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New comment by rideg in "IT Staffing Firms (TCS, Cognizant, Infosis Underpay Developers by 80–100%"

rideg — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 01:50:31 +0000

I would not say it is that flawed, since many of not most of these h1b folks work for these big companies. I don't know the exact numbers but around 2017 there were almost as many contractors at Google as FTEs working in the same offices on the same projects, but getting half or third of the FTE salaries.

New comment by rideg in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2024)"

rideg — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 21:29:33 +0000

  Location: US, Texas
  Remote: Preferred
  Willing to relocate: Maybe
  Technologies: Go, Javascript/Typescript, Java, SQL, React, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Rust
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rideg/
  Email: sandor.rideg@gmail.com

Hello , I'm Sandor and I'm looking for a remote job. I've spent ~15 years in engineering roles at bigger companies like Google or Snapchat, however during the last 3.5 years I've been working for a startup. I also have 4ish years of engineering manager exp. I am open to both IC and management roles.

Why me?

- I believe I am a good engineer, who has a "pitbull" attitude. Throw problem at me and I don't let it go until it's not solved.

- I've been a founder myself and have brought a product from idea to market.

- I know how to lead engineering teams: I've run a team of up to 12 people.

- I have been on both sides: owner, employee. This helps me to be a better team member.

- It is very easy to get along with me, I'm friendly, respectful, and kind.

- I wore many hats before: engineer, designer, product manager, engineering manager, so I have a good grasp how these people think and can act as a bridge between company silos.

Update: formatting

New study suggests global warming could be mostly an urban problem

rideg — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 23:06:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ceres-science.com/post/new-study-suggests-global-warming-could-be-mostly-an-urban-problem

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37412629

Points: 10

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New comment by rideg in "Global fertility has collapsed, with profound economic consequences"

rideg — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 04:01:39 +0000

I think there is an interesting aspect of the depopulation that I haven't seen discussed yet: the scientific progress.

If we have less and less people, there will be less brain power to innovate while as far as I can tell the innovation is getting more and more difficult as we moving forward. Just imagine inventing the wheel was probably easier than inventing the combustion engine.

I have a feeling that the huge technological advancements of the 20th century happened because of the exponentially increasing population. Also having more advanced technology helped back the population growth too.

So I think if the shrinking population will cause technological stagnation on top of the constant hardship due to the proportionally increasing number of elderly who need support.

New comment by rideg in "Some people who appear to be in a coma may be conscious"

rideg — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 01:27:10 +0000

“Also in case anyone mistakes my phrasing as some sort of pro-life or anti-suicide thing… their body their choise…” - applying a similar logic wouldn’t it fair to say: Their equipment, their choice?

New comment by rideg in "Learn how to unleash the full potential of the type system of TypeScript"

rideg — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 21:07:08 +0000

You can use type guards for something similar: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/advanced-types....

New comment by rideg in "San Francisco decriminalizes psychedelics"

rideg — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 18:20:33 +0000

The Netherlands backpedaled after a couple of very serious incidents regarding many psychedelics. Public suicide, animal sacrifice, crime etc. I don’t see how it will be different in SF.

New comment by rideg in "Stop Interviewing with Leet Code"

rideg — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 10:18:52 +0000

I think the LC interview measures how determined your are. Are you willing to spend hours and hours to solve boring/meaningless coding exercises in order to pass the interview or not? Because even if you are smart and a good coder if you haven’t seen the problem before it is extremely unlikely to give optimal solution to 2 LC medium or 1 hard problem within 45 minutes. Your only option is to practice.

So if you willing to spend your free time mindlessly practicing, you will be a good ant at the company. Which is very desired since most of business programming is boring and repetitive and does not require creativity.

Also, validating the solution is simple. Does not need too much effort and creativity from the person conducting the interview.

New comment by rideg in "Namecheap: Russia Service Termination"

rideg — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 01:26:28 +0000

I think National origin and Citizenship are protected classes and by federal law. They probably should not discriminate by them.

New comment by rideg in "This resume got me an interview"

rideg — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 23:12:29 +0000

I think it is because of the Applicant Tracking Systems. They scan for keywords and if you have them your resume gets better ranking. The actual recruiter is working only from resumes that the ATS recommends.

New comment by rideg in "Ask HN: Building a startup while working elsewhere and parenting?"

rideg — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 01:42:51 +0000

I work full-time on my upstart. I have five kids, the oldest is 7 the youngest is 1. I am not sure if I will be successful, but I think it is doable. I might have a superhero wife tho. :)

Ask HN: Does anyone know a drawing app with good touch-pad support?

rideg — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 18:06:15 +0000

During the last couple of days I have been trying to find an application that would let me to create decent drawings using my laptop. I need these for remote whiteboard sessions or similar.

Most of the apps are optimized for drawing tablets, and touchscreens, but they're extremely hard to use with touch-pads.

Does anyone know a good tool for this use case?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22869324

Points: 1

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