southphillyman

It was Lambda School, so whatever their terms are.

Made the mistake of suggesting a bootcamp to an unemployed relative. She passed the initial screening/interview stage but really seemed to be struggling with the prerequisite material. The bootcamp didn't seem to care and kept trying to pressure her into signing the ISA. She probably wouldn't have been able to complete a basic beginner MOOC much less an intensive 8+ hour a day bootcamp. I eventually talked her out of moving forward but it was not encouraging to see how aggressive the bootcamp wanted to admit a clearly under qualified student.

Experienced this myself.

Adjusted.

Next performance review I was told I socialized too much :)

Unless you work for a FAANG, in fintech, or some other company where raises and bonuses are a real thing these reviews tend to be useless.

A lot of managers are busy and just throw something together at the last minute, subordinates realize the process is just a formality and stop putting much effort into it as time goes on, etc. Sometimes these meetings are actually counter productive because you end up arguing for a tiny slice of the bonus pie having to "sell" yourself to an individual who knows well what you have contributed. I have witnessed multiple people quitting shortly after feeling underappeciated in a performance review.

His nationality is Zambian but he's Indian....not from one of the local ethnic tribes. With that context I don't think there was any ulterior motive mentioning his nationality.

What would this mean for the NYC office?

Isn't the risk here that they find out what your real base was in the background check and rescind the offer? I have been honest up until this point and feel that I have been anchored by my base pay at least two times. Still got 5 figure increases but who knows how much I could have got.

This. Have been attending meetings for about 2 months and have given 4-5 table topic speeches. Give my first prepared speech next week. Definitely can tell I'm getting better just by having to do it repeatedly.

Do you even have to disclose that you were laid off? Why not just say you took time off to travel or something? Or just say that assignment/job ended and you are looking for new opportunities without going into further detail? I know several people who quit jobs to travel for months at a time, in a way it's a signal that you may be a good performer if you have that kind of luxury.

Bigger Pockets is a good community and you can learn alot about pre-purchase analysis over there.

>this tendency towards saving, the ability to delay gratification, is present relatively early in childhood, and has strong predictive effect on success in life

This really resonated with me. As a child I use to eat my food "in order", saving the best part for last. Now I'm thinking about all the instances where I've delayed gratication in my life. I've always saved money at an above average rate but never really made this connection before.

Do you have any advice on finding service providers or contractors? It seems like it's mostly word of mouth but people with dependable providers/contractors don't want to lose them to other landlords or developers.

Honestly......it's higher than I was expecting.

At least these projects were engineer driven and open source. It's not really unusual for projects to be abandoned or fail based off of some faulty forecasting by sales or product.

When is the last time you updated your resume somewhere? A recent upload could get you 50 VM/emails a day, no exaggeration. I'm almost 5 years out from the last job search with almost nothing on my linked and 15-20 contacts a week seems average now

My 2002 Civic with 250k+ miles on it had free service done on it maybe 3-4 years ago as part of a recall. The fact that a platform that old had enough cars still registered on the road is usually a good sign for that specific platform even given the need for a recall.

I'm interested in the opposite actually. There seems to be a ton of resources online for algorithms but what are some good resources for System Design and scenario based questions? I know of Grok the System Design interview and that's pretty much it.

"Upping the PIPs"? Is that a thing? For a company to formally raise the bar across the board as a means to not give bonuses or raises!

I wonder if having Amazon on your resume is a bad signal now. Risk of the candidate being a participant in a toxic environment. Also a signal that the candidate was at Amazon because they couldn't get into other FAANGs (is it common for people to select Amazon over others when holding multiple offers?)

Yup I value bonuses at $0 during negotiation. A few times companies have tried to low ball a counter on the base by promising an increase in bonus percentage. No thanks

They immigrated to a country built on the free labor of blacks correct? Once here they were given preferential treatment in terms of unionization and local government correct? The narrative that later immigrants didn't benefit from or engage in Jim Crow is kind of ludicrous.

That statement was a stumbling block in one of the recent Democratic debates. I have no idea why none of the candidates drive the point that insurance != doctor home(in most cases) .

Oh this situation is more understandable. I suggested not disclosing your pay because it's not required, actually in NYC I think it's illegal to ask now. But it's common for companies to anchor the offer on your current pay, most people I know who were underpaid fell victim to that.

If you are comfortable earning what you earn because of the work you do I get it. I looked into working for research universities in the past like UPenn because I'd be working in say cancer research, etc. I get it.

You are getting taken advantage of. Start looking at other companies and DO NOT disclose your current salary during negotiation. Your salary could double and you still might be a bargain in NYC.

I've gotten signing bonus from recruiters trying to close a deal at non FAANG. Not $100k signing bonuses but 4 and 5 figure for sure.

Interesting. Never knew that, it seems like it's almost a normal part of the process to be told to "try again in 6 months".

Rebound to inflated values? Reminds me of the housing market in my area now. It's "rebounded" to higher than 2008 levels on the basis of speculation and gentrified neighborhoods being hot. Seems like another bubble. I need to do more research, but I'm curious what the long term viability of these index funds are as more and more people gravitate towards them

They have different asset classes, different minimums, different historical returns. Etc

Timely article, I was just thinking about this last night...while browsing Vanguard's site looking for index funds to invest in. Everyone blindly putting their money into similar instruments and getting double digit gains nearly every year just seems like it can end catastrophically. I want to do more research on how these passive funds affect the overall market and vice versa.

Maybe I misunderstand what you're talking about, but wouldn't this manifest when you ask questions and talk about your approach?

Comunication while coding seems to be a big deal during interviews now so if you just started coded after hearing the problem I could see that being a negative.

This was my situation. Not only did I have to work during school, but I couldn't attend any of the Ivy League or private schools that accepted me due to not being able to get enough loans on my own (blessing in disguise in retrospect).

For people with that experience it makes sense to just separate the student from the parents but I'm not sure how to fairly account for people with rich parents who contribute. Just make college affordable for everyone!