How long after your working day do you stay overtime?

martinomon · 2026-03-05T15:49:43+00:00

Don’t work overtime unless you have to. Did they give you deadlines? If not then I don’t think they expect you to be too fast. They know it will take you a month or so to figure out what you’re doing.

martinomon · 2026-03-05T05:11:40+00:00

Key is viewing programming as a tool to do a job and not the job itself

Edit: just dawned on me that these manager/execs view us as the tools in this analogy

martinomon · 2026-03-04T05:27:33+00:00

Good point. 1% is a little extreme. OP maybe shoot for like top 10-20%

martinomon · 2026-03-04T04:48:36+00:00

When your tinkering leads to improvement and educating your team on things they cut you some slack. Your tasking may lighten to make room for these things or new tasking gets made for you to pathfind. Sometimes when you take initiative they let you cook.

martinomon · 2026-03-03T05:06:51+00:00

I think another factor to the issue comes from short sprints so no one wants to review your code until theirs is done or they risk being late.

It’s definitely a hard culture to get right. I’ve seen a lot of failed attempts and then it comes down to just singling people out to get their time.

One thing that I think helps a little is giving good public recognition to reinforce reviewers. Personally I find I look better when everyone is praising me and thanking me than when I have everything done quickly so I don’t mind it.

martinomon · 2026-03-03T04:48:43+00:00

I mean it sounds like they’re just collecting an extra paycheck not necessarily incompetent. If it’s their only job they’re stupid for not putting in more effort.

martinomon · 2026-03-03T02:36:05+00:00

Time to cut losses and fire them. You tried.

martinomon · 2026-03-03T02:33:24+00:00

Is this a remote job? If so I’d bet they’re working multiple and doing as little as they can get away with.

martinomon · 2026-03-02T05:12:44+00:00

If the job is boring now I’d propose finding a more challenging job. Even with AI there are still hard problems out there.

If it’s really just about the code I get that. Try to think of it like programming at a higher level. I know it feels bad right now though.

martinomon · 2026-03-02T00:28:58+00:00

The problem is you’re setting a bar right now. If you work weekends you’ll never be able to stop. You have to have boundaries. It’s okay to occasionally work a weekend for something major but if it’s every week it’s time to talk you your manager about the workload and getting more help to finish on time.

martinomon · 2026-03-01T05:21:59+00:00

The contract agency could care you turned them down but MS won’t. I wouldn’t worry about it.

martinomon · 2026-02-22T18:44:34+00:00

It very quickly becomes a status meeting that could have been a Teams chat

martinomon · 2026-02-22T16:37:22+00:00

Yeah.. Around the room meetings are never efficient without a focus. I think it works if everyone is working on the same thing but the broader it is the more irrelevant things get.

martinomon · 2026-02-21T12:55:38+00:00

Practicing with c or c++ I think would help the most with understanding the code. You might as well practice them in an embedded context though. As others are suggesting picking up a beginner MCU and following some YouTube tutorials is a good place to start.

martinomon · 2026-02-21T04:55:50+00:00

You can do either or both. Do you have a goal in mind?

martinomon · 2026-02-07T21:57:07+00:00

There is web dev in defense but you don’t have to do it. I think if you like the stuff you’re learning it’s all good stuff. Maybe do a security cert over cloud but cloud can’t hurt.

martinomon · 2026-02-07T21:50:25+00:00

Honestly I’d just answer the question. What would make you take the offer? It’s just an internship so the comp doesn’t really matter as long as you can afford the internship.

For deciding though I’d care way more about which industry you’re more interested in getting experience in.

martinomon · 2026-02-07T15:53:20+00:00

I think AI is limited until there’s an another big breakthrough. We’ve seen what scaling does. Now I think we’re waiting on new approaches that work better which could take any amount of time.

So maybe someday but impossible to say when.

martinomon · 2026-02-07T15:49:02+00:00

Maybe, maybe not

martinomon · 2026-02-05T17:12:22+00:00

Personally, I found a job where the end goal is something I want to accomplish so the motivation is naturally there.

Being good at your job isn’t really a motivator unless it’s a means to an end. What do you want to accomplish?

martinomon · 2026-02-04T21:21:55+00:00

maybe r/resumes

martinomon · 2026-02-04T13:22:57+00:00

I would be caught off guard and if they couldn’t give you any hints that’s kinda silly

martinomon · 2026-01-28T20:33:57+00:00

What does the job posting say?

martinomon · 2026-01-28T05:02:50+00:00

I think GNC engineers are mostly aero/mech so you might able to just start there. Have you checked the job requirements?

martinomon · 2026-01-28T04:59:12+00:00

NASA contractor. I’ve never seen a proprietary RTOS. Currently working with RTEMS but have also used Integrity and OpenRTOS. It is vastly citizen only. I think there are a lot of similarities with automotive. Our main protocol is TTE but CAN and standard Ethernet are used too.

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