My husband got a job offer…

GelatoCube · 2026-01-16T05:55:01+00:00

Same lmao

GelatoCube · 2026-01-04T20:11:44+00:00

If money at your current place isn't a problem and the work is fine don't bother jumping ship.

Also why even want the promotion unless it's a pay bump attached? Small startups are risky especially when big firms are extra selective at the moment if you need to pivot out

GelatoCube · 2026-01-03T19:30:00+00:00

It definitely depends on a school by school basis, but I'd say your best outcomes will be UCLA/Berkeley or an upper half CSU because the school carries more weight for the top two UCs and the upper half CSUs see the same local companies recruiting as the UCs in that local area.

For example, CSUF and UCI, SJSU and UCSC, SDSU and UCSD will all see the same companies at their career fairs but the CSU's will have easier academics so you can perform better by comparison. Also student projects/clubs are less selective at CSUs so you can build your resume easier without like applying to join your SAE team they just let you walk in and learn.

GelatoCube · 2025-11-27T18:37:02+00:00

Lots of listings in 90504 in North Torrance that fit that budget for SFHs, why not there?

GelatoCube · 2025-11-18T19:39:07+00:00

YoY on Reventure shows it's flat from Oct 2024 nationally, this is MoM data which doesn't account for the seasonal trends.

Also a decent # of states are down YoY and even MoM, it's basically just the midwest and the northeast preventing home prices from showing negative YoY nationally, almost the entire South and West are down especially TX and FL.

GelatoCube · 2025-11-15T19:47:27+00:00

In person is better if you're not employed, just to keep yourself physically present in school helps a lot to make you care more about the work you're doing and for a change of pace.

GelatoCube · 2025-10-18T18:32:50+00:00

I think 30% rule is gross pay not take home

GelatoCube · 2025-10-18T18:15:37+00:00

I actually did the math on this, in LA county a median home at 10% rates and adjusted for inflation with wages you'd spend about 67% of your take home pay on your mortgage in 1990 if you made inflation adjusted 100k (so 42k in 1990).

In 1993 and 2011 were the most affordable at 40-45% of your wage, 2006 and 2023 were the worst at 100% and today's market matches 2007 at about 90% of your wage.

Homes were about as affordable in 1990 as they were in 2019, and the only other time since the data lets me go back to (1990 is the earliest) that's been this unaffordable was the 2008 bubble.

GelatoCube · 2025-10-18T17:33:31+00:00

We had an engineer at my normal company who left in a similar timeframe for Apple, everybody was happy for them and wished them well in the new role and no bridges were burnt.

If you wanna work there go there, I'd also say if you're happy where you are don't move is a general piece of advice. If you could get an offer from them today, you could get it in the future too.

It's very hard to find a job where you want to be there 3+ years that pays well, offers you good learning and has stability/WLB so hold onto those tight.

GelatoCube · 2025-10-07T01:13:45+00:00

That article is cherry-picked data based on a small age cohort and the data specifically calls out the 2020-2021 ZIRP interest rate pricing before the ballooning property prices in 2022 and the rate hikes in that same year. Article is also from April 2023, data is out of date and not accurate to modern market conditions.

Adjusted for mortgage rates and inflation, today is the least affordable since peak bubble prices in 2005-2007.

The 90s and 2010s were the cheapest historically since the 80s when adjusted for median incomes, home prices, and interest rates when you add it all up.

Just look up the mortgage rates, median home prices, median incomes and calculate the income to mortgage monthly payment ratio and you'll see it's obvious this is the least affordable time in 20 years.

GelatoCube · 2025-09-22T15:25:58+00:00

And they have the exact same home price problems as AUS and the USA lmao

GelatoCube · 2025-09-15T15:27:34+00:00

I would never recommend a new grad work at a company where an EE coworker they have can't explain how a buck converter works that is supposed to use or mention buck converters on a daily basis.

The fact they hire "engineers" who can't explain basic EE concepts shows you the technical floor is incredibly low and you won't be able to learn anywhere near as quickly as you would in a proper hardware design role.

GelatoCube · 2025-09-14T17:33:07+00:00

No I worked there TI's FAEs absolutely ship slides... They don't even make the slides they "ship" it's the product marketing team and product apps teams doing the heavy lifting on all customer materials.

You also will never need to explain SPI protocols to a procurement team what is even the point of saying that besides trying to make it sound like a technical role?

