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Waymo’s Hiring Binge
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#112>Waymonauts Weird-ass names for employees of a company is one of the weirdest "WE HAVE TO TRY HARD TO MAKE PEOPLE FEEL LIKE A PART OF THE CULTURE" things ever, honestly.
At my current company, we are Hippos. :)
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems like your key metric is “hours spent at desk”. By that measure, you are probably correct.
No, my metric is output per engineer which losely correlates with hours spent at desk. The output quality and quantity was the lowest at Google
How are you measuring this other than the hours-spent-at-desk metric? Quality and quantity of what output?
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
.. I should add: This is a great time to be an engineer. Enjoy it while it lasts. The time to be a founder will be after the next recession.
My non US experience is I have seen no correlation of the boom/bust cycles and "how good it is to be an engineer". I realize that FAANG employees are of course raking it in like never before. But I thought that was because of a lack of a salary cartel and general software eating the world.
Yes GP probably meant it's a great time to be an engineer in the US other countries not so sure.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
.. I should add: This is a great time to be an engineer. Enjoy it while it lasts. The time to be a founder will be after the next recession.
My non US experience is I have seen no correlation of the boom/bust cycles and "how good it is to be an engineer". I realize that FAANG employees are of course raking it in like never before. But I thought that was because of a lack of a salary cartel and general software eating the world.
Lost generation
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#116Instructive the degree to which good HR, recruiting, and operational onboarding can create giant moats for these larger tech cos. Hiring 700 "mostly engineer" employees in a year! I pride myself as an "operator" and have worked in businesses that have scaled quickly but it is unimaginable how one doubles the highly compensated / hard to find employee count in a year at that scale. In an economy where excess labor of…
> but it is unimaginable how one doubles the highly compensated / hard to find employee count in a year at that scale. You throw an EXCESSIVE amount of money at the problem and over-hire (and just naturally weed people out). Recruiting firms will gladly take anyones money to help solve this problem.
You might waste some money, but at least they're not creating value for the other players. Is that their strategy?
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#117Weird, they ghosted me after my phone screen, coming from another self driving company. Guess they weren't that impressed with me. Or I "missed" the hiring binge.
Or the employee who screened you had no idea what they’re doing. That’s pretty common in my experience. Or some random thing you said triggered a fear of theirs and they downvoted you in an abundance of caution. That’s pretty common too. Not really worth reading into it. But it is worth applying again at a later date if you’re pumped about the company.
I didn't read too much into it, was mostly just vaguely disappointed.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very few commercial passenger aircraft have autoland capability, and even those that do have two human pilots ready to take over instantly in case of system failure.
The first part of your statement is not true. Autoland as in "press a button and go get a coffee" sure. Almost all commercial aircraft have systems that can land the aircraft themselves (with the pilot ready to take over at any point), but it is not often used in practice because: - pilots still need to know how to land an aircraft themselves, so they may as well practice it (it's not like they are driving to work an…
1) Ground aircraft are always kept out of the ILS critical zone when there is IFR traffic landing, which happens to be all commercial flights and almost all business aircraft. Autoland being used has nothing to do with this, besides, even GA planes can autoland today with RNAV GPS LPV approaches.
2) Autoland is never a requirement — usually, deciding to try an autoland landing or diverting to an alternate airport is the pilot’s game time decision.
3) Not “almost all” commercial aircraft have autoland capability. It requires specific certifications for the pilot and crew as well as the aircraft itself.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
My non US experience is I have seen no correlation of the boom/bust cycles and "how good it is to be an engineer". I realize that FAANG employees are of course raking it in like never before. But I thought that was because of a lack of a salary cartel and general software eating the world.
Yes GP probably meant it's a great time to be an engineer in the US other countries not so sure.
There is a cascading effect on software engineer compensation worldwide.