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by bsvalley 7y ago
You get there by giving back 40-50% to California. The more you give away, the more you earn :) Joke aside, 5 years of experience get you $300k total compensation per year at a hot company in SF Bay Area.
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by bsvalley 8y ago
In which part of the World are you located? A solution to get over your nightmare may be to move somewhere else where competition doesn't exist. Apply where the barriers of entry are lower because of a lack of candidates available arou
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by bsvalley 8y ago
Becoming an engineering manager is not an escape from coding. It’s the opposite. To get there you need to be a top performer, which involves being really good at coding and all the other tasks you’d like to move away from. And then, you get
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Ask HN: Any tips on how to relax and be very attentive during an onsite?
1 points by bsvalley 8y ago|1 comments
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by bsvalley 8y ago
Would you rather die alone in a closed room in front of your computer, or would you rather die in the hands of someone who loves you more than anything else? Life is all about compromise. If you don't want to compromise on anything, so
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Ask HN: What is your ultimate dream job?
1 points by bsvalley 8y ago|3 comments
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by bsvalley 8y ago
back in the days, I was interviewing over the phone with the hiring manager of a large startup in SF. Basically doing live coding on a shared note pad. The guy started chatting with his colleagues and completely forgot about me. 10 minutes
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by bsvalley 8y ago
It seems to be a lack of confidence or a miss understanding of the requirements. In other words, no one really understands what has to be done and how to do it properly. If you understand the requirements and have enough knowledge about the
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by bsvalley 8y ago
I burnt out on coding a few years ago because of the painful development process in a professional environment. Dead lines, boring work, bug fixes, politics, micro management, etc. Here is exactly what I did: 1. I quit my full time job (I w
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by bsvalley 8y ago
Since you generally don't mention your salary on your Resume, simply put it as a regular work experience. You may want to specify "full-time" versus "part-time" but it doesn't really help. This is only if someo
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by bsvalley 8y ago
Sure, by real faces I mean pitching your product to people directly. Not necessarily over the Internet but in person. This is a step that is often missed by a lot of tech people wannabe entrepreneurs (including myself). We think the Interne
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Ask HN: If you could achieve one single thing in 2019, what would that be?
3 points by bsvalley 8y ago|1 comments
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by bsvalley 8y ago
This perk is a dangerous perk :) Some people love it some hate it.
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by bsvalley 8y ago
This pretty much sums up everything. I had a similar problem trying to sell my products. If you're a solo founder learn how to sell first. Finding cool marketing strategies is great, but people need to see real faces before buying your
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by bsvalley 8y ago
Yes it is. As long as we'll have Websites on the Internet we'll need Web developers. It is a great place to be still. I used to do that then I got burnt out by the stack, which keeps changing every 6 months. The easiest place to s
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by bsvalley 8y ago
A few weird ones I've seen in Silicon Valley: - Bring your dog at the office - $20K credit to freeze your eggs (for women) - In-house bar with barista training for employees - Indoor garden where you can grow your own plant at the offi
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by bsvalley 8y ago
You can't say "always". This doesn't make sense either because it's on a case by case basis. You could have a simple product used by billions of people, which doesn't require many devs, or you could have a comp
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by bsvalley 8y ago
Now let's look at the ration billion-user-products versus the total number of products. That'll give you the ration of employees having a huge impact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products And
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by bsvalley 8y ago
You can innovate in many different areas. For example code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, sharing knowledge across the organization. It seems that Google as a pretty solid engineering culture but it doesn't really innovate much like a
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by bsvalley 8y ago
Reality is that most of the engineers at Google don't work on google search nor google map. They work on "smaller" projects that don't necessarily reach billions of users. It doesn't change the fact that everything
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by bsvalley 8y ago
Great advice from people here but I'm gonna try to provide as much value as I can on top of that. Read books, listen to others, get a mentor, blablabla. Do that for sure because it is the bare minimum. Unfortunately, this is not enough
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by bsvalley 8y ago
Other than the 20 percent free time, compensation and offices, the engineering culture at Google doesn’t seem to have anything special based on this well written pdf. It is in fact very similar to other large tech companies. Just in case yo
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by bsvalley 8y ago
The only way to attract co-founders in SF is to create value. An idea and a Resume alone have no value. Build something and showcase it. You'll create real opportunities and you'll become a magnet.
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by bsvalley 8y ago
any question would be eligible for that. What if you don't spit out the exact answer your interviewer is excepting? Well, you're out.
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by bsvalley 8y ago
stocktwits.com
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by bsvalley 8y ago
I think you forgot Digg, the first one that blew up and made karma voting popular. It was not the first one to use karma though, like google wasn't the 1st search engine. But before google a lot of folks didn't even know about sea
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by bsvalley 8y ago
Mobile wasn't that hot in 2010, then in 2013 it reached its pick (companies shifting their entire businesses to mobile). Finally, in 2018 it slowed down by a lot. We've noticed a similar trend with AI lately. AI is at its pick rig
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Ask HN: Why companies keep sending me emails after I unsubscribed?
1 points by bsvalley 8y ago|1 comments
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by bsvalley 8y ago
Steps to reproduce, Screenshots, verions/setup, expected behavior and output, priority (high, low, etc), category (UI, functional, etc). That’s it.
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by bsvalley 8y ago
First of all, congratulations! I've had a similar situation (with less money) but still, I went through the exact same exercise. You have 2 choices basically, you can keep working or you can retire. When I say keep working I mean worki

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