82 LPA may be an outlier but the range you mentioned is wildly incorrect. I’m an SDE2 making 57 LPA ($70K), and know other SDE2s making >70 LPA ($85K).
I agree - that's definitely one way to land a lucrative offer.
But I'm surprised that there was a massive demand last year.
Because I was of the opinion that 2022 was the year where they really slowed down the hiring
Once upon a time bills (banknotes) were bearer instruments which could be exchanged with the Treasury for silver. (Or with whatever issuing entity in whatever they promised--typically gold or silver.) A bearer instrument is payable by the drawee to whomever physically presents the instrument.
These days the value of bills is solely in being legal tender; that is, an authentic bill can be used for satisfaction of any court-ordered debt. That's not the same thing as requiring people to transact with you using those bills. But if someone sued you in court and gained a judgement against you, then you could use those bills to satisfy the judgement. Example: you ran away with a candy bar after the clerk refused to take your dirty dollar bill. They sue you. The court orders you to pay the store $1, which you can satisfy with an authentic $1 note, even the original dirty note.
Maybe the clerk refused the bill because the store only accepts Bitcoin payments. I'm not sure, but the judgment could in theory include whatever costs the store incurred (if any) by being forced to take cash, which you would could also pay in cash. Because ultimately whatever damages or costs were incurred can be satisfied by the jurisdiction's legal currency, in which such damages and costs are also typically denominated.
What baffles me is that in the US banking system one can claim refund for a payment made two years ago without a proper legal process! This should significantly reduce trust in the system.
As a business, the money in my bank account can be taken back at any point and the onus of fighting back for it is on me. How is that reasonable?
This information is confidential and only provided under NDA by cloud service providers. In the past, my employer was provided with detailed service dependency documents upon request. But unless you’re a major customer spending millions of dollar every month, you likely can’t request this information.
Constantly reconciling business logic with changing environment is exactly what devs do at GS. GS powers the likes of Apple Card, Stripe Treasury, etc. There’s a lot of engineering required to handle the scale.
There are very few companies that are “technological innovators”. Most SV devs aren’t writing a new distributed system or a process scheduler for the Linux kernel.
Charles Stross's Laundry series is great. A talented programmer accidentally rediscovers a CS theorem which allows the summoning of demons and is immediately press-ganged into mandatory employment with Britain's occult secret service.
His wife plays the possessed violin from Lovecraft's "The Music of Erich Zahn".
When you say 'this style', what do you mean? The subversive intent or the elegant phrasing? If you meant the intent, search and read the BOFH if you haven't already
