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- My company is drinking the agile kool-aid Feel like I’m back in middle school. The entire IT org is all about positivity now. All the down to earth people got let go. Everyone who doesn’t “change their mindset” gets let go. If you aren’t talking in meetings you fear for your job because you aren’t collaborative enough. Got called out for be
- Congress and BJP both have fooled India On 75th Independence day, Indian flag would fly high in the blue sky. For the first time in decades, Indians are coming out of toxic fog jailed in their homes seeing their loved one die. Getting enough time to retrospect, it comes to light that no government has been dedicated to its own people's fi
- Buy and hold Leveraged ETFs I’m new to investing but not new to finance (Done CFA). I have a doubt- when I read about FIRE then I have seen people discuss the power of compound interest, they make an assumption that the market goes up. If you’re going to have that assumption, then you might as well invest your money in TQQQ (
- Is the pandemic over? (fatigue) This year I notice many companies are returning to normal. I see advertisements to travel overseas to various countries or to book a cruise. Our business has to satisfy some new regulations that will be harder to implement right now. Our datacenter with colocation is moving. And our landlord (at hom
- vote Leaving Meta, going back to Amazon I do wonder what I’m doing. Going back to Amazon though after 2.5 years to get some work done. Meta has much friendlier culture. Lot more peer pressure though. Lot more passive aggressiveness where people go build the same thing you are doing just to have something to show on their psc. Managers ar
- vote How’s it working with Ex-Amazon managers ? Apologies if you consider this post spam. Want to check how people feel working with managers who were employed with Amazon earlier. I find people who transitioned from IC to SDM at Amazon interesting, as they are tuned to a particular working style. It is known that Amazon has a mandatory quota of
- Is Zume the next Theranos ? Why does a company like Zume even exist ? How in the world do they convince VCs to give them money ? This is literally what they claim to be. "Zume is on a quest to be the most powerful source of health and well-being on the planet. To achieve our objective, we must facilitate the provision of who
- This is a time to explore Millions of people have lost their jobs. Millions are suffering in this time of pain, anxiety, uncertainty. Tens of millions have been infected by the virus. Over half a million have died. Governments all around are busy retaining power, exercising power, expanding power. Private organizations are b
- Isn’t comparing Bitcoin to $$ pointless? People get excited when they see a bitcoin being valued to be worth thousands of dollars and claim it’s a good investment and probably want to keep it till it’s $ value grows thousand fold. However, bitcoin’s actual purpose is to be the currency of future. If true decentralization of currency occurs
- $100k - Invest in Crypto or Start Mining? Considering a crypto mining op and I’m curious what people think. I have 50 Antminer S9’s reserved in next batch. Have a warehouse space that’s local in Bay Area and zoned industrial so Power is cheap ($0.08 / Kw). Estimated return is promising as long as bitcoin price doesn’t sink and/or difficulty
- link PSA - Got a new offer ? please do us a favor 🙏🏼 Those who recently got offer or are about to, please do us all a favor: 1. Share your offer on blind 2. Submit your offer details on levels.FYI These are two resources that we as employees have that are powerful way to ask what we deserve. Otherwise the hiring game is asymmetric and most people ge
- Why include signing bonus in total compensation? Since we are paid in various ways other than salary, it is important to take note of the current forward 12 month rate of recurring income to compare current earning power vs the market. When I mentally account for my total compensation, I do not include income that is temporary in nature and not r
- Technology that will change the future Just a thought experiment. If we look back to past century, we can point to technological advancement such as air travel, advancement in computing power that sparked a revolution and differentiated one century from another in terms of technology. What according to you is the technology that is bein
- Michael O Church: Renter America "...People continue to need these short-ended power relationships called “jobs”, and spend more time on busy work or protecting position than actually doing anything. Meaningful, productive work becomes a coveted, scarce resource and one must engage in political intrigue in order to get it." This s
- Why are crypto currencies seeing exponential growth? Genuinely curious what makes them so valuable to hold. (1) If it is the power of decentralized transfers, why is a specific crypto (e.g. Bitcoin) so highly valued. Don't all of them share this property? (2) If it's the technology, then won't companies eventually invent (in very near future) better
