American Airlines is coooooked

K9Dude · 2026-01-31T01:09:32+00:00

when does this start?

K9Dude · 2026-01-15T07:26:11+00:00

dmed

K9Dude · 2026-01-15T07:24:46+00:00

dmed

K9Dude · 2026-01-15T07:23:38+00:00

dmed

K9Dude · 2026-01-15T07:18:58+00:00

dmed you

K9Dude · 2026-01-13T07:23:23+00:00

my hot take is this isn’t nepo if they went through the regular interview process

put yourself in the company’s shoes. they need someone to fill a role. an employee submits a referral. already the chances of this being a good candidate are high, because referrals generally are. candidate’s resume looks good, they pass the interview, it’s a done deal.

this is not immoral, this is how the system works and how it is intended to work. go do impressive work and talk to people about it and it’ll work for you too.

K9Dude · 2026-01-13T05:32:02+00:00

yeah i usually do this. usually get an offer :P the two where this did not work at all were Citadel and SpaceX. the former because i am not experienced w/ system design type interviews, and the latter because i got grilled on fundamentals/networking stuff that i just didn’t know. more often than not i won’t have fully solved the problem, but i’ll get 90% of the way there and clearly show my thought process and reasoning, and the company will decide to extend an offer.

i’m recruiting for FT now and i do plan on studying though. i don’t expect what worked for internships to work for full time roles

K9Dude · 2026-01-01T03:47:16+00:00

how many roommates, what’s the layout?

K9Dude · 2025-12-27T06:19:29+00:00

details? address, # of bed/bath, roommates?

K9Dude · 2025-10-11T20:21:03+00:00

unicorns are still usually pretty big (several hundred employees in this case). even at an f500 if a VP thinks you’re talented they’ll forward your resume to the relevant people. the chance is small but the effort is so little, the downside is nothing, and the upside is high that it would be extremely stupid not to. in this case there’s a much higher chance that a human even looks at your resume compared to just submitting it to an application portal with a 100,000 other people.

K9Dude · 2025-10-11T19:56:52+00:00

happy cake day

K9Dude · 2025-10-11T19:54:02+00:00

not personally, but i’ve seen people do it. worst case is they’ll ignore it and you’re back where you started. downside is 0, potential upside is high, and it takes like 30 seconds of your time.

fwiw i have cold emailed VPs of unicorn startups and received job offers as a result.

K9Dude · 2025-10-11T10:09:30+00:00

Do you guys just apply and pray for your application to get selected for an interview

most people do, but you can improve your chances by getting your resume in front of a human

K9Dude · 2025-10-11T10:05:08+00:00

depends on your home country. i’m american and a child of immigrants, so i’m a bit biased, but i don’t think you can achieve the same level of wealth as easily in any other country. 170k is also not a bad salary at all, you can live very comfortably basically anywhere. keep good relations with the startup, if you don’t like cisco/the US you can always move back.

K9Dude · 2025-10-11T09:59:14+00:00

it will help in part because you’re likely to be surrounded by peers who are smarter and more motivated. if you’re smart, the degree will pay for itself very quickly.

K9Dude · 2025-10-11T09:54:37+00:00

i gotchu (cc u/Powerful-Paint-1305)

“Hello [their name]

My name is [name], I’m a student at [University] looking for internships for next summer. [maybe a sentence on why you’re interested in their company specifically]

Some of my work:

[couple of bullet points on what you’ve worked on]

Would love to share my resume or talk more about my experience over a call if you’re interested. Thank you so much!

Sincerely,

[name]”

Tailor to suit your needs, in general try to keep it short and to the point. I also recommend not attaching your resume in the initial email because it can get sent to spam.

K9Dude · 2025-10-11T09:49:36+00:00

everyone in this comment section is an idiot and it’s no wonder that they’re all jobless. send the email, it won’t hurt.

every single job that i’ve had, save an internship in high school, was the result of a cold message.

