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Not all tech jobs are like that. Also, different tech jobs will appeal to different people, which is fine. Maybe this one job is not the best fit for you, and there may be another …

Moved from France to the US in 2013, mostly because opportunities in tech don’t compare, and also because for all the great things French culture has, the gloomy/whiny tone of the …

I work for a FAANG-like company right now, and used to work for Apple, and worked for startups too. Some thoughts. • Engineers in large tech companies are neither better nor worse …

Ooooh, ok then yeah.

Sounds like he didn’t actually have a liquidity event? In which case, his net worth is mostly paper money, so while I’m sure he’s doing nicely and I wish him for this money to beco…

When taking a group of hundreds of millions of people with the same trait (such as their nationality), it’s easiest to compartmentalize and expect them all to think the same and be…

Have you considered a product role on a technical product?

We’re on my developer salary in a modest Chicago suburb house, which is enough for us by itself, so my wife was able to leave her job to focus on our 6yo daughter full time, with l…

Am I the only one to feel like the Hey people are basically having a faked marketing-driven temper tantrum? Not to say that Apple applies their rules fairly (I wouldn’t really know…

Yes, we did it at Kenna Security. About 300 paying customers, but over 1000 with trials, and overall about 6B vulnerabilities being tracked (the largest table in aggregate). Some o…

It is magnitudes simpler to hire an American, immigration laws make sure of it. Any employer will readily hire qualified American candidates, they’re just fully aware that those qu…

Author here. You're basically summarizing my entire article in a much (MUCH!) more digest and straightforward way. So, yeah, absolutely +1000 and thanks for that!

Author here. I can't really agree with the view that there is a static mindset to being a good/bad developer, and you're one of those and that is that. I think there is an entire s…

Author here. I agree that being able to produce advanced value is also a factor of the work environment; and not only the engineer's ability to be in touch with it, but also the en…

Author here. +1. I didn't mention the multiplying effect of also empowering people, but we agree that the take that defines a "10x engineer" as someone who cranks 10 times more cod…

Author here. Fortunately, none of the engineers I was referring to are on my team. ;) Still though, I believe you're looking at this right, and by worrying about that, I believe it…

Therapy. I started it out mostly out of curiosity and a sophisticated misunderstanding. Turns out, after a couple of sessions, I started realizing that my therapist was particularl…

It's all about business/user value. You're not solving useful problems if they're solely technical and don't solve anything useful for someone else. Solve business/user problems wi…

I'm afraid the point of parole is that it can be decided at the border, at the entire discretion of the custom officers, without needing change in laws (hence why Obama is doing it…

On the other hand, living 6 years in Paris where there's no tipping but also has ridiculously poor service culture gets one to build some positive opinions about tipping too...

Absolutely, even if the salary doesn't imply any commitment from the employer, and that it's not one salary, but an interval (like, $150k-170k). When I was looking for a job recent…

TechMeAbroad is a website that is basically what you're asking for.

In my experience, big companies tend to have algorithmic "puzzles" for interviews; smaller companies tend to test more your builder skills, actual engineering skills, the ones they…

Write better tests.

Thanks a lot ckluis! From what we've seen so many times of the gap between what recruiters expect from a job applicant, and what graduates can show off after a regular school, we 1…