You are oncall on your team's services. No matter how old those are. The frequency depends on your team size, and the level of tickets/incidents depend on the quality of the codebase. I have seen everything from one high sev ticket every 2,3 months to constant paging (3am, etc...)
That depends on the team/org you are, if you are in some cosy team in CDO, that just maintain a couple of services that other internal services use, that aren't really that important, then of course is not toxic. Talk to the folks at EC2, VPC teams.
That's exactly my position, in my case my team is fully remote (a niche little team in AWS), I am not sure if I want to buy a place where I live either, a team reorg, or leadership change can destroy my life plans in a minute. I think the solution is a) Start your own online business, or b) Find a fully remote job, which for what I have seen so far, smaller companies that offer remote opportunities , don pay as much as I make now. Does anyone knows any fully remote company that pay FANG salaries?
I get were you are coming from, but what I'm trying to say is: when someone considered evil by us (in the west) dies, would you hold the same standards? I respect what you do, and I know is super hard. I don't mean to be toxic or anything, just pointing out what I feel is important.
This is pretty off brand for HN, really. Even if you don't agree, that doesn't make it "flamebait" , the queen also was fine with sending Alan Turing to jail for being gay, I can find many other things along those lines. I don't understand the need to protect the image in this forum of a person who has not done anything really for regular people. YC being an american company makes it even worst, we here in the US don't own any kind of respect or courtesy to any royal, is literally part of the Oath of Allegiance. If you personally loved the queen, maybe don't read the comments? Otherwise be consistent and also ban people commenting on how bad russians are.
If you understand how Cuba works, you will get why this is the same as funding the government, not the people. The blockade in Cuba is more internal than external. There is plenty of resources online that shows the human rights violations, persecution, murders and incarcerations, the Cuban regimen have been doing for decades, and continue doing.
@yegg Even if you don't agree with one side, you can't consider the side to be "spam", "disinformation" or "propaganda" and hope people will just be OK with that. What is spam to you, is useful information for somebody else, some people love what Tucker Carlson have to say, others prefer Brian Stelter. That's why freedom of speech exists[1]. I think the right approach to down ranking is having a banner with a link with undeniable proof of what the article says is wrong, which is very hard to do, I get it. Otherwise, is preferential down ranking, and whatever you argue on Twitter won't change the minds of people. I too have been using DDG from the beginning, and I'm grateful more private alternative to Google exists, I just hate censoring as much as privacy violating businesses.
Can you imagine if they start putting ("privacy friendly" ads) in VSCode's side bar? I think people will complain for a little bit, and just accepted, they would probably pay a couple of Youtube Tech influencer like Google is doing in the privacy space, and move on. I know this is speculative, but I can see it coming sooner rather than later.
I dont have struggle, they reach out to me on LinkedIn. LinkedIn helps them to find you, unless you are just hoping they would just guess your email, etc... lol
Very, I know people who work there, they open sourced their crypto engine [1]. They also struggle with people using WickrMe for bad stuff because of how little info they collect from users (no phone required, true e2ee encryption, and so on...) [2].Own by Amazon doesn't imply that have spyware embedded, unless you can prove, not defending Amazon by any means, there is plenty to criticize and condemn about them, I'm just stating facts.
In my first job, the company laid off 200 people, and they found out when they couldn't use their badge to enter the building. Corporations love to do that type of things.
Microsoft is known and memed on the "big tech community" for paying "peanuts" (less than other tech companies). Is the rest-and-vest kinda of place, or so they say. I'm sure there are some teams that work pretty hard, is a big company.
I agree, on the startup side, the only "brilliant" player is the founder(s), and they just need people to pump code, do marketing, etc... non-stop, because "they believe on the mission". I don't like the Leetcode interviews either, but what can we do? I have had the other types of interviews (take home projects, trivia questions, code reviews, pair programming) and all of them suck as well. At least with leetcode you know if you "got it right", there is less subjectivity in the process. Also, assuming someone is less smart because do leetcode interviews is a bad take. All companies (not only startups) need obedient workers, and the interview method have very little to do with that. If you are a true rebel, would you work for somebody else?
