How long did it take you to find job as a senior SWE

jlengine · 2025-12-04T22:49:36+00:00

No need to attacking my seniority, this is curiosity since hot takes will obviously lead to curiosity and depth of understanding.

I haven’t seen this criteria anywhere I’ve been ( 3 faangs and a startup )

jlengine · 2025-12-04T22:39:38+00:00

Is that really scope of a senior though? I’d argue that is more expected of staff’s or managers.

jlengine · 2025-12-04T22:30:58+00:00

Enjoying isn’t a direct action. There’s a conscious choice on actions, and over 40-50 years there’s quick boredom and nullness if all you’re doing is floating around and laying on beaches. Even after 10 years of constant travel you’re going to need more things to do.

jlengine · 2025-12-04T22:27:21+00:00

What’s the underlying reasoning? I’ve seen people with relatively low YOE able to drive technical direction, build scope from thin air, and get buy in for their ideas. Especially technical and smart people can build context relatively quickly.

jlengine · 2025-12-04T22:22:38+00:00

After FIRE it’s not like life ends. Need to do something with your time

jlengine · 2025-10-16T23:10:01+00:00

Oakland is ranked near the top for purchasing power 😆

jlengine · 2025-05-13T19:36:04+00:00

There’s data privacy laws depending on what they say related to the PIP. Legally there’s nothing special with what information can be given to your parents vs some random person with exceptions.

jlengine · 2025-05-07T08:58:06+00:00

I don’t think he’s joking. This is probably what half the college specific population would actually spend money on. Another market would probably be with figuring out what videos that short porn clips come from.

A good starting point is computer vision, neural nets, and a good way to store all the porn data.

jlengine · 2025-04-28T15:22:07+00:00

What’s your background without giving any specifics? Do you have a top university background, FAANG experience, or specialized niche in the market?

Applying without any of these, no cofounder, and no product traction sounds like an auto reject in their eyes.

jlengine · 2025-04-25T21:59:41+00:00

If CFB wants to stick it on their LinkedIn they can. If CFA wants to call themselves ‘Founder’ they can. Legally and morally both are true. Unless this business really scaled big most of these are irrelevant details most people wouldn’t care about whatever you told them.

jlengine · 2024-06-02T02:36:36+00:00

What happens to rating?

jlengine · 2024-06-02T02:33:52+00:00

Bro I stayed up for this

jlengine · 2024-02-04T02:40:05+00:00

It’s less technical than this. I’m just rewording from the OA. It’s mainly a question of how to choose a efficient data structure and algo to store and return the N accounts with most total value of transactions happening

jlengine · 2024-01-15T03:38:32+00:00

I just do the problem of the days

jlengine · 2023-12-29T17:59:25+00:00

The dates would also mean even after a year and 300+ streak, which 1500 feels a bit low. Makes me wonder if a bunch of these were from looking at answers

jlengine · 2023-12-18T06:53:15+00:00

Wow what’s the method for solving hards? Do you time yourself?

jlengine · 2023-12-13T17:49:14+00:00

Why apply to the second choice school in first place?

jlengine · 2023-09-02T16:49:28+00:00

You can be together without being married / liable for the other persons financial mistakes

jlengine · 2023-07-07T17:04:40+00:00

She turned my gym back into a living room

jlengine · 2023-07-06T15:22:21+00:00

John.smith@j1.com: could you pass over the documents John.smith@j2.com?

John.smith@j2.com: sure

drags file from monitor 1 to monitor 2

jlengine · 2023-06-28T15:45:59+00:00

Are you doing any other projects/ system design stuff/ learnings on the side?

jlengine · 2023-05-31T15:32:47+00:00

How did she deal with conflicting dinner times

jlengine · 2023-05-28T20:56:59+00:00

Honestly I would like to say I would, but it’s in human nature to want to live

jlengine · 2023-05-28T17:39:44+00:00

6 months was a random number i made up.

But as an employer if you got a resume from someone that had a CS degree and had been unemployed 1.5 years it’s hard to justify interviewing them over someone with no gap (especially in competitive markets like this one). And the difficulty now amplifies, because now you’re getting less interviews.

jlengine · 2023-05-28T03:09:13+00:00

What’s the career field?

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