Now Amazon can sell AWS prime. If you are a susbcriber of AWS prime we will check "Twice" before removing your servers. That should boost the profit somewhat
There you go trying to analyze a TV show to show its logical. Its fiction folks and not even Science Fiction. Its more like fantasy set in the future. Its not supposed to be logical.
AWS should use the cloud, that way when one server goes down the load is picked up seamlessly by another one with no downtime...... Oh Wait. Never Mind
In a global economy things are not isolated on a country by country level. When an Indian IT worker rises into the middle class and can now buy iPhones it generates revenue for Apple which means jobs for folks back in Austin who work in AppleCare software division. Thats IT. These folks can now afford cars so it means GM gets to sell cars (made in India but designed in Detroit hence engineering jobs in Detroit), Coca Cola gets to sell coke marketed using campaigns created in the US so generating jobs in Marketing in New York, heck they can now afford meat hence import Chickens from US generating jobs on farms.
You need to stop thinking in narrow economies and start thinking in larger sense. There is inherently nothing different between Americans and Indians. So a situation where Americans keep having a vastly superior standard of living is not sustainable.
Permatemping would be to keep them as contractor even after you are sure they are working out and I agree its bad. Hiring as contractor for 3 months means they still get paid unlike industries like Law and Stock Brokers where interns get paid a pittance just to get a chance. Some places interns even pay the company to get a chance to try out for a job.
I think you are creating a strawman. I am not advocating giving a problem which is not on Stackoverflow in an interview. In fact I am advocating against it as 1 hour is too little to attack anything non trivial. At the same time if I am giving something trivial I want to see the thought process rather than googling skills. Hence bubblesort and no net resources. I do not expect the person to remember bubblesort but its simple enough that it can be deduced from basic logic. And I am not looking for syntax. Heck everyone uses the IDE for that nowadays. Back in the day when we had multi hour builds run remotely it was critical not to have syntax errors. Now when you can compile in seconds at the click of a button syntax is not important, semantics still count btw
The Bay area is not representative of the US. Its much more like India as its hand to mouth but outside of Bay Area in the midwest and the East coast people in IT jobs easily have huge houses, multiple SUVS, ATVs, boats and tons of shit. And they expect to keep affording the same even if the work they do can be done at the same quality from across the world. Believe me not many jobs are getting outsourced to India from the Bay Area. These jobs were first outsourced to the midwest and Texas and only then sent to India. In fact many of them are being reshored and brought back to places like Phoenix. BTW I call bullshit on the original story. If they have people working at 110K they wont be saving much as even H1Bs are paid 100K + on average in the Bay Area. The outsourcing is probably to improve the quality of service as companies who have been doing this at 100s of companies have many efficiencies and best practices that a small dept doesnt have.
There is nothing enforcing it in India as well other than the fact that the employee will not get references. He/she will forfeit bonds (these are generally on fresh graduates whom the companies train for 6 months in classrooms in return for 2 year bonds as many Indian colleges dont produce work ready engineers). Also as a hiring manager if I see people with less than 1 year at a company I want a good explanation and if I dont get one we move on. Hiring takes up too much time and effort to hire someone who jumps every 6 months. But legally? Even 1 day notice is not required from either side. Its just that companies know they need to hire from the market and if they fire on a 1 day notice few people will join them when they want to hire. And people know pissing off an ex boss is not good as people do move around and the ex boss you screwed by leaving in the middle of a project with no notice may be a hiring manager at some future opportunity.
Workers in poorer countries benefit. And morally its more moral that a poor country worker can now afford healthcare and meat even though as a result a rich country worker can no longer afford a sports car and a boat.
People who are coming on H1B are uprooting their entire life to be mobile. What stops you from doing the same. Many places in the world still will pay an American more to do the same job because America is onsidered most advanced so all its citizens must be super smart. Go work in the gulf or Africa and the expat salaries you get will mean you can retire in 5 years if you save smartly.
Good part of this is when companies want to do RIF they will give the person 3 months notice and then ask them not to come to office. They still get their salary while they are totally free to job search. Many get a job within a month , take 2 months vacation and join the new place. If the company wants to reduce headcount immediately they give 3 months salary in cash. (While this does not save money directly sometimes companies need to hire in a certain skill but hiring is on freeze till the bench of folks in other skills is cleared)
1) Pass so many laws that noone can be aware of all of them 2) Most people will break at least one law everyday (especially since they will not be enforced strictly) 3) Randomly pull people over and if you dont find anything serious prosecute them on the bullshit laws which they and everyone else are breaking 4) Offer plea deals and punitive punishments for those who insist for their day in court
Once you do this all normal citizens are scared of the police. its even worse for unfavored minorities. You can have a police state while maintaining the fiction of a democracy and rule of law.
