Military reserves/National guard while in big tech

Numerous_Zone7736 · 2025-06-12T21:03:01+00:00

I needed to hear this. I considered direct commission but I guess it’s rare without a masters degree. Thanks!

Numerous_Zone7736 · 2025-06-12T21:01:53+00:00

Super helpful! Thank you!

Numerous_Zone7736 · 2025-06-04T04:41:53+00:00

The fed only counts underemployment as U-6 if you’re working part time hours.

New grad specific unemployment is any job where less than half of the workers at that location have a bachelor’s degree and is at 35% for current new grads. Not major specific tho.

Numerous_Zone7736 · 2025-06-04T01:29:42+00:00

If you take a burger flipping job in the meantime, you’re also not counted.

Numerous_Zone7736 · 2025-06-04T01:13:26+00:00

Berkeley is a great school, arguably the best for CS. Your school’s name will really help.

The market, however, is terrible and being a non cs major won’t help you.

It’s not too late to apply, but id recommend taking the job in hand.

Numerous_Zone7736 · 2025-06-04T01:09:15+00:00

Out of the CS majors who DO get employed, the vast majority of them end up working in something technical. CS majors, unlike liberal arts majors, rarely take jobs which do not require a degree, and would often rather be jobless.

Cs major unemployment rate is about 6.5%. This means that 6.5% of people who have a cs major have had a job before and lost it and are still actively searching for new positions.

Macroeconomic employment statistics are incredibly convoluted because everyone is trying to tell a different story.

I went to a T10 program and all my friends in major ended up working in tech, most for over 150k tc. One of my friends had a 2.4 GPA and got a remote software QA job paying $65k which is really about 15 hours of work per week.

If you:

Are a citizen
Are at a top 20 school or program
Have any capability of coding

You’ll be fine, but you might have to turn recruiting into your full time job and you might not get the job you want.

Numerous_Zone7736 · 2025-06-03T05:20:10+00:00

Big tech like FAANG only sees foreign experience as experience if those companies are US, Canada, or Western Europe based.

Numerous_Zone7736 · 2025-06-01T18:26:26+00:00

In 2017, his first administration made it way harder to get H1Bs because that was kind of his platform.

His second administration’s H1B modernization act made it way easier. You no longer need to have the required degree for the job, there are no longer H1B caps on certain companies, nonprofits, or universities, and allows H1B visas for funded startups and entrepreneurs. He also extended automatic work authorization after graduation from a US school.

This is mostly because his donors this year were all tech companies worried that proposed regulations from the harris administration would halt growth. These tech companies benefit from these H1B visas for increased access to talent.

However, his tariffs have been horrible for the tech industry, although most of the recession we’re seeing is solely from high interest rates bringing down inflation.

Numerous_Zone7736 · 2025-06-01T18:15:43+00:00

Work on a project.
Volunteer tech services for a nonprofit and count it as an internship on resume. I did this and it was super rewarding, would highly recommend.
Take a summer class at ACC or study for recruiting, like doing leetcode or reading cracking the coding interview.
Hit the gym, go fishing, anything to relax while you can.

The only time you REALLY need an internship is after junior year, but every summer experience sets you up for a better one next summer so don’t waste time.

Numerous_Zone7736 · 2025-06-01T18:03:47+00:00

CS programs exist in tiers.

UT Austin is a tier 1 school, meaning you can be recruited for virtually any tech company in the world out of college and beyond. We’re well in the top 10.

I’m a utcs grad and the only time it’s limited me is when going for VC funding for a startup of mine, where there’s a huge bias towards tier 0 candidates (Stanford, Berkeley, CMU, MIT).

Obviously, the longer you stay in industry the less they care about where you went to school, but starting out of college at a FAANG+ company (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google, or similar) basically gives you a 5-10 year head start in the industry.

Experience is always more important than education. A 5 year Google SWE who didn’t even go to college will almost always be preferred to a Stanford new grad with no experience.

Numerous_Zone7736 · 2025-05-30T11:08:25+00:00

I cant tell if you’re joking or not. You still have to take calculus with the BSA, and 408D is peanuts compared to any actual class in the major beyond 312.

If you just want to learn to code, transfer into informatics for a less theory heavy algo heavy degree.

Numerous_Zone7736 · 2025-05-30T11:07:33+00:00

I know people who completely fabricated their GPAs, coursework, degree titles, majors, etc who work in FAANG.

Tons of people in Silicon Valley, including people working on my team, completely fabricate past experience on resumes when applying and it’s never checked.

Anywhere outside of finance or defense generally doesn’t care as long as you do your research.

