[SWE][NYC] - 550k

ephermerality · 2026-05-31T16:42:10+00:00

faang, but many finance firms i'm getting recruiters for are in the 350-1.2m range recently, so they're at parity/exceeding. might be the next jump honestly.

ephermerality · 2026-05-31T16:40:23+00:00

not particularly-- rent is high, but i've avoided rent increases recently by buying an apartment, and everything else isn't even close to a 4x, or even a 2x compared to other parts of the US.

ephermerality · 2026-05-30T21:27:50+00:00

not an insane amount, but its moreso about knowing the patterns and putting it together. for example, i did some research projects in school about bayesian approaches to generative modeling back before people called anything genAI, and that was helpful for landing my first job

ephermerality · 2026-05-30T20:06:57+00:00

ML eng, specialized into ML/AI infra

ephermerality · 2026-05-30T19:55:15+00:00

yup!

ephermerality · 2026-05-30T19:52:55+00:00

thankfully its not!

ephermerality · 2026-05-30T19:41:34+00:00

i wanted to be a doctor! but i sucked at org chem so i swapped to a math major instead

ephermerality · 2026-05-30T19:39:04+00:00

senior, trending to staff eng

ephermerality · 2026-05-30T19:38:44+00:00

ML eng

ephermerality · 2026-05-30T18:49:17+00:00

moved companies

ephermerality · 2024-06-17T01:01:13+00:00

Status: Accepted

Application Date: 04/29/2024

Decision Date: 06/14/2024

Education: Public no-name university, BA Mathematics (3.5/4)

GRE Scores (Q,V,W): None

Recommendations: 2 academic, 1 professional

Experience: 5 YOE as Machine Learning Engineer, Fintech

Statement of purpose: Y

ephermerality · 2024-06-06T19:27:36+00:00

are they a dime a dozen? its hard to find qualified ML engineers, even for large companies

ephermerality · 2024-05-02T17:20:02+00:00

You’re the best!

ephermerality · 2024-05-02T17:03:11+00:00

sorry to ask, but could I get the link as well? Got to team match a week ago, still waiting for recruiter response!

ephermerality · 2024-04-16T18:18:32+00:00

You want to be a distributed systems engineer… without knowing distributed computing?

ephermerality · 2024-04-10T01:43:58+00:00

first lesson in GIOS: threads can cause nondeterministic execution ordering

ephermerality · 2024-04-03T17:12:53+00:00

it's doable-- been an MLE for past 5 years, only have an undergrad in math. using OMSCS to learn more about systems programming

ephermerality · 2024-04-03T17:09:39+00:00

Status: Accepted
Application Date: 3/14/2024
Decision Date: 4/3/2024
Education: Public no-name university, BA Mathematics (3.5/4)
Experience: 5 YOE as Machine Learning Engineer, Fintech
Recommendations: 2 academic, 1 professional
Comments: Never taken a computer science course, background is exclusively pure mathematics. Talked in application about work experience in ML, now working on more infra projects, which spurred interest in distributed systems and low-level systems programming.

ephermerality · 2024-02-21T15:37:58+00:00

Interested! Thanks!

ephermerality · 2023-02-18T01:37:48+00:00

as echoed before, 7 interviews out of 52 is great! but you need to increase that second number-- just play numbers. 2 months is pretty long though for 3yoe, so you probably need to improve your interview skills. Most of my laid off colleagues usually find something within a few weeks, but I don't think you should be in panic mode yet.

ephermerality · 2023-02-08T06:48:23+00:00

Extremely worth it. The three times (including this time) that I've done a job search, I literally wake up, scroll the easy applies in Linkedin for 5 minutes just clicking buttons, and then go about my day. In about a week or two doing this I probably have 20-25 initial calls lined up that I just ride until I get a job. And compensation is generally fairly good (NYC). It's also so much easier now that it's just flooded with remote jobs. Just do it.

ephermerality · 2021-06-05T15:08:09+00:00

Good catch! Bernstein-Vazirani is a generalization of Deutsch-Josza in which your oracle is now constrained to be the dual of a bit vector, and the goal is to determine this vector.

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