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> I think distributed ledgers are here to stay What exactly makes you think that? As far as I can tell, it's still unclear if distributed ledgers are really effective tools for much of anything. What real problems have they solved?
It's quite useful for buying drugs.
"While we did not make this decision lightly..." Yes but you aren't doing it humanely, either. I've been through the dot com crash and several hard economic downturns. It really puts your company's humanity on full display. It's the real test. Preserving cash flow is important. But you also have to do things carefully, openly, and with genuine care for the people who've believed in your vision. People will respect th…
Isn't hiring excessively sloppy? In tech when times are good, everyone's desperately throwing warm bodies in chairs. I'm sure many have thought to themselves, "I'm glad I'm getting paid, but is my job really that necessary? Do we need a six-person Button Component Team?"
It's nice that they are offering 1 months severance, but still, it's got to be crushing to have an offer rescinded like this.
It's less nice and more that they're paying people to sign away their right to sue. Imagine you've left your job, you probably don't want to go back there. You have to start a new job search. You're likely out more than one month's salary. Plus the intangibles of a job search while unemployed vs. employed. Imagine you declined COBRA, or even with COBRA, you might end up with a period of being responsible for your own…
Already been discussed yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31600505 It is no different than been fired I don't understand the noise it is making
It's nice that they are offering 1 months severance, but still, it's got to be crushing to have an offer rescinded like this.
It's less nice and more that they're paying people to sign away their right to sue. Imagine you've left your job, you probably don't want to go back there. You have to start a new job search. You're likely out more than one month's salary. Plus the intangibles of a job search while unemployed vs. employed. Imagine you declined COBRA, or even with COBRA, you might end up with a period of being responsible for your own…
LinkedIn should set up a code of practice that bans this. Rescind offers? Then you can't advertise on LinkedIn for the next 5 years, and we won't host your job posts either. That would change the calculations at these companies and make the jobs marketplace better, at little cost to LinkedIn.
LinkedIn (a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation) has the worst "activity feed" algorithm I have ever seen. It is a dopamine-poking, engagement-optimizing mess. So I have very little confidence they would do anything for ethical reasons over money.
"While we did not make this decision lightly..." Yes but you aren't doing it humanely, either. I've been through the dot com crash and several hard economic downturns. It really puts your company's humanity on full display. It's the real test. Preserving cash flow is important. But you also have to do things carefully, openly, and with genuine care for the people who've believed in your vision. People will respect th…
I've been interviewing for the past month and I made a rule that I won't be doing any algorithm interviews. I didn't have time to study; some friends questioned whether this was a good idea or not. I ended up submitting code samples when recruiters or managers would try to go through that kind of phone screening. Not only am I interviewing at better quality firms, but it's not nearly as stressful.
Anecdotally there is a high correlation between firms that tell me they're freezing hiring, etc and algorithm interviews.
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Crypto has boom and bust cycles. It will be back again, and mania will happen again.
Past booms are no guarantee of future booms. Fundamentals of crypto don't appear sound to me. So I wouldn't put much stock in them.