It’s a generous severance but in this economy where most of big tech is actively downsizing, companies aren’t going public, cost of housing (or much of anything really) isn’t going down, and the only thing hiring are in-person 996 AI startups that don’t pay enough… It’s a bad time to be in tech.
It’s basically impossible to afford a normal middle class lifestyle (including owning a home, no super commutes, etc.) living in these tech centers (where the few jobs are) on single income.
I fee like if you are an L4+ at Meta, you are doing fine even on a single salary. Let's say you loose 40% to state and federal and 20% to housing (renting), you still have 120k+ for the rest. This is plenty for most people in the world.
You are right that times are hard, but these are hardly trying times for people with this much compensation.
Still not great if you want a family, because daycare/private school are expensive, and housing in a good school district (to not have to pay for private school) are even more expensive.
Remind me how much a house costs in Menlo Park proper. Like I said, renting isn’t standard middle class experience for adults. Americans own their homes.
Meta does require you to have a Facebook account. The expectation is that it is your personal fb that you use regularly. However, it doesn’t need to be. You can create a new fb account with a new gmail account and that’s fine. That’s what I did and some others do as well.
That said, 90%+ of employees end up using their real personal account because the language they use makes it seem like you couldn’t do what I described.
Or stuck with HCOL that is the Bay Area. There’s not really any purely “ethical” companies in the Bay Area that pay enough for you to live there.
You’d be surprised how few people actually buy into the corporate culture at these companies. It’s just to get paid because everyone needs a job to pay their expenses.
You want to solve this then lower the cost of housing.
Medical device companies are run very differently from most technology development companies. They have to be because the stakes are high, evaluation criteria are different, and medical related marketing and sales have separate industry managed channels and venues.
I’m just saying that they’ve been collecting this info for years. Keyloggers, etc. are on all the computers you’re given. Employees didn’t have any expectation of privacy - just a hope. Now, it’s clear it’s completely gone and so the hope and goodwill is gone.
It's an employee survey so it's not resistant to claims that the number is higher than people know. But I think saying "on all the computers you're given" is an exaggeration at best.
I did think it was interesting that "One in three [employees] have had activity from their employer’s online surveillance used in their performance reviews."
Sounds like if you're being surveilled by your employer there is a good chance you know about it.
I've never experienced anything like that, so it's sort of a window into another world from my perspective.
Sincerely hope this guy keeps his day job. I couldn’t be bothered to do more than skim a few paragraphs.
This is from someone who has a dozen peptides in his freezer, gives them to friends, and is on them as well. You’d think I would be interested in reading an article that is supposed about “me”. I am not in the rationalist peptide space though. Find these guys to be the most “uhm, akshually” freaks that have the worst behavior of all: wrong all the time.
What surprises me most is that this even has any upvotes or comments. Astroturfing is my only guess.
Yes, pretty aware. Title and subject matter have little overlap. It jumps subjects every 2-3 paragraphs as well and just rambles with spoken thought. Would be best to curate and think than ramble.
Layoffs have been the norm for the past four years. I don’t know if anyone who is looking at the job market really takes in stability seriously at this point.
How much of that is just from your hormones being trashed due to a severe deficit?
Large caloric deficits (1000+/day) in leaner people is known to tank T levels among other things. When I was on such large deficits, I had very weird mood/arousal swings. Nothing that problematic for someone with as much executive control as me but it was very weird to be held hostage to.
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