codeonfire

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by codeonfire 10y ago
Yes well, big companies WANT to hire you but they also are culturally not able to. When they get too big it's all about politics and money. They want to hire you but lack the will to hire people that cost a lot and may be a political
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Exact reason I won't interview at Microsoft. I went to a hiring event a few years ago and was the only American on either side of the table. They needed to be seen trying to hire Americans, and I felt stupid for having fallen for thi
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Expert beginners. Expectations that I can't wait to work under their superstar. "You'll get a chance to work with our Lead Principal Engineer Matt as closely as you like!" Looking at Linkedin Matt has less than five y
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Normal people that like money. If this article is about how equity compensation can be improved, then that is a fairly messed up world view and kind of insulting. Employee equity compensation is always designed to explode or have no value
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Is the presumption that founders and investors are not trying to screw employees? I genuinely can't tell from the article. I thought it's just common knowledge that they will try to screw employees at every chance. With options
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Samsung JU6700, 40" 4k, curved is what I use. It's something like $900 so same price range with more pixels. Use hyperdock or similar for docking. Ultrawide seems like it would result in lots of head twisting and neck pain. I w
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by codeonfire 10y ago
How would that be a solution? The problem is that managers don't want to pay engineers and would rather pay themselves, so everything else follows from that.
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by codeonfire 10y ago
There are going to be a couple director level IC's and several hundreds of directors. Those IC's have to make industry changing tech worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Those directors just have to show up to work and be &#x2
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Exactly. Managers decide who is high level on the engineering side and also want to save money and have high management salaries. It's completely stupid to think that there won't be 500 VP's and 3 distinguished engineers in
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Cost of installing the system, cost of maintenance for a smaller number of bots, less dense shelving, more specialized training, lower picking costs because of smaller area. Prime now also delivers refrigerated food which probably Kiva can
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by codeonfire 10y ago
They can't be used for large item warehouses and are probably not worth it for smaller warehouses. Also existing warehouses that are multilevel with plywood flooring probably can't be retrofitted easily. Since their focus seems
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by codeonfire 10y ago
What company is doing anything interesting that drug tests? If you tell anyone at the company that you have in the past or do now do drugs or try to stall you won't get the job. Second, who cares if they reneg on the job? There are
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by codeonfire 10y ago
It seemed to me that there is some bottleneck for mongo on aws with Ubuntu. Hardware did not matter, mongo was slow for whatever reason. Why don't you run some perf tools?
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Formal policies are meaningless. Management is an unregulated group. Inexperienced people will learn their lesson when they go through all those skills and expectations and nothing happens. The job market is the only real test of who is
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by codeonfire 10y ago
This is basically how the game is played. The other half is that managers hire their unqualified friends into those same high level positions no questions asked. No hoops. no career development carrot and stick bullshit. Welcome to offic
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by codeonfire 10y ago
This is why paper checks are still useful. I had problems with Citibank who in the 2008 crisis kept doing things like resetting my pin, mailing my card to the wrong address, assigning the pin to the wrong account, etc. Then they told me I
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by codeonfire 10y ago
There needs to be a class action lawsuit. The people doing this at Microsoft are not that familiar with western legal systems or basic sensibilities or just don't care. A lawsuit will maybe wake them up.
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Nope. Not at all. Feels awesome. The whole world is trying to exploit and be the boss of developers and that is power. Power for the developers. Even when I an 75 and about to die someone will be trying to hire me, lol. I already make
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Just start college early. Then you can work with profs all you want.
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Truthfully, most organizations have no idea what they are doing. Many times I interview with someone and I don't want them to call me back. If I don't hear back in five days and I want a firm no, I may email them, otherwise I mo
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Quitting my job. On average I see a 51% pay bump each time. Plus there is the catharsis of quitting the job, and that "yay, I'm a human being again!" feeling.
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by codeonfire 10y ago
wired.com as well. They are only hurting themselves. Can't they find a way to monetize other than forcing people to look at their ads?
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by codeonfire 10y ago
I was reading about the new horizons project, and for the spacecraft it seems they tested using simulation. The mission was thought about for years before the software was made. Then the spacecraft flew for a few years which gave ample ti
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by codeonfire 10y ago
To maintain this type of position, one is typically in non-stop meetings. Usually bullshit political meetings like who should be in charge of what, trying to convince executives to hire/fire/start/stop someone or something,
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Good point except facebook is targeting 6k per eye. People are definitely going to buy hardware, but maybe not in huge numbers.
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Whether or not the company is horrible or if someone would be fired for a bad hire, managers will assume the worst and do the most weasely thing. So, expected behavior is they play it safe and trash resumes without degrees. Some people
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Like it or not, once a company has more than one manager they are competing for headcount and budget. They can't just leave to another job. cya is the nature of the job.
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by codeonfire 10y ago
No, an employee might be very skilled but is difficult to work with. Imagine someone who has a habit of threatening coworkers, stalking an ex, bringing weapons to work, etc. That's not something that comes out in an interview. If th
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by codeonfire 10y ago
No, because if it turns out you don't have the skills you say you do, I will get fired because I hired someone just based on my own (wrong) preferences. If you had a degree but couldn't do the job, it is a more 'honest'
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by codeonfire 10y ago
Listened to dnb mostly 2000-2008, some metal, more recently chillwave stuff like Tycho. The name of the game in coding work is to control anxiety and stress long term. I also listen to this week in tech and sometimes other related podcast

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