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Bloody posted:ya you drive to a "town" that is really just a named intersection then drive half an hour into even more the middle of nowhere I remember driving through west Texas and seeing freeway exits that end at oil pumps.
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# ¿ Aug 31, 2018 23:00 |
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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 19:03 |
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qhat posted:Just went to an in person tech screen. Pretty sure I flunked it, they asked me to whiteboard an algorithm to serialise a binary tree structure (not a binary search tree, just any unsorted binary tree) and one to deserialise it into the same structure. I got there in the end but there was a lot of prompting. Also not sure if the company culture is really my thing anyway though, but I would've been interested in seeing the salary they offer. you should've asked if this was a good starting place code:
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# ¿ Sep 5, 2018 06:20 |
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alternatively ask if this is a good definition of a binary treecode:
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# ¿ Sep 5, 2018 06:58 |
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jit bull transpile posted:in Java you're fine but I think in .net you need to implement the actual serialize function when you contain fields that aren't standard types. probably a good way to get rejected by someone who's team literal about the specific platform they use. considering thats not valid c# and this is the standard for defining a class serializable by any conforming jvm i dont really get your comment
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# ¿ Sep 5, 2018 07:02 |
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jit bull transpile posted:OK now do it so your serialized format is just the value plus sigils for having parent or children. you know, for space efficiency. because that matters for some reason.
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# ¿ Sep 5, 2018 07:08 |
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jit bull transpile posted:this is the thread for picking apart interview bs. take your nerd poo poo somewhere else *flexes jock muscles at u*
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# ¿ Sep 5, 2018 08:10 |
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Rex-Goliath posted:this is a red flag btw unless you're interviewing for a customer-facing position or a consulting gig where you'll regularly be interacting with bad faith actors yeah for real. I always feel incredibly awful when I misunderstand an interviewee and make sure they know I’m the one failing here, not them. FamDav fucked around with this message at 02:39 on Oct 14, 2018 |
# ¿ Oct 14, 2018 01:47 |
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Flaming June posted:sounds like a very high L6/ lower L7. i have a friend over there as an L7 and gets 700k iirc yeah once you hit principal (or staff at google, i think google came from sun levels and amazon came from microsoft?) comp starts to get very out of control. its also a pretty high bar to get over as you either have to be pretty drat accomplished outside of the company OR have the luck to have an org put enough trust in you to give you the kind of projects that get you to that level
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# ¿ Nov 1, 2018 23:40 |
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one weird tip to having a great commute into SLU: take public transit
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# ¿ Apr 1, 2019 22:04 |
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Fart Johnson posted:I graduated a decade ago. I don't even remember what classes I took in college, lol if thats also the question others saw, then a MST isn't really the answer here. the problem is p rough though because you have to realize that the "infinite paths" bit means you're solving two problems 1. is there a cycle on a path between A and B? if so, detect cycle and print "infinite paths" 2. if there isn't a cycle, print the right number of paths we can detect the former with a DFS, because if we ever link back to a node we've already seen when exploring the graph, we've found a cycle. if we can show that any node in that cycle is also on a path to B from A, then we know the answer is "infinite paths" option 2 can also be solved with a DFS, and since we're assuming the graph is acyclic (at least w.r.t. the part we care about) we can memoize results since we know the graph never backtracks.
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# ¿ Apr 8, 2019 18:42 |
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The Management posted:an L6 in Sunnyvale starts at around $500k total comp. yeah, becoming a staff at google/facebook or principal at microsoft/amazon is $$$
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# ¿ Sep 4, 2019 01:14 |
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Jimmy Carter posted:interviewing post-mortem: did you end up staying at the same company? I assume no, but sounded like that was your path awhile back.
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# ¿ Sep 22, 2019 21:35 |
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Gentle Autist posted:in my team and region it’s fine, people are nice. it’s a bit fart smelly but it’s not like a crazy aggressive backstab fest like that nytimes article reported. Pretty much everyone I’ve dealt with at AWS has been solid i find it funny how people have really leaned into the "well i'm just a simple country engineer" stchick of being super humble about architecture choices, but the alternative like a few other big tech others would be quite a bit worse.
