codingwageslave

Remote or Los Angeles

Very early stages, working on a no code product for that generates websites from video content. NLP/machine learning/React/Django/Airflow. Currently working as an engineer at a large tech company til I get this off the ground. Have a past minor startup success. Need a highly technical cofounder.

Hardest lesson I learned is that most people have no clue what they’re talking about. Especially with regards to life advice. If someone is pushing you hard in one direction, but you think it’s a mistake, it probably is. I’m speaking generally here, someone who has been writing Java for ten years, probably knows Java. But life advice wise, be very careful. Jealousy, arrogance, success bias etc heavily influence people’s advice

I’ve been trying to tell people this. It’s always met with ridicule

Basically this. Without the never ending visa supply, amazon would never get away with this. They can just burn through foreign workers, most of whom are just happy to be in the USA. The loser is the American worker, who now has to work way harder due to the expanded labor supply.

As an Amazon employee, some of the software teams are absolutely horrific. Hire to fire, long hours, huge work load, lots of employees on visa worrier they will be fired at any time etc.

On the other hand, really interesting high scale software problems, some really smart people, good teams