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I make 180k and spend around 35k a year. Easy to save money when only providing for yourself and living with roommates. I live in a major American city and don’t feel like I’m penny pinching at all, but I’m not really into “classic” money spending activities like drinking and shopping. Saved well over 3 years of expenses this year alone.
Is that 180k base or TC (including stock, etc)?
Let me show you the backdoor: Find a company whose open source projects you are interested in. Dive in and and start fixing things. Then if you really like it after a couple weeks start nudging around for a job. If you do good work they'll just give it to you, no bullshit funnel required. I like this method because you aren't just doing l33t coding exercises to work on some sight unseen codebase that makes you suicid…
This 1 weird trick of doing free work and hoping they 1) have headcount 2) pay attention / see value in your free work. > … you are test driving each other. Unless you think the way they run their open source projects is the way their entire company works, you’re really not.
The strategy strikes me as a little weird but not crazy. If you like open source already, it might make a lot of sense.
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What do you mean? I had a job the entire time, and I interviewed at MSFT and NFLX in the meantime. Otherwise i would just periodically check in with my G recruiter trying to balance some urgency with politeness. I didn’t get an offer from NFLX but they came across extremely well, i’m very bullish on the company solely based on the culture and talent I met. The MSFT experience was the exact opposite!
I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but referring to companies by their stock tickers in casual conversation does not impress anyone.
I'm not laid off but actively looking to change after spending a couple of years at my current employer. Despite being a staff engineer, managing 12 engineers, and having a solid revenue stream tied to my current team - I've mostly gotten rejections without interviews, 1-2 low ball offers, or radio silence. I cannot imagine how hard this must be for those laid-off, hopefully this storm passes soon. EDIT: you cannot m…
Considering that, minus the short period of COVID lockdowns, an entire generation has really only known a healthy economy (since ~2008): I think it's going to be a tough transition.
We usually have boom and bust cycles at least every decade. COVID lockdown era gave people the false sense that we had already weathered the storm.
For those of you feeling down about being ignored, keep in mind this is the slowest hiring time of the year, with holidays and vacations, and end of year budgets. Even in down markets, hiring tends to pick up in January as managers get their hiring budgets for the new year and are back in the office. Hang in there!
Been looking for a junior developer role for 3 months now, it's been rough. Planning on switching to something else temporarly.
Let me show you the backdoor: Find a company whose open source projects you are interested in. Dive in and and start fixing things. Then if you really like it after a couple weeks start nudging around for a job. If you do good work they'll just give it to you, no bullshit funnel required. I like this method because you aren't just doing l33t coding exercises to work on some sight unseen codebase that makes you suicid…
This 1 weird trick of doing free work and hoping they 1) have headcount 2) pay attention / see value in your free work. > … you are test driving each other. Unless you think the way they run their open source projects is the way their entire company works, you’re really not.
I know this may not be the correct thread for this, and hope it doesn't come across as not being empathetic: I'm paying $100/hr (negotiable) for skills in { Rust/Actix webdev, Unreal Engine plugin development, computer vision, audio processing, signal processing, ML }. These roles will convert to salary/equity later on, once the project outgrows my ability to self-fund. We're building a cloud-based AI film and music…
Let me show you the backdoor: Find a company whose open source projects you are interested in. Dive in and and start fixing things. Then if you really like it after a couple weeks start nudging around for a job. If you do good work they'll just give it to you, no bullshit funnel required. I like this method because you aren't just doing l33t coding exercises to work on some sight unseen codebase that makes you suicid…
Let me show you the backdoor: Find a company whose open source projects you are interested in. Dive in and and start fixing things. Then if you really like it after a couple weeks start nudging around for a job. If you do good work they'll just give it to you, no bullshit funnel required. I like this method because you aren't just doing l33t coding exercises to work on some sight unseen codebase that makes you suicid…
Can confirm, this is how i got my current job. Its a great path, especially for those with no experience and straight out of university
No longer hunt for work. Instead will spend 1 year to build product for my own customers. Again, software engineering is such a great career, when you can create valuable things for others in case of crisis.
How did you find customers? This is a long term goal of mine. Trying to fit in ideation between leetcode prep and applying for jobs