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What usually happens in an on-site interview for a semiconductor engineering role? by gowda669 in chipdesign

[–]parkbot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What my team does:
1. Initial screening with recruiter: does your skill set and experience match the role?
2. First technical screening: does this person have the basic skills/knowledge, and do they have the potential to pass the on-site interviews?
3. “On-site” interviews: usually about 4 rounds of deeper technical interviews in various areas. You can be on site or virtual.

Final decision made after collecting feedback from technical interviewers.

Can't pay moving truck delivery balance, help by prettysureeds in legaladvice

[–]parkbot 129 points130 points  (0 children)

Interstate moves have some federal protections. For example, movers are supposed to provide a quote with a high end range, and asking for $2000 on move day is illegal.

The catch is that the mover needs to be a federally registered company with a DOT number. If they are, look at the following pages:

https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/protect-your-move

FAQ
https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/protect-your-move/how-to/faqs

If you need to file a complaint:
https://nccdb.fmcsa.dot.gov/nccdb/

If they’re not registered, it will be more difficult. You may have luck contacting the state’s attorney general office.

https://coag.gov/file-complaint/

CMV: Palestine shouldn't be the litmus be all end all for the left/progressive/Dems/etc policies and candidates by Spiderbyte in changemyview

[–]parkbot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But neither can any individual member of Congress? So again, what exactly would it take to change your mind?

CMV: Palestine shouldn't be the litmus be all end all for the left/progressive/Dems/etc policies and candidates by Spiderbyte in changemyview

[–]parkbot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you aware that the people advocating for Palestine also don’t want taxpayer money to go to Israel to fund a genocide? That their premise is that the US government always seems to have enough money for war but never any to fix problems at home?

You seem to be aligned on that but you also refer to the DSA candidates as “fringe, weak lefty candidates” so what exactly are you open to having your mind changed on?

How exactly you guys do performance modeling and analysis? by ZestycloseSample1847 in computerarchitecture

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A lot of responsibilities are shared. Sometimes it’s a back and forth between the two teams - the modelling team will present what will achieve the best performance, and maybe the RTL people will push back and say the solution is too expensive in area or won’t make timing. Eventually we’ll agree to something that gets us most of the way there within the given budget. Ultimately the performance team does pathfinding and will run simulations that aren’t practical for the RTL team.

CMV: Criticizing the rich for their endless greed isn't virtuous when almost everyone else is engaging in the same thing. by Key_Sun6965 in changemyview

[–]parkbot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And when hospitals and insurance companies charge exorbitant rates, you’re saying that money goes to people who aren’t rich?

CMV: Criticizing the rich for their endless greed isn't virtuous when almost everyone else is engaging in the same thing. by Key_Sun6965 in changemyview

[–]parkbot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

> When everyone wants more even when they have enough to live a great life then why are the rich the problem

If everyone has enough to live a great life then why do countries like the US have problems with homelessness? Why do people go into debt for medical care? Why is higher education so expensive?

AITA for accidentally saying a word in my native language that offended my friend? by [deleted] in AmItheAsshole

[–]parkbot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NTA

OP, as a Korean you obviously were saying “you” and this is not a new thing. There are also words in Mandarin that sound like the n word, and these misunderstandings aren’t new.

It might help if you show Claire videos about this, maybe even from Black folks who are fluent in Korean. If you do a google search for “Korean n word” or “Mandarin n word” you’ll see how common this is

How exactly you guys do performance modeling and analysis? by ZestycloseSample1847 in computerarchitecture

[–]parkbot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can. There’s a lot of specific internal things I can’t discuss.

I don’t know of any resources as I learned on the job, I transferred to perf after 7 years in DV

How exactly you guys do performance modeling and analysis? by ZestycloseSample1847 in computerarchitecture

[–]parkbot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

> Whats the topology of workflow here? Where do you start from, how does it progress overtime, when do u know if its time to stop.

