ThePawnBreak

5 ms·

1.
by ThePawnBreak 7y ago
This is the sort of thinking that the Church used to put Galileo in prison.
2.
by ThePawnBreak 7y ago
Do you live in Europe? Schengen is only about passport control at the border, but any EU citizen had the right to work in the UK, no visa required. Eastern European workers lowering wages and quality of work for most British tradesmen and l
3.
by ThePawnBreak 7y ago
> The United States itself had "open borders" for a long period of time. There was mass immigration from Ireland, Italy, and many other places and it worked out quite well for us. There was no welfare state back then, and the e
4.
by ThePawnBreak 7y ago
> In many metro areas property values have increased more the savings from the median income, meaning that the application, or aspiration, of the majority of people is going in reverse. That's because a lot of people want to live in
5.
by ThePawnBreak 7y ago
Lithuania is not the US. You saw Swedish and Italian people on the website, in Lithuania they are minorities.
6.
by ThePawnBreak 7y ago
Because it's for your mum that doesn't know what a program is. Because you're in a place where you don't have the right to install new software. Because it's quicker. Because it's OS independent. Because you do
7.
by ThePawnBreak 7y ago
Dude, the stock you get as a Facebook employee is literally money. It vests every month, so you can go to a broker every month and sell it for thousands of dollars of hard cash. No waiting for IPO, no hoping the stock goes up, no 4 year ves
8.
by ThePawnBreak 7y ago
> But what if someone failed miserably, does one still try to switch collective or choose a more humble mediocre one? I don't know. I've never seen someone switch and do well, but that doesn't mean it can't happen. &g
9.
by ThePawnBreak 7y ago
> In your opinion how much does the specific high school matter overall? It's the only thing that matters. Go to a top high-school (there's 1 or two in most important cities, 4-5 in Bucharest) and you'll probably have good
10.
by ThePawnBreak 7y ago
I'm a Romanian dev living in London. The tech situation in Romania is quite decent, there are a few good companies to work for, some established (Adobe, Fitbit, Bitdefender), some startups (UIPath, Taxify). Most of the market is outsou
11.
by ThePawnBreak 7y ago
> Even if you wanted to, it's nearly impossible to immigrate to the US as a skilled worker legally. Nearly impossible? Come on, this is a gross exaggeration. Get a job at a FAANG or unicorn in Europe, work there for 1 - 2 years, tra
12.
by ThePawnBreak 7y ago
> Doesn't this assume that the interviews get to the salary negotiation stage? If you don't have the name recognition of the FAANG you're probably getting subpar applicants regardless. People talk about salaries, they know
13.
by ThePawnBreak 7y ago
> someone earning $120k here would have to earn at least $200k out there to get the same standard of living. So are people flocking to the DC area to work as software engineers, then? If so, good job. If not, you know what you have to do
14.
by ThePawnBreak 7y ago
> As a tech lead / team lead over the last five years in a small East Coast market I've experienced real difficulty finding competent Software Engineers at any level. Pay more. Google and Facebook use ridiculous interviews beca
15.
by ThePawnBreak 8y ago
> This and the "insult the president" sound both like cases of the offender being an asshole. I fully agree. I think we should start jailing all the people who called Trump an idiot or a racist. That's no way to talk about
16.
by ThePawnBreak 8y ago
The N in FANG stands for Netflix.
17.
by ThePawnBreak 8y ago
That wasn't very clear, let me clarify what I mean. Let's say Bob is a programmer and always loved games, and only wants to work for game companies. Let's also say that game companies pay roughly $50k, and the Google office d
18.
by ThePawnBreak 8y ago
Obviously market forces should dictate what an employee should be paid, but I think the problem here is what we consider the market to be. If you are hiring remote employees from all over the world, the markets you are hiring from are not S
19.
by ThePawnBreak 8y ago
And then all the high-paying jobs will go to people who went to MIT and Stanford, and if you're great but couldn't afford more than community college, tough luck, because your credential is the same as other people who barely fini
20.
by ThePawnBreak 9y ago
Yes, just like we took away the right of companies to fire people for being black.
21.
by ThePawnBreak 9y ago
There's no alternative because there's no demand. Almost no company wants to hire remotely and pay good wages, and those that do have >10 qualified candidates for each position.
22.
by ThePawnBreak 9y ago
I think project based learning is the only way to actually learn programming. It's why most people suggest new programmers to "just build something they want" (which I think is bad advice). It's easy to envision a person
23.
by ThePawnBreak 9y ago
Something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKUE62hOvHM
24.
by ThePawnBreak 9y ago
> The Eastern Europe "market rate" is lower than the US because cost of living is. It's the other way around.
25.
by ThePawnBreak 9y ago
I am talking total compensation (salary + bonus + stock), and at Google you get past 200k at L4, so after the first promotion. New grads used to make around $160k, not it's somewhat less.
26.
by ThePawnBreak 9y ago
I would disagree. Zurich does indeed pay very well, but it's very hard to get a job there, and salaries are only competitive with the Bay Area at lower levels. That means it's possible to find a job that pays 100k, but 300k compen
27.
by ThePawnBreak 9y ago
At Google, it is completely not out of the ordinary to make 300k a year as a senior, or 200k after 2-3 years with the company. To get a remote job making that is orders of magnitude more difficult. Also, nobody wants to hire junior remote p
28.
by ThePawnBreak 9y ago
> This is why I never understood the obsession with working for the big prestigious corporations like Google and the unicorns. Money.
29.
by ThePawnBreak 9y ago
Does that mean that location is not taken into account for salaries, or does it mean that if I start in Croatia I get $30k, but if an American starts in the Bay Area and relocates to Croatia, he'll get $120k plus a $10k bonus while I&#
30.
by ThePawnBreak 9y ago
Internships pay very very well at some companies. Behind every website or app you use daily, there's (usually) a company paying their interns north of $6000 a month.

More ›