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# ¿ Oct 20, 2020 05:25 |
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Gentle Autist posted:i don’t understand this post really trying to phrase this in a way that doesn’t sound mean spirited. in the past two or so years we’ve really started tooting our horn about how we don’t toot our horn about how we chose to build things, or how we choose simple answers to problems rather than chase complexity. these kinds of choices are absolutely right (at scale solutions not scaling down, preferring strict isolation vs complex machinery, etc.) but there’s a performative aspect to it that i find funny. part of my opinion might be because i’m more adjacent to the twittery parts of aws. this is independent of thinking it’s a great place to work, which imo it generally is. if you’re not ok with a document/meeting heavy culture then you may not like it, and there’s a high degree of risk aversion technically while also demanding a lot of feature velocity. this manifests as competing efforts to improve efficiency and safety, as you’re continually trying to derisk more changes written by more (and less experienced) people going out to more (and weirder) production environments. and obviously if you aren’t into operations then you will almost certainly hate it.
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# ¿ Oct 20, 2020 17:31 |
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HappyHippo posted:also from a quick google search, it looks like washington passed a new non-compete law at the start of 2020 that's pretty restrictive to employers. lol, the compensation threshold for non competes to be a-ok in WA is 100k
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# ¿ Feb 10, 2021 07:02 |
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if you don't have a promo doc being written by you or your manager, then you are nowhere close to being promoted. this is true anywhere that has any kind of formal process for promotions.
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# ¿ Apr 12, 2021 22:44 |
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Xik posted:They're just following the industry standard and making sure only insufferable pricks fill architect roles. make org charts public edit: i also find it insufferable because its now how things work; by the point where you're "tech lead" on XYZ you should also be able to demonstrate how you guided other teams that were adjacent to your expertise and that's equally important. if you can't talk about that, its because you weren't actually the tech lead.
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# ¿ Apr 30, 2021 18:19 |
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so after not interviewing for near on ~5 years due to a whole barrel of self esteem issues, i decided to go interview and snagged a staff engineer position on my first go around. i can wait around to see if my principal promo goes through but honestly i'd probably just leave afterwards anyways.
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# ¿ Aug 13, 2021 01:59 |
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also go to therapy seriously
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# ¿ Aug 13, 2021 02:02 |
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RSUs at non-obvious meteoric startups are nebulous, RSUs at obvious meteoric startups are know but won't be augmenting your true income anytime soon, and RSUs at public companies are obvious and impacting your comp. also holy lol this offer package. I was expecting to have to negotiate but I'm getting 3x'd off of my good but maybe stale sr engineer total comp. I think even if I'm promoted in 3-6 months I'd still make 200-300k less a year.
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# ¿ Aug 13, 2021 17:39 |
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raminasi posted:what region/industry are you in? are you moving to a faang? I live in Seattle and have worked for a public cloud provider for over 6 years, and am on track to hit the first post-senior job level in about 6-12 months (i.e., if there's a gap in the promo doc then it will probably take 6-9 months to fill it). This would be from a FAANG to a non-FAANG.
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# ¿ Aug 13, 2021 18:05 |
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so i told work this morning that i've decided to accept the offer and now i've got meetings with the GM and VP.
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# ¿ Aug 16, 2021 20:14 |
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so received my counter offer, which would put me near the top of the band for the next level (in theory getting promoted in q1) for at least this year and next. it's still less than 2/3 the offer i have in hand :/.
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# ¿ Aug 19, 2021 20:38 |
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well, just signed the offer. this interview season was a whole lot better than the last one i didcode:
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# ¿ Aug 25, 2021 18:17 |
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Achmed Jones posted:Hell yeah, congrats! Do you mind sharing where you landed? Totally fine if you'd rather not say (e.g. I am OK saying I work at google right now, but my previous companies were small enough that I'm not comfortable naming them on the public internet) another dystopian tech company, but at least one with perks, good vest schedules, and superlative pay. i decided to explicitly avoid google/facebook/microsoft because i didn't want to work for another megacorp for awhile. apple was interesting because they wanted me to lead a project to build something in my niche but after learning more about their ops culture i realized we would be incompatible.
