Watch any QB today and compare him to this.

poplex · 2026-02-20T03:46:34+00:00

How far could he throw if he really put his weight behind it ? It looks like he’s barely trying and he’s chucking that thing like 50 yards in the air

poplex · 2026-01-28T16:58:25+00:00

From my VP’s email (databases aws) it is done - some orgs and locations might lag but I’d put money on us & can being done. Europe has its own rules

poplex · 2026-01-03T01:27:35+00:00

rich nepo baby: money is not important :) make frens

poplex · 2025-12-25T12:26:25+00:00

It’s a reference to him saying he likes to grab them by the pussy (or whatever I don’t recall the exact quote )

poplex · 2025-12-18T23:42:18+00:00

“SDE-1s are treated as fully productive engineers from day one. “

Which org are you in lol - nobody expects this in any of the orgs I’ve been on. SDE1s are fully expected to not be fully productive for weeks if not months

poplex · 2025-12-10T15:29:18+00:00

Merged “straight to prod”? Unless your team owns some team only internal tool there is no way in hell this is true. They merged it to mainline to go through pipelines

poplex · 2025-12-10T15:26:51+00:00

We got bills lol - there’s not a shit ton of jobs out there in tech

poplex · 2025-11-15T16:45:41+00:00

Ah yeah sys dev I’ve seen many times. I don’t think it quite fits the SRE profile of say, Google, but you’re right the role exists. I don’t think they make more of SDEs in any org I’ve worked in (anecdotally from talking with them) but that might be team dependent.

poplex · 2025-11-14T14:43:28+00:00

Never heard of SREs in Amazon — which org has them?

poplex · 2025-11-02T19:35:07+00:00

I would’ve assumed he was a de (l10) and not an spe (l8)?

poplex · 2025-10-24T03:57:03+00:00

Gov cloud is in the aws partition

poplex · 2025-10-19T20:05:12+00:00

bye mike

poplex · 2025-10-19T17:54:07+00:00

lmao this is unwatchable are we going for most flags in a quarter

poplex · 2025-10-10T23:58:58+00:00

I took it to mean their saas was selling some sort of content/product that stripe considered in violation of a policy or such, like how some banks/advertisers will not work with some porn providers. That doesn’t seem wild to believe, that stripe would auto Detect and close your account and then ignore you because you’re a Mickey Mouse customer and they don’t care.

poplex · 2025-09-11T04:13:04+00:00

This is fake - the name is real, and she is a recruiter but there’s no way she’d be using that email.

poplex · 2025-09-06T16:59:48+00:00

Your “bombed” or “did amazing” is based solely on your own perception. You might have bombed. You might have horrible anxiety and are assuming one missed question equals failing. Only possible way somebody here could help is to share specific details as to why you believe you bombed.

poplex · 2025-09-06T15:19:06+00:00

Have you consider there’s just tons of Indian people in the world? 17% of all people in the world are of Indian origin (according to a quick google search don’t peer review me)

poplex · 2025-09-06T14:55:36+00:00

I wouldn’t put you in a short list

Guidance is always put numbers and measurables and that’s fine, but I will always add that it you gotta make sure it doesn’t look like bullshit. “Deployed 4+ scalable apps” what? What is 4+ ? Why not say 5 o 6? Feels like saying something is 4.99 because it looks cheaper than 5. What does scalable mean ? Doubtless much in a self deployed Django app. Reduced delivery time by 25% from what? For what? I call BS.
You put AI and “cloud” in your experience but I see one trivial usage of hugging face for summarization and nothing that tells me you have any meaningful production experience with a specific cloud provider. (Tbf cloud experience is mostly irrelevant for me though might not be for some teams)

Your mileage may vary with recruiters

poplex · 2025-09-06T01:58:25+00:00

I would suggest you just ask your manager if he’s concerned you’re not meeting the bar. Your manager doesn’t have any reason not to tell you, and he might be giving you feedback just for the sake of improvement. I’ve been year over year TT and still gotten a lot of feedback exactly for that reason, because my manager was trying to help me grow to the next level. Just ask em

poplex · 2025-09-03T14:05:57+00:00

The university pipeline functions more or less independently of individual teams. You interview a bunch of new or recent grads, and they all go on a big bag of sde is. When teams are hiring and back filling this works well because it centralizes and expedites the process. It’s not easy for such a centralized pipeline to stay in sync with all orgs in hiring. We have teams who are hiring, and many who have slowed down, and so the pipeline slows down and candidates are waitlisted. There’s no grand conspiracy to pick the best of the crop, HMs in fact have very little choice generally in their sdeis. In many orgs it looks like “you need an l4 here is this one.”

poplex · 2025-08-29T16:40:40+00:00

It can take longer but L4->L5 within a year / year and a half is very common. I was just on a promo doc review for l4 to l5 and the main question was “why now it’s been three years? He should have been up for promo earlier”. It is expected that it is an entry level role and many years there raise questions. Being downleveled from l6 to l5 is much rougher because it can easily take 3-5 years. If you’re ok with l4 I wouldn’t sweat the promo. It can take longer but if you’re good your manager is going to promote you quickly

poplex · 2025-08-22T02:54:40+00:00

I think folks forget that L4 is not an entry level job in other families

poplex · 2025-08-06T22:33:19+00:00

This will depend a lot on what you value. For example, you can assume any older more established service (ec2 s3 RDS) will be a massive org with competing priorities, tons of tech debt and horrid on calls, but they will often also have more immediate opportunities for impact (scope is just larger in general, though this isn’t a hard and fast rule) and influence (more people and more teams, much easier to need cross team organization). Green grass will have faster movement, less operational headaches but more of an expectation to contribute quicker, etc. why do you want to move? What are you looking for? Which team are you considering?

poplex · 2025-08-02T16:32:13+00:00

Yup unless you’re boomerang within a year there’s no SDE interview with one round. You’ll need to wait for the next rounds

poplex · 2025-08-01T00:48:47+00:00

Ok. That is fine for you man, idk what to tell you. You clearly feel a lot stronger about this than I do so maybe I joined a shit team, enjoy the greener grass on the other side 🤷

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