I wish you a good move! Speaking for my two friends, they both seem very happy in their new digs, and don't seem to miss much from home that they can't visit or have sent over.
Have you ever done a background check with HireRight? They ask you for all of your previous companies and contact them to verify. I think there is an option not to call your current employer.
There's a huge background check fetish here in the US, and it's facilitated by a massive lack of privacy and an equally big fetish for everlasting punishment.
Want a job or rent a place? Background check, baby!
Not just prior employment but even civil court cases and criminal history are all a part of it, and it doesn't help that even something as small as a traffic ticket shows up on your records.
Have you ever sued a landlord to get your deposit back? There's a good chance your new landlord doesn't want you.
Were you convicted of petty theft years ago? That might cost you your prospective job.
In most of the EU, much of this information isn't public, and in many countries, criminal records are inaccessible.
Often, in the latter, you can get a declaration of “good behavior” from the government if your prospective job has some sensitive elements. The government will then issue one or decline based on the specific job and its risks with your record in mind.
Were you caught committing a DUI? You won't get one for a job as a cab driver, but you can safely get one for working at a bank.
Have you got caught embezzling money? Then you can't get one working at a bank, but you're welcome to become a cab driver.
In the US? Well, you're SOOL. Enjoy being marked for life as your options to get an income legally have significantly shrunk.
Aside from things that may lead to accusations of violating equal opportunity employment laws, you can ask just about anything. Many previous employers won't do more than confirm employment though, as a negative review may open them up to liability. As a result, the norm in many industries is to only ask (and receive) confirmation of employment.
I worked in construction prior to tech and yes, the General Contractor or Foreman may not know the latest in framing or concrete technology, or even be good at specific tasks like drywall. But they understand the job, can do it if need be, but most importantly can judge the quality.
I don't think that's correct. Access to the fiber links or colocation in a facility is not only ridiculously expensive you have to know the right people (the cartel) to get it done.
I can't just offer a crazy amount of money and get access, the other major players have to let me play.
You actually can just offer a (not very large) amount of money and get access. The fees aren't even that large and they are public see [1] for example. The startup costs for an HFT would be comparable to a restaurant buildout, it's really not a capital intensive business.
Does the job you're hiring for actually require sorting a list? If Kroger wants to hire a new CEO, they're unlikely to require candidates to walk up to the cash register and ring up customers even if it's a very basic skill for the industry.
Out of all the places I've worked, I think my favourite approach was Dropbox's: They ask these algo questions for new grads, because every new grad from a computer science program has been through these classes and it's an easy thing to index on.
But for experienced hires, nobody gets algorithms questions. Instead, you get practical questions -- depending on the role, things like writing an ID allocator, finding duplicate files across a filesystem, demonstrating understanding of concurrency, etc. No "implement this well-understood algorithm that you'll never implement again" questions.
I’ve never written a linked list after college and I’m a principal software engineer. Why would I waste my time when there are libraries written by dedicated, excellent engineers that have been used by millions of developers?
People have said Apple can buy companies like NSO for less than they probably spend on SEIMs in a year. But as soon as they do that there will be another startup doing the same thing.
The company (GreyShift) that broke the secure enclave had ex-apple security engineers working for them.
They all do that. I've been in Offensive Security for 10+ years with several spent at FAANGS, and not only do they all have large security teams doing internal testing, they hire multiple contractors like Trail-of-Bits to audit every important service continuously throughout the year.
Apple has way more than 10 full time researchers looking at iOS all day, trust me :). They also have a really generous bug bounty. There is always bugs though.
I live in Austin and I hate it here. I vote in every local and statewide race but it seems like it's getting worse.
I'm pretty close to selling my house and moving to Colorado but as third generation Texan I feel like I'm abandoning my home and leaving it to the crazies.
I work for a YC company called Coinbase and it is absolutely terrible here because of the C level execs. They are terrible at their jobs and from the inside, the org seems to be falling apart. I've noticed that since the layoffs there is no motivation anywhere. People are hardly on slack and it takes forever to get anything done. I hate blind but it's a constant complaint that no one is working anymore.
Seems like Brian was fooled into hiring all these leaders that don't understand people or the space but have great credentials. As for Brian himself, he is the most uninspiring leader I have ever worked under. He is a platitude robot saying nothing more than 'Crypto will lead to economic freedom' and 'now is the time to build'. Before the crypto crash it seems like the only motivator was money, now that that is gone the company is slowly spiraling and no one cares. Mostly because the execs don't care, the CFO and CPO both cashed out all of their shares during IPO. If they don't believe how can we lowly engineers.
A blind comment that really resonated with me and the few others I've shared with: https://imgur.com/a/jrA3oCL
Another thing, if Brian reads this he will probably go on another twitter rant rather than actually address the company.
> He is a platitude robot saying nothing more than 'Crypto will lead to economic freedom' and 'now is the time to build'. Before the crypto crash it seems like the only motivator was money
Yes, that's what it's always been about with coinbase. That's why they sold their equity on a traditional finance platform for USD $ and why Brian bought a $130m mansion. 10 years later what has crypto accomplished besides grifting people out of their savings through 3% commissions and scams? Do you know how useful Google, or like any other company, was after 10 years?
How else could Coinbase have ended up? It's a company for people to speculate on digital tokens. There's no grand mission to the thing, his rhetoric has always struck me as hollow and self-serving. "Create more economic freedom" lol. I have an account, the app didn't even show you your return till fairly recently.
Coinbase will die, even if crypto survives. But he's already taken out his millions.
