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Instagram is the only large social network that does not have a "reshare" FWIW.

The call out about being "Customer focused" is key! Many engineers use the Individual Contributor path as a means to just solve engineering problems and an exit route from product teams. No matter if your customers are internal (other engineers) or external (actual clients), understanding the business is equally important.

An Engineer's goal is to solve problems. Technology is their tool to do so and the more you understand the business' problems, the more effective you become at using the right tools in the right ways.

A Distinguished/Principal Engineer's role is a multiplicative technical leader whose use of these tools in an effective manner will impact solving customer problems in a more effective and streamlined manner. Thus, building customer empathy is very important.

Are there any reasons for not moving my cash reserves from Marcus to Robinhood given:

* Marcus' interest rate is also adjustable and is lower than 3%.

* Marcus has no ATM access/debit card.

* Getting money out of Marcus requires it to be transferred to another checking account.

Its a free world and last I checked its not illegal to work for FB. Trust in market forces to take it course.

We recently hired an outstanding engineer who graduated from a bootcamp and previously did not apply because we had an archaic requirement around "BS Computer Science or equivalent" in our job description.

We have taken out any mention of "culture fit" which to me means more of the same. Instead, we measure culture addition. How will this person add to our culture?

We took out all mentions of prior knowledge and experience in our entry level job postings. In our more experienced posting, we only ask for prior work experience building software for X years. We list only our stack and even caveat that by saying that it can change. I can wager that most software engineer positions fall in this category.

Another relevant point here is that women are less likely to apply for positions with a predefined list of requirements even if they are only missing 1 of them as opposed to men. So why are we shooting ourselves in the foot with all of these requirements?

Why not show ads and give the money to a charity or any other foundation of your choice?

The way I understand it is:

(build -> deploy -> feedback -> build -> deploy -> feedback ..) until you reach love, when you can start focussing on growth.

The lean philosophy is to make sure your (build -> deploy -> feedback) loop is tight.

That will not even meet min. wage requirements.

Democracy won. Middle America made their choice based on a hope that Trump will bring back jobs to America, especially manufacturing to the Middle American Industrial heartland. What they failed to see was that the dream is, just that, a dream! One that can almost never (never say never?) come true.

This is so much easier to explain than to convince people that globalization is a reality and that the only option in many of these cases is to retrain for a high skilled economy that the US always was, and must continue be in order to be an economic superpower. No matter which party won, this section of people would be anti-establishment and unhappy with the present because nobody can break this bad news to them.

A software engineering analogy is to convince leadership that you have to refactor your stack in order for it to scale, during which new products would suffer. BUT, its easier to convince them to hire 10 more engineers who can build new product on an aging stack, which may not solve the problem, but is relatively easier to sell.

In 5-10 years, who will explain to the millions of automobile drivers (taxis/trucks/uber/lyft/..) that their jobs are dying as well? Nobody. Wait for another anti-establishment election!

I've had great success with Ruby/Mechanize for regular html scraping and phantomjs for dynamic page scraping.

Am I the only one who thinks that this is a terrible way to hire any Engineer, Director or not? I may have hung up after first 3 questions saying that "this does not sound like a good fit to me".