I think you need better reading comprehension. We want you to do something (without help) which has been done before so that we know when you get something which has not been done you will be able to do it. We are not going to ask you to recode bubblesort as part of your day to day job.
You need to pay for my time if its going to be an entire day interview. Doesnt matter if you like the output or not. You do pay your employees even if some days their output is shit. If you want me to spend a day you better be a dream company to work for or you are not going to get many qualified applicants and will have to choose from the desperate unemployed.
Many smart people are breaking laws for idealogical reasons. The most successfull terrorists for some reason happen to be mostly Engineers (Maybe their education convinces them the normal folks are so dumb that killing normal folks is no different than butchering a pig). Many terrorists could easily pass coding and engineering questions.
Actually the B1/B2 is a tourism/business visa. Its not a work visa. If he actually said he was going to work in the US the CBP agent should have sent him back. It seems Andela is breaking the law by using B1/B2 for work.
We shouldn't let anyone into the country who can't write a procedure to tell if a Binary Search Tree is balanced, or doesn't know what an abstract class is.
I agree. In fact we should go a step further. We should start revoking US citizenship and deporting folks who cannot write the same. A much smarter nation will result.
If you have friend circle who will help you out in your daily work you will probably be more productive than the guy who aces the interview on his own so I wouldnt even check for help from friends. Much better way is just do a contract to hire. Have them join as a contractor for a 3 month trial period . If they work out hire them as full time employees else move on.
The point of having someone solve it without net resources is that when they are working they will run into problems where the answer is not on Stackoverflow and you need to be able to solve from first principles. Obviously as these are future problems you are going to run into you dont have one ready to use as the screening question in an interview and even if you did have a current problem (say from your current project) most such problems are non trivial and cannot be solved in the 1 hour available for a tech interview plus even if they solve it you dont have a way of knowing if they solved it right.
The point of going with a well known problem solution is that you are checking their way of solving problems. If they can come up with one of the standard solutions the library designers have already come up with you can have some confidence they will be able to come up with solutions to unknown problems they will face in the future. And by using something as simple as bubblesort you can have the coding exercise done in 10-15 minutes and spend the rest of the hour on other types of questions to check fit and attitude.
A child is not born with bad manners. Its taught by its parents and it learns from its mother. Way to go claiming discrimination again. BTW women have always run the world because they have controlled child rearing and hence the mindset of the next generation. Feminism is probably the worst thing that happened to women as they had to give up time spent with their kids to go out and earn money. This reduces their control on society.
Saying they started at 20 dollar and are now down to 3.75 is totally bullshit. 20 is a pomotion for the first hour you drive. Noone expects the promotional rate to last forever. This is not Sirius XM.
If she can afford a Model S while working on the Assembly line I don't think she is underpaid. I have 15 years working in IT and a Masters from a top 10 University and I cant afford a Model S. (Unless she thinks the harassment suit is her big payday and she has already started spending the settlement money)
The catcalls is an issue Women have faced ever since they came on the factory floor. In this day and age it should not happen. However the responsibility for that is on the mothers of the guys doing the catcalls who did not teach their sons to respect women. The company's job is to build cars not fix society's problems.
500 per person is food, cleaning supplies, clothes, entertainment, books, video games,eating out etc not just food.
Food in this budget is 200 dollars per person and 50 dollars eating out a month. You would spend more than 200 dollar per person per month in Europe. I did.
I have lived in Europe. Food is expensive but rents are low, no need to pay for health insurance, no need to save for college, usable subsidized public transport , good pensions, 2 months of vacation a year and still the tax rate is only 10% more than what people in California pay.
For 10% more people's major costs are reduced rent(Germany actually fines landlords if their houses are empty so they rent at reasonable rates) health Insurance (Medicare for all) college (if your kid is smart a place is assured though you may have to spend on extra classes to round off the resume) transport(no need to take cars everywhere) Expensive vacations (2 months instead of 15 days means you can afford to trade money for time when on vacation and use the cheaper slower options or avoid peak times)
The only thing Europeans end up spending more are electronics, entertainment and food.
Europeans are having a much better life except for the weather which sucks. If I could tolerate snow I would have stayed there.
And what is most galling is that Europeans can afford the welfare state without the taxes killing all economic activity because they dont have to pay for an Army. Because an Army the US Army paid with our taxes is sitting in Europe providing security.
Washington may have thrown the British out but the Europeans have still found a way to live in luxury off the sweat of the colonies.
