Biggest jump is 400K and that's at L7, for Principal SE, the top level. Below that each level is about a $100-150K jump. Nothing to complain about, to be clear.
E6 -> E7 at Meta is $1M (which sounds a little bit crazy tbh). Google L6 -> L7 is 300k, but their numbers look smaller than what I'm privy too. A generic Level 6 to 7 (staff to senior staff) promotion can easily be $500k at a tech company.
There are so many obvious bugs in recent iOS. My favorite is the one where the carrier / wifi / clock / battery "status line" will blur to unreadability, and then ... never unblur. Kill apps, lock and unlock phone, change status line settings (like "show battery percentage")... Nope. Need to reboot the device.
Ever since switching to iOS 26, on an iPhone 16 Pro that is now only ~14 months old:
- The iPhone lockscreen does not consistently swipe away after unlocking. It just keeps stuck.
- The iphone no longer automatically connects to my Apple TV. The remote takes a second to load, and this happens each time I navigate back to the TV remote app.
- Alarms and timers do not work. I have had to set up a separate physical alarm.
- Podcasts keep crashing, and resetting to 1x speed.
- Internet connection completely drops, and only recovers once I completely reboot my phone.
- My phone starts to overheat with no discernible cause. I sometimes wake up with my phone so hot that it's almost painful.
- Once, while charging, my phone dropped to 16% battery from 85%. According to the Battery Usage chart, the Weather app (which I had not opened) used 83% of the battery in the background.
This is on top of the completely ruined, battery-killing interface.
These are all problems that cropped up since iOS 26. I had a few complaints about rough edges or missing features in iOS, but this is honestly mind boggling. Software engineering is very hard, but Apple seemed to have had a decent system.
Recently, a mandatory iOS 26.2 update hit and I had numerous messages from non-techie friends about it (who I believe had it installed over iOS 18).
There must be deep systemic problems at Apple that allowed them to destroy so much so quickly. I just hope it's not decades before we can read about the 2020s in a memoir or book.
There's no secret. This is how every single corporation operates these days. Employees chase and managers reward KPIs, real value be damned. The new game is do only what makes you look good. Anything else, bugs and all, can be a "fast follow" after shipping, which of course everyone knows is a thinly veiled way to make sure you never have to do said thing. "Promotion driven development" is real.
It's the countless little things. Like my iPhone stops playing any kind of audio if I plug it in with one charging cable but not the other. I get reminded about calendar events AFTER the event. The quality control is embarrassingly bad.
Yes, they ruined my 16e. Picking up a $400 pixel today and slapping GrapheneOS on it because the duopoly of phone software is horrific. Bugs vs spyware.
Today I'm trying my best no to scream at someone because we have a logging function (yep, a custom log function) that is writing to a file. The logging function open and closes the file on each call.
> And why is being charged relevant? You don’t send someone to prison for life for being charged.
Yup. I was charged with a felony of which I was materially innocent.
But this is the right's spin on things, the "well even if you weren't found guilty, there was enough of an issue to arrest you and charge you".
I was watching a Zoom meeting of one of our local Superior Court hearings - was a motion to revoke or modify bail conditions.
The Judge actually rebuked the prosecutor, who had tried to explain why the motion should go their way. "Blah blah, in addition, the defendant has shown no signs of remorse or regret for the situation..."
Judge: "I'm going to stop you there. The defendant pled not guilty and at this moment no verdict has been determined. In the eyes of the law and this court, they have zero obligation or requirement to show remorse or regret for their alleged actions."
Multiple cases have revealed that it seemed like police and Shotspotter worked hand-in-glove to tweak Shotspotter data and demographics to help shore up a case and make things appear more reliable than they were.
And multiple cases where, sufficiently pushed, DAs have dropped cases or dropped Shotspotter as evidence rather than have the narrative challenged too closely.
He has said his goal is for a "world with no crime. Thanks to Flock." and his goal is not aspirational, visionary, but quite literal.
He sees false negatives as more problematic than false positives. He has admitted being inspired by Minority Report (to me it's always very telling when someone takes a cautionary tale like this and finds it "inspirational").
I really despise Spotify's payout algorithm too, since you mention it.
For the longest time I was a big Tidal fan. Still am. But I feel their financials show writing on the wall for their future. But one of the reasons for that appreciation on my part was that they 1) paid a lot more, per stream, to artists (sometimes, 8-10x more than Spotify's nominal purported royalties), and 2) they didn't have an algorithm for payout that heavily favored the 800lb artists in the room over the smaller, struggling acts.
There are economies of scale. But if one of your investors owns even a single digit percentage of your company and calls you to comment on direction or strategy, if you're wise, you pick up the phone.
I mean, he's literally been quoted as thinking you need photo ID to go in a supermarket.
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