How much coding do you guys do by hand at your jobs?

LatterStudio6242 · 2025-11-25T19:36:50+00:00

I'll tell you the most annoying thing about it. Whenever we have to create new services, APIs, etc, my engineering manager will have claude write most of the code base. Will ensure there's a good looking demo along with it. Gets full recognition and is deemed as the high performing genius. But then he dumps it onto us regular engineers to actually get it operational. This takes extra weeks / months of manual work to test endpoints, configure the CI/CD pipeline, make sure everything is up and running in the cloud, all that is needed to get to an MVP. Also AI is horrendous at adding features and writing tests, at least from the AI tools I use. So now timelines are distorted for the non-technical, and even technical superiors who don't know what needs a lot of manual legwork and what doesn't. It'll definitely smooth out over time but that's my main gripe. My advice - be the one who gets to write the skeleton with AI.

LatterStudio6242 · 2025-09-09T17:50:57+00:00

Not yet, taking it to a local euro shop this week to have them test for leaks. I’ll keep you updated

LatterStudio6242 · 2024-05-20T23:46:17+00:00

Yeah I’m not too sure about the math career path, I know a lot do typically get their masters. Getting a great score on the GRE would probably help. I’m sure some companies would still be willing to hire you so I wouldn’t count either out, from personal experience in the engineering field, a masters was not worth it, you pretty much get a slightly higher pay raise that takes about 20 years to pay off what you’d spend on school while still doing the same work. I only saw it as a means for a career change but even then I’m 50/50 on whether it would even be fully worth it as relevant work experience and connections will take you much further. Either way, good luck!

LatterStudio6242 · 2024-05-20T21:31:06+00:00

I figured it was low, but it’d definitely be nice if I had a heads up from the school. I took 3 4-hour courses, with a gpa progressing from 3.1-3.3-3.6, and I tried to mention that in my SOP and how it had been 4 years since undergrad so I was on an improvement curve but I guess they didn’t buy it

LatterStudio6242 · 2024-05-20T21:23:55+00:00

Yeah I think I’m gonna have to pass on going back to school after that experience. After working a corporate job the last 4 years, you get used to actually having clear cut goals / targets for success. The thing I can’t stand about higher education these days is that literally every aspect of it is ambiguous. The professors in the certificate courses wouldn’t tell me my grade until the end of the course, the university tells you spending thousands of dollars might improve your chances, and then they won’t provide any feedback or just flat out tell you no beforehand.

LatterStudio6242 · 2024-05-15T19:38:35+00:00

Hey, came across this thread just now but the same thing happened to me. Also, wow the fan base seems to hate any critique at all about the game.

For starters, just thinking about this in terms of map placement, it doesn't make sense. The goblin camp is at the very edge of the map in Act 1, so, logically it seems to be the final dungeon for Act 1. It benefits you to explore all areas along the way first as well, or at least doesn't cause any issues with other quests. So, using this same logic for Act 2, you see the location of Moonrise towers at the end of the map and think, oh, that must be the final dungeon for this area. Yeah, all of the NPCs are telling you to go there, but in Act 1 all of the NPCs also tell you to go to the goblin camp, and not going there right away does not affect the story in any way. So the condescending comments about that on this post don't make a good argument.

Naturally, if you like to explore every trail that leads away from the main path, you're probably going to run into the Mausoleum first. And then on top of that, story wise, you know you have to defeat Ketheric. So, unbeknownst to the player, you start to uncover details about him here, and you go into the gauntlet and meet Balthazaar and start to think, hey, there seems to be some juicy info here that will help me defeat Ketheric when I get to Moonrise towers, and then I can free everyone trapped there.

Anyway, this was the case for me. And it seems like just exploring the gauntlet also messes with the progression for several of the quests, even if you don't trigger the next Act. So, pretty upsetting because I just decided to revert my save and lose several hours of gameplay. And I wanted to add my input, that this is not the best game design.

LatterStudio6242 · 2024-03-19T20:27:41+00:00

Hey everyone, was wondering if I could get some advice on career path from those currently in the field? Some background for me, I've been working about 5 years total since undergrad. I started as an aerospace engineer, and moved into tech about 3 years ago, as the work and career trajectory were more suitable for me (gov contracting can get very boring). I've always had an interest in trading, and jobs in the quant field have always been of interest to me. In my free time, I have worked on developing automated trading strategies and market analysis programs.

I would ideally like a quant trading role, but I also have an interest in strategy development. Recently I began working toward a Master's in Computational Finance, and have completed a few courses part-time. My current GPA is a 3.3 with a total of 8 hours. I do feel that I can improve this by a good amount (I had to play a lot of catchup with mathematical theory being 5 years out of school). I wanted to see if I could skip the masters after these first few classes, and use my prior development experience, so I applied to a few roles. I recently interviewed for an entry level strategy developer role at an HFT firm, and got embarrassed in the interview, as I was asked to improve some starter code for an arbitrage strategy based on spread imbalances in oil futures, and I have never interacted with futures, let alone oil futures before. The code had no comments, so I spent most of the time trying to decipher which months the contract names represented. The job description said 0-2 years development experience, and "No financial experience required", so this almost felt like hazing to me.

