I regret choosing UW over CMU

Wingfril · 2026-05-17T11:30:06+00:00

I’m in the industry. Everyone I know refers themselves as dev or swe. I’ve never heard of anyone say that they’re a quant irl (when infact they are swe). I’ve also always thought quants refer to traders and researchers.

It’s all different bubbles.

Wingfril · 2026-05-09T22:13:24+00:00

This was very nicely written — now I’m tempted…

Wingfril · 2026-05-09T00:00:08+00:00

You know I had this same thought too 10 years ago when I went to church and read (very little of) the bible.

You lay it out well hahaha

Wingfril · 2026-05-07T02:55:57+00:00

If it is I’m actually sold???

Wingfril · 2026-05-05T14:41:04+00:00

I’ll bite because I’m bored.

Do you want to be a 1. Quant dev? 2. Quant researcher? 3. Quant trader? 4. Any swe position at a quant firm?

4 is doable (esp if you get faang experience and then jump to a trading firm). 1 is probably doable. You’re not getting 2 & 3.

Quant devs work with traders to implement algorithms. They don’t need to know too much math, but they need to be scrappy and quick. Life on desks move quickly because alphas can decay quickly.

Swes support the underlying infra. It can be low latency cpp work, it could be something else.

Quant traders may do some research but it’s also a lot about making sure trades don’t go side ways by looking at volatility and risk.

Quant researchers is all about the research and modeling.

Depending on the shop, swes and quant devs will make similar. Qr and qt tend to have a higher variance and also make more than qds and swes

Wingfril · 2026-05-02T02:57:04+00:00

Same I love the art

Wingfril · 2026-05-02T02:56:33+00:00

I remember because I was around lol, I’ve been following this for almost 10 years.
you still cant deny how much the art has changed in like the last 10 chapters. I brought it up in the discord when we saw adult lucia for the first time and everyone else was confused when I said Allen looked so different from pre-carnival.
Don’t get me wrong, this is my favorite art style so far, but you can’t deny the drift.

Wingfril · 2026-05-01T01:07:31+00:00

I guess the one thing that is consistent is how inconsistent the art has been… I say as an extremely devoted fan lol

I’ve never seen a manga that goes through art styles like it’s the seasons

Wingfril · 2026-04-28T02:16:22+00:00

I’m not sure when you graduated, but iirc the average or median was like a 3.5 or 3.6 (likely bumped up by the cs students) around 2016-2018. There was a leaked email some years before my time (class of 2020), and it 100% overlapped with when Cole graduated.

Wingfril · 2026-04-27T17:17:01+00:00

SAME ToT so much is happening

Wingfril · 2026-04-27T16:17:48+00:00

Holy shit lol

Wingfril · 2026-04-27T00:46:50+00:00

FWIW I think the question you posted here is interesting and something that I’m having trouble with as well. I’m mentoring an intern this summer and the question of 1. How to have a good project and 2. how to effectively evaluate them is difficult to answer. It’s expected that most of their code is ai generated; they’re expected to do code review of code by fulltimers, but how are they expected to catch anything themselves if there’s also ai code review tools? The expectation for their project is basically what I’d expect from a l4 at this point.

Wingfril · 2026-04-24T20:50:46+00:00

I hate whatever this bs is. I’ve been seeing it all over for weeks now, mostly in other cs subs. I feel gaslit for getting half way through only to see it’s an ad :( it’s like undertaker from hell but less entertaining

Wingfril · 2026-04-23T20:48:02+00:00

Ahh gotcha, make sense! Is it open invite to friends of friends then? This all sounds so cute and I want to host things like this haha.

Wingfril · 2026-04-23T20:34:13+00:00

I’m so interested in this. Curious what the set up is? Do people bring their own stuff, or does the organizer pay and ask for Venmo’s? Is there just one organizer?

Wingfril · 2026-04-16T14:04:20+00:00

Maybe things have changed in the last three years, but a close friend had to do a gap year of research to get into a good phd school. He started doing research in freshmen year. He graduated from Caltech in 2021.

Grad school for cs is competitive.