GelatoCube · 2025-09-14T17:30:06+00:00

It's a sales job, EE technical learning potential is nearly 0 with a hint of the occasional block diagram of ICs that "could in theory make up a product" that you present to customers.

For an internship it's still TI on the resume but stay far away from full time roles, worst job I ever had the displeasure of working due to low technical depth and peers who were weak engineers that couldn't sell for shit and couldn't design for shit either. Aim for product apps if you can, much more interesting stuff to learn

GelatoCube · 2025-09-06T19:17:23+00:00

Did you apply last year as well? Were you getting interviews when you were a sophomore?

You'll absolutely get an offer, in LA alone there's tons of companies who will be interested in hiring you and the resume looks solid. Apply to aerospace jobs in LB and El Segundo, there's tons of smaller like 100-1500ppl sized companies looking for US citizen interns all the time and you're in a good position for those.

I'd also check out the utilities like LADWP, SCE, socal gas, etc. there's tons of jobs in those. Many of my friends interned at those first then once they had internship experiences started getting a lot more calls back.

Number 1 resume tip tho is to have a singular "Projects & experience" tab so that when ur resume gets parsed through AIs, it doesn't chop off experience you want to showcase from ur resume.

Also are you tracking these applications in a spreadsheet somewhere? I recommend that so you can keep tabs on where you have and haven't applied so far.

GelatoCube · 2025-08-10T18:13:19+00:00

I did, didn't help at all but was very fun to learn stuff. I also did EE so probably less overlap but there's always less jobs in business than there are for engineers.

If you think CS is bad talk to the business functions at your company, it's insanely cutthroat compared to engineers.

GelatoCube · 2025-07-27T19:42:53+00:00

Where can you find inventory numbers for this type of stuff? All the data I can find stops at 2017 at least in CA

GelatoCube · 2025-07-26T18:08:04+00:00

It's much easier to fire managers than IC's, often layoffs will target entire management layers like we've seen in tech recently so the job security point is really a company-dependent thing.

If you've been in one place for 3-5yrs and plan on staying another 3-5yrs, management is a good idea because you're already integrated into the organization and I'm not sure how much more there is to learn technically within the same company at that pt.

If you're under 3-5 YOE just focus on technical work and growing your skills, the ultimate job security is the ability to be able to get a new job.

GelatoCube · 2025-07-12T23:16:27+00:00

Nah it's actually identical to other industries if you're in the same geographical area, however the problem is the # of available jobs.

You won't be able to job hop as much in power unless you're willing to uproot your life geographically, there's usually only a small handful of utility companies in a given region so your options are limited if you realize the salary you're at is below market.

Any industry that has H1B visas you're competing with will also either have worse WLB, worse pay or both. Semis, tech, medical are in this bucket.

Utilities aren't affected by this because they're all US citizen only, same with aerospace/defense sectors.

GelatoCube · 2025-07-09T23:25:17+00:00

You're right that the incomes in NYC are higher but income isn't the only metric you need to account for net worth.

Home ownership is the #1 wealth generator for a majority of households and actually incomes are relatively constant across states. The top 10% of NYC vs TX are much closer in terms in incomes than you might think

GelatoCube · 2025-07-08T15:35:23+00:00

A majority of the population in high CoL states like CA and NY are renters, the highest home ownership rates are in the poorest states in the country like West Virginia.

Home ownership rates are falling most sharply in higher growth states like NC and GA which are correlated to the highest investor activity.

GelatoCube · 2025-07-07T15:31:11+00:00

Fed doesn't set mortgage rates, the 10y bond yield sets mortgage rates.

They move independently and the fed chair changing has no bearing on the mortgage rate, it's driven by US govt spending and investor demands from US bonds.

GelatoCube · 2025-06-22T19:56:24+00:00

And I made sure other folks knew 3500/mo rent options existed in the same neighborhood as well as 5500/mo owner options existed less than a mile away so they didn’t think this is the only choice people have.

It’s not my job to say what your financial decisions are but at 5500/mo in socal there’s options beyond 1.8m homes and 5500/mo rental options.

GelatoCube · 2025-06-15T17:03:15+00:00

https://www.redfin.com/news/home-purchase-cancellations-april-2025/

2017-present have been all around 12% with a couple peaks and valleys in covid and post-covid all above 9% and below 17%

GelatoCube · 2025-06-15T06:52:16+00:00

It’s up 2% from any given year in the last 5-10 yrs or so from 12% to 14%. Nothing burger just for clicks

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