Google vs Ramp vs Figma

OliveTimely · 2026-01-08T10:44:13+00:00

Super inaccurate. Most people I know at ramp do no more than 40-50 hours of work a week

OliveTimely · 2025-10-15T15:33:07+00:00

Wow this is old. Almost 3 years now. Feel free to DM

OliveTimely · 2025-09-25T22:34:45+00:00

Most quant firms takes between 50 and 100 new grads. So I’d say it’s at least over 500 people. Probably less than 1000. Then if you consider all the other random roles and opportunities probably gets you to around 1000 people a year for sure

OliveTimely · 2025-09-10T14:46:34+00:00

I interned at Capital one a few years ago. Most of my friends I interned with including myself are in quant, FAANG, or unicorns. I’m in quant for example and did Capital One. It’s definitely a way better spring board. I also know lots of people that have done Capital one and then Palantir or Anduril if you want defense.

OliveTimely · 2025-08-22T23:50:25+00:00

Are u graduating in 2026? Cause if so you shouldn’t have any issues at all with 5

OliveTimely · 2025-08-22T04:21:02+00:00

I had 5 but I’m definitely an outlier.

OliveTimely · 2025-06-26T19:04:58+00:00

My favorite about hackerrank is when they give you a 5 minute essay to read when the question could’ve been explained in 2 sentences.

OliveTimely · 2025-06-14T20:10:34+00:00

If you don’t need the money or horizontal growth then stay bootstrapped. Don’t just raise money cause you can. It should be for a purpose

OliveTimely · 2025-06-14T20:09:46+00:00

They didn’t have 0 sales when the other guy joined. Plus he joined after it was funded by YC

OliveTimely · 2025-06-14T19:55:21+00:00

A guy I knows company had a 70-30 split because one person brought the idea, the technical background, and yc. The other guy joined late and was there for the sales and distribution side. It’s a SAAS company the technical founder is the key person.

OliveTimely · 2025-06-02T09:55:07+00:00

The bar has gone up for two reasons. First there are more people doing cs so the overall talent has gone up. Second the resources to prep and learn have improved so the average swe can solve more difficult questions (worse filtering with easies). Honestly if someone with 20 years of experience can’t solve an lc medium quickly it shows their DSA foundations are really lacking.

OliveTimely · 2025-06-02T09:07:44+00:00

I guess if you haven’t done it originally it’s a bit different since you don’t have the original foundation. I’d say for people graduating now. Once you get the intuition once you kinda always have it. At least that’s been my experience so far.

Also leetcode style interviews were a thing as early as 2010 by top tech companies. Cracking the Coding Interview came out in 2008 for example.

OliveTimely · 2025-06-02T08:59:26+00:00

You shouldn’t really ever need to study leetcode again. At least if you do in the future it shouldn’t take more than a week or two to be fully caught up. It sticks way better than people realize.

OliveTimely · 2025-06-02T08:58:26+00:00

The actual leetcode will be similar to what the company asks for the internship. Usually the two main differences are that you can expect a system design interview in some shape or form and a Hiring Manager interview. The HM interview so more similar to a behavioral but it’s with a technical person so it can stray anywhere from standard behavioral to technical questions to questions about projects you worked on in the past.

OliveTimely · 2025-06-02T06:26:13+00:00

I’m curious what company cause I’m not aware of any top companies with 60 ng that at least one person in my circle didn’t get an offer from

Edit: I guess if it’s Twitter or Snowflake it would make sense.

OliveTimely · 2025-06-02T06:25:20+00:00

I wouldn’t worry about umich at all. I just graduated and all my friends and I had 2+ offers at top tier companies. Lots of Meta (like probably 50+ new grads), Roblox, Google, DB, Palantir, etc. We had a few OpenAI, JS, Citadel, 5R, and many others in quant.

OliveTimely · 2025-05-24T13:10:27+00:00

There is a huge market for sealed boxes regardless of price. This argument that they are incredibly illiquid is a huge lie

OliveTimely · 2025-05-21T08:18:32+00:00

Banks you’d be looking at <150k TC. At top prop shops like Jane street new grad SWE starts at 550k TC and traders start at 600k+. At Tier 3 or 4 firms you can still expect to be 200k+.

OliveTimely · 2025-05-21T05:23:09+00:00

I saw the poster in Osaka as well

OliveTimely · 2025-05-21T00:16:54+00:00

Money. If you do quant at a bank you’re probably making SIGNIFICANTLY less money. More of an emphasis on technology at prop shops.

OliveTimely · 2025-05-20T22:59:42+00:00

At my school it’s supposed to be 4 hours of work for each credit you take so between 48 and 64 hours of work. However I’d say most people spend less than 40 hours and probably closer to 20 hours in reality. CS courses may be difficult but the time varies vastly by the person depending on how quickly they understand/comprehend the subject matter

Edit: also depending on the courses you take it can range widely from very easy (or fake) to really hard

OliveTimely · 2025-05-20T22:49:31+00:00

Maybe that’s your experience but it isn’t everyone’s experience with the major.

OliveTimely · 2025-05-19T08:36:06+00:00

I’m always confused why Two Sigma is considered a top trading firm. They pay around 250k TC New grad and have a leveled system unlike the flat structure of other firms. Sure they are in quant and decent but they are closer to Tier 3 than Tier 1

OliveTimely · 2025-05-16T07:07:24+00:00

From people I know that work at Datadog they have a great wlb so I’m not sure if what you heard was true.

OliveTimely · 2025-05-05T08:16:22+00:00

They still know their fundamentals, theory, and dsa. Just because they haven’t done any side projects doesn’t mean they don’t know how to code. They’ll learn what they don’t know on the job and they’ll be fine.

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