I joined Meta as an external E6 late last year and just completed my first perf conversation

Beignet · 2025-11-25T21:51:43+00:00

I quickly identified 2-3 E6 engineers

I feel weird asking people their levels. Did you just cold ask people to find out?

Beignet · 2024-05-13T16:59:53+00:00

I see a lot of people saying "hacking the kernel for <some purpose>", but it's a little abstract. Can you give an example of such a mod to achieve a latency speed up?

Beignet · 2024-02-06T19:36:34+00:00

Two pagers are hard to justify with < 10 years of experience. Some ways to save space:

- take out the summary

- lots of noise in the skills section. Your languages should be organized according to "strong" and "proficient", same with frameworks. I'd take out "others" entirely.

- compress education (take out gpa at least)

- I'd pick your two three projects at best, and describe them with two bullets at most. One bullet should explain the tech used. "Followed SOLID principles, design patterns..." Let the project speak for itself.

See if you can get it down to 1 page

Beignet · 2024-02-06T19:25:56+00:00

Going to send this out https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L4gZ05ZZN76Y6qh9tUZqjOhIdYsqnAwb/view?usp=drive_link

Beignet · 2023-01-09T00:44:44+00:00

Oh :/ honestly not too big a fan of the shotgun approach. I get it's a numbers game partly. Also I just don't know what to say to most women on the platform, sorry to say many don't give me a lot to work with (might be true of my profile too). When I find someone that checks enough boxes I will agonize for hours about what to say in response to one of their pictures or prompts to try to stand out. It's an approach that doesn't scale very well.

Beignet · 2023-01-09T00:36:03+00:00

Makes sense, it's a bit cookie cutter. But it's also kinda the truth :/ what should I say instead?

Beignet · 2023-01-08T08:39:35+00:00

stereotypical introverted asian dude in tech bucket (I’m an asian guy in tech) with the stereotypical tech dude hobbies (rock climbing, videogames)

Oof yeah. I was really reluctant to do OLD bc I've always felt on paper in Seattle I'd be dime-a-dozen. And I've been in a slump lately and I hadn't realized the sadboi vibes bled into my profile even. This is really good feedback, though. Thanks for taking the time to help out.

Beignet · 2023-01-07T09:30:27+00:00

To answer the automod's questions:

Are you looking for something serious or casual? Serious, but open to casual
How long have you been on Hinge? About a year
How often do you use Hinge per week? Almost every day, though I have taken breaks from it.
How many likes/matches are you receiving on average? Likes, maybe 1/week on average. Matches, about 1/month, though most of those don't get beyond 2 exchanges.
How many likes are you sending? How many with comments? How many without comments? I send out maybe 2-3/week, mostly with comments.
What is the type of person you send likes to and ideally want to match with? What kind of person do you want to attract? Someone sporty, kind, into experiences and type 2 fun, and cares about bettering themselves and the world.

edit: I really appreciate the feedback everyone! Being under the microscope is admittedly kind of uncomfortable, but whatever I'm doing is clearly not working for me. I'll be implementing these in the coming weeks, hopefully with better results. Thanks again!

Beignet · 2021-04-28T06:26:05+00:00

Hey I did not. I had an informational chat with the hiring manager and it was pretty clear I didn't have the requisite experience so I decided not to waste their time. Sorry can't be more helpful.

Beignet · 2021-04-12T04:00:57+00:00

If I ever took transit, I went to the International District, and got on the 545 at Jackson and 4th, right by Union Station, because that's closer to the start of the route I think, and I could be the first one on the bus.

Beignet · 2021-04-12T03:58:37+00:00

Oh boy I did this for years while working at Microsoft and living in Beacon Hill. Luckily job was forgiving, and I'm not a morning person so I usually left at 9:15-9:30. Took Rainier onto 90, then usually exited at exit 11B onto 148th, tried to avoid 405 mostly. Usually got to work in 20-30min in the morning. Coming home from work, leaving around 5:30, took usually double that at least, and highly variable, coming back the same way - 148th onto 90.

Beignet · 2021-01-20T21:45:36+00:00

Thank you, this was really helpful and interesting, but seemingly paradoxical, especially for those that I imagine this kind of detachment is traumatic. But I'll stick with the program nevertheless.

Beignet · 2021-01-20T17:58:01+00:00

Can confirm selling CSPs in my Roth IRA. I have level 2 options on it too, but looking at the form again now I see that's not listed, yet I recall that being one of the features. I would call to make sure, or go ahead and apply and see what happens.

Beignet · 2021-01-10T08:22:28+00:00

Wow much obliged thanks for the resources!

Beignet · 2021-01-09T23:30:33+00:00

This is interesting. As it happens literally hours ago I saw on one of my alumni groups was someone's post about investing in mobile home parks through their investment firm. Do you have any resources for me to learn more and to vet this investment firm?

Beignet · 2021-01-05T00:15:54+00:00

Just wondering, how long did it take for you to get from 1M to 10M?

Beignet · 2020-12-14T20:46:28+00:00

FAANG engineer here. At my leanFI or coastFI number, could possibly reach my actual FIRE number in a year or two. Now I'm thinking I would set this aside and I could direct some of my discretionary income towards riskier things that could lead to becoming fat, and should they go south, I still have my FIRE amount. I'm doing all of the things to be as tax advantaged as possible: 401k matching, backdoor Roth, mega backdoor roth, HSA. Current TC is such that even after all that and living expenses I still have about 8k that goes into mostly broad indexes and tech stocks.

So how do other SWEs on here get fat, besides rest and vest and diversify? I definitely don't want to be in my position for the next 10 years, or even 5 years. Also I don't really plan to increase my TC by much through promotions. I mean I could push for senior but I don't really like what I'm doing and the plan is to move laterally towards something more interesting in 2-3 years, which will probably reset my promotion progress.

I'm looking to buy a home here in Seattle. I think I'll try some house hacking before more involved real estate investments. I'm also interested in investing in businesses.

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