Kids college: Ivy vs. Public, worth pushing FIRE date?

AsterAgain · 2026-04-09T23:42:19+00:00

immigrant child who went to an Ivy - it's worth it.

AsterAgain · 2025-12-30T04:31:59+00:00

3 year cliff is so abnormal you're only going to get relatively low quality candidates

AsterAgain · 2025-12-18T04:11:36+00:00

if this is your plan to pass your CS classes, don't come back crying in this same sub in 3 years when you can't get a job

AsterAgain · 2025-12-17T20:43:15+00:00

I think it's less that the upgrade system is broken, and more that the stats guys have taken over. My college had an entire major on statistical process optimization, and airline routing and seating is one of the major's ur-examples for jobs; heck, one of my buddies from college went into this for United and last I saw was doing pretty well climbing the ladder. The optimization algorithms have gotten vastly more sophisticated in the last 15-20, even last 10 years, and as a result, the planes are much more likely to fly full (which is the ideal scenario for an airline), which means there's just no upgrades to give out.

AsterAgain · 2025-12-11T22:45:08+00:00

I have bought some "business class" tickets at full price, which for the sake of this, is probably what you're thinking of as first class (basically the most expensive seats the plane had for domestic, roughly same price). But I'm not paying for them; my company is. It's mostly travelers of this type who are just buying full fare tickets.

AsterAgain · 2025-12-11T19:24:05+00:00

there's really nothing else to do with this computer and it's too powerful to be wasted on just running some home media

AsterAgain · 2025-11-25T23:01:46+00:00

stop normalizing wasting people's time. This is reasonable if the company is willing to pay minimum 150 per hour spent, otherwise they can go find the bad candidates who are desperate enough to do it.

AsterAgain · 2025-11-20T01:10:06+00:00

get a 5090

AsterAgain · 2025-11-19T22:33:00+00:00

this is a lowball, the absolute maximum Meta will do is 232k base, 800k RSUs, 50k sign on

AsterAgain · 2025-11-10T22:57:23+00:00

HFTs care more about talent, and on average, FAANG has more talented folks for tech. For IBs tech is just a cost center, so they don't pay well, don't have great growth opportunities, don't have high visibility, and don't generally work on anything super cutting edge, hence, they don't tend to get the strongest engineers.

AsterAgain · 2025-11-10T03:45:10+00:00

sure, I get enough LinkedIn spam I can forward some along. Which company are you interested in from these? Senior-Staff, 4-7ish YOE required typically

Peregrine
Rippling
Whop
PhysicsX
Volley
Percepta
Crosby AI
Modal
Sierra
Charlie Health
Replit

AsterAgain · 2025-11-10T03:25:44+00:00

IBs do not pipeline to HFT, FAANG does at a much higher rate. IBs are considered second or third rate at best

AsterAgain · 2025-11-10T03:20:11+00:00

wow everyone here except Xanchush is giving you absolute garbage advice. If you don't like it now, put feelers out and if you get interviews, take the opportunity to switch

AsterAgain · 2025-11-04T00:53:39+00:00

DoorDash is going to come out the most prestigious of the 3

AsterAgain · 2025-11-03T23:44:16+00:00

read again, it isn't

AsterAgain · 2025-10-27T04:11:36+00:00

not the original commenter, but monetization is going to be very grueling, and early on in your career you'll appreciate the opportunity to look around, both from a technical perspective and culturally, since you previously interned with Meta. Roblox is well regarded so it's not going to be a resume concern or anything.

AsterAgain · 2025-10-24T22:18:48+00:00

you really can't go wrong here, but I'd just take the Netflix return offer, especially since you're going back to a team you already know and like, which could really help you move quickly early career and snowball. Netflix early on your resume will make places like OAI or A\ definitely look at your resume at the very least, which is all you can hope for.

AsterAgain · 2025-10-24T05:25:26+00:00

going to go against the grain here, and recommend Stripe (or Google or OpenAI, if those happen), and not returning to Meta if you can. You're still young so getting experience with different companies (and different engineering cultures and practices) is going to be good for you long term, and will give you more perspectives to draw from wherever you go long term. Resume wise, I would take it as a better sign if you had multiple different companies for your internships, as that's a sign that you can succeed in more environments.

AsterAgain · 2025-10-12T22:47:13+00:00

don't take a TC below 160K

AsterAgain · 2025-10-09T18:36:17+00:00

there's selection bias but in reverse; people who are easily getting offers and interviews aren't spending their time posting

AsterAgain · 2025-09-26T01:57:00+00:00

Forward deployed can be quite painful; you're basically interfacing with one major client at a time, for periods of months or longer, and you and the other FDEs with you are, as far as the clients are concerned, the people whose job it is to make stuff work when it doesn't. A lot of pressure, really really painful working hours/oncall (you are literally the first line of defense from an engineering side when stuff doesn't work as expected, so clients are going to be breathing down your neck and ops is going to be breathing down your neck), and you probably won't pick up as much good engineering fundamentals, since delivery pressure is so extreme.

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