theshadowmonkey (u/theshadowmonkey)

theshadowmonkey commented on Flexport is rescinding a bunch of signed offer letters twitter.com/typesfast/sta... · Posted by u/lopkeny12ko

Aurornis · 2 years ago

This would be good advice in a world where rescinded offers are extremely common and employers refused to take people back after their 2 weeks notice.

However, the opposite is true: Rescinded offers are extremely rare. When it does happen at a company of reasonable size, it’s so surprising that it’s a headline like this one. We’re here talking about it because it’s an extraordinary occurrence, not a common thing that happens all the time.

When you over-index on rare risks like rescinded offers, you start to lose sight of what you risk by doing things like quitting jobs without notice. Your professional reputation may end up mattering more than you think some day, and disappearing from a job without notice is the kind of thing that people remember you for.

Refusing to give any notice because you might possibly have a 1-in-10,000 rescinded offer reminds me of my grandmother-in-law who refused to fly on an airplane out of fear of airplane crashes. She definitely avoided death by airplane crash, but in the process she missed out on a lot of vacations and family events.

Don’t overindex on the rare thing.

theshadowmonkey · 2 years ago

Not exactly true. Has happened with so many companies recently(Google, Amazon, Coinbase etc..,). And it hits most employees hard since they might be someone who just got laid off. This is even harder with people on visas who might be running out of time to find a new job or leave the country. Also, this happens more in a tougher economic climate where the people with rescinded offers are left in a really hard place. A lot of people on visas might have also planned their exits a few months before since visa transfer and everything takes a while. And lot of companies with hiring freezes will 100% refuse to give your job back.

theshadowmonkey commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2023) · Posted by u/whoishiring

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theshadowmonkey · 2 years ago

What is the cool off period if I already interviewed and got rejected?

theshadowmonkey commented on Tech companie use the H-1B visa program at a time of mass layoffs epi.org/blog/tech-and-out... · Posted by u/gadders

theshadowmonkey · 3 years ago

This is a wrong comparison. Most of the layoffs were in departments that H1B visa holders are not hired traditionally. Orgs like marketing and recruiting were disproportionally affected compared to engineering which hires the majority of H1B visa holders. The article is just trying to sensationalize while its business as normal in most places.

theshadowmonkey commented on Ask HN: Is the job market brutal? or is it just me? · Posted by u/nikhizzle

pkaler · 3 years ago

Hiring manager here with open REQs. I've been doing multiple phone screens daily, and it's been brutal on my end, too.

I structure the hour-long phone screen to be 1/3 coding, 1/3 behavioural questions, and 1/3 career growth and questions for me.

We rarely get out of the coding question block. It's a fairly simple question that ChatGPT solves easily. The tightest solution is about 10 lines of code. It can be answered either with iterative, recursive, or functional code. There is a general case, an empty case, and an exceptional case. It's the type of code I was able to write after completing CMPT 101. I had to change the question since it was so easily solvable by ChatGPT.

Engineers with years of experience at FAANG and similar companies cannot solve this straightforward problem. It's like, what have you been doing with your life? Did everyone do nothing during ZIRPy times and have accumulated years of rust that they now need to shake off?

theshadowmonkey · 3 years ago

Most leetcode hard or reasonably complex dynamic programming problems have 10 lines of code or less. It is coming up with the logic and solving for edge cases. Maybe its your confirmation bias that the problem is easy considering you have seen all iterations of it multiple times?

theshadowmonkey commented on Carta lays off 10% of the workforce · Posted by u/nvdnadj92

themitigating · 3 years ago

Seriously? Look at their other severance benefits.

Besides if you need an attorney for an immigration case it would be a massive amount of hours. The 30 minutes consultation is helpful to decide if you need to pursue a case.

I can't believe with all they are giving you still had to shit on it somehow.

theshadowmonkey · 3 years ago

I can tell you what your options are being on a visa for free. You dont need a 30 min consultation with an immigration attorney. Better benefit is instead of severance, keep employees on visa on payroll through that severance period.

theshadowmonkey commented on Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition) · Posted by u/zJayv

jansan · 3 years ago

I have been using IntelliJ IDEs since the early 2000s. Currently I am using WebStorm's (IntelliJ's small JS brother), and the local history feature in combination with the outstanding diff view are just one reason why I could not work without it.

theshadowmonkey · 3 years ago

Local history is a game changer. And live templates. The one I use is using a template to automatically put in console log with the context of where(line num and function name) when I type a shortcut like cl

theshadowmonkey commented on Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition) · Posted by u/zJayv

askvictor · 3 years ago

Having recently moved from IntelliJ to VS Code, I still miss a few things in the IntelliJ platform (it's overall layout is cleaner, important things are easy to get to), but VSCode has (last I checked) far superior remote debugging support, and is otherwise similar enough once you get past the muscle-memory.

theshadowmonkey · 3 years ago

Big thing I miss working on VS code and IntelliJ interchangeably. Local history of your changes. Huge differentiator while working on a lot of changes.

theshadowmonkey commented on JSX Mail: Ending All Your Problems When Creating Email Templates jsx-mail.org... · Posted by u/Theryston

theshadowmonkey · 3 years ago

I worked on a transactional email infrastructure where we used to send 50k-100k emails at a time and a few million a day. We used inky and juice to customize email generation and caching partial templates using inky worked out well at scale. Only problem was with all the fallbacks, some emails used to get large enough and gmail used to clip them at the bottom. https://get.foundation/emails/docs/inky.html

Not sure if the framework is as advanced. But, seems to solve a lot of basic issues. Surprising that providers like sparkpost or ses are not able to solve generation at scale problem with templates.

theshadowmonkey commented on Ask HN: What was life like before and after a baby · Posted by u/xupybd

igetspam · 3 years ago

I'd like to join the "congratulations" crowd but I just can't. Having a kid has made many aspects of my life more difficult and ultimately worse. I've lost countless hours of sleep, my focus is worse, my personal relationships are failing... life is just not as good as it used to be. I have been remote for nearly a decade and I long for the days of working in an office again. I don't miss the people, I miss the peace of having everyone around me working with noise canceling headphones and only knowing people are there when they make it obvious they want to talk and only then because there's a problem to solve that is actually solvable.

I'm not saying his to rain on your parade. I'm saying this because not all people are created equal. You don't have to like parenthood. I love my kid but that doesn't mean that I love what I've become. If you find yourself there (or if anyone else is reading this and thinking they can't believe I'm saying it out loud), it's okay. You can still be a good parent, even if you don't love it and you're not a bad person, as long as you try.

theshadowmonkey · 3 years ago

Something I experienced with a relatively young kid(2 years) and staying home and watching her grow up was really nice. But, I rethink or feel regret when she is sick crying all night and my head is pounding. I realized this feeling quickly goes away and you'll only remember the good moments with your kids and learn to love them unconditionally.

theshadowmonkey commented on Ask HN: Where to meet people who are interested in building a company together? · Posted by u/swman

jjguy · 3 years ago

Join an existing startup in the same field. Not only will you learn a lot - on someone else’s dime - but you will meet plenty of people hungry to do the same.

theshadowmonkey · 3 years ago

If you are an engineer, you'll just keep shipping and learn nothing and get paid peanuts while being told you're having the best time of your life working 16 hour days with no life. This is something I dont advise most people. If you live in a place like SF or NYC, unless you're a founder or in the first 5-10 employees, having significant equity, joining a well established company will make you a lot more money and you can still pursue your passions on the side.