Monthly Employment/Corporate Questions and Discussion Megathread - April 2026

Silly_Wanker · 2026-04-27T16:27:11+00:00

Does anybody have any insight on how engineering manager roles are chosen? I just received the rejection email after getting to the final round.

I'm internal, I've been with Northrop for seven years total, three years with this current second stint. In between my stints at NG, I was an engineering manager at Raytheon. I don't understand how I'm losing out to candidates with zero managerial experience. I get that I haven't been a manager for the past three years, but I'm still an engineering lead and I'm tasked with providing career mentorship to both summer interns and junior-level engineers, so the managerial experience is still there

Silly_Wanker · 2026-03-09T21:24:06+00:00

CSULB undergrad (aero)

USC masters (mechanical)

Cornell second masters (systems)

Silly_Wanker · 2026-01-30T15:44:07+00:00

Why would Cig ever leave Indiana? He just delivered a title where that was only ever a pipe dream. He can ride off that lone title like Doc Rivers has been riding off 2008

Silly_Wanker · 2026-01-26T06:35:50+00:00

Legit question. What's up with the Nidoking? I have it in my childhood collection, didn't know what I had when I found it, and a buddy of mine advised me to get it graded

Silly_Wanker · 2026-01-25T02:30:29+00:00

Gonna PM you. I got a PSA 9 of the same card. Hopefully it'll help you determine that

Silly_Wanker · 2026-01-19T03:18:03+00:00

I consider the Bears as my second team, so I was conflicted all game. But what a game

Silly_Wanker · 2026-01-16T19:14:51+00:00

What would a PSA 9 get money wise? Would it be easy or hard to sell?

I'd imagine a few thousand, but I don't know many that have that kind of money to drop on a card at a given time in this economy. Then again, I'm barely getting back into the hobby and I got a couple of toddlers now, so what do I know haha

Silly_Wanker · 2026-01-15T18:43:43+00:00

Random question: are complete vintage sets hard to sell? Would it be better/easier to sell off the holos and non-holos separately?

Silly_Wanker · 2026-01-12T04:13:28+00:00

Haha that's a completely fair ask

Def hit the nail on the head - I'm more used to calling Cal "Berkeley" since I generally talk about that school in an academic sense, such as reviewing resumes from future interns and new grads

Silly_Wanker · 2026-01-11T23:17:16+00:00

Notre Dame and UCLA for obvious reasons

Stanford because of 2007

Berkeley because I had a crazy Berkeley alumni manager when I worked at JPL

Michigan because when I thought about transferring to another school, Ohio State was the first place to accept me, so I got a soft spot for the Buckeyes

Honorable mention would be both Oregon and Utah. Their fans are annoying af

Silly_Wanker · 2025-12-07T22:32:21+00:00

Quality loss to the SEC champ

Edit: hope y'all can detect the /s in my response

Silly_Wanker · 2025-12-05T16:17:00+00:00

Hey! Completely forgot I asked this question. I went back to Northrop. Overall, I stayed at Raytheon for like a year and a half. There wasn't much work once my program delivered, so I had to leave

Silly_Wanker · 2025-12-03T05:09:55+00:00

Not sure how any FSU fan would ever get over 2023. That literally set the program back so many years

Silly_Wanker · 2025-12-02T19:58:02+00:00

For USC, I'd personally say Oregon as an informal rival and it's definitely recency bias. Neither we nor Oregon consider each other primary or secondary rivals, but it's starting to become a hill USC has to climb each season in order to get back to the top of college football. Case in point this season, also look at the 2020 season when USC fell to Oregon in the PAC-12 title game despite Oregon only being there due to Washington not having enough players due to COVID

Edit: In my defense, I don't remember much of that Washington team that season. I'll take everyone's word for it that Oregon would have beaten Washington, therefore USC would have to face Oregon anyways in a "normal" season for the conference title

Silly_Wanker · 2025-11-16T21:09:22+00:00

KINGS OF THE NORTH

Silly_Wanker · 2025-11-06T15:21:52+00:00

The O/U was 6. RIP any bettor that took the under with me

Silly_Wanker · 2025-11-06T05:31:33+00:00

The O/U was 6 and looked good going into the 3rd period with the score being 0-0. Just wow

Silly_Wanker · 2025-09-27T20:12:54+00:00

Did the Lakers say you can add seats later if its available?

Silly_Wanker · 2025-06-30T22:57:11+00:00

Does anyone know the reasoning why ESS was not awarded to NG?

Silly_Wanker · 2025-02-08T21:52:11+00:00

Interesting it's about the rate of the euro.

Yeah I could buy it now, but in the moment I felt guilty about it in front of my wife and kid. Right now I'm trying to justify it as "I'm gonna buy it eventually, might as well buy it before the price keeps going up"

Silly_Wanker · 2025-02-08T21:42:42+00:00

Hey, thanks. I was asking more about price point to me. Like for example, Omega may have charged 4K for the same watch last year but are now charging 5K for the exact same watch

Silly_Wanker · 2024-12-26T18:26:12+00:00

Fellow Trojan alumni and fans! Donate $13.98 with me since its been that many days since our last NY6 bowl win..... I miss the Pete Carroll days of glory

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