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Re: Compare career levels across companies

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Post by Arnavion »

saagarjha wrote: post #6
Apocryphon wrote: post #4

I like how the sample question on Triplebyte tests API memorization instead of algorithms knowledge. Of course, you can't win. At a whiteboarding session, there will always be applicants who give out the method from the library instead of providing an algorithmic solution.

I found it to be an ok question; not at all an API one. The answers differ quite a bit, and by choosing one and explaining why you can show that you understand what you’re doing. For example, if you choose str.indexOf(‘ ‘) you clearly have no idea what you’re doing, and if you pick str.count(‘ ‘) - 1 you look like you saw the actual solution somewhere and are picking something that looks similar without really thinki…

I agree with you about A and C, but not your reason for discounting D.

In particular, https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.0.0/unicode/str/trait.UnicodeStr... is an ancient counter-example (it was replaced by split_whitespace).

Re: Compare career levels across companies

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Post by dna113 »

slivym wrote: post #7

Here's a slightly related open question: Are Engineers in the US just much richer than in the UK? For perspective, I started my career with an MEng in Electronic and Electrical Engineering as a Hardware Design Engineer at £35k (I out-earned most of my fellow graduates). It seems like these salaries are just comically disjointed from my entire experience of life. Can anyone here speak to the differences? Everything I'…

Those 3 companies pay significantly higher than your average software engineer as far as I can tell. I make close to 80k in Southern California and I don't stress about money but I'm also not retiring early.

Re: Compare career levels across companies

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Post by xeromal »

Zaheer wrote: post #3

Hi, I'm one the makers of Levels.fyi. Happy to answer any questions and would love to hear feedback! We have a lot of features in the coming months that we think folks will love!

Clicking around on the page adds to the tab's history. I had to click back 10x to go back to this thread. Seems kind of pointless to record state in this usecase?

Re: Compare career levels across companies

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Post by NKosmatos »

Zaheer wrote: post #3

Hi, I'm one the makers of Levels.fyi. Happy to answer any questions and would love to hear feedback! We have a lot of features in the coming months that we think folks will love!

Hi and thanks for the info. A couple of things if I may. Please don’t hijack the browser history, played around with some companies and levels and when I tried coming back to HN the history was full ;-) Also it would be good if you could include some extra details about each level (e.g. education, years of experience). I think I’ll give Triplebyte a try, reminds me of HackerRank.

Re: Compare career levels across companies

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Post by malvosenior »

Zaheer wrote: post #3

Hi, I'm one the makers of Levels.fyi. Happy to answer any questions and would love to hear feedback! We have a lot of features in the coming months that we think folks will love!

Hi, thanks for making such a helpful site! My feedback would be:

* Would love to see the salary numbers without clicking for easy comparison

* I don't like how clicking around fills my browser history and adds back button clicks

Re: Compare career levels across companies

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Post by kmonsen »

slivym wrote: post #7

Here's a slightly related open question: Are Engineers in the US just much richer than in the UK? For perspective, I started my career with an MEng in Electronic and Electrical Engineering as a Hardware Design Engineer at £35k (I out-earned most of my fellow graduates). It seems like these salaries are just comically disjointed from my entire experience of life. Can anyone here speak to the differences? Everything I'…

I worked for Google in London and SF, the was a significant salary difference but also some personal growth. Still it could be at least 2-3x
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