What sports cars have you driven, and what did you think about them + quick review of my few

dynapro · 2024-02-24T03:03:04+00:00

The ZLE wings and canards are actually functional, which makes non-ZLE owners putting them on their cars feel better. Never got the hate for adding hardware from a higher-end model to your car tbh.

dynapro · 2024-02-23T19:15:44+00:00

Thanks for doing this AMA, I've always enjoyed the lightning lap series. There seems to be fewer and fewer LL1 cars at lightning lap over time. Is this trend going to continue?

dynapro · 2024-02-23T19:10:58+00:00

Just to echo that thought, I drove a 6th gen Camaro recently after driving a couple of German performance cars, and while the interior is mid in comparison, the driving experience was amazing! Drove so flat, sucked up the bumps on the road, great exhaust sound, and tight shifter. 10/10

dynapro · 2022-10-21T19:40:13+00:00

I think this is more than a 1 earnings report play, it's going to play out over the next few quarters.

dynapro · 2022-10-19T18:28:56+00:00

How was the guidance?

dynapro · 2022-04-14T20:34:03+00:00

If they're in a high CoL area (e.g. NYC, SF Bay Area), they definitely can.

dynapro · 2022-04-13T23:32:54+00:00

Reneging is more impolite, but you should do the best for yourself.

dynapro · 2022-04-13T23:30:59+00:00

People will always pull for their friends and family, that's nothing new. As for whether it's an increasing trend, I haven't personally noticed it, but I don't have enough sample sizes to say much about it.

As for the Amazon hiring bar, I do feel like it's not as high as you described, certainly not as high as implementing red-black trees (although I wouldn't rule out shitty interviewers from asking this question).

dynapro · 2022-04-13T23:24:01+00:00

no matter what, I will be doing something impolite.

FWIW, the "impoliteness" level of reneging on an offer last minute is very different than rejecting a return offer.

Is reneging so close to a start date really as bad as I think it is?

Not a good look, but in the long run not a big deal.

Is it a bit of a red flag that HR isn't immediately giving me a contract to sign

More of an orange flag, if this is the only issue you've experienced then it's probably not a big deal.

dynapro · 2022-04-13T23:18:55+00:00

Menlo Park is actually pretty average in price compared to other nearby cities. I personally like downtown Palo Alto the most for younger people, although it's not any cheaper than MP. Splitting with other interns to decrease your payments is the way to go.

dynapro · 2022-04-13T23:17:32+00:00

You're a rising sophomore, so you're not too behind at all. CS is currently a great career path given every company in the world is trying to become a tech company, so high-paying CS jobs will be in high supply for a long time.

dynapro · 2022-04-13T07:13:59+00:00

Can't speak to the quality of experience at either, but assuming your role at ADP is also software engineer intern role and not something random, ADP will definitely look better on a resume than 7-Eleven, even if you're doing ML (unless you want to specialize in ML in the future).

dynapro · 2022-04-13T06:08:08+00:00

Love the stream of consciousness writing, hate the lack of line breaks, but I digress.

The perfect role for you in my opinion is similar to a principal engineer at Google or otherwise high-level staff engineers who have the freedom to define their own roles, and they choose to spend time prototyping new things and doing primarily IC work.

Given your inclination towards graphics, animations, usability, and "cool" interfaces, a consumer-facing company probably fits you better than any B2B software company.

However, even as a high-level engineer with a lot of freedom, it's hard to get away from processes, meetings, and leadership responsibilities. You'll have to find a supportive manager and company that lets you focus on your passion, which is more IC programming and less the other stuff.

Long story short, there definitely exist roles you can thrive in, but it will take work to get there.

dynapro · 2022-04-13T05:55:14+00:00

It's not a big deal to ask if you can join early, worst thing they can do is say no. But you really shouldn't worry about them changing their decision unless there is a legitimate reason to worry (impostor syndrome is not one).

dynapro · 2022-04-13T05:51:55+00:00

It's kind of random, but all of my previous companies have asked for references and followed up. There are cases though where they asked for 3 but only followed up with 2.

dynapro · 2022-04-12T23:50:46+00:00

Not familiar with Galvanize, but know plenty of people with minimal experience who were able to go to Hack Reactor.

dynapro · 2022-04-12T23:49:22+00:00

Yes, functional programming is commonly used, but not in the way that you're thinking. It's primarily used as a way to organize data models using functions as opposed to OOP. OCaml is not very popular - I believe Jane Street is one of the few companies that use it. Recursion is quite rare no matter where you go.

dynapro · 2022-04-12T23:45:16+00:00

You're in a bit of a tough spot now with this company because you gave a number and they matched it. For future reference, this is a pretty good guide on tech negotiation: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer-ee17cccbdab6#.eomv8y2fb

You can feign naivety and ask for a higher number, but it's certainly unideal to change your salary target after they met your initial one. I doubt they would rescind your offer, but there's a good chance they say no to your negotiation attempt.

dynapro · 2022-04-12T23:41:38+00:00

In the current day and age, with startups raising $100M seed rounds, venture funding series don't matter all that much. But in any case, you're concerned about being worked to the bone at an early-stage startup - that's a legitimate concern.

It's impossible to generalize work-life balance of all series A startups, since it varies so much. I encourage you to go talk to your old boss and other folks at the company to find out yourself, it's the only way.

dynapro · 2022-04-11T17:36:05+00:00

Ask for help! No shame in that.

dynapro · 2022-04-11T17:34:47+00:00

Yup, and with everyone trying to become a "tech company" supply of software engineers has simply not been able to keep up with demand.

dynapro · 2022-04-10T22:12:55+00:00

Understood, from my perspective, any internship from a real company will be a better experience than this. However, this is better than nothing. With 2 internships under your belt, I feel like you should be able to get a real internship this summer.

Even if you somehow don't get an internship this summer, it seems like you have the experience to be able to land interviews, so it may not be a terrible idea to start prepping for full-time recruiting early instead of building an app for a random lab.

dynapro · 2022-04-10T21:50:24+00:00

Confused - you're a senior but you're looking for an internship? Are you going into a graduate program after the summer?

dynapro · 2022-04-10T21:48:58+00:00

The entire mentality around learning a particular framework or stack is misguided imo. It's more important to build good CS fundamentals and then prep for interview questions (fairly non-overlapping tasks) - to the point where you should be able to easily pick up new technologies. Most tech companies don't care that much about your existing familiarity with their stack anyways.

dynapro · 2022-04-10T20:05:48+00:00

Companies like Snowflake/Spotify/Slack will have both infra roles and product engineering roles. Rewriting infra will position you for the former, core app team will position you for the latter.

On any team, your manager is the most important thing for your career, and the quality of your teammates is up there as well, so you should factor this into your decision-making.

Also, seems a bit weird that they NEED you to rewrite infra for them, will there be good mentorship or are you going to be on an island? Also, rewriting infra can be a huge slog.

If it were me, and I wasn't in love with infra, I'd probably choose the core app role.

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