EmployedRussian

I wonder if you have much to add to http://www.amazon.com/Debugging-Indispensable-Software-Hardw... (which I really like).

Rule 5: "Quit thinking and look" is (I think) equivalent to your "don't assume".

Rule 6: "Divide and Conquer".

Related: http://steveblank.com/2011/10/10/nokia-as-%E2%80%9Che-who-mu...

"Nanny-Culture, Lack of Risk Taking, Not Sharing What makes Finland such a wonderful place to live and raise a family may ultimately be what kills it as a startup hub."

Google has experimentally determined that interviews 5 through 7 provide negligible additional signal, and so they've been eliminated from the process.

Contrary to latch's comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3062001, Google does tweak the process from time to time.

Google results for "cheap car rental europe 3 month" appear pretty reasonable, and (on casual examination) (slightly) better than results from DDG.

What was the "cheaper by 20%" solution?

ex-Googler Piaw Na offers just the service you are seeking: http://books.piaw.net/negotiate/index.html

3 weeks at start; 4 weeks after 3 years; 5 weeks after 5 years: http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/lifeatgoogle/benefits/ind...

By "does this already", rdouble probably meant: work from home, flexible hours, etc.

More vacation time in lieu of salary may also be a tough sell: Google allows up to several (3? 6?) month of unpaid personal time off, making it pretty easy to trade salary for vacation "on demand".