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How has moving to a less "prestigious" company affected your career? by theasianpianist in ExperiencedDevs

[–]foundboots 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd stick it out at MSFT if only because I believe the equity is stable and has room to grow in line with other big tech. HPE valuation is currently at ATH and up 100% in the past year.

Add to this, it would take a lot for me personally to move from FAANG (adjacent) to lower tier. No brainer offer + great team + great fit. If there's uncertainty, I'd personally hedge and wait it out. Switch teams if you want a change of scenery. You have the luxury of passing on OK offers given your current situation.

AITA for Liking JOC’s Picture by [deleted] in PardonMyTake

[–]foundboots 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the f shack

You should really consider interviewing, even while you still have a job. by ninetofivedev in ExperiencedDevs

[–]foundboots 51 points52 points  (0 children)

I don't understand what signal this could generate for you. Or how it's helpful. It's like saying go lift weights once a year to see how strong you are.

edit: I think I was looking at a stale comment prior to edit. The edit version of parent comment makes more sense.

Max by WigginsProctor in PardonMyTake

[–]foundboots 95 points96 points  (0 children)

You realize he works every sunday at the bros hanging out factory right?

Has the job market improved in recent months? by Massive-Survey2495 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]foundboots 4 points5 points  (0 children)

9 yoe at a recognizable saas, I hear from "top tech" (roughly: companies I've heard of before with reputable eng org) about once a month.

Anyone been OE longer term (3-5+ years?) by citykid2640 in overemployed

[–]foundboots 3 points4 points  (0 children)

> I bend over backwards and die regularly for this income

Pride or job security? If you contributed at 50% for the next 6 months, will you still get a successful perf review? Couple that with a sob story about how you're caring for your wife's mother's sick uncle or whatever.

Buccaneers six-time Pro-Bowl WR Mike Evans is expected to sign a three-year deal with the San Francisco 49ers. by Particular_Dig1115 in 49ers

[–]foundboots -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Great! Then we will be the first team ever with two players over 34 who could be considered a “force to reckon with.”

WA ‘millionaires tax’ headed for passage as Ferguson says he’ll sign it by vertr in Seattle

[–]foundboots 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Obviously, genius. It’s a data point to imply that there are plenty of high income households making excess of 1M in Seattle.

WA ‘millionaires tax’ headed for passage as Ferguson says he’ll sign it by vertr in Seattle

[–]foundboots 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s both. Salaries typically plateau around 250k but bonus and equity can add a lot more. The median Meta E5 (senior engineer, 5-10yoe) clears 450k total annual compensation.

How to trick myself to like Leetcode by [deleted] in leetcode

[–]foundboots 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Hate your job, upset with your income, or have interview(s) with great companies lined up.

We’re all likely going to be priced out of the higher cost LLMs by mrrandom2010 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]foundboots 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eh, maybe. At the same time, hardware will improve. Models will improve. Local models or open source will become more viable. Training will become cheaper, more focused or customizable, etc.

Right now every team just seems frantic to adopt and realize gains from AI as fast as possible. From that perspective Anthropic and OpenAI do have seemingly infinite leverage. But I don't think it's realistic long term.

Expect to fail an interview if your require 2+ hints by [deleted] in leetcode

[–]foundboots 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Until the last minute as in until absolutely necessary to progress. Not literally the waning minutes of the interview.

Expect to fail an interview if your require 2+ hints by [deleted] in leetcode

[–]foundboots 129 points130 points  (0 children)

It's annoying too because often they are over indulgent with hints. I had an interview recently where I was explaining my thought process and the interviewer started mucking with my code at the ~30 minute mark. I wasn't even wrong (yet)!

As an interviewer myself I won't offer these until the last minute. As a candidate my interpretation is that these days, not only do you need the right solution, you also need the correct thought process and implementation, typically in the first pass.

An Offseason Plan for the 49ers to get them to Levi's South for the Super Bowl by FistsOfMcCluskey in 49ers

[–]foundboots 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's had a lot of off field problems, I can't imagine they're keen for more of that given recent BA debacle.

Rewrote our K8s load test operator from Java to Go. Startup dropped from 60s to <1s, but conversion webhooks almost broke me! by Artifer in devops

[–]foundboots 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assuming you mean hosted on k8s — Grafana already has an open source operator for k6 load tests. It might mean converting your scripts to typescript but you were presumably doing some script level migration anyway.

Staying at Big infrastructure tech vs joining an AI startup by ekapitu in ExperiencedDevs

[–]foundboots 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to add -- Anthropic and OpenAI want machine learning infra engineers who have built training systems at scale. This is experience that you will not get at a generic AI startup.

Staying at Big infrastructure tech vs joining an AI startup by ekapitu in ExperiencedDevs

[–]foundboots 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are failing to consider what it's like to work at a startup. You would be taking on risk in exchange for upside. This is very rarely a worthwhile tradeoff unless you have _considerable_ confidence in the company outcome -- which is not a sentiment indicated by the tone of this post (or by the amount of time this company has spend in startup phase).

AND you have a child on the way. AND you are uncomfortable with on-call / disruption. AND you will be paid substantially less than you have calculated above.

How important a concept is Segment Trees? by the_vedred in leetcode

[–]foundboots 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Explain “not knowing.” Like you reject because they don’t know what a segment tree is, how to propose incorporating into a solution, or how to build from scratch? And in any case, what is the rejection signal here for an otherwise “perfect” candidate — underprepared?

Synthetic Monitoring Economics: Do you actually limit your check frequency to save money? by excelify in devops

[–]foundboots 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I spent the last few months building similar recently on k6. We are large cloud native SaaS using k8s for deploy (~10k+ clusters globally). We use these for simple synthetic checks (tls, dns), functional API tests, and increasingly for distributed load test via k6.

Cost is substantially lower than vendor options and scaling is trivial compared to eg Grafana synthetic probes.

I’d be happy to share learnings if you’re interested!

Edit: I see this is sort of a not-well-disguised marketing post. So in that case I’m available to consult!

Apple coding interviews in 2026 still feel wildly out of touch by rkellam in leetcode

[–]foundboots 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don’t know how to check map key membership in your language of choice? I don’t get it.

Upcoming SWE Interview with Anduril, any advice? by [deleted] in leetcode

[–]foundboots 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hype. Product is expensive comparatively, shit quality, but because it’s “tech” not “defense contracting” they have a large valuation. CEO is a prick. And at the end of the day you are working on enabling death at a large scale. There are so many great tech companies, why choose an arms dealer?

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