It depends on the company. A few companies have a terminal level that is approximately equivalent to Dropbox's IC3/IC4. This level does not involve managing people, but it does require owning projects that can span across several teams.
The boom _during_ Covid has been crazy, but I think it's still possible to get a FAANG job that will get you to the US. The other route would be joining a FAANG in the UK and then changing teams after 1-2 years.
I'm honestly not trying to nitpick, but the explanation "they do X because they can X" is not a good one. Being able to do X is a prerequisite for doing X, but it is not a sufficient condition. Why do they choose to, though? Perhaps, a part of it is vanity, but
> nothing to do with your skills
is a bit much. I might assure you, a FAANG interview requires certain skills[1], and it's easy to fail or be "downleveled" to a lower salary.
[1] - not to discourage anyone from trying to, you just need to put in some time and work.
I have trouble discerning the author's point exactly.
- Yes, you can't rely on open-source project going in the same direction as you want.
- Yes, any process involving people has a phycological and interpersonal component.
> To this day we read about the war and it feels distant[...]
> [..]don't get blindsided, especially in times of war[...]
I'm glad the author is not affected by the war, but I supposed it's fair to say that it is not hard for the author to stay unbiased (or it might be just indifferent).
My point would mainly be to spread awareness and share an experience and my interpretation of it, not "slander" and paint a target on my back by namecalling and divulging more information which doesn't serve a purpose beyond wanting clout under the assumption that the war does not affect myself and others around me.
That seems harder to solve, but if it becomes a problem; maybe using a keyboard with more resistive keys (which sounds counterintuitive) might enable you to rest your fingers on the keys in a more relaxt way.
"Seqs differ from iterators in that they are persistent and immutable, not stateful cursors into a collection. As such, they are useful for much more than foreach - functions can consume and produce seqs, they are thread safe, they can share structure etc."
(why I was in doubt, is because while immutable functional collections that clojure embaces are naturally thread-safe, there is an imperative aspect in creation of a lazy sequence from user provided function, and I was not sure clojure has to provide synchronization guarantees here)
> Did people end up eating potassium permanganate? I think that would be pretty toxic.
It is definitely toxic and dangerous. Yet, we used a very light solution of it (I'm thinking <0.1%, a very light shade of purple) to cause vomit reflex.
It depends on the company. A few companies have a terminal level that is approximately equivalent to Dropbox's IC3/IC4. This level does not involve managing people, but it does require owning projects that can span across several teams.