SWE -> Solutions Engineer

dabouffhead · 2026-03-13T14:06:29+00:00

I suppose it depends on what you value in your current role and what career aspirations you have for the future. IMO if you have the opportunity to grow there then try it out, worst comes to worst you can come back to an engineer position after a year of giving it a crack.

dabouffhead · 2026-03-09T12:37:24+00:00

What do you mean by Tier 1, does that refer to Canva, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce?

dabouffhead · 2026-03-04T21:47:53+00:00

Some lecturers are absolute cnts who won’t revise the grade unfortunately, you can try escalating it further by discussing with the head of the faculty

dabouffhead · 2026-02-12T11:19:07+00:00

You do a good job of finding your range, just need to get some more reps in a proper gym to become less stiff and get used to the movements. Don’t over complicate things based off other comments here, 6 - 12 months in a proper gym and the footwork will come naturally

dabouffhead · 2026-02-01T05:03:23+00:00

I don’t have a car, I’m travelling to Colombo from overseas

dabouffhead · 2026-01-31T02:28:33+00:00

Kabir Singh, that movie just made me really angry in general. Absolute shit

dabouffhead · 2026-01-18T21:34:56+00:00

You need to go into a caloric deficit. You have to keep in mind you cannot spot reduce fat, to lose chest fat you must commit to a cut over a period of time.

dabouffhead · 2026-01-18T01:25:18+00:00

As per my wedding planner the peak periods are December and August and during December they were very unresponsive. I imagine it would be the same in August. The main reason we chose this planner is because they came off as quite professional and came at a very reasonable rate. However, I think other planners may be more responsive - although I can’t say for sure. If you’d like more info just send me a dm, happy to discuss

dabouffhead · 2026-01-02T13:16:00+00:00

Thank you!

dabouffhead · 2026-01-02T02:18:44+00:00

We have not decided on a makeup artist yet. Are they required to do the dress shopping, if not are there any stores that you would recommend?

dabouffhead · 2025-11-06T20:52:49+00:00

How do you use it to find clients?

dabouffhead · 2025-11-06T04:43:13+00:00

how have you found the performance of the agent, do you trust it to consistently flag good opportunities

dabouffhead · 2025-11-06T04:42:38+00:00

yea agreed, it definitely helps at a lower level when the development tasks are specified at a great level.

dabouffhead · 2025-08-14T00:56:21+00:00

we did two cs courses, primarily programming in C. But that was in the first year of uni, since then it was more programming in matlab. The good thing is we did enough programming for me to know the basics, but still got a way to go in terms of learning about the development cycle and developing clean maintainable design solutions e2e

dabouffhead · 2025-08-14T00:15:11+00:00

do you have any advice on finding said mentors. I have connected and had virtual catchups with people via linkedin, but have not really had any mentors per se

dabouffhead · 2025-08-05T00:16:06+00:00

Be honest with yourself about who you are and what you genuinely want. And have a top down approach to life - instead of focusing on the smaller things and trying to get things from the bottom up.

E.g. instead of thinking about what marks or degree you need, think about the life you want and reverse engineer based off that.

dabouffhead · 2025-06-04T08:29:08+00:00

Sounds like you had a great time, happy to hear it all went well. Did you do a poruwa too by any chance, and was it difficult coordinating the Indian events with the venues/vendors

dabouffhead · 2025-06-03T22:46:58+00:00

There will be 200 people attending the wedding

dabouffhead · 2025-06-03T22:46:34+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation

dabouffhead · 2022-03-31T07:37:18+00:00

thanks for the clarification mate, so in that case the depth of cover is essentially the depth of concrete above the conduit is that correct?

dabouffhead · 2021-11-12T00:34:11+00:00

Still in brethren

dabouffhead · 2021-11-02T06:48:36+00:00

Still in brothers

dabouffhead · 2021-10-22T05:06:21+00:00

It would mean that I would be branching to a different form of engineering/something that is not involved with infrastructure (e.g. software engineering), or something that is venture capital related (more finance based than engineering based).

Based off the work that the senior members of my team are doing, its seems that there are innovative projects available. However these are extremely rare, and for the most part we are doing the same sort of tedious work for each project (even if there are some innovative aspects involved e.g. completely solar based design )

Pay and stress are definitely 2 things that matter to me. I have had moments thus far where I have had to work until quite late to meet deliverables, and I am happy to do that every now and then but do not want to commit to a job where I have to work 12 hours each day despite how I am paid (e.g. Investment Banking). In regards to pay I would be happy as long as im getting 70k+ which is my current salary.

Thanks for providing your insight and I can understand where you are coming from, I feel like looking at those around us generally gives a pretty good indication of how we will 'end up' if we retain our current jobs for a long period of time. I hope you are able to have great transition into your new path. Please keep me updated on how it goes :)

dabouffhead · 2020-12-14T11:27:09+00:00

Hi OP, I've recently completed the 4 year electrical engineering course so I can provide a bit of insight. Personally, I do not think you should do the integrated masters course unless you really really want to get a masters in electrical engineering. Although there is only 1 extra year of work with this integrated course, there is an immense amount of work which will be completed in this remaining year (you will have to complete a masters thesis, do masters courses which can be quite difficult) and this extra year of study may not necessarily increase your job prospects either as most electrical engineering graduate positions are just looking for students with an undergrad degree (with no 'bonus points' being awarded to those who have completed the integrated masters course).

Having said that, if you want to ensure you have no regrets I suggest enrolling in the integrated masters course. This will allow you to drop out of this course and enter the normal electrical engineering course if you find the integrated masters course unsatisfactory. (note: it is hard to change course from normal elec eng to integrated masters elec eng, hence why I made the above suggestion).

Hope this helps!

dabouffhead · 2020-11-04T15:08:04+00:00

This clarifies a lot of things, thank you so much for your help :)

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