One thing I'm curious about is: at a larger software company like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Microsoft, how much of a raise do you typically get every year?
Also, does Google's 10% across-the-board raise last year not apply to new hires?
In google if you are really good you could maybe get promoted every 1.5 years, but realistically this is probably more like every 2-3 years.
Your pay then gets bumped to the next grade (or whatever grade you move in to in cases where you transfer laterally) and from what I can tell the increase can be 20-30% increase.
You also will get regular stock option/unit refreshes each year based on performance, so those will start to add up over the years and can be a substantial part of your income assuming the stock is doing ok (and historically it has).
To speak for the latter, Google's 10% across-the-board raise last year does apply to new hires, personally speaking. I'm surprised that my offer is above the MS median and average.
According to the blog post (http://blog.trello.com/launch/), "It’s free. (We might charge something for premium features in the future). You can make one board or 100."
Yelp's filtering algorithm is terrible. Purely anecdotal, but: I've tried writing reviews on Yelp several times. When I first started reviewing and my reviews were getting filtered out, I'd think "OK, maybe I just need to continue reviewing and eventually Yelp will realize I'm not a faker". After about 20 reviews (spread over a couple weeks, most of which still remain flagged), I got pissed and gave up.
How does Amazon solve this problem? AFAICT, Amazon doesn't filter out any reviews, and I've never noticed fake reviews being a problem. Are people simply less inclined to give fake-glowing or fake-terrible reviews on Amazon? (Makes somewhat sense to me, since Amazon is less "personal".)
Amazon (and app stores, for that matter) have a huge advantage in that they can verify that the reviewer is at least a customer. Amazon differentiates these reviewers visually in the reviews. Yelp cannot take this verification step.
It'd be awesome if Google+ also tried to suggest ways of organizing your friends into circles (similar to how Gmail suggests people to add to emails).
In general, I think the Circles dataset will be really interesting, as I don't think anybody else has this kind of labeled groups data. (Have people actually been separating their friends into different Circles?)
Just curious, how has your experience been getting jobs as a dropout? I dropped out of college a couple years ago as well, but found that a lot people wouldn't even talk to me simply because I didn't have a degree (or stopped talking once I told them), so I graduated eventually.
Lots of luck and some hard work. At the time (mid 90s) the job market was much better and everyone was hiring people to build ecommerce sites. It's harder in some ways now to get that entry level job. On the other hand it's phenomenally easier to start your own projects and get experience and attention. In the early 2000s I did a few open source projects which helped a lot. In 2007 or so I started writing articles on a regular basis, basically patching up holes in my education by taking on some subject and trying to explain it. If you lack one social signal ("he went to MIT") you can replace it with another ("he started the foobar project" or "he wrote that post about xyz").
Also, does Google's 10% across-the-board raise last year not apply to new hires?