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Ironically, when interviewers talk about how they interview, they pretty much all seem to believe they are very good in evaluating candidates. But when candidates talk about job in…

They also changed their answer ranking algorithm. It started giving much higher weight to answers from users who answered many other questions on the site. I guess the goal was to …

I agree, this is actually a really really good business idea. I heard so many times top devs wish something like this would exist. Can you give an idea of what an ex-FAANG dev can …

"We have the best product in the world and we are revolutionizing the life of our users. What's next? What more can we achieve in the next 5 yrs given how great our product is alre…

Sad news. WhatApp really feels to me as the future of social networks and its massive numbers tend to prove it. 1:1 chat and phone calls to communicate to your friends, groups to k…

I would suggest anyone interested in learning more about this to watch the BBC documentary The Big Bank Fix. It shows how these traders didn't do anything wrong. The documentary sh…

I hope my comment didn't come across as I am portraying them as a victim. I saw first hand hiring based on quotas and I hated it (and I am an immigrant with dark skin). I was just …

Anyone who has worked for a large tech company in SF in the last 3/4 years knows that this has happened everywhere. In fairness, Google was one of the very last ones among large te…

The promotion process at google self-selects for a very important skill: you are given a certain goal and you find the optimal way to achieve it, regardless of whether you agree wi…

Yeah, that sounds so bad. It sounds like: try to screw them over, but be aware that some employees will realize that and, just for them, you will have to adjust compensation.

Maybe that's a way to give Detroit hosts an incentive to stay on Airbnb. After all, the more money they make the more likely they are to still use Airbnb despite the new city rules…

I started doing some consultant work in the bay area and I am shocked by how hard is to get companies to pay you at the end of the work. In my case, that means 50% of the total. Ma…

I have never worked as a quant, but I have got a couple of job offers a few years ago when interviewing at the end of grad school. Things might have changed in the last 5 years or …

If you ask them to cover insurance for 6 months, they will probably do it given the circumstances. Health insurance is usually the most negotiable thing. Beside that, just accept t…

In the US, in tech, it is relatively common for people to sign an offer and then change their mind and choose to not join. It happened a few times in different companies where I wo…

To clarify: I often heard about building a great product and how that would lead to word-of-mouth advertising from your early customers. But in many cases, I feel customers are com…

I don't get this. Eventually, it is just taking a cut from a transaction. What does even mean the seller is paying for it or the buyer? Let's say the final price is 100$ and cut is…

And InstaEdu, within the education section, was that site where students would pay people to do their homework. It was just a place where students could cheat.

As many other things in the corporate world, the easiest path is firstly get that at your current company, where you hopefully have some leverage. You typically need to wait for 1 …

If the goal of this was looking smart to attract smart talent, I feel it didn't work particularly well. At least, by reading the article, I didn't get that feeling. Any game where …

This is very nice. Are the emails validated or guessed based on company most likely format?