I work there. Our attrition is not any different than other companies. We have magnitudes less engineers than the other companies mentioned, so most likely it's the few that interview on average are better from Dropbox than the average of other companies. That's all.
They need folks across a tall vertical in order to scale to the number of people that they have so quickly: hardware, software, logistics, brick and mortar stores, marketing, tons of content, etc. Easy to see how they can quickly balloon as demand outpaced their supply during covid.
It probably depends on what adjacent financial products they are selling and how good of a job they are doing at selling those to existing customers. Wealthfront is always suggesting different financial products, cards, etc. There is little money in managing your money since these are mostly served by large funds like Vanguard, but there is a lot of money in referrals selling you other products. It's possible Wealthsimple is doing much better?
It's a completely different skill that you need to bring to the table. A retail employee just requires a week or so of training vs. a four year college degree (or similar experience) for an engineering job. Similarly, the skill that a good CEO brings to the table is equally as different. The article also mentions that his compensation in 2020 was like 4x lower, so that's interesting.
I think the system is somewhat democratic. This is what the board of directors chose as his compensation and they themselves are elected. Remember, that Apple is extremely large. These median salaries probably include retail store employee packages as well. If you look at just engineering, product, design salaries, the x factor here probably comes down to a factor of 10, so 140 instead of 1400.
Okay, not defending his pay here, but 1,400 median employee salaries is not that crazy. First, think about the valuation of Apple since Tim took over. Yes, it's not all attributed to him, but he has definitely made some very good decisions along the way, despite being set up with a money printer. Secondly, for every successful CEO package, there are hundreds of others that you don't hear about because they failed to meet goals laid out in their compensation package. Finally, these compensation packages are set up a few years before with targets that the company needs to meet.
Yes, but you can't realistically create a web app for every spreadsheet that is out there. Only when it would truly add value to the team over the long-term, does it make sense. In my experience, this is done when the spreadsheet stops scaling to the number of people that need access to the data or systems that need said data.
> Eric Raymond went so far as to say that understanding LISP is a “profound enlightenment experience.”
Maybe this is true for language hobbyists or whatever, but every few years throughout my career, I went back to LISP or LISP-like languages and never found it super profound. Do I need to spend more time on a project? I just don't get the same excitement others seem to get.
>The drug, which belongs to a family called protease inhibitors, doesn't target the virus' spike protein, as the vaccines do.
Apparently, only one of the three available monoclonal antibodies seem to be effective against Omicron at the moment, so this can't come soon enough. How is Pfizer so successful in this space at the moment?
Exactly this. It's not too hard to think about the intake of random requests a popular team may receive. Even code reviewing a patch from a separate team carries its own set of eyes, which is still work for the team. There's a ton of context OP is probably not familiar with and walking them through all of that baggage is not worth the effort. While this may seem annoying from an outside team's perspective, it's the only way to really focus on their roadmap and be able to commit to scheduled work.
How would people validate ownership of an NFT when there could be hundreds of blockchains in the future? Would I have to go and verify each one of them to make sure my NFT hasn't been sold multiple times already?
I'm an immigrant and moved here when I was 9. My parents always spoke in a different language growing up. I personally had a hard time with certain vocabulary that I never picked up and that maybe I otherwise would have if I had native English-speaking parents. This definitely slows you down when reading problems as you're only gathering about 3/4 of the problem at times. This is probably an outlier, but just thought I'd share my point of view here.
I get the amount of pressure Meta and probably youtube were going through when discussions around vaccines were rampant, but the narrative only started to change once pressure was built up into top news sites. For example, the lab leak theory. Yes, it's inconclusive and so complicated that even if Wuhan's lab would be fully transparent, I doubt you would be able to fully connect the dots. Anyways, even those discussions were getting banned until major news articles decided it was okay to talk about and only because independent journalists had built so much pressure that they finally caved. I don't know about the right trade-offs in this space, but all of this is so transparently anti free speech and obviously rigged that it just doesn't feel right.
Failing over to another AWS region is actually pretty difficult for stateful services. Especially if you can't even access data in the primary region at all. Most teams probably don't have the bandwidth to solve this problem given the amount of outages you see in a year (1 or 2). Also, this would be a problem many teams would be solving, so most teams probably just wait and see what leaders have to say about it and well, nothing ends up getting done.
I think these types of decentralized entities will collide with a long list of legal issues in the future. The technology is just moving too quickly for any elected official to understand. Just imagine that instead of buying this copy of the constitution, the resources were anonymously being used in some malicious way and there is no accountability along the way.
To me, it's more about the idea than the actual action on display here. Decentralizing a process than is normally very opaque and centralized is what's being attempted and it's a cool idea. Whether this is executed well or not, that's a different story.