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> Consul - only makes sense if you are on the hashi stack.

As an enterprise Hashistack customer, every time I contact Consul support, they assume I'm using Kubernetes instead of Nomad, and when I tell them I'm using Nomad, I get blank stares.

Vault is great, and Consul is...fine, but the Consul PMs saw which way the orchestrator market was trending (towards k8s domination) and have adjusted their priorities accordingly. But if I had my way, I wouldn't touch the Nomad+Consul stack with a 20-foot pole ever again.

Twitter pre-Elon wasn't losing millions of dollars a day. Twitter post-Elon is losing millions of dollars a day because of the extra $1B/year in interest payments he took on because he wildly overpaid for the company right before everyone figured out just how badly Apple's new privacy practices affected the revenue of social media companies.

it definitely happened.

When Dell was taken private, RSUs were converted to cash bonuses at the sale price. Most likely option.

Your partner's company sounds like the one I left recently, for those exact reasons...

I've never understood the point of this claim that "journalists are biased!".

All human beings are biased, and the systems we build inherit our biases. What is the alternative?

I gave FB the exact breakdown of my other offer with plenty of time to react to it, and got only silence in response. They had all the tools to put together a superior compensation package and just didn't.

(It's possible that based on my interview performance, FB didn't want to match the level I was offered at the other company. But if that were the case, you'd think they would cut bait and move onto a more promising candidate rather than half-assing an attempt to get me to join regardless.)

This is where Matt Levine would opine "everything is securities fraud".

I recently went through the interview processes for FB and another (non-FAANG) company mentioned elsewhere in this thread, and it was stunning how different the processes were.

The recruiter for FB was incapable of conveying the simplest information in a period of time less than 30 minutes and constantly seemed to misremember what information they had already given me; they were constantly setting (and missing) deadlines to follow up with me with more information.

Finally, after the on-site interview, they said FB would be making an offer, and then began this very strange dance (across the span of two full weeks) of trying to negotiate me down on % remote time and salary _without ever making me an actual offer_ or giving me any information about what the position I was interviewing for entailed.

Meanwhile, the other company went from on-site interviews to an offer with firm numbers in two days. In the end, FB's recruiting process was so odious that I couldn't bring myself to wait long enough to even hear their offer to negotiate with (which, frankly, was the only reason I signed up to interview with FB). So much for "move fast".