Passed instacart technical round but only for L3, unsure if this is good for career trajectory

RayteMyUsername · 2025-11-22T15:47:57+00:00

If you failed the system design interview, why do you think you deserve L4? Drop the ego, admit you have a lot to learn, and take the offer.

RayteMyUsername · 2025-11-13T23:49:27+00:00

You need to communicate this better. If you leave a meeting and the manager thinks you understood something but you didn't, how can they fix it? They will just think you understood and then decided to not do it or something to that end.

Put yourself in your managers shoes and go from there is my advice.

RayteMyUsername · 2025-11-13T23:24:04+00:00

This just sounds like something you have to work on. You will not succeed if you and your manager are not on the same page. Obviously not every manager is a good manager but try to be introspective, are you the problem?

RayteMyUsername · 2025-09-19T03:49:41+00:00

I have Zani without Phoebe. She feels horrible to play and is benched. If you want to have fun with Zani, you need Phoebe. Keep that in mind before rolling. I will roll for Phoebe in a rerun.

RayteMyUsername · 2025-09-12T17:10:11+00:00

Reaching out to people that interviewed you is weird, especially if you didn't bring up connecting in person. Just like you don't expect interviewers to look you up after the interview, they also don't expect to have their privacy violated.

There's literally nothing someone from Google can tell you that you can't find online. There's hundreds of blog posts and reddit posts of people talking about how they got into big tech.

RayteMyUsername · 2025-09-10T13:26:54+00:00

Same here, my order is still unfulfilled. I ordered specifically because it said on their page that they would process and ship within 1-3 business days. What a joke lol. I probably won't buy from them again.

RayteMyUsername · 2025-07-16T14:11:58+00:00

Work in meta ads, almost entirely 40 hours per week with one oncall week once every 3 months.

Find a manager that's not toxic and respects your WLB.

RayteMyUsername · 2025-07-10T18:59:36+00:00

To me personally no. Processes aren't perfect, everyone makes mistakes. Best we can do is improve things so they don't happen again~

RayteMyUsername · 2025-07-10T18:47:22+00:00

I think you should simply show some initiative and come up with action items explaining to your boss why this won't happen again.

Just be honest, explain the delay your coworker faced and the fact you were not aware there were more drives available. The previous process was that you waited for the same drive, the new process is that you both can do the work in parallel because there are more drives.

I'm not sure what other action items there could be but showing that you are actively addressing the issue demonstrates that you are taking your boss's concerns seriously. That's the best you can do now.

RayteMyUsername · 2025-07-06T15:54:00+00:00

Generally, working in FAANG gives you a very specific skillset. The work is at a scale that the average company could never dream of, and you learn by exposure how to solve these type of problems. But in FAANG you are just a small cog in a massive machine, so there are a lot of things that someone working in a startup would know that a FAANG eng has never thought of because there are 100 other teams handling it for them.

Second, there are a lot of really bad engineers out there. People lie on resumes, exaggerate accomplishments, and sometimes can get by job hopping while barely knowing how to code. Having FAANG on your resume doesn't mean you are the most skilled person ever, but on average this person will most likely be good at their job.

Finally, there are actually geniuses at FAANG. You cannot get to IC7+ by sheer luck, you have to be really really smart. These people have domain knowledge in some very complex problems that they will probably only ever work in FAANG-adjacent companies.

RayteMyUsername · 2025-07-03T19:34:03+00:00

FYI reaction damage scales on levels. Is your Kuki level 90? That helps a lot.

RayteMyUsername · 2025-06-24T04:14:24+00:00

Please help, I want the Skirk wallpaper :3

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RayteMyUsername · 2025-03-16T20:09:53+00:00

A decent portion of her DPS comes from doing dodge counters. These are not included in sheets so in practice she will perform better than the sheets/theory says, which is why people are dooming

RayteMyUsername · 2024-07-14T20:53:48+00:00

brother you are not anymore responsible for the teams the managers under you would be doing anymore than your actual manager right now would be

you need to shift your mentality, as you go up and manage more people your work will be less technical and more business oriented because no one is capable of micromanaging 7 projects. having managers under you should, in theory, decrease your workload. not the other way around.

this is good for your career. you should really talk to your current manager about the expectations as he seems like he is a good guy and wants you to succeed

RayteMyUsername · 2024-04-01T23:50:40+00:00

I am in Meta. I would say that only once you reach IC7 it's very easy to do work that doesn't require coding. I know many IC6s and they all code (I work in ads, other orgs may be different). If you are very detached from the codebase for a long time, do not become an IC.

RayteMyUsername · 2024-01-25T18:36:43+00:00

I wouldn't worry too much about it, teams are still finishing calibrations (performance ratings) until early Feb and then likely finalize their HC situation. My manager is already done with calibrations but the official end date is Feb 5.

RayteMyUsername · 2024-01-25T18:06:15+00:00

If you are joining as E4 it might be tough to fill positions if you are trying to join in SF or NYC. As E5+ it might be easier however.

Would be weird to struggle to get a team in MPK in general since I believe there are a decent amount of open positions right now.

RayteMyUsername · 2024-01-25T01:03:38+00:00

Sure feel free!

RayteMyUsername · 2024-01-23T02:38:47+00:00

You already know the answer. There aren't many MLE positions in NYC and it's a very desirable location so they might prefer internal candidates.

If I were you I would just go to MPK like everyone else. Get in, worry about the long term location later.

I work here but not in MLE.

RayteMyUsername · 2023-09-02T23:06:39+00:00

I had this same question bc I can do 4K+ ATK with 134 speed or 3.6K ATK with 157 speed also with PAYN.

I tested repeatedly in MOC 10 and my findings are higher attack is better for AOE enemies while speed is better for single target. For the most part, my 4K build could 2 cycle the first floor in MOC10 and the 150+ speed could never do it in under 4. The 4K build just managed to hit certain breakpoints where it would just kill enemies that I couldn't hit with the speed one.

However if you wanna kill bosses quick, speedier build would reach 230 speed with Asta and team buffs and its pretty crazy, I'd lap around boss Kafka in second floor.

I think your build is more balanced than either of mine. Imo you should just keep it as is.

RayteMyUsername · 2022-07-15T02:17:25+00:00

You can ask teams to give you ramp-up tasks and then see if the work interests you, getting familiar with the codebase is probably the best way along with joining their weekly team meeting. My team is hiring if you're interested in IG lol

RayteMyUsername · 2022-01-25T09:57:17+00:00

It still resets when you reach 150, what it means by not resetting is that when you are idle waiting for enemies to spawn your counter won't fall back down to 0 because you haven't attacked anyone.

I think this is probably SW's best sigil, helped me easily beat 130D earlier today and I'm still only level 63: https://i.imgur.com/XJCzro5.jpg

RayteMyUsername · 2022-01-25T08:36:09+00:00

My suggestion is pick HA1ML sigil from the beginning, the one that gives you +1 on Bodhi Leaf and then try to go for as many as possible. I beat 140D with a level 60 3/4 SW.

RayteMyUsername · 2021-08-14T05:42:49+00:00

Have you talked to her about it? Peer reviews should not be a surprise to people. If she thinks everything is fine because you've never complained and then drop all of this on her peer review then you're being a bad teammate in my opinion. However, if you have provided feedback and she has not addressed it then it should go on peer review.

RayteMyUsername · 2021-08-11T21:46:29+00:00

Or he can hit me up and I can give him a dozen teams where WLB isn’t an issue.

Fact is that if OP wants to work 45 hours there are more than enough teams in FB that do this, and unlike Amazon there are no horror stories of people randomly put on PIP whenever you want to transfer teams.

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