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I'm pretty sure "get rich quick" has been around for a long time in one form or another.

At the extremes, both sides are the same.

What's your favourite ramen restaurants? My wife is Japanese and she hasn't found anything that rivals Japan yet.

I love the Manager Tools feedback model. It's succinct and the importance is on addressing behavioural change over time rather than one particular incident.

All the salary negotiation tips can be reduced to this: You have to have a better alternative. That means doing getting multiple offers within the same time period before you accept one.

All the other stuff goes out the window if you can do this. You can be a terrible negotiator. You can mention a number up front. It won't matter if you have other alternatives because it's easy for you to say "I'm sorry. I have an offer for $X more."

Or perhaps the most reckless drivers are going to be the ones still driving normally because they're not going to listen to the government.

Thanks for sharing. I've also come to realize lately how important the process of reflection is. Without it, there's just doing but it's really the reflection process where you learn. That allows for adjustments rather than continuing on the same path out of habit.

I was very positive on Roam early on. I actually signed up for the Believer plan. I've since switched to Obsidian though. I was finding that Roam became very slow and laggy once documents started to get pretty long. It started to hinder my note taking rather than help. One simple example was how the cursor doesn't focus when jumping to a new document. That always really bugged me and despite bringing it up it was never fixed. They seemed to prioritize other things like Pomodoro timer for some reason.

Maybe these things are fixed now and maybe I'll try it out again one day but Obsidian has been great for me. My files are local so it's fast. I also have them backed up via Dropbox and because of that I can view/edit on my phone. Previously I used Atom for my note taking so this is very similar but now I have the additional benefits of linked documents and attachments and templates and so on.

I don't think that's true in Canada either. I think it's only true if you're self-employed.

Is building a priority queue a common task that senior engineers would be required to do if they got the job?

A mediocre person may also be threatened by someone they see as being more talented. They will fight against having that person on their team with them because it makes them look worse.

When I moved to SF and saw signs for Zuckerberg SF General Hospital, I thought to myself "Surely, that must be just a coincidence and it's not named after Mark Zuckerberg."

I was wrong.

100% agree. The only free society is a society of 1.

TTP is capitalism at its finest. Let's make the normal process so terrible so that we can charge extra for people to be treated normally.

And then you have services like Clear which is basically legalizing corruption. Instead of slipping the agent $20 to go to the front of line, it's legitimized so that you can do it without any stigma.

You're now able to upload your documents online and you'll be able to print out an Express Entry document that lets you skip the line. I went to Daly City last week and I was in and out in about 20 minutes.

Yeah that's interesting. I thought nearly all of Mozilla's revenue came from Google to default to their search engine. I wonder if COVID is just an excuse to do this now.

Edit: Another comment seems to have some details https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24123945

There's no reason why you can't be an employee but also be in control of your own hours. It's not much different from a part-time job that I had while going to school. I'd provide my manager a list of times that I was available to work for the week and he'd slot me into shifts.

Technology has decreased the lead time needed to let someone know that you're available to work to 0. There's absolutely no reason why that should mean that you can't be an employee.

But what if you're the one who's wrong?

I really found the Manager Tools podcasts on feedback very helpful https://manager-tools.com/2005/07/giving-effective-feedback

It's not about berating anyone. It's about constant subtle modifications. They compare it to driving a car. Even if you're on a completely straight road, you can't just keep your hands off the wheel and expect the car to continue going straight. You provide regular nudges to keep the car on the road.

Maybe this analogy doesn't hold up that well anymore with auto-correcting cars :)

I think your concern about not providing stronger feedback is valid. Highly recommend the series of podcasts they have around this topic. You'll think about feedback in a much different fashion.

I swear this happened to me with Grubhub. I had a problem with my order and used their chat. After I wrote my problem the agent replied with a standard answer and then immediately:

"Is there anything else I can help you with?"

And then immediately after that:

"No, ok I will close this chat."

I listened to "The Rabbit Hole" podcast series this past weekend produced by the NY Times. They actually interviewed YouTube's CEO about this and they have realized that and have made changes to move away from that.

https://www.nytimes.com/column/rabbit-hole

The documentary "The Brainwashing of My Dad" might be interesting to you. It's pretty cheaply made but it's about this very topic and offers some hope of how they got him to change.

Yeah I hear you. I've struggled with the exact same problem. The stress doesn't help and often times I've figured out the answer just 5 or 10 minutes after the interview was done. I know I got rejected from Amazon and then a week later I was doing practice interviews on interviewing.io and the guy who was mock interviewing me said that he works at Amazon and that I should apply. I had to tell him that I did apply and just got rejected from an onsite interview the week before.

Yeah, referrals at these sized companies only help to get a recruiter to pay attention. It doesn't really help. I've even gotten interviews just by searching LinkedIn for ___ recruiter and messaging them directly.

FWIW, I recently attended the Outco sales pitch and they do have a almost guaranteed payment option. Instead of paying up front you can pay nothing and then pay 10% of your first year's base salary. Obviously that would cost you more than if you had paid up front but that could be an option.

Keep going. You only need to pass once. :)

I'm kind of in the same boat. I failed all my interviews as well and I have about the same amount of experience as you. I agree that getting into these companies is easier as a junior engineer.

You may want to look at an interview prep course like Outco.io or Interview Kickstart. I haven't attended one yet but will most likely do so once I'm ready to start interviewing again. I think the feedback they offer will be worth it rather than me constantly headscratching after failing another interview.

(The fact that these courses exist just exemplifies the whole problem with software interviewing but I don't fault them for that)