> It feels dreary because you feel you have nothing left to strive for because you're only measuring your progress by your salary
This.
In your post you mentioned nothing but salary. Sadly I think you might find the hard way that the whole FAANG salary rat-race isn't/wasn't the best choice
I think this write up is very fair for a solid engineering team. Is it groundbreaking and eye opening? Absolutely not, I’d say the most “hmm I didn’t know that” part of the entire thing was the part about R-Trees and S2. Is that bad? Absolutely not. These guys did the work, logged their performance and are sharing their story.
However, and I believe this is where the animosity in the comments is coming from - given the elitist (for lack of a better term) attitude of these engineering types at these orgs (think of the poster children of the Valley), this is pretty...lacking. I mean, the part about using the Read/Write lock on the second attempt and instead trying to go with an installed package just screams Node.js, and honestly made me chuckle. I guess Leetcoding and Production Engineering really are different things. I genuinely expected more.
P2P is for decentralization. Why would a centralized entity want to implement a decentralized service when they can create a centralized version of that same service faster, easier, and cheaper?
This is kind’ve a bait question. I mean the “no duh” answer (as others have already mentioned) is “whichever you are most comfortable with”. I’m confused as to what other answer you could want
Gonna just chime in and mention Yahoo for Hadoop (yes I know Big Table was Google), and Zookeeper. Great tech started at Yahoo, but they didn’t (unlike today) make too much of a fuss/self-pat-on-the-back about it
Qualifier: been here for about 2.5 years and just got a new position at a startup after 2.5 years at [big_adtech_co]
1. Angelist.co for startups
2. Bultinla.com for startups (though anglelist is better IMO)
3. Startups around here are mainly looking for mid/senior as opposed to junior (in my experience), but obviously there are Jr positions out there
4. Look for recruiters (agencies), to help, plenty of agencies around here hungry for devs (obviously you’ll have to sift through the noise to find the signal here)
I think you’ve mentioned a HUGE part of the interview process that interviewers forget: you only have 60 mins. 45 mins if you leave time for questions (which you always should). It’s an incredibly difficult task, and deserves significant effort, as opposed to just thinking “oh interviewing is easy”
This is a decent start, but then again remember you only have 60 minutes. And what might seem relatively easy to you, might not be so easy to someone with a time limit (60 mins), and pressure (trying to get a job you want).
By "spent more money on congress people" @psadauskas is not simply just referring to "who spent more money last year", he's implying that the foothole that a Comcast or a Verizon has in the capitol goes much further than say a Google. And that makes since right? Especially from a government's perspective. If you can be chummy with an ISP, you hardly need the help of a downstream application builder (e.g., Google).
> Most rank-and-file joining one of these cos in the last 4 years or so will be lucky to net $1-2m pre-tax
Yea I'm confused as to where all these splurge-happy millionaires the article mentions will come from. There will definitely be people well off (as you mentioned), but I'm not sure if these folks will have the money (that they want to spend) on boats, and lavish parties. It seems like a good deal of these employees will get early retirement/nest egg money, and a few execs will get a few million, while founders obviously make out the best. Not sure why that would "eat San Francisco alive".
A sensationalist headline if ever there was one {facepalm}
This type of disclosure is quite literally standard in almost every type of public company financial disclosure. Surprised this made it to the HN front page
Funny you mention this, I was just reading [1]this article related to the quote on "putting your eggs in one basket". Conventional wisdom says "diversify". However, I'm of the belief that you'll need high risk for a high return (can't have your cake and eat it too).
I mean seriously though. I love how various media platforms ALWAYS talk about Bitcoin as a failure. What? But then again, they only think of “success” as some idea cut from the same cloth as current capitalist alternatives - the very alternatives bitcoin was meant to disrupt. Bitcoin is an incredible success IMO
I'll start the discussion by just pointing out how Bloomberg and the NYT absolutely love to talk about China being a surveillance state, but hardly ever talk about the surveillance state that we live in here in the US (relative to how much China bashing they do)
(don't downvote me, WSB joke)