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End of year ratings don't mean shit

If you think busting your ass for a top rating buys you job security here, think again. I just got laid off yesterday despite scoring a solid 4 on my EOY review. My manager literally spent our last 1:1 singing my praises and telling me how critical I was to the upcoming roadmap, only for me to wake ...Read more

LLMs aint it

Unmistakably great tool that has totally transformed how work is being done, but reaching diminishing returns on every new release. Every new version of the frontier models feels gamified for benchmarks, with output quality improvements really being smoke and mirrors. AI is here to stay, but LLMs wo...Read more

Notion vs Harvey AI?

Got offers from Notion and Harvey for senior. Leaning towards Notion because Harvey definitely felt like it was a company run by lawyers (had to make a PowerPoint presentation for the onsite). Curious about culture / WLB / growth / liquidity. Harvey — 500k TC Notion — 600k TC Roughly 50-50 split ...Read more

Feel so behind compared to peers

Will get straight to point: I & wife (both 32 Yr old), have $500K in stocks, and $400K in house equity. I feel so behind when I talk to my peers especially when they discuss their $2M+ investment portfolio. Household TC: $450K #tech #investment

How do I install GitHub on my Mac? I’m not a coder. I can’t find the app on App Store and YouTube steps are weird

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Told the girl I’m seeing I’m prepping for Anthropic and she called me scum of the earth

We’ve been seeing each other for a few months. Last night I mentioned I’m prepping for Anthropic interviews for an SWE role and she completely flipped. Called me scum of the earth, said working on AI is destroying the world, and that anyone chasing those jobs is part of the problem. I tried to expl...Read more

Everyone in tech is poor.

Everyone in tech has money but no time. Sev 1 calls. Oncall, weekends, evenings all dedicated to work. Also, layoffs so you spend the money you earned to prepare for interviews again. Then, what’s the use of money? Everyone is actually poor but they don’t have time to realize that. No one in tech...Read more

Is it true in Atlassian 45% got exceeds rating this year ?

Thats fking great, I thought they were pip factory, what happened ?

The jump from the SDE 2 role to Senior while applying outside of the FAANG fair?

I am currently SDE 2 at Microsoft (L61) and am trying to apply externally. I have 5+ years of experience in total. It's been cold applying to 70+ jobs so far. For smaller companies like Reddit, Expedia, Wealthfront, Mozilla have been applying to Senior Software Engineer. But keep getting rejections ...Read more

Networth at age 30?

What was your networth at 30 / on track to be at 30 Exclude inheritance. Yea it’s NW, but it’s not what I’m interested in. Include all other forms of value. House, 401k, brokerage, vested options, debts, notable physical assets such as expensive car or art, etc

How do people in the bay feel knowing they can likely never own a home?

Or if they do, it will be something tiny no room to breathe. Same for NYC. Growing up in the Midwest, you can have massive homes for sub $500k. You could mortgage the home for even just $100k TC. In the bay you pay for something with less than 1/2 the square footage but cost $2-3 million, and you n...Read more