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# ¿ Aug 25, 2021 21:01 |
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RokosCockatrice posted:Check out levels.fyi if you want some total comp numbers for faang. Equity ends up being the lions share of comp with it being rare to see base going over 200. I think that's tax advantaged but I'm a ones and zeros kind of numbers guy so I have no idea. base is going higher, mine is 270 + ~60k bonus.
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2021 19:52 |
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https://twitter.com/chucktingle/status/1435280565691826177
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2021 19:56 |
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RokosCockatrice posted:what the hell can one person do worth 330 a year i dunno ask your mom and dad they like my vibe
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# ¿ Sep 9, 2021 05:42 |
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Gazpacho posted:(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) this feels right
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# ¿ Sep 24, 2021 02:32 |
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imo all of the situational optimizations are pretty meaningless to just answering the q, unless you can explain what kinds of situations they are/aren’t valuable. being able to explain the nlgn in place and n extra space solns is good stuff
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# ¿ Sep 25, 2021 22:32 |
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qsvui posted:every single interview i've had with a "big boy" tech company (and those aspiring to be one) asked about Big O to some extent. probably some faang started it and everyone else just cargo culted i mean its been true for years? though what i find particularly hilarious is how few places by comparison will ask "why is it correct?". this is not and probably was never a good interview q, but i used to ask years ago something like the following code:
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# ¿ Sep 27, 2021 03:03 |
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Corla Plankun posted:is it illegal in america to get a job at a company you find morally repugnant and then not contribute anything of value to said company while collecting a paycheck? it’s called at-will brother
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# ¿ Sep 30, 2021 21:59 |
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senior video game people being able to double their comp based on their skillset is something i think is absolutely justified. while i dont know much about peoples "leadership" skillset as senior engineers in video games companies, their technical skillset is definitely worth at least twice as much to facebook in vr than it is to ea on madden 2k22
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# ¿ Nov 23, 2021 20:57 |
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CarForumPoster posted:I just checked the very latest salary data for a sw engineer 4, in SF, in the 95th %, at a unicorn or larger valued company. $220K total cash ($215k base), $2-$5M equity presumably vesting over 4 years. are these grants options or rsus? and is the dollar amount the grant at the beginning or end of its vest?
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# ¿ Nov 23, 2021 21:02 |
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Plorkyeran posted:if you have equity grants from before 2020 then you're in very good shape because the whole industry saw stock prices triple in 2020 but i haven't seen any indications that companies are tripling _new_ grants after that also lol if you worked at one of the companies that switched to 1 year grants around that time
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# ¿ Nov 23, 2021 21:04 |
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CarForumPoster posted:I cant get over those loving figgies. wait til you find out how much the people who educate our nations future make!
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# ¿ Nov 24, 2021 01:07 |
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also, like, doctors wages are already held artificially high by reducing the number of slots available to onramp into the profession and refusing foreign credentials. which also helps contribute to brutality of schooling and residency and just being a doctor in general.
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# ¿ Nov 24, 2021 02:22 |
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Blinkz0rz posted:i'm expecting most of my comp bump this cycle to be in equity. probably like 3-5% raise but a few hundred k over the next 4 years in rsus who gets refreshers over four years. also this is the first comp cycle in like 8 years where i legitimately don't care because i joined 3 months ago. woo!
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# ¿ Jan 7, 2022 03:14 |
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aeflux posted:the place i'm at now is falling apart, we've had three high-profile leadership departures in the past six weeks. revenue is flat, forecast outlook is dismal, material + freight costs are way higher and we can't push the full costs along. our remaining management seems intent on playing the same song as this ship takes on more water ngl outside of the manufacturing-specific bits this sounds like every single tech company over the past 6-9 months
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# ¿ Jan 9, 2022 01:31 |
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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 19:03 |
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lol mr "didn't know what cache coherency was" thinks hes not getting tech jobs because he's too honest edit to add: "I've never taped out an out of order superscalar processor nor have I ever debugged a hardware issue that resulted in a recall."
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