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Unpopular Opinion: With the influx of H1Bs, I am often the smartest person in the room
When I joined Amazon 12–15 years ago, the hiring bar meant something. I was just an average Joe, surrounded by the smartest and most innovative folks. You couldn't bluff or fake because you would look stupid. Fast forward to today, with the massive influx of mediocre, low-quality H1B hires over the last few years, the talent pool has completely cratered. My intelligence hasn't changed, but suddenly I feel like the smartest person in every single meeting.
Thank you Tech! | Tech Industry - Blind
Thank you Tech! I hardly can sleep by 1 AM almost for the past month and my sleeping can not last more than 2-3 hours. Its 4:30 AM now and just cant close my eye in calmness. Stress about future, how we will manage bill and have a productive career seeing the daily changes in job market makes me nervous. Anyways. TC:220k
surprising lack of indians at frontier ai companies
surprising lack of indians at frontier ai companies not a racist post here, but i’m wondering why it is that there’s such a stark lack of indians at the frontier ai companies? if we really are bringing in the brightest and best via h1b, why aren’t they thriving at these companies? 🤔
Oracle folks buckle up
Anything above 3M is pure greed ? Is Nvidia the new Google? Trump is the best president ever! Another round of meta layoffs 7/22 LMAO At this point this company is a f*cking joke to me
AI engineer job market
AI engineer job market How’s job market for “AI engineer” now? It’s not traditional MLE role but Applied GenAI Eng after LLM rises. I do see many startups (excluding OpenAI and Anthropic) recruiting such role. But is it risky to join such pre-IPO startups esp for the “Equity” part?
Offer Evaluation - Blind
The only way I'd consider risking it is if they make 30% - 40% of your salary a sign-on bonus that you get day one, without having to sign some agreement that says you have to pay it back if you get fired within a year. Before declining the job I would straight up ask them if they could facilitate such a compensation structure. Otherwise you move there and sign a 12-month lease that you can't get out of and a month later their billionaire CEO orders another mass layoff. Leaving you high and dry.
Director in Meta tbd / super intelligence labs has been serially abusing people
Director in Meta tbd / super intelligence labs has been serially abusing people It has clearly been based on race. People get jobs and move on but this has been happening for years. The various suicides / deaths at the company roll up to the same org.
Recent interviews all shifted to practical coding
Recent interviews all shifted to practical coding Am i the only one that actually prefers leetcode coding rounds? These “practical” coding rounds are all unpredictable and just makes it harder to prepare because we can’t anticipate if the coding round is going to be practical or leetcode style so I still end up having to prepare for LC anyway. All the bullshit about ai round, practical coding round is really tiring
Brutal job market
Brutal job market At Airbnb currently. Struggling to get into companies better than Airbnb Rejected at Anthropic, Sierra, and Harvey and similarly good companies 🤦♂️. The only offers I’ve gotten are strictly worse than staying TC 750k
50yo, $9m+, want to retire
First of all, I understand I’m better off than many. This is not an “I feel poor” post. And not intended to be humble brag. If you can’t relate, please try to refrain from negative comments. But I know this is Blind, so... 9M+ (~6m in taxable accts, ~3m in 401k/ira) ~2m home not included in the 9m with ~144k left on mortgage at 2.75% I am unable to pull the trigger because I worry about inflation, cost of health care, senior living, in later years.
Job market has never been worse
Job market has never been worse 10+ YOE, no recruiters in my inbox, and half the time I apply to something where my resume matches the job requirements exactly I don't even get a callback. Like wtf are you looking for? This is exactly what you said you're looking for! It's so ogre bros...
I feel really bad for Americans
There are mills that are being run in India and China for years to funnel these people into the US to take American jobs and these snakes lobby politicians for immigration laws... And they scream that Americans can't do these jobs when they let the public education system rot to its core. None of the H1B jobs that I see at FAANG really are that advanced that Americans can't do.
Evaluate Nvidia HW offer
Standard base for IC5 in NV. Usually IC5 refresh is 150k ish. The RSU number sounds a tad bit lower for Ic5. My offer from 2 years ago was 380k for IC4.
That was the top
That was the top Bubble finally popped, everyone says it was going to be when the shitty AI companies IPO but it looks like everyone is exiting early. See you guys at S&P 500 dropping to below 5k. Nobody is buying the hype anymore, it’s over.
I'm 28 with 1.3M in debt and 350k TC. AMA.
I have been working and making money since I was 21. Made a lot of bad financial decisions. Realised a bit late but late better than never. I constantly find ways to make more and more money but blow the money I make. Woulda have easily been 1.5MM+ NW had I been careful with the money and invested in stocks instead of gambling on options. Haha. Anyways - AMA maybe my experience will help you. Oh, 800k out of that 1.3M is my parent's house btw. I'm a degenerate but a good son. TC: 350k.
Hit $10 million today
Hit $10 million today Finally hit $10 today. My stats: Age: 45 Race: Chinese but born and raised in Seattle Married 2 young kids Sole bread winner No debt Own house Target retirement age: 50 TC: 380K Key stocks: palantir, mgm grand, Trimble, tesla, Nvidia, apple, intel, coinbase Portfolio value below, all liquid asset.
Layoffs confirmed at Apple
Because I decided to interview with them seriously this time because they were the only ones not laying off people?
Here is your signal to work harder
Most of my career has been at tier 3 companies think IBM, Cisco, Visa, Capital One etc and to be honest I probably worked longer hours at my previous companies than now. If you are already a senior level engineer stop making excuses, chasing meaningless staff titles, and spend more time on interviewing. There are a lot of miserable people here that will complain about everything, but the reality is that being at a FAANG tier company is the best QOL improvement you can make for you and your family.
The party is just getting started
The party is just getting started The Nasdaq had to halt trading because Cerebras is up so much in the IPO! This is a great AI chip company in Sunnyvale. All you doomers and gloomers who said tech stocks and Bay Area housing were going down have another thing coming. This is generational wealth being created here!!
4000 (5%) layoffs at Cisco
This IS the reset bro. Don't have anyone who is excited to be in CS. CS enrollment at unis are also at a massive low. No clue what is happening. Just ride the wave best you can.
Now is the good time to start loading cash
Now is the good time to start loading cash Don’t invest further bros. Everything is high. Load cash before next opportunity around in Oct. Go around buying things when it a blood bath out there. Select only one answer ...View Result
Top AI Startups Which Are Not OpenAI/Anthropic
Top AI Startups Which Are Not OpenAI/Anthropic Basically the title. Getting into OpenAI or Anthropic now is close to impossible. So, which other AI startups are seeing rapid growth and command splendid reputation?
$MU is free money
$MU is free money There will be infinite demand for AI agents and hence infinite demand for memory. Go max leverage. This can't go wrong. $1500 by end of June Select only one answer ...View Result
Meta is just layoff after layoff
Do not join this company. The layoffs never end and perf causes many pips as well. You have a very very low chance of surviving more than 2 years here, maybe about 70% if you’re lucky. It’s seriously like Beast Games here, except there is no $5 million dollar prize. You probably have better chance of winning a small prize at Beast Games! They have cut refreshers by 15% two years in a row and no one believes in Meta stock, this makes the comp is no longer competitive with the rest of FAANG.
Senior Director at Tinder vs. Staff at Anthropic
I used tinder as a placeholder lol, it’s one of the other dating apps but I can’t tell how much level inflation happens at the match.com companies and hoping folks who have worked there or have recruited managers from there can give some insight.
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