anontechworker

I’m in the same boat. I’ve never directly applied to the 3 jobs (including a FAANG) that I’ve taken in Silicon Valley. One found me on angel list and the others LinkedIn or direct email. Similar to you, the places I did apply to would never respond, even with referrals in some cases.

It looks like someone from the company reached out in the comments section:

I just saw your post this morning. I'd like to help resolve this as quickly as possible, if I can. I'm not exactly sure what happened in your case. This doesn't sounds fair or right, and isn't a TeamViewer business practice.

Not sure where it went from there though

edit: there’s a second page of comments where the issue appeared to be resolved but many others reported the same issue and were ignored

Oof! Does anyone recommend any tools for protecting against this sort of stuff? I feel like a VPN wouldn’t even be enough here since the MAC address is coming through the headers.

Edit: typo

Today's JavaScript developer is acting like they have a 100 GHz CPU with terabytes of memory. And being lazy and uninspired as a result.

Not sure how I feel about a statement this broad. I work mostly with front end code and I try neat things and tricks to reduce resource use all the time. I also always push for the lightest way of doing things in PRs. I’m certain I’m not the only engineer who thinks like this.

I went in for an interview recently for the react core team and the guy who interviewed me said Facebook was trying to edge away from open source. He mentioned it’s not worth it to them as much as it was before. Too much to maintain.

Comments written like this are why I left reddit.

This would be nice for slack, except if you’re mentioned you’ll still get a notification.

I can understand the frustration with Slack but the comment about large companies using it doesn’t have much ground. I’m at a 3000+ employee company and slack works great for us. I think that one thing that has helped many people is to remember that you never have to reply immediately. Also, if you’re a stakeholder on something, then a final decision should not be made without your input. I’m sure that if you limit yourself to checking slack as much as you check your email, then it won’t be such an issue.

On the note of brain games, there have been studies on their effectiveness. You can read more from the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/0...

It would be amazing to see something like this on the switch. Play any game portably? I’m in.

What about engineering managers? I’m betting the average tops both PMs and SWEs.

I’m not justifying their lack of efforts for Linux users but I can understand why they limit their resources towards creating better drivers. According to Wikipedia(1), the amount of Linux usage worldwide is barely even a blip compared to windows + macOS. From a business standpoint, it’s hard to see the benefits of correcting these issues.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_sys...

I have some friends who were new grads and put on the security team. My first thought was, why put new grads on the security team? Do they really have the experience to protect this sort of data?

I might be misreading/misinterpreting..what was the reason for the closure? The article mentions it was financial but it didn’t seem absolute.

Started at a company that technically was not a startup at the point I joined (10 years old — 300 employees). I got lucky and 6 months in the company was acquired and all my stock vested immediately. Made about $15k but was given $200k in RSUs at the new company. I can’t complain.

The meaning of high quality software can be argued. Another HN comment put it pretty well:

People are more likely to use a buggy app that has features they want over a perfect app with limited features.

I understand the article is specifically addressing the slowness of chat apps..if we’re talking about messenger: I’m sure they could use a fraction of the RAM with the same features. But the fact of the matter is that it has the features people want and we will continue to use it. Is Facebook so in the wrong if their RAM hungry App is so successful? I’m not sure.

On a side note regarding good software, I enjoyed using a site called teamtreehouse so much that I pay for it still 3 years later and I never log in.

For a website with so many visitors and transactions, I’m surprised this API call never threw enough errors for them to see in logging. I will admit that JS logging can be messy because of all the different environments but after some time I would have hoped this would have been caught.

My guess is that there were some engineering job cuts at least. I’ve had some views from Evernote engineers on my LI profile today. Could be coincidence though!

Apple also announced a wireless charging capable airpods case. Not a mention of it since..maybe it wasn’t feasible?

I work at Square for what it’s worth..I disagree. Stripe set out to create the perfect payments service. Square set out to create the perfect physical POS. The next logical step for both companies is to spread out in the market more. We’re going to bump heads sooner or later being in the same industry.