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Any country that’s moved off the USD has been labeled an axis of evil, sanctioned, or bombed.

What company are you at? I’m at a company who people consider 2nd tier among the FANGs in a senior developer role and my salary + stocks are > $300K this year in Seattle.

Also be careful what you wish for. I’m not sure if the stress and personal impact are worth it. I have constant anxiety. Some of the people I work with are really smart but manipulative and generally not great human beings.

It’s not for everyone. I’m just trying to get to $1MM in my after tax account before I leave this company for something more sustainable.

Not a fan of googles hiring process. I interviewed in 2015 and never got past the phone screen. I was given a contrived programming problem, which I solved and explained runtime complexity.

The interviewer called me for the screen about 15 minutes late and then he was upset with me because the google doc link I was given to write code was not the one he was opening. Miscommunication on his end.

He struggled to speak English, which I’m fine with, but his inability to communicate made him get more and more frustrated.

The recruiter never called back. Even if they weren’t going to move forward, a simple courtesy call wouldn’t have been so terrible.

This interview was for an entry level engineer. In less than 4 years, I’m a senior engineer now at another top tier tech company. I don’t think my interviewing skills or coding skills were the problem.

Googles recruiting process is half assed.

There’s no hypocrisy here. If you have a personal issue with Bezos or his success, that’s fine. Expecting Bezos to tell newspapers or media what to report sounds like something Donald Trump would do. Good on Bezos for not doing that.

Do X or I will do Y to hurt you and your company is blackmail and extortion, regardless of what Y is.

Digging up some past quote to somehow justify extortion is not very genuine.

I try to ignore politics, but how do republicans justify this kind of abuse? Isn’t this simply regulatory capture by the telecoms?

How does this justify extortion? Serious question.

What makes her a moron? Do you have something of more substance than a personal attack?

Ocasio-Cortez is almost always being mentioned on Fox and some of the conservative forums I visit.

They’re genuinely terrified of her.

Imo, we need fresh people with new ideas. I’m tired of the Pelosi's of the world running the show. I see them right of center and opportunists whose policy views shift just to get votes, not because they’re acting in the interest of constituents but because it’s good for optics and to get votes.

I would love to see more debate on proposals such as increased taxes on folks earning more than $10MM. I support this if we can figure the np hard problem of how to spend that money. Seattle for instance has spent hundreds of millions on homelessness without any progress. It’s only gotten worse.

My spouse and I were wanting to visit NYC last spring. A hotel + flight package for three nights was listed as $800 per person because of a last minute sale. Okay so $1600 plus maybe another 10% in tax?

Nope. By the time you’re really settled on this is where you’ll stay and this is when you’ll fly out and return and your spouse is excited, the final price is more like $2500, not counting a daily resort fee of another $35 that will go directly to the hotel once you get there.

So from $800 a person to $2600 for two people. Yeah no thanks.

Burnout is real. I was promoted from an entry level to senior level engineer in three years at one of the top tech companies. My compensation is great, and I’m saving heavily. Also, I’m exhausted. As in... I’m wondering what to do next with my life and work. Burn out is an understatement. I don’t talk to my spouse about this because this person has a lot of stuff to deal with, and my family relationships have wined down after they found out what I get paid and basically just wanted me to hand over everything because they believe they are entitled to it. So who do you turn to? It doesn’t solve my problems but it at least helps reading threads like this to see others perspectives.

The wage gap is real, although I feel like I see an anti ${insert_tech_company_here} article on NYT just about everyday attacking Facebook, Amazon, Apple, etc.

None of these tech companies are on a moral pedestal but also, none of these media outlets are on any moral pedestal. These are the same folks who championed the Iraq war. Look, I’m not saying there isn’t a significant wealth disparity, but I do think people should consider the NYT motives.

It couldn’t be that thry hate tech because these large tech companies are direct competitors in the advertising space?

A lot of ideas at home are stolen in one fashion or another. We just happen to have a legal system that allows you to reap the benefits of your innovation alone or license out and get royalties or some combination of the two, assuming you’re the first to patent it or assuming you have enough political or financial capital to pursue litigation.

Imo calling it poor behavior is subjective. If your culture doesn’t value being the first to discover or invent something like the west, then any notion of it being poor behavior falls apart.

To be clear, I’m not defending the behavior. If my invention was stolen, I’d be upset. I am, however, presenting the other side the way it was explained to me.

Ha! I work with some talented engineers at a big tech company. This topic sort of came up at a happy hour event.

Their culture is different. In the west, we think you’re really something if you invent or innovate something on your own. Their view is it doesn’t matter if you take something from someone because you still have to work to do something with the concept or technology.

I get their perspective. On one hand, yeah it sucks if you work hard or invest massive capital to innovate in some area. On the other hand, if your economy is at an advantage, others in the emerging world are left behind and they’ll always be playing catch up, paying royalties, or locked out completely.

A glass screen on a laptop is worlds different than on a pocket sized device, where the tiny keys were arguably something to improve.

If I can already type 90 words a minute, what problem does the glass solve? I have a glass screen on my iPad, and I never type on the screen keyboard for serious work.

I’ll give Apple the benefit of the doubt and wait to see this in the final product, but your comparison to 2007 is grossly inaccurate.

Apple has yet to put out a device in the post Jobs era that made me feel like I have to have this thing in my life.