shakkhar

Surely you haven't seen taleo.

The numbers I've seen on blind are mostly accurate. The issue is that people only report on blind when their comp is at p95 of market. Making $350k is a bit of a trope on blind. You either make $350k, or peanuts.

How about company that changes it's name for strategy shift?

> Facebook Messenger uses React Native.

This is misleading at best, if not outright wrong.

> Hiring standards must have fallen if they added people so rapidly

I have been hearing this about Meta / FB for the last 10 years. This line of thinking is overly simplistic. If a company like FB wants to ramp up hiring, they have many tools at their disposal. Hiring bar isn't the only tool, or even a very important one. Things they can do:

1. They can really jack up the compensation package and signing bonuses 2. Open offices in places where they didn't have any presence 3. Open up to remote work 4. Allow flexible hours 5. Increase retention through outstanding perks and benefits 6. Scale hiring efforts - expand the recruiting org, train more employees to conduct interview, reward employees for referrals and conduct interviews 7. Expand outreach into communities from where we historically didn't get much applicants

Meta tried everything above, and possibly more. Hiring bar doesn't matter when you have boatload of money.

Whatsapp and IG

Almost certainly not. In aggregate - may be, but looking at individual user search history without strong business reason and approval would be a quick way to get fired.

Generally, people have very little to be scared of big tech rank and file employees. It's not worth losing our job to satisfy morbid curiosity.

> Do FAANGs hire such old ICs?

I can only talk about one of the letters in FAANG. Just my observation.

We definitely hire 50+ or even 60+ people. In my experience, all of the internal processes are designed to remove individual bias. You can get hired and be successful.

The problem arises when there's a mismatch in expectation. Suppose you look at your years of experience and shoot for IC7+. The bar for IC7 is _high_. From and IC7, they expect to see org-wide impact in your current role. An org is 1000+ people. Most ICs can spend an entire lifetime and not have that level of impact.

Basically, experience has little to do with level or comp. If you can lead a small team with a few people, are willing to come in at IC5, and fine with making 450k+, I don't see a problem with age.

> They are funded by the CCP

First time I am hearing this. What's the source?

Honest question - was this sarcasm?

No. I know that my total expense in a given year will never exceed $X (Premium + out-of-pocket max). Worrying about every single transaction is not worth it.

You have clearly never worked in a large geographically distributed group.

Learn databases.

CPUID is just a bunch of flags used to discover the capabilities of your CPU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPUID

If you are getting 9+ hours sleep, and finding time to exercise - you are not working too hard.

> This project is, very literally, stealing from me.

That is, literally, not true. I have always had a safari subscription through my employers, but found the app to be unpleasant to use. Using this project to generate epub is not much different than me printing the pages through browser as pdf, or saving the HTML page to read offline.

It would be stealing if I distributed the generated epub, but then that's not really the author of the tool stealing from you.

When there's proof, only one story is enough.

No this is not normal. The important thing you need to decide is whether you want to drag this through the legal process or simply cut your losses and move on. To get a lawyer to pursue this seriously may cost thousands. Either way, I think you should quit at your earliest convenience. Bad employers don't turn good if you stick with them long enough.

Exactly. Apple refusing your app is an anti-trust issue. Local baker refusing you service is a civil rights issue.

Take a look at https://cgsql.dev/. It's supposed to be a lightweight and strict type-checked data layer on top of sqlite.

Fortunately, I was an adult at the time the original iphone came out. (Although not in the US.) By then, market was already flooded with cheap Chinese phones with "touchscreen" which required a stylus. Apple, actually, was already pretty late to the game. Jobs' core innovation was the insistence on getting rid of the stylus.

To offer a counterpoint - this is a blog post made by Fred Wilson with the exact same title. Fred has the prerogative to title his posts whichever way he likes, and I would not want some random HN poster to add a subtitle to Fred's title.

What is an acceptable title in your opinion? "Fred Wilson who is a famous VC speculates about the state of the economy"?

I think OP could (should?) also sue the company for harassment and defamation if the ex-employer is badmouthing him around town which could have real career impact.

FWIW, we use https://cgsql.dev/ to solve the type issue, among others. I totally understand that this is not for everyone.

Historically, anti-trust authorities have been more concerned about horizontal integration, not vertical integration. On top of that, Apple is not even the largest phone maker in the US, owning around 13% market share. For an anti-trust suite to be successful, the prosecutor needs to prove consumer harm, and that will be hard in this case. (IANAL.)

> I don’t want to read that content. More importantly, I don’t want to advertise on the platform with that content.

Both Twitter and Apple gives you plenty of tools to avoid reading or advertising next to that content. Apple's action has nothing to do with end user preference. This decision was entirely driven by preference of a small group of tech elite.

It's not whataboutism. It highlights the hypocrisy of such "policy enforcement".

How about parents / siblings / spouse / significant other? Nobody has you as a contact? None of them have installed Facebook / Messenger / Instagram / Whatsapp? Do you use any app / website on your phone that uses Facebook for ads? Is there anyone else in your home who shares your IP and uses Facebook?

Feel free to believe what you want, but I don't think you have the privacy you think you do.

I just wanted to point out that Facebook doesn't pay based on cost of living, but cost of labor. They will pay as much as it takes to hire the best in a given location, but not a penny more. So the article is attacking a strawman.

First, it takes years to become true expert in a particular branch of software development. There is no switch career button. You just have to put in the hours to grow as a developer. You will spend the rest of your thirties just catching up with your peers. It's for you to decide whether you have the patience to do that persistently.

Second, like any other white collar job, your earning potential is heavily backloaded. An early career software developer doesn't really make a lot of money. Even assuming that you are good, you well be well into your forties before you start making the big bucks. In the meantime, you'll be earning significantly less than your peers.

Third, you could really screw up your WLB if you don't choose your employer right. People with non-traditional background often end up in terrible companies which use developers as expendable labor in stead of investing in their growth.

I highly recommend that you explore opportunities in software development, but be aware of the challenges.