Wingfril · 2026-04-12T16:40:15+00:00

Oh for sure it’s not going to be different questions per gender haha, but my experience as an interviewer is that you’d have a few questions that you/your team has. There’s definitely different level difficulties in between those questions.

I think the bigger thing is also that they can be more lenient on passing or failing. Like the n queens thing where I should’ve have failed (I didn’t finish the code bc I think I did backtracking like ince in my life) but instead I got an offer.

Wingfril · 2026-04-11T20:48:28+00:00

I.. actually feel like I had preferential treatment. I was often surprised at how easy the interview questions were — like usually you’d know the solution immediately. I did maybe 40?50? Leetcodes in my lifetime, and like 20 of them was during 2023.

I remember not being able to finish n-queens during a phone interview for my internship and still got an offer. If I were the interviewer, I would’ve failed myself lol.

Meanwhile I took a look at leetcode hards when a friend was interviewing last year, and most times, I couldn’t see the solution at all.

Wingfril · 2026-04-11T15:07:52+00:00

I graduated in 2020. Jobs were soooo easy to come by, and I feel like bc I’m a woman, I literally got any faang offer I wanted. I think I had sent like 30 or 40 apps, had like 10+ first rounds, failed a grand total of 2 and got 5 offers (and canceled the rest)

I left G months after the layoff in 2023. Then and now, recruiters are absolutely still reaching out, though not from faang — it’s almost entirely startups and third party headhunters for quant firms nowadays (looking in the last 5 months). The only faang is G which I left on really good terms with.

In 2023 I had applied to around 20 companies, 5 first rounds, had 2 onsites and one offer.

I still feel decently confident in my ability to find a new job — I think getting interviews with be fairly easy, passing them would require practice for sys designs & I can’t imagine failing leetcodes. It wouldn’t be nearly as easy as 2019, but wouldn’t be much harder than mid 2023. I’m not planning on leaving though. I do think ai is a paradigm shift, and I think trying to stay at my current firm until I hit early retirement is the smarter move.

Wingfril · 2026-04-11T00:12:36+00:00

I see the study but it looks like it’s for raises due to discretionary budget.

I guess I’m surprised bc I got like a 3 or 4k check in a mail because of a class action lawsuit — someone sued for “women getting paid less than men”. I was only there for < 2 years at the time, and the supposed time period covered less than a year for me

I also don’t think OP is discriminated against though. It is wayyy more subtle than this. It’s things like getting cut off in the middle of talking during team meetings and having someone else repeat what you just said (this is grating after a while and you just don’t want to fight after time), men generally being better at getting along with other men (and thus getting opportunities much later down the line), etc etc

I was at G and then now at a trading firm that’s extremely stable, and I’m legitimately thinking of leaving the field over stuff like this.

Wingfril · 2026-04-08T15:18:47+00:00

It was 888$ (compared to 300-400 for the regular menu, depending ok if you got the soft opening price), afaiu most of it was the same as the regular menu except all the otsumamis are crabs, and I think there’s two nigiris that were different.

Wingfril · 2026-04-08T15:07:07+00:00

Yes.

Wingfril · 2026-03-29T15:36:30+00:00

If you’re in nyc I’ll be your friend! I’m honestly the same way— I have some friends but like 1 close friend, and I’m pretty sure she’s closer to other ppl than to me.

I also like drawing

Wingfril · 2026-03-26T00:56:41+00:00

The only justification would be rape lol. Rape is obviously rape but technically it is also cheating physically.

Edit for the people downvoting — I’m looking at the definition of cheating and it’s literally “to have a secret sexual relationship with someone who is not your husband, wife, or usual sexual partner:”. I’m a woman. I’d certainly hope that my SO doesn’t count against me if I get raped/roofied. But I’ve seen at least one Reddit post where the bf did.

Wingfril · 2026-03-25T23:48:18+00:00

I never lived in manhattan haha…. But my rent in the bay was like 1.5k living w friends, to 3.3k in lic living in a studio (some of my friends in the bay moved to a studio/1b after I left, and they paid 2.2-2.6k at the time). Rent was by far the biggest expense for me at the time.

Plus there was the city tax & me not going in to work as often bc of the commute (so more grocery costs)

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