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How I survived being a $220k/year intern

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Re: How I survived being a $220k/year intern

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Post by markdown »

btmiller wrote: post #100
_2d30 wrote: post #29

Blog posts like this are usually best interpreted as the bitter ranting of an ex-employee who was let go. The author himself was semi-notorious (possibly still so?) in the Redis community for being a bit of a self-serving demagogue (to put it nicely). Generally speaking, if an individual was a remote, WFH, IC employee whose manager didn't even talk to them for a year, they probably don't have the working knowledge to…

Yes, this is self-sabotage, I would never hire him and I would leave a company if they were to hire him. Yikes. Edit: and I didn't catch the audio clip at the end until just now! Wow. What is this guy thinking??

> I would leave a company if they were to hire him.

Wow. I don't know you, but going by nothing but that statement, you sound as privileged and entitled as he is.

Re: How I survived being a $220k/year intern

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Post by ta999999171 »

jay_wild wrote: post #96
thoraway1010 wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Checking I'm on my throaway. I followed exactly this practice - immediately left crappy places -> kept strong clients. Took myself from $40K/year to $500K/year (not tech BTW so this is I think a bit harder than in tech). Here is the kicker - some of the terrible places I left later called and specifically requested me. I literally burnt NO bridges. I would just apologize and say I didn't think I could meet their stan…

What was the time frame on your $40k -> $500k jump, if you don't mind my asking?

Not OP, but, guessing less than 2 years.

Re: How I survived being a $220k/year intern

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Post by brutal_boi »

chrisseaton wrote: post #103
gregd wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I don't disagree with most of what you're saying, this idea that people should (or can) just leave employment, needs to stop. This is not the way most of the world works and many people are "stuck" in very shitty situations that don't have many opportunities, out. But with regard to the rest of your comment, absolutely. This guy is a knob.

> this idea that people should (or can) just leave employment, needs to stop I don't think this applies when you are pulling down nearly a quarter of a million dollars a year - then I think you probably have quite a lot of freedom to just walk out the door anytime you want.

If the mortage/rental and family expense is in the same order of magnitude as the salary, it's little different than everywhere else.

Re: How I survived being a $220k/year intern

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Post by jaredklewis »

gregd wrote: post #82
kaiabwpdjqn wrote: post #10

I find this post to be relatively unimpressive. He spends a great amount of time complaining about how the company was shit in a way that implies he was personally offended, but the title says he got a generous salary for little expected work. It’s not clear to me why he is bitter about anything. I have no doubt that the company was genuinely poorly run. His observations about problems in the sales culture are likely…

While I don't disagree with most of what you're saying, this idea that people should (or can) just leave employment, needs to stop. This is not the way most of the world works and many people are "stuck" in very shitty situations that don't have many opportunities, out. But with regard to the rest of your comment, absolutely. This guy is a knob.

I’m not sure what “most of the world” has to do with a guy making more than $200k a year. At $200k per year, you are in a very good position to change your circumstances.

Imagine going down to your local watering hole and lamenting about your circumstances that “stuck” you in your $200k job. Probably a pretty good way to get punched in the face.

Re: How I survived being a $220k/year intern

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Post by Thorrez »

masklinn wrote: post #2

Should be tagged [2017]: while the article itself doesn't have a date, the next in the series ("How Dumb Must You Be To Work For Pivotal in 2018?") notes: > Previously (December 2017): Pivotal Empolyment 2013-2016

Also here[1] it's listed with the date 2017-12-16. It's confusing that the article appears to have 3 titles: "Commit. This.", "How I Survived Being A $220k/year Intern", and "A Senior Developer Who Couldn’t Commit Code". Also obviously confusing that the article page itself is undated.

[1] https://matt.sh/

Re: How I survived being a $220k/year intern

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Post by sixstringtheory »

chrisseaton wrote: post #51
DuskStar wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My reading was that those were to open source projects the company didn't control.

Contributions required by paying customers as a result of a commercial support contract. If he's pushing to Redis he's responsible for the integrity of probably billions of dollars worth of data. That's a massive , international-scale level of responsibility, in the name of his employer. That's huge responsibility!

And to boot, he has a portfolio of work he can show potential next employers instead of it being blackholed in a private repo forever.

Re: How I survived being a $220k/year intern

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Post by itronitron »

deanCommie wrote: post #117

Something smelled fishy, so I did a bit of follow-up. This dude is leaving out a huge detail to make his employment troubles be a pivotal problem when...it's not. Let's footnote a coupleo f his "Story of Pivotal The Employment" > Hired To contribute to Redis > All My Work Is Owned by Another Employee? What? The primary redis maintainer, not a pivotal employee? > Let’s Organize Instead of Being A Hobby Project Let's m…

very interesting thread, I'm impressed with the depth of antirez's patience and goodwill.

Re: How I survived being a $220k/year intern

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Post by rachelbythebay »

gist wrote: post #78
HarryHirsch wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rachel had something about fixing corporate culture recently (hint: you can't), and sometimes really you can't leave. Some are shackled to their jobs through their visa, others because of healthcare needs (their health insurance has favourable terms, and they need to care for a family member), and others because of the nature of the industry (university faculty comes to mind, especially post-2008). The fact that you…

Insider club here? Who is 'Rachel'?

Hi?

Re: How I survived being a $220k/year intern

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Post by Traster »

chrisseaton wrote: post #103
gregd wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I don't disagree with most of what you're saying, this idea that people should (or can) just leave employment, needs to stop. This is not the way most of the world works and many people are "stuck" in very shitty situations that don't have many opportunities, out. But with regard to the rest of your comment, absolutely. This guy is a knob.

> this idea that people should (or can) just leave employment, needs to stop I don't think this applies when you are pulling down nearly a quarter of a million dollars a year - then I think you probably have quite a lot of freedom to just walk out the door anytime you want.

It doesn't matter what your salary is, if you've got a big old mortgage and a wife and kids then losing your income is really scary. What if the job search takes longer than you expected? What if it takes much longer? He's already remote working, that massively narrows down his options. It's not as simple as just "get another job" and every day he doesn't have a job, bills are piling up.
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