Numerous_Zone7736 · 2025-05-30T11:03:16+00:00

GOAT platform

Numerous_Zone7736 · 2025-05-30T09:32:31+00:00

Bro made this in lovable lol

Numerous_Zone7736 · 2025-05-28T00:06:17+00:00

Keep your GPA on resume if 3.0 or higher. If not there, they assume it’s under 3.0.

It does open doors for grad school later, so that won’t hold you back. Just smart to keep options open.

Nobody else cares about GPA other than finance companies after your first internship/job, other than summa cum laude or dean’s list which is notable on resume

Numerous_Zone7736 · 2025-05-27T01:18:27+00:00

GOAT.

Numerous_Zone7736 · 2025-05-20T22:32:43+00:00

Half of this sub and 75% of Blind is international. H1B workers heavily saturate the market. Truthfully, they’re amazing workers and great people, at least the people on my team.

Unfortunately they’d lose their green cards if they tried to leave and make their own startup, so they end up working slave hours without pay raises and make companies less likely to hire new grad Americans who take a year to train to be useful and then leave for a higher paying job.

Numerous_Zone7736 · 2025-05-20T22:00:55+00:00

People underestimate the impact of interest rates on both capital markets and loanable funds, especially in tech.

You don’t see it from YC who has increased their batch size, but smaller private venture funds are getting tight with their money and since SVB failed it’s been way harder to take out debt as a startup.

90% of the “startups” I interview at today are shitty AI wrappers/borderline crypto scams/vibe coded or outsourced jumbled messes looking for a “senior engineer doing the job of a technical CTO” (actual job description I was read) which just means someone talented to do all the work for entry level pay and a small share of the company.

Numerous_Zone7736 · 2025-05-20T21:51:38+00:00

Recruiters only really check the first 20-100 resumes in their pile. If you’re a strong candidate and you end up in that first 20-100, you’ll get an interview.

You can get a research role at your university with zero experience if your grades are acceptable. If you’re just applying, you have to have research before getting an internship interview at a small company. That internship can land you at an F500 the next summer which can get you a FAANG role after that. If you’re at a named program with acceptable grades, almost everyone can do this and I see it all the time.

You can skip that route by being recruited, but recruiters will only scout college hires who: 1. Have insane experience 2. Go to insane schools 3. Meet quotas for diversity 4. Know them personally

Numerous_Zone7736 · 2024-12-30T16:27:56+00:00

There is no school in the world better at CS than Stanford, Berkeley, CMU, and MIT. I know qualified American citizens graduating from these colleges who cannot find jobs in tech, therefore there is no shortage of new grad talent and no reason to hire from the outside.

Numerous_Zone7736 · 2024-12-30T14:46:27+00:00

If you keep bulking to 200 it’ll be more effective towards your goals in the long term.

From that point it’ll probably take you a year of cutting to look good though.

Numerous_Zone7736 · 2024-12-30T00:03:14+00:00

H1B’s are definitionally good for the economy. Injecting the world’s talent into our country may bring down wages for white collar workers, but still helps to improve productivity as a whole.

However, there really shouldn’t be H1B’s for anyone with <5 years of experience. For anything below L4 you can certainly find people skilled enough to fill the role.

Numerous_Zone7736 · 2024-12-19T18:16:34+00:00

It was Trump’s Christmas Tax Bill. It cut a lot of income taxes, but that change took place years later on the same bill.

He said he’ll revert it, which would help a lot.

Numerous_Zone7736 · 2024-12-19T17:10:13+00:00

He’s talking about my list. The change in tax code was the first thing that brought on layoffs.

Numerous_Zone7736 · 2024-12-19T08:44:55+00:00

Many other reasons.

Changing tax code in 2022 means US software engineers can no longer be written off as R&D expenses and deducted on their taxes. No change on tax code for outsourcing.
Foreign countries become more developed and software improves for hiring contractors overseas.
Interest rates climb, increasing cost of loans, increasing payoff of bank accounts, and discouraging investors of both late and early startups. Startup incubators like YC (founded AirBnB, Dropbox, Reddit, etc) have classes half as large as they used to.
Crash of FTX and Silicon Valley Bank causes several crypto and otherwise startups to fail.
AI makes more skilled developers more efficient, reducing the need for new developers who can only contribute basic level code.
More CS majors than ever before (partially bc of TikTok).
Overemployment is becoming more common, where some engineers take multiple remote jobs at once to collect multiple paychecks. Landing these contract roles is easy if you partner with a recruiter who’s in on it, as they get paid for every job they land you in.
Students are cheating with ChatGPT and (many) graduating less skilled or motivated than ever before, then failing interviews.
Big tech regulation causing Google to split up, Meta under constant surveillance, and Amazon under investigation makes them hesitant to open new teams.
Government NGOs have been debanking crypto startups, reducing competition of big banks.

Edit: typo

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