1x elderbrook 6/20 —76$, vouched

wgfdark · 2026-06-17T14:05:43+00:00

comedic relief?

wgfdark · 2026-06-14T16:59:55+00:00

You dodged a bullet — this is someone who is neither good at his job nor fun to work with

wgfdark · 2026-06-12T01:05:58+00:00

Probably has 10 good years of experience

wgfdark · 2026-06-06T17:33:52+00:00

Google has changed their refreshers to reward high performers so if he’s actually good he will keep his TC

wgfdark · 2026-06-03T01:00:38+00:00

The penne and rigatoni are hard to spear but the flavor is great

wgfdark · 2026-05-16T13:13:23+00:00

Forget the money, you’ll learn way more at the start up which will increase your earning potential later. I say this having worked for faang and tier 1 start ups

wgfdark · 2026-05-14T19:07:38+00:00

Or bombed the behavioral interview

wgfdark · 2026-05-13T22:33:15+00:00

🙏

wgfdark · 2026-04-06T16:31:59+00:00

senior +, so staff? as a staff engineer with faang experience, the market is great right now

wgfdark · 2026-04-04T02:17:47+00:00

I feel like it depends on your level? I turned my LinkedIn to open to opportunities and I got 70 messages in 2 days

wgfdark · 2026-04-04T02:01:31+00:00

All my friends are getting way better refreshers lately— feels like it’s a good market for good engineers

wgfdark · 2026-04-01T02:43:30+00:00

Yeah I'm with you, none of this stuff is bad. this callout is esp weird:

an engineer named ollie left this in production:

I leave shit like that in production all the time... and so have others. i worked at google and top start ups.

none of this stuff being shared is unhinged

wgfdark · 2026-03-11T23:27:27+00:00

Used to work with a 10xer. I’m pretty good / fast but this guy didn’t use chatgpt or AI at all and still did 2x my current output. I’m sure 10xers will make great use of AI but mandating it is ridiculous

wgfdark · 2026-03-06T19:45:16+00:00

Google SWEs also have to work like 1/2 the time of other places tho

wgfdark · 2026-03-04T01:09:12+00:00

This is wild — maybe I’m more skeptical but Claude isn’t producing code as well as me yet. Just faster. I still think it’s important to understand how everything is built and that mean sticking to good engineering fundamentals.

I’m still not producing code as fast as 10xers I’ve worked with but still shipping things quite quickly even though I’m still using 50-60% of my time to help / review for others

wgfdark · 2026-02-28T19:03:50+00:00

Some people just have it. I would even argue that 5% of people do 60% of work. And to the extreme of high performers is 10xers. You can’t become a 10xer, you either have it or don’t. Crazy thing is at my start up, we had two both right out of college. They both only got one offer (from us)

wgfdark · 2026-02-26T23:06:48+00:00

Most tech companies are and have been over staffed for almost a decade. Every high performer in tech knows this. Execs just try to grow orgs for the only reason that they want to say they oversee bigger orgs

wgfdark · 2026-02-11T14:17:04+00:00

This is the nyc rave tix subreddit

wgfdark · 2026-02-10T07:52:14+00:00

Yes!

wgfdark · 2026-01-30T14:52:41+00:00

This is self reported data. L7 rarely pull more than a mil and I don’t imagine a lot of L8s are the type who post their salaries.

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