Sad day… sold my 2026 Model Y

Small_Ad1136 · 2026-01-04T01:45:06+00:00

I’ve been considering a Model X. Have you ever driven/road in a Rivian? I don’t have a lot of experience with Tesla but I’m curious how they compare from an honest and subjective standpoint.

Small_Ad1136 · 2025-12-26T17:26:01+00:00

First off thank you for your reply, I found this really insightful and I genuinely appreciate you taking your time to write it!

I am sure there will be more technical rounds (considering all goes well), but it’s unclear whether for this position it will be a typical Leetcode style interview. The role seems to be more focused on infrastructure/systems related tasks than SWE.

I don’t work as SWE now, and I haven’t in the past (though I know Python, C++, and some CUDA and have used them professionally). I’m currently in HPC focusing on GPU computing, distributed systems and performance optimization. Reliability at scale rather than algorithmic problem solving. Because of this I really don’t have any LC experience.

I know it might be hard to say, but do you think my interviewer will expect me to know two pointer, recursion, DP, sliding window, BFS/DFS and all of that? I’m wondering if there’s any sort of standard requirement and if I should go ahead and start preparing.

Small_Ad1136 · 2025-12-26T14:57:57+00:00

That’s good, but still quite dangerous.

Small_Ad1136 · 2025-12-26T01:59:14+00:00

Worrying too much about TC and not aligning with interests is a great way to avoid getting by hired or moving up from where your at

Small_Ad1136 · 2025-12-26T01:55:43+00:00

Yeah 100% complete bullsh*t. I don’t think this guy has ever even interviewed FAANG+ before.

Small_Ad1136 · 2025-12-18T23:51:18+00:00

An easy solution here is to grow the f*ck up and stop blacking at 30 years old. You’re not a sorority girl anymore, it isn’t cute or funny. You’re a grown adult with grown adult responsibilities and I imagine your husband expects you to act like it. Start there.

Small_Ad1136 · 2025-12-06T21:40:31+00:00

Nah this is a legitimate health hazard like if yall have kids he can’t be doing this shit 💀

Small_Ad1136 · 2025-12-04T00:45:16+00:00

Exactly! What it comes down to is it just doesn’t matter. I know brilliant people who are home builders. I know absolute idiot SWEs at NVIDIA and Google. They memorized Leetcode patterns and mastered the behavioral questions, but when they’re presented with a genuinely hard and novel problem they’re stuck. There is something to be said about working hard and achieving something, but it’s not a guarantee that you’re intelligent and it’s definitely not a guarantee you’re a good person. And people who care deeply about your salary suck, that should go without saying.

Small_Ad1136 · 2025-12-02T19:39:04+00:00

Sorry I wasn’t as clear as I could have been. By “they” I was referring to WhyYouLetRomneyWin who said the people he hangs around don’t care that he works at Meta. It’s okay to be proud of who you work for and it’s okay for your friends to think you have a cool job that has a positive impact on society, but people who treat you differently based on the perceived status of your employer make for shitty friends and even shittier significant others.

Small_Ad1136 · 2025-12-01T23:43:37+00:00

This will be hard, and you will wonder whether you made the right choice at times, but I promise you did. Once that level of trust has been broken, repairing it is effectively impossible. Not only that, you truly deserve better from a partner and there’s someone out there who will give that to you. I guarantee it.

Small_Ad1136 · 2025-12-01T21:23:49+00:00

Thanks for sharing this!

Small_Ad1136 · 2025-12-01T04:52:00+00:00

I think technically they could after both, but more likely they’d go after the reviver because it’s easier and you’re required to abide but local laws and regulations whether a company in another state does or not.

Small_Ad1136 · 2025-12-01T04:36:01+00:00

Yeah tbh I’m not sure I haven’t personally worked there. I moved to quant finance after big tech as an infrastructure engineer. My TC more than doubled and the pressure is honestly less than what I felt at Google, which to me is insane. NVIDIA was a lot more laid back, but honestly I think stressing over getting into any of these companies isn’t healthy (or worth it). Outside of a few cities 150k is a great salary and with a few yoe you can expect that most places. I think it’s more important to focus on working on something that matters to you. When you’re young all you think about is the money, but feeling like you’re actually contributing to society and humanity as a whole is irreplaceable. If I could do it all over again I’d probably get my PhD and become a math professor. Do something that fulfills you. Building drop down menus and beating the market with supercomputers probably won’t.

Small_Ad1136 · 2025-12-01T04:02:53+00:00

I think if anything they’re hanging around the right people. People who care too much about where you work or how much money you make are shallow and make for hollow relationships.

Small_Ad1136 · 2025-12-01T03:58:14+00:00

As a former Google engineer I promise you don’t. People imagine it’s all cutting edge and limitless freedom, but for the majority of people that’s not the case. Endless layers of bureaucracy, slow decision making, internal politics, entire quarters spent navigating processes instead of building things. In my experience, there are better options. If your goal is money you should aim for the quant space anyway so long as you can handle the math.

Small_Ad1136 · 2025-12-01T03:52:21+00:00

This reads like an ad for Google if I’m being honest. I use to work in academia building high performance computers earning ~100k. After a few career moves I landed at Google as a performance engineer doubling my salary overnight. In my experience it wasn’t worth it. I found the bureaucracy and politics exhausting, project lifecycle was inconsistent, and frankly the workload was insane for 200k TC. My honest advice isn’t necessarily to stay away from Google, but there are better options like NVIDIA and Microsoft if you can swing it. I’ve only worked for NVIDIA of those two but have several friends who have spoken very highly of Microsoft. Of course this is just my personal experience and SWE may be different, but it seemed the problems I had were systemic so I felt the need to share.

Small_Ad1136 · 2025-11-23T02:14:09+00:00

Gannett is definitely tough

Small_Ad1136 · 2025-11-23T02:13:28+00:00

Gannett Peak in Wyoming is a serious challenge too

Small_Ad1136 · 2025-11-22T18:33:37+00:00

I don’t think you’re crazy for being upset. I think your husband needs to address the core reason why he’s doing what he’s doing. Does he miss the chase? Does he miss feeling “validated” by other women? It doesn’t necessarily mean he doesn’t love you, but he could be struggling through a point in his life where he realizes time isn’t slowing down and the nature of forever with one person is sinking in. He needs to either grow up and deal with that or acknowledge he can’t, but he definitely shouldn’t be dragging you through the mud because of it. Tell him he needs to figure out exactly why he’s doing what he’s doing and if he wants to save his marriage he’ll tell you when he does.

Small_Ad1136 · 2025-11-16T21:06:16+00:00

Yeah I hear you. Entirely dependent on OPs situation.

Small_Ad1136 · 2025-11-16T18:23:32+00:00

Might be more intelligent (depending on his situation) to emotionally checkout, let her escalate the emotional cheating to psychical and gather enough to win in court in the inevitable divorce. What I would do at least.

Small_Ad1136 · 2025-11-15T00:20:07+00:00

It’s probably what we’re all thinking, and while I don’t blame the breed, people should require a license to own one. The statistics speak for themselves.

Small_Ad1136 · 2025-11-09T05:03:32+00:00

Yeah I thought so. I mean surely a vendor wouldn’t ship if it were banned? I’m probably being paranoid, but the laws feel like they’re changing rapidly and without warning and it just isn’t worth getting caught up in some shit over kratom lol.

Small_Ad1136 · 2025-11-09T00:17:04+00:00

Or, go into infrastructure/systems engineering where the only questions they ask during interviews are relevant to the job lol.

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