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Rings true to me. I am a third gen Texan and am planning my escape to Oregon or Colorado.

Background checks don't call your old boss. How would they even know who that is?

I worked in construction prior to tech and yes, the General Contractor or Foreman may not know the latest in framing or concrete technology, or even be good at specific tasks like drywall. But they understand the job, can do it if need be, but most importantly can judge the quality.

I don't think that's correct. Access to the fiber links or colocation in a facility is not only ridiculously expensive you have to know the right people (the cartel) to get it done.

I can't just offer a crazy amount of money and get access, the other major players have to let me play.

Degrees are as useless a metric as bootcamps in my experience.

I've done so many interviews in which a 4.0 CS grad can't sort a list that a degree from even 'elite' institutions doesn't mean much.

People have said Apple can buy companies like NSO for less than they probably spend on SEIMs in a year. But as soon as they do that there will be another startup doing the same thing.

The company (GreyShift) that broke the secure enclave had ex-apple security engineers working for them.

They all do that. I've been in Offensive Security for 10+ years with several spent at FAANGS, and not only do they all have large security teams doing internal testing, they hire multiple contractors like Trail-of-Bits to audit every important service continuously throughout the year.

Apple has way more than 10 full time researchers looking at iOS all day, trust me :). They also have a really generous bug bounty. There is always bugs though.

Pittsburgh! Cool working class people and the personal accessories are usually the local sports teams.

I live in Austin and I hate it here. I vote in every local and statewide race but it seems like it's getting worse.

I'm pretty close to selling my house and moving to Colorado but as third generation Texan I feel like I'm abandoning my home and leaving it to the crazies.

I work for a YC company called Coinbase and it is absolutely terrible here because of the C level execs. They are terrible at their jobs and from the inside, the org seems to be falling apart. I've noticed that since the layoffs there is no motivation anywhere. People are hardly on slack and it takes forever to get anything done. I hate blind but it's a constant complaint that no one is working anymore.

Seems like Brian was fooled into hiring all these leaders that don't understand people or the space but have great credentials. As for Brian himself, he is the most uninspiring leader I have ever worked under. He is a platitude robot saying nothing more than 'Crypto will lead to economic freedom' and 'now is the time to build'. Before the crypto crash it seems like the only motivator was money, now that that is gone the company is slowly spiraling and no one cares. Mostly because the execs don't care, the CFO and CPO both cashed out all of their shares during IPO. If they don't believe how can we lowly engineers.

A blind comment that really resonated with me and the few others I've shared with: https://imgur.com/a/jrA3oCL

Another thing, if Brian reads this he will probably go on another twitter rant rather than actually address the company.