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Re:Ask HN: What's the biggest red flag you've encountered du... by aprdm on Monday August 21, 2023 @01:14PM (#37212455)
Nvidia, like many other tech companies, has many people/teams/departments/division. Is very hard to get a clear view of the world from a single point.

Who knows, maybe if you joined you would have hated it too, or loved it ! The story you shared is likely shared by many other companies that went through hyper-growth

TLDR: Stuff is hard!

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Re:Ask HN: What's the biggest red flag you've encountered du... by throwaway19423 on Monday August 21, 2023 @02:59PM (#37213854)
NVidia was truly a spectacular opportunity. So was Microsoft, Databricks, etc. I picked a dud, and didn't realize it until it was too late (just now). Question is .. what are the obvious winners today, and for the next 10 years?

Some opportunities I missed but they didn't go anywhere: Docker, Qualcomm.

Consumer Devices is a general dud I think. Software and data is where it is at. I dunno?

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Re:Ask HN: What's the biggest red flag you've encountered du... by iancmceachern on Monday August 21, 2023 @03:16PM (#37214055)
Robotics
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Re:Ask HN: What's the biggest red flag you've encountered du... by throwaway19423 on Monday August 28, 2023 @04:04PM (#37299721)
Any company to recommend in the domain? You are right that robotics has a good future. Just really capital intensive and hard to make money in the short term. I have a friend who is a founder in the space and man .. what a long slog.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the biggest red flag you've encountered du... by cvhashim04 on Monday August 21, 2023 @04:15PM (#37214777)
BioTech :P
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Re:Ask HN: What's the biggest red flag you've encountered du... by kapilkaisare on Monday August 21, 2023 @04:54PM (#37215217)
Really? Tell me more, please.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the biggest red flag you've encountered du... by hash07e on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @01:01PM (#37225573)
We will tell you in 15 days...
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Re:Ask HN: What's the biggest red flag you've encountered du... by qq99 on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @03:49PM (#37241221)
COVID-23?
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Re:Ask HN: What's the biggest red flag you've encountered du... by piuantiderp on Sunday September 03, 2023 @04:21AM (#37368691)
On your masks, Ready, GO!
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Re:Ask HN: What's the biggest red flag you've encountered du... by seattle_spring on Monday August 21, 2023 @05:20PM (#37215522)
I remember losing a candidate to databricks around 2012/2013. I thought he was making a bad decision. Hoo-boy was I wrong.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the biggest red flag you've encountered du... by uptownfunk on Monday August 21, 2023 @05:53PM (#37215853)
Right, now he’s got really valuable Paper money that they offer to buy back at a very steep discount. Anyhow wouldn’t feel bad about missing that one!
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Re:Ask HN: What's the biggest red flag you've encountered du... by yieldcrv on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @05:25AM (#37220383)
Thats really funny because nobody says this when the interviewer is giving red flags that arent blunt like that

Even in other posts here, people are like “whew I wouldnt want to work for a company where an unrelated recruiter and hiring manager did something nonstandard” as if it was a predictor of their team

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