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Depends on the location. It’s fine everywhere I’ve been. The locations near bigger cities have more pumps and the ones in smaller cities have fewer to scale with demand.

Sorry, I’m a bit thrown off. What degree are you referring to?

Masters is usually about 2 years, though it could be longer in some cases or if worked on part-time. PhD is often 4-6+.

What 3-4 year degree did you mean? Bachelors?

The Realm consumed a lot of my life as a child.

No, for taxes, married filing separately is a different category than single. Married filing separately results in a higher tax bill than married filing jointly for most couples.

Same

I’m pretty sure my sell-to-cover RSUs take a day or few to settle, resulting in a small but nonzero gain or loss.

The details may depend on the employer + brokerage.

My previous employer had a tender offer as part of a new funding round.

I was an ex-employee already and had exercised my options within the 90 day window of resigning. If I remember correctly, we used Carta for both exercising the options and the tender offer.

For the tender offer, the company set a deadline and a price per share. Current employees were limited to selling a certain % of their options/shares. The website enforced the same restriction for me, which seemed like a bug, but I didn’t plan on selling most of my shares anyway. I chose a number of shares in a web form, clicked a button, and got cash direct-deposited. I had a larger than usual tax bill but I paid it while handling my usual annual tax return. No penalty on the taxes due to the “safe harbor” rule.

It also provides a natural place to hide loading screens between levels! ;-)

Interesting!

I’ve never heard of that system. Is there somewhere we can read about it, or maybe you can explain a bit more?

Is the offer of the form “we accept you, so long as your grades satisfy the following requirements…”?

Is the interview performance pass/fail or if you do poorly do they give you a less agreeable offer? (higher grades required?)

The flying or the tracking?

True! I use Budget Fastbreak usually. Same experience.

Last time I interviewed for Amazon, I couldn’t understand one of the interviewers spoken English. Combination of bad audio (their side, I have a good headset) and accent. I kept asking him to repeat himself and eventually gave up, and tried to guess at what he asked.

I usually defend Amazon (used to work there and enjoyed it) but the last interview cycle was really unimpressive.

If a company offers a very low lower bound like $10k, job seekers won’t apply there and will go to competitors with a more reasonable lower bound.

Similarly, when a highly qualified applicant gets an offer way below the upper bound they’ll be upset and ask “why don’t I get paid near the top of your band?”

Unless all employers work together to make the bands useless, it’ll at least give some visibility into what employers are worth targeting as an applicant.

My employer has Colorado jobs and gives some wide ranges (ex: 130-300k) and more narrow ranges (ex: 200-240k). The wide ones probably cover 3-4 levels and the narrow ones are for a specific level. They’re all missing RSUs or bonuses, but they should give you a rough idea if it’s worth applying or starting a discussion with a recruiter/hiring manager.