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If you left tech, what are you doing now? (Blind)
- k1ngG (LinkedIn): Seriously considering leaving tech. That means likely retirement. Just a bit scared to pull the plug.
- fItf61 (Thomson Reuters): I would buy a business currently run by a boomer and add my technical skills to it and hopefully get an edge over competitors. The businesses I really like are simple service ones. Power washing driveway, cleaning gutters, window cleaning, pest control, etc. Putting those services under one LLC and scaling it with tech.
- slackerswe (Microsoft): I am looking at nursing personally. Can’t go to school so long for being a doctor. Burn out rates for nurse is pretty bad but I won’t be criticized and told to “focus on your own impact” when I help people. Also don’t have to come up with metrics or send broad emails about what I do every 4 months or whatever
People who work around extremely wealthy colleagues (Blind)
- sopsi (Microsoft): There are ppl in Microsoft who own 5 rental houses in prime Bellevue locations and they still live like they’re penniless Costco clothes, beat up car
- chat2 (Meta): Why surprised? Where else would your nanny or house manager live?
- BIcy84 (Google): Probably not the most expensive thing to spend money on, but I’ve worked with someone who bought tickets to Epstein Island. He was a VP at a company with 3000+ employees.
Am i stupid for rejecting quant offer? (Blind)
- TdGu50 (Capital One): Quants will take over your life. You will find yourself working TG and Christmas eve. Stay with apple and then navigate tech, you will eventually catch up on money.
- auqhzu (NVIDIA): What role / area? Unless it’s Hardware, System Software you are not gaining anything by being at Apple with that TC. You are essentially wasting time
- pKjz62 (Apple): From a hiring manager I’ve worked with at a previous company, only staying at Apple for a year looks a bit odd and may turn hiring managers off later on in your career fwiw
Bethesda workers: Microsoft turned a no-layoff culture into yearly tradition of cuts post-acquisition (r/technology)
- hard2resist: Job security became a legacy concept the moment acquisitions started. Workers build studios, executives cut costs, that’s the cycle.
- Franco1875: Not restricted to Microsoft, either. Quarterly layoff rounds feel like the norm at a lot of large orgs now.
- IntelArtiGen: Some companies don’t understand how valuable it is to have trusted and reliable employees.
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility / The shipment was found at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books (r/technology)
- Brick_Cabin2529: 404 is pretty great aren’t they? hope they keep up this quality of work
- Waidawut: An appalling desecration in the name of “progress” – it’s the American way.
- bryguypgh: We need a law against destroying the last known physical copy of a book with astronomical penalties. This is a crime against humanity.