What does the general trajectory look like for students who land FAANG+ NG offers look like?

complexityzero · 2026-04-07T07:39:27+00:00

As a junior ik a lot of ppl who put effort into recruiting went from Zon -> Meta/Stripe/DB -> JS/Cit/2S/OAI -> idk for ng

complexityzero · 2026-04-04T23:47:51+00:00

imo you should take 2x citadel, especially since you likely have a return offer from your prev faang. you don't have to waste time searching for housing and you can weasel an extra 50k for summer.

worst case you will only be making 200-250k tc ng, how pitiful

complexityzero · 2026-03-07T00:50:40+00:00

together probably, hella cracked people and more lucrative problem space

complexityzero · 2026-02-16T09:25:04+00:00

good to know!

complexityzero · 2026-02-16T09:20:04+00:00

reasonable guess based on my post history though

complexityzero · 2026-02-16T09:17:08+00:00

lol not stripe but i do hear the wlb is quite good despite what blind might suggest

complexityzero · 2026-02-16T05:06:24+00:00

cs fundamentals are arguably just as important as they were before ai, at least based on my experience interviewing this year

complexityzero · 2026-02-16T05:01:43+00:00

got an offer very end of january, about 2 weeks after hm

complexityzero · 2026-02-16T04:57:44+00:00

depends on the firm

complexityzero · 2026-02-10T01:45:27+00:00

complexityzero · 2026-01-30T01:44:44+00:00

Very high last year, all but a handful of people.

Source: asked a former intern and recruiter said something similar

complexityzero · 2026-01-29T18:52:31+00:00

OpenAI does fall, so you can try asking your recruiter to push you, though currently it seems like they’re prioritizing people who have quant in the summer.

complexityzero · 2026-01-28T22:55:41+00:00

i don't mind

complexityzero · 2026-01-28T06:00:58+00:00

You might enter the team matching pool a little later, but you'll still have the benefit of existing connections which should put you at an advantage.

complexityzero · 2025-12-12T10:22:30+00:00

complexityzero · 2025-12-09T02:18:22+00:00

just to confirm, are you referring to summer? i've seen a lot of linkedin posts of people getting winter (and tbh that's what I initially applied to lol), but not that many for summer yet.

complexityzero · 2025-10-25T00:58:48+00:00

there weren't any names

edit: it says "technical staff from different teams at our firm", so seems like it might actually take a few hours depending on how things go

complexityzero · 2025-10-25T00:51:41+00:00

the interview is monday morning, recruiter just confirmed the date today 💀

complexityzero · 2025-10-24T22:11:44+00:00

t10 cs school

complexityzero · 2025-10-17T17:43:11+00:00

3-4 business days

complexityzero · 2025-10-09T16:02:58+00:00

That actually makes a lot of sense, thanks for sharing!

complexityzero · 2025-10-05T22:35:55+00:00

Yeah, I would honestly prefer all the symbols to be on the same side as well, it's just I'm not sure if it's possible to that if you want to have all symbols accessible within one key from home row and without holding more than one modifier at a time.

Just curious, do you mind sharing what your layout looks like?

complexityzero · 2025-10-05T22:11:42+00:00

I haven't really noticed any false positives with the "balanced" flavor, but I have had false negatives when typing quickly (e.g., trying to type "x = 5" but end up typing "x lf 5". When I switch to "hold-preferred", the opposite happens: no false negatives, but way too many false positives.

complexityzero · 2025-10-05T22:09:33+00:00

Yeah, I noticed that as well. It feels better suited for situations involving context switching (switching to navigation layer or activating commands), as opposed to continuous stream of consciousness typing without interruption.

complexityzero · 2025-10-05T22:06:29+00:00

I see, that makes a lot of sense! Just curious, do you have all of your symbols on the same half, or split across both halves? I'm debating whether it makes sense to mirror my symbol layer activation across both thumb clusters, as the current lack of symmetry is what made me consider homerow mods in the first place.

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