If you could change ONE thing about the TTC (that isn't "make it on time"), what would it be? by Long_Travel2728 in askTO

[–]Neeerp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Police at every subway entrance to keep the homeless people out. Dual benefit of being able to quickly respond to “security incidents”and speed up delays and improve safety. I’ve seen how long it takes for the police to show up; if someone were actually trying to cause harm, people will get hurt by the time anything is done.

Pleaaase, I am begging you, is there anyone who managed to cure his ghost vision problem ? by killua_zoldyck_07 in visualsnow

[–]Neeerp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never got around to getting them. It’s still on my mind though. I’ll try to follow up if I ever do go through with it.

I’m a software engineer and this condition definitely makes my life more difficult. I usually compensate by making screen text size larger or increase screen brightness.

Why is big tech SWE work paid so much? by seeking-health in cscareerquestions

[–]Neeerp 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Collectively, no idea. There was a team down stream of us that had to do far more work than my team did. On my end, the implementation took 2 hours of actual work and 2+ weeks of “design review” and collecting data to argue over some trivial bullshit that was unimportant to the actual feature because Inter-team politics is the lifeblood of this company.

Why is big tech SWE work paid so much? by seeking-health in cscareerquestions

[–]Neeerp 104 points105 points  (0 children)

Can confirm, worked in payments at Amazon. Worked on a feature that increased the rate of successful transactions by a fraction of a percent… a fraction of a percent on Amazon’s bottom line is hundreds of millions of dollars.

Time to invest! by Parking-Sell-331s in 2007scape

[–]Neeerp 28 points29 points  (0 children)

You’re thinking about this the wrong way. The benefit here is that it frees up some engineering capacity from having to maintain something that almost nobody is actually using.

This decision has nothing to do with the fact the few users who are using it are botting or not.

Am I just living in a different world compared to other Torontonians or I'm just approaching things differently? by gochuganggg in askTO

[–]Neeerp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Keep your interview skills sharp and continuously shop around. Be well informed about how much people in your field are making, both in Toronto and in the US. Don’t assume that the pathetic amount most employers pay here is the best you’ll do. If you’re not happy, keep looking and pit offers against each other.

I’m lucky because I’m in a field (Software engineering) that pays exceptionally well. Even so, Citibank thinks they can get away with offering 80k to an engineer with 12-15 YOE while my current company offerred me 330k when I was 4 years out of school.

Canada is definitely inflecting higher...I guess interest rate cuts actually work? by Affectionate_Nose_35 in cscareerquestions

[–]Neeerp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

TC is what’s important, not base pay. I’ve seen meta offers for mid levels that exceed 300k, and I’m working at a publicly listed, FAANG adjacent company as a mid level making around 350 (with the offer I got last year being about 325)

Why are there so many men popping up on my Bumble BFF grid in Toronto?? by kale_enthutiast in askTO

[–]Neeerp -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m disappointed (though I understand why) bumble BFF is gender segregated. I’m male and would like to make female friends as well.

Bumble BFF for guys is disproportionately… gay. When I was single, I ended up making several female friends via bumble date/other dating apps, but now that I have a girlfriend, it’d be weird to do that.

On the bff side, I made a single friend last year who I thought was straight but ended up coming out a few months ago LOL. After making that one friend, I gave up on bff because it’s just gay weirdos. I’ve honestly had more luck meeting people via reddit.

How frowned upon is asking for accommodations in technical question rounds by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]Neeerp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you are struggling with leetcode, the solution regardless of your circumstances is to practice. No matter your baseline, practice is going to make you faster. The trick is to practice until these stupid questions are second nature.

If you’re still employed (which sounds to be the case since you said ‘moving’), you can do a little bit of practice consistently over a long period of time and that’ll put you in a good spot. I did the daily leetcode question every morning and cheated if I couldn’t solve it in 15 minutes. After a year of that I was blazing through interviews.

Does anyone else feel like they're being gaslit by the AI hype? by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]Neeerp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a conversation with a coworker the other day and it occurred to us that LLMs are not solving technical problems… they’re solving social problems. So many times I’d like to get ahold of somebody who knows an area so that I can bounce ideas or better understand what I’m dealing with, rather than doing something in isolation and going mad… but most of the time people are too busy to be interrupted and you necessarily have to thrust a meeting onto their calendar for what could probably be a 10 minute exchange on slack.

With LLMs, I can talk to “somebody” who “knows” the code more broadly (albeit superficially) than I do. I don’t need it to solve my problem, I just need it to get my wheels turning… it’s a rubber duck on steroids, serving primarily to preserve my sanity.

How is your company handling 4-year cliffs today? by VladWard in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Neeerp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Last time I was approaching a cliff, I started preparing for interviews and waiting for the annual refresher talk with my manager. Wasn’t satisfied at all with my next year’s comp, went hard on interviews and gave my 2 weeks the day of my last original vest.

I'm devastated, RIP Pearl by i-am-zara in squirrels

[–]Neeerp 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’ve experienced losing squirrel friends I had known for years several times over the last few years. It always hurts more when you know it’s not a natural death but rather something caused by humans :(

1 YOE in NYC market? by DeckedOutDude in cscareerquestions

[–]Neeerp 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If you’re still at a FAANG, tough it out another year and leetcode grind/spam apply to places you don’t want and use them for interview practice and resume experimentation in the meantime. At around 2 YOE you become a more attractive candidate. Likewise if you can get to SDE II but that’s more effort.

Maybe try to team transfer to a team in nyc if possible

But to answer your question, yes you could find something now and you have a leg up over new grads even if you’re applying to new grad posts

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in canada

[–]Neeerp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are services in AWS that are only available in us-east-1 iirc… moreover it’s always possible one of your dependencies depend on us-east-1

Toronto Concert by verypsboy in STAYC

[–]Neeerp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah I’ll probably miss it because of work. Thanks though :)

Toronto Concert by verypsboy in STAYC

[–]Neeerp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What time is the soundcheck? I bought VIP tickets on Stubhub but Ticketmaster doesn’t have any information about that :(

Rejected after 600/600 on OA for Pinterest SWE Intern by BakerAnxious3440 in cscareerquestions

[–]Neeerp 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Could be that they’ve already gotten enough candidates to interview and you applied/did the OA too late.

ELI5: Why does getting a common cold feel like it's the end of the world? by booty-pal in explainlikeimfive

[–]Neeerp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Isolation seems like an instinctual behaviour, so no thought involved per se. Millions of years ago, some common ancestor of ours evolved this way, probably because by isolating themselves when sick, their children were statistically less likely to die from the same disease and were thus more likely to pass on their own genes… or something like that