Failed my last course in University, which meant I had to complete another semester on an already 5 year degree. Graduated with a GPA that people didn't believe it was possible to graduate with.
Guess what, it never mattered. I worked my way from a 5 person consulting gig to FANG now over a 10+ year period. My grades, the school I went to, and the amount of time I took to complete my degree has never mattered.
My advice for everyone is, work hard and be curious. Take each failure with a grain of salt and keep trying.
I grew up in a mining town in northern Canada where the company provided everything you mention, plus summer jobs at the mine, chartered plane to pick up students, train tickets for vehicles, and much more.
The mine was originally owned by a group that started in the area so they had incentives to make the area great for the employees. Which they did, my grandfather and father got great paying jobs that allowed them to support their families.
But then a massive mining company came in and bought majority shares in the mine and they have been scraping these benefits ever since.
My point is, you never know what's going to happen. So don't get to attached to these benefits. For most places that's alright because there are other opportunities, but in a mining town there generally is one employer.
As someone who has been doing primarily Android engineering for the last 7 years. I am not surprised they are still hiring Android people. It is really hard to hire Android people. Every company I’ve worked (FANNG included) at struggled to fill Android roles. TikTok has reached out to me every month for the last year or so as well.
Hospitals shouldn't be a profitable business. The primary goal of a hospital should be serving patients sickness. (Easier said than done)
My partner is a physician at a hospital in NYC, and something that they are struggling with now is lack of social services for patients to get them out of hospital beds and into homes/rehabs.
As a immigrant in this country, I am constantly flabbergasted by the state of healthcare here and people's willingness to accept hospitals as profit seeking businesses the same as a fortune 500.
Obviously if the law allows these hospitals to seek profits, they will. So the question is, how do we change the law? And why don't people want to change it?
Very interesting read. As a purely front end engineer, I am always fascinated by other peoples ability to reverse engineer everyday systems that I use and complain about. If I wanted to learn more about reverse engineering, do you have any recommended readings or talks?
As a Canadian living in the US, I have to disagree.
The fact that 27 million people (1) live in the US without health insurance alone is a big enough reason to know that that US system is not working. People should not die or go bankrupt due to not having insurance.
The current system might work for the rich and privileged but that is not good enough.
I think moving and experiencing the city and surrounding places for a few years is more enjoyable than short trips. I am now looking at moving to my 5th different city in 10 years. I spend my vacation days exploring around what is in my "backyard". Taking a 10 hour flight and spending a few days trying to see everything is not enjoyable to me.
Guess what, it never mattered. I worked my way from a 5 person consulting gig to FANG now over a 10+ year period. My grades, the school I went to, and the amount of time I took to complete my degree has never mattered.
My advice for everyone is, work hard and be curious. Take each failure with a grain of salt and keep trying.