Panini_Jones

Check out levels.fyi or candor.

Have we seen this happen in the past? Did Microsoft go through a general sense of despondency when it cut people in 2009? Did it recover?

I wonder what effects this uncertainty will have on an organizational system. With multiple rounds of layoffs, talks of 'flattening', projects being cancelled, internal transfers being frozen, hiring being frozen, when does an organization finally become 'healthy' again? When are the right people in the right places making the right decisions again?

Does an organization that has so much capital need to even care about organizational strength?

E5/L5 compensation is relatively similar across the board for normal performers ($350k-$450k). Once you get into the E7+ compensation levels, then you start to notice a real differences.

In HCOL cities in the USA, it can be tough to get a setup like this.

One may suggest to move cities, but my community is my friends in the city I live in. One may suggest getting new friends in a new city, but that's a tough and long process - friendships can take years to build, especially if I'm isolated and working from home.

I could move further out of the city, but now I'm commuting 1hr+ one-way to see my friends every day. The very commute that WFH was trying to get rid of.

In Britain during WWI and WWII, there was a campaign where women would commonly shame men who weren't in uniform by putting white feathers on them [0]. Although arguably different, some of the same mechanisms, e.g. using sex to encourage enlistment, are at play.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_feather

> 4. Meta did layoffs early, and 'honorably'. They got a lot more news coverage being early, but they didn't lock people out in the middle of the night. That causes a lot more complaints from those laid off. If google didn't lock people out in the middle of the night without warning, and discussed why and who was going to be affected, then they may have gotten better press, especially from ex-employees. I've definite seen less news about google layoffs that don't include google in a list of the industry, while earlier layoffs had their own news cycle.

Meta did lock people out overnight all systems except e-mail. For some reason, some employees had access to workplace until ~10:XXAM EST, which doesn't seem intentional. No one at Meta really uses email.

They didn't explain why people were let go. The Q&As afterwards were brutal. Many high performers or people on high priority projects (e.g. ads) were let go.

Ex-meta employees seem to be overall more demoralized by the company already. Why complain about how you were let go when it seems in line with how the company was treating you anyway?

Google A/B tests their recommendations. Either these recommendations improve their topline metrics or you're in some exotic test group for some in-flight experiment.

Either way, these are deliberate choices whose results likely show that showing bad recommendations is good for business.

It doesn't encapsulate the abstract goal you're trying to achieve, which might be value to the user. Heroin has many active users, but some might argue that heroin doesn't maximize value/usefulness for the user over the long run.

I see software engineers lament about a lack of fulfillment in their career (heck, I'm one of them). The author doesn't have fulfillment and decides that they should quit their job and move closer to nature to be fulfilled.

I don't really understand the problem or the solution. Is this sustainable? Will the begin to feel unfulfilled in the mountains? What is fulfillment? Could a steady cadence of vacations to the mountains have bridged the gap? Does it require such an 'all or nothing' solution?

Why did you repeat the first 1.5 sentences of the article?

> that's called living in a country of laws with due process.

The loophole is that the company is allowed to continue breaking the law while the appeal is in progress.

I will never buy from Samsung again either.

I bought a 49" monitor from them in January. A week later, I had two lines of dead pixels. I'm still trying to get them to repair it and customer service has been the worst. Moreover, the warranty online was incorrect. They said they would fix it but they haven't yet. It's been weeks. A nice $1k spent on a very frustrating experience.

It's a picture of people taking a selfie. I think that communicates what a selfie is better than an actual selfie.

Your parent comment states that there exists no known form of interviewing that captures the trajectory of the candidate. I stated the existence of one, thus showing that there exists a known form of interviewing that captures the trajectory of the candidate.

I didn't state that internships solve all of your hiring problems. I also seem to work in a different company than you because our tenure is higher than 2 years and many interns make it to the senior level.

Internships are a form of interviewing and provide a duration over which you can test how fast the person learns.

Google does not already pay the most. In recent years, they've been known to even 'lowball' SWE candidates with no leverage.

Source: https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Google,Facebook,Microsoft&tr...

TikTok could be exacerbating this attitude in men who are already predisposed to feeling helpless in their dating efforts. I notice that I feel worse about my appearance when I've spent more time on TikTok. I also notice that I see more extremely conventionally attractive people on TikTok.

I see the issue being more so with dating app algorithms, though. Those companies/algorithms are incentivized to keep men in the dating pool and paying Bumble/Tinder for dates. The best way to do this is to make those men think that they need to pay to win the game and will lose otherwise.

What incentive is there to explicitly influence dreams versus other means of driving engagement and ad revenue? How do you measure 'dream influence'? Sure, it could be a bi-product, but I doubt this is something TikTok is trying to do.

Was there a new breach yesterday or is this the 2019 one?

It's a unique social phenomenon that has been enabled by technology that some of us here helped create.

I grew up in Toronto. I'm aware of the safety disparity but nevertheless I still think this is a nice place. There are also places in Toronto that I wouldn't go to. Anecdotally, I've been beaten up randomly in Toronto but not in San Francisco. Anecdotally again, I've seen people shoot up in Toronto but not in San Francisco.

> Are you trolling? Those are the nice neighborhoods!

Your assertion was that SF is not a nice place. Those neighborhoods are what SF is to many people, including myself. To me, SF is a nice place with bad parts. To you, it seems to be a bad place with nice parts.

> And BTW wtf are you doing going for walks and doing "many things" in the middle of a pandemic!? Goddamnit dude.

I don't know if anyone has told you, but we've been allowed to go on walks. Even in the current lockdown, you are permitted to walk to a park.

> SF isn't a nice town

You make this assertion but back it up by remarking on things from the past. The Mission was a bloodbath for Native Americans one or two centuries ago, yes, but how does that support your initial claim that it currently isn't a nice town? Is that supporting claim really affecting the residents of the mission so greatly right now?

I think San Francisco is a nice town. I hated it before the pandemic because I only stuck to the Mission and SoMA. I started taking walks in Russian Hill, North Beach/Telegraph Hill, the Marina, Ocean Beach, etc. Those are awesome neighborhoods with great people and many things to do. Just like any city in the USA, you get out of it what you put into it.

IBM is one of their main competitors. When I interviewed a few years ago, it was primarily consulting. Things could have changed, but I doubt they have.

Would you like to invest in Theranos?

I'm not sure it's in TechCrunch's interests to tell us how credible their leakers are. Leakers probably have repeat value and they don't want to poison their relationship.

Isn't it the case that game publishers often will invest in game developers for their platform? I read elsewhere this was the case, but I haven't found a good source online.

That article mentions publishers but not Nintendo specifically at all AFAICT. Is Nintendo considered a publisher?

I'm responding to the argument that the service fees pay for the hardware. No, my $1k paid for the hardware.

Oculus Quest was developed by Facebook, not Oculus.