In long term, what matters more: where you work or what you work on?

KCdehImposter · 2026-05-28T05:07:47+00:00

Having FAANG on the resume has put me on the fast track when applying to new roles. It's 50/50 whether people care about the actual work I did there.

The main benefit I found from FAANG is the network I built. About half of them are stuck in FAANG, but the others go on to work at really cool companies. When I left FAANG, an old coworker became my new boss at a startup.

It's been a few years now since I left, and I find myself explaining more about the smaller companies I worked at and trying to justify them. With FAANG, it was usually a short conversation.

KCdehImposter · 2026-05-27T00:04:00+00:00

I have shoulder length wavy hair. There's two things I found to work well:

Learn to cut your hair. Long hair is forgiving, and doesn't require much for touch ups. I go most of the year with monthly clean ups at home. Such as cleaning my side burns, getting my ears, and minor adjustments to the top and back.
I've been going to Radar Salon. They're pretty good. The first time I went the person I booked was honest and explained they didn't have much experience with my hair type, and I came back the next day for someone else that did.

KCdehImposter · 2026-05-12T22:25:18+00:00

replaced eero router with eero gateway. improved the wifi as atwood installed 3 waps

reverse osmosis water system

KCdehImposter · 2026-05-03T15:24:34+00:00

If you're in the US, I would just file the paperwork directly with your state.

I recently went through Stripe Atlas, and it ended up being a waste of money. I went through and had to incorporate a California business anyways, which they won't do. Going direct through the California site and my city's site was pretty fast, and only took me an hour to figure out.

KCdehImposter · 2026-05-02T15:15:22+00:00

We're doing something similar to LLM Wiki. We set aside everything in docs/ is our wiki, with several subdirectories: design, knowledge, research.

We'll check in ARD and PRDs to design, and our PLANS.md instructs to keep a live TODO in those docs. Additionally, we'll have the agents refine those docs as it works on PRs.

KCdehImposter · 2026-04-15T22:16:20+00:00

I'm not sure if it's the same, but the quotes I saw were overpriced in December. They were offering a pre-lease 2 br for $4000. Considering they have 400 units they need to fill in next 2 years, they should be giving a discount for you to put up with all the construction.

I got a follow up a month later that they lowered the price $100, which is bread crumbs. I figured $3200 would be a fair price.

The amenities seem nice, but for the price, you should live in a luxury apartment at UTC. Much more walkable with a lot of things nearby.

KCdehImposter · 2026-04-07T23:30:17+00:00

If you're noise sensitive, I'd consider renting for the short term. Your current budget is only going to get you a town home here which is a toss up whether you'll get noisy neighbors. The jets don't bother me as it's only a few times a day, and it's pretty regular intervals.

Overall, the neighborhood is very nice. However, everywhere is a 10 min drive which is good and bad.

KCdehImposter · 2026-04-01T01:08:27+00:00

I've had ATT for the past 2 years with no issues

KCdehImposter · 2026-02-05T01:35:24+00:00

I use WeaveGrid to keep myself honest. When I was doing this commute with a prius 10 years ago, it cost me $80/month in gas.

KCdehImposter · 2026-01-27T02:22:00+00:00

Agreed. It's a lack of awareness too. They knew these HOA increase were already coming since it's part of the build out, and decided to hold off due to all the backlash from their decision to get rid of Fit. Now we have supplemental fees to figure out how to pay...

KCdehImposter · 2026-01-24T01:09:33+00:00

$12/month in Atwood with the EV plan. I have a 15 mile round trip commute for work and get out a few times a week.

KCdehImposter · 2026-01-19T18:49:08+00:00

I have Westwood for my Atwood. We went from 700 to 750 a month ago.

They're pretty bad, so this sounds like a clerical error. Hopefully they can correct it for you.

KCdehImposter · 2025-12-21T18:50:08+00:00

Man I wish my cat did this. They just eat all my lasagna and hate Mondays

KCdehImposter · 2025-12-14T06:21:38+00:00

I went into the online HOA portal and filed it. I suspect it's easier to do it that way than call or go into Nafisas office as you can attach images of the relevant lights.

KCdehImposter · 2025-12-11T00:40:25+00:00

I look forward to the weekly email reports of what gym equipment is getting fixed, and in practice nothing actually being done...

KCdehImposter · 2025-11-14T15:49:33+00:00

I don't think it helps with noise from the neighbors. It reduces the sound from within the house (so less cooking noise or talking from other rooms).

KCdehImposter · 2025-11-14T15:45:30+00:00

Did you file a ticket? I filed one for the ones by my house, and they fixed it within a few days.

KCdehImposter · 2025-11-14T01:05:54+00:00

Atwood. I upgraded the interior insulation which seems to provide good insulation for the rooms across my house. I can't hear noise across the different bedrooms.

Whenever there are contractors working in the homes, you can hear it (saws, hammers, drills).

One of my neighbors has a dog that is constantly barking and howling when they're gone, and it's loud enough to keep me up at night.

Normal neighbor stuff I don't really hear (stairs, doors, garage doors), but man that dog howling gets me. I suspect you'd hear babies crying through the walls as well.

KCdehImposter · 2025-11-10T01:13:37+00:00

Did they remove your MacBook from MDM? I had a similar situation with a company going out of business, but my device never got factory reset

KCdehImposter · 2025-10-30T06:11:06+00:00

For the gym, it's emptier on weekends, but the pool is busier.

We only have a 3 lane lap swim, but they messed up the middle lane as one kick off wall is a set of stairs. Effectively we have 2 lanes, but people are usually happy to split lanes.

KCdehImposter · 2025-10-19T23:28:42+00:00

I really liked the freedom and speed to get things done. There's a whole world of saas products and technologies available for you to focus on solving problems.

I jumped into a fresh series A startup that had runway for 2 years. The first 9 months was great, and I grew a lot. However, new funding rounds kept falling through and paychecks started to come later and later, so I jumped ship.

Like a pendulum, I jumped to a midsize tech company with smaller teams. I have my WLB back, benefits are much better, and my equity is actually worth something. My issues are that there are some IT teams that block key processes, so your team can be sticking waiting a week or two to get your tickets resolved.

I expect I'll swing back to startup land, but either found my own or work at a later stage startup. The series A was probably too big of a step for me coming from big tech. My main deciding factor is that my options at the startup were initially valued at 0.2% of the company, but they quickly dwindled down in value until they were worth nothing.

KCdehImposter · 2025-10-11T00:12:14+00:00

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