Hello fellow hubber? We still deploy new services using AWS or our own internal datacenters. Projects, for instance, is still run on k8s, not AKS. AE development was complicated from the start due to azure capacity, so much so that a tiger team went back to building it from scratch without azure.
and for a point of reference, I am a mixed race female engineer. So don't assume I'm some "white male bigot" boogeyman and address the facts of the point I'm presenting here.
I never said they (we) are less qualified, I was referring to the action of hiring a less qualified person based on the fact that they are a minority or a woman. When this happens, it angers EVERY more qualified person in the position. I'll break it down.
Candidate A is a white male with all qualifications.
Candidate B is a black woman with far less, but is more "diverse".
When candidate B is hired, the others in the organization soon figure out they are less skilled or qualified. Then the white males in the marketplace have resentment towards them, BUT so does the black woman with great skills and qualifications who saw someone with less qualifications hired beside them, making the same wage as them.
But that is already how it works for quite a few white male engineers.
How many of us have had to work with "that guy" who interviews really well, but sucks at his job and coast for 6 months before people finally realise how rubbish at his job he is and he finally gets the boot. In more extreme cases they even get promoted over you and become your manager in spite of their incompetence.
The part that really hurt my non-american sensibilities is when the letter points out a cost of 12cts/kWh.
I wish my electricity was that cheap.
As for the main point itself, I can imagine the intent was to make sure supercharger station are actually available for someone on a long distance trip, but it is quite poorly worded.
> The part that really hurt my non-american sensibilities is when the letter points out a cost of 12cts/kWh.
That's commercial/industrial pricing. If Solar City is able to obtain status as a generator that can sell power on the open market (combining rooftops into blocks for firm generation using controlled release of power to the grid from sunlight stored in PowerWalls), they'll be able to "sell" power to Tesla at a much lower rate.
As a residential customer in Illinois, my cost is 6cents/kwh, and as low as 1cent/kwh between midnight and 5am.
On occasion, yes. I've done OOO both of trading desks and ecommerce operations, very high pressure - and with the added bonus that you're having to answer the phone to angry people while working on a technical fix.
It's called support hell for a reason - but what this guy's wife describes isn't extraordinary. It sounds like most mission critical support roles.
I actually did a similar thing as an ops guy (debugging systems as described in some questions) and really liked the concept. On the other hand I work on mathematical riddles for fun so maybe I'm the core target for those.
It doesn't replace face to face interviews but I can see it as a good example of "how would face this real life situation you would encounter if you got the job?"
Which is why outages usually match Azure outages.