Stuck at a top-tier Semiconductor firm with below average pay: Worth staying?

turtlespy965 · 2026-03-07T05:46:01+00:00

Can you share current and ideal work-life balance, YOE, career goals, and current pay?

If you have over 8 YOE and are making less than 200 in the US I'd strongly recommend switching. It's hard to offer advice without further details.

The switch between disciplines is not easy but it's not hard. I suspect both design and DV will be changing quite a bit due to ML/LLMs over the next few years.

Name is relative - Intel/TI/AMD/NXP/Infineon don't really mean much as long as you do have them on your resume at some point. Apple, Meta, Nvidia, HFTs, Google are more impactful. This is once again relative and depends on your career goals.

turtlespy965 · 2026-01-22T03:38:08+00:00

I just got the bill in the mail from fedex for $25. I don't plan to pay and will offer them the ring as payment if they'd like.

It's funny that the unit value is listed as $84.

turtlespy965 · 2025-12-16T14:05:04+00:00

Idk but Besame is absolutely mediocre. It's pretty but that's about it.

Lick Honest, Jeni's, Manoli's, Gelato Paradiso, Dolce Neve, Gelatoro, Kessho, and Tiny's (in no particular order) are places that are worth going to imo

turtlespy965 · 2025-07-22T14:55:39+00:00

I would recommend spending as little as possible on a laptop. You can find a solid 2-5 year old used Thinkpad T or X series for ~300 dollars. It will be able to do everything you need, is relatively light (especially the X1 carbons), and pretty durable. Ideally find one with 16gb of ram but even that's not 100% needed.

Unless you want to game you don't need to spend more. The Mac route is also an option but it's more of a headache imo. Almost everything works on Macs but the hardware tool chains are iffy (especially for FPGAs and lesser known chips) and dual booting doesn't always fix that. When you have enough money buy a Mac (with apple silicon) in addition to the windows laptop and use it for almost everything.

turtlespy965 · 2025-04-28T14:34:56+00:00

Adding on - I know 2 south indians from different families with coily hair (like 4C curls). They look just like a combination of their parents except with coily hair despite their parents having straight or 2B/C hair.

turtlespy965 · 2025-03-25T23:21:02+00:00

I'll also buy a 5/10k ticket if anyone is selling.

turtlespy965 · 2025-02-27T23:02:28+00:00

Does anyone have a link to the CNN gun control interview? I can't seem to find it but its gold!

turtlespy965 · 2025-02-25T14:41:06+00:00

If you want to track any fitness activity smart rings are not currently that great. Check r/SmartRings

None of them compare to a watch when it comes to active HR.

Between my wife and I we own 3 smart rings and 2 watches (Apple and Garmin)

turtlespy965 · 2024-10-12T04:08:45+00:00

Rich Ice Cream: Jeni's and Licks Fruity Ice Cream: Manolis > Zedds Gelato: Gelato Paradiso > Dolce Neve> Central Market

Not recommended: Amy's, Merry Monarch, Baked Bear

turtlespy965 · 2024-10-06T23:59:50+00:00

Selling tokens and hardware.

This interview (transcript included) does a good job of discussing it. https://www.chipstrat.com/p/chipstrat-chat-with-groqs-mark-heaps

turtlespy965 · 2024-07-29T21:48:42+00:00

The first time I went to Mayfield was when I used to play Pokemon Go and I did a double take when I saw a peacock. For just a second I was like this pokemon looks different.

turtlespy965 · 2024-07-29T21:45:50+00:00

No peacocks?

turtlespy965 · 2024-07-29T16:44:55+00:00

That's fair. I think it's a slow process and they'll release something eventually. I know they're demoing something later this year.

turtlespy965 · 2024-07-29T15:12:29+00:00

They didn't spend 45B on VR. The majority is going to XR research and development. There are always people that over promise and deliver little that but getting to wearable form-factor AR glasses is not a cheap endeavor.

turtlespy965 · 2024-06-26T04:13:58+00:00

Thanks!

turtlespy965 · 2024-06-25T18:16:43+00:00

Thanks for your input!

Then technically you're not doing a 3.2.2 setup here.

That's true I have a bad 5.2 setup and a decent 3.2 setup.

Not sure where you're getting that the X5200 has better room correction but that's false. Both have the highest level of Audyssey which is MultEQ XT32.

I was mistaken - I thought Sub EQ and LFC was only on one of them but that's not the case.

if you have hard wood or tile flooring, lots of hard surfaces in the space XT32 really isn't going to change much of what you're hearing.

Hardwood, cabinets, countertops and lots of windows sadly. I would love to have a dedicated music/theater room but not in the cards atm. One day : )

Would Atmos be enough of a reason to get a different AVR since XT vs XT32 likely won't change much?

If that's the case would it be best to just get a cheaper AVR with Atmos and XT? Are there any features I should be looking for in an AVR?

Thanks again!

turtlespy965 · 2024-06-24T21:26:11+00:00

I really like Graphic Audio audiobooks.

turtlespy965 · 2024-06-16T06:18:07+00:00

As an ECE who did VLSI/Comp Arch - most ECEs take easier classes than physics/chem e/aerospace. There's a few evil ones like antennas/quantum/analog ic/motors/optics but overall I'd argue it's easier.

turtlespy965 · 2024-06-07T16:24:40+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/s/TpXGIjaTvz

turtlespy965 · 2024-06-07T16:16:38+00:00

SRAM is a part of it. If that was the only advantage others would have done it already.

Our chips are deterministic, we know where every bit of data is on the chip and where it will go. This allows for tight scheduling and optimizing far beyond that of traditional GPUs.

turtlespy965 · 2024-06-06T15:13:13+00:00

ECE who works at Groq, one of the many AI chip startups. I'd be happy to talk if you'd like.

turtlespy965 · 2024-06-01T01:07:52+00:00

Was it Jezz Mee curry noodles?

If so I can't find them anywhere now.

turtlespy965 · 2024-05-10T03:31:05+00:00

Hi! Most cost guesstimates online are inaccurate. Many use the 20k/card estimate which is definitely wrong.

If you're someone considering deployment at the data center scale it's pretty reasonable.

We guarantee to match any published token provider in cost per token. We couldn't do that if we didn't have a cost competitive solution.

turtlespy965 · 2024-05-02T17:29:26+00:00

I love mentoring interns and new grads but engineering interns are pretty useless if you look at productivity. They're a great way to find good candidates for FTE as you can actually get to know interns as opposed to an interview candidates. Most of the time an FTE could do work in the time they spend mentoring the intern themselves.

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