aminotaa

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by aminotaa 7y ago
And yet instead of celebrating the platform that gave us the most advanced frameworks in decades you choose to peddle your sad negativity.
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by aminotaa 8y ago
The manager's role is to deliver. Managers are given head count to deliver. Managers are assessed on how demanding they are of their direct reports. The general expectation is to ruthlessly cut and replace underperformers. Only attorne
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by aminotaa 8y ago
I've seen, head and read quite a bit about engineering 1-1s. After doing engineering management for a decade and trying many ideas, I ended up with the following. Have weekly 1 hour 1-1s if you have 5 direct reports or less. Have weekl
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by aminotaa 8y ago
Not really surprising that sales people can sell themselves better than engineers. Senior Directors on the other hand...
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by aminotaa 8y ago
Startup 1: $50k for 1 year (in the 90s, do the math what it would be right now) Big company for some time Startup 2: $0 for 2 years Startup 3: $0 for 2 years Startup 4: $0 for 2 years Startup 5: $500k for 4 years Startup 6: $1m for 1 year (
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by aminotaa 8y ago
You are making a 2500 year-old argument against democracy. Democracy serves the interests of the needy. That's the whole catch with the democracy. If you don't want democracy, your options are monarchy, aristocracy, oligarchy or t
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by aminotaa 8y ago
For individual contributors, equity and bonus range from 50% to 100% of base. For leadership, equity and bonus are from 100% to 300%. For senior leadership you might as well have your base at $1 if you are into those kinds of stunts.
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by aminotaa 8y ago
$250k+ total comp. Companies that offer high base tend to be lackluster on bonus and equity. RSUs, if offered, are tradable in almost all cases. Options are vapor 90% of the time. COL in Bay Area is not that much higher compared to TX, WA o
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by aminotaa 8y ago
I have no idea about the east coast labor market, but in Bay Area $250k is what an I4-I5 gets payed at medium/large RSU granting companies. As a software developer at I4+ you have to - Be able to independently complete start-to-finish
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by aminotaa 8y ago
Little's Law - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%27s_law . Queues are everywhere. Distributed Systems theory. Especially the complexity of failure detection in distributed systems. Slow vs failed. Networking. 99