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Now Amazon can sell AWS prime. If you are a susbcriber of AWS prime we will check "Twice" before removing your servers. That should boost the profit somewhat
There you go trying to analyze a TV show to show its logical. Its fiction folks and not even Science Fiction. Its more like fantasy set in the future. Its not supposed to be logical.
AWS should use the cloud, that way when one server goes down the load is picked up seamlessly by another one with no downtime ...... Oh Wait. Never Mind
In a global economy things are not isolated on a country by country level. When an Indian IT worker rises into the middle class and can now buy iPhones it generates revenue for Apple which means jobs for folks back in Austin who work in AppleCare software division. Thats IT. These folks can now afford cars so it means GM gets to sell cars (made in India but designed in Detroit hence engineering jobs in Detroit), Coca Cola gets to sell coke marketed using campaigns created in the US so generating jobs in Marketing in New York, heck they can now afford meat hence import Chickens from US generating jobs on farms.
You need to stop thinking in narrow economies and start thinking in larger sense. There is inherently nothing different between Americans and Indians. So a situation where Americans keep having a vastly superior standard of living is not sustainable.
Permatemping would be to keep them as contractor even after you are sure they are working out and I agree its bad.
Hiring as contractor for 3 months means they still get paid unlike industries like Law and Stock Brokers where interns get paid a pittance just to get a chance.
Some places interns even pay the company to get a chance to try out for a job.
I think you are creating a strawman. I am not advocating giving a problem which is not on Stackoverflow in an interview. In fact I am advocating against it as 1 hour is too little to attack anything non trivial.
At the same time if I am giving something trivial I want to see the thought process rather than googling skills.
Hence bubblesort and no net resources.
I do not expect the person to remember bubblesort but its simple enough that it can be deduced from basic logic.
And I am not looking for syntax. Heck everyone uses the IDE for that nowadays. Back in the day when we had multi hour builds run remotely it was critical not to have syntax errors. Now when you can compile in seconds at the click of a button syntax is not important, semantics still count btw
The Bay area is not representative of the US. Its much more like India as its hand to mouth but outside of Bay Area in the midwest and the East coast people in IT jobs easily have huge houses, multiple SUVS, ATVs, boats and tons of shit. And they expect to keep affording the same even if the work they do can be done at the same quality from across the world.
Believe me not many jobs are getting outsourced to India from the Bay Area. These jobs were first outsourced to the midwest and Texas and only then sent to India.
In fact many of them are being reshored and brought back to places like Phoenix.
BTW I call bullshit on the original story. If they have people working at 110K they wont be saving much as even H1Bs are paid 100K + on average in the Bay Area. The outsourcing is probably to improve the quality of service as companies who have been doing this at 100s of companies have many efficiencies and best practices that a small dept doesnt have.
There is nothing enforcing it in India as well other than the fact that the employee will not get references. He/she will forfeit bonds (these are generally on fresh graduates whom the companies train for 6 months in classrooms in return for 2 year bonds as many Indian colleges dont produce work ready engineers). Also as a hiring manager if I see people with less than 1 year at a company I want a good explanation and if I dont get one we move on. Hiring takes up too much time and effort to hire someone who jumps every 6 months. But legally? Even 1 day notice is not required from either side. Its just that companies know they need to hire from the market and if they fire on a 1 day notice few people will join them when they want to hire. And people know pissing off an ex boss is not good as people do move around and the ex boss you screwed by leaving in the middle of a project with no notice may be a hiring manager at some future opportunity.
Poverty as defined in this country is upper middle class in most developing countries
Workers in poorer countries benefit. And morally its more moral that a poor country worker can now afford healthcare and meat even though as a result a rich country worker can no longer afford a sports car and a boat.
People who are coming on H1B are uprooting their entire life to be mobile. What stops you from doing the same. Many places in the world still will pay an American more to do the same job because America is onsidered most advanced so all its citizens must be super smart. Go work in the gulf or Africa and the expat salaries you get will mean you can retire in 5 years if you save smartly.
Good part of this is when companies want to do RIF they will give the person 3 months notice and then ask them not to come to office. They still get their salary while they are totally free to job search. Many get a job within a month , take 2 months vacation and join the new place. If the company wants to reduce headcount immediately they give 3 months salary in cash. (While this does not save money directly sometimes companies need to hire in a certain skill but hiring is on freeze till the bench of folks in other skills is cleared)
1) Pass so many laws that noone can be aware of all of them
2) Most people will break at least one law everyday (especially since they will not be enforced strictly)
3) Randomly pull people over and if you dont find anything serious prosecute them on the bullshit laws which they and everyone else are breaking
4) Offer plea deals and punitive punishments for those who insist for their day in court
Once you do this all normal citizens are scared of the police. its even worse for unfavored minorities. You can have a police state while maintaining the fiction of a democracy and rule of law.
