Standard talking point these days. If you don't flex on race / gender / LGBTQ points people don't react. Especially the SF tolerance and diversity crowd.
It's a lever to get the bourgeoisie to make changes.
If you question it, then you're some sort of -ist, e.g. racist, sexist, etc. Woe be to thee who is on the wrong side of wokeness.
I mean Stack Ranking is still a thing in a lot of places.
Couple rotations through the ranking process and if you're not jumping you're on the way out. Smart devs will read the room and find a new gig before then.
Netflix also offers amazing, most-cash, compensation, and demands results up front. Throw 300k cash at me and I'll play those games for a while, too.
The demand in Montreal is... different. I'm in tech in Canada and I consider it from time to time -- Montreal, I mean -- and it's often a no-go. My wife is French-Canadian, ethnically speaking, and kinda interested, and I'd like the city all of the times we've visited.
Taxes are high in Canada but are the highest in the QC. By a lot. You get good stuff, like free or subsidized daycare, but you lose a lot of $$$ out of that paycheck.
COL in Montreal is low, but it's a cold place. Like, why go to Canada when I could go to Austin or the NC Research Triangle? Low COL means lower salaries. "Easier to be a human but harder to be a consumer" is what I've heard about COL and taxes in QC.
The CAD is weaker than the USD by around 20-30%, which makes it less cool for US-based devs. You can work around that by upping that CAD number, but remember the taxes are much higher and you'll be paying comparatively more, %-wise, at 210k CAD than you would at 150k USD.
Most jobs expect some degree of French, ranging from "learning but can get by" to "full-fluency in English and French". The city as a whole is kind of like that.
So yeah, of course there are jobs. They pay mediocre rates, need a second language, and mean you'll get taxed a lot. And if you're not in Canada, moving north presents logistical issues on top of months of snow.
There is that old Steinbeck gem about how poor or middle class Americans don't think of themselves as that, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. Hence wanting to hide their real worth.
How do you sell conspicuous consumption / Veblen goods to people if you can know, for sure, that they're really broke af?
Glassdoor isn't a magical truth ball, it depends on 1) random users putting in info, and 2) putting in correct info.
For issue 1) you have a selection bias, and for issue 2) you have no way of knowing if that salary is for a hotshot with a great resume, 6+ years old and out of date, or anything else has changed within the company or field. And in a lot of cases the ranges are crazy large, almost uselessly so.
With a number in the actual job ad you know exactly where you're at: "SWE 2 @ 120k + 20% bonus + misc."
Joining my voice to the choir: Proton works pretty dang well.
I've made Skyrim, Fallout, GTA 5, etc. work (or kind of work) under WINE and Proton is so much easier and cleaner. On top of the Linux native games, like those from Paradox, I've got no reason to use Windows outside of my work laptop -- I do AD admin stuff occasionally so a Win10 box is useful there...
Our currently public school system was designed to produce factory workers and conscripts, no happy, healthy kids. And at the time, and given the level of resources then, that made sense.
Core product will probably be alright, though there may be some trimming. Secondary stuff like internal tool teams, BIs, etc. will probably catch the brunt of it. If you're an under-performer or on a PIP and didn't get cut already I'd start looking.
Uber was already a long-term market capture play. They were losing money but grabbing the market with the hope that they'd be able to get automated cars on the road in time. That was kind of sustainable (for a while, anyway), but now they're getting even less cash and will likely have to cut back to the must-haves.
> Every big company I've worked for (none of them FAANG), helping another team is a recipe for disaster. You will get your hand slapped, punished, blamed, and basically make your life much worse.
This. More work, much of which won't improve your review or bottom line. You get a stack rank from your boss and your team, not the guys two offices over. Then, if your upgrades screw up its on you.
Apropos of a a saying I'm fond of: "not your circus, not your monkeys".
> Each team is super insulated and tries their best to hide behind their management chain because of this.
That's what Mgmt is for, and why things can be escalated as "Mgmt Issues" so that the leadership, PMs, etc. can figure it out.
Ditto. It's mostly Indian head-hunter types offering contract jobs in cities that I don't live in. It's gotten to the point where I used a modified Slashdot checklist to reply to any direct emails I get.