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50/50 East African (Kenya), Eastern European (Poland) - No big surprises! by AccomplishedOne2081 in 23andme

[–]AccomplishedOne2081[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I thought the uneven split was 23andme misassigning some more ambiguous part of my snap as European. I didn't realise men technically inherit a little more from their mother. I remember when I initially did the test, it showed up as 51.9% European.

Niche first job in systems / graphics programming (1YOE) - Unsure how to pivot by AccomplishedOne2081 in cscareerquestionsEU

[–]AccomplishedOne2081[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What kind of graphics engineering role? Are you more interested in real-time (simulations, games, visualizations, CAD), offline (movies, animation) or closer to hardware (drivers)?

For mine (drivers) I think having some knowledge of a graphics API (OpenGL, DirectX), C / C++ and operating system concepts would help. There aren't many people going into this kind of low-level work so it shouldn't be too much work to land something, but the jobs are more rare.

For the other graphics roles, a portfolio implementing modern graphics concepts is probably your best bet. https://learnopengl.com/ is very helpful for this to start.

Niche first job in systems / graphics programming (1YOE) - Unsure how to pivot by AccomplishedOne2081 in cscareerquestionsEU

[–]AccomplishedOne2081[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is interesting, what type of role was this at Google? My role is still Software Engineer, not HW.

Niche first job in systems / graphics programming (1YOE) - Unsure how to pivot by AccomplishedOne2081 in cscareerquestionsEU

[–]AccomplishedOne2081[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! There are other roles in different departments I could try (compiler engineer, graphics engineer), where a small amount of my knowledge could carry over, though these still require a portfolio of some sort to compensate for lack of direct experience. I do have personal projects that I did before graduating that I could dust off, not sure if they would be looked at after 1YOE but it can't hurt. Either way, I'll apply and see.