accountatwork

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by accountatwork 10y ago
> replies, I have hardly ever seen them used before they were removed. in any case, the new implementation is much better How are so you sure that a feature you never used is better than it was before it changed? Even if I'd never u
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by accountatwork 10y ago
Yahoo uses Bing because Microsoft was willing to cut Yahoo a better deal than Google, which happened because Microsoft was more desperate than Google. That's not exactly a good thing and it's not really a meaningful number. It wou
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by accountatwork 11y ago
I don't know if this was changed for the external release, but when Windows 10 was rolled out internally to employees at Microsoft, a significant fraction (but not all) employees weren't notified and had their machines reboot with
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by accountatwork 11y ago
IBM is particularly dysfunctional in this regard. I keep in touch with a lot of friends at IBM and a common story is that they'll cut headcount by one on a local team and hire two or three people overseas. The overseas people will requ
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by accountatwork 11y ago
> we put our kids in school five days a week, eight hours a day Do kids spend 8 hours a day at school now? Back when I was in school, it was 9-3, including an hour for lunch, plus 5 minutes between classes. On top of that, we got a lot m
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by accountatwork 11y ago
> A software engineer at Google earns, on average, $127k per year [1]. We multiply that by 1.4 [2] to obtain a cost per employee of $177k. That ignores RSUs, signing bonus, and other bonuses, which make up the majority of the compensatio
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by accountatwork 11y ago
> [Tom] Chavez thinks industry titans like Larry Page, the chief executive of the Alphabet holding company that includes Google, are intentionally driving up salaries. “If I was Larry, I’d do the same thing: throw a few more million at p
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by accountatwork 11y ago
I'm past the edit window here, but it's also not to the point. The point is that, by incentivizing reviews, you skew the sample of reviewers. Even if we didn't have decades of research showing that giving people toys changes
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by accountatwork 11y ago
> with a $17k tuition, a "free" hoodie is not enough to sway a review one way or the other. That's intuitive but factually incorrect. There's a large body of empirical research that shows that giving away trivial toke
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by accountatwork 11y ago
That's shady. Normally, there's a bias such that people who are disgruntled are more likely to post a review than people who had a good experience. If you take that bias into account, a 4 star rating is pretty good, 5 stars is exc
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by accountatwork 11y ago
> I have learn that during the interview process unless it is written down and signed then it is probably a lie. This happened to me when I took a job at Microsoft and it sucked. The worst thing was that when I asked around I found that
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by accountatwork 11y ago
15k barely covers the engineers employed by Google alone at the time. The class action lawsuit covers 64k employees, and that's a subset of the employees affected. If your argument is that Eric Schmidt's entering in the agreement
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by accountatwork 11y ago
> which likely affected 15,000 software developers at most Where does this number come from? When the wage fixing agreement was canceled, Google immediately issued an across the board raise, and compensation has increase very quickly sin
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by accountatwork 11y ago
> Cool site, but it's really too bad Google isn't willing to open up offices outside of California (like, say, Portland? :) ) Google has teams in Portland and the office has grown enough that they just got a new building: http
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8 months in Microsoft(ahmetalpbalkan.com)
1 points by accountatwork 11y ago|0 comments
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by accountatwork 11y ago
I believe you're overestimating what it takes to get a job at Google (or Facebook or whatever other company you might be thinking of). As someone who's approaching middle-age and has done a wide variety of interviews, it's my
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by accountatwork 11y ago
I don't have enemies, but I've made enemies. In both cases, I said something that accidentally publicly embarrassed them, and it seems to have enraged them for life. They both appear to be angry, unhappy, people much of the time,
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by accountatwork 11y ago
When I've seen this happen, it's been pure mismanagement. An order goes out to do layoffs, so people get laid off. Within days, people realize that they've laid off critical employees who can't be replaced and they get h
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by accountatwork 11y ago
> Mozilla devs appear to be completely out of touch with what their core goal should be . . . Instead the Process is holy and cannot be altered They made a mistake. They then fixed it and admitted exactly what the mistake was. Because t
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by accountatwork 11y ago
So you're saying that you don't know anyone who buys in the quantities that we do, but definitely know what we pay? I think you're responding to something that's not what I'm saying here. I never claimed that our pr
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by accountatwork 11y ago
Sure, you won't get much of a discount from anyone for quantities of a few hundred. You might be looking at a 2x price difference, which is pocket change for a few hundred machines. In quantities of hundreds of thousands or millions, t
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by accountatwork 11y ago
Solarflare isn't the only option for OS bypass. In fact, no major cloud vendor uses Solarflare NICs even for applications where OS bypass is critical because Solarflare is way too expensive for what you get (the retail price is substan
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Intel VPx hardware decoder slower than software decoder(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
2 points by accountatwork 11y ago|0 comments
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by accountatwork 11y ago
In case it wasn't clear in the original comment, the big name is usually someone who was only tangentially involved in the project, if at all. Sometimes it's the head of the org the project took place in. They may have approved th
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by accountatwork 11y ago
Something I've seen at every large tech company I've worked at (which includes the author's company), is that some people do the work for something cool. The next step for them will be to prepare a slide deck so that some big
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by accountatwork 11y ago
This is an odd post to voice that complaint on, since the site supports HTTPS.
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by accountatwork 11y ago
I interviewed at one of the two companies you mentioned and their total comp package was about equivalent to my signing bonus at a company in Seattle. I like Portland, but not enough to take a 3x-4x hit in compensation to move there. I know