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Re: Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce

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Post by SkyMarshal »

dmix wrote: post #884
jcadam wrote: post #862

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New Zealand gets the unfortunate legacy of having to share the "zero COVID" mantra with a small group of fellow partners like China (which the NZ PM promoted harder than any other leader via speaker circuits). But otherwise I don't know much about NZ to critique.

Zero Covid may actually be plausible for small, isolated island nations with limited entry points, like NZ, even without locking everyone inside their homes like in China.

And it's probably wise for countries to be using COVID as a test run for something worse. We live in the age of pandemics now, and will probably get hit by something worse eventually. Something like an airborne Ebola strain (50% mortality) or airborne Rabies strain (100% mortality) are going to require a rapid, whole-of-society response to shut it down. If anything like that happens, the US and other countries that made a complete wreck of our response are going to be fucked.

Re: Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce

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Post by tedunangst »

tptacek wrote: post #872
jacobsenscott wrote: post #766

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Can we please retire this "sweet summer child" thing? It is annoying af, rude, and likely never written by anyone over 30.

You're right, and this is in the guidelines. Swipes like these (even if they feel jovial by the writers) sap credibility from posts and civility from the threads.

Do the guidelines not also say something about ignoring such immaterial swipes and focusing on the matter at hand?

Re: Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce

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Post by Open-Sourcery »

SkyMarshal wrote: post #891
dmix wrote: post #884

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New Zealand gets the unfortunate legacy of having to share the "zero COVID" mantra with a small group of fellow partners like China (which the NZ PM promoted harder than any other leader via speaker circuits). But otherwise I don't know much about NZ to critique.

Zero Covid may actually be plausible for small, isolated island nations with limited entry points, like NZ, even without locking everyone inside their homes like in China. And it's probably wise for countries to be using COVID as a test run for something worse. We live in the age of pandemics now, and will probably get hit by something worse eventually. Something like an airborne Ebola strain (50% mortality) or airbo…

Pretty much everyone here lives in dense areas like the rest of the world. Limited entry points probably helped though, and being small more to do with faster, more regional decisions rather than the China way of there is COVID? Lock everything down.

Re: Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce

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Post by cr4nberry »

unity1001 wrote: post #800
hnews_account_1 wrote: post #580

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Don’t worry. Online forums are always like that. They’ll pretend like they’ve never had a high pressure job that paid out handsomely if you applied yourself and hence motivated you to work harder. To them, they think everyone should have work life balance from the age of 23 just because they’ve discovered its importance at 32 years of age. Young people have to work hard. I don’t expect my reports to work on any eveni…

> Young people have to work hard If people have to work hard to make a good living in the 21st century that we are now in, then it means that whatever society they are in has failed.

Maybe because they enjoy work and the learning that comes with it? Or because they want to outdo the preexisting products?

Re: Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce

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Post by cr4nberry »

lmarcos wrote: post #694
hnews_account_1 wrote: post #580

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Don’t worry. Online forums are always like that. They’ll pretend like they’ve never had a high pressure job that paid out handsomely if you applied yourself and hence motivated you to work harder. To them, they think everyone should have work life balance from the age of 23 just because they’ve discovered its importance at 32 years of age. Young people have to work hard. I don’t expect my reports to work on any eveni…

It could be as well that it's an European thing. At least over here work is just work (9 to 5, or less if possible), so we prefer to spent life with friends and family. Yeah, we don't earn $500K/year, but that's alright.

This feels odd to read as an American. I have a hard time understanding how anyone could make the next AWS on just a 9-5

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Post by lalwanivikas »

ddyevf635372 wrote: post #850
jcadam wrote: post #677

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I was laid off at the beginning of October and still can’t find anything. It’s definitely a buyer’s market for senior level engineering talent.

It is time to apply jobs in New Zealand. Economy is strong, easy pathway to be permanent resident. Oh, and it is a beautiful country with super friendly people. https://www.immigration.govt.nz/new-zealand-visas/apply-for-...

*5 years to citizenship, which is not bad but not the best either.

Re: Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce

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Post by ctvo »

jcadam wrote: post #864
DeathArrow wrote: post #736

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Me too. I was laid off at the beginning of October. I got three good offers, picked the best and signed the contract. I went through about 15 interviews and applied to maybe 50 positions.

If I were at 5-10 years experience, I'd probably have much better luck. That seems to be the sweet spot.

You think there’s a difference between 10 years and 15 years? Get better at interviewing. The years of experience you put on your resume isn’t what’s losing you the job. “Too senior but willing to work for just senior rates” certainly isn’t it.

Re: Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce

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Post by joshxyz »

gzer0 wrote: post #633

* Severance pay. We will pay 14 weeks of severance for all departing employees, and more for those with longer tenure. That is, those departing will be paid until at least February 21st 2023. * Bonus. We will pay our 2022 annual bonus for all departing employees, regardless of their departure date. (It will be prorated for people hired in 2022.) * PTO. We’ll pay for all unused PTO time (including in regions where tha…

hope they didnt fire edwin, i love that guy.
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