lowiqengineer

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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
Same at the top schools. I've never heard of someone at a top school be proud of going to Amazon - it's only something they do if they have no other options in my experience.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
If your parents don't talk about it (as mine don't, presumably because they're ashamed?) I don't know if it's "nothing to be embarrassed about". What did the top 1% do? What did your valedictorian(s) do?
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I see. I don't want to come off as harsh, I work at Amazon myself and know a lot of these people but didn't grow up in the peer group.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I had my first quarter life crisis at 18, when I came to grips with the fact that I had accomplished nothing in my life so far, as evidenced by my lack of good college admissions - I graduated only 2nd in my class with just a 1500 SAT, whic
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
> but I caught myself sleuthing on your github and LinkedIn and feeling that familiar sense of envy He works at AWS? Is that considered particularly impressive to be envious over? Sure he went to Hopkins but that's not atypical in
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
Would you say the same if he was a member of ISIS but hadn’t committed any terrorist acts yet? It’s no different.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I agree, I think 1 billion Americans is a worthwhile goal.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
Yikes the Amazon numbers are really low...
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
Those two examples are fundamentally different and it’s silly to conflate individual action with coercing the app stores to discontinue supporting the app.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I saw these during my onsite. I’m surprised they weren’t known externally...
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
Have you written about this in the past? This seems pretty absolute.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
If this is a buffet option I don't mind possible obsolescence myself.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
“Banning” ideas? The authoritarianism is getting less and less guarded.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
Well, nonetheless, the amount of privilege you wield is astronomical compared to me, and it's clear that you believe you're superior to me in every way. Unfortunately, you're probably right because I can't pass a top-tie
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
PHD graduate after a few years will easily make $450k. I’m sure OP does. Unlike me, he has absurd wealth. I’m lucky if I hit $200k after 3 years tenure at Amazon.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
Really not helping the condescending Googler stereotype there bud. Or perhaps its OK for you to be this way as a tech "elite" that makes $450k a year.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I’m really referring to the children of Googler parents.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I live in the northeast - even if I get promoted it’s unlikely I’ll break 200k. Down payment for a house around here is like 150k or more :/
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I grew up with a dad working for 70-120k and a mom at home. I can’t even imagine how nice the lifestyles of Bay Area kids are.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
> The insecurity gnawed at me and made me engage in many foolish behaviors during college, and also caused me to constantly compare myself with others. I was ultimately very unhappy. Through a series of experiences (i.e. therapy, honest
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I've done nearly 300. I still can't crack Google or Facebook etc and I'm still extremely depressed that I"m just inherently unable to because my CS education wasn't good enough (because I wasn't good enough to
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
> Over here, there seems to be much more emphasis (and trust) on your resume, and the hiring process is more focused on fit. If you have the basics down, most can be thought - but it's pretty difficult to teach culture. That's
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
Why does it matter what services China blocks? Are you saying we should take cues from the great firewall?
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
Indeed! Perhaps instead of deplatforming them like college social justice warriors would we should instead put forward our own, superior, conception of what free expression means?
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
Ignorance and pettiness describes this administration quite succinctly I think
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
It’s almost as though it’s the First nation conceived in Liberty shouldn’t take its cues from a despotic regime?
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
Perhaps, but no amount of preparation has been able to vault me to even close to the elite, mostly because I guess I don’t have the genes for it.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
Unfortunately interviews are easy for him as an IIT and Stanford elite, so this advice is mostly just obvious.
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Ask HN: How do I feel better about working for Amazon?
8 points by lowiqengineer 6y ago|21 comments
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
Weird time to flex, right?

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