I think you need better reading comprehension. We want you to do something (without help) which has been done before so that we know when you get something which has not been done you will be able to do it. We are not going to ask you to recode bubblesort as part of your day to day job.
You need to pay for my time if its going to be an entire day interview. Doesnt matter if you like the output or not. You do pay your employees even if some days their output is shit.
If you want me to spend a day you better be a dream company to work for or you are not going to get many qualified applicants and will have to choose from the desperate unemployed.
Many smart people are breaking laws for idealogical reasons. The most successfull terrorists for some reason happen to be mostly Engineers (Maybe their education convinces them the normal folks are so dumb that killing normal folks is no different than butchering a pig). Many terrorists could easily pass coding and engineering questions.
Actually the B1/B2 is a tourism/business visa. Its not a work visa. If he actually said he was going to work in the US the CBP agent should have sent him back. It seems Andela is breaking the law by using B1/B2 for work.
This is completely justified.
We shouldn't let anyone into the country who can't write a procedure to tell if a Binary Search Tree is balanced, or doesn't know what an abstract class is.
I agree. In fact we should go a step further. We should start revoking US citizenship and deporting folks who cannot write the same. A much smarter nation will result.
If you have friend circle who will help you out in your daily work you will probably be more productive than the guy who aces the interview on his own so I wouldnt even check for help from friends. Much better way is just do a contract to hire. Have them join as a contractor for a 3 month trial period . If they work out hire them as full time employees else move on.
The point of having someone solve it without net resources is that when they are working they will run into problems where the answer is not on Stackoverflow and you need to be able to solve from first principles. Obviously as these are future problems you are going to run into you dont have one ready to use as the screening question in an interview and even if you did have a current problem (say from your current project) most such problems are non trivial and cannot be solved in the 1 hour available for a tech interview plus even if they solve it you dont have a way of knowing if they solved it right.
The point of going with a well known problem solution is that you are checking their way of solving problems. If they can come up with one of the standard solutions the library designers have already come up with you can have some confidence they will be able to come up with solutions to unknown problems they will face in the future. And by using something as simple as bubblesort you can have the coding exercise done in 10-15 minutes and spend the rest of the hour on other types of questions to check fit and attitude.
A child is not born with bad manners. Its taught by its parents and it learns from its mother. Way to go claiming discrimination again. BTW women have always run the world because they have controlled child rearing and hence the mindset of the next generation. Feminism is probably the worst thing that happened to women as they had to give up time spent with their kids to go out and earn money. This reduces their control on society.
Saying they started at 20 dollar and are now down to 3.75 is totally bullshit. 20 is a pomotion for the first hour you drive. Noone expects the promotional rate to last forever. This is not Sirius XM.
If she can afford a Model S while working on the Assembly line I don't think she is underpaid. I have 15 years working in IT and a Masters from a top 10 University and I cant afford a Model S. (Unless she thinks the harassment suit is her big payday and she has already started spending the settlement money)
The catcalls is an issue Women have faced ever since they came on the factory floor. In this day and age it should not happen. However the responsibility for that is on the mothers of the guys doing the catcalls who did not teach their sons to respect women. The company's job is to build cars not fix society's problems.
OK thats evil but funny. Am I a bad person that I find that funny?
500 per person is food, cleaning supplies, clothes, entertainment, books, video games,eating out etc not just food.
Food in this budget is 200 dollars per person and 50 dollars eating out a month. You would spend more than 200 dollar per person per month in Europe. I did.
I have lived in Europe. Food is expensive but rents are low, no need to pay for health insurance, no need to save for college, usable subsidized public transport , good pensions, 2 months of vacation a year and still the tax rate is only 10% more than what people in California pay.
For 10% more people's major costs are reduced
rent(Germany actually fines landlords if their houses are empty so they rent at reasonable rates)
health Insurance (Medicare for all)
college (if your kid is smart a place is assured though you may have to spend on extra classes to round off the resume)
transport(no need to take cars everywhere)
Expensive vacations (2 months instead of 15 days means you can afford to trade money for time when on vacation and use the cheaper slower options or avoid peak times)
The only thing Europeans end up spending more are electronics, entertainment and food.
Europeans are having a much better life except for the weather which sucks.
If I could tolerate snow I would have stayed there.
And what is most galling is that Europeans can afford the welfare state without the taxes killing all economic activity because they dont have to pay for an Army. Because an Army the US Army paid with our taxes is sitting in Europe providing security.
Washington may have thrown the British out but the Europeans have still found a way to live in luxury off the sweat of the colonies.