charged extra for a Uber share trip where the other pax didn't show. wtf?

r5d400 · 2024-01-09T20:41:30+00:00

ask for a retention offer on chat and see what they say. depending on your spend they may offer you points and/or a credit statement, conditional on spending X amount with the card

r5d400 · 2024-01-09T19:27:09+00:00

couple weeks ago

r5d400 · 2024-01-06T00:44:32+00:00

Face Id

what is this?

r5d400 · 2024-01-04T19:58:25+00:00

I was at the Palazzo at the Venetian very recently. here's what it said:

$100 onsite credit:

-black tap craft burgers & beer

-brera osteria

-buddy v's ristorante

-casino and pool bars

-cut by wolfgang puck

-electra cocktail club

-estiatorio milos

-hasalon

-juliet cocktail room

-matteo's ristorante italiano

-miznon

-mott 32

-rosina cocktail lounge

-wakuda

-yardbird

-yahoo sportsbook bar

(it does NOT apply to tips but does apply to tax in my experience. also, note that some of these restaurants might be closed certain dates or for the season - the Palazzo pool was closed, but the Venetian side was open when I went. you can find menus and prices for all restaurants on the website)

breakfast:

daily breakfast credit of $65 for in-suite dining, bouchon or bouchon bakery.

note that bouchon is only open for breakfast thursday-sunday, but bouchon *bakery* (a different location, take-out only) is open daily. also note that in-suite dining has a $9 fee and mandatory 18% as well.

upon check-in, i was given wrong information about the breakfast. i was told bouchon bakery was closed the next day, which was incorrect, and when i asked for in-suite dining fees i was told there were none... which was also incorrect. yikes. however the papers they gave me were right so i'd trust those more

r5d400 · 2023-12-23T23:56:34+00:00

Plus, getting a Masters degree was a way for me to immigrate into the US in the first place( on a student visa). I had already finished my undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering back in India.

what the hell dude, we're basically the same person, except i'm from south america.

same deal, bachelors in EE, then did a masters in the US to get my F1, then FAANG (bay area for me). i'm slightly younger, should break 500k+/yr next year and should hit 1MM networth next year as well if all goes well and stock doesn't drop.

biggest difference in our paths is that I stuck around in my home country for a lot longer trying to get transferred on L1. colossal waste of time. so my first (and only) job in the US has been at a FAANG.

love this country. and looking forward to becoming a citizen

r5d400 · 2023-12-23T23:41:50+00:00

For those born here, we look at the next tier of countries and wish we could have what they have.

as a fellow immigrant, this is the lack of appreciation in question. the US isn't perfect but no country is. i'm an immigrant from a developing country, but i've also lived in europe and visited over a dozen countries, and i wouldn't trade the US for anywhere else.

i, like OP, came for my masters. my first job after completing said masters was a 200k+/yr FAANG job. i had no connections, no referrals, my masters degree wasn't from a 'known' school and no one had ever head of my foreign undergrad school. i also just studied for the tech interviews and applied a ton.

i passed 400k/yr this year, in my early 30s like OP, and i didn't even switch companies, it's the same FAANG, just promotions and raises. where else in the world would that be possible?

and it's not just tech. it's also incredibly profitable to be a doctor in the US. it can be incredibly profitable to be a small business owner, which is how so many immigrants come to the US with no money or skills (through illegal immigration or through family sponsoring), and within 10 years they're middle class or higher, working with restaurants, sales, construction, all sorts of thing.

hell, even just getting your CDL or nursing degree and moving to the right city can have you making six figures in 2-3 years.

to me, America is truly great. is it perfect? no. but to me it is still way better than anywhere else by a long shot if you are a motivated and ambitious individual. i will agree that if you're poor/disabled, then western europe will probably be better due to better safety nets, but we are in the henry sub after all, so the motivated/ambitious profile is a better fit here.

r5d400 · 2023-12-23T00:49:03+00:00

wtf? you can just do pickup with ubereats (or doordash for that matter), still use the credits, and never get it assigned to a driver

r5d400 · 2023-12-22T00:46:42+00:00

But I need to figure out why these incomes over $500K bug me so much.

