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Architecturally it seems to be adding a massive hop to requests made, but its not clear to me what the benefit is?
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The "$300 mental health" seems odd - for any kind of counseling/therapy/etc sessions this is a drop in the bucket in terms of cost. It will easily cost 10x to work with a mental health professional (and insurance companies sadly pay a very small amount of it). So why add this to an otherwise reasonable package?
$300 is incredibly reasonable since it's more than $0.
Is there a reason why these big layoffs are done just before thanksgiving, Christmas etc?
Doing layoff before that is beneficial for employer to save on labor cost (not paying low productivity time), and employee (allows better planning)
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No it's not. Severance is extremely common, while this package is quite generous.
Severance is definitely not common in startups. They'll usually burn the cash right up until the very last investor says 'no more' and then call it quits. They might have one more pay period (or two) in the bank.
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Severance is definitely not common in startups. They'll usually burn the cash right up until the very last investor says 'no more' and then call it quits. They might have one more pay period (or two) in the bank.
I got hired by a place, and my first paycheck bounced. The owners are now billionaires. (They sold the company to a Fortune 100 about 18 months later.)
I have pretty limited experience with graphql. Why is apollos offering interesting to people? A hosted graphql proxy? You still need to write your own servers(but theres a ton of good libraries in multiple languages for this?) Architecturally it seems to be adding a massive hop to requests made, but its not clear to me what the benefit is?
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Crazy. Usually it's just "Pay stops today, benefits at the end of the month. Hand in your badge - off you go."
No it's not. Severance is extremely common, while this package is quite generous.
Why are software companies still grappling with the mythical man month? You'd think by now we'd have learned our lesson. More hands /= more productivity, at least on a linear scale
I’ve actually spent a long time working at engineering orgs that run super lean. On the upside there are never layoffs, on the downside you’re really constrained on what problems you can tackle - and that can have some major (negative) business implications.
Anyway I can’t help but feel we are slowly reverting back to the aughts where people thought you could clone Google or whatever with like 5 engineers and didn’t understand why nobody took them seriously.
I have pretty limited experience with graphql. Why is apollos offering interesting to people? A hosted graphql proxy? You still need to write your own servers(but theres a ton of good libraries in multiple languages for this?) Architecturally it seems to be adding a massive hop to requests made, but its not clear to me what the benefit is?
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I had a layoff like that, they gave me the option of choosing. Lump sum or "stay on the payroll but have no access." I went with the latter because it paid better. For a while I was always stressed out about background checks, because it showed that I was working two jobs. (I got a job to replace it almost immediately, but continued to get paid by the old place.)
Sorry but where exactly would a background check show you have two jobs?
"The Work Number" is a very popular service for this. They are owned by Equifax.