DavidChouinard

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Candor (https://candor.co/) helps employees at public companies manage their employee equity. Hiring engineers with experience building high-reliability, mission-critical systems.

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The authors explicitly address this point, calling it "healthspan".

Not at all. Effects vary wildly across industries and even within that, companies are affected in very different ways.

Many companies are redoubling their hiring efforts — lots of new talent suddenly available is big opportunity.

See also: https://candor.co/hiring-freezes

(4000+ companies tracked)

We're getting 1+ submission every minute and doing our best to cross reference everything. Email me at hello@candor.co with the specific entries that are incorrect and we'll fix them right away.

See the full list of which companies are freezing hiring: https://candor.co/hiring-freezes

Also: if you have an offer and are concerned it might be rescinded, please reach out: hello@candor.co

Great, thanks, adding to the list.

Hi, this is David — lots of movement in tech hiring in the last few days. Spent some time to put together a list of companies freezing hiring or doing layoffs.

If you have any information on layoffs/freezes, please comment below or email at hello@candor.co.

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All successful companies are part of the class, visible or not.

There definitely exists organizations lead by smart non-product people who recognize their shortcoming and are enthralled to support it.

The clearest way to see the difference is how natural the product engineering phenomena is — it's been happening and we just need a name.

Product engineers are entrepreneurs in waiting who have yet to find product-market fit with an idea of their own. They've typically tried a few times, but haven't yet won at the startup roulette.

Product engineers and entrepreneurs get along so well because they're the same breed of people. Great entrepreneurs are often product engineers.

Full stack engineers are generalist engineers who are motivated by technical problems. Product engineers are motivated by building impactful tools. They learnt programming somewhere along the way as a necessity to show the world their ideas.

Product engineers generally pick mainstream languages and tools. They talk about users, strategy and product.

In general, anything that moves the interview from adversarial to collaborative is a big win. In many ways, interviewing is a lot less about assessing skill and a lot more about creating affection between two strangers.

This is a very strong feeling of mine and early reviewers of the essay railed at that frustration. It's striking how much the hiring dance feels full of misplaced energy.

There's no doubt hiring for product engineers is horribly broken, and in a way that holds back the entire ecosystem.

The essay is not about interviewing, because I don't have strong alternatives to suggest.

First we need vocabulary, then we'll need process. I'm in a quest to understand how to hire for this role: I'll write a new essay once I understand it.

Hardware teams have been explicit about this role for a long time. I wish I had first-hand experience of hardware product engineering, but it's certainly an inspiration for this essay.

This is true only in aggregate.

Sent!

I'm a (private) pilot. Many years ago, I faced a sudden engine failure and performed an emergency landing in a minuscule pasture surrounded by a very forested area. It very nearly costed me and my passengers' lives.

The plane was without engine for several minutes before I landed, yet that time was spent fully engrossed and completely focused on the problem. I had clarity of thought like nothing I've ever experienced.

No emotions — no fear, nothing — just stone cold rationality. Going through the checklist, Mayday call, considering options, etc. with swift and decisive precision.

Though I believe the extensive training certainly helped, to this day I'm amazed at the incredible stress response our body has evolved. Even though it happened many years ago, I still think about it a lot.

+1 for this. I trust you're working hard on these problems, but can't fantom why it takes so long. I'm really curious about what bureaucratic mess is hidden under the hood of currencies.

We use GitHub to teach Harvard's CS171 [1]. Couldn't recommend it more — we use it for the course website and for managing homework [2] (great for pushing out homework updates). Students publish their work on GitHub and we have a script that downloads all the student repos at the deadline.

[1] http://cs171.org/

[2] Here's the first homework: https://github.com/CS171/HW1

I agree, see Synack [1] (marketplace for bug bounties, with the bugs and rewards vetted by Synack). I think it's a huge opportunity.

[1] http://www.synack.com/

I'm actually a student in the course and my interest in this was spun out of the last homework.

I've definitely considered that, but it's computationally difficult to make it in the browser. This animated gif is as close as it comes: http://i.minus.com/ibi7p66VbETpnU.gif

My data source (GovTrack) only has vote count, but not roll calls, before the 101th Congress. It might be possible to get data before that, but I suspect it's quite hard.

The data is actually from GovTrack.us, which I suspect is also where DW-NOMINATE gets it. My script for querying GovTrack is on Github: https://github.com/DavidChouinard/congressviz