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Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th

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Re: Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th

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Post by PragmaticPulp »

yodsanklai wrote: post #378
paxys wrote: post #291

I suspect we are going to see some turmoil in the tech hiring space with stock prices taking a beating in recent months. Large companies have gotten away with paying under market price for talent because employees have seen massive gains from stock appreciation over the last decade. If total comp starts going down year over year, suddenly the more traditional, no-frills system at places like Apple, Microsoft and Amaz…

> Large companies have gotten away with paying under market price for talent because employees have seen massive gains from stock appreciation over the last decade. Are you sure these places pay "below market price"? Just curious, what companies would pay significantly more than FAANG?

Agree. It doesn’t make sense.

If they aren’t struggling to hire and retain, they’re paying market rate. It’s as simple as that.

Re: Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th

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Post by graeme »

adrianmonk wrote: post #334
nostromo wrote: post #16

More people are dying with Covid now than were dying most of the previous two years, minus 4 peaks of various waves. I'm happy we're returning to normalcy, but it just makes me wonder "why now?" It's like the government and big business just decided overnight to declare "mission accomplished" when nothing substantial has changed. Last summer, for example, could have been the reopening, and we'd have better data and "…

> makes me wonder "why now?" Today's episode of the Scientific American's podcast "COVID Quickly" ( https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/the-push-... ) had an interview with Flu pandemic historian John Barry. (The interview is the second half of the episode.) They asked him how he'd define when a pandemic is over, and he said there's a science aspect to it, but it's largely when "people stop paying atte…

That’s contingent on the number of waves being four and the number of years being two though.

I have no expectation covid is done. At a certain point you have to pay attention if it’s bad enough.

Re: Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th

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Post by graeme »

adrianmonk wrote: post #334
nostromo wrote: post #16

More people are dying with Covid now than were dying most of the previous two years, minus 4 peaks of various waves. I'm happy we're returning to normalcy, but it just makes me wonder "why now?" It's like the government and big business just decided overnight to declare "mission accomplished" when nothing substantial has changed. Last summer, for example, could have been the reopening, and we'd have better data and "…

> makes me wonder "why now?" Today's episode of the Scientific American's podcast "COVID Quickly" ( https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/the-push-... ) had an interview with Flu pandemic historian John Barry. (The interview is the second half of the episode.) They asked him how he'd define when a pandemic is over, and he said there's a science aspect to it, but it's largely when "people stop paying atte…

That’s contingent on the number of waves being four and the number of years being two though.

I have no expectation covid is done. At a certain point you have to pay attention if it’s bad enough. (It isn’t now)

Re: Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th

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Post by renewiltord »

yodsanklai wrote: post #387
renewiltord wrote: post #367

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least for the subset of small that are startups, small companies vs big companies isn’t a comp discussion. You will win on comp going to the smaller guys. It’s whether you want to burn for the moon or you want to live a comfortable upper middle class life. FAANG is 70% retirees, 30% dipole candle burners. And the 30% provide the value, while the 70% are along for the ride.

I work in a FAANG and I can tell you than nobody in my team is slacking. Quite the opposite. Everybody is smart and working hard, there's no way you can cruise. I think all new members work even on weekends. A colleague of mine got fired because he didn't meet expectations for his level. He would have been totally fine in other companies. Turnover is high despite the high compensation. I'm sure it depends on the comp…

Oh I have lots of friends at FAANGs. I also have lots of friends no longer there. The one thing I’ve learned is that people still at the company always assume that their team is fairly typical.

So all the hard workers describe the place as hard working. All the slackers describe it as relaxing.

Among the ex-FAANG, the hard workers describe their team as slacking. I don’t have any ex-FAANG slacker friends. They just stayed.

I’ve got 10 years of friends here and I’m fairly social so I think I’ve gotten a somewhat large sample, at least (if not unbiased).

Re: Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th

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Post by ballarak »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #399
paxys wrote: post #291

I suspect we are going to see some turmoil in the tech hiring space with stock prices taking a beating in recent months. Large companies have gotten away with paying under market price for talent because employees have seen massive gains from stock appreciation over the last decade. If total comp starts going down year over year, suddenly the more traditional, no-frills system at places like Apple, Microsoft and Amaz…

> Large companies have gotten away with paying under market price This doesn’t make any sense. What the large companies are paying is the market price. By definition. It’s literally not possible for all of the big companies to be paying under market price at the same time. That implies some other prevailing market price somewhere else, yet we’ve clearly seen the highest salaries come from the big companies. The big c…

I think what they're saying is that base comp was artificially lower because of rapidly growing RSU value

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Post by nano9 »

If remote really works and the market is fair, then this is a good opportunity to see evidence in its favor. Somehow, I don't think fully remote companies will find it easy, unless they have some secret formula for finding remote talent. Companies like GitLab (fully remote) continue to be outliers.

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Post by vl »

paxys wrote: post #291

I suspect we are going to see some turmoil in the tech hiring space with stock prices taking a beating in recent months. Large companies have gotten away with paying under market price for talent because employees have seen massive gains from stock appreciation over the last decade. If total comp starts going down year over year, suddenly the more traditional, no-frills system at places like Apple, Microsoft and Amaz…

In the month it will the best time to look for software job ever. With Russian, Belorussian and Ukrainian developers cut off, companies, that used to rely on remote teams, are going to be in the hiring frenzy to replace them.

Smart ones are already in the hiring frenzy.

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Post by arcticbull »

moneywoes wrote: post #388
arcticbull wrote: post #376

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> ... what do you think would happen to the stock price of high flying growth companies that don't even make a profit? They're already down as much as 80%. If I were looking around today, I'd kill to join one of those high growth tech startups with a solid balance sheet that just got the crap kicked out of its stock.

Any names? Besides SQ I don't see many

That's the big one I had in mind.

Re: Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th

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Post by myelin »

abledon wrote: post #111
tombert wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

COVID made my situation worse at Apple. I worked in a satellite office (NYC), and while in the office, most folks in California were reluctant to schedule meetings later than ~2pm california time because they didn't want to keep people in the office late. When we went fully remote, suddenly it seems like any compunctions about that vanished; I would have meetings until 9pm 3 nights a week, I guess because the manager…

> b) there's no such thing as "my own time" with Apple, since I was salaried and well-compensated. Is there 1 FAANG company that is the most friendly/accomodating to someone who wants to develop their own software/indiegames on the side?

Google has a thing called "IARC" (https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/releasing#...) where you make an application with details about what you're done or have done, and if it's approved, you get to own the copyright.

If you want to release it as open source and don't care about owning the copyright, there's a process you can go through to release a new open source project. If you just want to send patches to an existing project, you can generally just do that, as long as the project has an approved open source license and is not on the (short) list of disallowed projects.

Re: Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th

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Post by LAC-Tech »

duderific wrote: post #397
LAC-Tech wrote: post #303

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like the binary tree questions may actually be relevant for JS, considering there aren't any the standard lib.

General tree traversal is pretty valid for frontend. Specifically binary tree is not.

It's really not far fetched to imagine needing to do a prefix scan of data held in client-side memory.
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