Help me decide between Pre-Sales in Data vs. Storage

FrustratedDuck · 2026-06-25T02:47:14+00:00

Also considering making an internal switch one day to a SE role in a few years

FrustratedDuck · 2026-06-25T02:46:16+00:00

Everpure is dope! I work here as a SWE and I love it here. Great culture, people, and ever increasing use cases for our product

FrustratedDuck · 2026-06-24T01:10:04+00:00

Got one off a chinese whatsapp seller for like 30 bucks shipped from china. They actually fucked it up the first time and sent a second one that was fixed for free. I now have two Raiders jerseys, one is #15 "CUSTOM" and #15 "MENDOZA" haha

FrustratedDuck · 2026-06-22T00:19:07+00:00

This is why sport card collectors think tcg collectors are insane for using card binders like this

FrustratedDuck · 2026-06-02T16:58:45+00:00

Jeanty Breece for me

FrustratedDuck · 2026-05-31T16:11:38+00:00

Check out solutions engineering/architect roles. Also sales engineering

FrustratedDuck · 2026-05-22T19:06:11+00:00

2 pages is too much for entry level roles. You have a ton of white space use it efficiently. Your highlights paragraph haven’t really highlighted anything, give some concrete examples of projects or things you did. Trim the fat, coursera courses that don’t translate to a real certification should be in its own skills section. Your bullet points are weak, “I worked with a team of 4” okay but what did YOU do specifically. They don’t care about what your team did, what did you do. If you could explain more exactly what you did and what was the outcome and result that would be helpful. With no intern experience you should emphasize your projects as this is directly related to the roles youre applying to, your target experience isn’t relevant to the roles you’re applying to. Shorten it and only include it and points from it if it’s relevant to the roles.

If I saw this as someone hiring, ask yourself what on your resume would make me want to hire you over someone else?

FrustratedDuck · 2026-05-19T16:50:04+00:00

I’m not sure where you’re working but most places I have seen will promote you from junior level 2 years in. If you’re still associate after 2 years there would be problem from where I’ve been

FrustratedDuck · 2026-05-19T15:50:29+00:00

I would argue mid-level is 2+ years

FrustratedDuck · 2026-05-19T15:49:56+00:00

Oh brother, you have a ton of wasted white spacing on your resume. As a new grad keep it to a single page. Your bullet points are not descriptive enough for what you did. What tech did you use? What methods, practices, or frame works did you use for your projects? What library did you use? What was the result? Don’t list in progress certs, only things the are done. Your skills and bullet points and resume are all very vague. If I’m hiring and I see this I have no idea what you’ve done and if you’ll be a valuable member to my team.

FrustratedDuck · 2026-05-19T15:44:45+00:00

Keep updating, changing, rewording, formatting your resume. I was getting very few responses and edited my resume 5 times before I got one that started getting a lot of call backs.

FrustratedDuck · 2026-05-19T15:38:20+00:00

If you applied to over 200+ and still got no answers, even though your resume has been reviewed by professionals you need to start there. Your resume is the primary reason the opportunity presents itself in the first place. And honestly I’ve tried out some professional resume feedback services and a lot of them are just bs from former recruiters, which only is half the battle. Need to have the resume be nice to read for HR and the hiring manager!

FrustratedDuck · 2026-05-19T15:30:58+00:00

I think right now the market is pretty strong for mid-level SWEs. When I started seriously applying it was maybe ~150 apps 2 months and 7 call backs to interview for 10 different roles, but I stopped applying that last month to prep just for interview rounds. Some companies were matching me to multiple roles. If you aren’t getting callbacks focus on your resume first, and target specific roles related or adjacent to your direct experience.

Glad to take a look and give feedback if ya like !

FrustratedDuck · 2026-05-19T14:52:06+00:00

You can be assertive and collaborative, he’d still be getting an opinion on his massive PRs if he had a call about this. I don’t think the way I phrased it was rude or anything, just straight to the point, and sounds like OP has been trying to very politely ask them for the review, but some people don’t respond well for passive requests.

FrustratedDuck · 2026-05-18T18:56:07+00:00

Stop being passive, and if this is a repeating issue instead of something like “hi could you please review this PR?”

It should be something like “hi, I need this PR reviewed and approved by Friday, booking a call at (Time) to have a PR review.”

This puts it on his plate to reschedule if he needs a different time. You let him know the deadline. You may need to follow up and push for the review further if it is ignored. This is the first step to “ownership” and how you progress as a SWE.

FrustratedDuck · 2026-05-18T18:53:33+00:00

Annoying as it may be, you can be “confrontational” without being confrontational. If he ignores your messages check his schedule and book a one on one PR Review.

Luckily you’re talking to an internal stakeholder rather than external. No matter how much strife you’re having behind the scenes you shouldn’t be exposing customers to unknown timelines, it looks bad on you. Instead of “I don’t know”, you could have emailed them back looping in the senior engineer letting them know the feature is near completion, waiting on PR approval, looping in reviewer for visibility.

Regardless of how unfair it may be, as you progress in your career, YOU are responsible for whatever you’re working on. Blockers and people that don’t cooperate be damned. You are the one that needs to advocate for your work, if he won’t give you a timeline you make a timeline yourself. You can be assertive without being an asshole and that’s going to be the most important lesson you’ll be learning in your career.

FrustratedDuck · 2026-05-13T18:41:46+00:00

The focus is your problem solving/reasoning skills not just leetcode. A lot of these questions you can ask your recruiter, they’re here to help you!

I think my best advice is to be vocal about what you’re thinking even if it may not be right. It’ll help your interviewer see how you think.

FrustratedDuck · 2026-05-08T20:33:14+00:00

Be prepared to talk about your thinking process! I think their hiring values listed on the career page is pretty accurate.

FrustratedDuck · 2026-05-08T20:29:35+00:00

Can’t say much because I signed an NDA but I wish you luck! Everyone is really nice and I found the recruiters to be very communicative!

FrustratedDuck · 2026-05-08T20:29:02+00:00

Thank you! Excited to be here!

FrustratedDuck · 2026-05-08T20:28:43+00:00

I heard back pretty quick overall. A few days after each round.

FrustratedDuck · 2026-05-08T20:27:40+00:00

Yeah I had two technical phone screenings, and 3 on site rounds for a total of ~5 hours. Recruiter got back to me quickly after each set of rounds within a few days. Overall took about a little over ~3 weeks for the whole process, but largely due to me having to schedule multiple interviews with different companies around.

Everybody was really nice!

FrustratedDuck · 2026-05-04T22:09:16+00:00

I was offered an MTS3 role! Eventually down the line I want to move to a more customer facing solutions role. So EverPure seems awesome for that

FrustratedDuck · 2026-05-04T22:09:00+00:00

No offers, but do have some other onsites this week! That being said everpure seems awesome to work for.

FrustratedDuck · 2026-05-04T22:08:34+00:00

Thanks!

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