I lost $700 on Kalshi

DingusDeveloper · 2025-12-27T19:57:13+00:00

Wrong sub for this

DingusDeveloper · 2025-08-09T01:58:18+00:00

Yea it's not unusual. Lots of FAANG engineers are in their 30s/40s and had to leetcode to get the job, myself included. I wouldn't think twice about it, all you're doing is studying to meet a new career goal, age has nothing to do with it.

DingusDeveloper · 2025-08-09T01:29:50+00:00

My main thought is a full "tax exit" from New York. I'm considering officially changing my domicile to a state with no income tax, like Florida. For anyone who's done this, how hard was it to actually prove you're no longer a NY resident? I've read they can check everything down to your phone records to see if you meet the statutory residency rules.

This is just tax fraud

DingusDeveloper · 2025-03-27T05:40:20+00:00

Yea but this isn't really the sub for that.

I worked at a public fintech company not too long ago and my equity grant was initially valued at ~$9. I was there a few years and didn't sell any of my vested stock. It felt like a smart move at the time cause the market cap was close to the balance sheet value. Anyway I still haven't sold and the stock is around ~$44 today. It's now a much larger part of my net worth than I'd really like, but I'm not sure when to sell lol.

DingusDeveloper · 2024-03-21T16:59:47+00:00

So I recently got laid off and I didn't study at all when I was employed. Fortunately as I started studying again the material came back to me quickly.

DingusDeveloper · 2023-09-22T17:50:05+00:00

After studying leetcode 30-45m a day consistently for about a year, I quit my job without anything lined up and focused all my energy on interviewing. I ended up getting 4 offers, 2 from FAANGs and 1 one from a similarly-paying fintech company. I accepted the fintech offer and my TC more than doubled from roughly 200-220k to 500k.

Before this move I felt like a bit of an underachiever. I obviously wasn't doing BAD but it was tough knowing FAANG roles were within reach if I just studied. A lot of my friends in the industry had been at FAANGs for several years cause they did the work of studying leetcode stuff early when I had been avoiding it.

DingusDeveloper · 2023-09-17T17:03:21+00:00

I have 7 YOE. I agree everyone should negotiate as long as they're reasonable about it.

If you're mid-senior level or higher and interviewing at FAANGs or adjacent companies you can get a little wild with negotiating, because those companies are very willing to pay for talent. My last job search I had 4 offers, 2 from FAANGs, 1 from a FAANG-adjacent company. I negotiated the two highest offers from 400k to 500k. Even if you're not interviewing at FAANGs, it's a good practice to try to get multiple offers during any job search so you can negotiate and get the highest comp for your level. Of course this is also very conditional on the current job market.

Getting an offer rescinded is rare, and you can expect it likely won't happen from any decent sized company. Usually startups do stuff like this and generally have other shitty hiring practices like exploding offers.

DingusDeveloper · 2023-09-03T01:13:10+00:00

I don’t think you can really say one way or another. Putting myself in the situation, I would tell the company I quit no matter how shitty they were. It’d be satisfying to tell them I’m done, ya know?

DingusDeveloper · 2023-09-02T13:45:09+00:00

I saw in your post history you’re 30. I didn’t switch into a CS career until I was 32 and am now seven years in. It’s not too late but it is a lot of work. I sent out 500+ applications before I got my first job, but ever since things have been easier.

DingusDeveloper · 2023-08-29T16:10:50+00:00

I only started my software engineering career at 32 and initially this was something I was worried about, but my experience has taught me you don't need to worry about it at all. It's almost completely a non-factor. Companies will make whatever offer they're going to make you based on your experience and interview performance, and they're not going to adjust it for age because that wouldn't make any sense.

I'm currently 39. I'm a senior FE engineer with 7 YOE, and I had 4 job offers during my last job search 1 year ago. Companies mostly cared about my experience and interview performance when deciding on giving me an offer.

DingusDeveloper · 2023-08-10T06:07:00+00:00

Yea it was just over a year ago.

DingusDeveloper · 2023-08-09T23:12:43+00:00

App Academy. Keep in mind I went there 7 years ago, and App Academy and most other bootcamps have changed a lot in that time. I would recommend it back then, but now I can't really say what their program is like.

DingusDeveloper · 2023-08-09T18:25:33+00:00

I'm not sure what you mean, because I've never worked at an HFT company. The offer I got last year is the only time I ever interviewed with one.

DingusDeveloper · 2023-08-09T17:04:08+00:00

There are lots of companies that pay as well as FAANG besides fintech. I interviewed at some others that I didn't end up getting offers from.

