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In my experience, by the time you get to do a full round interview your chances are pretty high, about 50% in big tech.

E6 -> E7 at Meta is $1M (which sounds a little bit crazy tbh). Google L6 -> L7 is 300k, but their numbers look smaller than what I'm privy too. A generic Level 6 to 7 (staff to senior staff) promotion can easily be $500k at a tech company.

Hardly. Senior at Amazon is pretty prestigious. A Senior at Google is also a pretty nice title. In my experience smaller companies are more likely to give out the Senior title like it's nothing.

talk to their manager. If their manager doesn't respond you go to your manager or the manager's manager.

For sure, a staff engineer asking lots of question is "disambiguating" a junior engineer asking a lot of questions is asking somebody else to figure out his/her project. Which is kinda true in a sense, you don't give a super-vague project to an engineer who's just starting up for a reason.

We're programmed to take care of (human) babies. That's pretty fundamental to our species survival.

Those features activates the same areas of our brain that babies' faces activate.

Feeling that something is "cute" is the evolutionary way that our brain is using to make us care of our kids.

TBF sales didn't start dying

Lately AI = LLM (at least in popular culture).

Zoom on medium format? what's the point?

> It would maybe cost an engineer at Nest/Ecobee a day or two of work

I think you misspelled a _year_ or two of work. Especially with the scrutiny that comes with software written at a major corp like Google.

Last I checked they have some money from the Yahoo settlement. But nowhere near something they can use to operate in perpetuity.

I've never seen a place that does it quite like Google. Is there one? It only works if you have one product or are a giant company as it's really expensive to do.

Being able to change a dependency very deep and recompile the entire thing is just magic though. I don't know if I can ever go back from that.

The US Health Insurance system is specifically used to keep working class people (and most middle class) at work. You can't really go without a job here.

In fact, I think it makes the goverment's argument even stronger. Would we allow the NYT to fall in the hands of the CCP? I'd say no way, congress would act way before that's even possible.

We certainly _do_ want this. I think the fact that we let a foreign company own a social media platform in the first place is preposterous. As others have said, we would never let the CCP own a TV broadcast, why should we let china own a major social media platform? That's just absurd.

Yeah that's what I was thinking too while reading the article. For a tech-focused person, sure, input switching might me obvious. But to a lot of people having only active and valid inputs being selectable might be the best solution.

I think here under the radar means that locals didn't know the factory was there, not that Zildjian is an unknown brand, it even goes on to say

> Even in Massachusetts many people have no idea an industrial factory outside of Boston designs, casts, blasts, rolls, hammers, buffs and tests at least a million Zildjian cymbals each year.

Heh. Resident Evil 1 feels like a (well designed) escape room.

I thought once I reached Staff at Google it would go away. It in fact made it even worse now that I have a whole slate of incredible peers to compare myself to.

> This might also be a microcosm of why the working class is pissed off in America, because looking at this experience, the optimal strategy for revenue is to blow smoke up the ass of a wealthy corporation until they give you a fat stock grant, then claim credit for the work of others so that they give you more.

I mean getting a job as a SWE at Google is hardly a good strategy if you don't enjoy writing software. But yes once you're there is very hard to justify doing anything else, there's a reason why they call them "golden handcuffs".

Easily doable, let me guess you never worked on a browser engine?

A government funding a 1 billion dollars a year software project? That would never fly in any country.

Microsoft gave up on building a Web Browser engine and you think a government can? Browser engines are really hard to build. They requires a lot of (very expensive) niche technical talent. Not to mention the need to keep up with the rate of Google's improvements to Chrome/Blink. We're at a point where Chrome has a 10 year head start to any other engine other than Firefox, building a general purpose new engine from scratch is basically off the table, and hard forking Chrome/Blink is also off the table (because why would you toss the ~1bn$ Google puts into chrome every year?). We're in a world of a single browser engine, no way to go back for the foreseeable future.

where somewhere else = Google

For gifted people undergraduate degrees are easy (unless you want to go through it really fast). Some people I know barely studied for their exams and spent all their time in research projects / their own thing.

I use the one at G and it's definitely helpful. It's not revolutionary, but it makes writing code less of a headache when I kinda know what that method is called but not quite.

It's definitely all of them. Even HashMap uses unsafe.

Yeah it's likely the other way around. USPS didn't know about the address and therefore Google didn't either. I don't buy that USPS uses anyone else's databases for addresses.

I used to do a hard hike every week which burned around 1000 calories. You're not doing anything else that day unless you keep this up for a very long time.

But yes, great way to lose weight I agree, just not practical for a lot of people.