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Just like "if it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid", if you were smart enough to see all the problems in all your past jobs but those companies still went bankrupt, maybe you weren't actually the ideal employee you think you are. And if programming interviews are beneath you and only passed by your inferiors but you can't pay rent, maybe they're not actually so far beneath you. Using your l33t knowledge of AWS t…
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I think they're using some kind of "daily equivalent average pay, factoring in exponential growth of the stock divided by actual days worked over a career" - > Under the modern tech landscape, stable “hyperscale ultra-growth” companies are paying experienced employees the equivalent of $10,000 to $50,000 per day if we include the value of their exponentially growing yearly stock grants. Assuming a $250k salary, that'…
Not even that makes sense because a "tractor company or heavy manufacturing company just churning out results for years" (that supposedly pays $10k/day) doesn't have exponential stock growth. The entire article is just the whimsical fantasies of someone with no understanding of market reality.
The author of this article has a reputation for an incredible sense of self-entitlement, he's the person who tried to do a hostile takeover of Redis after making a few minor contributions[0]. In light of that it's not too surprising that he's finding it difficult to find a job that meets his expectations. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9176800
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I agree, it was a long article and at first I was with him but after the first few hundred words the author seems to start complaining that his obviously sufficient work is not sufficient to get him a job which is nothing more than a logical fallacy and having a slightly big head, it says nothing about the wider job market as a whole.
I found the article pretty entertaining I have to say. Seems like someone with strong opinions but hey, so what.
But it kinda (definitely :D) misses the point that it itself set up at the beginning with the fancy FRED graphs ... almost in the same way as the author misses the point of (and thus the required choreography for successful) interviews.
(As others comments here mentioned that he seems to lack the self-awareness to correctly position himself on the bell curve meme, which gives him a lot of consternation.)
Strong opinions are great when you know when to deploy them :)))
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On the author's resume is a link to a L10 salary at google under "available for employment" and a distinguished engineer at Amazon. So author is in the top 0.01% (or even higher really) of salary expectations for the SWE ladder as I understand.
I'm not sure where you're seeing that in his resume: https://matt.sh/files/a-resume/resume.html
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Sometimes I can't believe how much money I make for that little input, and whether that is ethical at all. This idea popped in my mind while on "home office" (sightseeing on the village with my wife) and saw the waitress panic because we paid her with a 500Kč for a 360Kč bill and she didn't know how much change to give... I got my answer right there.
This is such a condescending and arrogant way to look at another human being. "My waitress isn't good at math, hence she's dumb and deserves little pay." No. This is not the world anyone wants to live in, including you, even if you don't know it yet. This is how you get highly segregated societies where everyone points fingers at one another as the whole thing slowly collapses on them. A somewhat spicy take, but see…
Someone who does not have the luck (genetic, cultural or institutional or otherwise external) to develop so a skill so fundamental (and for her current job critical) and as evidenced by this story will face a long list of adversities at virtually no fault of theirs.
Social rewards are very non-linear. (And mostly because it is the naturally optimal heuristic. Help those close to you, distrust strangers, and watch out for freeloaders. All this aggregated over society is so powerful, and feels so natural that it usually takes a concerted effort of the majority of the people to try to even get it recognized.)
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We have to complain about literally everything you just said. The entire system is broken. Everyone should be entitled to live their lives without being subject to these awful conditions, but we as a society keep allowing this to happen because we don't really see them as equals. As long as we individually can get by, we can easily dismiss what everyone else endures. I would happily live with less if everyone else co…
This makes me think of ‘Why a meritocracy is corrosive to society’ by Philosphize This! It was very interesting to hear the downsides expressed, and how ingrained it is in society to the point that we don’t even notice. Perhaps the most important point: how thankful we should be to have the skills to be highly valued in this environment, which will give you some empathy to the people who don’t. https://open.spotify.c…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TKQTbVT0kzQ
unfortunately the transcript is not yet on the website
Then he should either be senior management or a high-end consultant (the kind that's well paid and actually listened to, who fixes structural problems in companies). And perhaps some soft-skills would help him to gel better with the people who pay him.
- Superimposing two graphs is the evidence provided? Really?
- The “correlation is causation” part is atomic level cringe.
- With a sorry ass attitude like this, I’m sure this guy doesn’t just have a problem with getting a job; he has problems with all kinds of things. “Why doesn’t everyone just agree with me?”
- The ChatGPT stuff at best comes off as “dumb funny”, but really it’s just a weird mix of desperate and angry. You sure showed them!
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> Most jobs are now hoops after hoops, not taking into consideration your particular profile or the contributions you can make. I’ve done some mentoring of CS grads for the past few years. We some times get people with unreasonable interview demands, like companies asking them to make an entire app or website for the interview process. We advise them to decline the really excessive ones. However, it’s rare to see tha…
> when they describe the process it adds up to around 4-5 hours total 4-5 hours is pretty excessive for an interview process actually. A candidate cannot be doing 4-5 hours for an interview process just to hear a no at the end. Successful job hunts need to have many irons in the fire at once and if each one is taking 4-5 hours there's only so much you can realistically take on I know that interview processes generall…
I once did a full-day interview and was asked back to do _another_ full-day interview... to be turned down after that.