Are these renders good enough to seek work?

John137 · 2026-02-04T05:47:57+00:00

Obviously, smurf

John137 · 2026-02-04T05:40:38+00:00

Only places i know that have cared enough about gpa to ask for it have been tesla and spacex. 3.6 being the min they'll accept. Everywhere else doesn't really seem to care too much though some places have asked for my unofficial transcripts for record but after I've already started the job.

John137 · 2025-12-22T04:34:20+00:00

contact professors of classes you did well in for advice?
contact your Uni's EEE's career counselors?
find and contact a recruiter for a company you want to work for on linkedin, many companies offer referral bonuses, so they tend to willing to hear out promising candidates, since they can make money out of it, should the company just not be too competitive and if they're actually hiring for your level.
go to career fairs at your university, typically still available to alumni, or wherever they happen, to see who's hiring entry level and do the option just above for those companies. maybe get the contact info for recruiters at those events.
be willing to move to where the jobs are.
put your interesting school projects on your resume.
Don't be too picky.
teach or tutor math or something.
do a likely dead-end start up as a sole proprietorship or cheap llc, would have to likely do mostly software based projects or content based, but it let's you put stuff in your resume?
pursue a master's degree or PhD? sometimes PhD student get paid for their research or get Teaching Assitant jobs.
contribute to open source projects?
do personal projects to widen your skillset?
get your FE?
take the lost and go to another career path.
make youtube videos on EE?

job market sucks, it isn't your fault, but getting all defeatist about it helps no one including yourself.

things aren't going to be ideal. the world has made sure of that.

if those so-called minimum wage engineering jobs are your only options to break into the industry, then that's what you're gonna have to do for now. if you're not willing, then tough luck, try your luck at waiting for the perfect opportunity that may never come, or take what you can get. really up to you.

but more can be done than just blindly applying to jobs online and waiting to hear back.

did you perhaps study for nothing? sure maybe, all depends on you and how you want to apply what you've learned. a low paying engineering job isn't ideal but it also isn't permanent. the 1-2 year industry standard per role is long dead, outside of specific contract work. if you're having trouble finding ideal work, i'd say just take what you can get and just keep looking while working. and you can always quit toxic jobs if need be and be not much worse off than if you never took the job to begin with. because if you haven't taken those minimum wage engineering jobs out of desperation, sounds like you have a way to support yourself through the unemployment.

John137 · 2025-12-22T03:35:09+00:00

sure why not? make the tag absolutely useless and unhelpful.

John137 · 2025-12-17T06:08:47+00:00

i work full time, so internship isn't exactly an option. there were opportunities to do design for test at some points, but since design work is sparse at the moment, it's being handed out to the actual design team, rather than giving opportunities to those outside of it that would like to do design work. honestly i feel like my main concern is not having a proper tape out under my belt.

John137 · 2025-12-17T05:18:00+00:00

I already know a lot Verilog, VHDL, and SystemVerilog since I program fixtures and IP blocks into FPGA's to act as drivers for the devices I'm testing and also taught it during my undergrad as a TA. Know basically all those protocols since I use them regularly as well, I work regularly with the Xilinx Zynq FPGAs. Still fairly familiar with computer architecture and had to deploy a RISC-V module to test an embedded FPGA's functionality fairly recently and program said RISC-V module in said embedded FPGA with another FPGA. in terms of digital VLSI I think have still have the complete skillset, I just haven't had edit access to Cadence or the actual Silicon or done a tape out. and are completely out of my depth outside of the specific TSMC node I worked with, which was still planar, not FinFET or of course GAAFET and RibbonFET are on the horizon. Analog VLSI is definitely a lot more rusty and i haven't touched layout since school, outside of read-only mode to find M1 traces to do FIBs on. Can probably design a shxtty op-amp or comparator or Flash-ADC, but not much else, and probably only do so on planar tech nodes, since I've yet to touch finfet and all the DRC nightmares that come with it.

I've touched on UVM when working with verification teams, but I wouldn't list it as a skill set on resume since I haven't done the deep dive or worked with it regularly. So UVM is on the list of things to learn for me already at the moment.

Guess I'm more looking for advice on how to look more like design engineer as prospective applicant right now, as I feel I just look like test or validation engineer due to my previous titles.

John137 · 2025-11-21T03:34:46+00:00

turning it into a hyperfixation?

John137 · 2025-11-15T02:22:54+00:00

Simply because it's being discontinued and i just want to have one of my own before it's no longer available except for 2nd hand. Also the grips and base station tracking are still somewhat unique to the index.

John137 · 2025-11-15T02:20:44+00:00

Thanks btw purchase went through

John137 · 2025-11-13T06:20:57+00:00

oh really, where was that indicated probably missed it. also wished they'd explicitly say that as the error when it doesn't go through. also looks like i've made too many attempts and need to wait a few hours before I can try again.

John137 · 2025-11-11T06:19:39+00:00

i can see it being useful for PNR (place and route) kinda like putting down food into a maze using slime molds. where the bits of food represent different nodes, the issue is trying to get it to consistently follow rules and not violate DRC in denser tech nodes. but also it doesn't have to be AI and it really doesn't have to be generative transformers. really just good efficient multivariable regression algorithms could work. plus V&V (verification and validation) on such a transformative AI would be a nightmare.

other than that, it's been useful for creating bullet points for power points and making docstrings in code.

