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What others have said, even take it a step further. Look up the company and that software will Likely ID the team members on LinkedIn. Message one of them/manager with your interest and resume. Hopefully that'll shorten the waiting process or hoping that a recruiter will review your application.

Unless they make ~$5M a year or greater. This calculator shows effective tax rate >50% at that point.

https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-tax-calculator#7N9mE...

Edit: it was 5M not 4M. Calculator shows FICA not maxing out. It'll get closer to 50% the more they make.

500+ days old and 877 karma. Doesn't look like a throwaway. Maybe just an ironic name.

>Also, the author repeatedly used the percentage of women engineers as an index of workplace quality/sanity. So we'd expect Stripe's to be much higher, right?

Don't have the answer for you. But I would say the repeated lies by HR she stated in defending repeat offenders, and having the same reports of harassment by her female coworkers over the same managers speaks more to the quality/sanity of the place than percentage of women in the workplace.

>it means that Uber doesn't have to perform at all for the next decade or so

more like little over 1 year [0]. Originally wanted to say 2 years, didn't know loss climbed to $3B last year.

[0]https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/21/uber-losses-expected-to-hi...

I would report that to their department head. I thought teachers assigning their books was a conflict, needing to shell out $100 for crappy notes is a scam.

This thread was about social media, but can apply to many things. The point of contention I have is the original assumption of why a product is near worthless because it doesn't matter to the best people in the field which the product is marketed towards.

Not sure how you're interpreting my comment. It isn't to knock people with other priorities like a family. In fact that's perfectly fine and expected. I used it as an example of why people might not be the best in their field. Your description of the trade off supports that claim, and it's a fine trade off to make as work isn't and arguably shouldn't be the center of ones life.

So I don't think we disagree on anything.

This. Most people by definition are not the very best. Not everyone is a Gary Vaynerchuck.

Most mediocre people we would think suck. Really look at the 50 percentile. Ever interview people with long careers, making decent/good pay, at well known companies, and wonder how in the world they even have a job? That is a an extreme example, but most people treat it like a job, something to get done, provide for themselves and family. That's okay, but they're not that dedicated in being the very best.

Underrepresented minorities

>nobody sells because prices are too low and selling means realizing huge losses

This is only looking at housing as investment/speculation. Downside is that people also sell if life forces them to. Like if they need to move because of personal or professional reason.

If the price continues to trend downward, realizing a loss isn't as bad as losing more, or more likely unable to deploy capital in better investments. While there are mortgages, my assumption is that foreign money is mostly all cash buyers.

Guy who invented it did a TED talk. Eventually used it to help translate books. Have noticed that it went to street addresses and now identifying stores, signs, and trees. So most likely for mapping applications.

This doesn't make sense. Companies like Google have plenty of shirts and hoodies with the companies names on it. Plenty of swag on campus too for new employees and university events.

They really blew it. Like many, I used GV cause I didn't want to pay for text messaging back in the day. I also was able to get a good number that spelled out a phrase relating to the profession I'm in.

But after all 5 years, no group messaging... seriously. No MMS, went to email in an attachment. Remember back in 2011 there was a month where all my texts received were delayed by hours. When I heard they were concentrating on Hangouts instead I didn't understand why they kept GV around. It should have belonged in their graveyard. Now they're reviving it? Got the unlimited T-Mobile plan, and so many people have free texting now bundled into their plans. I've been using FB Messenger now as my main text program for years.

Google blew this, but granted I would have never guessed text messaging would have gotten this big. My bet would have been on Video Calls.

Because a person is smart/ accomplished in their domain does not mean they will be in another. In this instance, people that are technology geniuses, doesn't mean they know about liquidation preferences and accounting.

Thanks for this. Knew they took on debt but didn't know the arrangement. My biggest concern about them is if they run out of runnway. People think money chases after these deals, but there's only so many companies able to do billion dollar rounds. People that are looking for 10x returns will be looking elsewhere.

Who's eligible for free tax preparations?

yes, exactly the one. personal note, it's bad form to have published the candidate's salary. at the 3 mil level, not even Google has many employees making that. probably narrowed it down to a dozen or so people since they even mentioned that it was a "programmer" (which I interpret as high IC level).

This comment isn't against you, because you are right that a lot of companies calculate this way. It is also undeniably short sighted. Because value in this case is literally in the eye of the beholder. If they were worth at least million and mission critical, market rate was 100k-200k. Pay 400k-500k. Guarantee employee knows they are valued and no other company would match because the person isn't worth as much to the competitor.

