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That’s not true. It’s a dual intent visa [1].

> Dual Intent: The H-1B visa type carries “dual intent” which means that the holder may intend to return to his/her home country or intend to immigrate to the United States.

However, it does fall under the broad category of temporary work visa, which is possibly why people wrongly assume it’s a “contract” visa.

[1] https://isso.ucsf.edu/immigration-visas/h-1b-scholars

> I mean all USA debt delinquencies are currently between the same levels as Q1 and Q2 of 2008...

Where did you find this? None of the data in https://fred.stlouisfed.org/categories/32440 confirms this other than the small bank credit card delinquencies.

Yes, now return to office. /s

Mainly Blind, LinkedIn and searching. After an offer is made and if you’re taking time to decide, recruiters often sets up a meeting with an executive to talk to you.

I tried that. It didn’t work out for me. Politics, organizational instability, bad executives and a never stopping pager are all insufferable. It kills the very thing, the entirety of joie de vivre that is the main reason for making money.

Now choosing job is a multi-variable analysis for me. I pay more attention to the executives.

> how completely fucked up the world’s economy

Wasn’t economy always effed up that way? I can’t think of a time economy wasn’t driven by corporate greed to make more profit.

Pittsburgh, PA has plenty of houses under 100k. Here’s one that’s less than 250 miles away from you. Although this particular one is not a countryside house [1].

[1] https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1401-Cresson-St-Pittsburg...

Point taken.

> Google's revenues were flat last year but costs were up.

Wrong. Google made 181.69 billion in 2020, 256.74B in 2021 [1] and 283B in 2022 [2]. A 10% YoY increase [2] is better than most of the years they have been public. They possibly made more money in last 2.5 years than all the years they have been public combined.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/266206/googles-annual-gl...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204423...

I thought health insurance puts a cap on how much you can get charged. Could you add a little how that can happen?

Who are these investors that he’s fighting?

> Also, if there was any interesting work, if you weren't some sort of political beast or very assertive, somebody would just steal it from you before you could do it anyways.

This happens in every company.

> Keep your head down and weather the storm.

This certainty a good way to survive but not a good way to live.

> Tech jobs at FAANG no longer look attractive or stable. Google hits the final nail in the coffin (not necessarily involving the layoffs)

This is already happening. FAANGs no longer pay the top dollars according to levels.fyi report: https://www.levels.fyi/2022

> and culture which more resemble 90s than 2020s

What was the culture like in 90s? Any articles/books I can read?

> Labor unrest will increase everywhere

Why do you think this will happen?

Aren’t you adding extra work for him out of pity?

My impression is Twitter handles traffic and complexity in a different magnitude than Netflix in the 2000. Internet usage was significantly smaller back then.

On-prem is a good point though. I don’t know a lot about their core infra.

I think she never intended to be a billionaire. She doesn’t fall under the usual bucket of billionaires.

I’m sure Netflix in 2000 had a lot simpler tech stack than Twitter in 2020. However your point is taken.

Where did you find that Elon was fired from Zip2 and PayPal?

I read it as an advice to chill, as in the opposite of working too hard.

When the valuation drops those money just evaporates. They don’t go into economy.

Looking at their last comment it looks like OP worked for Amazon.

It’s an interesting thought experiment to think what would happen if Amazon fails. It can bring down a big chunk of US economy with it.

> They will even have less manpower in 10 years. And I think this is going to drive China to attack Taiwan

What would China gain by attacking Taiwan though? They only have 24 million people.

> People have left Snapchat for TikTok[1]. Social media users, especially youth, are fickle and the industry relies heavily on network effects.

The article you mentioned didn’t describe an exodus of users leaving Snapchat to use TikTok. It describes how TikTok is now advertisers’ preferred platform to reach younger audience, where Snapchat used to dominate.

Snapchat added 15 million daily active users last quarter. [1]

[1] https://s25.q4cdn.com/442043304/files/doc_financials/2022/q2...

Ditto. Java is like C++‘s popular cousin who lives nextdoor, talks too much and doesn’t like to take his trash out. It won’t take you long to get familiar with it.

Where is that?

How’s the quality of life otherwise?

> Basically, behaving completely disrespectfully to my boss. Anywhere else I’d been fired, but I guess if you deliver it’s fine?

This usually comes back to bite you during PIP, layoff and promo decision.

> How do you handle such situations?

These are all signs of burn out.

> "Best people" according to what metric, other than salary?

Facebook scales. It’s not easy to scale computing infrastructure to support billions of daily active users. Only a handful of companies can do that right now. On top of that they scaled an ad business that can target billions of people. There is only one other company in the world who can do that.

> What technology has Facebook developed with all of those "best people" that could compare to what Bell Labs did with a group of fewer than 10?

See it’s less about “quality”, it’s more about “quantity”. Scaling is a different problem on its own. I adore Unix but I admire what Facebook did as well. Scaling any project over 10 exceptional people is one thing and scaling a project with 10,000 engineers is a completely different thing and Facebook succeeded at that.

Whether that’s a good thing or not that they have succeeded is a separate discussion.