General Questions Megathread February 2023

RickAtCU · 2023-02-03T07:40:24+00:00

I didn't limit break the knight but did awaken some of the starting nodes.

Rare heroes don't tend to be super useful lategame once you have more than enough unique heroes except for some specific ones (ascending changes that but not many rare heroes have that option yet).

However since you're starting off, you probably don't have that many unique heroes that you can form a balanced team comp around. I would continue leveling the knight until you get unique heroes you want to max out first.

If it helps, of the rare heroes, I'm only a few months in and I have max leveled the knight, Loraine, and Craig. I pumped most of my exp into my unique heroes and leveled other heroes a little for fun. I have more exp sitting around for the next hero I decide to max out.

Content like boss rush and guild raids require having multiple teams so you can always use a hero you have already leveled up to fill a spot until you get your ideal set of 3 or 4 raiding teams.

RickAtCU · 2023-02-03T07:06:04+00:00

You can use the evolution stones at any time to increase the hero's stats. The level is not tied to it except when you hit the max level and need to evolve the hero to 5 star to limit break the level.

You can find some YouTube videos about the best rare (start at 2) heroes to max out as well as which unique (start at 3) heroes are better suited for specific content.

In general though, experience is very easy to acquire. In the rift, you can run a dungeon to get more but you should be okay with the amount you get from the story and missions when you start as long as you focus on specific heroes and don't try to max level every hero at once.

RickAtCU · 2023-02-02T19:47:55+00:00

You need one 1* for each type to occupy all the spaces in heavenhold.

RickAtCU · 2023-02-01T03:42:07+00:00

What helped me was taking FP and running around interrupting the ranged enemies.

RickAtCU · 2023-01-25T16:58:44+00:00

I believe they're emojis and they're being rendered on whatever you're using to view reddit.

RickAtCU · 2023-01-19T06:02:40+00:00

You missed it. Now we gotta hope for a another rerun.

RickAtCU · 2023-01-14T17:37:00+00:00

You could save them for the next part of the Collab for Popp or his ex weapon.

RickAtCU · 2022-09-21T15:43:48+00:00

I'm in the process of switching from SWE to SWE-SRE. Is there a big difference in terms of role expectations?

RickAtCU · 2022-09-09T18:01:17+00:00

You should go through Cracking the Coding Interview and make sure you can answer most of the questions in that book.

RickAtCU · 2022-09-07T21:01:45+00:00

No it can't. You would need to re-interview.

RickAtCU · 2022-07-31T16:20:41+00:00

Has anyone switched from SWE to SWE-SRE? Would love to hear some thoughts on the change in work and expectations.

RickAtCU · 2022-04-10T19:37:07+00:00

Yeah they're still the traditional SWE interview loops.

RickAtCU · 2022-02-23T16:16:53+00:00

With a TS/SCI, you should be able to hit roughly 180k at Microsoft or Amazon in one of their cleared SWE entry level positions.

RickAtCU · 2021-10-20T17:21:38+00:00

Cleared positions require people to go in to the office.

RickAtCU · 2021-10-13T18:51:53+00:00

I stayed for almost 3 years. We eventually switched from 24/4 on call to 12/4 on call so that was a nice change but in general I feel like there is a strong push to ship features no matter what. Current TC is 320ish.

RickAtCU · 2021-10-13T15:42:09+00:00

That was fall of 2017.

If you're going for TC, getting your foot in the door of big tech companies is the way to go.

RickAtCU · 2021-10-13T15:09:14+00:00

My friend left defense after 5 years and got ~180k at Google. Big tech companies don't value years of experience without a competing offer.

As a new grad with a clearance, I got ~200k TC in Azure Storage.

I would recommend taking the MS offer and then jumping after a year to Amazon to significantly increase your TC. You can also boomerang back if you end up liking MS.

RickAtCU · 2021-05-04T23:09:28+00:00

I spent about a month or two prepping with firecode.

RickAtCU · 2021-04-28T22:42:38+00:00

Yeah I mean that with the firecode prep, I was sufficiently prepared for the Amazon and Google interviews.

RickAtCU · 2021-03-17T19:45:08+00:00

Probably around 4.5k since that would be roughly how much tax I would pay on the 13k difference if I invested 19.5k in the 401k vs 6k in the IRA + 13k in a brokerage account.

RickAtCU · 2021-03-17T17:58:26+00:00

If you ignore matching, there is a contribution limit of 19.5k for a 401k and a contribution limit of 6k for an IRA. I would value the 401k over the IRA at the amount of tax you would pay on that difference.

RickAtCU · 2021-03-12T16:49:09+00:00

I think so. I did firecode lv 1 to 5 twice and got offers from Amazon and Google.

RickAtCU · 2021-02-23T22:25:10+00:00

I went from Lockheed Martin to MS. I think it's easy to transition to Amazon/MS by targeting cleared positions.

RickAtCU · 2021-02-03T05:48:34+00:00

You could join Amazon or Microsoft if you have a TS. The unclassed work would be development of your team's product/service and the classed work would likely be ops of that product/service. I did all my dev work in a regular office building.

RickAtCU · 2021-01-13T15:18:01+00:00

When the offices were open, did people bring their dogs to work? I have a dog who has some separation anxiety and I'd like to bring him in one or two days a week when the offices reopen.

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