southphillyman

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by southphillyman 5y ago
I resigned in July. So far things have been going well as I've concentrated on a combination of relaxation, studying, traveling, and exercise/yoga. Last week was my first week actively looking for new employment, so far that has b
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by southphillyman 5y ago
Seems like this program will mostly reward those who can somehow survive the Amazon culture, similar to the way Amazon RSUs are back loaded for SWEs. If the accounts of Amazon front line workers having to pee in cups and being PIP'd fo
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by southphillyman 5y ago
HBO Max performance seems to be platform/tv dependent. It works fine on my Ipad but is absolutely dreadful on my Samsung televisions. Super slow and crashes every single time when viewing content that is 30+ minutes.
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by southphillyman 5y ago
I do a combination of Feynman technique, space repetition via Anki, and even katas if it's something I'm really struggling with.
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by southphillyman 5y ago
Only entry level software jobs(because of the weird x years requirements) and FAANG jobs (because of the required DS&A prep) are hard to get. Standard run of the mill Fortune 500 SWE jobs paying 100-200k are relatively easy to get once
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by southphillyman 6y ago
>You wouldn't believe how lonely it is. In my team of 150 people, we were two black people. Almost a decade in the industry and I have never worked with another black developer. One time I was on a team with a black project manager
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by southphillyman 6y ago
My take away from this is that the bar may have been lower in 2008 when the headcount was lower than it is now despite the headcount having exploded recently. You still get the in-depth system design questions and "tech trivia" t
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by southphillyman 6y ago
This. I'm having some difficulty remembering details of systems I worked on and bugs/approaches I took at places I no longer work at. Going forward I'm going to document details about everything I do, a personal post mortem o
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by southphillyman 6y ago
I was just wondering what happened to this guy since I rarely saw his comments anymore. Didn't realize he was well known outside of this forum
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by southphillyman 6y ago
A handful of politicians have been trying to decouple health insurance from employment the last two election cycles but for whatever reason a significant portion of the country "likes their health insurance", whatever that means.
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by southphillyman 6y ago
If it's really sealed this may be a scenario where you'd be better off not mentioning it. Similar thing happened to me when I went through a security clearance for a position. I mentioned that I was arrested once upon a time and t
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by southphillyman 6y ago
This seems like an issue which is heavily skewed towards start ups and tech companies, which are ironically generally viewed as the most attractive companies for tech workers to work at. The pay will be lower but there are opportunities out
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by southphillyman 6y ago
>I get a feeling that process as this somehow does not select for top performers that are already working on exciting stuff. There are senior engineers who essentially work as tech leads making $500K+ at these companies. It's a trad
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by southphillyman 6y ago
On leetcode they are literally marked "Medium". Mostly questions that involve some sort of BFS or DFS on graphs, figuring out the next available time slot in a meeting calendar, figuring out the best time to buy and sell a stock g
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by southphillyman 6y ago
>From my experience, the bulk of discrimination occurs before hiring event starts - recruiters extend phone interviews to diverse candidates at higher rates. How is this different from any other targeted recruiting? FAANG recruits stude
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by southphillyman 6y ago
People will just game this as well. If you already know the answer to a question coming in because you leetcode all day you could easily ask a lot of clarifying questions, identify edge cases, and give brunt force/alternative approache
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by southphillyman 6y ago
Aren't sites like leetcode partially to blame for this? Years ago asking a candidate to push all zeros to the end of an array , in place, probably eliminated 75% of the pool. Now anyone who adequately prepares can probably solve that
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by southphillyman 7y ago
Yup, this is why I'm using hotels more now. Too many random problems, hosts who are in another country when I'm trying to solve issues, and accommodations that are often inconsistent with what was portrayed in the listing. With al
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by southphillyman 7y ago
I have started using hotels more lately after almost exclusively booking with airbnb for several years. 1 thing that I really appreciate about Airbnb still is that it allows you to stay in areas that usually don't have a lot of hotels
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by southphillyman 7y ago
In a world where you are expected to solve 2 leetcode medium-hard questions in 30 minutes with no syntax errors and test cases.... I doubt it. The questions come in different forms with optimizations, it's not about memorizing answers
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by southphillyman 7y ago
I use it for interview prep. I know some people advise against memorizing stuff in programming but it's been effective for me so far. You can spend 3-5 minutes in an interview trying to reason about implementing the partition method o
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by southphillyman 7y ago
Be the change you want to see! Did this job offer a substantial bump in pay? If so ride it out while trying to improve the culture\processes. Seems like it's very slow pace so you can spend time leveling up some skills you may be inter
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by southphillyman 7y ago
The reason why some places don't accept AMEX is because their transaction fees are higher. I haven't paid a cent in interest in probably over a decade but AMEX incentivizes me to use my card for everything with rewards and make mo
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by southphillyman 7y ago
>Besides that he pressured her into quitting with promises of financial support, then left her with the baby and refused to pay. California doesn't have child support? If he's not in his child's life he's a scumbag bu
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by southphillyman 7y ago
Do this and the market will speak. I view ridesharing mostly as a luxury/convenience thing. My usage has already began to decline as prices have risen locally. If they start operating like taxis then I'll use them as often as taxi
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by southphillyman 7y ago
Thanks, those are reasonable expectations a candidate can demonstrate at any company. OP qualified further that they didn't even consider his projects, the bar is just raised some on the interview questions. That's reasonable.
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by southphillyman 7y ago
Is there a guide for what type of projects FAANG expect for L5+? There was just a thread here about a guy slacking for multiple years, so are their L5s even working on complex projects themselves? An individual might be trying to get into a
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by southphillyman 7y ago
Thanks, I hear a lot of stories of people being down leveled but it sounds like some companies have strict bands related to YOE. L4 appears to be mid level and I guess 7 yrs if on the upper limits of that but you'd think they'd gi
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by southphillyman 7y ago
>In both cases, the conclusion was that my results were good enough for an L4 position, but they wouldn't hire me for less than L5. (Why not, I'd be happy as an L4...). Can you elaborate on this? Were you interviewing specifica
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by southphillyman 7y ago
Not in my 40s yet but I'm in a similar position. I'm going to take some time off and prep for FAANG interviews. The benefit of the algo focused interview is it seems like there would be less ageism there as less of the criteria is

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