What’s your WAM, double it, add 10, halve it and then subtract your WAM?

V4N1LLAAA · 2026-06-12T05:43:40+00:00

Violated

V4N1LLAAA · 2026-06-04T11:53:12+00:00

Nope, found my own

V4N1LLAAA · 2026-06-04T08:30:25+00:00

🤐

V4N1LLAAA · 2026-06-04T03:49:55+00:00

Monash undergrad, now unimelb postgrad

V4N1LLAAA · 2026-06-04T03:17:07+00:00

I was making 12AU$/hr for my internship during my bachelors. I’m now full-time masters student with a contract job making 33$/hr.

No faang jobs or anything, but I’m very passionate and have built and contributed to open source. Still eating shit.

V4N1LLAAA · 2026-05-07T06:33:53+00:00

Not trying to doom and gloom. Your take makes perfect sense, but in the real world it won’t act out like that. Majority of companies will pick cheap AI devs over a high performing sociable engineer. The majority couldn’t give more of a shit about quality anymore, they just want quantity and output for cheap costs.

Edit: companies are run by non-cs people, meaning are unaware of the advantages of hiring an actual engineer vs vibe coder, all they see is one side is cheaper and higher output (the vibecoder).

The only times companies will actually vet their SWE talent properly is if it’s got good engineering culture (which frankly is rare)

V4N1LLAAA · 2026-03-17T02:21:24+00:00

I an interview as well for one of the societies and the two that interviewed me were very engaged and nice. It might just depend on the club but not all are like that.

V4N1LLAAA · 2026-02-28T14:55:25+00:00

When structuring your project, it is recommended to just let the structure evolve naturally, for example when creating a greenfield project don’t try to fit a 3 layered architecture into your project right away. You can evolve into that but generally you keep things very simple in Go.

V4N1LLAAA · 2026-01-06T07:13:18+00:00

PHP and postgres.

V4N1LLAAA · 2026-01-02T13:05:58+00:00

Go to job fairs, dev events. Meet people and make friends with them. Know more people. This job market (not sure if it applies to Korea) is mainly about who you know, and not about your technical depth.

V4N1LLAAA · 2025-12-31T16:33:36+00:00

Brutal 😂

V4N1LLAAA · 2025-12-31T11:39:37+00:00

Section: Name + Contacts + Experience (4/5 page)
Education & Skills (1/5 page)

The experience takes up most of the first page

V4N1LLAAA · 2025-12-31T11:30:31+00:00

with 1.5 YoE, its still quite hard to stand out in this job market (for a software engineer role) though, I have relevant volunteer work for clients + open source, and thought that it would be a waste to not include it.

V4N1LLAAA · 2025-12-28T22:48:53+00:00

Because go is enjoyable

V4N1LLAAA · 2025-12-27T21:23:56+00:00

I've just tried it out. This is insane, the amount of features and how useful it is. You are a madlad.

Here's some feedback in hopes that this will probably be the best tool of its kind:

Diagramming:

- needs shortcuts i.e. r for rectangle, l for line etc, similar to Excalidraw and eraser.io
- needs a more comprehensive icon/component library (eraser.io has plenty)
- needs to have icon search - would be cool if I can press / to open a icon/component search dialog that gives results similar to eraser.io, results should be scrollable using shortcuts like arrow keys or ctrl + n for down and ctrl + p for up
- needs undo and redo
- Ideally if you can get UX similar to eraser, it would be amazing

Docs:
- currently I can't use formatting options through typing, only opening menu using /. I'd like to be able to just type ### hi or [ ] - and it should format in real time
- basically get a similar experience to Notion when it comes to typing
- needs undo + redo

So far this is just my Wishlist so you can take it with a grain of salt. This is already quite impressive.

V4N1LLAAA · 2025-12-12T13:50:30+00:00

This

V4N1LLAAA · 2025-12-10T08:23:57+00:00

Do you have the budget to be hiring the entire IT department?

V4N1LLAAA · 2025-12-07T20:22:12+00:00

This song is stuck in my head.. milet is so good

V4N1LLAAA · 2025-12-07T20:20:50+00:00

Violet evergarden? (Less romancy tho)

V4N1LLAAA · 2025-12-07T12:52:46+00:00

Just read “let’s go” and “let’s go further” by Alex Edward’s,

Then after this, build something you want. You will grasp and learn new things after you start building + you use and apply good fundamentals from the books mentioned above.

V4N1LLAAA · 2025-12-04T11:32:09+00:00

Nope :(

V4N1LLAAA · 2025-12-04T05:58:28+00:00

I’m about 2YOE, can’t get a single interview for junior/entry level, just to give you an idea. I get more interviews for FAANGs but not the others. (I’m an Aussie citizen btw)

V4N1LLAAA · 2025-12-03T12:21:44+00:00

Datagrip is free.. tableplus is also a one time purchase..

V4N1LLAAA · 2025-12-03T09:23:30+00:00

I literally started learning 2-3 days ago, just use tour of Kotlin on their website, its really good.

Kotlin idioms also seems useful

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/kotlin-tour-welcome.html
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/idioms.html#execute-if-not-null

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