bluebknight

My experience at Amazon paints a very different picture.

There's layers and layers of management. There were 12 people between me and Bezos.

Unlike Google, peer feedback is a lot less important at Amazon. Promotions and PIPs are solely based on your manager. If you have a great relationship with your manager, you're fine.

This is completely wrong. There's no lottery for Canadian PR.

There's no fast track for masters. It's entirely points based.

Source: I work at Google Canada and submitted my PR application last year.

We did something similar about 6 years ago. The user gets a chat interface while one of our operators transcribe the conversation both ways.

I believe Path Talk did something similar too.

I'm curious about how you raised so much money?

At Google, engineers start committing code in their first week too.

That doesn't mean they're fully on-boarded until 6 months in.

The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language. The desire is to have the idea clearly communicated to the other person. It is only necessary to be precise when there is some doubt as to the meaning of a phrase, and then the precision should be put in the place where the doubt exists. It is really quite impossible to say anything with absolute precision, unless that thing is so abstracted from the real world as to not represent any real thing. Richard Feynman

Off topic from parent. But which companies were your competing offers from?

I failed to negotiate recently with other offers.

Too many uninformed people spreading misinformation. There's clear and measurable difference between a software engineering degree and the one you get from a boot camp. It's exactly as strict and rigorous as you'd expect from a degree in mechanical engineering. In Canada, you get an iron ring when you graduate and after about 4 years, you get a professional engineering license.

Please stop spreading wrong information.

Software engineering is a very real thing. I'm about to finish my BSEng with the iron ring. Unlike computer science, I had to take courses in DSP, ethics, software management and development lifecycles. It is exactly as structured as you'd expect from an electrical engineering degree​.

Then, these supposedly "good" developers complain how they have a life and a family so they don't have free time for open source.

I fail to see what someone would gain from doing so. A few lies? Sure... But so many?

A lot of people bash on Google's interviews and say things like "memorizing algorithms" is easy and how that doesn't signal engineering skills.

However, they fail to see that the hiring process obviously works for Google and it is definitely not "easy". If it were easy, they'd be doing that too and making over 200k at a young age.

> Dockable Phone to PC

Microsoft has done this already but thanks to their poor marketing and crappy Windows phones, no one even knows about it.

It sounds like a great place to work at. Kinda sucks that, they only interview new grads from top schools unlike the other Big 4.

What I found ironic was, I had to enable flash player to see your Google finance link. I guess Flash is still alive in many places.

It does sound like he means companies in Canada.

There's only about 5 companies in Canada that pay about 5k/month. Everything else pays 3k/month.

Some perf numbers from Google.

>LinkedIn is a prominent user. Their entire mobile stack is built on Node.js. They went from running 15 servers with 15 instances on each physical machine, to just 4 instances – that can handle double the traffic!

>eBay launched ql.io, a web query language for HTTP APIs, which uses Node.js as the runtime stack. They were able to tune a regular developer-quality Ubuntu workstation to handle more than 120,000 active connections per node.js process, with each connection consuming about 2kB memory!