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: People are just saying things that differ from your view point, and you don't like it.
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No, you are lying again. When you insult and discredit people out of the blue, then they insult you back. You started it.
"different"? LOL. An apple pie and a pile of sht are "different".
Your assumption is false, your ego is real.
That assumption was rebuked above several times. According to some websites COL difference is 30%, not 70%. So expecting current salary minus 30% is what everyone leaving CA expects. All of them know that. But some hillbillies want to believe that the CA expat expect no pay drop. No reason to think that but want to think that, to comfort your own ego and give excuses to reject people who could give a huge contribution to your team. It is just an excuse to think CA expats expect SAME pay. an excuse to act like the hillbilly who sees a car in the distance and starts shooting.
The story is not BS, you are showing the same attitude as in the story, just like the other commenter below:
Empty headed cynicism, and hillbilly attitude.
Not everyone in Silicon Valley works at Google/Facebook. There is still some real engineering companies left here, building silicon, boards and systems. About half the people leaving SV are leaving because we want to stay away from hipster tech tyrants, we are not one of them. The other half just wants a big cheap house, but moves back to CA after realizing that the place is not full of liberal hipsters. Not everyone is the same.
Um. I grew up in CA.
Your attitude is exactly why I don’t hire my tech staff from there. Well, that and you can’t form proper sentences, while calling other people names.
Have you ever interviewed someone from CA in TX? No. You have not. Yet you speak for them.
Best of luck. Your failure is not based on your address.
Your attitude is exactly why I don’t hire my tech staff from there. Well, that and you can’t form proper sentences, while calling other people names.
Have you ever interviewed someone from CA in TX? No. You have not. Yet you speak for them.
Best of luck. Your failure is not based on your address.
It's not my attitude, it's yours.
You just pretend to find fault in everything, because you are insecure.
100% of the cases when a competent engineer is called an shole, it is because some incompetent people are insecure in their job. The only way to keep your job with the 6 figure salary is by preventing any kind of high contrast situation from emerging, which is when really competent people get hired in your department. Then sooner or later your management figures out that your activities are not worth a penny in contrast to a real competent person, then your fraud of a career falls apart.
Another thing that insecure incompetent bullies regularly do, is they attack people, discredit them, and if someone respond to the harassment then they blame them for all of it. The term for this is a "crybully". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crybully
It's not my attitude, it's yours.
You just pretend to find fault in everything, because you are insecure.
100% of the cases when a competent engineer is called an shole, it is because some incompetent people are insecure in their job. The only way to keep your job with the 6 figure salary is by preventing any kind of high contrast situation from emerging, which is when really competent people get hired in your department. Then sooner or later your management figures out that your activities are not worth a penny in contrast to a real competent person, then your fraud of a career falls apart.
Another thing that insecure incompetent bullies regularly do, is they attack people, discredit them, and if someone respond to the harassment then they blame them for all of it. The term for this is a "crybully". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crybully
Good luck man. You’re going to need it.
None of your rambling makes any sense at all. What the issue boils down to is this:
You have a strike against you based on the litany of people before you with unrealistic expectations. You compound that by also fulfilling a typical SV holier than thou engineer stereotype. That’s two strikes.
Finally, you ask questions and argue the answers. Strike three.
None of your rambling makes any sense at all. What the issue boils down to is this:
You have a strike against you based on the litany of people before you with unrealistic expectations. You compound that by also fulfilling a typical SV holier than thou engineer stereotype. That’s two strikes.
Finally, you ask questions and argue the answers. Strike three.
Because I initially dared to claim that my expertise is above average, all these incompetent people like you attacked me on this forum thread. Then I responded and now you blame all the brawl on me. In your eyes I sinned against radical egalitarianism. The fight didn't start when I responded, it started when you and your friends attacked me initially. Your career is a fraud and you are a crybully, and you know that. It doesn't matter how many crybullies form a mob, it doesn't make it right. You are not any kind of moral authority, despite you pretend to be.
Because I initially dared to claim that my expertise is above average, all these incompetent people like you attacked me on this forum thread. Then I responded and now you blame all the brawl on me. In your eyes I sinned against radical egalitarianism. The fight didn't start when I responded, it started when you and your friends attacked me initially. Your career is a fraud and you are a crybully, and you know that. It doesn't matter how many crybullies form a mob, it doesn't make it right. You are not any kind of moral authority, despite you pretend to be.
Dude. Check the prescription... you’re all over the map.
I said many TX employers don’t like hiring SV engineers because they have unrealistic expectations. The rest of that lunacy is on you.
Dude. Check the prescription... you’re all over the map.
I said many TX employers don’t like hiring SV engineers because they have unrealistic expectations. The rest of that lunacy is on you.
What expectations?
I explained above that almost everyone who moves out of SV are expecting a pay cut of about 30%. Some hiring managers assume that SV engineers expect no pay cut, without even having a conversation.
what expectations?
I explained above that almost everyone who moves out of sv are expecting a pay cut of about 30%. Some hiring managers assume that sv engineers expect no pay cut, without even having a conversation.
based on actual experience, your assertion is false.
Silicon Valley engineer trying to move to East Coast or a southern state.
I applied at most companies, but none of them shown any interest.
If I applied here in SV locally, at least some of them would have responded.
Have you asked people to independently review your resume?
There is an enormous demand for engineers in SV. Someone not only not being inundated with unsolicited offers but also only receiving responses to "some" resume submissions tells me there's something not right with your resume. It isn't telling people what you think it is.
Have you asked people to independently review your resume?
There is an enormous demand for engineers in SV. Someone not only not being inundated with unsolicited offers but also only receiving responses to "some" resume submissions tells me there's something not right with your resume. It isn't telling people what you think it is.
yeah... but what is it? I can only guess.
Some people say I have to not take credit for anything I have done, rather only mention what our team has accomplished. But I am not going to do that, because I work best in asymmetrical teams as lead, otherwise I would have to cut back on my performance like 80% that is a waste for both me and my employer.
Another thing my resume does not have is an ivy league diploma and less than few years experience. At one big corporation, my friend tole me they might hire me for a low $100k salary, but they rather hire ivy league fresh grads for $160k starting salary and hope to train them to have half my expertise after years of employment. Nothing I can do about that.
I get contacted by recruiters often, mostly startups or few big companies, but ALL from the silicon valley. Some of the bigger companies contacted me several times, while some other big companies never contacted me. There is some difference between hiring strategy between companies. But I'm afraid some geographical regions might have customs that all locals follow.
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