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by bankim 5y ago
As an experienced software engineer with a CS degree and having worked as an Individual Contributor for over 12+ years, finding some job is not hard but finding a job that pays well like FAANGs and other similar top tier companies is indeed
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by bankim 6y ago
Paywall. Can we get access to the full post?
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by bankim 6y ago
+1. Legal requirement for companies > 50 ppl.
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by bankim 6y ago
Feedback: Could the companies selected be part of the URL? This helps sharing.
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by bankim 6y ago
FAANGs have changed the compensation game in SF Bay Area, making joining startups for potential financial gains pointless. Benefits are just icing on the cake. I wonder what techniques startups are using to recruit quality talent in the Bay
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Benchmarking Time Series Workloads with Kudu, InfluxDB and ClickHouse(blog.cloudera.com)
14 points by bankim 7y ago|1 comments
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by bankim 7y ago
Came here to mention about this movie. I watched this movie last year and couldn't stop thinking about it for days after watching it...
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by bankim 8y ago
On a similar note, any chance of an immigration reform in medium term like 3-5 years that would help reduce the backlog for Indians on EB2/EB3? If not, any alternatives apart from EB5, EB1 that you could suggest?
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by bankim 8y ago
I don't see a way to search within a company. Like salary of software engineers at level E5 at Facebook.
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by bankim 9y ago
SE daily is a great podcast with quality content on new topics in Computer Science. Jeff asks great questions and really tries to understand the mechanics of how things work. With an episode every day it's hard to keep up.
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by bankim 9y ago
Bitwise has better diversification across top 10 currencies based on market cap. Coinbase has lower entry point of $10k minimum v/s $25k minimum required by Bitwise.
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by bankim 9y ago
Indian so E-1, E-2 is out. Thanks for the response.
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by bankim 9y ago
How does a non-immigrant who is currently on H1B visa in the US go about starting and working for their own company?
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by bankim 10y ago
How does a customer pay and use the service? Pay the panwallah and he gives customer a code which is used to bill?
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by bankim 10y ago
> After that they are given the green card, which lets them work for any company. Not for Indians, like me, who are waiting in line for 10+ years due to per country cap.
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by bankim 10y ago
ESO Fund's website doesn't mention about their cut in case of liquidity event. Do you happen to know how much is it?
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by bankim 10y ago
It's more like engineer meets engineer. Meetings are arranged by parents, matrimonial sites or friends.
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by bankim 10y ago
I understand not everyone works in tech but it's not unusual for Bay Area couples to make $300k-$400k per year 6-8 years out of college working in tech. Consider an example of new grad with CS major working in major software company. C
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by bankim 10y ago
What are salaries like for mid-senior level software engineers working in tech companies in Paris? What are the tax rates i.e pay after taxes?
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by bankim 10y ago
+1. I'd be interested in knowing this as well.
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by bankim 10y ago
For employees sake, stock price should remain that high after 6 months...
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by bankim 10y ago
Any recommendations for attorney to review employee option contract?
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by bankim 11y ago
Engineers like to see that their contribution has real impact on the company. If team does well, delivers project with good quality in reasonable time-frame and despite such efforts if the company languishes then employees will not feel mot
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by bankim 11y ago
Wouldn't this negatively impact hiring in other depts like engineering in near future?
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by bankim 11y ago
From what I've known, top engineers from VMware had moved to Bebop and recruiting was purely based on their previous performance and contacts with founding team at VMware.
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by bankim 11y ago
AeroFS ( https://www.aerofs.com/ ) is built on peer-to-peer file syncing technology as well. Sad to see no mention about AeroFS on this post :(
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Dropbox scores patent for peer to peer file syncing(torrentfreak.com)
2 points by bankim 11y ago|1 comments
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by bankim 11y ago
Elaborating on early exercise. Employee can choose to pre-exercise ISOs soon after starting job (before vesting) and file 83b. In this case, the difference between strike price and FMV is $0 and hence tax realized is also $0. This also star
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Twitter layoffs coming next week(usatoday.com)
7 points by bankim 11y ago|0 comments
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by bankim 11y ago
Thanks for the response, Todd! Since most projects in Hadoop ecosystem are written in Java/Scala on JVM I was pleasantly surprised about choice of C++ :)

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