i refused to do coding interviews i have 20+ years of experience i offered to share my code or work on a little project offered contracting
she said but we send people into space here
a job is a job i can’t pay my lanlord with space dust
All big companies do(did?) this - putting low salary and saying but "this is Facebook!" (real story), preying on young gullible people who think Facebook, Google or any big fish is anything worthy to be a part of.
The FAANG companies are also different in that they already generate massive revenues, so can't credibly claim they can't afford to pay good salaries.
I’ve heard from plenty of experienced people how some of these companies, especially googlee - milk you for all you’ve got while pretending to be caring and offering you competitive base pay.
> she said but we send people into space here
This feeling is everywhere now. "But we send people on the roads here". "But we send people on the bottom of the ocean here". We are Agile and only see the quality manager when we jave an escalation meeting with the customer.
you also have severe space and time restrictions, more than in a car or surgical robot.
no agile for sure. there's not much room for agility or changing requirements in space.
I wouldn't do that now, but at the time it was like getting paid to attend a university that was waaaay more interesting than my actual university. The company was still very bohemian and you had access to the people that wrote the book on digital and practical effects.
There can be huge value, especially for junior engineers in having certain companies on your resume. ILM opened up every single door of every VFX or animation house. I'm sure spaceX would have similar benefits.
You just need to make sure the benefit is worth your time.
Plus you can expand the thiefdom management cake.. And that is real growth..
because people are ok with being underpaid in return for being able to say they work on space shuttles
we will all be fucked until we all learn to negotiate
https://www.levels.fyi/companies/spacex/salaries/software-en...
so you are looking at 14k per month in payments