I think this is much more common for large companies (still rare though). I saw it happen exactly once when I was working for a large company early in my career. Never saw it happen again anywhere else.
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Having said that, I think the safest advice is to make sure your work is correctly being attributed to yourself (i.e., they aren't taking credit for your work) and advocate for a raise for yourself as you normally would, just with more confidence. Clearly advocate for yourself and the work you are clearly doing and let management put the puzzle pieces together on their own.
Nah, hundreds of thousands of people participate here and you only see a scant few posts like this. Lately it's been more, things like this tend to come in waves, but it'll die down again. The culture here is one oriented towards startups, so the things that will be submitted and upvoted are going to have that success-oriented "I built this" slant.
So the analogy would be that some third party took a copy of your photograph of the building and sold the rights to it despite them not having the ability to do so?
1. Invest in yourself. Start a business, take some classes, try to upgrade your current job, etc.. Improve your work situation so that the 10k turns into easily 100k of earnings over time. Or use it to improve your health, saving money long term in health costs. Whatever. Investing in yourself is usually the safest bet you can make.
[Edit: 1.5 - forgot the generic personal finance advice - if you don't already have an emergency fund, use this to create it. Just put the 10k in a savings account to have a bit of liquid cash on hand in case something bad happens and you need it fast. If you're good there, but you have any very high interest debt, pay that down second.]
2. Put in into something safe-ish with good growth potential, like VTSAX, and save it for a rainy day. Maybe start a retirement fund if you haven't already.
Yes, this much. I saw someone explain this well enough on reddit, but I can't find a link so I'll try and paraphrase it.
Let's say you're a lumbermill and you run at 100 boards a day in normal times, with enough capacity to do 110 boards a day if you stretch. COVID shut you down for 3 months. You now have a 9000 board deficit from your normal production, with people lined up to buy the boards before you've produced them. Once you get started again, you crank up capacity to 110/day - it takes you 900 days - almost 2.5 years - to recover that original shutdown deficit, without accounting for any of the increased demand for your product.
This is roughly what other industries are experiencing. "Why don't you just make a new factory to increase your production?" well, it would take a long time to do that, would take a lot of capital, the shortages impact you too, and there's no guarantee that once COVID passes, demand won't go back down to 100 boards/day leaving you with a huge unnecessary capacity.
A simple example, of course, but this kind of thing is happening in some form or another in most industries, and will just take some time to work itself out.
Having said that, I've talked to them twice - once as a general applicant and once as a high level referral for a high level role - and both times the experience was unpleasant (to put it kindly) and ended rather abruptly. I would not apply on my own to any job and would only consider something if I can actually skip their standard process.
Their problem from an outsider's perspective is that the recruiters have to achieve a high volume of inbounds in order to throw them into the interviewing machine such that they can hit their quotas after the machine chews up and discards the people who can't survive their very specific process.
This is true for basically every tech stack though. The pandemic gave a lot of people a chance to change careers, so there's a lot of fresh blood looking for work right now across the board, and not enough space to hire and then mentor them.
Probably not anytime soon, depending on your definition of "comeback", though ruby is still chugging along just fine IMO. There are more IPO'd ruby-based companies out there now than there ever have been before. (edit: and many non-ipo successful exits where ruby usage is maintained)
> However, I see some attractive features in Ruby 3, do you think that's enough to get a comeback?
No, just a few nice additions to the language won't create any pop in popularity in any language.
> My main concern is jobs availability, as an employer I find it harder and harder to find good RoR developers and they become super expensive.
This is just a problem with tech jobs in general. I've had the same problem hiring JS devs, and they're the most plentiful. I also had the same problem 10 years ago staffing up RoR teams. Its not a new problem. It largely just depends on your definition of "good".
That's a blunder on the headline of the article, sure, but is the suggestion here that Elon whipped out that offer to liquidate $6B without reading the article itself or watching the interview on the topic? Direct quote from the interview where the UN rep was talking about it, which was also included in the original article:
"$6 billion to help 42 million people that are literally going to die if we don't reach them. It's not complicated"
As is already suggested, the good US tomatoes and fruit in general can be found at farmer's markets, local farms, and/or local grocery stores that have relationships with local farmers. Also, a lot of smaller local farms that grow tastier veggies tend to supply to locally sourced farm-to-table type restaurants directly instead of selling them in stores,
My parents get their tomatoes from a local hydroponics farm that only sells straight from the farm (in the middle of nowhere), and in bulk to local restaurants.
This is a fairly decent bit of advice if someone's new and has analysis paralysis on pricing.
Being non-average definitely has better results, of course. But if you aren't, I do think there are still pathways for you at startups, while there generally speaking aren't at FAANG level companies.
The average person does not have the ability to do this.
AMZN's was very pleasant, though I think because I was a referral, I was side channeled and would have gone through their normal unpleasant process eventually if it was a good fit (it wasn't).
My FB interview was very similar to your AMZN description. They gave me a CS interview guide, told me to spend a few weeks studying it, and did the algorithm lottery on me. The main reason I declined to move forward was because they couldn't guarantee I'd actually get the role I was referred into and basically none of the process was role-relavant. It felt indistinguishable from the AMZN tech interview.