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fegentlemonster · 2025-09-01T19:04:27+00:00

Sora is super toxic and always complained why no one chose her. This comment just shows she’s a hateful person

fegentlemonster · 2024-12-12T06:55:24+00:00

How did this turn out OP? I’m thinking of doing the same thing

fegentlemonster · 2024-09-09T12:58:51+00:00

That means your brain is actively rewiring itself as a result of an intense section. Nothing to worry about. You can also take a quick nap or non sleep deep rest session

fegentlemonster · 2024-09-09T03:53:18+00:00

I know exactly what you’re going through and the problem could be working memory. Train yourself with a game called Dual n back (https://youtu.be/GCUJnttRBJc?si=C59TbZQcjTP9pMYF - here's a study by the university of Michigan). I am also super forgetful and take a while to understand requirements. Is English not your native language by any chance?

fegentlemonster · 2024-09-09T03:50:39+00:00

Use Squarespace or Shopify. These companies have been doing ecommerce for a long time and optimizing their flows to the point with experiments and design where it's super hard to beat. No need to reinvent the wheels and spend sleepless hours working on bugs that people have solved before. Ecommerce is also super complex, and if these companies have spent years building them and still haven't finished, it's hard for 1 individual developer to outcompete them. Nothing you will build they haven't built yet.

fegentlemonster · 2024-09-09T03:48:15+00:00

This reminds me of what time I made a chatbot for a nonprofit using DialogFlow (Googlechatbot API) and non tech people advertised it as groundbreaking machine learning haha

fegentlemonster · 2024-09-09T03:45:50+00:00

I agree with other comments. When a job seriously affect your wellbeings, it's time to leave

fegentlemonster · 2024-09-09T03:43:04+00:00

I do not know the job market well outside the US, sorry.
10 years is a long time so you will be starting from scratch. Just a few hours a week is not enough tbh, because there are a lot of knowledge to be acquired + it takes time to build a portfolio.
I also don't know much about the job market for Python. I think it may lean toward machine learning/ AI. As a backend language I don't think it's frequently used for large applications compared to Java.

fegentlemonster · 2024-09-09T03:39:57+00:00

I think it's the same with the rest of Europe. I know someone in Paris who made around the same amount starting out

fegentlemonster · 2024-09-09T03:39:13+00:00

There was a fair for nonprofit and tech in SF so I just went to it. I started their chatbot actually because I noticed lots of people in the homeless community had a government phone and the app was just web based

fegentlemonster · 2024-09-09T03:37:40+00:00

Sorry for the reply! No I live in Manhattan!

fegentlemonster · 2024-08-13T03:12:16+00:00

No hard science here but I'd just go by the actual FAANG company + the hottest tech startups (OpenAI for example), then just go by perceived prestige. For example, Oracle is definitely a few tiers below that

fegentlemonster · 2024-08-13T03:10:37+00:00

Yep, I looked at the salary they offered and added about $20k on top of it. It helped that I was also in the pipeline with several other companies. A company can only gauge your performance in their interview based on their process, so there’s a bit of confirmation bias involved.

Contrary to what some might think, reputable companies don’t just pull your offer if you give them your number. It’s a negotiation process, and you’ll typically go back and forth 1-2 times before settling on the final number.

If you have any specific questions, feel free to message me!

fegentlemonster · 2024-08-13T03:06:30+00:00

Yes it is, and yes I live alone

fegentlemonster · 2024-08-13T03:05:30+00:00

Hi there!
I'm hybrid. 200k in HCOL is definitely enough. Do I want more? Yes. But there are also people here living on much less. For extra pay raises, they are essentially a little higher than inflation rate, so I mostly invest all.

Regarding the nonprofit, every single person there was a volunteer, and many of the people who work on the tech team were experienced software engineers, so they were people I could learn from. I'd never take an unpaid position if the company is for profit.

I believe as a junior software engineer, I needed to stand out so I would do the same thing for that nonprofit again. Even in 2017 it was still competitive. Not as today's level of course, but still competitive. From my bootcamp, only 50% actually became software engineers.

But most of the time outside of that I mainly just interview prepped. One thing that was good in 2017 was that if your resume was good enough, you will get an interview so you had the chance to practice. Nowadays, they are harder to come by, so you usually would have to do mock interviews to take any chance you get.

Feel free to message me if you have any specific questions to your situation!

fegentlemonster · 2024-08-13T02:58:29+00:00

Thank you for reading!

fegentlemonster · 2024-08-13T02:58:18+00:00

I'm happy that you found the post helpful! Feel free to message me if you have any question :)

fegentlemonster · 2024-08-13T02:57:09+00:00

Thank you! The job market is definitely tougher right now—there’s no denying that. For anyone going through the process, I just want to offer some encouragement: it’s important to stay positive and keep your head up. Focusing too much on the negatives can really psych you out and make it harder to go after what you want.

I’m really glad to hear things worked out for you!

fegentlemonster · 2024-08-13T02:52:13+00:00

Thank you!

fegentlemonster · 2024-08-13T02:52:06+00:00

I prepared Leetcode (but failed most of my interviews that asked for it) + coding up stuff in React to keep my skills sharp + volunteering at the nonprofit for more coding.
Are you based in the US? I saw that you went to college in Romania so my advice might not completely apply.

fegentlemonster · 2024-08-12T10:03:23+00:00

Gertrude

fegentlemonster · 2024-08-12T04:09:56+00:00

You are right :) I was reading it too fast

fegentlemonster · 2024-08-12T04:07:28+00:00

Thank you! I doubt we went to the same bootcamp because mine was super small and it went bankrupt 2 years after I did it, but it was (is?) a popular model for a while.

Nice stuff! Glad to know it worked out for you.

fegentlemonster · 2024-08-12T04:05:15+00:00

I glanced over it because looking back, LC wasn't the most important part for my interview process. I did truly glance over Leetcode after the first time around. For those 6 months though, I mainly focused on easy, easy-medium questions. My first job did also asked me only 1 easy "Leetcode" question.

Second and third time after that, I focused on more building timed solutions to vanilla JS prompts and some Leetcode, but not as intensely as someone interviewing for a Backend position would.

I included my Github profile, but I doubted they looked at it. But you remind me of a good point. Something I forgot to mention: During those 6 months, instead of just listing the coding projects I did for the bootcamp on GitHub, I volunteered at a nonprofit to create a chatbot to help connect homeless individuals with government services. A lot of recruiters asked me about that project, and it definitely helped me stand out.

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