By domino Go To Postwhat were yall takeaways from that?That most people didn't get there because they are smart or talented, they got there because of luck and severe cases of dunning-kruger.
Not saying it applies holistically but con artists don't just grift in private. Many might be a CEO.
By pkaz01 Go To PostWhat was she supposed to say exactly? A company having a culture or mission is a scam?
Idk man just pay me.
*sigh*
man I really do not feel like updating my linkedin and getting back out on the hunt but it’s time.
tired of everyone else here just being allowed to suck at their jobs and making my life hard.
man I really do not feel like updating my linkedin and getting back out on the hunt but it’s time.
tired of everyone else here just being allowed to suck at their jobs and making my life hard.
By Lunatic Go To PostGot my little 10k bonus and some restricted stock units. Not a bad year I would say.
By Daz Go To PostJust handed in my month's notice.Yay?? Got anything else lined up?
Now I feel an existential dread.
By Lunatic Go To PostGot my little 10k bonus and some restricted stock units. Not a bad year I would say.
Yessir!
We do quarterly reviews / bonuses here. Just had my Q4 review, bonus also in the 5 figure range
And then you calculate the taxes
By Smokey Go To PostYessir!Crocodile tears
We do quarterly reviews / bonuses here. Just had my Q4 review, bonus also in the 5 figure range
And then you calculate the taxes
By Batong Go To PostYay?? Got anything else lined up?I do.
By Smokey Go To PostYessir!
We do quarterly reviews / bonuses here. Just had my Q4 review, bonus also in the 5 figure range
And then you calculate the taxes
By domino Go To PostTaxes have really taken the shine out of making more money. The republicans are right I’m sorry.What's this thing you call 'tax'?
Why are so many tech companies laying people off right now?Good question
Didn’t they just have record-breaking profits?
The answer is that investors have changed how they’re evaluating companies, says Michael Cusumano, the deputy dean at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Generally, when companies are growing really fast — like when revenue is shooting up 20 percent or 30 percent a year — nobody cares about profits, Cusumano says. But we’re not in a growth period right now, so investors are being more cautious.Ah, gotta protect the shareholders.
Tech companies have “tens of billions, often hundreds of billions of dollars, collectively, in reserves,” Cusumano says. “But they don’t really use that to support operations.” When an investor is reading an earnings statement, those reserves aren’t what they’re thinking about, either. One measure people use for measuring tech companies’ investment value is revenue per employee — and having hired all this staff during the pandemic, that means revenue per employee has gone down.
So I called up someone who’s been studying this kind of thing for a long time: Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. When I asked him about the similarities in the company statements, his answer was succinct: the tech companies are copying each other. “I think Peter Drucker [who is widely known as a father of management thinking] was quoted as saying something to the effect of ... thinking is hard work, which is why most managers don’t do it,” Pfeffer told me.ding
Layoffs probably don’t cut costs, Pfeffer says. In fact, there is little empirical evidence that layoffs help improve profitability, and some evidence they actually hurt profitability, he says. “Oftentimes, companies don’t have a cost problem,” Pfeffer says. “They have a revenue problem. And cutting employees will not increase your revenue. It will probably decrease it.”
So why do layoffs at all if they don’t actually work? “People do all kinds of stupid things all the time,” Pfeffer says. “I don’t know why you’d expect managers to be any different.”accurate
By domino Go To PostTaxes have really taken the shine out of making more money. The republicans are right I’m sorry."After school programs, roads, and public services" look funny in the light now
Really is tragic.
Also a reminder that you really not making it until you can take full advantage of those loopholes
Also a reminder that you really not making it until you can take full advantage of those loopholes
Someone on my team is leaving so there’s going to be an opening. It’s a permanent role with higher all in, benefits, etc. I would think it’ll be mine because the other dude who started same as me has 10 years experience and got the previous permanent opening. Fingers crossed m8s.
If you don't get it start looking cause chances are you will get offered the same elsewhere or at current employer when they find out you may be leaving.
By reilo Go To PostGood question
Ah, gotta protect the shareholders.
ding
accurate
This is a terrible post.
I assume this is with other support staff? You have to lay out exactly what you require from them with approval from your manager. That way it is on the data provider to do their job correctly otherwise it reflects on them for bad work product.
Other support staff and defining processes in general. Like for example we have a promotional product we provide (and have provided on paper at least, since 2014 long before I got here) that nobody actually knows how to execute and most people have never even seen before apparently.
So silly me offers it to land a contract and when it’s time to execute our internal people are like “oh I’ve never heard of that” “I don’t even know what that looks like” “we offer that?? Hmmm weird” and I have to go fishing in the dark to source and deliver this shit. So we really just had some shit on the books with no actual process of getting it hoping nobody ever said yeah I want that. I have a million of these situations.
So silly me offers it to land a contract and when it’s time to execute our internal people are like “oh I’ve never heard of that” “I don’t even know what that looks like” “we offer that?? Hmmm weird” and I have to go fishing in the dark to source and deliver this shit. So we really just had some shit on the books with no actual process of getting it hoping nobody ever said yeah I want that. I have a million of these situations.
*acquires Slack for $27.7b*
"fuck how are we gonna pay for this?"
"what about our shareholder dividends?"
"i know!"
By domino Go To Postwhat's the professional way to say yall need to make my job easierHand in your notice.
Running a business is the hardest thing ive ever done or I should say trying to scale and maintain productivity/profit.
