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Apologies, I thought it was established that some donations are highly likely bribes [0]. If you're questioning that basis I certainly don't have the interest to debate that with you. Assuming you agree on this premise, then I certainly am equating these types of donations to bribes.

[0]: https://www.propublica.org/article/the-story-behind-jared-ku...

Isn't a donation (bribe) such as this itself fraud on a much more significant level? Especially for tax-funded or subsidized institutions?

not to mention that the difference in money can be life-changing. it is not uncommon to see a 2-3x total comp. multiple as a "level 3" at the referenced companies compared to a small one.

Perhaps the deeper problem is the lead who committed to the deliverables isn't doing a good job and should be removed.

> "Was it worth it?"

The proceeds go to programs promoting underrepresented genders and ethnicities in tech, I'd say that yes it is quite "worth it".

I recently joined the team at Chameleon. Here's why I wanted to be a part of their story:

1. I used to be a customer and loved the product!

2. As an earlier adopter of Chameleon, I saw the problem the technology is solving and we were delighted with the impact it had on not only immediately having high quality, customized, observable product tours and onboarding experiences but allowing developers to stay focused on shipping product!

3. Pulkit, Brian, and the rest of the team are razor sharp and focused on making a difference for their customers.

I believe there is a bright future at Chameleon and this is an exciting time to get involved.

Were you also remote? What was the interview process like?

It may just be my company, but over three engineering managers on three different teams, none have had a technical background enough to do any of the "line-functions" you refer-to to occasionally demonstrate technical expertise. There is a dynamic that has not been discussed that I think is important: Engineering Managers rarely have the experience or skillset of Senior IC's and it isn't about faded technical chops they once had. I disagree with the simplicity of the author's framing of an Engineering Manager "letting someone else do the execution". This can be toxic when the Engineering Manager presents this type of delegation to the rest of the organization and a Senior IC report is left undervalued and misrepresented.

Hey Salvatore. The argument could be made that he said some unfair or inappropriate things for sure--I was more speaking to the folks on this thread calling him a "complete douchebag" and other pretty derogatory things without seeing the talk for themselves. Cheers.

I listened to Matt's talk, and I was one of the break-out speakers at RedisConf 2015.

I think people (and possibly Salvatore) are over-reacting slightly when claiming Matt wants to take over the project. What I got out of the talk was an explanation of Redis's development cycle (warts and all) wrapped in a lot of satire. I gave Matt the benefit of the doubt that there was no truly ill will towards Salvatore or Redis.

I believe that Phil Galfond was one of the first "new-generation" players to explain the strategy with modern media (youtube, podcasts) in a way that it could be taken and applied in your own game without too much hassle.

Awesome. Good luck!

Thank you for so eloquently pointing out the elephant in the room that I've been too scared to speak about myself.

I'm finishing my undergrad in CS this year and was approached by Microsoft to interview for a "Technical Evangelist" position. The only questions related to programming were:

1.) "Describe Polymorphism" and 2.) "What are the differences between Inheritance and Composition"

The other questions were very head-in-the-clouds, like "What is the biggest problem in existence today that can be solved by software? If you had a budget and a team, how would you solve it?"

So weird.

Anyways, I was dumbfounded at the simplicity as this was in the middle of other hard-core technical screens from Amazon, Google, Facebook, and eBay for software dev. positions and the interviewer claimed over and over again that this was a programming position and your ability to code was #1. Why didn't they ask me questions to help determine that?

I've since been onsite at MSFT for other reasons and sat down with Technical Evangelists talking about different MSFT platforms. They seemed skilled at programming, and had the background to seem legitimate as engineers. This is what I think Microsoft and other companies really want. The job isn't technical but you need to look credible to the people you are working/speaking with. And above all I think you need to be diehard believers in the product/company.

Did they seriously sell a Gem 'New Relic' as a diagnostic tool that flat-out makes up queuing and response latency numbers on requests to their platform? If this is true then hell yes they need to refund all their customers!

Seeing the support for this in these comments, I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry.

Yeah, but this 'pedigree' being thrown around in these comments is starting to look more and more like blatant discrimination, which was something the recruiters hide pretty well.

"...just because they work at Amazon, LinkedIn, Etsy or Gilt Groupe."

What are you trying to say about the engineers at those companies?

"DeveloperAuction.com is currently open only to employees of Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Zynga, and Google as well as Stanford & MIT graduates. If you'd like to be notified as we expand, please contact us."

Only Stanford and MIT graduates? What about the other 99.9% of tech grads?