pretty much like you've described. When you're making up the valuation and spending your own currency there's no problem; you control both sides of the balance sheet
This is an all stock deal, so valuations are about as realistic as a televised poker tournament. No one is paying a 27% premium in cash; they're spending their own ridiculously valued stock. There is no business model…
I'm a big believer and user of 1:1s and don't think they're a waste of time, because if there are no problems it gives me a chance to get a coffee, go for a walk, get to know my direct reports - how is that a waste? The…
having sat on both sides of the table, this is a weak rationalization for wasting a lot of people's time. You're making candidates do so much work in terms of applications, preparation and interviews and you don't even…
I hear this all the time and it's overly simplistic. Maybe if I give you a single number that is my true desired value, yes. If I give you a range where the low-end is 25% higher than that true value, I've now anchored…
This seems reasonable and beyond what other major employers are offering, but as is the fashion I'm sure Amazon will be convicted in the court of public interwebs shortly...
Except they were there for 14 years. Unless it became instantly diametrically opposed to their belief system in the past couple of months, the author has put up with the changing environment for a long time. They're not…
I agree - I consider the current president both a hater and accomplisher of impressive things. down-voters should interpret impressive as "making an impression" not "something really good"
comments shouldn't explain code period; they are to clarify intent.
I just don't agree with this viewpoint at all. There are plenty of profitable startups directly focused on education and the environment. Maybe you don't agree with their definition of meaningful but don't let perfect…
>> I don't particularly care about meaningful work, I enjoy solving problems that matter and I'm good at it so I want to do that. Isn't this the same thing? Meaningful is highly personal & contextual, so a problem that…
I think the question around performing meaningful work is largely rhetorical; the challenge is where do you find meaningful work? We tend to love the romantic notion of throwing away the high paying meaningless (to us)…
I'd say it's somewhere between bottom 5% and top 10% ;)
We're in the process of migration, first from Jira to Boards. I have some serious concerns but I'm a marginal Jira user and DevOps newbie, so they all seem confusing to me. The build pipelines & release management stuff…
The biggest problem with learning on an "as-needed" basis: You only learn what's needed to accomplish your immediate goals. An inefficient, injectable query will certainly get data showing up on your web page. Most…
It's hard enough to identify good or bad, let alone assess to the degree that I can say 2 candidates are comparable. When that happens it really means I've got an equally poor measure of both.
We have SQL above that level and relational algebra below it; the challenge with your proposal is it's super-dependent on non-trivial implementation. Upper-level database courses deal with this, but in the same way…
There's a parallel that every consultant or salesperson should use when a client asks for "super-specialized feature X" in their gp-product: reframe what they're asking for in a way your product can address the…
All the things you mention are incerdibly damaging, but not necessarily the same thing. not leaving the office, not exercising, poor diet are all symptoms of things like working 20 hour days. In my mind that's the…
pretty much like you've described. When you're making up the valuation and spending your own currency there's no problem; you control both sides of the balance sheet
This is an all stock deal, so valuations are about as realistic as a televised poker tournament. No one is paying a 27% premium in cash; they're spending their own ridiculously valued stock. There is no business model…
I'm a big believer and user of 1:1s and don't think they're a waste of time, because if there are no problems it gives me a chance to get a coffee, go for a walk, get to know my direct reports - how is that a waste? The…
having sat on both sides of the table, this is a weak rationalization for wasting a lot of people's time. You're making candidates do so much work in terms of applications, preparation and interviews and you don't even…
I hear this all the time and it's overly simplistic. Maybe if I give you a single number that is my true desired value, yes. If I give you a range where the low-end is 25% higher than that true value, I've now anchored…
This seems reasonable and beyond what other major employers are offering, but as is the fashion I'm sure Amazon will be convicted in the court of public interwebs shortly...
Except they were there for 14 years. Unless it became instantly diametrically opposed to their belief system in the past couple of months, the author has put up with the changing environment for a long time. They're not…
I agree - I consider the current president both a hater and accomplisher of impressive things. down-voters should interpret impressive as "making an impression" not "something really good"
comments shouldn't explain code period; they are to clarify intent.
I just don't agree with this viewpoint at all. There are plenty of profitable startups directly focused on education and the environment. Maybe you don't agree with their definition of meaningful but don't let perfect…
>> I don't particularly care about meaningful work, I enjoy solving problems that matter and I'm good at it so I want to do that. Isn't this the same thing? Meaningful is highly personal & contextual, so a problem that…
I think the question around performing meaningful work is largely rhetorical; the challenge is where do you find meaningful work? We tend to love the romantic notion of throwing away the high paying meaningless (to us)…
I'd say it's somewhere between bottom 5% and top 10% ;)
We're in the process of migration, first from Jira to Boards. I have some serious concerns but I'm a marginal Jira user and DevOps newbie, so they all seem confusing to me. The build pipelines & release management stuff…
The biggest problem with learning on an "as-needed" basis: You only learn what's needed to accomplish your immediate goals. An inefficient, injectable query will certainly get data showing up on your web page. Most…
It's hard enough to identify good or bad, let alone assess to the degree that I can say 2 candidates are comparable. When that happens it really means I've got an equally poor measure of both.
We have SQL above that level and relational algebra below it; the challenge with your proposal is it's super-dependent on non-trivial implementation. Upper-level database courses deal with this, but in the same way…
There's a parallel that every consultant or salesperson should use when a client asks for "super-specialized feature X" in their gp-product: reframe what they're asking for in a way your product can address the…
All the things you mention are incerdibly damaging, but not necessarily the same thing. not leaving the office, not exercising, poor diet are all symptoms of things like working 20 hour days. In my mind that's the…