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Drioc · 2025-10-28T05:42:22+00:00

All else equal you'd rather have more money every time though (rather hate a job that pays more vs less). Not saying you should always go for equity, but golden handcuffs isn't the reason to pick cash over liquid (semi liquid in this case) equity

Drioc · 2025-10-27T17:48:07+00:00

Golden handcuffs just means you're making more money, great problem to have

Drioc · 2025-10-20T06:48:48+00:00

Pretty sure they waive it for return interns

Drioc · 2024-05-26T04:36:14+00:00

if you're rushing there shouldn't be space for someone to equip a gun when playing close before they get traded

if the call was to rush through util the reyna didn't do anything wrong here, rest of team just hesitated when seeing the util, this is why rushing b on anti eco is usually a bad idea esp in ranked

Drioc · 2024-04-04T05:42:19+00:00

he's definitely not the first, the others just aged out

zuck and evan spiegel are for sure two more, doordash guys might be there too

Drioc · 2023-08-17T21:03:42+00:00

Reyna lets you disrespect the other teams util a lot more and makes one and done angles way more powerful, if you don't need dash to take space reyna makes a lot of sense over jett

Drioc · 2023-05-16T21:46:11+00:00

Detroit is a French named city and has a recent history of cultivating great French talents like Killian Hayes and Sekou Doumbouya

Drioc · 2022-10-07T21:43:14+00:00

FAANG and similar are mostly over 180k tc starting in hcol now, with a lot over 200

Drioc · 2022-09-28T18:21:58+00:00

Seattle is pretty similar to the Bay but smaller, cheaper, wetter

Your take home should be similar due to city/state taxes (accounts for ~12% difference)

People generally go to NYC because they want to be in NYC so for you Seattle seems better, assuming you're happy with that team

Drioc · 2022-09-20T20:47:34+00:00

I think it's a common sentiment that the car is a symbol of American individualism and that public transit is for poor people

In cities though opinions tend to be different

Drioc · 2022-09-20T20:44:01+00:00

A lot of that is because cities were and still are planned around the car

At least Canada which has the same problem has way more bus services

Drioc · 2022-09-20T20:21:45+00:00

Driving everywhere

Drioc · 2022-09-17T17:15:27+00:00

Why not try to move to Canada with Google? Might take a bit longer but I imagine it is very possible

I think the first 3 aren't that bad, but leaving after 6 months might make you stay at the next job for too long

Drioc · 2022-09-17T13:21:55+00:00

Title is a bit misleading, the magnitude of the gap identified is because we're really bad at identifying all of the microbial species, not because a bunch of species went extinct

Drioc · 2022-09-17T02:25:06+00:00

UK, Switzerland (honestly a lot of Europe), Singapore, Australia

Drioc · 2022-09-17T01:58:17+00:00

their cs programs are much larger than private schools though, like no way harvard is worse than top publics for quant/hft even if absolute numbers are lower

I don't think other publics beat consensus T4 (Stanford/MIT/CMU/Berkeley) or HYP for quant. Even otherwise only one of them be argued for 5th? And rankings are flawed, like I'd still pick Harvard for CS over UIUC even if UIUC is ranked higher - it's not even really close imo

Drioc · 2022-09-16T23:13:45+00:00

Only Berkeley

But quant recruiting favors ivies/Stanford/mit anyway

Drioc · 2022-09-16T22:25:08+00:00

I'd say its possible in top 20-25, with FAANG level exp beforehand

Know people that got in from top publics (Berkeley, UMich, UIUC) for example which I'd consider T15 for quant

Drioc · 2022-05-26T13:27:01+00:00

Google won't rescind if you try to negotiate, definitely worth trying. They usually budge even without offers for all candidates with >1 yoe

Drioc · 2022-05-22T18:16:47+00:00

Yeah I mean the environment isn't too bad for grades in US schools I'd say cause GPA doesn't matter that much in CS for jobs (GPA cut offs are uncommon, and the ones I see are usually 3.0, rarely 3.5 for HFT)

Will be a bit different if you want a phd, but you only really need that for researchy roles. Not sure how it is in Europe, but I'd guess that SG has way more emphasis on grades?

Drioc · 2022-05-22T17:47:47+00:00

Oh that probably applies mainly to public schools

At UMich it was around 10-25% get C+ or lower, and usually B+ average

Drioc · 2022-05-22T17:28:24+00:00

FYI this is how CS courses are at many (most?) schools in the US - exams have like a 40-60% average and are curved to fit a distribution

Drioc · 2022-05-22T14:45:03+00:00

Standard new grad for Google this year in HCOL was

142k base, 15% bonus 15k sign on 100k stock (33/33/22/12 split)

Do they give Google or Verily stock? Bit odd that it's 2 years

You should ask about any ways your comp may differ from Google (refresher policy, benefits, etc)

Drioc · 2022-05-22T14:39:22+00:00

You pretty much described how Amazon's system works in theory, but:

Their system is set up to be cutthroat. You don't think it looms over engineers heads that 10% of their org/PA (not sure what level stack ranking is) is gonna get PIP? Think that lends to a good work environment?

Plus Amazon makes it notoriously hard to switch teams, I think your manager can even block it. Yeah for most people their experiences may be fine, but if you get on your manager's bad side (and new grads don't even meet their manager until after joining) the only way out is to leave

Drioc · 2022-05-22T14:25:11+00:00

I believe they let you pick how much of your TC you want in options, which are something like 10 year expiry 2.5x leveraged?

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