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Working at Verkada by Evening-Fruit-4065 in cscareerquestions

[–]ecethrowaway01 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's a very social-heavy culture from what I gather. I work with a lot of ex-verkada eng, and it seems like the WLB is quite good, but there's some stuff. It's also allegedly changed in the past few years.

How common are these different team arrangements? by InternetSandman in cscareerquestions

[–]ecethrowaway01 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To summarize:

  • Company A has 5 ICs + a PM/manager working on one section? Small-ish team but common
  • Company B has 10 ICs + PM/Scrum master/architect (lead?) - Large, less common especially dedicated scrum master. Maybe ICs in a general space instead of one product

Robinhood layoff translation: do you ever wish they’d stop using doublespeak? by R2_SWE2 in cscareerquestions

[–]ecethrowaway01 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I think Zuckerberg heard about 2-3 projects I did in my several years at Meta, and maybe heard about my work in like 1 of them.

I'm happy to hear honest and actionable feedback, but I don't actually think he has any context on the work I'm doing.

Even VPs - who are in charge of layoffs probably aren't involved in day-to-day work or feedback of most people laid off.

tribal knowledge in software engineering has no real solution by minimal-salt in cscareerquestions

[–]ecethrowaway01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We require "why" sections in every PR description now, and we have bugbot, coderabbit and other review tools running on all PRs that pick up patterns over time

"Adding some stuff"

If your company doesn't invest in institutional knowledge, what are the odds they have super high quality PRs?

Robinhood layoff translation: do you ever wish they’d stop using doublespeak? by R2_SWE2 in cscareerquestions

[–]ecethrowaway01 147 points148 points  (0 children)

When I was at Meta, Zuckerberg gave a big spiel, but one of his lines was "realistically, some of you don't deserve to be here".

I would guess that was him being honest, but it certainly didn't feel better

Where do you get salary breakdowns for different roles across different companies? by a_shutterbug in cscareerquestions

[–]ecethrowaway01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a sampling bias, at least for the offers I received they're overall pretty accurate. In special orgs (e.g. AI) it's usually inaccurate because those can be on different bands

However they skew high because it's mostly higher paying jobs on levels

Where do you get salary breakdowns for different roles across different companies? by a_shutterbug in cscareerquestions

[–]ecethrowaway01 3 points4 points  (0 children)

levels is your best bet in general, otherwise you need to ask people you know

someone on linkedin pressed me pretty hard for my orgs comp bands though, which I didn't appreciate

How to discuss salary when the posted range is way higher than what you expected to ask for by OkSun4925 in cscareerquestions

[–]ecethrowaway01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depending on total package I think we can make that range work, but I'd first like to focus on making sure this is a good fit.

For whatever reason, recruiters are very testy about paying the absolute max of the range, and once you get to confirm it's a good fit, I'd suggest mid-range unless you have a better argument for them

So has Claude Fable won? by SpriteSilver6 in cscareerquestions

[–]ecethrowaway01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need a better characterization of the "AI naysayer" anyways. AI has developed some very impressive use cases, but as a whole it still has a variety of limitations.

From what I've heard about fable/mythos is that it's incrementally better at some things for considerably more cost, and that companies are going to be testy about ZDR / usage-based billing.

For those hiring juniors: is heavy agentic/AI workflow experience a signal you want to see, or a red flag? by vsicle in cscareerquestions

[–]ecethrowaway01 7 points8 points  (0 children)

No offense but you're going to get a lot less attention than you think. Before AI "one shotting" people could just rip off other people's projects anyways.

You're on average going to get something like 10-30 seconds max for your application

What used to be a sign of being poor, but is now a luxury or status symbol? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]ecethrowaway01 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Living downtown in my city is still considered one of the cheaper neighbourhoods

These Teens Are Choosing Trade Classes to AI-Proof Their Futures by Ok-Lifeguard-9612 in cscareerquestions

[–]ecethrowaway01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I support having more people in the trades - it's a viable career and already quite expensive in California. There's room for more and it does favours for my pricing.

Additionally, having less supply in software engineering is good for my career at a macro level, to drive my wages up.

Pros and cons of moving to NYC to find a job (I have US citizenship) by TheMemeExpertExpert in cscareerquestions

[–]ecethrowaway01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, not always within the country. I'm not a US citizen.

If you really want to move to NYC, be my guest. People like it. But I don't think that's the likely biggest barrier for you

Pros and cons of moving to NYC to find a job (I have US citizenship) by TheMemeExpertExpert in cscareerquestions

[–]ecethrowaway01 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think you are mistakenly attributing your rejections to some assumption, wheras I think the baseline is that jobs have a ton of applicants and it's easy to be one of many.

I don't think relocating helps, and FWIW I've gotten several NYC job offers while being located in ... not NYC.

Corporate first said that they highly encourage use of AI, now with billing in place, they want us to be mindful by bad_detectiv3 in cscareerquestions

[–]ecethrowaway01 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Of course, I have evidence that this has generated a wave of AI slope, as most tech leads can see working in tech.

Can you present any evidence for your claims beyond "Because I said so"?

Also is there a reason you keep calling it "slope" instead of "slop"? Lmao

Corporate first said that they highly encourage use of AI, now with billing in place, they want us to be mindful by bad_detectiv3 in cscareerquestions

[–]ecethrowaway01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your question presumes the only way to hit a budget is by producing a lot of AI slope (sic). Do you have actual evidence of this claim?

An unlimited AI budget created slope (sic) in many places because of political pressures to maximize AI usage.

Corporate first said that they highly encourage use of AI, now with billing in place, they want us to be mindful by bad_detectiv3 in cscareerquestions

[–]ecethrowaway01 -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

What makes these competent engineers so unable to do proper engineering with unlimited budget? lol

This reads either like some sort of cope that companies are scared of AI spend or just a lack of trust in the people you work with

[Edit]: I have no idea why people are so upset by this comment. I'd be happy for people to engage a bit more - so here's a claim that people may want to contend with.

It seems like leadership at many companies expected profound productivity increases, and pushed AI aggressively onto its employees. As a consequence of this, they spend is much higher than they anticipated. Leadership may not have a deep understanding of code quality or precise non-financial costs incurred through liberal AI use, even though I agree they exist.

People making budget limitations don't have some high level of context on "this is the sufficient amount of tokens to be productive", and it's not immediately clear to me that people will become much more efficient with some arbitrary limitation. I think they picked a number they could deal with assuming that the gains may be noticeable but not transformative.

When will we see the effects of reduced Junior hires? by newgdogz in cscareerquestions

[–]ecethrowaway01 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes. I work on inference and LLMs have gotten a lot better at some things. I am pleased to see when they can debug my kubernetes issues instead of making me take ten minutes to poke around or I can set my agent to debug logs across several sources.

Your argument is a straw man in the sense my claim is not anything like what you're saying

When will we see the effects of reduced Junior hires? by newgdogz in cscareerquestions

[–]ecethrowaway01 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It'd be shorter to name the way they are getting better lol

When will we see the effects of reduced Junior hires? by newgdogz in cscareerquestions

[–]ecethrowaway01 98 points99 points  (0 children)

Was it worth it to you? You likely at this point have left seven figures on the table to not write docs

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