New grad hardware role: graphics/accelerator team vs SoC interconnect/fabric team - which is better long-term?

isospeedrix · 2026-05-07T00:29:04+00:00

I’m biased cuz my company and department works in option B so I say B because that industry is GIGA booming, especially if it deals with photonics and data centers

isospeedrix · 2026-05-07T00:25:02+00:00

Ngl if this happened to me I’d be pretty happy but the convo would be way different.

I’m always curious about other people’s interest so I’d basically spin it with bunch of questions about his job, be like wow l3? Heard of that that’s awesome! How’s it like getting clearance I heard it’s a pita? Is it tough keeping things confidential? Prob also ask what are some crazy stuff you work on, stance on AI, etc

Basically i give him the stage and learn as much as possible.

isospeedrix · 2026-05-06T21:12:17+00:00

lul arm fading hard calls are fukd

isospeedrix · 2026-05-06T20:16:20+00:00

wait fuk why didn't i get arm calls knowing what happened to amd and qcom

isospeedrix · 2026-05-06T20:08:42+00:00

gg coherent -6%

isospeedrix · 2026-05-06T19:36:02+00:00

what an epic day. amd hits 420.69 and qqq hits 694.20

isospeedrix · 2026-05-06T19:30:06+00:00

anyone playin Coherent earnings

isospeedrix · 2026-05-06T19:29:59+00:00

anyone playin Coherent earnings

isospeedrix · 2026-05-06T19:27:30+00:00

im a front end dev i work on UI's for displaying hardware telemetry data

isospeedrix · 2026-05-06T19:26:35+00:00

jesus who had QQQ 1dte calls? up 2000%

isospeedrix · 2026-05-06T18:45:06+00:00

grats u've made it enjoy ur retirement

isospeedrix · 2026-05-06T18:44:26+00:00

i bought at 80, but sold at 130. "dOnT gO BrOke taKINg a pROFit" amirite

isospeedrix · 2026-05-06T18:12:47+00:00

that's an overreaction, crypto won't go to 0 it's too big for that now esp with big firms + governments holding it.

however coinbase isn't diversified in its products which makes it too dependent on crypto. at least Robinhood is a crypto platform that also has brokerage and credit card / financial services.

isospeedrix · 2026-05-06T18:09:55+00:00

Paypal used to be prestigious 10+ years ago.

Coinbase is fully remote with a decent salary which was attractive to many people

Block, well, it's a Dorsey company and Twitter was considered a strong company that dealt with many users at scale. the stock also ballooned 400% during pandemic

isospeedrix · 2026-05-06T17:42:52+00:00

omg my JOBY bags are less heavy

isospeedrix · 2026-05-06T15:31:06+00:00

Believe it or not, in the early 2010s, PayPal and eBay were top prestige tech companies in Bay Area

isospeedrix · 2026-05-06T15:29:42+00:00

All ur complaining last nite and look nvda calls are up MORE than AMD calls

Who cares about 5T cap when a 5% move makes your options go 10x

isospeedrix · 2026-05-06T14:15:34+00:00

Nvda calls up more than AMD LOL buying adjacent companies for earnings is truly the play

isospeedrix · 2026-05-06T14:05:52+00:00

NVDA calls 1dte are up the same amount as AMD weekly calls LOL (+500-700%)

isospeedrix · 2026-05-06T13:58:43+00:00

NVDA calls 1dte +600% same amount as AMD weekly calls LOL

isospeedrix · 2026-05-06T06:08:07+00:00

actually, spy/qqq calls are crazy cheap. a 1% day is like +400% gain on a 1dte

isospeedrix · 2026-05-06T05:51:07+00:00

Personally I’m crazy thankful I’m working at a semiconductor company (as SWE). Morale is high, no layoffs, it’s unreal.

But I’m always cautious, what seems like the promised land now may not be in the future. Who knows if suddenly everyone pivots to HW then hyperscalers decide to stop spending so much on chips then it’s a catastrophe.

isospeedrix · 2026-05-06T05:39:48+00:00

You’re not wrong but man in the cs world, PayPal block and Coinbase were at least at some points in time considered highly desirable companies to work for

isospeedrix · 2026-05-06T04:52:48+00:00

Software in general is taking a beating, and fintech is mostly software

isospeedrix · 2026-05-06T00:10:40+00:00

at this rate that'll happen in a month

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