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Depends on if they are set up with a double trigger. Here is a decent explainer, but you can research more about RSU double triggers that can help avoid taxes for large-but-private companies: https://www.parkworth.com/blogs/pre-ipo-tech-giants-using-do...

What this does mean, though, is that until the second trigger is hit you haven't technically vested the RSUs. So you get around the taxation but there may be additional conditions on your equity.

Basically - make sure you read the stock plan

No reason the company cant do that, usually, but it's not advantageous for (most) employees. RSU comp is taxable on vest, but if the stock is not liquid the employee must pay out of pocket at each vesting event to cover the taxes.

Funnily enough, SFMC was also an acquisition, and it was acquired after Heroku.

SFMC is easily the worst Salesforce project from a dev experience / integration point of view, agreed there.

Not sure I follow this. Salesforce bought Heroku over a decade ago and Heroku is still improving in its areas of expertise, with no signs of changing that.

If anything, Salesforce has been moving more of its core developer experiences over to the Heroku model rather than trying to make Heroku more Salesforce-y.

Not sure where you're getting this idea, but maybe your view is being shaped based on what industry you're in?

Everywhere I've worked in the SF Bay Area and the valley (tech companies) are 100% Apple shops for at minimum their tech employees. Many of them are all Apple for sales / sales eng as well as execs (airs, usually).

Some of the big ones are all-laptops (MBPs for tech, Airs or standard macbooks for other functions) with desks that have 1-3 4k monitors plugged in when working at the desk. Other companies had a ton of trash cans deployed at desks in addition to the MBPs.

I have less work experience on the east coast, but in major east coast city offices I've seen similar.

I don't think its a hard distinction to make that the bar is higher when you are issued weapons and authority by the state.

Leftist asshole talking about "old white men" online = bad

Cop who has the power to use force against you or arrest you talking about how "thugs deserve slugs" = worse

This isn't hard.

Honestly, if your response to critical ops notifications is to engineer a lightweight solution as a part time pet project, I don't want to work for or use your product.

If you are talking instead about hiring an ops engineer to build your custom lightweight solution, I would ask why you're spending 100k+ all-in cost on an engineer to do something you could pay PD to do for cheaper.

Siri can do home automation with HomeKit and it actually works really well. The disadvantage here is that HomeKit has less supported accessories because, as I understand it, it's less open/requires certification of the accessory.

That said, for engineers in the crowd I know that I and others get around it by making a HomeKit RPi adapter for things that don't support it...

Scaling retail is hard to get perfect to the same precision of auto-scaling AWS, maybe, but scaling to an acceptable (measured in profit and customer satisfaction) level really isn't. Or rather, the solution is known.

Especially in December - during prime holiday shopping hours - you staff up. It's more profitable to have a little bit of employee slack time than to have customer satisfaction way down and customers walking out without buying things.

This is a bad take - the whole "oh retail will die without self-checkout terminals" overlooks the realities of retail, what consumers want when they choose to go into an actual brick and mortar store, and how businesses can succeed. And it does so in a way that perpetuates the implication that we have to treat employees like computers to be successful.

It is still past the badge perimeter and thus requires an employee-sponsored guest pass and guest NDA.

source: have visited the same cafe with friends working at apple

You're right, in that case. In the case of contractors invoicing is normal and legally acceptable. In the use case you mention here, contractors are appropriate and legal.

It is, however, illegal to pay employees like contractors. When you are hired to work full time for a start up you almost always meet the test of being an employee. The author of this article did. It IS therefore illegal to not give her a paystub or ask her to invoice.

This is generalizable to start ups. I've worked for start ups. Every time I was hired as an employee and treated as one. It would have been a red flag and illegal for them not to pay me as an employee.

Again, everything you're saying for the most part is true if you're talking about paying IC's. Where you are demonstrably wrong is assuming that you can treat start up employees as ICs You can't. Therefore doing what you're claiming is "normal" is actually illegal on many levels.

Except that security engineer : customer ratio doesn't make sense as a metric. Those 1000 customers all need the same thing - for their data in the cloud to be secure. They don't have differing security requirements that pull the engineers apart in different directions.

So it really is a comparison of 1-2 security engineers vs 100-200 security engineers.

That doesn't entirely work. Most companies that use Salesforce or other cloud services (thus would be the ones doing on-prem instead of SaaS) aren't hiring huge security teams geared around cloud security. Even if they are hiring security teams, they're both smaller and probably focused around internal security issues (enterprise security teams).

And I also don't accept the premise that it's the same type of engineers that the companies would hire. The security teams at cloud companies are made up of very specialized engineers that are vastly different from the average dev you'd hire to run your internal on-prem servers.

Security is one of the things that sets SaaS (by the big players) apart. Running something on-prem will not have nearly the same security resources looking at it.