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This thread of backend engineers discovering what ACID databases are, and asking if it matters, feels like it touches on a fundamental tension in our industry Would you require that a backend engineer know what ACID is to hire them? Even if they sling PostgreSQL like a champ?
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Succeed. Fail. Get a star performance review. Get a mediocre performance review. Fuck around and do nothing. It doesn't seem to matter. The range of possibility there is a raise of 0-5%. Answer the recruiters and you get a minimum 20% raise. I am currently in line for a 50% raise. I have hopped every 11-14 months at this point and gone from 65K to 80K to 120K to 180K if I accept my latest job offer. And I have never passed a leetcode challenge in my life that didn't use a Greedy algo, so I am not even good at interviewing. I have never worked for a company that was so good that it offered stock options. What the fuck is an ACID database? Damned if I know as a senior backend engineer. But even then, with no real interviewing skill, I still do far better interviewing than trying at my job. I am an extremely risk-averse and cowardly individual, so should be the prime type of person to be kept comfortable in a bucket with piddly increases. I take forever to get used to and to trust peop
"This career feels like a few key hours every year with a few near mandatory year-long cool-down periods in between where what you do barely matters." 😬 Who else has felt like this and what did you do about it? old.reddit.com/r/cscareerques
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