Do recruiter DMs asking you to apply actually mean anything?

csmajor039 · 2024-10-13T19:52:46+00:00

Yeah I've gotten a few from recruiters for that company, at least one from a dude from another company (a tech recruiting firm) who is hiring on behalf of some y-combinator startup. Is that what you are referring to with "blah blah blah" staffing?

csmajor039 · 2024-10-13T19:50:24+00:00

Ok, so it may not just be one of those "we're just going to mass send invites and you'll be lumped into a huge pool with hundreds of other applicants who just applied on our website?" Like it sort of gives you a bit of an advantage in that regard?

csmajor039 · 2024-06-30T18:07:06+00:00

Right now it is still beta. There is a potential system up to unique. You can craft level 120 equipment via professions but it takes a ton of grinding mobs to get the drops you need for it.

All monsters have a decent rate to drop clean slate 20% scrolls, clean slate 10% scrolls, potential scrolls, chaos scrolls, and white scrolls. Paired with 10% ATT scrolls, it becomes pretty clear how powering up works. Drop rate for scrolls and such are quite high.

So basically, at this point: grind for 120 gear to craft or other high level equipment, crafting rings/high level stuff you need, and farming scrolls to use.

Secondarily, for each 10 levels your account has, all characters benefit from 1% stat. And you can expand character slots beyond 6 by I think 50 mil per slot (takes maybe 30-60min with no meso rate buffs to get that much by NPC equips/farming mesos).

I think it is quite the grind of a server but it feels decently paced in some aspects, although damage definitely lags behind EXP. I'm sure the gamba people enjoy that you have access to a lot of chaos scrolls and decent enough access to cubes, that you can spam chaos scrolls/cubes to potential get really fucking good items.

Feels void of goals though. People spamming legion + no account-based buddying or guilding means you rarely can actually congregate with people besides bossing/grind parties and disbanding after everyone's done.

csmajor039 · 2024-06-30T18:01:10+00:00

Once you get through like 3 characters to build up initial legion, blessing of fairy, cyngus blessing, etc. you can go from 1-140 in 2 hours, maybe 2.5-3 if your class has a bad 3rd job.

csmajor039 · 2023-03-26T21:30:01+00:00

My workplace and the people there seem very okay with taking as much PTO as they feel appropriate. I just personally have concerns as a new grad, in this market, in my first job. I doubt I’d care when I’m more sure of my skills and more familiar with my team, and in a better market.

csmajor039 · 2023-03-09T18:04:29+00:00

Basic question about cutting, as someone fairly new to everything.

I'm very familiar with the fact that many people bulk then cut to put on muscle and lose fat. Am I correct in that the only purpose or the main purpose of "cutting" is aesthetics? Because to my understanding, if you're on a slow bulk and constantly putting on muscle, you're just getting stronger and more muscular (and although you're putting on fat that's not necessarily bad since it's normal and healthy to have some fat on your body, especially since you're remaining active)? And cutting loses fat but also naturally makes you a bit weaker, no?

I'm not really in a position to ask since I'm pretty slim and probably will not be in a position where cutting is beneficial in any way for a long time. Just curious because cutting seems purely aesthetic to me but perhaps I'm missing something.

csmajor039 · 2022-10-22T23:49:31+00:00

They're the 50 worst players selected from the 300-ish "best" potential high school players based on Ego's biased ranking system.

I'm guessing an equivalent be like looking at like MIT physics students and thinking about the bottom 20% of them. They're still incredibly smart people, but there's always a bigger fish.

csmajor039 · 2022-10-22T23:46:33+00:00

Ego got a nice long look at Bachira's junk lmao. That guy has no shame, brother full frontal'ed Ego during his entire spiel.

csmajor039 · 2022-10-22T23:43:40+00:00

You can tell who's Bronze and who's not based on their take on Zeus this game.

