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The amount of speaking out of one’s own arse that’s happening in this thread is absolutely amazing.

No. SVB was not a bank for high risk people. They were the 16th largest bank in the United States. They were a regular commercial bank. First Republic, Northern Trust, etc are all …

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Senior staff is L7. Swe 2, Swe 3, senior, staff, senior staff, principal, distinguished, god In that order, except god isn’t really a level it’s just Sanjay and Jeff. Swe 2 is L3, …

This was a side project.

Truthfully? Prioritizing bottom up innovation has to oddly enough happen from the top down. Give middle and front line managers the responsibility and mandate to continually foster…

More than we want to admit and not enough to get us to stay.

Yes. A handful remain. But the next big thing will come from those who yearn to be what Google had and lost. Jeff Dean jokes aside, no one person or group made Google great. It was…

As a xoogler who interviewed way back in 2004, let me say that this post sums up my feelings exactly. The people I worked with at Google back then weren’t necessarily there for hig…