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Post by tempestn »

skeeter2020 wrote: post #251
UnpossibleJim wrote: post #54

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At a certain point, I guess you'd have to say to yourself (or I'd have to say to myself, would be a better way to say it), "I'll whore myself out for X amount of time for X amount of money, then I can do whatever I want or work for whomever I want for X amount of time, after."

flexible ethics? not everybody.

There are different degrees of flexibility. Perhaps some people are utterly inflexible, but I wouldn't much want to know them! As for this specific case, it's not like you're going to be breaking legs for the mob. A person might believe that Facebook or Amazon are a net negative for the world, but that doesn't mean that everything they do is bad or that one's individual contribution can't be good, or at least neutral.

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tnel77 wrote: post #259
yoyohello13 wrote: post #189

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Reading these responses is pretty upsetting. No wonder big tech is so evil. So many talented developers willing to sell their soul for more money. No thought to whether what they’re doing is causing harm to the world.

It’s sad, but I don’t see the world getting better anytime soon. I am trying to earn and invest as much as I can for the sake of my children and grandchildren. I hope I’m wrong, but I feel like they will be financially devastated otherwise.

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Post by tempestn »

ido wrote: post #255
nostrebored wrote: post #209

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$100m/yr? You have some very interesting ideas about corporate ceo/SVP salaries

Is $100m too low or too high?

Too high. A small handful of CEOs have started making >100M in annual comp recently[1], but outside of the very highest paid CEOs, even top executives don't make that kind of money. (Although they certainly might see a capital gain in excess of that amount on their stock and options when the share price goes up.)

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-highest-paid-ceos/

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Post by langsoul-com »

acconrad wrote: post #139

Hi folks! Author here - did not expect this post to blow up. Figured it might be helpful to provide some context on points of confusion: 1. Money > everything: an alternative way to look at this is that if you sort by offers, you notice there are a lot of neat companies in that list. I didn't just sort and then blindly apply. I sorted, and noticed that they all had something I was really interested in. I use Amazon w…

Could you elaborate on your conclusion. The entire post is about prep but you said next time you won't spend so much time prepping and use standard questions.

What were those questions?

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Post by makapuf »

wojciii wrote: post #256
rhizome wrote: post #100

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Parenting is work.

Exactly. I know this now. I didn't before I had children. Some parenting is fun but most is hard unforgiving work that might or might not reward you in the future.

The thing is it's not rewarding in the future, knowing you do hard work for a small being that you love was the reward for me.

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Post by georgeburdell »

lostcolony wrote: post #223
0des wrote: post #201

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Call it what it is. That's no way to live and that's not a healthy relationship.

...it's totally healthy. He had developed a routine and set of expectations with his wife, that ensured their mutual needs for time together, and the needs of the kid, were being met. As he looked into how much time he'd need to take to adequately prepare, he first looked to cut down on something important to him without losing progress in it, which gave him most of the time he felt he needed, but still felt short. H…

No, it’s weird and I suspect there’s more to the story on how they arrived at this kind of system. It sounds mechanical and low-trust. Granted, I am not as ambitious as the author, but my wife and I do not ask each other for permission to do things. What we do do is let the other know that we’re taking on an extra responsibility, and specific help needed. We both work in tech and are raising two toddlers.

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Post by justinlloyd »

For years I have run in terror at the leetcodes I might be thrown by a tech company that thinks it is a FANG.

Looking at the "Blind 75 Must Do Leetcode" problems, I must say, I am disappoint.

I just spent four hours on a Friday evening going through each of the problems, and have so far solved 40+ of them, in a less than optimal fashion for the most part, but solved and "correct" to pass the test cases. Some of them were so dazzling easy (Coins, Sum2, Robber, Robber II, Word Search II), that I sat there for a good few seconds and thought "That cannot be it, surely?!?"

Am I missing something?

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Post by danuker »

0des wrote: post #198
dangus wrote: post #194

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The irony of the article is that Meta isn’t even that hard to get into because so many candidates hard no on them because they know Facebook is evil. I read an article that said how Meta has to pay well above market rates to acquire talent due to their negative perception. It’s basically working for the cigarette company of tech.

> It’s basically working for the cigarette company of tech. This is not the first time I've heard this at all and each time it is equally relevant. Unless meta gets everyone goggled up fast I think that there will be so much negative stigma nobody will want to be part of it.

I think you are misjudging the speed it will happen. I think the Metaverse will be a slow death march, eventually ending up teaching others what not to do.

Unless the VR experience is flawless, and I mean better than reality, people can't get hooked.

If the hardware lags even a bit, the headaches and dizziness become unbearable. Depth-of-field is another disorienting factor, and field-of-view yet another.

I believe we do not yet have the technology to offer such an experience, let alone cheaply. As such, Facebook is prematurely investing in it.

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Post by wayne-li2 »

yoyohello13 wrote: post #189
claudiulodro wrote: post #8

It's wild to me that his way of figuring out what companies to apply for was to make a list of the top-paying ones and just pick the top 10 highest-paying. Is that a common strategy? No thought about product, industry, impact on the world, just $$$. It looks like it worked out for them though, since I guess they got like a million dollar offer, so maybe I'm the one approaching this the wrong way?

Reading these responses is pretty upsetting. No wonder big tech is so evil. So many talented developers willing to sell their soul for more money. No thought to whether what they’re doing is causing harm to the world.

Reading judgmental comments like this also upsets me.

It’s not selling your soul. It’s called being disillusioned with your impact on the world, a feeling that more and more people are feeling. Long gone are the days where you believed an individual could make a difference. At big corp, you are a small cog in the big machine. You are replaceable.

I’ve volunteered on political campaigns. I’ve volunteered for non profits as a developer. I’ve worked at startups that align closely with my moral views. Guess what? It’s all rotten. Nothing of meaning ever gets done, and the pay is pennies to boot. In the case of my volunteerism, pay equates to the pay of my full time colleagues that worked for those organizations.

So when faced with the choice of doing nothing on something you believe in for very little versus doing nothing on something you don’t for a lot, the choice is extremely easy. The choice is even easier if you factor in the level of privilege it takes to turn down generational money for someone else’s moral compass.

I’ve tried my best not to pass judgment onto you, but ask yourself — what kind of privilege affords you to think that the twenty year old second generation immigrants of today with no family wealth or financial lifeboat should give up their chance of securing generational (not even multigenerational) wealth in the richest country in the world just to achieve the same impact but feel better about themselves?

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Post by barry-cotter »

0des wrote: post #205
notch656a wrote: post #55

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Yeah 30m of extra 'me' time could easily mean the wife loses half her free time. That breeds a TON of marital problems and issues if you don't clear it. A 1 y/o is basically a time vacuum.

Apparently I'm the only one who enjoyed my time with baby and didn't find it to be work at all. If you aren't equipped to live for and love your child you should wait until you are in a better place to do so. It isn't some airborne illness, and babies aren't all universally a ball and shackle.

You can love your child without finding every moment with them a joy.
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