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Having worked at both amazon and Google, IMO Google does this significantly better by having OWNERS, away team member plus readability approver.

This comes at the cost of much slower progress.

What’s a good source to learn and practice AVX?

Was it worth it?

The median person in SFO lives a way worse life than a median person in Ohio

lol only if Google would do things that made sense in anyway.

I wouldn’t trust anything geohot says. He doesn’t have access to any inside information.

L4 is terminal at Google since 2019.

The math is completely wrong. Author didn’t notice that SmartAsset is showing semi-monthly.

I work on Ads latency at Google. If we remove our cache, our p95 will definitely suffer. We have experiments to confirm this.

In fact, one of the key projects that is being worked on is to improve caching to reduce latency both at median and at tail.

This is equivalent to saying, you don’t need a cure for AIDS. You can just avoid getting it by not having any sex.

This is easier for some people but not a solution for the general population.

Similarly, eating less is easier for some people while others are genetically or psychologically predisposed to eating more than they need.

How much does glean cost?

As an immigrant who grew up with nothing and have no family support network, now that I make ridiculous money working at FAANG, I spend it all because I know I’ll be fine if I go back to nothing.

FAANG is the only place where you don’t need to be white to succeed. So, I have no idea what racial bias you’re talking about.

This is incredible and hilarious

Elon specifically does not allow remote work.

Your comment is equivalent to I’ll work for anyone and irrelevant to the discussion.

There’s a dozen other companies that would look better on a resume.

At Elon’s companies working hard is a requirement but you don’t get rewarded in return.

Tesla/SpaceX pays peanuts despite Tesla’s outsized stock returns.

If you believe in the mission, that’d be the only reason to join.

How come athletes aren’t getting nobel prizes?

Alternatively, why is not a single successful scientist in great physical shape?

Engineering managers and even directors have no knowledge of large changes like this until the very last minute.

These sort of information is strictly VP+/SVP+. Unless you have talked to a few VPs, your prediction is as good as reading tea leaves.

It’s absolutely correct. You’re forgetting India, China and African nations make the majority of human beings.

You just described a CRUD app.

At FAANG, most people are not doing any of these things. Think of people working on EC2, Ads or Maps.

I only worked at multiple FAANG and I never had to design a database schema or make data available via API.

How do you even go about going to a factory and convincing people that they need a certain piece of software?

Did you work in this space and already have connections?

Leetcode is a proxy IQ test. Anyone who can do leetcode can learn how database indexes work (hint: it uses Data Structures and Algorithms) but not the other way around.

> I’m basically a moron

Google and other companies are actively trying to avoid hiring morons.

This is a 42 year old with an emotional maturity of a 22 year old.

Please tell me how I can make $10M per year (20 x $502k) And I’ll quit my job right now.

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If you worked at FAANG and survived the treadmill for 20 years, you should be a Principal Engineer/Engineering Director at least. L8 compensation starts at a million dollars per year.

I have worked at both Amazon and Google. The document writing culture is 10x more serious at Google. If you didn’t write a doc for a project, it didn’t happen.

However, the review process is different. People are expected to comment on the document beforehand and use the meeting to discuss any contentions. The google doc comments accurately capture the history of why a particular decision was made.

I found the Amazon wiki and quip terrible tools for writing docs. In practice, folks spent only the first five minutes reading a doc. That is rarely sufficient so you’re expected to read the document beforehand.

Maybe you should try FAAN where engineers are 1st class citizens.