throwaway123467 | 1 year ago | on: Salary expectations questions – How should you answer them? (2020)
throwaway123467 | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Have you been affected by layoffs?
I haven't been laid off, but we did have some small layoffs this year. After the second one, while no specifics were stated about who was laid off, managers were told the selection criteria included looking for knowledge overlap and seeing who could be lost without losing knowledge. That basically explains my team: the one person we lost had fairly deep knowledge in only a single system, while two others had shallower knowledge in the same system and knowledge in other systems. I'm sure knowledge depth wouldn't have stood out in the performance review documents HR has, so the person we lost probably would have looked redundant to them, even though I suspect that person was trying to position themselves as indispensable.
throwaway123467 | 5 years ago | on: Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit
There was a reset between then and now: The Great Recession around 2008. Starting salaries were below 50K, and I was really surprised when a few years later I got an offer at that amount (also right out of college) - I remember looking around for what to expect, and it was more like 35K.
