- What are small things your coworkers do that annoy you but probably shouldn’t? For example, constant throat clearing, snorting, sniffles, hacking up stuff, slurping, ...
- vote OneLogin vs. Okta vs. Auth0 which is the best company? i have offers from 2 of the 3 up here and am interviewing with another rn. keep in mind that OneLogin’s hack was most likely a competitive “hit job” and they just raised $100MM and are pre-IPO. Look to have the best clients too. Welcoming any raw feedback
- vote Which offer to choose Have the below offers in hand. Which one would you choose if you want to optimize for future career growth? All offers are for Senior position. Here are the pros and cons: 1) Airbnb : Pros: More upside. People are genuinely nice. Strong business with a lot of room for growth Cons: Engineering prob
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and industry lounge. - Where to buy 3 BR house? SF Bay Area I don't have enormous amounts of money, but I think a 3 BR freehold home is a good investment basically no matter what your plans are. I plan on house hacking, while I'm not married, and when I do get married I can grow into that home with kids. What's a good city to buy? I can probably afford 1M b
- vote Which state should I move to, Portland, OR, Salt Lake City, UT, Seattle, WA, Austin TX, or Denver, CO? Here’s a background about me: I’m Chinese American. I have a few years in Software Engineering and looking to transition to sales engineering and/or product management roles. I grew up and raised in NYC basically my entire life and I’m looking to relocate for a better quality of life while I can
- Dear LinkedIn and Github We bought you. You know you belong to Microsoft which means there are things we need to do for integration, so when I approach you to onboard you to things per our leadership, don’t be a dick about it. You can treat me like trash, but don’t forget your place. You need to check your attitudes and sn
- How Might We Improve Gun Safety? How might we improve the safety of gun use? Example: - A circuit within bullets that could be closed to prevent the gun pin from striking the powder (a bullet "safety") - a device that can be placed in public places (like schools) that triggered the safety circuit on all bullets within a certain ra
- RANT - Underpaid hardware guys Hardware folks (Mechanical/Electrical/Supply Chain etc) - Can I rant about how underpaid we are?? we build physical tangible goods.. and yet companies are not willing to give us a fraction of what software people make. For gods sake STOP UNDERSELLING YOURSELF. Software people have done a phenomena
- should companies be held accountable of dara breaches? Each time I read tech reports about data breaches, I remain astonished by the level of total incompetence of those companies that have been hacked. Most of the cases is security 101. Their PR is rvrn worse, preaching that user’s data security is paramount to them, when clearly it isn’t. The few time
- Am I not getting it right? Moved to silicon valley(san francisco) recently and am blown away with general lifestyle in the city when it comes to health and well being. I grew up in a place where life is very slow, people have maids and are lazy and fat. But here, people are generally well groomed and fit. They seem to get do
- How to learn new codebase thats in a new language? i feel so lost and slow. i dont know how to learn this stuff. im naturally slower than others mentally. for example, i went to a board game night and it took me longer than other people to learn the rules. i feel slow like this very often. How can i learn php/hack quickly? do i just do tasks? do i s
- Burnt out despite great job. Travel? Remote work? Senior dev, competitive pay Great company, excellent team Flexible hours, 6 weeks vacation I love doing development, and I really can't ask for much more in this market except maybe a modest raise. And yet, I'm reaching that point where I'm getting burnt out and bored with work and stressed about l
- link Coding Bootcamps I'm a recent grad just out of school with a non-CS degree (HCI) and internship experiences in UX. I'd like to break into a career in software engineering and hoping to get some input here on how best to do so. I've been self-studying Swift for a little under a month now with an end goal of landing a
- Advice on starting my tech journey. I’ve been working in finance the past 9 years but I’m looking to make the switch to tech. The money, challenge, lifestyle, and career prospects seem great and finance is going through structural changes that limit any growth. My questions are: 1) should I go bootcamp it self taught? I’ve been atte
- Will my Finance background help me in FinTech? I’ve been working in finance for the past 9 years as the head of investments for a small wealth management firm and am considering pivoting into tech. I’ve done a little coding on my own but I’m ramping that up with a lot more self study and Hack Reactor part time. I’m hoping that one area where I’
- Office politics with upper management I’m a senior SWE and I’ve been tasked to take over a project with a lot of visibility from upper management that half failed due to the incompetence of the previous project leader (that’s exactly what I was told). So I joined the existing team of 4 other people (2 swe + 1 em + 1 pm). I spent the pa
- How to avoid Procrastination ? What are some tricks / hacks you use to not procrastinate or to stop when you find yourself procrastinating specially when things need to be done at a priority? I often find myself procrastinating and even when I make a TODO list to work on I often pick up items that aren’t high priority. I would l
- Data analysts, do you leet code? I found the sql portions of leet code/hacker rank to be helpful, but they are small compared to the other languages on the platform. After trying a few pythons problems, it seems the coding sections are more geared towards developers. I tried sqlzoo but was unimpressed. Any other resources you use?
