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I joined one of the big-4 tech companies a month ago after years of freelance work. Since joining, I’ve had trouble “hooking in”. For one, it doesn’t seem like I have all that much…

I recently joined a FANG and this is something that causes me a lot of anxiety. Our repos are hundreds of thousands of lines of code; how on earth can I, as a new hire, decide unil…

Thank you for the advice! Selfish aside, but is there any chance I could ask you to upvote the question? It's not going to appear in the Ask section until it has more votes, and I'…

Thanks for the reply. It's more F&G than N&A, culturally I think. Idling is probably a misnomer—I have some minor bug fixes, code reviews, and design docs to work on. But I feel li…

A month ago, I started a job at a large, FANG-type company, I guess on the low end of Google T5 or high end of T4? (Salary is around $175k, not including stock options.) Things see…

True, but the problem is this: > Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer's business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated resear…

The hiring manager made it clear that exceptions are very rarely made in this regard. This is a sizeable company with little flexibility about these things (from what I can tell). …

I already spoke to a lot of them during my interviews, everything seemed to be good.

I’m a programmer with ~6 years of experience. After years of freelancing, I’ve found myself with a job offer from a unicorn in SF. It's a prestigious company; few get in. My hunch …