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by selfselfself 6y ago
Agree that writing could have been clearer and much more concise
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by selfselfself 6y ago
> When Warren Buffett studies a company, he doesn’t see a checklist of mental models he has to apply He's probably trying to explain the guidance from Farnam Street. The most popular answer on their internal forum on how to use&#x2F
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by selfselfself 6y ago
...and it's not always simple to practice/apply mental models after reading them in a list. I used to be a member of Farnam Street until last year. Most of the members weren't sure how they could apply the mental models per t
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by selfselfself 7y ago
It does matter because a company's valuation is driven by EBIDA and multiple, both of which depend on the type of business (e.g. SaaS, Cloud Services, Real Estate etc). In fact, Amazon's valuation jumped significantly starting 201
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by selfselfself 7y ago
Wow!! Great tool for product managers as well.
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by selfselfself 8y ago
In 2014-2015, if you were a PM / SR PM at Amazon/Google/FB and moved to Bangalore, you would've gotten a Director (at large tech companies) or VP role (at mature startups) easily and would've made the about the same
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by selfselfself 8y ago
Been there done that... and it was the best decision I made for my career. Good luck with yours!
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by selfselfself 8y ago
Had a quick look. Not completely sure the value this adds other than a "to-do" list for your deep work goals?
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by selfselfself 8y ago
Can confirm, this info isn't public at Amazon
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by selfselfself 8y ago
Since you mentioned you want to protest, are you going to join Oleg? Seems like a good starting point.
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by selfselfself 8y ago
Have heard many Amazon stories around review being used by managers as a revenge tool. A true incident - a friend of mine and his coworker (same level) didn't get along. Their manager left and this coworker was made the manager since h
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by selfselfself 8y ago
Here's the original for comparison. It's quite an improvement! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veMlnxlgpZg
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by selfselfself 8y ago
Agree. I subscribed to their paid membership plan and it's not materially better than the free content. Well, I paid for the full year already.
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by selfselfself 8y ago
Interesting. Any proof that he's not a fan of democracy?
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by selfselfself 8y ago
How did you determine that you haven't seen many bad actors / reporting bias?
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by selfselfself 8y ago
There could be issues around how to interpret this data, especially around stock. Those with a few years of experience are probably reporting a significant vested stock as part of the comp. Alternatively, there could also be cases where fol
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by selfselfself 8y ago
Agree, I'm a PM at a top software/internet company and engineers with half of my experience make greater package... Amazon is a mixed bag but FB, Linkedin (prior to acuisition), Google, Netflix all skew towards SWEs making higher