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Navigating Compensation in a Downturn(aeqium.com)
1 points by kwang88 4y ago|0 comments
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How to Create Compensation Bands(aeqium.com)
1 points by kwang88 4y ago|0 comments
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Vimeo Achieved E2E Visibility in Snowflake and Looker with Monte Carlo(montecarlodata.com)
2 points by kwang88 4y ago|0 comments
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Making the most of all your compensation data(aeqium.com)
4 points by kwang88 5y ago|0 comments
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How to Build Great Landing Pages(julian.com)
2 points by kwang88 5y ago|0 comments
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Who Needs Equity Refreshes?(aeqium.com)
2 points by kwang88 5y ago|0 comments
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What Are Comp Bands, and Why Do You Need Them?(aeqium.com)
1 points by kwang88 5y ago|0 comments
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Pitching Your Startup's Equity(aeqium.com)
7 points by kwang88 5y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Warmupz – A big ol' stack of meeting warm-UPS for your team(warmupz.com)
2 points by kwang88 7y ago|0 comments
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Slack shares plummet 20% after its growth forecast fails to excite investors(techcrunch.com)
1 points by kwang88 7y ago|0 comments
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by kwang88 7y ago
Agreed – and fwiw if this line resonates: "you are interested in having a more flexible career, and not just writing code, but also getting more into the "business" side of things" I'd also recommend that engineers
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by kwang88 7y ago
(Author here) Regarding empowerment/trust: those factors are definitely critical to PMs' success, but I'd also argue that finding folks who can thrive with this independence is itself important. We've had success with de
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by kwang88 7y ago
(Author here) Agreed on your point. I didn't go into a ton of depth about the details of the interview, but fwiw this is always addressed in depth during the course of the product case, and touched upon during phone screens.
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SF Giants’ home now called Oracle Park after AT&T split(sfgate.com)
3 points by kwang88 8y ago|2 comments
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by kwang88 8y ago
A process that I've seen have some success (years ago): Start with a very, very simple initial phone screen or take-home test, intended to basically verify whether the candidate can write any code, at all. Max 1 hour, weeds out more pe
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by kwang88 8y ago
If I'm correctly understanding the question, you should get the 83b form asap, as there's no downside to having the choice to exercise your options. As mentioned elsewhere once you exercise you have 30 days to file the 83b with th
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3 Product Questions(medium.com)
2 points by kwang88 9y ago|0 comments
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by kwang88 9y ago
Definitely can be true, although I think that there are a lot of potential paths. My advice would be to determine what is driving you to want to shift from Engineer => PM. If it's purely money, there are alternatives that don't
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by kwang88 9y ago
Engineering is in higher aggregate demand (there are more open eng roles as the ratio of Engineers:PMs is high, and the minimum qualification bar to be an engineer is higher ie you need to know how to code at a bare minimum. You also genera
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by kwang88 9y ago
One of the other issues that I've seen with Untappd and many of the other beer rating companies is that their ratings systems are heavily biased by the nature of their users and/or weird algorithmic quirks. I believe that this has
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by kwang88 10y ago
Have seen good results from App Academy (in NYC in particular) - they follow the business model that I mentioned above. I don't know the details of all the bootcamp alums on my team, and am also unfamiliar with the tuition structures o
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by kwang88 10y ago
My company has hired several coding boot camp alumni; some directly from bootcamps, some after a coding bootcamp + some years of work as a dev. We've had good results and most of the grads I know have had positive experiences. It'
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Developing Medical Rehabilitation Devices Using Myoware(medium.com)
2 points by kwang88 10y ago|0 comments
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Kahuna CEO Steps Down(fortune.com)
2 points by kwang88 11y ago|0 comments
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by kwang88 11y ago
FWIW we've had great experiences hiring bootcamp grads. A few aspects of our software engineering process have helped smooth this transition: * We're disciplined about code reviewing everything that goes to production. * We'
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Maker Media Lays Off 17(techcrunch.com)
18 points by kwang88 11y ago|0 comments
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Marriott to buy Starwood, creating the world’s largest hotel company(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by kwang88 11y ago|0 comments
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by kwang88 11y ago
I might be ignorant, but if they hit profitability relatively early in their hiring (and meaningfully de-risked themselves as a result), I could see them having the leverage to parcel out lower equity amounts. Were you expecting a shallower
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by kwang88 12y ago
My understanding is that the valuation per share (at least, the valuation that matters for tax purposes) should depend on the 409A evaluation of the company, which determines the current price of shares in the eyes of the IRS. In some cases
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by kwang88 12y ago
This is great. Building in the responsiveness is especially nice -- having to build in that type of support in a third party library is a big pain, so it's great to have that outside of the box.

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