How I survived being a $220k/year intern • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by dosethree » Mon, Mar 09, 2020, 1:28 PM UTC

autarch wrote: post #56

baryphonic wrote: post #46

I think "Matt" thinks he's a bit cleverer than he is. It's not clear what he's talking about. He also uses the word "fraud" ad nauseam. One place I worked actually used Pivotal Tracker, and I found it worked pretty well from the end-user perspective. Wasn't ground-breaking software or anything, but it at least worked. I could see my tasks at a glance a lot easier than with, say, Basecamp. Just another person with an…

For what it's worth I think Tracker is a very small part of the overall Pivotal business. I think their main focus is their cloud computing products. I love PT and I've used it for 6+ years at my last two jobs.

Yeah I’ve used PCF and their open source stuff a lot, and i’ve never had an issue with their stuff not working. Pair programming and TDD lends itself to code that works well and is pretty well documented. No complaints

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

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Post by HarryHirsch » Mon, Mar 09, 2020, 3:52 PM UTC

citrusx wrote: post #177

aprdm wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The concept of fixing corporate culture seems like a weird one, if you remove corporate and go for the generic term, can you "fix culture"? I think what you can do is influence the culture of a company and reap the rewards, having done the devops transformation in two difference companies that were deemed unfixable (both more than 4 offices and 3k people) I feel it is very doable! It just takes time and it is not an…

The key ingredient, which you certainly had and the author didn't, was buy-in from an authoritative level of management. Yes, put in the work and it's possible... as long as the VP doesn't shut it down.

You'd rather say GP was hired by management to right the ship, for that kind of task someone external is needed. Tone is set at the top, and getting buy-in from the head bum to throw the bums out, that's unheard of.

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

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Post by vxNsr » Tue, Mar 10, 2020, 6:47 AM UTC

pavlov wrote: post #158

vxNsr wrote: post #154

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Wait, so how much did Dell buy it for?

I think GP poster means “both Pivotal and VMware were owned by Dell.” IIRC Pivotal’s stock price collapsed, it didn’t seem to have much of a future as a public company, and so Dell consolidated it into VMware to save face.

gotcha, I looked it up, apparently EMC spun Pivotal out from an internal dept, but still maintained a majority stake in the company, then Dell bought both EMC and VMWare, and at some point Pivotal went public, but then I guess due to poor performance the price dropped so dell had VMWare buy it all back.

I'm guessing that's what OPs referring to when he says that the customers and investors were the same, probably most of their customers were other Dell companies.

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

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Post by VectorLock » Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 12:46 AM UTC

nmca wrote: post #190

VectorLock wrote: post #179

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What does "50k of time off mean?" They were going to give him vacation time accrued or something else?

irrc 50k at the rate of his salary until he got a job, may be mis-remebering.

Oh so they were going to pay him 50k to sit on his butt for X amount of time. I don't know if I would really consider that leaving money on the table, personally.

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

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Post by yownie » Thu, Mar 12, 2020, 2:53 AM UTC

rachelbythebay wrote: post #149

gist wrote: post #78

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Insider club here? Who is 'Rachel'?

Hi?

hiya rachel. you good?

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

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Post by zacym » Thu, Mar 12, 2020, 1:30 PM UTC

chrisseaton wrote: post #166

brutal_boi wrote: post #143

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

Does this really apply to people earning as much as a quarter of a million? Surely at that point most of your money is disposable income?

>Surely at that point most of your money is disposable income?

Not if you're living in a major city with wife, kids, and a mortgage.

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

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Post by derangedHorse » Sun, Mar 22, 2020, 12:56 AM UTC

buzzkillington wrote: post #139

aprdm wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The concept of fixing corporate culture seems like a weird one, if you remove corporate and go for the generic term, can you "fix culture"? I think what you can do is influence the culture of a company and reap the rewards, having done the devops transformation in two difference companies that were deemed unfixable (both more than 4 offices and 3k people) I feel it is very doable! It just takes time and it is not an…

The type of person who will write blogs about how terrible a company is is not the type of person who has enough empathy to understand why things are as fucked as they are and how to fix them.

What’s your deal against someone blogging? It helps others learn about the company, and the public perception might cause management to things they thought they could put off