It's actually exactly as you described, and it works really well. People are surprisingly willing to help. Just send a message saying "Hope you're well, I'd love to reconnect and learn more about $COMPANY." Email works better than LinkedIn if you can get it. I got my current job by getting my manager's email from a friend and cold emailing him after seeing that he was hiring. Just introduced myself and said I wanted to chat.
I spoke with Coinbase at a time where I was trying to get away from a job where I worked 70-100 hour weeks. I would always tell recruiters I was seeking better WLB as I didn’t want a company that would have a problem with that attitude. I was told by multiple people that late nights should be expected and Coinbase was not a 40 hour per week company. Further - there are 4 weeks a year where the company shuts down and everyone is “encouraged” to take their vacation during those times. Personally I like to select the weeks that I am off work. The comp was good but I ended up at Google making the same money with great WLB. My equity has been hit far less hard by recent market turmoil as well. Can’t even imagine getting a 6 figure equity package and having it devalue 70% and then grinding long hours.
I did SAML with Barclays years ago. The hardest part was getting someone there to click enable for our app. They’d never reply to my emails so I called them until they picked up. Then it was done in 30 minutes.
I recently wanted up upgrade from 2 to 5 channels. Previously I just had 2 powered studio monitors hooked up to my tv via 1/8th inch. All I wanted was a D2A box that took the atmos signal and let me plug in more speakers. Turns out these are crazy expensive and it’s way cheaper to buy the giant box.
I went and worked on Wall Street. Good experience and the work could be interesting but honestly got to the point where I wasn’t willing to sacrifice my life to the extent necessary to stick it out. Heading back to tech in a more business oriented role that I think will be better for me, and money is the exact same for now. It won’t ramp up as fast but I do think the lifetime upside is similar in compensation and immeasurably better in health and happiness.
These companies also don’t all have the same margins, so benchmarking on a sales multiple doesn’t give a good feel for valuation. Everyone does it anyway though, so in that sense it works.
Seems like the relative death rates of tusked vs tuskless would matter. Remember the 32% is a percent potentially on a small number. Say to an extreme 99% of tusked elephants were killed, 99% of tuskless were unharmed. If tuskless is a genetic traight, it takes over very quickly even though total population size is smaller.
Every once in a while since I switched back to windows a couple years ago I’m tempted to fresh install… then I remember my machine still runs perfectly fast
That's what happens when there's a flood of venture capital money whose intention with its investment is to see a specific return on capital on a specific investment horizon.
I’d bet against this. Neural networks still don’t actually understand the text at all. I would imagine true understanding is required for this task. You can’t get to the moon climbing progressively higher trees.
This is something I wish they hammered into you more in school. Took a while for me to realize first you have to understand how good something needs to be, and then just do it at least that well.