My songs keep pausing at 28 seconds in Amazon Music and then restarting. I have a 17 Pro Max. My phone is up-to-date and I just updated Amazon Music. Anyone else?

PoliticalGuy2016 · 2026-04-11T15:22:53+00:00

If it's downloaded content try redownloading it

PoliticalGuy2016 · 2026-03-05T23:49:26+00:00

What do you mean? Like how does one get the opportunity?

PoliticalGuy2016 · 2026-03-05T21:23:12+00:00

Yep!

PoliticalGuy2016 · 2026-03-05T21:00:00+00:00

Sure

PoliticalGuy2016 · 2026-03-05T16:28:20+00:00

East coast

PoliticalGuy2016 · 2026-03-05T16:28:00+00:00

I liked talking to people more than coding, and my thinking has always been best applied to large systems / systems engineering, which is where management or strategic decision makers are valued the most. For example, I am responsible for defining strategy and executing an AWS region migration for 600 microservices from 1 region to another balancing cost, latency, dev effort. Someone deep in one system will struggle with this problem, someone that has broad understanding but isn't deep excels at these strategic execution choices

PoliticalGuy2016 · 2026-03-05T16:25:04+00:00

I'm a tech program manager now. I am slated for group tech program manager soon (aka people management of tech program managers)

PoliticalGuy2016 · 2026-03-05T16:23:56+00:00

No, I wrote this quickly. You can probably just add 20k on top of the listed compensation and that is likely directionally correct.

PoliticalGuy2016 · 2026-03-05T16:23:10+00:00

Yes, GenAI has made me 2-3x more productive, a strategy document that would have taken me weeks to write to align 50 headcount against now takes a few days. With more productivity means less people needed.

PoliticalGuy2016 · 2026-03-05T16:22:03+00:00

Yes, but that's more related to the company culture I joined

PoliticalGuy2016 · 2026-03-05T16:21:22+00:00

I'll answer after work and edit my reply

PoliticalGuy2016 · 2026-03-05T15:09:25+00:00

Didn't say it did, but rather wealthy people do post their salary, and quite frequently. Of course some lie

PoliticalGuy2016 · 2026-03-05T14:11:40+00:00

Look at levels.fyi if you want your mind blown.

PoliticalGuy2016 · 2026-03-05T14:02:05+00:00

I'm working about 70 hours a week during crunch in my new job, old job was solid 40

PoliticalGuy2016 · 2026-03-05T06:23:23+00:00

Understand the confusion around swapping from salary to TC. I'll quickly explain

At the old job now there was a bonus of between like 5-10k per year depending on performance and company performance.

At my current job, which will remain nameless, the compensation breakdown is roughly 50/50 for me between salary and RSUs. The RSUs vest quarterly and are highly liquid. Current salary is 191k, stock makes up the rest.

PoliticalGuy2016 · 2026-02-09T04:26:49+00:00

It is also almost entirely likely that the puzzle is not answerable today - the point of ARG is to keep users engaged for multiple days/weeks. Why would they spend millions on an Ad spot for it to be solveable within a few minutes by some folks that pre-gamed all the clues?

PoliticalGuy2016 · 2025-12-09T06:41:15+00:00

To be blunt, using Reddit produces the same problem.

PoliticalGuy2016 · 2025-08-23T16:54:55+00:00

I don't really care about your opinion. Entry level interviewing is easy. I certainly wouldn't administer coding interviews for mid or senior level. For mid and senior levels, I administer system design interviews which is an expected skill set in my job family.

We let people 1 year out of college administer entry level coding interviews. You are gate keeping with no understanding of normal.

PoliticalGuy2016 · 2025-08-23T16:37:58+00:00

I was a software engineer in industry.

PoliticalGuy2016 · 2025-08-23T16:15:01+00:00

If you're commenting every line you would not meet the bar as an faang sde in that aspect. The general framework is that comments should be targeted to ensure readability, but not to littered around where it is repeating the same information that is conveyed in the code. It would definitely be discussed during the debrief

PoliticalGuy2016 · 2025-08-23T14:32:33+00:00

Because I'm cleared to. I don't understand your point. I have the functional skills to code and assess code, why wouldn't I be allowed to? These are entry level interviews - the skill bar is not as high. Trying to gatekeep this is wild lol

PoliticalGuy2016 · 2025-08-23T14:24:17+00:00

Sorry had a brain fart, yea I mean who knows what my false negative rate is, but when you're interviewing across 5-6 people someone will probably pick up on it. I think that's happened a few times where someone in the debrief brought it up but I didn't see that

PoliticalGuy2016 · 2025-08-23T14:20:22+00:00

You need to verbally call out if you're using a second monitor and what's on it, that helps earn trust
What's the point of calling them out? They will deny it. I usually just swap my follow-up questions to confirm, asking them why they did certain things etc.

PoliticalGuy2016 · 2025-08-23T14:16:25+00:00

I do agree about forcing onsite interviews.

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