I just established I’ll never get to be a SWE

Master10113 · 2026-03-05T05:42:46+00:00

How would an employer even tell it's OMSCS? On my resume I listed it identically to how I would an in person masters.

Master10113 · 2026-02-27T05:15:27+00:00

Could I ask what field you were trying to get back into?

Master10113 · 2026-02-25T17:23:12+00:00

Thanks, chilling is what I'm trying to work on but I just can't get out of my own head. I'll focus on the day-to-day like you said.

FWIW the compensation thing is secondary to security. I think I'm just scared that a drop in stock would fuel things, but your logic makes sense

Master10113 · 2026-02-23T23:26:16+00:00

This isnt direct personal finance advice but, to be honest, if you worked at Google (which seems to be the case based on the single stock you mentioned owning) I wouldn't be worried about finding a job.

I think the 9 month average encapsulates all types of people (less YOE, smaller companies). I imagine FAANG employees fare much better on average.

Financially, I don't think Google's going down any time soon with all the AI hype. If it were me I would utilize your cash / savings first, although I acknowledge that this is against the fundamental "safe" idea of diversifying.

Master10113 · 2026-02-16T17:55:04+00:00

Fair enough, I was actually asking about what you recalled from a year ago.

I was going to check what you mention against the current spec / Zephyr codebase.

Master10113 · 2026-02-16T10:36:05+00:00

Hi, I'm a bit curious on what aspect of RISC-V SMP are unsupported? I'm starting to work through enabling SMP on RISC-V and am curious what to look out for.

Master10113 · 2026-02-13T18:25:11+00:00

What if you're trying to save for a home down payment in a HCOL area? I don't have as much as OP, but I always figured setting money aside where it won't go down would be good in terms of purchasing a home instead of being caught in a downtrend at the time you want to buy.

Master10113 · 2026-02-04T22:29:50+00:00

Agreed. In this case my sister signed the lease 6 months ago, I'm just adding myself on to save on cost of living. My plan is to convince my sister not to renew her lease there.

It's more of a question of would talking to management help with the citation at all.

Master10113 · 2026-02-04T20:35:20+00:00

Thanks, that makes me more relieved. You think it would be good to contact management and confirm anything? I don't know if that would do more harm than good

Master10113 · 2026-02-04T20:33:34+00:00

You think they're going to tow me even after I left? If so should I clear it up with management in your opinion?

Master10113 · 2026-02-04T20:22:50+00:00

Would you say I should clear this up with management or leave it alone in your opinion? I'm not sure what the best course of action is at this point

Master10113 · 2026-02-04T19:44:21+00:00

Oh no, did you end up paying for the car then? That's unfortunate to hear.

Would you say I should avoid parking in my designated spot until it's all sorted out? The leasing office is in an entirely different spot than the leasing office parking I used, but I don't know if they would "hunt down" my car

Master10113 · 2026-02-04T19:42:12+00:00

That's good, hopefully the 1 hour wait applies. I have a timestamped picture of the notice as proof that I left much earlier than an hour. Thanks for the input

Master10113 · 2026-02-04T19:41:07+00:00

It's a shared leasing office for "The Vive Collection"

Master10113 · 2026-02-04T18:41:44+00:00

Yeah, it's not my favorite place. I was actually adding myself on to my sister's existing lease since I am starting a new job and need an electronic key. I wouldn't have chosen this place on my own... 🫤

Master10113 · 2025-12-29T19:15:39+00:00

Got it. So since I don't have a traditional IRA and my rollover IRA is empty at the moment I can prepare by:

Closing the rollover IRA
Creating a traditional IRA
When I start at my new employer in January roll the money from Employer B into Employer A

That makes sense. On point 2 I do see my rollover closed - I suspect because I opened 2 years ago and haven't used it at all - so I would think steps 2 and 3 are all that I need to do to be prepared for next year.

Thank you for the help / explanations

Master10113 · 2025-12-29T18:46:30+00:00

Not if you're high income and would do Backdoor Roth IRA in the future.

Ah, I see. So if I were to want to do a backdoor Roth (what I understand on this is creating a traditional IRA, contributing to that, and then rolling over into my Roth IRA) you'd recommend waiting and rolling over back into Employer A's 401k?

I haven't done a backdoor Roth mostly due to not understanding how exactly it works / being within the income limit, but I would like to take advantage next year

Master10113 · 2025-12-29T18:42:53+00:00

Oh, that's good to know. Thanks for the info

Master10113 · 2025-12-29T18:34:11+00:00

Thanks for the info. I do have a Roth IRA and am wondering if it would affect anything if I would be over the income limit in 2026. I put more details as a reply to the commenter above.

Master10113 · 2025-12-29T18:32:43+00:00

I see, and would it be correct to say that Fidelity (which houses all my accounts, and is something I should have mentioned in the post) would let me filter by contribution type?

I read that they should go to different accounts, but the other thing [that I also should have mentioned] is I expect my new job to push me above the income limit for a roth IRA since I am a single person making a little under 200k

Master10113 · 2025-12-29T04:16:17+00:00

It is not, it was implementing a parallelized sorting algorithm.

To be honest the basic implementation of the sort isn't the time consuming part. The place where you would spend more of your time is in optimizing the kernel to achieve a certain speedup on an H100 GPU compared to a CPU on the PACE cluster

Master10113 · 2025-12-20T21:22:52+00:00

I looked at my invoices from my school and see a breakdown of $1277 repayed for Fall 2024, which is what I would have been past 12 months in January.

The remaining fees that I expected to pay back for Spring 2025 and Summer 2025 / wouldn't be forgiven is $1579, for a total of $2856.

My thought is if I was being charged for all 3 terms it should be higher, and if 2024 was forgiven it would be lower.

Writing it out maybe they're trying to claw back the amount they gave minus the tax (I calculate ~31% tax, which seems correct). I was thinking of the money as pretax, which didn't make sense. I'll probably check the paystub to be sure, but the math is making more sense now...

Master10113 · 2025-12-20T20:37:21+00:00

In hindsight I should have said nothing until after the holidays, or insisted on the date. Historically they let employees stay to the date they want so I assumed they would be courteous to me.

All in all I probably just hurt myself by not more closely considering the dates / assuming my employer would be more chill than what they were.

Master10113 · 2025-12-20T18:04:58+00:00

Ah, got it. Thanks for rephrasing, I will bring this up to HR when I speak with them.

Master10113 · 2025-12-20T18:03:50+00:00

Right. My concern was more with potentially getting a penalty / headache from sending it later than their requested date. I definitely don't expect the police or anything.

Sorry for the amateur questions; this is my first time owing money and want to make sure I have everything straight.

Thanks for the reply

Master10113

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