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The Last Technical Interview 2 months ago

Signals I've got from this post:

- Steve's company got acquihired by Amazon, granting him a free ticket in without all the torment of the multi-stage interview pipeline.

- It's a well known fact that it's easier to jump from one FAANG to another, so while interviewing at Google he had significant advantage, plus the blog gaining popularity.

- All of this has caused a deep down imposter syndrome, which resulted in an attempt to "improve" an interview process from the inside - but the wings were clipped pretty quickly by the corporate politics. It turns out that lawyers are not planning to reinvent anything there and hence are somewhat more important than engineers.

- The post itself is an self-applause over essentially a failed effort. "I've tried"

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Dead Internet (2023) 2 years ago

Oh god... another one of these digital preppers complaining about monetization by posting on Substack.

Giant wall of cunning metaphors to attract reader's attention just to end with a literal flop at the end:

For now, I suppose, we can carry on...

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The Problem with the Job Market 2 years ago

Let’s say your company pays for 215 software products that cost us $420,000 a year to own and use. Nobody would object to somebody looking at that list of software finding redundancies and canceling those licenses.

That's simply not true. Big companies have special vendor management departments, their incentives are literally built around cost optimizations. Smaller startups have CEO looking at their billing and complaining about "why do we pay so much to vendor X?", check the most recent rant by DHH on Datadog:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41357726

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The most difficult thing about working in the big tech is managers 3 years ago

It started pretty well, but the paragraph where you're comparing managers to the monarchy and nobility (!) made me laugh. You're clearly confusing cause & effect, to the unbelievable levels.

Managers are hired by the corporate "monarchy & nobility" - founders, board, shareholders etc. And there are many valid reasons to do that - lack of technical skills, efficiency, even laziness (you pay money to someone else to care about something more important to yourself).

Fun fact is that all those groups on the top of the food chain are also managers, but in attempt to crash the feudalism you're targeting the powerless middleman.

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