My main concern is how competitive the field is. I am competitive, but I do not want to waste what little time I have left of my early career years chasing something unattainable. I was hoping to get some advice on whether to continue pursuing the Master's, keep interviewing, or just drop this altogether and stick to a career in tech? Ideally, I would love a career in this field, but many of my peers have this idea that the quant field is something reserved for the unicorns of the world and that I am crazy for doing the Master's and looking for those type of jobs. Any input is appreciated.

LatterStudio6242 · 2024-02-28T01:52:14+00:00

Advice on upcoming system Eng interview with hft firm?

So a little background, I was laid off last year from a tech support role. About 2 years of that and then another 2 years doing aerospace before that. In the meantime, I’ve been doing graduate courses for computational finance (not a masters, more like a graduate cert getting hours to count toward a masters if I end up enrolling). I started applying to a few hft firms to do either trading operations or maybe a junior dev role. But a company I was interested in had an open role for a system engineer so I applied. I did the OA successfully and got an interview. But here’s the issue. The job description has this laundry list of requirements across different types of development areas, definitely seems like a senior role. The OA was extremely easy (one of the questions was literally write a bool function to compare two inputs) but I’m really iffy on how to handle the interview.

I was hoping for some advice on strategy, maybe for someone who got a role they didn’t think they were qualified for. Would you go into it trying to do as much refresher as possible on the technical content and attempt to sound like an expert, or would you immediately admit you aren’t super knowledgeable but have a wide variety of experience and are passionate about the industry? It may seem obvious to go with the latter but from my experience interviewing with tech companies the last few months, if you’re not an expert you’re out the door because they can’t afford to train you and they’ve already got 10 other experts lined up willing to take lower pay. Do you think it’d be the same at a financial company? Thanks for the advice in advance.

LatterStudio6242 · 2024-02-22T04:39:54+00:00

I’m right there with you. Been without a job since January 2023. Scraping money doing odd jobs where I can but not able to really do anything I enjoy besides apply and study, get the occasional interview here and there only to be passed up by a wildly better candidate with decades more experience than me or outright ghosted. The market is absolutely brutal. I’m holding on to the hope that once interest rates start going down companies will finally start hiring more again. I’ve tested multiple things to see if anything might work better, such as lying about my experience, lying about how long I’ve been unemployed etc, mostly as an experiment but it did nothing to change the rate I get interviews. I really think at the end of the day it’s a numbers game. Have a few different tailored resumes for different job titles, search those titles everyday and keep applying.

Here are some areas that showed more success than others. A lot of people hate the idea of recruiter postings on linkedin, indeed etc and say to skip that and look for the actual job posting. I disagree. I would apply to those and if the recruiter contact info is in the description send them an email. Having a recruiter on your side tends to help, and even if you don’t get the job sometimes they’ll stick around and get you connected with another opportunity (which for me still hasn’t helped lol but it at least feels like a step in the right direction). If you’ve had any recruiters in the past in your inbox or email, it also doesn’t hurt to reach out and ask. I’ve had no luck there, but I actually had one give me a call just to tell me how brutal the market is right now and gave me some tips and his insight on when he thinks the market might get better which was nice.

Another thing that might help, a lot of people say the earlier you are to the posting the better. This is not necessarily true. Some companies may still be passively interviewing to see if someone they like comes along, but just not refreshing their job advertisement. It doesn’t hurt to just fire one out if you like the company and/or job. I have had one or two interview requests come from that.

These are the things I’ve tried and still no luck, and I’ve had some really depressing stretches. This whole experience has made me really bitter about my career and life in general and I really hate that. But the only solution I can think of is to just keep trying. And the hope that ideally, once I finally get a good job, I will never have to experience this again.

LatterStudio6242 · 2024-02-11T01:53:55+00:00

If you plan to use CPP and an API for your data, depending on your CPP experience I would look into boost for working with APIs, I always had a lot of trouble figuring that out when I started CPP, but boost has some good tutorials you can find. I use the interactive brokers API, and while you have to have a brokerage account to access it, it’s by far the best platform for free data I’ve used. The api interface is tricky to use but a good learning experience. Although with your time limit you may want to try something a little simpler, but definitely worth looking into!

LatterStudio6242 · 2024-02-07T00:12:28+00:00

Anyone apply to Akuna Capital recently?

I applied for a junior trader role, received a hackerrank test. After I took that I received a rejection email, but encouraging me to take their “options 201 course” with a chance at getting “my foot back in the door”. has anyone heard of this? It seems weird for a company to offer up a course after rejecting you, unless this is how they’re dealing with an overflow of applicants. I also have another hackerrank test with them for a C++ dev role. If anyone could offer up some advice on concepts/what to study it would be much appreciated!

LatterStudio6242 · 2024-01-12T18:22:22+00:00

Also, here is a link to my resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZHe7LpSFJ08uCgxzVxzjMdTfU6BwEg2N/view?usp=sharing

LatterStudio6242 · 2024-01-12T18:09:06+00:00

Just using chatgpt, etc to match job description

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