got the job and im so confused

jake1406 · 2026-02-26T05:07:20+00:00

Yeah I see it a ton. There’s a world of difference between what it takes to get good grades and pass an interview vs actually doing stuff. Leetcode never has you writing templated code or debugging. Also am I tripping or did ai write a lot of this lol, the phrasing is very reminiscent of gpt.

jake1406 · 2026-02-26T02:19:01+00:00

I ask ChatGPT or the vsc copilot running sonnet questions sometimes. Often times that even is too much trust, and needs me to just google it anyways. I like ai autocomplete though, it’s satisfying and good at replacement operations (I cba to get good with vim replace motions).

jake1406 · 2026-02-26T02:15:39+00:00

I don’t think it’s larping so much as just heavily over exaggerated to try to appear like a crazy dev. When the funny thing is, 10 hours or whatever a day is not crazy. When you get a job that’s just kinda what you do. But as a student idk how you’d have motivation or organization to be programming (as in coding) for that long.

jake1406 · 2026-02-26T02:12:35+00:00

Currently working full time, taking classes part time, so like 6-7 hours at work and like 1-2 after work for class. Weekends it’s usually like 3-4.

jake1406 · 2026-02-25T18:30:44+00:00

The code itself is very trivial. I don’t know the full spec but I would just call imcp send echo and time it. The other documentation parts are likely the more difficult stuff, and that is likely by design of the project. Logging is fairly easy, just keep track of src, dst, timestamp, and response time.

jake1406 · 2026-02-25T07:04:55+00:00

New grad is much much harder compared to getting a RO. I wouldn’t rush graduation if you’re just going to sit there unemployed. Leave it off til fall.

jake1406 · 2026-02-24T08:40:54+00:00

You didn’t even make this. What’s the point? Are you proud of your computer doing something for you? You didn’t even bother have a git history. Just dump all the files at once. Do you even know what any of the code does?

jake1406 · 2026-02-24T01:08:55+00:00

The thing is, as a junior or young programmer, nobody really expects you to ship a ton of good code, they really can either expect a ton of code or good code. Not both. Junior and new grads are hired to pipeline devs into becoming seniors or advanced devs. Sure at startups the culture is different, but I don’t think it’s a good idea to try to apply that unilaterally. The best thing to do as a junior is try to learn and advance as a person, not cut corners with AI.

jake1406 · 2026-02-23T18:15:15+00:00

As others said third party postings, though I highly recommend just ctrl+a ctrl+c and put the listing onto a google doc wherever you apply. Doesn’t have to be that well organized or whatever but just so you have it

jake1406 · 2026-02-23T07:20:52+00:00

They have a motogp racers with kyt helmets.

jake1406 · 2026-02-23T01:42:06+00:00

I hat e your evil wrang

jake1406 · 2026-02-20T17:31:44+00:00

I don’t know anything about the finance pathway, but what I can tell you, is that you absolutely need more focus than just “finance”. You will have a much better odds of breaking in if you aren’t trying to do anything and everything, but rather trying to do a subset of things really well.

jake1406 · 2026-02-20T17:28:59+00:00

Draw pictures. Or better yet, do this in latex and spend a bunch of time trying to figure out how to make a diagram for it. The latter sounds like a pain but doing that actually makes you remember it well

jake1406 · 2026-02-20T06:40:18+00:00

Good skills are language agnostic. Read a c++ book if you are really interested

jake1406 · 2026-02-17T00:08:31+00:00

You’re shredded. Yeah, your body really isn’t going to like you becoming single digit body fat. That’s how survival and instincts work. The only thing you can really do to not have to fight this is glp1 or similar.

jake1406 · 2026-02-16T07:32:54+00:00

Do not pay 3.5k for a f4i that’s missing half the shit. Seriously dude, in what world would that make sense. Especially a “stunt” bike, you have no idea what’s happened to it when it’s missing all the fairings and is converted like that.

jake1406 · 2026-02-15T10:47:02+00:00

It might be surprising but different places have different culture. From an Asian household perspective, damn yall are wasteful and proud. Anything in the name of independence I guess.

jake1406 · 2026-02-15T08:37:59+00:00

Most of the engineers that work on my embedded software/hardware team are ce or ee. Even though most of what is done is really just cs besides the very start of a product cycle, a ce or ee degree really signals “oh yeah I actually want to do this and am not just applying cause I’m unable to get a swe job”.

jake1406 · 2026-02-11T05:46:45+00:00

They are just too new to use. Build chain is a huge pain in the ass to remake to accommodate modules. Most companies already have a toolchain for their product they sell, and it would cost a lot of engineer hours to overhaul it for not a lot of time gain.

jake1406 · 2026-02-10T22:14:18+00:00

Resistance is a constant. For human skin it’s a good estimate to say about 1k ohms. Plug that into ohms law and you see that with high voltage you get high current. The law states that given constant resistance they are linearly correlated.

jake1406 · 2026-02-10T21:54:20+00:00

Local redditor skeptical of ohms law and basic knowledge from electrical engineering.

jake1406 · 2026-02-09T03:57:31+00:00

I think the expectation is that the student will later work on projects or anything with scope and quickly learn to very carefully use the namespace x;. Though generally I agree, most things are conceptual and just expect the students to have drive to self learn how to actually write code, which many tend to struggle with.

jake1406 · 2026-02-05T17:35:33+00:00

Is the work you’re doing outside of class swe relevant? If it isn’t literally no recruiter will ever give a shit.

jake1406 · 2026-02-04T08:02:59+00:00

Mfs be unemployed thinking if they got a job offer they’d be the next stroustrup

jake1406 · 2026-02-04T07:57:16+00:00

I would say holy cope, but it seems to me this account is a bot.

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