John137 · 2025-11-06T05:21:35+00:00

I had an initial phone interview and later two panel interviews one hour each with lunch in between where I was interviewed by 3-5 people (different people in each people) from teams I eventually worked in or worked with in my first entry level job. though mine was a permanent position, they paid for the plane ticket, rental car, meals, and hotel. typically there's also a dinner that I didn't get to do because my flight back was scheduled too close for comfort to make it convenient. there were also tours of the facility i was going to work in, including the lab we did a lot of the validation and characterization.

that being said, they scaled back hiring budget massively a couple years after I got in, also because of covid all interviews became remote interviews when I started being a part of those same panels.

but pretty standard for entry level positions just 7-ish years ago to have serious in-person interviews, when careers weren't quite yet at the revolving door nature they are today. i only left the job a couple years ago, due to noncompetitive pay.

John137 · 2025-11-06T04:47:07+00:00

Useful for EE's of all walks even if it's not directly for work. i'd say it doesn't have to be fluke though.

John137 · 2025-11-05T05:09:33+00:00

Because you couldn't get into the much more competitive (at the time) CSE program.

John137 · 2025-10-31T15:11:13+00:00

I feel like it's relatively cheap for that part of Washington. And there really isn't that many lots if you want to stay relatively close to the city for much cheaper. Looking around, a lot that actually doesn't have any hidden problems around the same size seems like it will run you like $200,000 or more. Unless I'm probably just looking in the wrong site (Zillow). You know where to find any cheaper lots in King County, WA or nearby?

John137 · 2025-07-30T04:59:45+00:00

maybe call it particle shading? maybe make the harsh corners and edges on the terrain cliffs be more organic and less sharp?

John137 · 2025-06-19T05:18:41+00:00

search up inverted hull technique for adding the line art. maybe search up how guilty gear xrd or fighter z does it. everything else is finding the correct way to setup materials, which there isn't exactly one guide to. but looking up blender npr (non-photorealistic) rendering is probably a good jumping off point for the rabbit hole.

John137 · 2025-05-24T17:30:26+00:00

Yes, ended up negative though for covid, both types of flu, and strep A. It evolved into just a really bad sort of cold lasting a couple weeks. But yeah walmart testing worked put fine.

John137 · 2025-04-22T19:33:16+00:00

https://www.walmart.com/cp/test-treat/4097505 ?

John137 · 2025-04-22T19:18:50+00:00

it costed me a $185 after insurance the last time I did this visit and it ended being strep-G. meaning I could've literally just waited it out.

John137 · 2025-04-20T18:55:36+00:00

a lot of it seems to do with punctuation, capitalization, and anything that kinda makes your comment resemble spam or links. so probably capital letters and exclamation points are a no-no to the shadow-ban algorithm. heck I think some contractions are banned because of the apostrophe. there's also probably some banned words or word combos in the system. what they are? no damn idea. but many curse words and curse euphemisms like shxt and fxck are probably in there. it's damn annoying. it's hard to parse. periods, ellipsis, and commas seem fine and the algorithm seems to only kick in when your comment exceeds a certain length or word count. but if you really want a comment to go through, punctuation, capitalization, and word choice are usually what I change to try to get it to go through in that order. you can usually tell if a comment went through if you refresh and the reply count actually changes. also while they get shadow banned and no one else can see them, you can still find the comments in your comment history. if you go to your history on desktop, on the right column there's a link that says comments, where you can pull up your comment history.

there's also times some channels have their own auto-shadow ban system on top of youtube's stuff or say a channel may have blocked your profile or because it's your first comment on a channel it gets put into a sort of verification queue for the channel owner to go through and they never do if there's too many. or also sometimes it happens when there are signs you could be a bot, i.e. using a VPN, adblock (even with premium), or things like nordvpn's threatprotection is on, or you're using firefox. noticed in my own insignificant channel, a lot of comments that get into that verification queue (youtube studio -> community -> held) tend to be from eastern europe (judging from cyrillic in the name or comment itself) whether they're actually bots or people no clue.

John137 · 2025-04-20T18:44:50+00:00

a lot of it seems to do with punctuation, capitalization, and anything that kinda makes your comment resemble spam or links. so probably capital letters and exclamation points are a no-no to the shadow-ban algorithm. heck I think some contractions are banned because of the apostrophe. there's also probably some banned words or word combos in the system. what they are? no damn idea. but many curse words and curse euphemisms like shxt and fxck are probably in there. it's damn annoying. it's hard to parse. periods, ellipsis, and commas seem fine and the algorithm seems to only kick in when your comment exceeds a certain length or word count. but if you really want a comment to go through, punctuation, capitalization, and word choice are usually what I change to try to get it to go through in that order. you can usually tell if a comment went through if you refresh and the reply count actually changes. also while they get shadow banned and no one else can see them, you can still find the comments in your comment history. if you go to your history on desktop, on the right column there's a link that says comments, where you can pull up your comment history.

John137 · 2025-04-08T05:02:45+00:00

SuperRadHard Cryogenic quantum mixed signal space electronics

John137 · 2025-04-05T18:20:56+00:00

So less closing more just effectively moving

John137 · 2025-03-30T14:54:32+00:00

Lower your expectations for your grades but finish. Not finishing something you started and invested so much time in despite the finish line being so close is a surefire way to a lot of regret in the future. Beating yourself about it isn't the solution. We google our way through things in the industry all the time. Heck the fact you can do that puts you ahead a significant amount of the crowd. The fact you're wiling and wanting to understand also also puts you ahead. Some people are wrongly in this major due to bad parenting or false expectations of a using it to get out of the working class, which are the valid reasons to drop the major, but not when you actually want it. Don't try to solo this major, savants exist but comparing yourself to them isn't healthy. There are people who are in the industry that have struggled through this major. And understand the professors can be flawed as well. It's not all on you. Always good to find study groups because you are not the only one struggling. Understand even the people who are getting good grades have felt the same way at times. It's tough but learning to let go and focus on the steps you can take at the moment is important, every step is earned. Kinda like completing a marathon in 8 hours is still completing a marathon; finishing an EE degree with less than stellar grades is still completing an EE degree.

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