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I’m engineering adjacent (analytics / data sci) but my experience has been the best engineers pitch and pick their own projects rather than being assigned out weeks in advance.

Just recently an engineering manager told me “I trust [IC7 engineer] to go where he is most impactful”

So this isn’t the only model, and successfully identifying and pitching working on high impact projects is a seniority marker that will lead to rapid promotion. In any organization. The pitch may look different in different places but I promise you - if an engineer is successfully pitching and delivering high impact projects promotion WILL follow.

Identifying and pitching high impact projects is a combo of technical and soft skills though, and the way this happens depends on the org.

Why would a long tenure be a problem?

It didn’t violate the dress code…

It’s kind of odd to think it’s NEVER correct for a company to do layoffs. The CEOs job is to run the company - if the company is more efficient why shouldn’t the CEO be rewarded? Their job is to run the company not never fire anyone.

This is an incredibly personal issue, who cares? You’ve made the internet harder for yourself to use...

I would love to see video of this if you aren’t joking!

Circle also has a profitable crypto prop trading arm.

You’re assuming pricing should be based on cost, but there’s no reason that has to be/should be the case.

It’s not a loan, and the 1% fee isn’t an interest rate, so annualization doesn’t make sense and usury laws don’t apply.

How do you determine if a chargeback is “fraud related”?

Although the MBTI is widely criticized/weak, I’ve found it to be quite a lot of fun for having discussions about personality with friends/family.

The MBTI makes strong statements about personalities which inevitably leads to inaccuracies, but it does make for an interesting starting point to talk about the way that people interact.

There are different types of consulting services - you could assess many parts of someone's cyber security preparedness without knowing technical details about security, as weird as that sounds.

Does management make it a priority? Is there appropriate funding? Are the correct policies in place?

And so on.

Of course, if you ignore th and technical details you will have very serious issues.

That said, you shouldn't send a super technical security expert to interview executives about their culture around cyber - the expert will find it boring/beneath them, the execs won't like the expert... etc

Very interesting. However, I've yet to see a graph library that effectively handles large graphs/communities.

It's very difficult to automate displaying more than about 10-15 connections in a meaningful way. I think a solution to this probably might be extremely far away though, as I think it requires making assumptions about meaning and where summarization would be appropriate.

It's a little bit hard to capture in a survey, but the reality is you can't value everything. Values aren't a list of all the things you think are good, it's a list of the things you value "above replacement".

Even just talking about what values your company has is very instructive and revealing. Sure, few people say "we don't value maintainable code", but if you're putting together a list of your four or five core values and you're coming up with things like "speed of execution", "rapid iteration" and you don't put anything about mainainability, the reality is you don't value that.

You might not object to it, but it just isn't important to you - you don't value it.