- Ethereum mining and GPU market flooding I have a friend that is one of the most risk averse person I know when it comes to investments. Last week, apparently they got convinced by someone else that using GPUs to mining Ethereum was a good idea. 🙄 Despite my opinions about this being/not being a good idea, I imagine tons of people got (p
- Interviewing is partly a psychological game. Most interviewers go on a mini-power trip - in that 45 mins they can escape their daily grind where they are often confronted with people smarter than themselves and have a chance to create a controlled environment where they can be the smarter one. If you jump right into the fully optimized soluti
- Short people left out of the conversation I'm short, about 5ft5 white male, Experienced discrimination my whole life. Director at Google used the word short man syndrome talking about someone else. I once bought up short people bias in diversity training and everyone laughed, i felt like the guy that suggested we let women vote 50 years
- vote SWE species habitat with lot of REAL money ?? We all know that if earnings go up in CA so does the expenses. Where on this pretty planet you get the highest purchasing power in that locality ? City A: You earn 100 bucks, expenses 20 bucks. Earnings/Expenses = 5 (Great !) City B: You earn 100 bucks, expenses 50 bucks. Earnings/Expenses = 2 (S
- Inequality is good! Jealousy is good! Have you watched the show "Capital in twenty first century" on Netflix? It says " traditionally, economists have argued that the inequality is a very powerful driver of progress and innovation because the idea is that competition, essentially, makes people try harder". I think it makes a lot of sens
- How did they get there!? Becoming a CEO in a major tech company. Hi everyone, I've worked in many of the famous tech companies (Fb and Google) and now at Uber. I'm so disappointed at the tech leadership (they've all reached a ceiling in terms of innovation). HR is also a joke at these places. Most people get stuck at their current level and no one is truly motiv
- vote Capital One Data Analytics Manager Outcome Couple of rounds and the Power Day later - I get a call from recruiter saying they like me as a candidate; just not for the analytics manager role. They’d rather I join them as a Principal Analyst and then wait it out till I get promoted. Their reasoning was I don’t have enough experience. I have
- Kick-ass Techno-managerial skills What are the best (T)PM skills to gain for early career SWE+PM profile? I currently have skills in Java, Python, SQL, VBA, Advanced Excel, Visio, SharePoint, Flow, Tableau, Power BI, Jira, CI/CD (more functional than programming), and good communication and people skills. I have 2-2.5 months to le
- Which tech will help good restaurants scale? There's a power law with restaurants: the highest-reviewed places attract the most volume, the rest fade away, volume increases from the good reviews, chronically long lines result and time is lost. The problem is the best restaurants cannot scale due to kitchen production asymptotic constraints, u
- Leads & Managers -- recommended reading? Are there any books/blogs/training that was useful for you early in your lead or manager journey? If so, please share here. For me, the book "first 90 days" was incredibly powerful in that it created a sense of urgency for me to partner with the right people & showcase early wins within the first 3
- Is this really what working at a startup is like? Been here for 3 months and I was very excited at first. I've spent the bulk of my 30+ year career working for stodgy banks, pharma companies, and hedge funds where although I had a chance to work on some massive systems, it never felt very innovative. I thought that being in an "engineers first" co
- Transition: BA to Data Science / Analytics Currently work at a small investment firm. Less than 200 people. Been working as a Business Analyst that wears many hats for past 4 years. Various investment ops roles before that (developed good business acumen). So the last 4 years has involved building data dashboard solutions from scratch (P
- Is status important for management and leadership positions ? What I noticed around me is that people who get into management and leadership positions, either hired or internally promoted, are always married and most of them with kids, in their 30s or 40s. Furthermore, all technical decisions are made by these people, with no hands-on engineers present in any
- Facebook rant - good for society A lot of people give facebook a lot of shyt but thats because they don’t understand how it affects socity (the good side). Lazy brains. 1. Almost every DTC/Ecommerce business relies on facebook products to get and retain users. This means Shopify, warehouses, transportation & logistics are directly
- vote Upgrading my Macbook Pro 2012, what laptop should I get I think its that time of the year, when I have to upgrade my 2012 Macbook Pro, which has served me well for the past 6 years. Checking out the new Macbook lines I think they outright sucks. Want would be a good replacement for my old fella ? Things I care about 1) Portability 2) Stable O.S 3) It