Haseeb Qureshi

This is a great read. I wish the author had listed a bit more about their offers and which they ended up taking. The author didn't list any advice regarding negotiation but I found these old articles by Haseeb Qureshi very useful when I was doing this in 2018: https://haseebq.com/how-not-to-bomb-your-offer-negotiation/

I found the following article to be helpful in understanding some of these processes https://haseebq.com/ethereum-is-now-unforkable-thanks-to-defi/

If you want to get your feet wet with a short writeup online, I found these two blog posts (part 1 and 2) to be extremely valuable. It does a fantastic job of making sure you're mentally framing the situation correctly, which makes an enormous difference. part 1: https://haseebq.com/my-ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer/ part 2: https://haseebq.com/how-not-to-bomb-your-offer-negotiation/

BATNA is king. If you have a great alternative, you're not being difficult, you're just being honest. My second-most-linked negotiation post, after the OP, is https://haseebq.com/how-not-to-bomb-your-offer-negotiation/

Well organized, but a lot of noise. This is honestly the best guide I saw (got a job at a FAANG company following it): https://haseebq.com/how-to-break-into-tech-job-hunting-and-interviews/

A short but great guide [1] was written by Haseeb Qureshi on how to negotiate job offers. If I'm not mistaken, he was hired by AirBnb about a year after finishing a coding bootcamp. [1] https://haseebq.com/my-ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer/

I was just in the rabbit hole in this guy’s posts about tech job strategy is worth reading - I started here https://haseebq.com/my-ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer/ but he covers a good amount of algo resources and writes well.

Some resources: Highly recommended Patio11's podcast: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2016/06/03/kalzumeus-podcast-episode-12-salar… A general article on employment negotiation: http://haseebq.com/how-not-to-bomb-your-offer-negotiation

Read this blog : http://haseebq.com/ This guy majored in English, was a world class poker player before he made his move into tech. In 1 year he learned enough to crush every single interview in top tech companies ( Google, Uber. Airbnb, etc. to name a few ). His blog posts provides information in extreme details. It might be of help. Cheers!

One great example is Haseeb, who spent two years of all his life programming. He now commands a $250k salary (which, I say more power to him for exploiting our current interview system). I don't doubt that Haseeb is an excellent programmer. But not everyone has two years to devote to mastering the interview system like him, and there are plenty of skills you won't get just by doing competitive programming. http://haseebq.com/farewell-app-academy-hello-airbnb-part-i/

FYI, he's actually quite technically talented. Let's assume less and RTFA more. http://haseebq.com/farewell-app-academy-hello-airbnb-part-ii/ Excerpt: ... many people are drawing the conclusion that I primarily got a job at Airbnb by being really good at negotiating, or gaming the system, or something like that. If you have ever done a software engineering interview, you would know that this is completely absurd. There is no way to negotiate or charm someone into passing a software engineering interview. Much less 8 of them. If you don’t know the ins and outs of object-oriented programming, database design, asymptotic analysis, binary search trees, or how to improve the cache efficiency of an algorithm, then you’re not going to pass a computer science-heavy interview at a top company. You don’t even have a shot at it. The moral of my story is not “get really good at negotiating and you’ll get a great job.” Negotiating is important, and I certainly encourage everyone to negotiate! But first, get good at the thing you’re doing. Then worry about negotiating. I moved to San Francisco from Austin, Texas about a year ago because I decided I was going to earn-to-give. Since then I’ve been relentlessly trying to build a new career for myself, so I could earn more and donate more to charity. Entering into App Academy, barely knowing the basics of Ruby, I came into the office and grinded every day, spending 80+ hour weeks just coding and studying. I’d come in at 9AM in the…

To add to point #3, (information is power), I would advise any candidate to do research into approx. salary ranges for the type of positions they've applied to and the geographical area in which they are located. The author does lament the general trend of "pay secrecy" in part 2 [2] of his previous article on how he landed a job at Airbnb[1] but it's worthwhile to point out here. Almost any offer/salary does not exist in a vacuum but within the context of the current salary ranges (i.e. the market) for similar positions and also different positions. Look at it this way: If I tell you that apples are 2 Simoleons (§) per lb, is that a good price? There's hardly any way to know, given that I quoted it in a fictional currency. But if you know that oranges are 10§/lb, bananas are 5§/lb and that you can get a job at the grocery store selling them making 20§/hour, that gives some context to not only the prices of apples, but also the relative value of different produce and the ability to afford it. This is the essence of a market economy, which the job economy is an instance of. Sites like Glassdoor and other efforts to share salary information[3] (even if they may be subject to reporting bias) are a good way to give you more information about the relative value of any offer, which will be another tool in your kit for negotiation. Read as much as you can, as in my experience it will be well worth your time. 1. http://haseebq.com/farewell-app-academy-hello-airbnb-part-i/ 2.…

