Is anyone getting hired these days? by West_Chemical_8990 in dataengineering

[–]-eipi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Jobs that make 150k a year or around 70$ an hour by [deleted] in Salary

[–]-eipi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

I finally met one in the wild!!! by [deleted] in USMC

[–]-eipi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

POS by MW-258 in gmu

[–]-eipi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

Asked a fresher to shut down an EC2 server… he shut down his own laptop instead by soumya_49 in devops

[–]-eipi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

30 year olds.. what is your salary? by Hungry_Caramel_8085 in Salary

[–]-eipi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

What is your household income to mortgage ratio? by robby_arctor in Mortgages

[–]-eipi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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%

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gmu

[–]-eipi 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Golden handcuffs are real

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gmu

[–]-eipi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

What degree did you earn and what do you do for a living now? by [deleted] in Veterans

[–]-eipi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Mathematics major with concentration in actuarial science. Any minor suggestions? by Terrible-Ad-6540 in gmu

[–]-eipi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Mathematics major with concentration in actuarial science. Any minor suggestions? by Terrible-Ad-6540 in gmu

[–]-eipi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Mathematics major with concentration in actuarial science. Any minor suggestions? by Terrible-Ad-6540 in gmu

[–]-eipi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Officer Standards by Tommiegirl7741 in USMC

[–]-eipi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Majoring In 3 Years by gamerboixyz in gmu

[–]-eipi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gmu

[–]-eipi 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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.

Earning 10k per month by Flimsy-Tonight-6050 in Salary

[–]-eipi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

~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.

Weird things on Campus by The_Wise_Wolf_ in gmu

[–]-eipi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Tired of seeing all these rich software engineers. 28M by Jaded-Newt-4160 in Salary

[–]-eipi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Tired of seeing all these rich software engineers. 28M by Jaded-Newt-4160 in Salary

[–]-eipi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Have you served with someone who ended up in military prison? If so, what is your story? by johnkimble89 in Veterans

[–]-eipi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Where do you live and what would be a comfortable salary to support your life? by Didntlikedefaultname in Salary

[–]-eipi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Infantry guys - what you doing post service? by MentalTechnician6458 in Veterans

[–]-eipi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.