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No it's definitely not easier to build a company that exits (even an acquire) than it is to get a job at a tech company that pays 100K.

This is on the onus of mid / experienced level engineers. The community should decide collectively that we don't interview at companies like this.

Yes, I do feel you have the terminology wrong. I consider myself full stack and I work with Rails, Django, etc. I have interviewed with many companies with the title "Full Stack De…

As a former bootcamp grad, please prioritize interviewing skills over development skills. once you get a good job, you can spend your free time on side projects but until then you …

Why doesn't rails count as a backend engineer? Would you also not count someone who works with Django as a backend engineer?

Well the revenue of US based businesses is at a significantly higher scale than most European technology companies. Specifically companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, In…

a) To build an ad business capable of handling $100m of ads. You need massive investments in sales, infrastructure, tools, etc. to build a business like that b) They have one of th…

As a coding bootcamp grad, I agree. I think bootcamps are better for mid to large companies actually where you will get mentorship and processes to help you graduate from being an …

Which is why access to a competent education is a basic requirement for a functioning democracy. In my opinion, we aren't there yet since there are huge disparities between educati…

A pretty ridiculous statement given that a VC pays close to 20% income tax while these well paid engineers are taxed at almost double that %. The VCs carried interest tax loophole …

This looks interesting. Are you a non-profit?

So you believe that by singling out women we may be adding to the problem because we are reinforcing the culture of treating people differently instead of judging them equally? Tha…

I'm assuming people haven't read it because the comment (and a several others in the thread) starts complaining that the series "starts" by asking stereotypical questions to women.…

Do you have an ethical objection to surveying under-represented groups on general questions? To me this is no different than "ask a black engineer, ask college dropout engineer, as…

I think it's hilarious that there are so many comments like this one that make it clear that people are criticizing this article without actually reading it. [As others have pointe…

10% is not the normal discount rate for most people. I don't know what assets you are buying into but most assume a 5-7% discount rate because thats what most expect the long term …

Do you remember the super bowl janet jackson fiasco? There were millions of people outraged by an accident and it almost wrecked her career. It's issue like this that mean that Fac…

Did you hear about residents protesting that a 100% affordable housing projected blocked their view? Some San Franciscans have an entitled view that their basic rights include the …

well on multi-lane roads like geary, you could just have a dedicated lane that normal traffic can't enter

Unfortunately this is a negative feedback loop. Essentially you are saying that because housing prices are expensive and people are over-leveraged, they will vote for any legislati…

If you've watched / read it, the Big Short is about a set of investors who figured out the sub-prime housing market is in a bubble and get creative in figuring how to short the mar…

Technology is making things more efficient; things are produced cheaper and more efficiently and with less humans. The problem is that policy hasn't evolved with technology. Techno…

People always mention the big 5 but what are they? Are there any major companies outside these 5 that pay 300K+?

The main issue with Google Sites is there's a much higher level of friction for creating documents and then more importantly it's much more difficult to find things (search is way …

My company uses Confluence as well. It's been really useful - we use the Q&A and also document features a LOT. It makes sense since we are mostly on the Atlassian stack (JIRA, & Co…