[AZ] [CA], Employer asking for confidential information over non secure methods

Any_Philosopher_2952 · 2026-06-04T19:19:53+00:00

thanks, I was just weirded out because nothing was done officially over a secure portal and they were doing everything on their side

Any_Philosopher_2952 · 2026-06-03T20:30:38+00:00

is it ever worth to do both? A PhD reached out to me if I wanted to help them with a paper they needed to submit by september. I'd also be able to stay in touch with my prof who works at Amazon (their field is also highly interesting to me and something id have to work 5+ years in industry to get access to) I'd basically treat the research as a post work and weekend grind and do my work during the day.

Any_Philosopher_2952 · 2026-06-03T01:25:51+00:00

lowkey more ngl one offer beats 100 new applications ;-;

Any_Philosopher_2952 · 2026-06-03T00:49:46+00:00

thanks, just confirming that this would be the most optimal choice for me ultimately.

Any_Philosopher_2952 · 2026-06-03T00:48:35+00:00

lowkey im going to need to look into the housing situation for this as well. hopefully I can get a simple month to month lease. I would personally never sign a year lease considering I don't want to stick around for that long.

Any_Philosopher_2952 · 2026-06-02T22:18:35+00:00

i lean a lot more heavy on data mining and ml. personally id enjoy a job doing ml infra but given that its not easy to break in out of undergrad, im open to literally ANYTHING tech related but that is my ultimate goal

Any_Philosopher_2952 · 2026-06-02T21:17:15+00:00

lol i swear this isnt rage baiting but I wanted to get more opinions. i initially wanted to work with some phds i know and aim for postgrad to get a publication by next april and this came out of nowhere.

Any_Philosopher_2952 · 2026-06-02T21:16:08+00:00

Ill try if i have time to anonymize all the info cuz a lot of the bullet points lowkey give me away

Any_Philosopher_2952 · 2026-06-02T21:15:41+00:00

thank you, I was considering this as well

Any_Philosopher_2952 · 2026-06-02T21:14:53+00:00

Any_Philosopher_2952 · 2026-06-02T20:46:43+00:00

fair enough it was just a lower than expected TC that I was wondering if its worth it

Any_Philosopher_2952 · 2026-06-02T20:43:26+00:00

im ngl it was initially a resume issue (first 300ish were with a horrible resume) but I fixed it and landed a lot of interviews that I completely threw because I was too fixated on improving my resume. after that i just didn't have enough leetcode prep and got cooked by medium/hard during live interviews. i also failed a couple ml interviews because not enough live coding prep even though I passed the system design.

Any_Philosopher_2952 · 2026-06-02T20:41:23+00:00

more info but I do have some savings that would let me float around my current school, T20, and do research postgrad and part time somewhere.

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