delphinius81

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by delphinius81 5y ago
My first question to any recruiter is "what is the salary range for this position." It's not worth investing my or your time if the range does not work for me. THIS is the reason why posting the range is so important. Withhol
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by delphinius81 5y ago
Most companies don't hire international remote workers directly because of the costs associated with international tax reporting. If a worker is in another country, that means tax withholding / reporting in multiple places. So it&
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by delphinius81 5y ago
No, but as a contractor you have to pay the full payroll tax (15%) + all the other SS / medicare costs (usually comes to about 2-3%), plus income tax (progressive and varies, but for this bracket is probably federal 15-20%, and up to 1
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by delphinius81 6y ago
I would add that many of the "senior" engineers in SV received that title because they joined a startup 6-months before the company secured major funding and massively scaled. Seniority/familiarity with the startup's sta
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by delphinius81 6y ago
Article doesn't cover the fact that many companies are not setup to deal with taxation issues related to payroll for foreign employees. There's opportunity for a payroll company to step in there and make this less painful, but tax
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by delphinius81 7y ago
Well in SV all you have to do is work at a startup for more than a year to get "promoted" to senior/lead developer, so it's not surprising that many people applying for those roles aren't actually at that level.
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by delphinius81 8y ago
I had a coding test once where I was given someone else's code with an introduced bug, and I had to fix the bug. To do so, you were basically documenting the code along the way as you traced your way through possible trouble spots. It
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by delphinius81 8y ago
No, they were in breach before hand, and Unity attempted (poorly) to make it more clear why Improbable was in breach with the ToS update. According to devs knowledgeable of Improbable's tech, Improbable has been in breach of the Unity
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by delphinius81 8y ago
The problem is the cost of rent for individuals and businesses. Asides from housing costs, SF's cost of living is pretty standard for a city (a little higher than most, but depends on the area). There just are not enough housing units
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by delphinius81 9y ago
Right, but everyone knows that if you have a spouse or kids you probably shouldn't be living in the bay area anyway unless you a rich. /s
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by delphinius81 9y ago
Yeah, some of the comments in the thread allude to that possibility. If it's a matter of protecting business interests though, there are much more tactful ways of bringing that up with one's spouse.
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by delphinius81 9y ago
Same. Ad starts playing? Skip to whatever is next in the feed. Ad at the start of a video, not even going to wait. As it is, after turning off all notifications from FB I maybe open the app once a week.
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by delphinius81 9y ago
Junior devs finding an initial job and receiving mentoring is certainly an issue, but I think that the issue raised in the tweet is way more endemic to start-ups than more established companies.
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by delphinius81 9y ago
If you focus on computer vision / machine learning at least
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by delphinius81 9y ago
If they aren't being paid at the beginning (equity only), then they are a co-founder of the company. If you want an employee, you find a way to pay them either through personal savings pooled together by the co-founders, or because you
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by delphinius81 9y ago
I needed to emphasize the if in that statement. :) The typical saltiness regarding interviewing on HN is warranted since it's usually an "and" thing.
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by delphinius81 9y ago
You can also just throw out applicant number 26 and up. You most likely have a few solid candidates in the first 25 worth a phone call. And if not, look at 26 through 50. No reason to look through all 200 at once.
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by delphinius81 9y ago
I think many of the people on HN that say they won't do a take-home assignment would actually do a 30-60 minute take-home assignment if it meant avoiding the "code some algorithm on a whiteboard while the interviewer glares at you
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by delphinius81 9y ago
True, but a paid short-term contract to do an actual task for the company would work. Knock out a small feature during the night/weekend. Keep it something contained and relatively straight-forward. If they can get it done, it demonstr
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by delphinius81 9y ago
Reading this, all I could think was "Welcome to job searching." Companies that pull some of these things are places you don't want to work for. Contact emails you and then ignores your replies without reason? Run away. Have a
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by delphinius81 9y ago
Yes it was clear the poster was being derogatory to girls. It's also clear you are trying to normalize and justify such behavior. Both are unnecessary.
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by delphinius81 9y ago
It starts early at the resume/email communications. I expect to see in communications that a candidate can present themselves in a mature, professional manner. That's something you tend to learn with experience, though it also fee
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by delphinius81 9y ago
Other cities with much better cost of living are gaining reputation in tech / start-ups and attracting talent (or just keeping the talent that went to school there).
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by delphinius81 9y ago
The problem with a), is that often women aren't allowed to compete on merit, or they have to perform twice as hard, twice as often as a male colleague in order to prove it "wasn't some fluke." Also, who decides on "
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by delphinius81 9y ago
DC has the same rent control structure.
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by delphinius81 9y ago
Can be fixed with a refactor, but it's best to not get sucked into these bad habits at all. If you are learning, might as well learn how to do things the right way from the beginning. Hooking up references to GameObjects and Components
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by delphinius81 9y ago
Misleading title - since when did FB product managers become executives? Though completely believe FB will use their data in any way possible to make money, ethical or not.
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by delphinius81 9y ago
I had an on-site coding interview at a place where they asked me to implement a small iOS project on my own computer doing things however I normally would. Had access to documentation, SO, could search google for whatever. They gave me a co
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by delphinius81 9y ago
I think it should be revised to, "Do the office conditions satisfy YOUR needs?" Some people like having lots of noise/people around them (all the noise blends together at some point) or they just put headphones on anyway so t
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by delphinius81 9y ago
But one's ability to conduct research and achieve a Ph.D. in a subject area in no way indicates one's ability to teach others in that same, or another, subject. Research skills do not equate to teaching skills - unless, perhaps, y

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