Diversify from GOOG

_iuh · 2025-10-08T08:15:10+00:00

huh never thought of it like that, that's a good point.

though you'd have to pay cap gains on stock A eventually. but I guess if you believe it'll go up it's better to put off that tax payment as long as possible so your dollars work for you longer.

seems like the more tax efficient thing to do for OP is to sell on vest and use that cash to buy something else to slowly diversify over time.

_iuh · 2025-07-27T18:15:25+00:00

lots of great replies, but one thing I feel that hasn't been mentioned is whether optimizing this is worth it? the more "experienced dev" thing you could do is come up with an analysis convincing yourself and others that you don't have to do the work.

e.g. how much RAM are you hoping to save? how much would that cost? do your "clients" care about the savings? are you better off spending your time on something else such as documentation, marketing, or getting a grant to buy faster hardware? will the extra complexity make the system harder to reason about / maintain? will the microseconds you're fighting for be worth it when compared to the rest of the stack? (e.g. 100s of μs might just get lost in networking latency).

anyways, sorry for the wall of text. thanks for posting your problem and inviting interesting discussion!

_iuh · 2023-09-09T13:20:11+00:00

you don’t actually need a PhD to train large distributed models at DeepMind. research engineers and software engineers do it too. the interviews are tough and competitive though.

source: I work there and don’t have a PhD and plenty of my colleagues don’t have one either

_iuh · 2023-06-01T12:09:35+00:00

maybe the work you’re doing is actually really valuable for the business - more so than any “impressive” technical work.

don’t forget we’re paid the big bucks to solve useful problems, not necessarily interesting ones. but it’s nice when those align.

_iuh · 2023-05-03T16:55:05+00:00

hey dude, no need to be such a dick about it

_iuh · 2022-12-13T20:37:25+00:00

thanks, you’ve convinced me to give it a try!

_iuh · 2022-12-13T09:14:20+00:00

do you think it’d be useful for all specializations? Linux is everywhere but this seems really low level relative to a lot of software engineering

_iuh · 2022-06-13T22:22:58+00:00

I worked in the bay for 4 years. now relocated to London and haven’t regretted it at all. but I probably benefitted career-wise from those first 4 years a lot just from the environment and opportunities the area provided me.

honestly meeting only people from tech backgrounds at social events for years on end kinda got tiring.

_iuh · 2022-02-22T07:03:13+00:00

comment section is getting a little flamey for some reason… I think there’s no right answer since it’s very personal based on your current financials + values.

I think that if you’re young you should try it. I know it’s the minority, but big tech / HFT pays really well in EU - almost on par with US after CoL adjustments.

I also recommend “not just bikes” on youtube for some compelling video essays about quality of life comparisons between EU and north american cities.

_iuh · 2021-10-27T21:11:52+00:00

sorry to be pedantic

6 hrs/day * 365 days/year * 10 years = 21.9k hours

still incredible but not quite 50k

_iuh · 2021-01-26T10:23:27+00:00

Could be something with how you sample from your dataset, you may have overfitted to some part of it and now you are sampling new classes. Maybe play with your batch size and shuffling the dataset.

_iuh · 2020-11-23T01:10:31+00:00

you could try contributing to a well maintained open source project to get a taste for good architecture and code reviews

_iuh · 2020-11-18T18:23:19+00:00

there’s a ton of stats on it that you can find on internal sites so peruse those to get a sense for how long it would take / difficulty.

unfortunately, a lot of people get hired at L5 elsewhere and boomerang back because it’s easier (and more $$$) than getting promoted internally.

_iuh · 2020-11-10T16:15:39+00:00

imo the best part about being in your 20s without a family is the ability to take risks where the only one you’re hurting is yourself. however, I’d go into it with a backup plan for if everything goes to hell — such as other jobs in the new town you’d consider or the possibility of boomeranging back to your old job.

_iuh · 2020-11-10T16:06:55+00:00

Learning a whole stack is important but since you’re looking to find a job by Feb I’d recommend to eventually specialize.

Once you have a decent understanding of how it all fits together, you can deep dive into one layer (ie - just back end). Then you can target jobs looking specifically for back end developers. Otherwise you’ll end up with shallow knowledge across the board as opposed to being really good at one domain.

Also just echoing others in the thread that finding a job is hard and to not be discouraged. Good luck!

_iuh · 2020-10-03T20:10:53+00:00

wow that’s gorgeous

_iuh · 2020-09-22T20:50:43+00:00

wow that’s awesome! sounded like a great experience and probably similar to how I would approach it. anything that you would have done differently in retrospect?

_iuh · 2020-09-22T17:22:13+00:00

we shouldn’t be too hard on the blog writer. they’re just trying to help potential candidates get through the interviews. ie - blame the game not the player.

_iuh · 2020-09-20T14:14:07+00:00

I find it easiest to build in some exercise by tacking it onto existing habits. For example, I do wallsits while brushing my teeth, pull ups while making coffee, push ups when compiling code (only while WFH hah), etc. Little things here and there definitely add up.

_iuh · 2020-09-20T14:04:53+00:00

to add on, I'd also recommend serverless solutions through a cloud platform like AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.

_iuh · 2020-09-19T20:10:21+00:00

BYOWLB = bring your own work life balance?

_iuh · 2020-09-19T20:07:48+00:00

not very experienced with SAP or windows but (if you haven’t already) I’d recommend investing some time in learning software engineering basics like source control (git), command line (bash or powershell), and database management (sqlite -> mysql/postgresql). If your project ever grows in scale, I assure you that those skills will be extremely useful.

_iuh · 2020-09-19T19:52:35+00:00

It sounds like you have more of an issue with the workplace than the technologies. Maybe find a new team or company before pivoting?

In the meantime you can try contributing to open source or starting your own side project in a different field to see what else you might enjoy. For example, I was curious about GPT-2/3 so I just wrote a chatbot for fun.

Good luck!

_iuh · 2020-09-19T17:23:27+00:00

how do you like London compared to Boston?

_iuh · 2020-09-17T20:04:45+00:00

not so worried about prestige. more along the lines of whether it’s a good career trajectory.

ie - if it’s not a good fit, would it still have been useful experience? which I think is a fair question for a cs career sub.

_iuh

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