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Bezos earned all of his wealth honestly. He offered products and services for prices that people were willing to pay. He did not steal. He did not force anyone into anything. If he is stupid rich, it is because he was able to provide things people wanted more effectively than anyone else.
How can you possibly justify punishing success? What right do we have to give him money for doing what we want, and then turning around and taking it away. What sort of message does that send to other people?
"Work hard and be successful, but not TOO successful..."
2) I don't want to work for a "mission-driven" company. What does that even mean? Most companies lie about their mission anyways. They want to make money, not save the planet.
3) There is not a company out there that is "aligned" with my values. I value free time. I value spending time with my family and friends. I value doing separate things from work.
4) I do not care about having "impact" or about "growth". Been there; done that. It is overrated. Building up a company's value so that the executives get bigger & bigger bonuses does not motivate me at all.
If you are able to change the world, build your own company. Don't work for someone else and let them take the credit. If you can't change the world, then stop pretending you can. Work, get paid, and then go home and spend some quality time with your loved ones. Stop trying to trick me into wasting my limited time left by slaving for other people.
Even someone who never heard of Counter-Strike could figure out that this is a false statement.
You are not a leader; you are an enforcer.
1) It is a lie. It is certainly NOT "unlimited" in any way, shape or form, and everyone knows it. Can you take 10 years off? How about 1 year off? How about 6 months off? Nope. "Unlimited" is a lie. There is a limit. But now it is a "secret" limit.
2) Unlimited PTO = Limited PTO and the limit is 100% determined by your manager. If you manager likes you, your secret limit will be high. If you manager does not like you, your limit will be low or even ZERO. Unlimited PTO means a manager can just refuse to approve any of your requests and there is NOTHING you can do about it.
3) Unlimited PTO means extra confusion for everyone. Instead of knowing that you can count on 2, 3 or 4 weeks vacation, you simply never know how much time you can get. And this time can change at ANY time.
4) Unlimited PTO means unequal time off for people. Some people will get to take more time off than others. It is guaranteed to be unfair and guaranteed to be gamed. Basically, it encourages people to take time off early for every excuse (instead of saving time up). Also, it encourages lying. You want to take some time off, better to claim that your kid is sick than to be honest and say you want to go to a baseball game.
5) Unlimited PTO = no privacy. Now you have to explain and justify every time you want to take a few days off. When you have 2, 3 or 4 guaranteed weeks off, you just say "I wish to take my X weeks off at these times". You do not need to explain that you going to just lay in front of the TV and binge watch 90's shows. But with Unlimited PTO, there are no guarantees. So now your manager can demand that you justify every request. Instead of notifying, now you have to beg.
6) Unlimited time off is am employee-hostile position. Imagine if a company offered a "unlimited salary". You get paid whatever your boss wants to pay you every month. It might be zero or it might be a million bucks. Would you agree to that? No. No one would. Then WHY would you agree to an unlimited PTO?
If nothing else, it will give you a general idea of how often they learn new things.
Does the manual having working code examples? Then is it probably a good manual. If it does not have working examples that you can copy & paste (and they actually work), then it probably is terrible.
But, I have no idea how you gather gender or marital status from a resume.
I am one of those people who takes a while to get rolling, especially when starting from scratch. Interviews generally give you 30 minutes or an hour to produce something. I will easily take an hour to think about the problem, do some research, and then create some notes before writing any code.
This is, of course, not what most companies want. Unless you are asking me to do something trivial or something that I have claimed to do many times in the past, you can't expect me to come up with the "right" answer instantaneously.
I never jump right into editing code, unless I am already intimately familiar with it.
I guess it all depends on whether you enjoy the book's explanation for the world and specifically, Howl. To me it was too distracting.
1) More durable than normal clothing. They would not be something stylish enough to wear every day, but useful in a natural disaster. Think heavy duty work clothes.
2) Kept in some sort of safe, sealed container. In case of a flood or fire, your regular clothes could easily get spoiled. Spare clothing would be kept someplace safe and could be retrieved when necessary.
3) Provide extra warmth, in case your house was destroyed or damaged. Depending on the local weather, it might include a heavy coat, gloves, boots, etc.
If someone is determined and willing, there really is nothing you can do to stop them from breaking into your house.
You have to ask yourself what would be more effective: 4 years in college (spend $170k) or spend 4 years learning on your own (free), working on open source projects (free), and/or getting an entry level job (earn 120k or more)?
Pretty much this.