Nah, actually it's totally not any meaning to me. Because the numbers are too impractical to me. Whuu...
My offer numbers from big companies
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#272I guess I need to move to Silicon Valley. These numbers are insane for two years and an undergrad degree. I have 32 years experience and I don't get these kinds of offers. This is either complete BS or the guy is a savant. Something smells fishy here.
Before you do that, take a look at these:
Taxes: https://imgur.com/a/s3SVY (Not sure if imgur links are allowed here, but I couldn't find a website that would let me calculate an estimated paycheck and share the link)
Rent: https://sfbay.craigslist.org/d/apts-housing-for-rent/search/...
Car Insurance: https://imgur.com/a/3UgPw
Public Transit Options (https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/49dfm6/poor_public...)
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#273> Thankfully I had FB and Google referrals else I doubt I would have gotten a reply at all.
This is one of the things that really sucks about the industry. It is a new "boy's club", and if you know people in the club then the barrier to entry is easier (if you can code at a reasonable capacity).
Google referrals don't really help you get in; they do, however, make it easier for recruiters to notice you
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#274Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yup, this is the major difference. The COL numbers can be explained away, but if you want space now and a retirement later then you can get by with much less work outside SF.
In Chicago, it's fairly common to take a regional 50 to 75 minute train ride into the city from a distant suburb. Is there anything like that for Silicon Valley? Can you get an hour away by train and lower housing costs?
Sure. Live in the Eaat Bay and BART in.
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#275It always strikes me as odd at how much HN complanies about hiring practices in tech. Spend a few weeks with Leetcode and CTCI and you have a decent shot at salaries in this range at the BigCo's (depends on location of course). What other industry has it's interview process so transparent with such high rewards?
This is such a good point. Imagine you discovered an opportunity for arbritage in currency exchanges, for example. A normal person might quickly act to start printing money before the market corrects and the opportunity ends. Meanwhile, programmers have noticed that being able to solve algorithmic quizzes with a smile is a free ticket to an oversized salary. Their collection reaction? Disgust and defiance! As you say…
Because one would want to work with people that are good at the work they do, not just good at the interviewing.
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#276Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, with Western names, I guess a recruiter can guess at the gender, but with some Sub-continental or Asian names - that can be hard to do. Which leads me to another question - Do people use pseudonyms to increase their chances of getting through initial screening of their applications? (Anecdote: I had a (female) business mentor many years ago who said that she had trouble getting businesses to meet with her. Unti…
Depends. With Chinese people applying for jobs, for example, Chinese people have English first name as well as their Chinese first name. And they would use their English first name when applying for a job at US or other large international company. So you could definitely guess gender there. Sub continental names I would agree, if you are European or American it might be difficult to guess the gender from name. But f…
> Chinese people have English first name as well as their Chinese first name
I've always been intrigued by this. I assume they do this when they decide to travel to the West for work or study (in order to make it easier to communicate with locals), as opposed to being given dual names at birth?
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Work will have much more in common with said open source efforts than with all those algorithmic challenges though.
A good chunk of these people will be good engineers that cannot talk about or show the stuff they worked on at their previous job. And those places specifically ban them from making apps or working on open source and they will be hard workers that work 40-50+ hours a week. Maybe they have kids too. How do you interview these people? I agree, algo interviews are annoying and I wish it wasn't there. If it wasn't it wou…
I had an interviewer ask my for some code samples. Conveniently it was the day after I accepted another offer, but that was a definite no bueno for me, I don't contribute to open source, and I was hardly going to send them some code samples from my previous job.
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#278Earlier quoted context omitted.
In Chicago, it's fairly common to take a regional 50 to 75 minute train ride into the city from a distant suburb. Is there anything like that for Silicon Valley? Can you get an hour away by train and lower housing costs?
Sure. Live in the Eaat Bay and BART in.
How about that. Clean 1br for around $1500/month and 10 minutes from BART station. That's pricey, but workable.
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#279Here in Australia there is no point even being a software engineer. 2 years experience will be 90k base, I don't even know what a sign on or bonus is because we don't even have them, and your wage will rise with inflation. Inflation seems to be a fairly garbage number so I would say your wage goes down each year. There are plenty of other jobs that are much easier that pay the same. Australia is not an innovative or…
Australians can get into the US market easily. Look up the E3 visa, it's how I got here.
Or email me (jchester@pivotal.io), my lot are hiring and I like referral bonuses.
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#280Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll be in Melbourne renewing my E3 visa in late Dec/early Jan. And maybe doing some recruiting for my almost-unicorn company too. Message me if you'd like to get coffee or something. My email's in my profile.
I'm actually Perth-based, but I do end up in the Eastern States from time to time, I'll see how I go :)
My chance to try and swipe a referral bonus, then. I'll be in Perth for Christmas and my lot were sponsoring E3s before it was cool. My work email is jchester@pivotal.io