This is sad but good advice. I'm in my late 40s, and my hair is getting pretty gray, so I've started using comb-in color to tone it down. It's not about vanity; I just want to avoid standing out as older than many…
The same thing happened with law careers earlier. Everyone believed that becoming a lawyer was the golden ticket. Back in the early 2000s, law schools were packed with people pursuing that path. Everyone highlighted the…
During Covid, I had many lively debates with my peers about remote jobs. They kept insisting that the "world has changed" and that remote jobs are the future. My anxious self struggled to understand that. I'm good at my…
Tesla wasn't paying as much as the big tech companies, which meant he didn't have access to that top 1%. By opening the door to more H-1B visas, he could ideally flood the market with international candidates and…
I've noticed this too. I assumed it’s because they see experience as leading to higher wage expectations. Ageism is a significant issue in tech as well. I've had friends with decades of experience who were turned away…
There is some truth to this. A friend of mine is a recruiting manager at one of the big tech companies here in the valley. They use a scoring system for candidates that ranges from (iirc) 1.0 (don't hire) to 5.0 (should…
This is really great insight; thanks for sharing. China is another country that has developed its own local apps, mainly because many global ones are banned there. Even if Google, Uber, and others had free rein, I don’t…
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This is sad but good advice. I'm in my late 40s, and my hair is getting pretty gray, so I've started using comb-in color to tone it down. It's not about vanity; I just want to avoid standing out as older than many…
The same thing happened with law careers earlier. Everyone believed that becoming a lawyer was the golden ticket. Back in the early 2000s, law schools were packed with people pursuing that path. Everyone highlighted the…
During Covid, I had many lively debates with my peers about remote jobs. They kept insisting that the "world has changed" and that remote jobs are the future. My anxious self struggled to understand that. I'm good at my…
Tesla wasn't paying as much as the big tech companies, which meant he didn't have access to that top 1%. By opening the door to more H-1B visas, he could ideally flood the market with international candidates and…
I've noticed this too. I assumed it’s because they see experience as leading to higher wage expectations. Ageism is a significant issue in tech as well. I've had friends with decades of experience who were turned away…
There is some truth to this. A friend of mine is a recruiting manager at one of the big tech companies here in the valley. They use a scoring system for candidates that ranges from (iirc) 1.0 (don't hire) to 5.0 (should…
This is really great insight; thanks for sharing. China is another country that has developed its own local apps, mainly because many global ones are banned there. Even if Google, Uber, and others had free rein, I don’t…
Funded by Pornhub, the only people that could reach 178Tb in traffic.