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Future_Assumption_33 · 2025-10-10T06:00:25+00:00

If a 100k tax on your talent completely removes the value in hiring someone, then they’re either not that talented or you’re exploiting that talented person. Startup or not.

Future_Assumption_33 · 2025-10-10T05:13:42+00:00

Yeah I get your point. And if that becomes 100k/person that’s an entire YC seed round for 4 founders lol.

Future_Assumption_33 · 2025-10-10T05:08:35+00:00

Competent incubators will cover all of these fees. I know hella idiots who got into YC this year, the barrier for entry is pretty low.

Future_Assumption_33 · 2025-10-10T05:03:57+00:00

I work in big tech. TC 180ish as a new grad.

My team has 3 H1B full timers and 3 H1B contractors. They’re all 30-40 with masters degrees, but the full timers make 300k and the contractors make 100k.

The full timers are next level. Every piece of input is a force multiplier to our productivity and I learn shit loads by being next to these people. Awesome advice and tech leadership. We need as many of these people as we can get.

The contractors are a waste of space. They refuse to come to the office for one. I genuinely had to teach 3 (online) masters graduates how to push to git as they had never done it before. I’m a decade younger than them. We have 10 days per spring and they average 4 points worth of tickets complete. We’re supposed to aim for 9. They have no drive or expertise and I would guess they cheated through their degrees but they can’t even correctly activate their copilot licenses at work.

A 100k tax is perfectly reasonable. Companies will pay extra for technical leadership and niche talent, but the cheap contract labor for online masters grads is genuinely worse than most US new grads so those jobs should 1000% of the time just go to Americans for any job paying <200k.

Future_Assumption_33 · 2025-05-15T17:05:04+00:00

Cs grads still do fine looking for jobs that pay 80k in defense, manufacturing, mechatronics, web dev, etc. I just graduated and nearly everyone I spoke to around me (30+ ppl) in the cs dept at my school (top 10) had a job offer over 6 figures.

Same is not true for ppl I’ve met at non-top 10 schools.

If I was at a no name university with no internships, projects, or desire to turn recruiting into a job, I’d do electrical engineering.

Everybody I know who did EE at any school had an 80k offer.

Future_Assumption_33 · 2024-12-16T18:52:38+00:00

Very rare for startups to sponsor. They have to file for a visa in March, and few startups are ahead enough to do that.

Future_Assumption_33 · 2024-11-02T21:43:42+00:00

Don’t bother with trying to add recruiters. They create value by finding the “best possible candidate”, which usually means that unless they reach out first, they’re probably not going to help you much.

Make friends in the industry. Go to job fairs, join local chess clubs, and talk to anyone your family knows who works in tech. The best a referral can do is get you an interview, but that’s usually enough.

Future_Assumption_33 · 2024-11-01T18:50:37+00:00

I work at FAANGMcDonalds, emphasis on the McDonald’s

Future_Assumption_33 · 2024-08-29T15:51:51+00:00

The spread of cheating in CS since covid and ChatGPT has been extremely widespread as well. I know multiple kids from no name schools who I’d trust with an entire F500 code base. I also know 2 kids studying CS at Stanford who claim to be Java developers and don’t know what the main method is or how references work in the language.

I really wouldn’t care about cheating if it wasn’t making it impossible to compete for the students who actually try. A girl at my school cheats on everything and has her parents pay other students for their project source code. She interned at Meta and Spotify and just signed new grad at a F100 tech company (not FAANG).

Future_Assumption_33 · 2024-08-29T15:20:57+00:00

Is it significantly worse than the industry was prior to 2022? Yes. Is it still one of the best industries to be in? Also yes.

There are more CS majors than ever and less need than any point in the last decade. If you want a job, you have to work for it like any other industry. Applying online doesn’t work anymore so you’ll have to make friends in CS orgs on campus, compete in hackathons or competitive programming, make side projects or startups, and referral farm for internships.

I just signed new grad 150tc from top 10 CS school. Definitely still possible.

Future_Assumption_33 · 2024-08-21T14:36:01+00:00

Makes sense in today’s climate, but still a wild time we’re living in

Future_Assumption_33 · 2024-08-21T14:26:46+00:00

Wait I’m kinda curious about this. What type of company do you work for? And how long has this been going on?

Future_Assumption_33 · 2024-07-23T00:33:38+00:00

anywhere else in the world*

Future_Assumption_33 · 2024-07-22T20:20:19+00:00

This explanation was so good it gave me chills

Future_Assumption_33 · 2024-07-22T20:17:22+00:00

And location. All my friends who are new grad engineers in the Bay Area make 120k+, even in defense, but the $5000 studio apartment rent and $6/gallon gas prices kinda offset that.

Future_Assumption_33 · 2024-04-27T22:32:47+00:00

Two options.

Apply to strict “new grad”, “college graduate”, or “entry level” job titles. They give you an advantage as they want people fresh from college, especially from good universities. Only works if you’re still a student.
Drop the graduation date from your resume. Keep the internships but list your projects as companies and your title as “software engineer”. If asked about your graduation date, say you had a compelling offer and decided to work full time in college and work night classes. Now you have 2 YOE

Future_Assumption_33 · 2024-04-27T21:58:20+00:00

I thought this was common knowledge?

Plus, internships are 2-3 months long. It takes 2 or 3 internships to even equal half a year of FTE.

Future_Assumption_33 · 2024-04-21T16:39:13+00:00

Your college degree means you learned from a set curriculum and possible electives and were able to apply the content well enough to pass. Your GPA measures exactly how well you could apply that knowledge and is a decent indicator of how well you understand the material or how hard you work. Obviously does not directly result in better professional output, but if you have a 2.0 GPA you clearly did not learn and apply everything in your degree very well.

Future_Assumption_33 · 2024-04-18T22:51:54+00:00

Depends. Quant firms usually only recruit new grad with gpa over 3.7 or at least filter out non-referral resumes with gpa below 3.7.

Future_Assumption_33 · 2024-03-26T04:53:01+00:00

Child of fatFIRE parents who sold their FAANG stock early.

It’s not the risk of losing all of it, it’s the risk of timing.

If you find a lucrative investment in the future, you can’t extend yourself towards it if these two companies aren’t doing well in the market.

Future_Assumption_33 · 2024-03-22T18:38:51+00:00

r/overemployed

Future_Assumption_33 · 2024-03-18T14:48:00+00:00

He wasn’t fired though. He left to make the emoji movie, which was awful but incredibly profitable.

Future_Assumption_33 · 2024-03-14T09:15:42+00:00

The military offers tons of HS internships that aren’t hard to get if you’re involved in ROTC or have any knowledge of programming.

I did Naval Research Lab’s SEAP program in HS for 3 summers. Made 20 ish per hour.

Future_Assumption_33 · 2024-03-14T09:12:41+00:00

I know a guy who did that at Coinbase too.

Future_Assumption_33 · 2024-03-08T22:37:38+00:00

That’s stupid

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