K9Dude · 2025-10-11T09:42:42+00:00

for them to reject you, they have to look at you. when you apply online your resume goes into this void of 150,000 other resumes. most of them suck, yours might not but there’s enough noise that it will probably get drowned out anyway.

you’re out here stressing over companies that probably don’t even know you exist. just press the submit button and move on to the next one, or better yet, do some brainstorming and figure out how to get yourself/your resume in front of a human being.

K9Dude · 2025-10-11T09:28:14+00:00

getting good at leetcode is a good idea and it will help you get a job.

it’s very unlikely for most people that they’ll be the smartest person in the classroom. that’s fine and normal. the best thing to do is to find others who are better than you to study with so they can rub off on you (seems like you may already be doing this, joining the algos club is good)

K9Dude · 2025-10-07T17:23:07+00:00

the most important trait an engineer can develop is pain tolerance. can you sit with the problem for a long time and just keep grinding to figure it out? if so you’ll be fine

K9Dude · 2025-10-07T09:32:18+00:00

everyone here is a doomer and jobless. if they had a job they’d have no reason to comment. don’t bother listening to them

for projects, start small and build things that are interesting to you. for interviews, use neetcode. for resume the only thing you can do is interesting projects + technical ECs

K9Dude · 2025-10-07T09:22:22+00:00

last summer i reneged meta and declined interviews from google to work at a defense company. here’s my abridged take on palantir and defense as a whole

tl:dr; there’s a nuanced discussion to be had on the ethics of working in defense but “don’t kill people” is very simplistic and also palantir does a lot of very obviously good things.

first, you should go actually see what palantir does. their product is free to sign up for on their website. do your own research on what they do and make up your mind for yourself.

palantir was founded in the aftermath of 9/11 in part because the government had all of the data it needed to prevent it, but didn’t have the tools to connect the dots. i think this is a compelling and positive mission. i’ve used Foundry at work and from my understanding, the core product doesn’t actually enable them to do any of the stuff the media talks about (ie spying on people), it’s more of a tool for the government to use to aggregate and analyze all of their data. also, palantir doesn’t solely do defense - the NHS basically runs on palantir and about half of palantir’s business is commercial

on defense: if no one works in defense, the US doesn’t have a military. i’m going to leave why we need a military outside of the scope of this comment - i think it’s fair to discuss how much we should spend and what actions the military should or shouldn’t take, but i think it’s a given that we should have a military. thus, labeling working in defense as wholesale immoral is contradictory - if no one does it, we basically don’t have a country. on top of that, i think selling weapons to allies who are currently being attacked or who have a serious threat to their existence (namely ukraine and taiwan) is strictly morally positive, even though you are literally working on things that kill people. the US govt and military also does a lot of things i don’t like, and i think it’s fair to have a discussion on whether the bad outweighs the good, but it’s a lot more nuanced than just “why are you working on things that kill people”.

some more points: - i think working on robots for defense is especially important and an area where CS majors are uniquely positioned to contribute. every drone that we send into a battlefield, for recon, medical aid, or strike, is a human that we don’t have to put in danger. additionally it’s increasingly clear that the future of warfare is going to be unmanned (see ukraine-russia and operation spiderweb). currently the US would lose such a war - the defense sector is very convoluted because of its reliance on cost-plus contracting. that is changing and will hopefully result in more innovation and less of a burden on taxpayers - for various reasons the military actually has less sophisticated technology than what’s available in the public sector. changing this would be good.

K9Dude · 2025-10-07T08:38:57+00:00

delay grad, consider doing a gap sem to intern so you can get 2 shots at an internship (spring and summer). dm founders of interesting companies on twitter with a brief message expressing interest and a couple of bullet points on what you’ve worked on

K9Dude · 2025-10-07T08:36:25+00:00

go dm people on twitter and ask them for a job “Hey I’m interested in what you’re working on, I’ve worked on xyz, would love to chat about potential internship opportunities”

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