- How can I expand industry knowledge in golang? I’m a senior graduating in a month with a job offer lined up. I’ve recently taken a liking to go, and I started doing leetcode problems using the language to practice basic syntax. I followed a tutorial and hacked together a simple server with that handles requests and SQLite3 for the DB. It’s hacky
- Blind Hack One of these days Blind is going to get hacked and/or leaked and people are going to be able to correlate your comments to your work alias/identity (e.g. all the paying customers who used their work alias on Ashley Madison). I am not saying- don't be honest, that is helpful and is the reason why Bl
- Is it just luck ? My first investment was in SNE when PlayStation hack happened in 2009 if I remember correctly. At that point I was all excited about stock picking. Lost 20% in 2009. Lost 30% in 2010. Another loss of 10% in 2011 and literally lost everything in early 2012. Thanks to bigger gambles to recover my loss
- What does your work lunch look like? This may not apply to big companies with catering in-house, but I find getting lunch as a team is such a cumbersome thing to do everyday. Someone needs to be organizing who, when, where, how and most of the time no one wants to contribute until s/he missed the train. Not to mention we have vegan, ve
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and industry lounge. - Why are open source google projects hard to pick up? I’ve heard countless stories of folks giving up on learning Kubernetes, because there’s simply too many abstractions. Same thing for when Angular V1 rolled out, and probably why Angular lost to React and Vue. Are the rest of us outside Google all unintelligent or are Google’s open source projects o
- Blind hack? Does blind store the original corp email used to sign up? If so it's one inevitable hack away from a pretty large and interesting exposé
- Netflix Testing Does Netflix do testing on customer accounts? Noticing a few weird things. Either my account is hacked or the testing is screwing up my account.
- Creating an App Hi all, Looking to see if i can get some guidance on my plan to build an app. Ive recently quit my job at a bank to create an App that solves a problem I discovered whilst working. Obviously, with my background I lack the skills required to hack together an App myself, so i’ve been speaking to co
- Facebook, what you upto? Whats going on in the leadership’s minds?? Kicking out CEOs of instagram and whatsapp, and then not replacing their CSO.... Is monetization all that the company really cares about?? For everyone who works there and feels that you are working towards a nobel mission to “connect the world” and that
- Thoughts on Hack Reactor? I’m going to apply to Hack Reactor as I’m switching from finance to Tech. Anyone have any experience with them (ideally either in NYC or their part time remote)? Just a little background if you care. I’ve been the head of Investment research at a wealth management firm for 9 years now. One of the f
- Anyone else bored with their SF tech job? More specifically, craving to move on to something else but you can't because the money is seemingly too easy/too good to pass up? Been on the agency side and startups in the valley for 7+ years. Same story every time-- get the job, get inspired and get the large projects completed, then hack away
- Uber hack cover-up Trying to understand how a seasoned CSO agrees to cover up a massive data breach by paying off hackers to ‘delete’ the data. Anyone have any thoughts on where the blame really lies for this? Uber’s corporate culture of rule-breaking must surely have been the driving force for the response. Which put
- Hack CenturyLink router I have a router that came built into my apt. Back home on the east coast, if you slipped a cable guy 50 bucks he’d hack your router so that you got free tv and internet. Anyone know a guy who can hook me up?
- Hacking PM interview with Data Science experience? I’m data scientist with project manager experience that comes from (involuntary) managing up. This experience includes interviews and recruiting, mentorship of junior devs and senior data scientists, organizing devs to ship and deliver to meet deadlines, planning said deadlines, teaching my senior