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$230k can including bonus and $225k in RSU with can guarantee

Yes I do. I know someone that got this offer and recently joined. I helped them negotiate and pick offers. This was a staff engineer but the person had only 6 years of experience.

Total comp for a middle engineer at Uber is $450k.

Uber's cash-based compensation hasn't been that high, has it? A friend of mine who was making $150k base at a public company was offered $115k and purported stock of $500k. He needed the cash so he didn't take that offer. This was back in 2016. Things might have changed since then.

The other way to look at it is that potentially $3.9B worth of stock could be sold on the public market and further dilute the value of the stock.

Not to replace courts but to understand legal agreements better. If you could express it as an algorithm, perhaps, you could rewrite in simpler english or answer questions about it?

Slack's operating loss send easier to recover from. Uber will have to cut costs massively to come closer to profitability. The drop in stock is before the lock in period had expired. Expect it to drop further after October when all the employees dump their stock.

Can legal agreements be expressed as an algorithm?

This post is equivalent to that famous comment on Dropbox about running a fileserver yourself. It's a waste of time and I can't believe it's being upvoted on HN.

Thanks. I already have a manager and a wife.

Isn't the speed bottlenecked by the storage speed. Is the data fully loaded into memory first?

Can you conceal these cannons when you walk into a mall before shooting others?

Maybe we should consider one for arguments to avoid arguments like yours

The right wing people seem to be ok with a dictatorship if it gets them what they want. Left wingers are less likely to open guns so this point is moot. Also what chance do these guns have against the army's artillery.

I lived in upstate NY and had no idea about this rule, and I visited NYC often.

Where did they say that they lived in NYC? Only that they got caught there.

Math is a subject that you don't understand why you need it till you see real-world applications for it, especially higher-level math. Rather than teaching math in a way where you solve equations, students need to be taught to 'think' mathematically, similar to mental models. In fact, a good number of mental models have a strong grounding in mathematics. Seeing the world as a set of mathematical problems gives you a leg up on a number of things.

Engineering will be next. Expect this from more companies in the valley as the reality of being a public company looms on the newly public companies.

Heard of a private GitHub?

We'll see timed lockboxes for holding laptops and mobile phones from Friday nights to Sunday afternoons so that couples are forced to spend time with each other.

Completely concur with this. After 10+ years in engineering management, rising through the ranks, I'm at a stage where I don't want to solve people problems anymore. I want to get back to coding or solve problems as an IC. Most companies will need only a handful of VPs, Directors and Managers but almost all companies will need software engineers. As a manager, one has to sacrifice becoming technical and competitive in the market or be the best in their field. Even if they are a really good manager, different companies have different expectations of their managers. Google might want pure people managers whereas LinkedIn might want managers that write code 60% of the code. It's just not worth it though some perks are really nice.

Is this going to drive up property prices in Sunnyvale? Amazon, FB, Google, LinkedIn/Mountain View, Apple are all in Sunnyvale. I heard that Uber is moving there as well.

In the Bay Area where opportunities abound and switching jobs is easy, companies need a way to brainwash you and help you settle into a nice cocoon so that employees don't consider leaving. If it feels like a job, any job is fine. If it feels like home or like a family, you wouldn't want to leave, would you? Companies without a strong culture or with a traditional culture experience a high rate of attrition at the hint of the slightest bad news.

Can you take up a contractor role? There are lots of consulting companies that place contractors with companies and FE skills are frequently in demand. Just don't tell them that you are available only for a month.

Googling will mostly result in ads or shady sites. OP was trying to get assurance for HNers that it wouldn't be a problem. Please avoid being snarky.

That's a really low bar for them to beat.

There's nothing worth watching in Netflix now. I find myself spending more time on Prime Video where I can find richer content through Prime movies and subscription channels like HBO, Starz and PBS (for British murder mystery shows). Moreover, Netflix is getting its recommendations for me completely wrong. Without user reviews, I've no idea if the content is good. I'm not going to waste my time watching some random show if I find that it's crappy 2 episodes in. Prime on the other hand shows me IMDB ratings (which are good enough) along with user ratings.

Too risky to put so much of my hard-earned money into it. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night.

You mean single, unemployed, qualified American who really wants that job. There are probably thousands of Americans that can take up that job but don't want to because they don't want to move or like their current job or don't like that company, etc.

I've been here for 17+ years, earn $650k/yr and I'm still in the same boat. I'm at the mercy of the govt. if I want to change jobs. Moreover, I need to restart the labor certification process and reapply for my green card though I get to keep the same priority date. There's no end in sight i.e. I cannot predict when I'll get my green card due to the per-country cap and backlog. Worse, I cannot quit and take time off even for a day.