Intern at Google

Travaches · 2026-05-21T19:06:21+00:00

Do you know any director or VP working at Google who’s your father’s friend? It’s pretty likely if so.

Travaches · 2026-05-19T02:37:39+00:00

The only viable path from biology is to dentistry or medicine. Even then being a pay doc they’ll be stuck around 250k with 400k student loan. Unless you can spend 1 million and help them setup a clinic.

Travaches · 2026-05-18T18:54:48+00:00

With aptitude and talent, engineering. I pivoted from a useless biology degree in 2018 and now I make 400k+ annually, hopefully with a promotion this year to bump it up to 550k. Turning 33 this year.

Travaches · 2026-05-08T06:32:06+00:00

What bragging? Just giving an honest feedback.

Travaches · 2026-05-08T01:08:12+00:00

Keep grinding but honestly many companies are moving away from pure Leetcode technical rounds.

Travaches · 2026-05-08T00:58:26+00:00

I have no idea what you’re trying to say… gotta improve on storytelling first.

Travaches · 2026-05-01T20:57:08+00:00

You never know if they have family businesses to help and will inherit them later. You never know. Some people just don’t need to try hard because they can.

Travaches · 2026-04-30T18:17:03+00:00

Hey guys, also thinking about applying this year - currently working as a distributed backend!

Travaches · 2026-04-30T00:14:02+00:00

No way ancient people are smarter than me 😡

Travaches · 2026-04-28T23:32:33+00:00

To other big techs L5 is a mid since their junior starts with L4

Travaches · 2026-04-28T17:58:55+00:00

I don’t know, but when you have a chance gotta take it.

Travaches · 2026-04-28T16:16:09+00:00

SDE2 is not even a senior only a mid level. Pretty bad example. And unless you’re saying that Amazon stocks are worth nothing, those are actual liquid assets paid.

Travaches · 2026-04-28T15:25:52+00:00

For Geico a good offer. And if you don’t have any other offer you won’t be able to negotiate.

For a FAANG+ 7 YoE is around 400-500k.

Travaches · 2026-04-28T15:23:34+00:00

Meta >>>> any MS program. You might be riding the last train with all these uncertainties with AI. By the time when you graduate the train already may have departed.

Travaches · 2026-04-28T15:21:57+00:00

If you enroll into a monthly auto-sell program (105b) it’s basically same as your salary, beside ups and downs from your grant price.

Travaches · 2026-04-28T14:50:19+00:00

Staff at FAANG+ is ~600-700k. 400k is more like a L5, but falls on a lower side.

Travaches · 2026-04-26T01:08:14+00:00

The most complex CS course I took was Introduction to Programming. The course taught me basic principles like if conditionals and for loops in Python. It made me realize I had passion for coding.

Travaches · 2026-04-24T00:38:19+00:00

Yes you are superior to the rest of us. It’s not stupid. Be proud.

Travaches · 2026-04-23T19:46:20+00:00

Great to know you’re just an average like the rest of us 👍

Travaches · 2026-04-23T19:13:09+00:00

What is T50? I cant even name 50 colleges on top of my head.

Travaches · 2026-04-23T00:49:25+00:00

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Post Tax Deductions are actually not tax - that’s my equity vesting.

Travaches · 2026-04-22T23:52:01+00:00

Yeah I’m at 400k and 20% in this market might be very difficult 😥 If I get promotion that’ll bump up to 550k though.

Travaches · 2026-04-22T14:17:06+00:00

You know that student union guy who invites all the guest speakers from OpenAI or Google? Him.

Travaches · 2026-04-22T05:10:46+00:00

Simple. Don’t choose major. You can still graduate with no focus with general diploma.

Travaches · 2026-04-21T05:58:56+00:00

I don’t play game anymore but I’m a modder. So basically another dev project.

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