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by throwaway2729 3y ago
Did you not read the article?
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by throwaway2729 3y ago
We've decided to wait till 10th grade to give our kid a smartphone. We might get a dumb phone sooner than that if they need to call us. It's easy to see kids getting addicted to any type of screen - TV, laptops, etc. Having a phon
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by throwaway2729 3y ago
Mostly micromanaging CEOs that want people back in the office or CEOs that want to quietly lay off people.
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by throwaway2729 3y ago
No, I want her to realize that what she was trying is probably impossible.
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by throwaway2729 3y ago
This is not sarcasm. I do hope she spends the time studying what she should have studied before (hematology?, medical science, etc).
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by throwaway2729 3y ago
In 2+ years, I've done 331 interviews to hire in single digits.
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by throwaway2729 3y ago
As per my CEO, it's ok to do endless interviews to find that one good candidate. It doesn't make sense to me but hey it's not my money. One of our engineering managers was complaining that they had to do 80 interviews to hire
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by throwaway2729 3y ago
Had a Rumani mango tree at home while growing up. Small, extremely juice mangos. Ate hundreds every season. Nothing else comes close.
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by throwaway2729 3y ago
An exec at the company Unity competes with said the same thing.
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by throwaway2729 3y ago
Coordinated abuse by tech companies. Will last till the next boom.
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by throwaway2729 3y ago
Took me twenty years to get it and the only reason it happened in 20 was the increase in number of available green cards due to covid. $5M+ earnings, leading teams of 30+, generating hundreds of millions in income for companies.
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by throwaway2729 3y ago
google cloud poised for precipitous fall
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by throwaway2729 3y ago
I work at a tech company that purports to build the metaverse. Initially they allowed people to go remote. Now they are walking back on it and asking people that don't want to return to take a package. A quite sad story of someone who
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by throwaway2729 3y ago
They are the only company that has not done layoffs. This is their way of doing layoffs without paying severance. Other companies are doing this as well including mine. I hope they all crash and burn when the job market recovers. Apple&#x27
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by throwaway2729 3y ago
Could be a useful book for ChatGPT to read
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by throwaway2729 4y ago
Stock doubled because of the layoffs and $40B stock buyback.
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by throwaway2729 4y ago
The focus will shift from knowing the right answer to asking the right questions. It'll still require an understanding of core concepts.
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by throwaway2729 4y ago
This is just whitewashing history.
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by throwaway2729 4y ago
Non-sequitur. We are talking about Trump
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by throwaway2729 4y ago
Yes. It was not his racist statements or his incompetence. It was what Adam Schiff did. For pete's sake, FBI literally handed him the 2016 election.
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by throwaway2729 4y ago
Do you think we are all stupid?
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by throwaway2729 4y ago
Sorry that people suffering is getting tiresome for you.
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by throwaway2729 4y ago
Company's leadership and business model was talked up early last year - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30743371
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by throwaway2729 4y ago
Decent people
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by throwaway2729 4y ago
You are correct except that it's L1 visa driving wages down. H1Bs are typically employed at FAANG and are paid top of the market. Instead of a lottery system, they should use it for top of the market jobs or proven specialization like
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by throwaway2729 4y ago
Went "unempathetic" mode. He didn't have to do what he did and in the way he did. You were cheering for him instilling fear in the remaining employees.
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by throwaway2729 4y ago
You had no empathy for the people getting laid off. The drama at Twitter was 'interesting' to you.
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by throwaway2729 4y ago
The CEO was cheering on when Musk laid off half the company. Not surprised.
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by throwaway2729 4y ago
Walmartians
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by throwaway2729 4y ago
I feel that executive off-sites will be better discussing cultural/operational shifts the company should make in the coming year and perhaps broad themes for success rather than going deep because most people will just doze through it.

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