I worked with both Alex (stainless) and Jarred (bun) at Stripe, and they were both notable for their high energy and output. I did find it amusing that Anthropic picked both the Xtripes up and wonder how many Xtripes at at Anthropic hiring their ex-coworkers.
Congrats to them both, and I'm not at all surprised! Great acquihires.
As a New Zealander who's had skin cancer, and lives under constant high UV rates because of the lack of an ozone above my country (and Australia, South America, South Africa), I'd really like it if Europeans continued to reduce/stop ozone harming emissions.
This was one of the most exhausting aspects of working for a US company, especially as an H1B. Simply: just don't say anything, it wasn't worth it.
I'm from cultures where we bluntly call a spade a spade and pride ourselves on disdain for hierarchy. There's far less fear in raising concerns generally to anyone, but it's quite possibly because of the far better employment laws.
As a kid I spent summers working in the schools IT department in order to save up to buy VB6 (with a staff discount). This was not cheap back in the day!
NZ is maybe a poor example, as we do not have capital gains taxes on houses (or most things), and do tax foreign investments (via a ~1.5% annual wealth tax, so house flipping is tax-free money)
Boom times for anyone in road building and construction, probably.
It's been described as a billion dollar weather event on par with the Christchurch earthquake 10+ years ago.
I left the US when Covid struck. No way was I sitting around there during all of this.
I took a 50% pay cut to move back to my home country, while producing the same output (and value)... the company directly benefited from that.
Now, if my company forced me back into an office I'd say no. I'd be on the market only for a remote role, still at a steep discount on US engineers.
Why wouldn't a smart company take that offer?
WFH is not going away, but I suspect the FAANG will move away from it and the startups will capture the opportunity.
The NZ sun is terrible. You feel the sun burning you as soon as you get outside.
Burn time can be about 10 minutes on a sunny day, and maybe 20 on a cloudy day in summer.
In NZ we get about 4000 in-situ melanoma diagnosis a year. I was one of them a couple of years ago (at 37).
Ditto. I assumed it was an opportunity to document any legally problematic reasons that drove you to quit so they could get ahead of them, or reinforce their case for firing you.
Remote is such an overloaded term.
Is it US/North America only?
Is it equal work for equal pay globally?
I was someone who took the opportunity to relocate back to my home country when Covid struck, but had to take a near 50% pay cut to do so, despite doing the same work. I'm surprised this hasn't become more of a hot button issue within the community.
Congrats to them both, and I'm not at all surprised! Great acquihires.