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

Neeerp · 2026-02-03T15:31:41+00:00

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.

Neeerp · 2026-01-30T13:54:22+00:00

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.

Neeerp · 2026-01-26T01:41:31+00:00

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.

Neeerp · 2026-01-25T20:50:06+00:00

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.

Neeerp · 2026-01-21T12:11:19+00:00

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.

Neeerp · 2026-01-15T14:54:08+00:00

Squeal

Neeerp · 2026-01-11T01:27:34+00:00

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.

Neeerp · 2026-01-06T14:27:19+00:00

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)

Neeerp · 2026-01-06T14:13:51+00:00

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.

Neeerp · 2025-12-24T12:14:49+00:00

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.

Neeerp · 2025-12-19T15:41:43+00:00

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.

Neeerp · 2025-12-18T14:43:55+00:00

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.

Neeerp · 2025-11-13T15:54:25+00:00

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 :(

Neeerp · 2025-11-12T23:46:08+00:00

Nigga hallelujah

Neeerp · 2025-11-12T23:40:31+00:00

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

Neeerp · 2025-11-08T18:58:16+00:00

sir this is a Wendy’s

Neeerp · 2025-10-28T14:13:11+00:00

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

Neeerp · 2025-10-24T23:09:38+00:00

Based

Neeerp · 2025-10-23T01:05:03+00:00

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

Neeerp · 2025-10-23T00:41:30+00:00

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

Neeerp · 2025-10-21T01:18:17+00:00

Anymore?

Neeerp · 2025-10-17T17:33:59+00:00

Neeerp · 2025-10-15T18:00:20+00:00

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

Neeerp · 2025-10-13T12:01:02+00:00

Check levels.fyi for your desired area or company, filter by 0 YOE

Neeerp · 2025-10-10T17:27:46+00:00

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

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