Definitely agree with you here...as a current faculty member, but someone who has been largely self-taught in recent years, I have to keep reminding myself that I myself needed the structure and artificial deadlines of homework and finals to get into the groove, to get to the point where I could get a job in which I learned more skills at a significantly faster rate (daily professional deadlines tend to do that to you). Not everyone starts out as a self-learner. Recently, a guy named Haseeb made some news for scoring a job worth $250K at Airbnb even though he was an English major who was not even a year removed from his bootcamp entry date. People were pissed but if you read the guy's story, you'd see that he's not your regular bootcamper...he was a millionaire as a teenager after teaching himself how to play poker...and this is how he describes his bootcamp experience: http://haseebq.com/farewell-app-academy-hello-airbnb-part-ii/ > Entering into App Academy, barely knowing the basics of Ruby, I came into the office and grinded every day, spending 80+ hour weeks just coding and studying. I’d come in at 9AM in the morning and leave around midnight, 7 days a week, sleeping in a bunk bed in SOMA in a 200 square feet shared room. How many students at even the best colleges can describe themselves as working that hard on anything (well, other than athletes)?

Part 2 is even wilder: https://haseebq.com/farewell-app-academy-hello-airbnb-part-ii/

The guy in the post describes doing just that: https://haseebq.com/farewell-app-academy-hello-airbnb-part-i/ 2016 was pretty wild.

EA is adjacent to Yudkowsky LessWrong Rationality-as-a-Lifestyle/Asimov's Second Foundation LARPing, which leads to some weird places like Roko's Basilisk and expensive places like the Center for Applied Rationality [0]; and it's also a fad among Silicon Valley VC/founder types [1], so it does have a rather specific techno-psuedo-intellectual sheen to it that can be suspect to those who aren't into such subcultures or scenes. [0] $3,900 for four nights https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/magazine/the-happiness-code.html [1] https://haseebq.com/why-i-became-an-effective-altruist/

Read "Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer" https://haseebq.com/my-ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer/ Discussion (two weeks ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27160934

Colleges and universities are corrupt dinosaur institutions that indoctrinate students in subjects that working devs basically never use, like calculus, Java, and recursion. COVID can't kill them off fast enough. People like Haseeb Qureshi[1] amply demonstrate that you don't need a fancy degree to break into the top echelons of FAANG. It's 2020, not 1920: just do a bootcamp, self-study using one of the free open-source curricula,[2] and projects/a high-quality portfolio are all you actually need! [1] https://haseebq.com/how-to-break-into-tech-job-hunting-and-interviews/ [2] https://github.com/ossu/computer-science

Haseeb Q notably donates 30% of their income, citing 80000 as inspiration. Really interesting life story, as well: https://haseebq.com/about/

Yeah usually something along these lines, if they press on first number I'd say something like, "I'm open to considering a variety of offers, but I'd have to see what the whole package looks like, and I'd really be interested in hearing more about the company first." https://haseebq.com/my-ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer/ I don't know if this is the specific article addressing that question, but this guys writing on negotiations was very helpful to me.

Some background reading: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/ https://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/05/01/talking-about-money/ https://haseebq.com/my-ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer/

This is a "feel-good" list without any concrete examples. Check this out instead: https://haseebq.com/my-ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer/ It is much more directly applicable to our field with concrete examples.

A substantial portion of Google engineers don’t have any degrees. Here’s one person who got a job offer from Google after doing App Academy and them being an instructor there. Lambda School is more than twice as long as App Academy so presumably they cover more. https://haseebq.com/how-to-break-into-tech-job-hunting-and-interviews/ > Despite having first learned how to code almost a year before, having a background as an English major and former professional poker player, I was able to land a total of 8 offers including Google, Uber, Yelp, and Airbnb (where I ultimately joined). In this three-part blog post I’m going to describe my advice to a job-seeker trying to break into the tech industry.

Given with multiple offers, he didn't drive hard negotiation like this guy. http://haseebq.com/farewell-app-academy-hello-airbnb-part-ii/ HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11552780

This article mentions and briefly explains smart contracts in a way that really helped me understand. http://haseebq.com/a-hacker-stole-31m-of-ether/

This guy got a job at AirBnB coming out of App Academy: http://haseebq.com/farewell-app-academy-hello-airbnb-part-ii/

I think you already know that practically, it is pretty much impossible that you will close the gap at your current company. The fact that such a large gap has persisted over multiple years demonstrates that your management doesn't reward performance in a competent manner. If you land a position at a Big 4/5, you can expect to make 300k+ (total comp), and still retain flexible work hours, PTO, etc. Competition for dev talent is fierce, and with good interview / negotiation skills, it is possible to make integer multiples of your current comp without sacrificing perks such as a good team and flexible hours. Also, read this: http://haseebq.com/how-not-to-bomb-your-offer-negotiation/

Slightly-related: has anyone interviewing with Airbnb used the author's public starting offer of $220k total compensation to negotiate their own starting offer? Genuinely curious. http://haseebq.com/farewell-app-academy-hello-airbnb-part-ii/

He explains himself here: http://haseebq.com/about/ If you didn't see his previous posts he's clearly a pretty skilled self-teacher - negotiated up to 220K offers at Google and Airbnb despite going to a bootcamp.

There is at least one other poker pro turned programmer, who ended up at AirBNB in his first job. http://haseebq.com/farewell-app-academy-hello-airbnb-part-i/ You can search for the discussion of that link on HN.