throwaway203482

Re:Ask HN: Normal to feel stuck at Big Tech? on Thursday March 09, 2023 @01:23PM (#35084722)

When you say “a lot of work would look ad-hoc and not well planned,” do you mean it secretly is well planned? Or that it isn’t? I guess the key word is “look”

Ask HN: Normal to feel stuck at Big Tech?

Posted by throwaway203482 on Thursday March 09, 2023 @11:22AM
from the ask-hn dept.

At the beginning of last summer I finally made it into FAANG (one of the A’s, not the fruit). My salary tripled, I was gonna be doing work that affected a bunch of people instead of the small ~1000 person company I worked at before.It’s been really hard. I feel stressed all of the time, the codebase I work in is a mess, I have to drive an hour to get in the office 3 days a week. I’ve talked to...

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Re:Ask HN: Why are all the big tech companies reaching out all at once? on Thursday May 19, 2022 @10:34AM (#31435197)

Two companies reaching out at the same time, I would agree with you. But three seems outside the realm of possibility, or at least, probability.

Re:Ask HN: Why are all the big tech companies reaching out all at once? on Thursday May 19, 2022 @10:33AM (#31435185)

I always knew this was true, but I’m glad to get it confirmed by random people on the internet. Time to start my hero’s journey.

Ask HN: Why are all the big tech companies reaching out all at once?

Posted by throwaway203482 on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @09:07PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hi HN,I have been a software developer for 2 years, all at the same company. Last week, I got asked to interview for a position at Google. I was stoked, took the phone interview a few days ago. Today, I got emails from both Microsoft and Amazon.This can't be a coincidence - why have these tech companies decided to reach out to me now of all times?This sounds crazy, but the only thing I can...

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