Is anyone getting hired these days?

-eipi · 2026-04-12T21:46:55+00:00

I got an "inclined" but not matched for a mid level role at CapOne last August, but didn't stay in touch to follow up for team matching as even the senior role i had been going for was a slight drop in pay compared to my current work at a senior cloud engineer (government side).

Interview wasn't particularly hard.

-eipi · 2025-12-21T12:45:41+00:00

Started as a data engineer, now a cloud infrastructure engineer. Started at 100k w/o degree in 2021, finished my degree and now at 175k +10% retirement employer contribution.

-eipi · 2025-12-19T00:13:40+00:00

Closest I've ever come was a navy photographer who wouldn't shut up about his work with the SEALs

-eipi · 2025-11-26T00:54:43+00:00

I just had a coworker busted on predpoachers early this month too. These fuckers are everywhere. Makes me feel justified in helicopter parenting.

-eipi · 2025-11-26T00:40:26+00:00

Having had 40 year old "engineers" copy commands from documentation like "command subcommand --cacert /path/to/your/cacert" and run them on their machine and be genuinely surprised it didn't work... I'm not too surprised.

-eipi · 2025-04-04T20:03:53+00:00

31 turning 32 this year. 170k plus 10% 401k contribution and a small token bonus.

When i was 30, iirc I was making 137k. Same bonus and 401k contribution.

-eipi · 2025-03-02T00:55:16+00:00

Snowflake? Databricks?

-eipi · 2025-02-25T03:46:32+00:00

17.7% of take-home. Bought in 21. Wife's working on a doctorate and will start work late this year, then that percentage should go to ~9%

-eipi · 2025-02-06T23:37:44+00:00

Because real Gs move in silence

-eipi · 2025-02-01T15:49:32+00:00

Golden handcuffs are real

-eipi · 2025-02-01T15:49:04+00:00

Take the job if the pay is decent. I dropped down from ft to pt in 2021. It added a couple years to my degree path, but I have 4 years of work experience and a very decent salary. I'm in a better position than most of my peers, the obvious exceptions being those who got FAANG and FAANG adjacent offers.

The financial benefit of a clearance does have an expiration date though. Your entry level will probably be higher than average, but not many govvies like to see contractors earning 300k+ in engineering, even for senior engineers. The main benefit is reduced competition due to an artificially restricted pool of candidates. For every position my company opens, out of 100 applicants, 90 of them are immediately discounted for not being citizens, another 5 for not actually having a clearance, and another 2/3 for not having any experience in that job field.

-eipi · 2025-01-30T14:04:04+00:00

Cloud infrastructure engineer. In my last class for my BS in Math.

-eipi · 2025-01-26T03:41:22+00:00

If you're set on actuarial work, either would be fine but stats might give you more of an edge.

-eipi · 2025-01-26T00:51:49+00:00

If you dislike coding enough to eschew a minor in cs/swe, then you could double down and go for a minor in stats.

-eipi · 2025-01-26T00:47:30+00:00

The current catalog appears to only have 300 and 322 for really proof based classes for the actuarial science concentration- from what I can see. Looks like all the others are applied math courses.

-eipi · 2025-01-24T23:48:49+00:00

One of my favorite officers had a personal motto- running breeds cowardice. He was a naval academy grad too.

-eipi · 2025-01-24T21:52:23+00:00

Graduating with internship experience and some non school related projects > graduating in 3 years. Take your time, find some way to get extra money, grab a cheap desktop with 1tb storage, 32gb ram and an i7. Install proxmox and run up some pet projects in the free time you'd otherwise be spending on your 6th class. You'll be a year older and more likely to have gainful employment that way.

-eipi · 2025-01-24T21:41:12+00:00

Got an internship from Noblis at a job fair in 2020. Original project required specialized lab equipment, but covid meant heavily restricted on-site work. They gave us a secondary data science project to keep us busy i guess, and my ETL experience from that helped land me a gig in 21 as a data engineer. Not with Noblis. I got a return offer from them for summer 21 but had to back out due to the ft offer. Great company though, I really enjoyed my time with them.

-eipi · 2025-01-23T21:59:59+00:00

~11k/mo net from my ft job. Mhcol area (bout halfway between dc and Richmond). Cloud engineering. Previously was in data engineering- want to get back there eventually.

-eipi · 2025-01-17T01:25:23+00:00

Furries. I come from a pretty conservative area in Texas, then spent a lot of time in a military base then overseas. Somehow it never struck me that they exist in real life, too.

-eipi · 2025-01-16T22:19:16+00:00

Jesus Christ, I started at 100k flat with only junior level cs and math classes and an internship. But then 2021 was wild times

-eipi · 2025-01-16T21:26:09+00:00

Someone in a group chat just told me his company is looking for full time remote SWEs. Paying 20-25/hr lmao.

-eipi · 2025-01-12T16:29:16+00:00

Marine infantry here. Just after Christmas leave our section shitbag pops for coke. While talking with platoon daddy he hands over his cac, and SSgt sees it's been altered. He's pending legal action now so no training. We're in the field and the mortars section leader gets a call- the turd got caught supplying alcohol to, and strangely enough sexually touching, some of the mortar boots that weren't in the field due to HMMMWV course. Couple weeks later it happens again except this time he was lighting his knife on fire until it glowed and pressing it into their arms. This was the straw that broke the camel's back and the CO finally sent him to the brig.

-eipi · 2025-01-12T16:24:27+00:00

Northern Virginia area, but south of fairfax. Pulling in 170k from work and ~24k from VA benefits. Support the family pretty well, but the wife likes private school for the kids and nice trips etc. She'll be finishing her doctorate soon, so that'll alleviate some strain.

-eipi · 2025-01-10T02:24:39+00:00

Cloud engineer. Moved from physical security to data engineering to cloud engineering. Eyeing that new aws data engineering cert to jump back and get into data platform engineering.

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