There was an article a few years ago about a Google employee. Competitor interviewed, offered what they thought was a great package around 500k, found out candidate was making 3mil at Google. Failure on the recruiter part not getting that info beforehand, but can understand more senior folks not discussing till the end.

vouch for the surgeons knot. watched the ted video for correctly tying shoe laces. surgeon knot was only one more loop. i have shoes with rounded laces that comes undone easily, this fixed the problem.

same on what jeremy said. he specifically meant in general. not only did you pick a top ranked school as an example, but chose the #1 ranked public school as a representation of public schools in general.

i went to 8 schools before graduating high school. ranging qualities really depends on neighborhoods' wealth, unless there's a magnet/charter type school.

think the commenter meant "nice"= "nice to have" not a statement on quality.

This is really framing negotiations as a conflict and emotional. It doesn't have to be. There's plenty of data out there to make a data based case for a certain salary. There can be a lot stress depending on an individuals situation (currently no job, first job, new role, etc). For the most part I believe this stress during negotiations come from information asymmetry. Educating oneself is the best way to deal with this.

I have never seen a highly emotional negotiation tactic work. Screaming / demanding will more likely get an offer rescinded. Best negotiations I see usually go "market pays X for Y, here's the data to prove it from multiple sources", "competitor is paying X+Y%", "This job requires X% more time than stated, I have done this before. Here is the proportional increase I should get for the extra time."

The example with the competitor might seem as a one off. But market rate has a range, and it changes. Whatever competitors offers will eventually become market rate, if all else being equal (location, company prospects, coworkers, etc).

Daybreakers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daybreakers

People are vampires farming the remaining humans for their blood.

You're likely talking to the wrong user base. There's a reason why ads business models work, people rather deal with ads than pay anything.

Though your suggestion would solve one set of problems, it doesn't solve the fact that it was an inappropriate ad with a crappy response from the company if true. Guess network tv allowed, includes those 2am ads.

The problem with this argument is that I can compare it easily to any job a person doesn't want to do. This argument is usually formed with circumstances surrounding the action, but not the action itself (abduction, coercion, lack of choice, rapes, drug addictions).

There are also people that argue because there is a transaction of money that it is coercion.

Again, easy to compare this to any job a person doesn't want to do but has to in order to survive (no matter how well paid). Given the alternative to have the thing they want for free or working in whatever form for what they want, many would choose free. Many work to obtain what they desire or what they need to survive.

When I'm in this line of thought I wonder which is better? A pain felt acutely, physically and emotionally. Or one that the masses encourage, are numb to, accepted as way of life, dragged on for 40+ years.

You know the drug busts, and shootouts, and car chases from the drug war. Yea, cops are there too. They have to be the enforcers for the crap laws that get passed too. It's the same thing for soldiers, they fight wars other people declare.

If you pay taxes you support this system financially. Don't live in the US? Does your country trade with the US? Someone somewhere is almost somehow contributing to some problem. You also neglect the good cops do, doing the job means you do all of the job. From being first responders to drug enforcement.

> The handful of technology companies that managed to go public near the end of 2016 have shown strong stock performances. Twilio Inc (TWLO.N), Coupa Software Inc (COUP.O), Nutanix Inc (NTNX.O) and Blackline Inc (BL.O) are now trading above their offer prices, boosting the confidence of their private peers that there is pent-up demand for such IPOs.

This is misleading. I just looked at these companies and 3 out of 4 are trading below first days closing with a clear down trend. They did see the first day pop, peaked around Q3 and falling.

Never worked at a tech start up so take with grain of salt. I have been in recruiting for a few years so seen how it affects candidates monetarily. I'm answering this question based on benefit = money. Depends on the company. If the company is unstable (no profit or losing money as is a lot of tech) it's never certain. If they are already showing profit or a way to profitability I would do a year or so before you think they'll IPO. This gives you likely upside on the stock, you'll vest a portion of your stock and be able to sell after the employee lockup period. This isn't a guarantee, look at Zynga's IPO and flop right after.

My opinion maximizes on safety before an IPO exit. You likely don't want to play acquisition unless you know you'll get a retention offer from the new company (you run the key feature/product for the acquired company).

I understand your point. But it doesn't mean we have to live with a hero complex / white man's burden. To consciously step away from earning more, and creating businesses doesn't mean driving oneself to mediocrity if it is to trade off for something they would rather do, appreciate more, and value more. It can be called selfish or hedonistic to do so. We only have one life, I'm not going to live it doing what others want.

Some countries in Europe is very low wage. There is an article about Italy millennia generation the 1000 Euro generation because that's how much many of them make per month. That isn't to say it's a living wage, but it's what a lot get. Tech isn't paid much compared to Bay Area either, look at London or Spain, dramatic wage differences (London especially since cost of living isn't different from Bay Area).

$1k Euro/month is decent living in Eastern Europe, Romania, Hungary, almost any place closer to Russia.