jeffyang

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by jeffyang 8mo ago
Rising Team | Senior Software Engineer | Remote (US, Pacific Time adjacent) | Full-time At Rising Team we are transforming how the world's leading organizations develop high-performing managers and teams. Our mission is that everyone i
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by jeffyang 1y ago
I mentioned this in a sibling comment, but one idea I have is instead of doing this extra work which is unrecognized, you spend your extra time on gaming the presentation and appearances aspect of it. Which you might not be good at at first
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by jeffyang 1y ago
In an attempt to have a positive framing around this, with the disclaimer that I haven't actually fully tried this, one idea might be to spend the extra time on all the politics stuff and marketing yourself and figuring out how to get
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by jeffyang 3y ago
Rising Team | Software Engineer (3+ years of experience) | Remote (USA, Pacific Time Zone) | Full time Our mission is that everyone in the workplace feels deeply understood, supported, and empowered to reach their goals. Join our team where
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by jeffyang 5y ago
Rising Team | Software Engineer (3+ years of experience) | Remote (USA) | Full time Want to work at a place where you are understood, supported, and empowered to reach your goals? We envision a world where everyone works at such a place. Ou
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by jeffyang 5y ago
Waitbutwhy has a great series about this: https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html Basically absolute freedom means less freedom overall because the strongest take over. Limiting freedom (eg you can't
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by jeffyang 5y ago
Rising Team | Senior and/or Lead Software Engineer | Remote (USA) | Full time Want to work at a place where you are understood, supported, and empowered to reach your goals? We envision a world where everyone works at such a place. Our
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by jeffyang 5y ago
Agree with doing all 3. Additional thoughts: 1. Can you ask to chat informally with the person leaving and see if there's a reason they all left? Might be interesting to know. Is this only on the one team or across the company? 2. Do y
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by jeffyang 5y ago
Rising Team | Senior and/or Lead Software Engineer | Remote (USA) | Full time Want to work at a place where you are understood, supported, and empowered to reach your goals? We envision a world where everyone works at such a place. If
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by jeffyang 5y ago
Yeah, you're right, I did get a bit dramatic there. This was helpful, I understand your comment now, thanks! I want to note that like you I did say that the majority at FB don't care. I also didn't care when I started and tha
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by jeffyang 5y ago
Ha really? I mean, no one paid me, but thanks? Seriously, have you ever worked at a place where people (outside of leadership) care strongly about making sure the company does the right thing rather than just accepting the status quo? That&
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by jeffyang 5y ago
I used to work at Facebook. I understand the vitriol. It's very easy to paint that picture. It's a very one-sided picture though. Hands down, of all the companies I've worked for, I've never met so many rank and file peo
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by jeffyang 5y ago
I'm obviously biased, but my company, Rising Team, is a great place to work. Our product helps managers understand and care about their team members. We envision a world where everyone in the workforce is deeply understood, supported,
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by jeffyang 5y ago
I used to run support groups to tackle the rampant helplessness I saw around me. The way it worked is that the person would describe their situation and then everyone else would ask questions. The format was: 1. understand the facts, and un
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by jeffyang 5y ago
Rising Team | Senior Software Engineer | Remote (USA) | Full time Ever feel mistreated at work? Did you feel comfortable bringing it up? Looking for a place where everyone understands, trusts, and empowers each other? At Rising Team we not
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by jeffyang 5y ago
Yes it's okay to say you're happy. And yes, you need to help your team members learn and grow. If there are no opportunities to learn and grow, you're going to get bored and leave. And most people will not let you know ahead
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by jeffyang 5y ago
The thing with Emacs is that sort-lines is a string you can copy and paste into a buffer, whereas in Visual Studio it's a command that you have to execute. Disclaimer: I don't know Visual Studio that well. Still, I suspect what I&
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by jeffyang 5y ago
I use both Visual Studio and Emacs. In general Visual Studio does a pretty good job and it is my day to day editor. But there are some things that it's simply not worth bothering with in Visual Studio. The problem with most editors is
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by jeffyang 5y ago
It seems like you feel that you being open and friendly has hurt your chances at promotions/raises and then when you try to correct for that it also hurts your chances. Instead of guessing if acting a certain way will get you a promoti
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by jeffyang 5y ago
That's great that you are setting boundaries! To add to what you wrote. If someone doesn't respect themselves and their own boundaries, then it's going to be harder for others to respect them. And they are putting the onus of
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by jeffyang 5y ago
I have things I like and things I don't like about it. I like it because I see it as a guide that helps people understand how to grow and also a framework for fair compensation. Without guidance many people, especially early in their c
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by jeffyang 5y ago
One funny downside is that if you do enough startups you end up with a few that do really well later on and then you're kicking yourself for not joining. I have to remind myself of all the others that I interviewed at that didn't
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by jeffyang 5y ago
I used to do this as well and I still advise others to do this. It's worth reframing it. From: I love my current work and there's no way I would leave... To: What would be so awesome I would have to leave? With this reframe I was
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by jeffyang 5y ago
Rising Team | Full Stack and Frontend Software Engineers | Remote (Pacific/Mountain Time Zones) | Full-time Have you ever had a manager who helped you achieve heights you hadn't imagined? How about a manager who made your life mis
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by jeffyang 5y ago
I'm wondering if it would help to align incentives and motivations. I feel like right now it's possible your team members are not motivated to solve these problems. It seems like it might even be fine to be blocked for days or wee
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by jeffyang 6y ago
Rising Team | Full Stack and Frontend Software Engineers | Remote (Pacific/Mountain Time Zones) | Full-time Have you ever had a manager who helped you achieve heights you hadn't imagined? How about a manager who made your life mis
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by jeffyang 6y ago
This is a great comment and I'm replying because I want to build on top of it. Completely agree that the first priority is understanding your why and having a conversation with your manager. After that, if you feel good about both path
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by jeffyang 6y ago
Rising Team | Full Stack and Frontend Software Engineers | SF Bay Area / Remote (PST or adjacent) | Full-time Have you ever had a manager who helped you achieve heights you hadn't imagined? How about a manager who made your life m
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by jeffyang 6y ago
Yes, it is experience/learning/environment based heuristics. And to me, there's nothing wrong with that. As humans, that's what we are programmed to do. It's completely natural. I would argue that it's pretty m
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by jeffyang 10y ago
It sounds bad, and it can be bad, but it's often not. It's all about perspective. Everything above is true. But more often than not it's worth it. Why? I didn't know until I started responding. But I believe it's wo

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