throwawayFanta

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by throwawayFanta 6mo ago
At my FAANG, there was a team of experienced engineers that proved they could deliver faster and more performant code than a complete org that was responsible for it earlier. So now a lot of different parts of the company are trying to repl
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by throwawayFanta 10mo ago
As a counter point, at the bigTech i work at, since Trump's H1B visa fee announcement all H1B hiring requires approval from pretty high up in the management chain.
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by throwawayFanta 2y ago
This will be harder-when AWS (and the others follow) launch the EU sovereign cloud[0] Word is that it'll be run similar to the top secret (lol) cloud [1] that they run for the USA 3 letter agencies. [0] https://aws.amazon.co
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by throwawayFanta 2y ago
It won't work that way. If you look at the internal structure of amazon, you realize that majority of the good engineers have been there for 5+ years. Amazon always churned through people, causing good engineers who couldn't deal
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by throwawayFanta 2y ago
It's mostly money. If you are good at your job, amazon pays much better than most companies. I tried looking for a new job last year, and the only ones increasing my current comp were HFT and pre-ipo startups. Google wouldn't even
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by throwawayFanta 2y ago
Microsoft is stuck because anything they'd do would reduce the "freedom" of end users. I work in big tech, and unfortunately we frequently need to have conversations about the smallest features because we have evidence about
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by throwawayFanta 4y ago
It depends on if that aligns with your management's views. In aws, ive seen teams spend some effort on keeping their backlog low (but no zero) since if it balloons out of control you know you're gonna get called out on it. i recal
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by throwawayFanta 5y ago
What this exec did was very illegal, but anyone in the startup scene would know that things like this are very common, but probably on a smaller scale. Maybe there are no wads of cash changing hands, but I've personally seen contracts
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by throwawayFanta 5y ago
I think this blog fails to take into account that 2021 is not 2002. Computer Science is a much more formal/mainstream field of study now, and people don't operate "in a vacuum with no mentorship, guidance, or reference points
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by throwawayFanta 5y ago
Just looking at the raw numbers they all seem outrageous. But if you take a look at some of these companies it makes a lot more sense. The FAANG I work for makes a PROFIT of $2 mill/year for every employee. So it's easy for them t