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I was just promoted to Staff Engineer at a mid-cap household name company. I had joined as a contractor in 2020, came on full time as a senior engineer in 2021. Simply stated, it comes down to consistently and reliably delivering high quality work and maintaining good relationships with your coworkers.

Also, never forget to mention at least once, advocates, activists, experts and lawmakers.

Informing myself by listening to actual scientists lecture on the topic rather than accept whatever I hear in the media and echo chambers. No one is denying anthropomorphic climate change but complex systems like the earths climate is extremely nuanced and geoengineering may be a viable option at some point.

What are you doing personally to care for and help the hungry? Please share so that others may get involved.

It was definitely easier in the 2000s. At that time there was so much to build and not that many people to compete with.

If you plan to practice the "salary arbitrage" mentioned above, it needs to be a good deal for the employer. If you can provide the same amount of value as someone in the Bay Area at 20% discount it is a good deal for both parties.

The study of Complex Adaptive Systems can provide a lot of insight.

Regardless, they will just be a punching bag.

Taking a number two without the use of a footstool to get into a more natural squatting position. I look forward to the ritual every morning and usually achieve 'poophoria'.

Seriously, I've read so many comments from 'comrades' here lately.

Because it is more expensive to borrow money. Think of it like this, if it costs 1% to borrow money and you can use it to generate a 4% return with a less than efficient operation, the equation makes sense. However when that money is now 4% to borrow, you are forced to increase the efficiency of the operation or shut it down completely.

It's not just SF, but all of Northern CA and yes likely to become a crisis.

That you Catholic church for providing us a modern day example of how people in the middle ages thought.

Sell with limit or market-on-close order ASAP and allocate to a diversified portfolio.

You need to pay rent to pitch a tent on the sidewalk in a West Coast city?

Makes sense, thanks.

Not an ethics question of why or why not, I'm just curious.

How common was it for founders to cash out on common shares in the Series C-E rounds the last decade?

The second generation Web UI of a Series A startup in 2011 that went on to be acquired for $1B in 2020. I have another promising personal project in the works I'm hoping overtakes it.

Um, actually it's Xtreme

At least it will be the butt of jokes in engineering meetings then.

The ones I've encountered tend to have the zeal of relegioud converts and haughtiness of secret society members. I've read that recently senior managers have been leaving the space incipient stigma of working in the field.

Interesting. I was reading his bio and noticed the do-gooder activities he and his family are involved with. Funny how they end up defrauding people in the long run.

Where does did all that money go? Is it part of a zero sum game and in someone else's hands now, did it evaporate, or a combination of the two?

Sure, it pays well and I work about 4 hours a day and make myself available to others if needed the other 4. Fully remote.

Frontend work for a midcap household name. I have a lot of autonomy and am insulated from all the BS that happens at the mid-manager level. My 1 on 1s with my manager usually becomes more of a therapy session for him.

After years of freelancing and nightmarish interviews in the Bay Area, it took a simple conversation with a cool Aussie guy to get the contract. Once on the team everyone saw I could produce so was asked to come on full time. Moved out of CA to AZ. Been almost 3 years now.

I'm curious how this was measured in 2008 when the go-to places for job searching were Monster, Dice and Craigslist.

"The end of the world is coming because humans are evil" - religious whackos, also environmental whackos

I refused to go into an on-site in SF because our offices are in the midmarket area. Portland OR is even worse than SF.

I moved from the bay area to a small suburb in Southern Arizona. I'm in my 40s and prefer owning an affordable home over meetups proximity. I've found like minded, politically centrist, people here as well.