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Not exactly true. Has happened with so many companies recently(Google, Amazon, Coinbase etc..,). And it hits most employees hard since they might be someone who just got laid off. …

What is the cool off period if I already interviewed and got rejected?

This is a wrong comparison. Most of the layoffs were in departments that H1B visa holders are not hired traditionally. Orgs like marketing and recruiting were disproportionally aff…

Most leetcode hard or reasonably complex dynamic programming problems have 10 lines of code or less. It is coming up with the logic and solving for edge cases. Maybe its your confi…

I can tell you what your options are being on a visa for free. You dont need a 30 min consultation with an immigration attorney. Better benefit is instead of severance, keep employ…

Local history is a game changer. And live templates. The one I use is using a template to automatically put in console log with the context of where(line num and function name) whe…

Big thing I miss working on VS code and IntelliJ interchangeably. Local history of your changes. Huge differentiator while working on a lot of changes.

I worked on a transactional email infrastructure where we used to send 50k-100k emails at a time and a few million a day. We used inky and juice to customize email generation and c…

Something I experienced with a relatively young kid(2 years) and staying home and watching her grow up was really nice. But, I rethink or feel regret when she is sick crying all ni…

If you are an engineer, you'll just keep shipping and learn nothing and get paid peanuts while being told you're having the best time of your life working 16 hour days with no life…

Most of the article is clickbait. You can get EB2 sponsored from a run of the mill startup in SF Bay Area. Only thing worked for you is you were not born in India or China. Everyth…

I believe Mint used to have this and they discontinued for some reason -- re paying utility bills

In most markets, yes. But, you're actually competing for talent in markets like Bay Area or Seattle. So, if you're worthy enough, you'll have employers fighting for you.

You just need one perm and 140 approval. And most companies are ready to start processing your green card in 3-6 months after you start at the latest. It is not as convenient as ge…

How is this true? H1B employees can freely move jobs, with a small delay in moving visas.

And still need to pay market wage set by DOL for their experience.

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Pipes are like one of the best experiences you’ll have whatever you were doing. I was debugging a remote server logging millions of Logs a day and was aggregating a little on the s…

This is swooping so low for a journalist. The guy donated 800k. Why do you always have to look at it as a percentage of this wealth? Not just look at the absolute number and apprec…

If I order now, when can I expect to receive it?

Not many American students want to get graduate degrees compared to international students and most people who apply get into the programs. They're not free for Americans. They pay…

And your I-94 is automatically extended with your visa extensions. Its your visa extension date that has the precedence.

What about headless chrome and some cron jobs to run tasks for you. It'd be similar to selenium. But, on a headless browser. There are also some scraping services that let you get …

Giving feedback is bad for the companies initially as a lot of biases are exposed when the feedback is reviewed. As in some engineer thinks something a candidate doesnt know makes …