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Is It a Big No-No to Take a Vodka Shot Before a Video Interview?
RYzZJv @ Amazon
I’m more easygoing and chatty when I’m just a hint tipsy, and since it’s a video interview where they can’t smell me, I’m wondering if it’s okay to take a vodka shot beforehand. Is this a risky move, or do you think it’s manageable?
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Looking for a Chill Job
asatya_ @ Amazon
Is there a company where I can chill, and coast by working ~20 hrs a week or less?
I’ve reached a point where my side gig of freelance development is earning ~300k or so every year, with very little effort (I outsource most dev work to guys in India, costs me peanuts). I know 300k isn’t a lot but my wife works at Meta so we have a good HHTC. I’m burnt out at my current job (also Meta) too.
I want to still have some job so that I have insurance, and a backup option to stay relevant in the job market. Also good to have a job if my wife is laid off or something. I’m okay to go as low as 200k if I can coast and the job is stress-free.
Thoughts? What companies do folks recommend?
TC 450k, YoE 5
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1.5 yrs in with 0 work done at Amazon. How much longer will I last?
agHX08 @ Amazon
I joined Amazon 1.5 yrs ago after I was included in Google's layoff. I joined with the intention of doing "nothing", getting free money, and eventually get pip'd. I put in about ~8 hours / week, mostly in meetings. Without exaggeration, I owned 0 kingpin goal (Amazon's goal process), resolved 7 tickets, and delivered 1 automated dashboard that I built using chatGPT in 3 days (but said it took 3 months).
I'm a senior TPM with 370k TC in MCoL. My current day-to-day is saying no to other teams wanting to integrate with my team or have them own 95%+ of the integration work.
I've not been informed of any pip headed my way. How much longer will I last?
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Hustling is better than being a FAANG engineer
bkNI37 @ Microsoft
This is complete bullshit. First of all, most FAANG engineers don’t even hit $500k unless they waste 10 years of their life on this rat race without any social life or freedom. Secondly, even if you finally reach staff at Meta or Google and make $800k, it’s still not a great deal when you factor in the fact that your income is dependent on you being employed, healthy, consistently delivering and performing and sacrificing your personal time often.
Once you cross a certain TC threshold like $600k, an extra $100k or $200k is worth less than work life balance and time with family and friends. So many content creators and course sellers make that much but they own their own business which means they will continue to earn money even if they are sick or not working for a few years and can’t be fired by anyone.
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23andMe is very soon going to be a forgotten brand!!!!
hlo61z @ 23andMe
Another big layoff!!
I do want to say that the talent I have seen in this company is beyond imaginable. Everyone is super smart, and oh so intelligent. I have often boasted about it to my family and friends how amazingly smart colleagues I have.
I guess none of that matters when the leadership isn’t capable anymore to save the company. It’s so discouraging to see such industry-smart colleagues leaving. I’m actively looking as well and I’m 100% confident my skills will land me another job very soon! Just super disappointed with everything going on these days at the company, and I won’t be surprised if these company becomes forgotten very soon!
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To impacted intel candidates
semiguy8 @ Lumicity
To those who were affected:
I am very sorry to hear about the intel layoffs and to those impacted.
If anyone has been impacted within the CPU related groups at Intel feel free to private message me as I have several roles open in the Bay Area and Austin, and also some remote; working in processor microarchitecture, architecture, verification, and performance modeling. Happy to refer for other groups as well but this is where I have the most volume.
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Meta is a PIP factory
GiuaTan @ Meta
Aggressive performance curves, PIP quotas, hire to fire, incompetent managers throwing ICs under the bus
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Two men compete for the gold in women's boxing
lmkw @ Amazon
After defeating all of the biological women, two biological males compete for the gold medal in women's boxing
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AI is a fad, sham & scam - prove me wrong
77($; @ Microsoft
It was a nice bubble while it lasted, OpenAI will be bankrupt in 11 months and it all will crumble just like metaverse did but with much greater pain because of the crazy spending on useless hardware that will be used to mine fake money (crypto) after the realization that it’s fucking useless and dead
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“Men don’t want to settle down these days”
Delicious😋 @ Google
If woman are proudly admitting that they have casual sex with guys they are attracted to then look for a good guy to settle down with, why would any man choose to be the “settle down” option?
Ladies at some point you need to start using common sense 🤣
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What do you think of the term "DEI hire" ?
unfairbnk @ Capital One
The term DEI literally advocates for hiring of people based on demographics like sex & race. Someone that took advantage of DEI policies now gets offended by the term "DEI hire" ?
#tech
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Why do women say
CATOPPER @ ex-Visa
They had a busy day when they work in HR. If they had busy day , my day was absolute shit.
I cant stop rolling my eyes.
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Cheating in interviews
nomatter😐 @ Google
I conducted a virtual interview yesterday and when I asked the candidate about the runtime complexity of his code, he gave me an answer but I could see he was reading off of something on his screen by the way his eyeballs moved.
C’mon, don’t do this folks. It really sucks when I see stuff like this, and it’s really unfair for those who work and study really hard for their interviews.
Okay, rant over. Thanks for attending my TED talk.
