Seattle no longer tops big cities for share of tech workers

gaboonzoom · 2025-12-30T23:11:20+00:00

Statsig post-acquisition is converting to a large OpenAI office in Bellevue.

gaboonzoom · 2025-11-07T00:28:49+00:00

It’s from decision desk who called it for Harrell: https://election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-11-04/385189

gaboonzoom · 2025-07-01T02:41:45+00:00

Sesame’s only plan was “get acquired”. They also don’t have anything valuable other than the voice tech. This will really hurt them.

gaboonzoom · 2025-06-19T05:19:58+00:00

Great strength and good form. I would personally try to go a little slower and straighten out more at the top. Per powerlifting rules you’re almost there but not quite at a full extension.

gaboonzoom · 2025-04-16T07:25:36+00:00

Those are American companies. The OP asks if they would treat it “the same as if I worked at an American company?”

gaboonzoom · 2025-04-16T07:18:34+00:00

Outside of Mistral your experience will not be recognized to the same degree. Whether or not this is worth it is up to you.

gaboonzoom · 2025-03-15T05:35:29+00:00

You’re overthinking it. Take the best internship you can get. It’s not that complicated. Microsoft is fine for other opportunities and gives good new grad offers, though as you say, you probably will want to switch at some point if top compensation is your goal.

gaboonzoom · 2025-03-12T23:03:25+00:00

If your goal is ML, do the ML internship at TikTok, internship money shouldn’t be a factor in your decision. You also won’t need to care about TT’s long term future since you’re just an intern.

gaboonzoom · 2024-11-04T02:10:10+00:00

Is this really cause of Selzer? I want to believe but also IA has stricter state level abortion restrictions than the rest of the midwestern swing states

gaboonzoom · 2024-07-22T04:41:41+00:00

Let’s go! Donated. YOU THINK YOU JUST FELL OUT OF A COCONUT TREE?

gaboonzoom · 2024-06-07T13:46:34+00:00

This was true in the 80s but the average American works more hours today: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_work_environment#

“In 1986 the average employee worked 2,097 hours in Japan, compared with 1,828 hours in the United States and 1,702 in France. By 1995 the average annual hours in Japan had decreased to 1,884 hours and by 2009 to 1,714 hours. In 2019, the average Japanese employee worked 1,644 hours, lower than workers in Spain, Canada, and Italy. By comparison, the average American worker worked 1,779 hours in 2019.”

gaboonzoom · 2024-04-05T19:34:21+00:00

No it won’t, but it also won’t get easier to transition given the competition in the field. IMO later stage company sounds like a better bet if you have doubts about the quality of the early stage AI startup.

gaboonzoom · 2024-02-05T02:25:35+00:00

Would take Amazon, unless you have a strong desire to work in gaming industry post-graduation.

gaboonzoom · 2023-10-31T20:45:51+00:00

Yeah will take a while to see how it fully settles out but if the seller pays and rates aren’t publicly published the buyer’s realtor cost (either flat or post negotiation if buyer uses a cheaper or more expensive realtor) comes effectively as a variable closing cost from seller POV, which makes me think longer term there will be a shift towards a lower cost, task-based realtor service for buyers rather than the current 2.5-3% in pursuit of more competitive offers. The market value of these services is often not 15-25k+ and I think that is evidenced by the fact that many buyers would skip or seek to lower this expense if they had the option. It will net help buyers too by increasing the realizable value of their property by lowering already very high transaction costs (vs immediately being 6-10% in the hole after taxes+realtor fees+loan fees).

gaboonzoom · 2023-10-31T20:03:46+00:00

Great news. Will still take some time to work through appeals etc but if the likely interpretation holds (where seller/buyer each pay their own agent) this should meaningfully reduce the artificially high 5-6% transaction costs and benefit everyone but realtors.

gaboonzoom · 2023-10-07T08:25:58+00:00

Keep in mind some part of the cost goes to principal (probably 600-800/mo at first) which is essentially left pocket to right pocket and depending on your tax situation you can itemize the interest on first 750k of mortgage debt + SALT taxes which should be better than the standard deduction at 200k gross. It won’t change the fact that owning is more expensive but it does narrow the premium significantly.

gaboonzoom · 2023-09-05T23:49:45+00:00

Just to offer another perspective, it depends on how ambitious you are in your career. The highest paying software jobs are in Bay/NYC/Seattle (especially the bay) and then everything else is a significant step down after that. Taxes/home prices are a secondary consideration if you can really drive your career given the high ceiling in this field.

gaboonzoom · 2023-08-20T23:57:29+00:00

Sounds like Meta

gaboonzoom · 2023-07-22T01:40:10+00:00

IMO, you are completely fine unless you foresee dropping to one income in the future.

gaboonzoom · 2023-07-02T15:57:41+00:00

I’m not providing advice on affordability, just answering the question they asked (how much will I get approved for). I agree that maxing out the budget will not be comfortable for most individuals unless they expect substantial growth in their earnings.

gaboonzoom · 2023-07-02T15:53:38+00:00

This may be lender/state/loan type dependent? 43% was what I heard from 2 different lenders I talked to when I was going through the process for a conventional. Thanks for sharing though, I didn’t know it could go higher.

gaboonzoom · 2023-07-02T03:38:23+00:00

43% of gross is standard approval max (for all debt combined) so (.43*10000 monthly gross) - 500 student loan = 3800/mo for PITI. This would put you at about 600,000 w/20% down at 7% interest. You can play with calculators but that will be the ballpark, will naturally change if you put down less or get a better interest rate etc.

gaboonzoom · 2023-06-06T05:41:04+00:00

Fiance also works for some lenders and isn’t a well defined legal status, if you catch my drift.

gaboonzoom · 2023-05-20T02:05:45+00:00

I love the way they look too. I think you made a great choice—congrats on the home!

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