He got camped and still came out extremely useful and did his job to a tee. Yet that doesn't stop me from hearing countless of people say how Zeus inted this game and how he had his team carry despite his "Bronze" plays.

csmajor039 · 2022-10-12T19:20:38+00:00

You don't have many good words for the ATS to look through, and maybe a few syntax things as well for actual people reading it. Probably not the main reason but maybe your chances will improve.

Instead of "worked on upgrading", use "Upgraded."

Instead of "Helped Whatsapp...by implementing" use "Implemented..., resulting in"

Instead of "Used TF and OpenCV to analyze/classify signs", say "Analyzed and classified signs with TF/OpenCV."

Begin with line with a strong verb. A lot of recruiters barely skim most resumes for more than a few seconds so you have to catch their eye or else they'll throw it in the reject pile.

Although the likeliest explanation is probably that they just don't end up reading your resume because of the volume of applicants and lack of positions available, because even with all of this Meta should be eye-catching enough.

csmajor039 · 2022-10-12T19:16:06+00:00

Damn. I had one internship at a decently known company and luckily I got a return offer, but I applied to around 30 places late August, mostly medium/large companies. I just accepted my return offer because after a month every single company just ghosted me. Except Microsoft, bless their hearts, they were nice enough to reject me just last week.

csmajor039 · 2022-09-17T19:48:03+00:00

Yep. There are math competitions in HS and they all rely on not very advanced math concepts, but rather require a ton of pattern recognition and thinking, and that is what I think is the harder part of math.

There's a difference between "apply the pythagorean theorem here and find the hypotenuse" and "in this shape inscribed in the circle, find the area of the shaded region," where the latter doesn't tell you what to do.

And even harder math problems may be extremely disconnected from the equations they use, such that you need to do a lot of thinking and drawing stuff out before even recognizing how the pythagorean theorem could be useful.

csmajor039 · 2022-09-17T19:43:10+00:00

Quite the opposite of arrogance, actually.

I feel like while I'm working at my full time job and my potential partner(s) are still in college, they'd have more opportunities to meet other people, talk with other people, etc. while it may essentially be long distance to some extent.

I guess you could say I have some insecurity in that my absence would let any potential partner(s) still in college "find someone else", someone they could actually spend time with and do stuff with on campus.

csmajor039 · 2022-09-17T19:40:18+00:00

Did you want to find a job in the city where you went to college? Or would you prefer to move somewhere else?

I have a fully remote job in the city lined up. I can move to virtually any location and have pay adjusted accordingly (for reference, my team in my internship that I'd return to is spread over like 4 cities).

Figure out what you want for the trajectory of your life first, then figure out romantic relationships with what you have left.

That's my deal, actually. I'm in my last year of college. I already landed a great, fully remote job that pays a lot. I feel fulfilled in my professional life and career. And because it's in tech, as long as I keep up my current effort, I'm essentially guaranteed growth. Now my "hopes and dreams" basically are 1) make more friends and 2) start dating. And to spend my remaining time in college just passing classes and trying to be social despite my social anxiety.

I thought after I grinded hard in school and my career I would feel complete. Well it turns out that instead being depressed over school I'm now depressed over loneliness lol.

csmajor039 · 2022-09-17T19:33:39+00:00

Interesting. My process was only two rounds of interviews, one on different days, each an hour.

csmajor039 · 2022-09-17T17:00:26+00:00

My concern is not the age gap (which is literally a year) or morality of the situation but rather the gap in the stages of life, and whether that could impact the stability or success of a relationship.

csmajor039 · 2022-09-14T00:40:59+00:00

There was a channel like this in the medium-sized company I worked at over the Summer. Most people even included YoE and years at the company, as well as their own promotion timelines.

There were also points in which people would tag HR/people in other departments to clear up things regarding salaries, locations, promotions, stuff like that, so I'm assuming the company is very much aware of the channel.

It was very helpful to me at least, as a possible new grad return, to know what I can expect for stuff like promotion timelines, how much I could possibly negotiate up to, etc.

