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Which companies actually have good WLB? (Blind)

• dSCa30 (Apple): Genuinely dont understand people in this industry not realizing big tech is called big for a reason. These are companies with thousands of teams, dozens of orgs, tens of thousands of engineers. Every company has teams with good WLB, it is genuinely all team and org dependent. Ive known people at Amazon with great WLB, people say apple has good WLB my team does not (sadly) its ALL team dependent
• FioU70 (State Farm): Being at State Farm is like not having a job. Great WLB
• airfam69 (Airbnb): Google, Bloomberg, Airbnb (worked at all 3)

Anthropic asking candidates what if stock drops to 0 (Blind)

• theepwood (Airbnb): They’re going to wind up hiring a bunch of sociopaths who are good at lying.
• DYLY82 (Airbnb): The correct answer is to flip the question back to them and ask what they would do with me if the stock went to \$0. Any guesses on how generous that answer would be?
• noucant (Pocket Gems): The real answer is that if the equity value goes to 0, society is signaling they no longer find Anthropic valuable or view it as becoming valuable in the future, meaning Anthropic has failed in their mission

I got PIPed to feed my colleague’s rewards at MSFT (Blind)

• 0x18A92 (Microsoft): It’s not your colleagues fault the system is rigged. Blame leadership not your peers. They want us to blame each other instead of them.
• pissedoff2 (Instacart): Everybody who talk like this on blind, I guarantee you they are nightmares to work with.
• bowlout (Twilio): I used to think in similar ways. Like I do the work, yet someone who does less, gets more recognition than me. Then I put myself in my manager’s shoes and to understand the system. Managers want someone who will make their life easier. If you’re marketing your work and networking, it makes their life easier to make a case for your promotion to their manager, else they don’t want to work hard searching and making a case.

Bernie Sanders to Introduce Bill Banning Flock Surveillance Cameras (r/technology)

• DeadMoneyDrew: What we really need is a constitutional amendment establishing a fundamental right to privacy.
• SchemataObscura: Flock only or would it cover the same MO from different companies?
• notJ3ff: Okay everyone, this is a test. We all know that everyone wants this, so let’s see if we can make it happen.

Andrew Garfield Opens Up About Playing Sam Altman in ‘Artificial,’ Says OpenAI Is Doing ‘Damage to the Soul of Humanity’ (r/technology)

• bwoah07_gp2: Sam Altman’s gonna love hearing that lol 😆
• DuztyLipz: They can never make me hate Andrew Garfield
• Enderkr: Why the fuck are we making biopics about random douchebag tech bros that are still alive? Biopics should be reserved for people who have radically changed the world in a positive way.