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Re: On Leaving Facebook

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Post by ztjio »

JGM_io wrote: post #579
steelframe wrote: post #575

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I joined a FAANG during the pendemic, and for the entire year I was there, I never got assigned a single task. Of course I kept myself busy trying to identify and solve problems around me, but I never had a deadline or anything associated with what I had chosen to work on. After a year I just couldn't do it anymore. A few acquaintances thought I was out of my mind and that I should continue milking that for all it's…

What you feel is the "Competence" part of core motivation according to deci & ryan "self determination theory". Their original paper is from 2008 i believe and states people need the perceived Autonomy to choose their life, perceived Competence over that choice and the perceived Relatedness that others respect and encourage your activity of choice. So it's very understandable that if 1 of 3 is missing your psyche bec…

SDT's from the 70's, not 2008. However, in 2009 Daniel Pink published a book that seems to basically neatly package up SDT in a much more directly consumable way, maybe that's where your timeframe is coming from? I actually think Pink's take has some insight but it's not very scientifically oriented.

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Post by iamstupidsimple »

erenyeager wrote: post #623
vlovich123 wrote: post #448

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Shall we also start making moral judgements about the city or country you live/lived in? The products you choose to purchase? The schools you chose to attend? The political party you choose to support? The religion you are or aren’t a part of? The sports teams you support? Shall we look down on NASA engineers because it’s part of the US government and pulls heavily from the US military/has overlap with the intelligen…

So I keep seeing things about Netflix so I felt I might comment. Netflix is in a profoundly evil field. They work to manipulate people through media. They are not the only company, of course, but they are egregious. For example, Netflix infamously pulled Hasan Minhaj’s episode on Saudi Arabia from Saudi Arabian Netflix in exchange for allowing Orange is the New Black to stay. They want to, for lack of better words, m…

Netflix are accused every day of the exact opposite, i.e. "pushing social justice narratives". They're a media company caught up in some nonsense internet culture war, don't read too much into it.

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Post by magicroot75 »

rsynnott wrote: post #57
dahdum wrote: post #22

I didn’t see retirement addressed, that would be among my top priorities personally. Unless he’s already financially independent and can retire at will, taking a 30% paycut off FB’s top 5% comp could mean delaying retirement by many years. Given fixed living costs, retirement savings could easily drop by much more than 30%. I’m not disagreeing with his choice, it’s a personal one and he may not want early retirement,…

I find it kind of fascinating how into the idea of early retirement many people on this site are. I mean, there’s nothing wrong with it as such, but… I don’t really get it. I don’t think I actually know anyone who has early-retired. What would you do with yourself? Is it not better to work for a longer time at a job you like than a shorter time at a higher paying one that you dislike?

Work purely on something I'm passionate about.

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Post by Damogran6 »

62951413 wrote: post #628
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I'm on the part of my career journey where I've realized you're _JUST_ exchanging time for money. They want you to work on something that gets thrown away? It paid for the mortgage, it made a car payment, it's thrown away JUST like 99.9% of the stuff I did for the first 10 years of my career. It's GOING to happen, best not to get too caught up in it. Going into SIEM build #8 in my life....it's just another SIEM. I ta…

Isn't the main risk here not acquiring new production experience and so reducing your chances for finding the next gig? As in "adding new buzzwords to your resume" basically. When they ask you in three years about how you have spent the time. If you convert XML requests to JSON messages for a living and not even with Spark.

Aspirationally, you should be getting to the point where you care less about the underlying technology (you're smart, you can pick up whatever tech they want to use this week), you're paid more because you have the scars and experience that can be better applied to the tech du jour.

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Post by sockgrant »

skydhash wrote: post #348
sockgrant wrote: post #202

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If you’re struggling I don’t think you should try to memorize leet code problems, you should try to understand how to apply algorithms.

We know how to apply them, it just that algorithms are not fit all solutions for most type of problems you encounter in the real world. I had to write a frequency analysis code. What I did was search for existing methods, found a paper that provides a mathematical procedure, then convert it to code. The data structures came directly from the OS and thankfully, there were no need to convert them to something else. I'd…

There’s probably better code writing interviews to be conducted, but I think writing code in an interview is important. I’ve conducted many interviews in C where the candidate has years of C but doesn’t know the stack from the heap.

So I dunno, it’s not fun doing the gimmicky leet code questions but it definitely filters candidates.

I think people in this thread take them for granted… many candidates struggle with them. The ones that think they’re easy and you just gotta study a little bit — they’re honestly probably pretty smart.

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Post by anonymoushn »

zionic wrote: post #161
unmole wrote: post #126

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Can you please name your company? I haven't worked at FAANG but I most definitely would not want to work for a company like yours.

Not going to dox myself. > I haven't worked at FAANG I doubt that. > but I most definitely would not want to work for a company like yours. You do you. But I make sure we pay way above average, I want the best people and the best people don’t work for Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google.

How do the best people avoid working for CEOs who accept buyouts from FAANG?

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Post by Salgat »

throwaway31332 wrote: post #265
Salgat wrote: post #230

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He's waiting on responses or is entering the final rounds for some of these companies.

Bingo. Mix of "offer in hand", "offer coming Monday-ish", and "finishing interview loops" Also, who says I'm a "he"? FAANG companies have smart female engineers too (not nearly enough, but we're working on it)

I apologize, "he" was for most of American English's history the default pronoun when gender was not known. I'm still working on using "they" instead, but I occasionally slip up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_neutrality_in_English

Re: On Leaving Facebook

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Post by [deleted] »

therealdrag0 wrote: post #611
moonshinefe wrote: post #566

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This person was helping Facebook make money while the news was filled with stories about them manipulating democracy, enabling genocide and ruining people's mental health. That's cool they were working on tools that weren't directly related on a small team, but the money all funnels to the top and enables this stuff. They knew full well from all the news unless they were completely burying their head in the sand. So…

I don't think there's any reason to believe without facebook these same ills would not have existed aired on other free-speech platforms. History shows they have. Why attack facebook instead of the actual content creators? Seems like an easy boogie man.

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Post by hiptobecubic »

me_me_mu_mu wrote: post #498
hiptobecubic wrote: post #430

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And you have people making 6x less than you working at different jobs than yours. These kinds of complaints really lack perspective imo. Getting paid less at work is the same as over paying when buying something. Would you call it cringey if someone doesn't want to pay 30% more than all their neighbors for their house? They can "probably" afford it, can't they? Just be happy you have a house at all, right? What's a f…

What? I’m not the one complaining about comp. I’m in a peer group that’s highly paid yet still cries over compensation.

My point is that "highly paid" is relative and context matters.

Re: On Leaving Facebook

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Post by me_me_mu_mu »

hiptobecubic wrote: post #639
me_me_mu_mu wrote: post #498

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What? I’m not the one complaining about comp. I’m in a peer group that’s highly paid yet still cries over compensation.

My point is that "highly paid" is relative and context matters.

Cool and I mentioned USA where I’m from. Idk if that’s not enough for you to piece together what I’m trying to say.
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