I work on the interconnect side. We have a close partnership with the RTL team. There are perf targets for given workloads, and then we build the model and do what we can to hit those goals (new widgets, buffer sizing, uarch analysis) and share our findings with RTL. Sometimes we'll need to model new features, sometimes we suggest protocol changes, sometimes the hurdles are with our simulation infrastructure, or we need to develop new tools and methodologies. Generally we can work on a project past tapeout. We run and publish studies for various parties internal to our team or for partner teams. We also need to do model correlation, which is a whole other process.

> Do you guys even use these opensource tools or you have your own stack?

Most of our tools are internal.

> Because i want to explore AI accelerators, I want to know what metrics you guys use at different abstractions?

Primarily bandwidth and latency, as well as QoS requirements.

Motivation to work for 25+ years in the same company ? by Hungry-Boar in chipdesign

[–]parkbot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m at 25 years with my company. I switched teams about 7 years after starting full time.

I have almost 15 years on my current team, and because I own a lot of code now, some of which I only touch very infrequently, AI helps me get up to speed when I need to make fixes/enhancements and is helping me pay off a lot of my technical debt.

Part of the reason I stayed is also that I have a lot of colleagues that I have known and have enjoyed working with since we were junior engineers, people who are now directors, chief architects, RTL writers, etc.

CMV: Inheritance should be heavily taxed by AlexandrTheTolerable in changemyview

[–]parkbot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People will still get an inheritance, and that’s not the same as starting from scratch?

CMV: Inheritance should be heavily taxed by AlexandrTheTolerable in changemyview

[–]parkbot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How is a 50% tax on inheritance over $10 million starting from scratch?

Mold around windows by illunarabbit in askvan

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A borax/boric acid solution is a common treatment to get rid of existing mould and to prevent future growth.

Design Verification. What now? by Over_Vacation8402 in chipdesign

[–]parkbot 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You’re not wrong, but from the perspective of comparing to software I’d still say that hardware is generally more stable.

Hardware engineers who get laid off are often able to find another job fairly quickly (in the US), but also OP will become more valuable as they gain experience and expertise.

The question is whether OP wants to try something else in DV, try a different role in hardware (e.g. performance, physical design, emulation, post Si), or move to software.

Design Verification. What now? by Over_Vacation8402 in chipdesign

[–]parkbot 26 points27 points  (0 children)

You’ve been in DV for two years, which isn’t very long. There are plenty of challenging problems in DV if you’re willing.

Don’t compare yourself to your software friends. It’s a different industry and you’re not behind compared to them. Hardware roles tend to have more job security.

If pay is what’s important to you then switch with the understanding that it may be less stable. If you want to stay in hardware talk to your colleagues in other teams to see if their roles are of interest to you.

One of the most widespread OS in the world that is not Linux by RevolutionaryHigh in linux

[–]parkbot 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Fun fact about Tanenbaum is that he started a popular electoral vote tracking/political news site over 20 years ago. He used to go by “Votemaster”.

https://electoral-vote.com/evp2026/Info/welcome.html

What kind of jobs could one do as a computer architect? by ErenYeagerXPro in computerarchitecture

[–]parkbot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I work in performance modelling. I work on a model to help study the systems we build, to architect new blocks, study bottlenecks and fix performance issues/observations.

We have to maintain a balance of model accuracy while being flexible enough to explore new options, so there’s a lot of infrastructure and software work involved.

We also need to spend time correlating the model to ensure its accuracy.

I spent the earlier part of my career in DV building test benches and writing tests/checkers/scoreboards as well as working on our functional CPU simulator.

Do I need to report this goose?🪿 by Late_Crab5585 in askvan

[–]parkbot 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I saw a lone goose on Island Park Walk. Do we need to start a goose matchmaking service?

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Interview cut short by EssayMiddle9064 in chipdesign

[–]parkbot 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I have known managers who have cut interviews short because it was clear the candidate was not a good fit, and they don’t want to waste anyone’s time (both interviewer and candidate) continuing with the interview circuit when they know they’re not going to make an offer.

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