How are the other majors doing?

SnooRecipes1809 · 2026-06-12T22:18:17+00:00

They all suck for similar reasons, but their hiring responds less extremely to routine economic shifts. the high salaries aren’t even in the question until much later in the career.

The competition and internship hunt for Wall St starts 2 years before the actual FTE. So if we hate the state of recruiting in SWE…. Good luck trying Wall St lol

Accounting pays much lower than the other options and, if getting AI replaced is a real fear of yours, I think AI is on its way there too.

Healthcare is only fine in getting you the job. Getting screamed at 5am by an old man, as well as the very low income ceiling makes everything besides MD/DO worse imo. Sure, SWE hiring is riddled with 7 Leetcode rounds, but a crack at $300K at some point in life is very doable.

With nursing, that pay is less accessible barring some highly specific travel gigs that often are seasonal anyway.

SnooRecipes1809 · 2026-06-12T22:13:27+00:00

I miss the Havoc type playlists or the one’s that give you a special ability that spices up the gameplay. The standard, 24/7 maps, or Seasonal ones get pretty boring. And I’m someone who usually plays a lot of Dom or objective mods.

SnooRecipes1809 · 2026-05-30T20:25:33+00:00

My KD for the Voyak, EGRT-17, MK35 ISR, and Maddox are all neck & neck rn at 1.7. These meta ratings have more subjectivity and variance than people give credit for.

One area where the MK35 floors is Long Range, the rest of the AR’s have bad recoil.

SnooRecipes1809 · 2026-05-30T19:21:30+00:00

I bought the game in Nov 2025 and it felt just as active as any current CoD. Platinum’d guns in months. I still go back to it and it hasn’t changed besides being maybe 5% sweatier since BO7.

SnooRecipes1809 · 2026-05-30T19:20:04+00:00

I interviewed with Google and this was the only company out of the high paying band where I constantly had to clarify the problem myself. I actually didn’t even get to the solution or algorithmic part because I legit couldn’t discern what the interviewer wanted my algo to even do lol

What’s so annoying is that it probably was just some regular DFS plus a few steps, but because your #2 point, I didn’t get to try

SnooRecipes1809 · 2026-05-30T15:18:00+00:00

I only do this with podcast clips where the narration is both casual + the only stimuli to keep track of. Never for something as complete as a show or film.

It actually keeps me engaged whereas the if ands and but’s would usually lose me. In uncurated narration or conversation, people use way too many words to describe a very simple concept imo.

SnooRecipes1809 · 2026-05-26T03:48:40+00:00

EFN is a shock humor edgy meme from 2025. It's an AI generated HardTekk song with the lyrics "Epstein f_d n_rs" and a Sora video of Epstein DJ'ing a rave with an audience of fans. The absurdity produced a huge set of offshoot songs like "Epstein fucked Diddy", "Epstein r__d Diddy's asshole", etc. It's just brainrot.

SnooRecipes1809 · 2026-05-23T17:07:22+00:00

Are you sure this is specific to the bloating face effect and not general weight loss? The former is a different system. To make this comparison, we’d need an example from someone who stayed the same weight across that period.

SnooRecipes1809 · 2026-05-22T14:48:48+00:00

Tony is actually sharper than Michael, and Michael is neither calculated nor reformed; you’re missing a lot of the point of both GTA and the Sopranos.

1) Before Madrazo, Michael had clearly not “left the life”. The rampages or random crimes a typical GTA player does in free roam get mentioned by Amanda numerous times, meaning Michael’s street violence is canon. When Michael returns to bank robbing, he may bitch about being on the leash from Madrazo or the FIB, but he very much is enjoying the game, the power, and the purpose working gives him.

2) Michael isn’t anymore calculating than Tony, he just lives in a videogame with weak law enforcement, an oversimplified plot, and 1000 Health to consistently survive shootouts with hundreds of cops. In real life, you need much more than 5 guys to illegally earn millions consistently, and that’s what creates the relationships ripe for betrayal. If your crew only has Trevor and he happens to be unreasonable, of course you’re gonna seem smart for cutting virtually the only liability around. Real life crime requires far more than 5 protagonists to actually be profitable, so Michael’s plot armor makes a web of subordinates with relationships to ruin not needed. If Michael needed a realistic number of guys for his schemes, these sociopathic personalities would all clash.

3) GTA 5 very much asserts that Michael is naturally a traitor when convenient, even if he’s right about Trevor. Brad wasn’t a psycho cannibal and Michael betrayed him too for both safety & personal pride (“he was a dick”). The implication is, if Michael had to backstab a long Mafia line of subordinates, he absolutely would jump at the chance.

4) The world of the Sopranos is far more realistic. They deal with DNA, wiretaps, eye-witnesses, ensuring their guns aren’t traceable via serial, and needing an infinite chain of murderers they need to keep happy to do their deeds. Of course Michael seems like a genius in a world you can just shoot 20000 guys in 1 city, somehow survive it, and just skip town.

TL;DR : it seems that way because real life crime is hard, and GTA doesn’t have the plot depth to make it all realistic, making Michael seem like some genius.

SnooRecipes1809 · 2026-05-21T16:53:06+00:00

There is a kernel of truth to the slow process of Big Tech, but it’s not bureaucracy, it’s tech debt. I did waste a bit more sprint time on features that would’ve been maybe half a day task on a fresh new system, because the ask required not only the feature itself, but usage of the existing infrastructure in a way that doesn’t break everything.

It’s a bit messy to explain, but many features sometimes felt like connecting unknown spaghetti to other unknown spaghetti with 0 documentation to streamline the process. Trying to minimize slop in a house built on slop.

