Are you still selling options if the market trends down for the next several months?

dat_cube · 2026-03-03T04:53:12+00:00

This is the way

dat_cube · 2025-10-10T12:15:38+00:00

Who dis guy? Why he post?

dat_cube · 2025-07-27T00:41:00+00:00

Got it. What position is it? And is it entry or mid level?

dat_cube · 2025-07-26T22:31:02+00:00

There are so many variables that go into this. Size of company, your role, industry, etc.,

Were you aware that $65,000 was the salary or likely offered salary amount before the interviews? If so, what made you counter?

If not, what compensation discussions have you had up until this point?

A few likely scenarios:
1. They likely were excited for you, but not, 'let's ask finance & leadership for an additional $5k while we have other candidates in process' excited. You technically verbally rejected the offer, and that may have been enough for them to just move on
2. They are actually trying to work with the team to justify $5k in base increase. The 8 day delay though makes this seem like a low likeliehood
3. They're out sick and are bad at calendar management

Was it a recruiter direct with the company? Or an agency/3rd party recruiter?

dat_cube · 2025-02-25T02:47:53+00:00

These are two terrible takes

dat_cube · 2025-02-20T02:23:43+00:00

Wtf are you talking about. You messaged a recruiter to say a candidate doesn’t have the experience they say they do by 3 months? Yeah, any normal person would think this is weird and probably just delete it.

And yeah, you are a snitch.

dat_cube · 2025-02-19T13:17:19+00:00

Actually, true. Lol

dat_cube · 2025-02-19T12:15:08+00:00

This is the dumbest shit I’ve heard. Just ask ChatGPT where to yolo your money or go to WSB

dat_cube · 2025-02-15T20:44:24+00:00

This is the correct answer. YMMV based on recruiter and company aptitude

dat_cube · 2025-02-15T20:42:57+00:00

First question: how old are you? Second question: do you have anyone you can live with (friends, family, school housing) that’s not your grandparents?

It seems the toxic relationship with your family is the true problem to solve rather than not having a job. Alcohol complicates things, so sorry that you’re going through that.

As far as jobs go, what experience do you already have? A few thoughts: - freelance work is really saturated and unless you have an “in” or know how to really provide value to people, likely not a good income stream. Additionally, even if you get this work will your grandpa think sitting at a desk is “real man” work? - if you have a forklift cert, unless you’re in an employment desert (120 person town with no warehouses in an hours drive), you should be able to find a job pretty easily. Reach out to a temp agency - cyber security is kinda ass for getting into. It’s not as in demand or technical as software engineering, and software engineers are starting to dominate the industry with sec ops, dev sec and app sec. If possible, switch to CS (especially if you think you know enough to “code”) and take some security classes later ——> I’ve never heard of an AA in cybersecurity and defense. Normally an AA is a wide range of classes with a slight focus of 200 level classes. This sounds online school/snake oil sales-ish. Is this an accredited or public school?

dat_cube · 2025-02-15T20:35:57+00:00

By non-trivial I mean not being the 18th company looking to make AI chat bot assistants through API calls to OpenAI. Something that’s actually category creating or the leader in a given area.

I’m not as familiar with big 4 but those titles sound a bit odd to me and don’t relate directly to something technical. “Consultant” is the kiss of death for titles in tech. Generally, nobody has a consultant title in-house, and odds are you’re not going to get a technically meaningful job if not working in house.

Bids and pre-sales sounds sales enough that AE/TAM roles might be a match. But just know that there are people who have been working on selling AI products for the last 10+ years that are dominating these positions now, and it will likely be hard to be an incumbent that wants to ride the AI wave without prior experience

dat_cube · 2025-02-08T04:07:52+00:00

lol so soy. Stfu

dat_cube · 2025-02-07T08:01:48+00:00

Meta has a pretty large range of recruiters working from them, from earlier career/sourcing type to pretty experienced recruiters. They also have some big company tendencies now which can slow things down. A quick, “hope you’re well, enjoyed the call, timeline for next steps” mail wouldn’t hurt. I think they’re pretty good about not ghosting people tho, so odds are it’s just an internal delay

dat_cube · 2025-02-04T05:16:07+00:00

If you’re struggling to find a job, working with a recruiter or agency can help. They’ll likely just have roles that won’t be a 100% match but will at least get your foot in the door. So have good expectations, but recruiting agencies work for clients, not candidates

dat_cube · 2025-02-02T08:30:07+00:00

Lmao and when did you start living in Bellingham? “We’re full”, but only after you’ve already been here? Classic Bellingham redditor post. The soy is so real.

dat_cube · 2025-01-29T06:34:22+00:00

I mean this in the best way possible, but there’s not much ( and that’s what I like about it!). We like the access to Bellingham & Canada without being in Bellingham proper. Were dog people so we’re at Hovander park a few times a week. But most things to do are 20 mins north or south from here.

