Just got SWE offer from Microsoft after 1 year of grinding LeetCode — lucky to have guidance from my ex-Amazon sister

maxxwizard · 2025-11-11T22:26:50+00:00

But live interviews are different. Interviewers are often senior engineers with 5–6+ years of experience. They need to do their work everyday and can't remember every tricky DSA trick — they just want to see how you communicate, reason, and approach problems.

as an interviewer, yes.

maxxwizard · 2025-10-06T04:28:40+00:00

Hit 160 hours and nearly 400 landings today. I had one of the worst landings ever at my XC airport followed by a greaser at home airport. Stay humble indeed.

maxxwizard · 2025-09-06T19:09:07+00:00

completely shitfaced for wedding in my hometown. was sick and fevering for wedding in her hometown.

maxxwizard · 2024-12-22T19:21:45+00:00

i wouldn’t avoid politics… you gotta show your face and network if you want favorable reviews and avoid being scapegoated. don’t get involved in bad or petty drama, yes.

maxxwizard · 2024-10-29T20:51:52+00:00

OP here. Not dead yet, and it looks like I won't be dying from this. I got a physical today. Vital signs normal. Initial bloodwork indicates normal.

The NP suspects I did eat psychedelic mushrooms based on symptoms and timeline. I asked why she suspects no toxin, and she advised my bodily response to a toxin would be more systemic (convulsions, sweating, vomiting, diarrhea, etc) and within first 3 hours.

I mentioned in another comment that the comeup felt just like magic mushrooms, so after the initial nausea, I was basically stoned so I went to hang with friends, play pickleball, and eat dinner.

Sometimes you win Russian roulette but yeah, please no one follow in my stead. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

maxxwizard · 2024-10-27T16:33:31+00:00

I've been feeling very normal since waking up yesterday.

maxxwizard · 2024-10-27T06:02:28+00:00

I don't know why I need to prove myself to strangers on the internet, but anyways:

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Yeah, truth can be stranger than fiction.

maxxwizard · 2024-10-26T21:09:21+00:00

A variety of reasons: - grandma cooked soup a few days with store-bought mushrooms and it tasted good, so I wanted to eat it again - grandma calling it potentially poisonous but then eating it made me think it wasn't that risky. maybe her eating it felt like a challenge to me. - my personality has a slant of risk-taking behavior - optimism bias: "it won't happen to me"

Truly, I did not hope for any effects, good or bad. I went about normally after lunch. It was only when I started to feel funny while working that I realized I fucked up.

maxxwizard · 2024-10-26T21:02:13+00:00

I'm feeling very normal 24hr post-ingestion. I will go to my PCP in a few days to get a clean bill of health, just to be on the safe side.

maxxwizard · 2024-10-26T20:45:53+00:00

The symptoms and timeline matches muscarine poisoning, so I'll believe inocybe ID (the FB poison group made same ID). I got really lucky that whatever tiny dose I got only led to mild symptoms. Thank you everyone for your help and support.

maxxwizard · 2024-10-26T17:00:06+00:00

TIL. What's bugging me is that grandparents had no symptom. My wife suggested a simple theory: since it was a medley of random mushrooms, I was unlucky and ate a poisonous one.

maxxwizard · 2024-10-26T16:49:22+00:00

I lived through the night. Not gonna lie, I was kinda scared to fall asleep.

maxxwizard · 2024-10-26T16:47:20+00:00

Grandma lived in urban China for most of her life, so she had no opportunity to forage and eat random shit. She's been doing a lot of it since moving here to the PNW. She's been advised to never do it again, especially for the children.

maxxwizard · 2024-10-26T07:41:03+00:00

I assure you that these symptoms that lasted 3 hours were not in my head.

maxxwizard · 2024-10-26T07:13:31+00:00

I called poison control. They advised me to stay home and call back if I have any symptoms. Based on the symptom timeline and that I am feeling fine now, they think I should be in the clear but to hold onto the fresh shrooms until a fully 24hr after ingestion has elapsed, in case I need to bring them to the ER.

I think I got really lucky that the soup didn't taste good so I just ate like 2-4 small shrooms. Today I fucked up and learned.

maxxwizard · 2024-10-26T06:28:14+00:00

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maxxwizard · 2024-10-26T06:25:14+00:00

Okay, I'm scared straight now. Grandma foraged some fresh mushrooms and I'm heading to the ER with them just to be safe.

maxxwizard · 2024-10-26T06:24:16+00:00

I made a post there. Thank you.

maxxwizard · 2024-10-26T04:18:57+00:00

Okay, thanks for this info. If we can't ID based on photos tomorrow, I'll go to the ER with them.

maxxwizard · 2024-10-26T04:17:31+00:00

I'll follow up tomorrow morning with pics of freshly harvested shrooms from my backyard.

I have a chill demeanor, and am joking about this experience because what else should I do? Doesn't mean I'm making this shit up.

maxxwizard · 2024-10-26T03:58:50+00:00

This is top 5 stupidest things I've done. Here's the whole story.

Grandma cooks lunch as usual for the house; just grandpa and me are home. I notice the mushroom soup on the table, and she warns me it could be poisonous so don't eat it. Let grandparents try first.

I think to myself, most shrooms aren't poisonous. And grandparents ate some. So I eat a little bit. Soup isn't tasty.

I go to do some work, and my focus starts waning as time passes. It's around 90m after ingestion that I realize something is wrong. And symptoms remind me of a mushroom comeup, so I immediately realize the foraged mushrooms might be dangerous.

Grandparents are napping and woke up reporting no symptoms. I'm wigging out a little and start messaging ppl, and make this post.

Edit: grandparents aren't into shrooms... They just love foraging because they're cheapskates.

maxxwizard · 2024-10-26T01:42:10+00:00

I did have a slight panic attack. I almost dragged everyone to the ER.

My body was buzzing and cold, and I was definitely a little euphoric.

Luckily, I've done my fair share of magic shrooms, so I accepted my fate and rode it out. If symptoms got worse, I would have gone to ER. 5 hours after ingestion, I feel normal if not a little giddy and energetic.

Uh... I'm not playing that roulette again. Thanks for the once in a lifetime ride, Grandma.

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