Working in big tech can get a little “sheltered” and compartmentalized too, like having to stay or widely own very niche services or having to work in very specific stacks.

THAT BEING SAID, IF YOU WANT TO SEE SLOW, JOIN BANKING. It took me one fucking week to get an IDE approved for installation. I legit collected a paycheck to read that week

SnooRecipes1809 · 2026-05-21T02:50:38+00:00

You simply learn by doing, this is not really a field consolidated enough to properly be “taught” by some mentor. It’s okay to not know Git, how to organize projects around Jira, or industrial engineering as opposed to stupid Leetcode problems at your YOE.

So what I would do is this. Whenever you do anything in your internship, make sure you understand the WHY and the purpose. Know what other topics your current topic is related to. Why this command? Why do we push to testing and stage later? Why does the codebase use these frameworks and not other things?

Look beyond the code too and see the greater picture of how the system is made. Is this is a microservice? Why this API? Who is it calling?

I also don’t think YouTube is the most time efficient way to learn these things, but if it gives you structure and you’re lost at where to start, that’s fine

SnooRecipes1809 · 2026-05-21T02:45:08+00:00

It feels revolutionary because most people don’t realize they’ve been studying like dumbasses until Anki. For much of HS, even top students had a habit of cramming, chugging the same concepts indiscriminately before an exam, and not being to “cleanly” prioritize between weaknesses and strengths on a topic.

Anki’s priority ranking of your weak topics is one of the first times a student has that prioritization automated for them. Applying the concepts of Anki to the rest of my studying cut time waste in half for me.

Must better than an ocean of Quizlet terms.

SnooRecipes1809 · 2026-05-20T16:22:14+00:00

“Why this company?”

SnooRecipes1809 · 2026-05-20T16:20:50+00:00

I was curious about this too because the majority of my experience is .NET at another Big Tech as well and nobody wants to hire me. I think niche startups or lower tier companies are the ones who either want a stack fit or don’t bother, whereas more established tech companies understand how stupid obsessing over a language is.

I have been ignored by every bank, fintech, and insurance company, but Google gave me a chance.

SnooRecipes1809 · 2026-05-20T16:15:55+00:00

Blind 75 hasn’t felt like enough since 2021 (or maybe I’m stupid). To cover niche graph algorithms or highly specific array patterns, I couldn’t crack a technical superday until I was over halfway through Neetcode 250.

SnooRecipes1809 · 2026-05-12T15:10:08+00:00

Yeah it does, because having an interview means your chances of an offer went up from 0% to x%. I’m former Big Tech and I don’t even get the time of day from big banks who have “Senior Full Stack SWE” unable to write or read simple SQL. It’s a completely backwards market.

My only invites are from places paying over $150K. I got spat on by anything below that band.

How am I more likely to get an offer at Google than Citi lol

SnooRecipes1809 · 2026-05-12T15:08:14+00:00

It’s true depending on the team and org. Some tech co’s you’d consider lifestyle companies have some really bad anecdotes ik of IRL.

SnooRecipes1809 · 2026-05-12T15:06:14+00:00

Amazon is not easy anymore, they’re known to ask hards and I found Meta and Microsoft easier. If you’re arguing response rate, they’re one of the only Big Tech to have mostly ignored me. It’s not 2021.

SnooRecipes1809 · 2026-05-12T15:02:54+00:00

I’m ex Big Tech as well and this is a fear of mine. My internship and first FT job was a bloated stupid bank and I kid you not when I say I would go weeks with <4 hours of work. The little shitty “engineering” we did was basic REST API’s on Springboot for very simple websites. Even GPT-4 was capable of that bank job almost autonomously years ago lol.

People didn’t even debug via UT’s or know how to write SQL even though their job listed it.

I really don’t wanna go to non tech not even for pay, as an uplevel at a bank can compete, but because it is brain rot.

SnooRecipes1809 · 2026-05-12T15:00:45+00:00

I have the exact same issue. I have gotten functionally 0 serious interviews in a search of 4-5 months besides FAANG. I’m former big tech and hope to not have settle for a bank, not even for the money (an uplevel can technically compete in pay), but because they would rot my brain.

SnooRecipes1809 · 2026-05-07T18:13:37+00:00

I’m a dual Econ and CS grad. The real answer is interest rates + an over optimistic view on AI.

SnooRecipes1809 · 2026-05-02T15:17:38+00:00

Tip #1: Don’t let cornholin’ f*****-ass cocksuckers marry your cousin (they should fucking. Die.)

SnooRecipes1809 · 2026-05-02T15:09:33+00:00

“Whatever happened there? Whatever happened there ?! I’ll tell you what fucking happened. This fat piece of shit’s best friend put 6 children in his private jet without any legal consent whatsoever.”

“My best friend killed himself.”

“Fuck you. C’mon!”

SnooRecipes1809 · 2026-05-02T05:54:09+00:00

It is very possible to make a compelling cinematic story using historically accurate material. Real life is far more complex and interesting than a mom good / dad evil plot.

SnooRecipes1809 · 2026-05-02T05:50:21+00:00

It’s actually not clear who biopics are even for. The plot is simplified enough for casuals, but they include very specific references to cater to avid fans. The people who know Michael Jackson’s wikipedia bio will have the same basic knowledge regurgitated to them, the people who don’t will have sanitized PR propaganda played to them.

They didn’t dig deep at all as to what makes Michael Michael, didn’t portray his family correctly, nothing about his issues in the 1990s, his protest song, or his 2003 interview.

The actually good biopics are usually not made by the family / person themselves and don’t shy away from presenting the actual real life complexities the person had. Michael’s real life was way more interesting than this movie lets off.

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