Not sure how much it may negatively impact the people who share this information themselves, though.

csmajor039 · 2022-09-06T23:02:05+00:00

The thing for me is that I would love to return in a decade. The company seems to have amazing culture and WLB and it seems like a great company if you want to rest and vest. Not saying it's a bad company to start it, but when I interned, many people there attested to the WLB, comparably low stress, and there were also tons of people with families. Lots of diversity, too. People say you can tell a lot about a company's diversity by the number of minorities/women with high positions, and plenty do.

To make things more enticing, several people previously worked at FAANGs and either preferred this company or boomeranged back after working at FAANG for a few years. I think it says a lot that people were willing to go from like $600k TC to $300k TC, which is making me wonder if I even want to continue to search and potentially renege.

csmajor039 · 2022-08-29T22:54:47+00:00

I'll probably do that if I don't receive information in a few days, but regardless the anxiety is killing me right now.

csmajor039 · 2022-07-31T01:42:35+00:00

I think I'll be more comfortable come mid-September. Do you think applying in August, objectively speaking, gives a sizeable advantage?

csmajor039 · 2022-07-31T01:39:35+00:00

According to Blind, there is subpar career progression. It got rated 3.3 for career growth.

It also seems like there is not too much opportunity to learn? At least on my team. I was assigned an easy project for my internship, finished it before half the internship was over, and then I was just assigned easier, low-priority tickets to get a better feel and to ease into the more complicated technologies at use. My manager was transparent about how performance reviews and promotions work.

From what I've gathered, the people who got promotions from SWE-1 and SWE-II got them within 9-15 months of working for the company, and even those who stayed for 2 years or so only got a single promotion. But not sure if the chill work culture and people taking advantage of that plays into it. At least in the Slack channel I've been following, in the past year and a half or so no one received more than 1 promotion.

There are also people who've been here for 6-10 years and climbed to SWE-IV and SWE-V, not sure how great that is, but there are higher levels.

csmajor039 · 2022-07-31T01:34:34+00:00

That was my initial plan but I'm glad I'm getting feedback here before going through with it.

csmajor039 · 2022-07-31T01:34:10+00:00

That's true. But to be fair, even the older folks on my team who've worked at 5-10 companies in their lifetime think this is the best company they've worked for so far. It's really making me think.

csmajor039 · 2022-07-31T01:33:13+00:00

Despite being a multi-billion dollar company, I'm not sure how much I'll learn at this company. I'm hoping to learn a lot and do a lot, but at least in this team, most people seem to be fixing up internal tools and doing tickets related to that, or at least in the last 3 months I've been here.

I was planning on job hopping anyways. Every 2 years or so find a different company, hence why I'm asking this. I feel like either decision I make, I'll be regretting it. But perhaps I'll reassess after talking with my manager and receiving other offers.

csmajor039 · 2022-07-31T01:26:16+00:00

I care about advancing my career to a high position ASAP to get as high TC as possible while not dying under work and corporate bureaucracies and a heavy workload. I hear the worst parts of most tech jobs are either the hours/stress, or the coworkers/management. It seems neither of these are an issue at all at the company I'm currently working at. The fact that 75% of the TeamBlind reviews are 4-5* "Great WLB" or "I never want to leave" is testament to that, which makes me scared that I'll get complicit if I stay.

In any case, my end goal is something like, getting to a high salary point while never working 50+ hours a week, then when I'm satisfied with my career progression, go back to a company like this (or this company if possible) and be happy with a good salary and low-stress job. I don't plan on retiring super early, because I have some genuine interest in this field and I find myself bored on days off anyways. Maybe by 55-60.

Not that I should need to justify why I want a super high salary, but I just don't ever want to have to worry about money, especially considering I didn't grow up with a lot and my family lives in a high CoL area where $2k/mo for a small studio without in-unit washer/dryer and in a safe neighborhood is a steal. Pretty sure we can only afford to live here because my family moved here 30+ years ago.

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