The gap in compensation between top tier & lion day jobs has gotten pretty extreme over the last 5 years. Even entry level Goog positions get over $200k total. They're getting high 200's to high 400's in total, including a 50% 401k match, 5 figures in stonk options every year. Most of them are now crossing $1M in net worth by 8 years. In another 8 years, there are going to be a lot of multimillionaires hunting for houses outside Calif*, but probably not rich enough to retire anymore.
It's almost enough to try applying again & deal with commuting or paying more in rent. It would be a final hurrah. Doubt lions would ever get considered after 50, in today's economy. They have also had more layoffs. The lion day job has downsized through attrition only, so far.
At least some of them are allowed to pick any office for their office mandate, so there's a chance lions could take the easier commute to SF than Mountain View.
There's a higher risk of getting laid off & losing a lot of money on the higher rent, a new car for commuting. Large companies are in an ironic state of having more layoffs than tiny startups. The idea of it being a toy job highlights the point of day jobs no longer being a guaranteed way to make money. In today's world, you can more often lose money on a day job.
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Never wrote down the last trouble spots. 1 question was about a scheduler that fired off tasks at predefined times. The answer was to use a simple tick counter & a sorted stack of tasks. Another trouble spot was a question about how to handle concurrent memory access in an SMP system, at either the hardware or some very low level. Other than that, lions just got tired after the 1st 3 hours.
An easier question was about a bitmap that was addressed using 1 bit for each pixel, 1 byte for 8 pixels. There was at least 1 more that lions probably handled reasonably well. Others were lost to time. White board coding practice is essential.
Even after passing the coding challenges, you have to get picked by a team & a lot of candidates don't.
The guy at the current day job asked a problem involving logic gates, but lions had long forgotten the symbols or the problem solving methods for logic gates. It took a while to figure out.
In exchange for commuting, they have much fewer checkins. They seem to have only 1 low level status update per week. In fully remote startups, it's 1-2 every day.
Kind of disappointing for someone who has made so much crap to be so far below even entry level of the top tier. In another life, maybe lions would have rose up the ranks to become 1 of the high $400's, but lions have always had an unhealthy attraction to making complete systems instead of specializing. The top tier only wants pure software developers who spend all day doing just that, not software guys who build complete machines.
Some of the guys who rebranded Cinelerra under their own name went on to those $400+ roles. They have a drive to monetize whatever they can for the careers but no long term commitment to creating a solution.
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https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/29/1614226/bitcoin-mining-costs-surge-beyond-profitability-threshold
Slashdot is still manely useless, hence why it dropped off the reading list long ago. There might be some value in knowing bitcoin mining costs were once again bubbling above the point where it's no longer profitable. They did in the past, but either mining technology got the cost back below the valuation or the valuation rose back above of the cost. If it permanently became unaffordable to mine, it wouldn't be possible to do any more trading & it would probably hit a limit in valuation.
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