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If people added their location it would be a lot more useful.
Location is irrelevant to most, if not all, forms of knowledge work. The pandemic pushed remote work style and it's unlikely to put that genie back in the bottle. Butt-in-seat mentality is for dinosaurs.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/us/politics/afghanistan-d... Anyone that gets into defense because of this thread, remember that the technologies you develop will be used to slaughter the innocent.
At the moment America's opponents are leading the slaughtering.
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Agreed. Where I work we hire people from Lockheed all the time. Meta? We wouldn't touch them. Move fast and break things isn't the mentality we're looking for when working with what the Department of Homeland Security has classified as National Critical Infrastructure. If our service goes down, civilization goes down. We can't afford to hire people who've spent a career playing games.
> Meta? We wouldn't touch them. is this your employer's policy? Or do you just fail them in in the interview regardless of their performance.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/us/politics/afghanistan-d... Anyone that gets into defense because of this thread, remember that the technologies you develop will be used to slaughter the innocent.
Cold War Kid here. I grew up in a neighborhood where a significant faction of the fathers were engineers working for a major defense contractor. The Tomahawk Cruise Missile, the Aegis Anti-Missile System, the Abrams Night Vision system - those are just a few of the projects our dads were working on. Everyone in the community, us kids included, considered this to be serious and vital work for defending the US from the…
Yes, because the US had one of the most effective propaganda machines of all times.
You know, participants of a war always believe their side is right and they’re fighting the good fight. Otherwise they wouldn’t do it. And while you’re certainly right that Putin shouldn’t be considered harmless, a victim or even an opponent with equally valid interests, it’s still naive to think the US is just defending against the Putins in the world.
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For a more balanced take, “Why I chose a gun” https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_van_uhm_why_i_chose_a_gun
Why is that a “more balanced take?”
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I went through the process in the fall (starting about a month before being laid off, as it turns out) with almost 25 YOE. My background includes significant startup experience at all levels, plus FAANG and some bigger companies. It took me about 3 months to find a role. The process itself was unlike anything I'd ever experienced before. I've always been very targeted in applications, so prior to this the largest num…
> A not-so-fun fact is that all but one large-company recruiter I talked this has since been laid off. So 9 out of 10 were laid off? That's pretty shocking and dire if so...
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FAANG is shorthand for Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google, not a specific tech stack.
The point is that an engineer at a FAANG likely owns a miniscule fraction of the stack, whatever that may be. The average company doesn't need or want someone who is so deeply specialised.
Meta point (pun unintended): the gravy times are over for us SW engineers, and I won’t be surprised if looking back many will see the past decade as a wasted opportunity for some sort of collective bargaining, or a greater seat at the table of businesses
People said that in 2002. There's always been ebb and flow since the beginning of time. Irrational exuberance is the nature of crowds of speculators.