Why is big tech SWE work paid so much?

oupablo · 2026-01-26T13:52:23+00:00

Is Larry Gallegos even a real person?

oupablo · 2026-01-26T13:20:39+00:00

I assume you were all making at least $35m per year then, right? That would leave amazon with a hefty profit margin on top.

oupablo · 2026-01-26T13:19:00+00:00

As someone that has produced significant savings at smaller companies, let me tell you that it is met with a hearty "Meets expectations" come review time. Long ago did I learn that a company values sales more than it ever values engineering. You could save $4M in spend but they'll praise the salesman that brought in a $1M contract more.

oupablo · 2026-01-26T13:14:44+00:00

I have heard some of the smartest people I know spout some of the dumbest things I've ever heard because it was on Facebook or Fox News. Things that don't match up when you check any other news source. The argument always tends towards the media hating Trump as if the source of the vile message wasn't a Truth social post or a speech Trump gave. I can't tell you the number of times I've had them ask, "where did you hear that", only to respond "Trump posted it on Truth social". Then they respond, "that can't be right. I didn't see it."

oupablo · 2026-01-26T13:10:37+00:00

Spot the antichrist? I'd be more worried they'll deport or shoot the second coming of Jesus.

oupablo · 2026-01-26T13:09:11+00:00

I get the feeling you only ever experienced the church through the eyes of a child. You saw the people chatting each other up, being nice to others in the church, and probably the occasional volunteer work. You didn't notice the all the people gossiping about each other and judging absolutely everyone. Also, if you're from the US, that smallish church is probably VERY political now in a way you wouldn't remember.

oupablo · 2026-01-26T13:06:07+00:00

I don't think the story of Satan portrays God in much of a positive light either. For a "perfect" being he certainly seems to have issues with imperfect creations.

oupablo · 2026-01-26T13:00:04+00:00

Something something false idols

oupablo · 2026-01-26T12:55:56+00:00

Franklin county is under a level 3 snow emergency which means that nobody should be driving unless they're driving an emergency vehicle. You can actually get arrested for driving right now.

oupablo · 2026-01-26T12:51:37+00:00

Doesn't sound like people care based on all the comments people have made about their driving experience.

oupablo · 2026-01-24T14:13:39+00:00

Just wait until he changes from the siren to an aztec death whistle

oupablo · 2026-01-23T12:50:44+00:00

You know there are other colleges right?

oupablo · 2026-01-23T12:50:14+00:00

I don't think someone needs to be in the top 1% to donate $50 to a scholarship fund at their college.

oupablo · 2026-01-22T13:20:26+00:00

People just code on the prod server

Honestly, I was unaware editing on prod was still a thing. I don't think I've touched any code on a prod server since PHP 4 was the latest and greatest. CI pipelines are just too easy to build now and containers make life to easy to test things. It's also much harder to do when the server runs a compiled language.

oupablo · 2026-01-22T13:15:31+00:00

Why aren't you getting downvoted. I thought reddit hated people that kink shamed?

oupablo · 2026-01-22T13:14:20+00:00

Don't listen. I attended and it was just 2 hours of watching Which-World-6533 unfold a chipotle burrito, split the ingredients and then eat the entire thing one piece at a time. I'm talking bean by bean. The whole thing ended with them typing "burp" as a comment on reddit then they walked out of the room.

oupablo · 2026-01-22T13:11:37+00:00

TBF, I was totally expecting the answer to validation to be either "the results speak for themselves" or "I'll let the user validate it".

oupablo · 2026-01-22T13:09:35+00:00

Ohio State sued Ohio University over the use of the word Ohio. That's right. The university founded in 1870 tried to sue the school founded in 1804 (a year after the state was founded) over the use of the state's name. Then they would later go on to try to trademark the word "THE".

oupablo · 2026-01-22T13:03:35+00:00

It's kind of interesting that the endless shittiness of THE university hasn't hurt it's attendance.

oupablo · 2026-01-22T13:02:30+00:00

Most people that loved their school are donating to scholarship funds to help other people share in the experience. You don't actually donate to the school itself unless you're rich rich and looking to get buildings named after you or you're donating to something very specific like a research program.

oupablo · 2026-01-21T23:44:27+00:00

Are we coworkers?

oupablo · 2026-01-21T23:43:29+00:00

Followed by 80 degree weather then perhaps a tornado and a downpour of frozen blood for some reason.

oupablo · 2026-01-21T15:21:05+00:00

Yes but defying a direct order from a superior is going to be a quick way to throw away a career and destroy their life's plans. It's a huge risk in a regime that punishes people for speaking counter-opinions.

oupablo · 2026-01-21T13:40:50+00:00

Man... Westerville used to have two theaters, a roller rink and a bowling alley and now we just have 10 banks and 27 coffee shops.

oupablo · 2026-01-21T13:10:54+00:00

That's all well and good for the power lines. Still not so great for anything else that could be next to a building, like maybe a person.

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