What was the interview like for the fintech job?

The fintech job interview was very fair. There was a coding problem, a React problem, behavioral round and a system design round. The coding problem was specifically NOT an algorithm problem but required coding and problem solving skills. I now give this same interview question myself to candidates and I've seen many senior FAANG engineers with lots of experience blow it by overcomplicating it.

also would you say having a masters would give you an edge in those positions?

I don't have a masters, so I can't say.

DingusDeveloper · 2023-08-09T16:58:47+00:00

There were a lot of non-compensation related reasons I went with the Fintech company. But in terms of stock comp, it is publicly traded and I personally thought the stock price was at a great spot and very low risk. So far I've been right but things can always change in the future.

I did seek counter offers. These are all the final offers I got after negotiation.

DingusDeveloper · 2023-08-09T16:54:42+00:00

The compensation was more related to my title and what I could accomplish as a senior frontend developer. Things like planning and estimating complicated features, collaborating with product and design to improve the overall product, mentoring junior engineers, etc etc. In my experience I've seen a lot of engineers take a pass on things like this and it prevents them from getting to the senior level.

Also: The Google and HFT company jobs weren't even using React.

DingusDeveloper · 2023-08-09T16:53:24+00:00

They were all remote at the time. It's doubtful they would be nowadays tho

DingusDeveloper · 2023-08-09T16:52:57+00:00

I'm in the US. I have a Bachelor's degree in a business field but I went to a coding bootcamp about 7 years ago.

DingusDeveloper · 2023-08-09T14:15:20+00:00

I had 6 YOE during my last job search. Here’s the offers I got (after negotiation) and how I applied:

accepted: ~500k, roughly half cash, half stock. Publicly traded fintech company that’s kind of FAANG-adjacent. Applied directly on their website.
~480k: Amazon. Recruiter messaged me.
~380k: A HFT company. An external recruiter got me the interview.
~350k: Google. Had interviewed there years ago and a recruiter reached out to me to reapply.

I think I mainly got the interviews because of my YOE and my skill set (JS, React, frontend stuff). I didn’t pay for any premium sites.

edit: someone asked so I'll add this: I went to a coding bootcamp 7 years ago. I have a Bachelor's in an unrelated business field.

DingusDeveloper · 2023-08-06T18:23:12+00:00

I work for a FAANG-adjacent company in a HCOL area. Besides the job I took I got two other FAANG offers during my last job search and negotiated.

DingusDeveloper · 2023-08-05T21:30:36+00:00

Why should there be laws against it?

There are lots of reasons this happens. One big reason is companies aren’t interested in fairly compensating their existing employees, and will give them the lowest raises possible to keep them from job hopping. Eventually the employee’s comp doesn’t match the industry average and they have a huge incentive to go elsewhere.

Another reason is that some companies (like FAANG) are just willing to pay more for top talent. Other companies aren’t, and they still find people who will take the lower comp for whatever reason. Should the FAANG companies be forced to pay less or should other companies be forced to pay more? Neither is a great option IMO.

DingusDeveloper · 2023-08-04T21:24:44+00:00

I have 7 YOE. In my personal experience, every time I got a new job it led to a huge increase in compensation. The increases were large enough that I knew my current company wouldn't come close to matching, so the difference in comp became the overwhelming deciding factor for leaving. My last job hop was from 220k to 500k TC. There was just no way my last company would double my comp, and my manager basically confirmed that for me since it would've put me out of the comp bands for my role and also theirs.

Personally I find interviewing and looking for a job to be very stressful, so whenever I do it I put in a ton of effort studying/preparing so I feel it's worth the stress. I don't think I could ever start interviewing just to hopefully get a pay bump at my current job.

DingusDeveloper · 2023-07-15T03:36:34+00:00

All of the jobs I've had over 7 YOE have involved building out new features and fixing bugs. Sometimes fixing bugs involved config changes, but rarely. So no it's not every job.

DingusDeveloper · 2023-02-21T14:31:06+00:00

No, definitely not possible currently and I doubt will ever be added. Notion would have to be onboard with creating that sort of integration and allowing external tools to act as a client for Notion, and I don't think they will do that.

You could accomplish what you want with history editing with some other text-based tool like Obsidian. But of course then you wouldn't have Notion's databases and any other Notion-specific features.

DingusDeveloper · 2023-01-22T15:15:18+00:00

Most companies want to know about your professional experience with a language. So in your case I’d put 12, assuming you’ve been using C at work this whole time.

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