I think the 10x thing is about perception, I worked with Principal Engineers at AWS who designed products used by millions, and now similarly at Google, and they just have a ton of experience in a niche area and can leverage that well, with excellent communication skills and vision, but they are not 10x , i would say 1.5x at best. Now, if you think the senior guy on your team is a 10x-er because he knows all the little tricks of Ruby on Rails, or is parroting Martin Fowler non stop, or is the type of person who leave 20 comments in a PR about spacing , code style, etc... then yeah sure, each person can believe whatever. If you want to make the case the true best of the best don't come to FAANG, then I really dunno what to tell you. And regarding your analogy about other areas of life, software is different, software is not a single player game. And lastly, I don't care really, I worked with brilliant people on products used by millions, I feel lucky to work with them, and they too think the 10x engineer thing is a myth.
Maybe the bar in the team was very low, and that person is just normal, and only have to work that little to do better. When you get to a place where every team member is very good, the 10x engineer cease to exist. I'm sure there are very good engineers, but I doubt 10x is really a thing. I'm yet two find someone that will 10x another person with the same age, educational background, and communication skills.
Maybe, but that's very unlikely. Usually FAANG workers (I'm one myself) if they are young will move to new hot startups in the hopes of a big pay off at IPO time, or if they are older ,then will take a small pay cut for better WLB (to raise their kids, etc.), the other pattern I have seen is people move to companies that are fully remote or allow working from other countries (digital nomads friendly). One thing many people ignore about FAANG is: you get to choose what project you work on, at least at Amazon and Google, you can work on anything from Finance, Robotics, Retail, and front-end , back-end, etc... Obviously there will be people who quit FAANG for other reason, and just want to be the lead of a small team at a smaller company, etc. Another myth you seem to believe is thinking high pay equates to high pressure or bad WLB , also wrong, plenty of datapoints on sites like Blind, Glassdoor, etc. I do agree is not for everyone, but it definitely worth the effort to get in, you learn a lot, and you get expose to all kind of problems.
I agree, is a complete fallacy, 10x engineers spend 10x the time solving whatever problem they have. People often confused domain knowledge(gotten through spending time on it, while other were having kids, dinners, you know, ... a life) with genius or exceptionalism.
That have not been my experience so far, every time I see a "10X engineer" (worked at several big tech companies) either they have been working in the problem for years or they put 12+ hours of works every day.I don't believe in geniuses myself, never seen one. There are for sure incredible people who have done great things, but you can clearly see, they lack in many other aspects of life. Also, note, that most of those people are not really interested in the "other aspects" of life, but as a complete human being, they have an unbalanced life, obviously, because you need time to develop skills.
I work at Google, and previously at Amazon, I was a bit upset reading your comment, but I have to be honest with myself, you are right. I "admire" more indiehackers and other technical founders than Staff Engineers and the like at Google. On the tech side you are also correct, the innovation at Google is minimal, we all work on somebody else's projects, promotion work and career development. Regarding interviewing, you are also correct, it have become a Leetcode grind fest, that certain demographic nails more often than not, due to their ability to give up life and memorize Leetcode solutions and System Design patterns non stop. I'm jealous of people who find a real life problem and start a company to monetize a solution that actually help people.
I never though I would agree with PragmaticPulp ;) , I also have seen this pattern before, as someone who works at Google (SDE) and worked at Amazon previously, and also worked at unknown small/medium size companies, most team WLB at Google is pretty pretty good, you set your own rhythm of work and goals.At Amazon in the other hand is quite different, you will get PIPed for sure if your team is sweaty and you go on a normal pace, but at Google you have to be really awful to get fired. Startups use the "mission" and "family" non-sense to hustle people to work hard, while most of the times are the founders(and the VCs) the only ones that benefit.