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Is it worth it to convert to Christianity?
mbci @ Workday
Current atheist but I feel like Jesus is calling to
Me low key
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6 year old highly interested in math
JNqX58 @ Adobe
I have a super passionate 6 year old math enthusiast in the house. I didn’t go to school here and I’m unaware of how to support his interest. At this point, I just want something that can feed his curiosity. Any suggestions from parents with math loving child? Thanks #parenting
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Amazon interviewer said he hates Amazon
VEes28 @ Microsoft
I just had an interview with an AWS employee and the whole interview was pretty much how much he hates Amazon. I’m dead! Amazon is so shitty that he couldn’t mention one good thing about it. He literally said he quit the team I am interviewing for because they were going to force him to relocate. He also said a few other people just left the team.
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We are actually underpaid.
OSkn80 @ Apple
Considering how little engineers it takes to make billions of dollars in software products…
We deserved to get paid way more.
One of us, can build a billion dollars product.
We are super underpaid.
TC: $600k. NW: $8.5m (NVDA, TSLA, FB, NFLX, AAPL stocks)
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What is “enough”?
donebut43 @ Microsoft
I am 43. Wife 44. 1 kid. Bay Area.
Household TC $550k (wife not in high tech).
We have 4.5M in investments spread across 401k, stocks, education fund, other.
Our house is not included in the 4.5M.
Yearly expense = 220k (includes mortgage, private school, healthcare for elderly parents, travel, cars, etc.)
We live a comfortable life and are willing to reduce cost but don’t want to leave the Bay Area due to our family and close friends.
BUT, I am also burned out and exhausted with the tech rat race and want to retire.
I have done a lot of research but still insecure about pulling the trigger.
Any advice, guidance and reassurance from those who are either in the same boat, or have been in this situation and took some steps… please share!!
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Airbnb is the king of all tech
wqwf @ Google
They give 500k for you to live in Vietnam as a senior engineer.
Houses there are like 50k.
Such easy life
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Just bought a house
Ndtj13 @ Meta
$2.2m, 20% down, 5.875% rate, monthly payment $13k
$300k cash after closing + well-funded retirement accounts, no other investments
$250k base+bonus, $580k TC, 3yoe+PhD. Spouse doesn’t work so this is household TC.
Can rent out ADU for $2500/month
E5, cliff will hit in 2027 and take TC down to $480k assuming no promo by then
If shit hits the fan then rich mommy will give me money, but I want to maintain my pride and not need it
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Why men’s responses get slower and slower?
lamps @ New
I have noticed this over a hundred times atleast.
Every single time, the guy has so much enthusiasm, to ask for my number, message, and be extra extra nice.
Make all big promises, text/chat like throughout the day, and after 1-2 months when I start to get attached, then it’s slower responses and barely calling back.
When will they grow up to be mature enough to actually invest into getting to know someone, than play these cheap mind games of chasing/lapsing?
Men, please provide insights, what should I do?
TC: 150K
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These AI startup valuations are nuts
bruhpsc @ Meta
E6 SWE at Meta.
Interviewed just to see what’s out there and got a couple of offers from AI startups.
wtf are yall smoking with these 30x or more revenue multipliers?
Recruiters be saying “this is the last chance you get in before the rocket ship takes off”
Take off from what?
Don’t get scammed guys - the classic playbook for startups. Overvaluation, then dilute the fk out of you, and likely never IPO.
TC: 620k
YOE: 6
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Can’t related to my friends anymore
M2Kzs @ Microsoft
As I climb the corporate ladder, I feel like I’m losing friends. Is this normal? I suppose the income disparity also plays a huge part but the priorities and values in my life are also different compared to theirs so I feel like I don’t fit in.
Anyone else feels this way? I’m in my early 30s, currently E5 at Meta, TC around 600 depending on the stonks. Yoe 5, 6 by the end of the year
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USA best in the world for a reason 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
DEXE58 @ Medtronic
Have to feel for French who added in home games to favor their athletes and Chinese who even after doping and paying off IOC and its officials are still so far behind with no chance of catching up.
Greatest country of all time 🇺🇸🇺🇸#misc
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Recession?
alpaca 🦙 @ Google
Control your spending by removing unnecessary spendings.
Save cash
Don’t get laid off (this requires immense luck). This is not the right time to join the “new exciting” opportunity.
Good luck guys
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Elon has destroyed X
ajsjdjdjd @ Google
There was a time when I used to love Twitter. It has now turned into a platform for transphobia, racism and hate. It is the worst social media platform at this point.
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Update: 20,000 laid off at Intel…will others follow?!
8gsjeri @ Activision Blizzard
https://nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/intel-to-cut-15-of-headcount-reports-quarterly-guidance-miss/5658891
#severance #layoff
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I was casually interviewing and got an Senior SDE offer
ZeroUnit @ Amazon
Hey folks!
I was casually interviewing outside Amazon and got a Senior SDE offer from Intuit.
I really wasn't expecting this outcome. My current team at Amazon is very chill, and now Im unsure if I should move. Can some provide me their perspective on my situation?
My questions are:
Did anyone move from Seattle to Atlanta? How did it go? I have no friends in Atlanta and might end up lonely
Is it worth joining Intuit as a Senior SDE after all the layoffs?
I don't see my promotion in the next 2 years at Amazon. Should I take the Senior position? If I get an TC increase?
L5 SDE Seattle 250k
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Can I lose 50lbs in 9 months?
sogntos @ New
This is around 36 weeks.
So comes to around 1.4 lbs per week.
Which of these options would you recommend?
1. Regular diet with 500 cals deficit exclusively from exercise. (Eat maintainance calories for target weight and add exercise).
2. Low carb diet with moderate exercise (eg walking), but deficit comes from diet.
3. Keto diet. Most deficit from diet only.
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