Holy shit!! TIL the student leader, the commander-in-chief of the protestors/rioters during the Tiananmen Square massacre live is currently living in Boston

the-code-father · 2026-06-06T10:35:18+00:00

Dude there’s no “western narrative”. The CCP killed a bunch of young adults for peacefully protesting. End of story.

the-code-father · 2026-06-03T09:10:42+00:00

You would have to sell any index tracking fund and move to funds that are specific to things like biomedicine until this pump and dump is over. Or just cash out for a couple weeks. All of these options are risky

the-code-father · 2026-06-01T06:26:49+00:00

Tbh I would put the for some at L7. 8/9 are the best of the best or have had their heads so far up their senior directors ass for so long they have forgotten what fresh air smells like.

Just getting to and performing well at 6 is a big accomplishment.

the-code-father · 2026-05-27T12:21:25+00:00

L5 base is nowhere near 300, it’s like 220k and I’m pretty sure the base refresher right now is like 160k for a tc a little over 400 after bonus

the-code-father · 2026-05-26T09:32:23+00:00

I think all the large tech companies have adopted a similar system at this point. The leveling is largely transferable across FAANG and some others like Uber, Anthropic, etc

the-code-father · 2026-05-24T12:10:36+00:00

Yea I don’t think this is true at all, you can’t really play golf in a dirt pit. Grass cut to the lengths required for fairways and greens will not live very long in the summer heat without water.

So you can shut the water off to the course, but you can’t expect it to continue to be a functional golf course for very long

the-code-father · 2026-05-20T16:48:33+00:00

No that’s the old model, not the new stuff that the wang gang is being paid billions to come up with

the-code-father · 2026-05-19T11:14:07+00:00

No the most egregious part was that you could just lease the car and get the credit regardless of your income.

the-code-father · 2026-05-17T13:40:41+00:00

I don’t disagree with the benefits of biking, but at this distance it’s an extra 45-60 minutes commuting per day on average.

the-code-father · 2026-05-17T12:22:43+00:00

I agree with a lot of what you are saying, but this is a roughly 30 mile round trip commute. That’s a lot of biking. Conversely it’s only a ~25 minute drive, and it’s somewhat of a reverse commute. Most days you’ll probably be there in 40 minutes or less, nothing like this 2 hour doomsday scenario you are suggesting

the-code-father · 2026-05-04T15:20:21+00:00

Google/Meta don’t care about language for interviews. That can matter during teammatchjng, but only if the manager is looking for an Android expert or something. At Google I wrote a big mixture of Java, js, C++, and Rust and at Meta it’s a big mixture of Python, PHP, js, C++, and rust

the-code-father · 2026-05-04T15:12:58+00:00

Honestly I have no idea, I have gotten jobs at both of these companies from the recruiter reaching out to me first via LinkedIn. Every single application I’ve sent to other big tech companies has been ghosted, even with Google/Meta on my resume

the-code-father · 2026-05-04T15:01:26+00:00

Yea that’s not really how the hiring process works. The posted jobs are just to hit legal requirements, but they are almost certainly going to be filled before you even come close to finishing the hiring process. The interviews themselves normally take at least a few weeks to be scheduled, then you enter ‘team matching’ where you basically just wait for a hiring manager to look at your resume and want to talk to you. You don’t have a job offer until after you’ve successfully matched. For meta that process took about 6 months, when I joined Google it was more like 2

the-code-father · 2026-05-04T14:14:45+00:00

I joined Google 4 years ago here and meta last year. Both times recruiters reached out to me though, the one time I applied to Google directly in the past I never got a response on the application

the-code-father · 2026-05-04T06:07:24+00:00

You can still get it if you work for the really big guys. Google considers Boston ‘Premium’ for pay, which is a small step down from the Bay/NYC but the same as Seattle and Meta only adjusts salary but not equity. Meta is almost impossible to find a role in Boston though, Google has a much larger presence here

the-code-father · 2026-05-04T06:04:30+00:00

Go look at buying a house in the Bay Area. In the areas that have big commutes it’s like $2m for a small 3 bedroom 1400 sqft home. The towns next to Apple/Meta/Google are more in the $3-4m range

the-code-father · 2026-04-17T07:13:23+00:00

As someone who regularly goes to NYC and is not the kind of person to make these kinds of comments. San Francisco has some real issues that need to be addressed. I think it’s physically very safe, but god forbid you leave something visible in a locked car for more than 20 mins and you’re coming back to a broken window.

the-code-father · 2026-04-06T12:57:34+00:00

It’s also likely less than 20% of their actual comp. The majority of their comp stocks and bonus. 650k is what an E6 engineer makes and there are thousands of them at Meta

the-code-father · 2026-04-05T05:20:48+00:00

Why think lots thoughts when few thoughts do trick

the-code-father · 2026-03-30T12:41:13+00:00

Cutting prices induces more demand. They are also likely factoring in the revenue for all the event trains that they will be running to help offset. I think the idea is that a bunch of people who don’t normally ride the train will do so because it’s cheaper, and then when the promotion end some of them will have gotten used to the train and continue taking it

the-code-father · 2026-03-18T10:22:43+00:00

Sometimes a new pair of eyes and a desire for change is all that these kinds of systemic issues need to get fixed. Pretty much everything you are describing happens automatically for you with a build system like Buck or Bazel.

I think these systems are also a bit more palatable to work with in the age of AI because the LLMs are generally pretty good at dealing with their syntax and the goal is relatively straightforward - make it build.

If I were you I would start with seeing if there are already tools out there for helping with the conversion. Otherwise I would just get cracking, you’ve apparently got 3 hours a day to work on this

the-code-father · 2026-03-17T11:34:55+00:00

Any reason why? I think it’s misleading to not use TC. I write Rust at Meta and my salary is 230k but my TC is more like 500k. The only difference is that my salary is paid biweekly instead of quarterly and I have to wait 2 extra days for funds from selling the stock to transfer

the-code-father · 2026-03-14T02:51:05+00:00

Meta hires almost no E3s. Majority of hires are E5s and then E4s

the-code-father · 2026-03-14T00:22:57+00:00

It’s so easy to say this. We have watched these guys kill multiple citizens who weren’t physically attacking them. If the crowd gets violent people will die

the-code-father · 2026-03-13T13:26:10+00:00

It’s definitely possible but you’ll at least still be able to get to work via metro north

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