Overall, it is a soft peacetime culture where nothing is worth fighting for. The people who are inclined to fight on behalf of customers or new ideas or creativity soon learn the downside of doing so. By definition, there is a disincentive to go above and beyond, and your peers and managers will look askance if you try to. You are expected to perform to the definitions of your level in your career ladder, as defined in a very rigidly defined ladder system. A L5 software engineer is expected to do certain things and will be evaluated to that rubric. The word “customer” is not part of that rubric, so don’t you bother supporting customers and don’t expect to be appreciated if you do. Don’t bother being innovative or doing something that wasn’t in the official plan set six months ago, because even if you did, your managers will not line up the associated dev, PM, Pgm, UX, docs, legal, and marketing resources to make it launchable anyway. However, your code better be well-formatted (the dev ladder expects that!) and make sure you have a lot of checkins (exactly what they do doesn’t really matter to anyone). Just wait two years, you’ll be promoted, and you can move onto a different team within Google. It’s just like Noam Bardin from Waze said — although every individual is well intentioned, the system has its own dynamic. And in this system, nothing is worth fighting for.
Within Google, there is a collective delusion that the company is exceptional. And as is the case in all such delusions, the deluded ones are just mortals standing on the shoulders of the truly exceptional people who went before them and created an environment of wild success. Eventually, the exceptional environment starts to fade, but the lingering delusion has abolished humility among the mere mortals who remain. You don’t wake up everyday thinking about how you should be doing better and how your customers deserve better and how you could be working better. Instead, you believe that things you are doing already are so perfect that they are the only way to do it. Propaganda becomes important internally and externally. When new people join your company, you indoctrinate them. You insist on doing things because “that’s the way we do it at Google”.
Google has unarguably antiquated internal processes. It is almost as though the company is stuck in a time warp from two decades ago, with waterfall planning processes. If all the senior managers in a team spend one month in every six planning, and one month goes on vacations and one month goes doing performance reviews, there’s suddenly just about enough time to do a reorg and change in strategy once a year, right? Nothing gets done, no problem, no risk — hand out the promos and bonuses and keep going.https://medium.com/@pravse/the-maze-is-in-the-mouse-980c57cfd61a
Working at Google sounds like retirement. Good for anyone that can get in, if true, it sounds like a working culture of lowered expectations where noone fails.
And oof at the last one I pasted
I found out today that in a few weeks I’ll be transitioning to a new team and this will be the first time I’ve had a manager younger than me. Feels weird to be honest but I guess it had to happen at some point.
Feels like every year I think about going to school seriously and it burns me out before I even step foot on a campus
Some TSMC engineers said they were concerned about how the Arizona factory would blend American and Taiwanese employees. In Taiwan, engineers work long hours and weekend shifts, joking that they “sell liver” to work for the chip manufacturer, they said. Such sacrifices may be less appealing to employees in the United States, they said.Haha very funny. Labor exploitation is hilarious.
“The most difficult thing about wafer manufacturing is not technology,” he said. “The most difficult thing is personnel management. Americans are the worst at this, because Americans are the most difficult to manage.”https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/technology/tsmc-arizona-factory-tensions.html
Three TSMC employees who trained American engineers said it was difficult to standardize practices among them. While Taiwanese workers unquestioningly follow what they are told to do, American employees challenged managers, questioning if there might be better methods, they said.
Some Americans struggled when assigned multiple tasks, sometimes rejecting a new assignment instead of working harder to complete everything, one TSMC engineer in Arizona said.
Thanks for running PR for TSMC, NYT by painting American workers as "unmanageable" for not allowing themselves to be exploited.
My company finally announced 401k matching that I've been asking about for almost 5 years.
$750 match. Per year.
$750 match. Per year.
By reilo Go To PostMy company finally announced 401k matching that I've been asking about for almost 5 years.Just found out my company silently killed Paid Bonding leave for Parents last October and announced it in a muddy ass way in a weekly company roundup email.
$750 match. Per year.
A lot of companies are forcing people back into the office but I just found out that our local office is closing down since we're all WFH and there's no point to keep paying for the building. I can't see myself ever going back to the pre-pandemic ways.
Gf made this for school using my Gunpla models as reference. It was her first time in a decade using markers to draw:
We’re having a big re-org at work and our backend team is being split up.
Everyone else: “You’re being placed in 1 of 2 teams with other backend devs and some front end devs”
Me: “You’re being placed on this other team and you’ll be the only backend dev and we also want you to rewrite this application you’ve never heard of.”
Oof man. I’m not looking for a promotion I just want to get through the day and pay my bills.
Everyone else: “You’re being placed in 1 of 2 teams with other backend devs and some front end devs”
Me: “You’re being placed on this other team and you’ll be the only backend dev and we also want you to rewrite this application you’ve never heard of.”
Oof man. I’m not looking for a promotion I just want to get through the day and pay my bills.
By DY_nasty Go To Postbet on yourself, you don't need everyone to like you just the right people to love you, fuck linear career progression entirely, everything is actually logistics, etc
and more than anything else you just get away from crowds happy with circling the drain or stagnation. people get stuck, then rationalize it, then years fly by and its over.
I spent like 10 minutes writing the above paragraph out, then I realized it's literally what I already do every day. I'm happy with what I do, and see the future I want 5 years from now. I literally have a 5 year plan 😳 what the ACTUAL fuck lol
Also go to school DY
By Perfect Blue Go To PostSomeone on my team is leaving so there’s going to be an opening. It’s a permanent role with higher all in, benefits, etc. I would think it’ll be mine because the other dude who started same as me has 10 years experience and got the previous permanent opening. Fingers crossed m8s.lmaooooo I didn't get it.
They're giving it to an external candidate with 14 years of experience in similar roles. Ah well, can't really compete with that. We move, lads.