> Anecdotally, I have never heard of anyone getting a job at a FAANG with that kind of salary working remotely from day 1.
The cities the parent comment mentioned (Ann Arbor, Boulder, Toronto, Tel Aviv, Boston, Seattle) are all cities where Google has offices. So, the folks they mention weren't working remotely, but rather working locally in remote offices.
Many of them actually are working remotely, but have the option to go into the local office if they need anything. Sometimes they also started going into the office a few days a week and then stopped because there's really no point when the team they're working with is remote. (This is before COVID - now everybody is in this situation, and it's likely the whole company will once we come out of COVID. Most of the moves in question were either from my first time at Google [2009-2014] or the period when I wasn't working for them [2014-2020].)
Also varies a lot by PA. Chrome is very friendly to remote work, because they're an open-source project with a lot of non-Google contributors anyway. Android or Search, not so much. Research, infrastructure, geo, and core - decent. Don't know too much about the other PAs.
A lot of the people I mentioned above actually transferred PAs to make remote work work. If that's a goal of yours, Google's a big enough company that there's probably a role available.
The problem is that you need a VP exception for remote work and many VPs don't believe in it at all. So there are entire orgs where the number of remote people is zero.
I was making a broader comment in case someone took that to mean that they can get a remote job working for Google or a similar company without previous experience there, which seems very unlikely.
> more losses than the capital loss deduction limit ($1500)
Currently you can deduct up to $3000 of short term capital losses per year against other types of income (e.g. regular employment income), and any remaining balance can be carried forward indefinitely.
I am guessing OP was able to decrease his/her taxes owed by $1500 (e.g. by deducting marginal income by $3000 at a combined state and federal marginal tax rate of ~50%).
*Edit: or, as cbhl points out below, OP is married filing separately, in which case the deduction limit is $1500/year (multiplied by marginal tax rate to yield actual tax savings).
History has taught us that diversification efforts (i.e.: initiatives to correct systemic inequalities) unfold like this: White men "let" white women into the halls of power they created, and little changes for the rest of us. Such is the case in politics, in elite universities and in corporate America.
Well tickle me Elmo, and here I thought we'd just gone through two terms with a non-White president.
Hiring for cultural fit is just laziness, and interviewers should stop using it as a "metric".
Assessing for ability is extremely difficult - in the case of programming positions, technical interview processes either suffer from a large number of false negatives (e.g. the "Google filter") or a large number of false positives (e.g. "this person doesn't know how to write a for loop; how did they get hired?").
Per the article, most interviewers interpret "cultural fit" as "personal fit" - how well do you like the interviewee? The example heuristics (going out for a beer with the candidate, spending a snowy night in an airport together, etc) have very little to do with company culture and very much to do with answering the question: "Do I like this person?".
Any 4 year old can tell when they like somebody. It's one of the easiest things in the world for a human being to assess.
Technical ability, on the other hand, is one of the hardest things in the world for human beings to asses, at least in the context of an interview. Assessing for "cultural fit" - which on the face of it makes perfect sense as a hiring metric - devolves into a way to avoid doing something difficult (assess technical ability) by doing something easy (assess personal affinity).
Also missing: put it in the bank (i.e. do nothing).
The answers to the "greatest satisfaction" question are also telling. They are all job/business related. There's not even a single "spend time with my friends and family" catch-all.
Yeah. Where's the "travel the world and live in a tent" option. My soul mate is definitely out there in a tent with mad cash in the bank watching a sunset from a mountain top.
Sigh
We'll never find each other unless s/he wanders into an internet cafe tomorrow before this rolls off of front page of HN...
So yes, "Pay off debts" is plenty sane, and yet not on there. And given the existing potential answers, gives credence that this is for rich white boys financed by rich mommy and daddy.
I always thought MADD (Multiply + Add) made a great candidate for a single instruction set computer, if the program counter was usable as an operand to the instruction.
Is HN depressed? Two ragequit posts on the front page at the same time?
Folks, the software industry is cyclical, and we are currently in the "good times" phase. Non-software people in other industries are seeing their occupations become obsolete while we we are getting increasingly higher wages, shuttle busses, and microkitchens.
If you are not happy working in software now, you probably won't ever be.
The cities the parent comment mentioned (Ann Arbor, Boulder, Toronto, Tel Aviv, Boston, Seattle) are all cities where Google has offices. So, the folks they mention weren't working remotely, but rather working locally in remote offices.
Source: Google San Diego employee