Indeed, Monster works for contract roles better than other because it is less expensive than LinkedIn for recruiters and has active candidates. Start contracting and convert to Fte is what I’d recommend
If it was that easy it would’ve happened already. And software engineers jobs would have moved first due to savings and low effort and low infrastructure changes required.
So how does this compare with Tesla? Is what I’d want to know. These levels maybe ok for engineers . Consumers like me watch YouTube videos to tell how good a car is at self driving
This makes no sense. VW is a public company, employing regular people, making good cars in Germany and elsewhere. No one brings up the past for Japanese, so not sure what the logic for punishing VW is?
It won't shock me if Elon is going alt-right to get the only remaining segment of the US population that is currently global warming deniers and ICE car pushers to start supporting Tesla/electric cars. If he gets conservatives and governments in Texas, Florida and other Red states to move to EVs, he'll really have done more for the environment than any other human alive.
Wow. I think the world will be so much better with less cruelty to animals if this works. But I’m not so psyched about eating lab grown meat myself because of the unknowns
Unfortunately, I think the sentence is appropriate and hope it serves as a lesson. We have too many startup founders today that think lying, cheating and defrauding investors, customers, employees are table stakes or worse "hacking it" or faking it till you make it- is OK and justified. Look at how casual SBF seems even after being caught as a fraud. There's no remorse. Its disgusting to many Americans who work hard, follow the rules and make low wages doing an honest job.
It is strange how the main people running th sr companies are completely unknown and unrecognized. I don’t know if it is coincidental or by design. For most other big tech companies there is usually a lot of guessing by the media of who’s next to lead.
Unrelated- but I think Elon is going the way of Trump and Kanye to being cancelled or his businesses being doomed. All the goodwill he had as the underdog at Tesla, he's throwing away with his "I'm better than you, I'm here to save you, Nothing I say will hurt me cos I'm invincible and people love me" complex.
This is pretty common in most large companies. Remember the mini-msft blog? This doesn't happen as much on product teams but in all the support functions which don't hire world class people like they do on software engg.
Basically as companies revenues grow, every cost center gets to put in a request to grow headcount. If you don't your colleagues will and you'll be looked down upon. then you take on shiny new non-essential projects and find ways to justify it. Launch it get promoted and leave. The next person comes in- decides it is crap- shuts it down and starts their own new project to reinvent the same thing . Org politics.
I got an Oculus 2 for my kids. Although cool for 10 min, I can't see myself liking it- not now- nor ever. I know this is what every previous major tech was tagged as- but seriously- I just can't imagine how this is the way of the future. Maybe I'll read this comment 20 years later and wonder how I was so naïve.
Freezes are never absolute or company wide. It just means that it will be harder to get headcount. The recruiters keep filling the funnel at a lower pace.
Unfortunately, It's a human weakness to look for 'formulaic' answers to solve for life's most difficult problems. If successful people came from Ivy Leagues, it became de rigueur that getting into an Ivy League sets you up for success. Then it was Big 4 Consulting, then it was working for FANGs, now it is Founder at a YC company.
Not saying that YC is bad, but it would be nice if getting in was easier. Maybe they should make half their seats competitive and the other half as paid ($500K) just like private schools do. Then leave it up to people's imagination how someone got in. Or maybe they should just let everyone in.
Won’t the poachers just change their speed and turning radius to not appear as humans?
I’ve become a bit skeptical of these stories on kids doing what normally experienced professionals do (research, startups). I’d understand if a kid accidentally discovered or invented something cool that no one else thought of. I wish kids focused on fun and learning in school. Some of these stories seem like ‘spike’ projects to help the kids college application standout.
What I don't understand about the bay area is why they don't just dedicate an area away from these NIMBY neighborhoods- say north of 101, between San Carlos and Santa Clara and let them build lots of skyscrapers with lots of housing and roads to help 101 divert some traffic. I see tall office buildings there so its def not earthquake or environmental. Affordable housing and urban lifestyle for the young and SFH and space for the family folks in Atherton.
I didn’t think the article debated the ‘goodness’ of Uber. I thought they were debating the inflated market cap (valuation) compared to the business model. It’s an old argument- should you value it like a tech company where costs are minute portion of revenue and price/earnings multiples are high 30-100 or as a staffing company where you’ll always only make a small cut of the driver fees- where valuation multiples
Are usually 3-5 times earnings
This may be true in some cases- lots of drivers -many of who are new immigrants-see this as the quickest way to get a job and don’t realize they have no worker protections like paid sick leave, worker’s compensation, that employees get or the tax implications of being a contractor vs employee
Ok- If you have extras you are going to claim- do it. You are the exception. Why force everyone else who doesn't run a business or claim expenses to do it.
Is it the literal act of reading or being exposed to language?
What if kids watch shows on TV and it exposes them as much to stories, communications, language?