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They also make choices and compromises people in US don't. Every interaction in India is loaded with suspicion. Dishonesty is the baseline. Disrespect is the norm. Xenophobia is common. Insecurity is the guiding North Star. Entitlement is prevalent. Hard work is looked down. Rules are for fools and loyalty (however earned/enforced) is everything. I love my country, but those are the facts.

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Get a license for what? I don't really understand the relationship between bureaucracy and buying a book... You can buy anything you like from anywhere in the world, pay your duty online, and have it delivered to your door. I did it a couple of times with DHL, Royal Mail, and never had any issues.

I wonder what types of problems Wardley maps would create if everyone thought this way ?

Relentless focus on where your work lies on the commodification spectrum, moving up the value chain, etc.

Does the Princeton math department not schedule office hours undergraduate courses ?

The percentage of professors I have met who complain that no one is attending their course office hours is close to 100%.

Engineering schools in the UC system explicitly state during orientation that office hours are the central to the educational experience.

Wonder if US jobs are now split into 2 distinct roles - doing the work vs taking credit for the work. My limited experience in the Bay area seems to indicate that complaining about other people's work is more career beneficial than doing the work. Is this an effective method for credit/risk re-assignment after the fact?

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Does preventing burn out come down to being paid (in cash/RSU's/etc) for the productive output of others ? If you are the one generating productive surplus for others, doesn't it become hard to justify the longer it goes on.

I do not understand how people can write in their resume that they helped their company generate $100 million revenue per year, while being paid < 1 million per year and not feel like they were taken for a ride.

Things that my peers/managers have told me across 9 years working at Bay area public companies in groups that make 100's of millions in revenue

* Things could be worse * Everywhere it's the same * Someone's good time management is someone else's bad time management * The worst behaved wins - be the rhinoceros you wish to see in the world * It doesn't matter what you do, it matter what your bosses boss thinks you do * It is very likely that hiring and headcount is the only thing your boss cares about * We should stop giving RSU grants for people below <insert level> * Everyone can write code, I could easily write a million lines of code if I wanted to * It doesn't matter if you do not get a promotion, you aren't going to take this money with you when you reach heaven < some story about judas and jesus that i did not understand > * If you embarrass me in a meeting, remember that you aren't going to be present when your promotion packet comes up for review * We follow the best development practices - but we also have 3 dozen AWS accounts and manually generated security credentials we message each other in slack * etc etc etc

The least troublesome part was delivering - the hardest was accepting that US work culture confuses leverage for intelligence