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Not sure if this is still the case, but at least before MIT didn't accept people outside MIT to their Master's programs for some majors, instead you would have had to apply directly to a PhD program

In my experience that's not the case, but of course varies company by company

Look for series B+ startups in the U.S. that are aggressively scaling their teams. There is a shortage of good senior software engineers, and these startups are desperate and have the money, so many are offering base salaries that are around $200k

I wonder why Chrome even has such setting, like what's the use case for it?

Sure, you have a visa for me? I will be on the next flight over if so

Management consulting, Investment banking, UI/UX design, Product management are some alternative careers I have heard software engineers pursue

As a Finn, working at an U.S. company, small talk is something I really struggled with and still don't fully understand. The people I interact with it seems like we have found sort of a middle ground, where people obviously still ask "How are you?", but people still feel comfortable to answer "Not so well, XYZ happened". Maybe I'm naive but I feel like that helps prevent issues from getting too big and offers a safe space to share how you feel and get compassion from your peers.

No, I think they said that they think that "working" towards an idea, a moonshot, wouldn't feel like working

Ok that's great to hear, thanks for clarifying

Render had some pretty bad outages (10+ hours) and couple shorter ones just couple months ago, so it's not perfect either. But anyways I have also found it better than Heroku for my projects, it's even easier to setup than Heroku and pricing is slightly better too (especially the free static sites).

This video is from the fifth largest city in Finland, so that hardly counts as a rural area with long distances

This is what the roads looks like in the rural areas during winter https://www.google.com/search?q=maantie+talvella&source=lnms...

Haha, ever heard of winter tires? Or winter driving instruction courses? Which btw are mandatory at least in Finland

It depends on what your goals are.

People applying to intern positions have insanely widely varying skill levels. Some already have some previous experience and/or extensive side projects, some may have just started programming in university and might be "clueless" about many things. So you will want to have some coding challenges or technical interviews (obviously doesn't have to be and in many cases shouldn't be some algorithmic challenge or some other bullshit like that), for assessing if this person has the skills to be able to fulfill the basic requirements of the job.

Assuming you are also looking to hire interns for full-time after, you will want to assess if they are able to learn things, how do they work in a team, and overall how do they fit into the company/culture/industry.

I had a funny experience with DataDog. I applied to a new grad position. Few months go by, and then I receive an email to schedule an onsite, well that seemed odd since I hadn't done any coding test, recruiter call or anything else. I scheduled an on-site and went there. I tried asking what the normal process is, and everyone just kept replying "you are on the last step". So I just ended up going through the interviews. Then couple days after received an email that someone had checked the paperwork and said that they had thought I was someone else lol

Obviously sucks, had a similar experience as an SWE intern and new grad. I even got a written offer which was then later rescinded because of COVID. They said they will honor it for the next cycle, but of course they didn't. After reaching out they wanted to do new full interview loop, and then at the end said "Sorry we don't have any headcount left for this anymore".

Yeah that's true, but still (of course depending on your age and location) it's enough to live in many many places without having to work again

You underestimate how a sleep people are at the wheel or just busy with their own stuff, at least in smaller companies, just no time to think "Let's push this junior out, he is doing too well". Not attending meetings could still cause some questions though.

There are many kinds of internships that can be considered good I think. And it also partly depends what your goals and/or aspirations are.

Types that come to mind that I would consider good:

- Big brand names (like FAANG or some Unicorn/Big N type) => helps with getting jobs in the future

- Place where you can learn a lot, most likely either a company where you can get a lot of hands-on mentorship, or startups where you get to actually ship things and work on a team just like any other member => helps with actually learning how to build software

- Something really specific to a industry/field/niche that you are interested in => helps to explore what you really like and want to do in the future

For best "outcome" you will likely want to do multiple with a some combination of those. Of course best situation would be to get to combine all of those.

As cliche as it may sound, I wouldn't consider money too much. It's more important to learn and get experience, the big bucks are anyways made after internships in full-time work.

I wouldn't call this photorealistic, it's more like a poor tinted dashcam realistic. It's impressive that it's happening real time etc., but just looks really bad and the colors are off just like in a dashcam video.

Most banks in Europe have APIs and there is also some kind of directive/law that requires banks to have at least some kind of API.

I guess that's not that surprising since European consumer banks and whole banking system are miles ahead compared to US

What about storing the older things in some slower backup service that's slow to access but cheap? If the user eventually accesses those some day you would kick of some background job to get them fresh again. Not super UX friendly of course, but could reduce costs. Or is this already the standard thing to do?

Express.js + React + Postgres

For hosting recently started using Render which is even faster to setup than Heroku, 5 minutes from signup and I had everything setup with ssl and custom domains.

Does R&D include things like salaries for engineers/product?

At a glance "Pirate Bay is the ultimate literary critic." makes sense, but it's not the whole truth. But there are bunch of things that should be also considered such as number of books available on Pirate Bay, type of books available, and then the cross section of Pirate Bay users that are interested in those books.

Looking outside, YC has also been a key indicator that a startup might have higher chance to succeed than a typical startup. When scaling to hundreds/thousands of companies per batch, I feel like that indicator will no longer be as valid.

Most shipping companies in the stock market have rocketed in the past 2-3 months, so that opportunity has passed I think.

Yeah, in trendy areas near the city, a big, modern house can cost 1M euros. But there are much cheaper ones as well in the suburbs. Also agree that I don't understand who can afford to buy such houses with the average salaries being so low here. I guess those are still must be outliers that pop up more from the average houses.

And yes there are a lot of restrictions for building in the city. Overall the "housing code" is quite strict and standards are very high.

But don't most respected newspapers have sections also for culture, literature, science etc.? I think they do

If only they would also provide F1 and OPT visas, I would be all-in. It seems like such a great program, but hard to see the value when most of the local employers probably don't even know what it is :/

Of course they like money, that's why the rule is there in the first place. High amount of chargebacks and fraud costs them money.