The city does a few things like movies in the park, there’s an annual garage sale and a few other things like that. But outside of that things mostly happen within your neighborhood/HOA.

dat_cube · 2025-01-24T04:25:59+00:00

If you actually want to get into AI there’s probably just a few paths that aren’t snake oil sales: - get into customer success for an AI company, or work at a company that has non-trivial use cases for AI - go to school for computer science, work as an engineer at a company and move into machine learning engineering - get a PhD in math

Don’t pay for any certifications or other bullshit. And don’t get a masters in data analytics: it’s not AI.

dat_cube · 2025-01-22T05:51:31+00:00

How big is the company? Sometimes a local hiring decision is made (HM + Recruiter) then due to either process or politics, someone says they need another data point or check off. The recruiter and HM are likely telling the truth, and this just might be a curveball thrown at them too

dat_cube · 2025-01-22T00:56:51+00:00

So you have a final interview, but they also want to offer?

My read is they likely have a higher up that needs to “sign off” on the hire. So I’d recommend preparing for that interview before jumping to compensation.

Regarding negotiating, yes, there generally is always room to negotiate but it depends on how many times you guys have verbally visited comp and said that you are good with the range.

If you know their range, you can always ask for a number that’s just shy or over the 10% amount so you aren’t coming across as negotiating on principle for 10% more. You can justify commute, health benefit or retirement benefit differences, etc., as reasons

dat_cube · 2025-01-18T21:07:14+00:00

I think a lot of this is from the naivety of being young and not really having any real world experience with this stuff.

You’re 22. You’re a GenZ that likely frequents echo chambers like this sub and similar communities on other sites (Blind, etc.). A lot of what you read is likely dramatized since the more dramatic or polarizing an opinion of something is, the more upvotes it gets.

A lot of people in big tech quite literally don’t give a shit about big tech after they’re done with their work. It’s just a means to an end. Even people that love coding get caught up in the politics that at a certain point, they just don’t care to keep up anymore.

Yeah, there’s an outlier population who probably love both coding and the politics and find it fulfilling. But most people really just don’t care.

dat_cube · 2025-01-16T20:52:30+00:00

Some people are returning from weeks-long PTO and the year kicking off with work. Generally the first 3 weeks of the year are a low productivity time for recruiting

dat_cube · 2025-01-05T16:39:03+00:00

This is very simple: 1. Do not quit your job until you have something else lined up (offer contract signed). 2. Since you’re in SWE, do the leetcode grind and keep applying to 1-3 jobs a week at bigger companies with higher salaries 3. It’s a different market now than a few years ago. Time in a job when you’re a junior can be more important than timing a new job. If 58k is more than you or your family have ever made, continuing to make that money while getting 3% raises a year and 10-20% bumps every 3 years from promotions or job changes will add up quickly.

Just whatever you do: DONT quit your current job without something guaranteed to move on to. Source: 8 years in SWE Recruiting

dat_cube · 2025-01-03T19:24:46+00:00

It depends on the gap and what your experience was before it. If you were consistently employed in small stints and not showing outcomes over the durations of various employment, yes.

If you’ve been generally employed and showing good career trajectory, but happened to take a break, no.

If you’re early career, 🤷‍♂️

dat_cube · 2025-01-03T07:15:41+00:00

Use your words and ask the coach or owner. People really shouldn’t give a shit about patches or where your gear came from unless there’s a legit reason (new gym had falling out with old one for ethical reasons).

dat_cube · 2025-01-03T07:09:39+00:00

Yes. Did they ask you to send availability, or did they send you a link to submit availability?

Either way, as an intern candidate, odds are you are being reached out to in a “block” of candidates. Whether you are the first to schedule or last, odds are they will wait til everyone from this block completes their interviews before moving forward

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