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I really like the way you categorized different SWE levels. Thank you for the insights!

Hi, my name is Shining. I am hiring Android engineers at Verkada. I am impressed by your background. Here is why Verkada is a good place to work.

Verkada is a company that is the best combination you can find: it is the industry leader in terms of technology and product; and its market share is still very small just due to the fact that the company is very young. But because it has indisputably superior technology and product, it’s eating the market share like crazy. The company’s growth has been extraordinary. It’s pretty much been doubling itself every year. In the industry of physical security, all of our competitors are 20ish-year-old companies that have no idea how to make good software (and products in general). It’s about time for somebody new like Verkada to come and shake this industry (and makes some good money along the way :P).

If Verkada is at the frontline of revolutionizing the industry, the mobile team at Verkada is at the frontline of the company. We are the bar raiser of UI/UX design and software quality in general for the whole company. It’s not very often you get a chance to work on something that is literally leading the industry. It’s not even close.

To give you a better idea, here is a little video showcasing what we’ve been working on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP7MafwtuUA.

The goal of the team is to double its headcount by the end of year. And it’s almost certain that we will double again the year after that. Hence the room for making an impact and growing is endless. Exponential growth, remember?

If you are interested, let’s chat.

Here is my LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shiningsun/. Feel free to send over your resume via email: [email protected].

Looking forward to hearing from you. Thanks!

I am a hiring manager. Earlier today I reached out to somebody who replied in that thread who seems to have fitting background to the role I am hiring.

While it's cool that many people are doing research on extending human life span, I think it's equally important (if not more) to think about how to enhance the quality of life when people get old. A lot people retire when they are ~60 yo. If they live up to 150 years, that is 90 years of retirement, which is ridiculers. I do wish that people can be "young" for longer. To me, that is more important than just living longer.

Were you offered any stock/options? How much would that worth now? (If you don't mind sharing..)

The discussion in this thread shows how blind people are about China's development. They are pointing fingers to the Chinese government partly because they simply cannot imagine how much better the China competitors are. The US do have some advantages in the IT industry, but that advantage is getting slimmer and slimmer. In fact, in so many ways, people in China are enjoying much better services from the internet companies than people in the US. But people in the US simply cannot see it, and cannot believe it. For ordinary people, I don't blame them. But most of people on HN are from this industry, and they are the same! This just makes me speechless.

I am so sad to see how the comments under this post manifest. People just blindly pointing fingers to the big evil Chinese government for the failure, without any evidence whatsoever. I get it, failures are hard. But you can face it and learn to be responsible for it. All grownups do that. I think American are transitioning from a bunch of doers to a bunch of whiners.

That is hardly a convincing evidence. The IT industry in China is the only one in the world that is comparable with that in US. In a lot of areas, it is even better than US. I think online shopping can be counted as one of the areas. No other counties is capable of providing the level of competition as the Chinrse market does. Be responsible to your own loss, please. That’s what grownups do.

I cannot believe this is the top comment. What you say is totally anecdotal. Do you have any evidence that Chinese government went out stopping Amazon from succeeding in China?

I don't think all the cencorship out there are good; and I don't think all of them are bad as well. More importantly, I don't think my view on cencorship is the point here. My point is, Google should not be the one who fight against any laws.

As an example, in Saudi Arabia, all women are required to wear an abaya a long black cloak that covers all, but the hands and face in public. [1] Is that a good law? I don't know. But if Google wants to do business there, e.g. some female Google employee went on business trip in Saudi Arabia, she needs to obey the law there. Of course Google can choose not to do any business in Saudi Arabia. Google can even exits Saudi Arabia as a sign of protesting this law. But if I were a Saudi Arabia resident who would suffer from lack of access to information online, I would certainly hope Google does not do this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Saudi_Arabia#Dress

I don't see it as "Google working with the government", I see it as "Google obeying laws of China". Honestly, I did not really understand your question. It would be helpful if you elaborate a little bit. Thanks!

I am very sorry to make you feel attacked. I honestly did not mean that. I really appreciate you still being able to stay cool even when you feel offended.

If some other country ask for something similar, then Google should either give them or quit that country. Simple as that. If Google, or any company, wants to operate in a country, they need to obey their laws.

It is not like Google has not done it before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google

I think you need to stop telling Chinese people what they need. We know what we need. As long as there is still cencorship, we will always have something for the argument. More to the point, an argument is not even what we need the most right now. It is not even close to the top of the list. We need the best search engine in the world much more than an argument with the government.

Looking at your comment makes me feel that it is not the Chinese people who are afraid of "losing an argument". If anybody, it is you. You believe so deeply in the evilness of Chinese government, that you are afraid your evidences are drifting away from you.

Just a hypothesis. No offense.

This is a very common way of looking at this problem, and I find it absurd: Google is creating this "for the Chinese government". How about for the Chinese users? I for one am a Chinese use, and I would love to be able to use Google in China.

> Before you downvote/call me a Nazi, I'm a mixed race woman in tech.

Why would it matter that you are "a mixed race woman in tech"? Your comment should be judged only by its content, not by its author's race or gender, right?