a potential, yet …

Here is an idea: an eBay like site to link buyers and sellers in real-time. One simple way to implement: Twitter hashtag #buyitnow

Leave a job when and only when you want to. Leave or stay a job, cherish your time and make everyday as interesting and satisfying as possible.

Two major difference of a trading firm from a software firm: 1) Large amount of trading capital is needed to make a sizable profit. 2) Math, finance and trading skills. A trading f…

Just like a technical firm needs to iterate on the products and infrastructures. A trading firm needs to iterate on the algorithms and infrastructures to stay competitive. Market c…

This is sad. Founded by a computer scientist, DE Shaw is perhaps the most tech-focused among hedge funds. I once had a very challenging technical job interview there. Several inter…

Of course, in your opinion.

Maybe someone will start to make an open-source Twitter alternative.