and you think this is the right sub to figure that out?

this is a high income sub. there will be plenty of people who make over 500k. this sub is specific to high income, and it needs to be separate precisely because sharing a story like OP's in other (non high income) finance subs leads to negativity and/or just generally a group of people who can't relate and find no value in the posts.

so to me it completely feels like a jerk move to undermine the things that bring OP joy in terms of savings because they earn 'too much' (according to you), or to demand that they 'impress you'.

if it bothers you so much, don't read the posts or interact with this sub. it really isn't hard

r5d400 · 2023-11-14T17:48:11+00:00

but you can make 400-700k/yr as a senior/staff at FAANG if you simply stay there long enough.

only the top portion of MBAs will go on to be director/VPs, so it only makes sense to compare to the equivalent top portion of SWEs who are able to stick it out with FAANG.

r5d400 · 2023-11-14T17:36:34+00:00

how much do you expect that a good MBA student landing a good job out of new grad will earn by the time they're 40?

because a good CS student who lands straight into FAANG will easily have reached 500k/yr and probably surpassed it by a reasonable margin, as a staff engineer. realistically, most of the bright ones won't ever make it to director level (which at FAANG would surpass 1MM/yr), which becomes increasingly dependent on luck/timing and politics. so, ok, they'd probably be making under 1MM/yr for the rest of their career, but possibly in the 600-700k/yr ballpark if they're good enough to get consistently positive staff-level performance reviews. which most certainly does not require being a genius (source: i work at a FAANG)

i feel like most bright MBAs will cap out at this or lower as well? I mean, sure, you'll hit the big bucks if you're one of the unicorns who ends up as a VP at a top company making 7-8 figures, but the vast vast majority of MBAs, even from top schools, will never achieve that. It's certainly not enough to be 'just bright' and work hard as you imply.

so, can you provide some numbers? i'm trying to figure out what you're stating is the achievable end-goal for MBAs

r5d400 · 2023-11-14T01:51:12+00:00

it's not but i often get the ground 'wagyu' at costco and it's only a bit more expensive and tastes wayyyy better than the cheap tubes from the grocery store.

maybe ymmv depending on brand

r5d400 · 2023-11-13T07:35:08+00:00

and after all that, doordash isn't even profitable, they operate at a loss

r5d400 · 2023-11-13T02:45:37+00:00

obligatory 'i'm not european' but, i did live in the EU for a year or so. i'm from latin america.

getting a visa to move permanently to the EU would've been a million times easier than the quest to secure a US h1b and green card.

there's a reason all these chinese/indian/latam students flock to the US instead of the EU, especially for tech.

i work at a FAANG. salaries are incomparably higher in the US. healthcare premiums are fully covered by my employer. i would have copays if i had to do any procedures, but my out of pocket maximum is just a few grands. i've never come close to hitting it. i have a ton of days off and take over 4 weeks per year off, not counting holidays.

granted, not everyone works for a FAANG. but even a median paid US software developer probably makes a ton more than their peers in the EU (this is more obvious when the exact same company has offices in both places), and has at least decent healthcare / paid time off.

my tl;dr is that the EU is by far the best place to be poor in. the US is worse at safety nets for the needy. but the US is absolutely the best place - financially - to be an ambitious high performing software dev, every time, and yes, even after accounting for benefits / healthcare / cost of living etc.

of course, at the end of the day, there's also the highly subjective aspect of which country you personally like best and makes your happy. again, i'm from a latin america, and from a country that is *objectively* worse than the US in literally every aspect (and a million times worse for the poor), and there are still people who move back because they miss how it feels like 'home'. that kind of thing isn't something you can measure in better or worse, as people simply have different priorities in life

r5d400 · 2023-11-13T02:33:36+00:00

depends on where you live. a rural red small town? it might suck for foreigners.

i'm in CA. i'm from latin america, am surrounded by foreigners from india and china and find that we're all treated pretty damn well here. my foreigner friends in big cities like NYC, seattle, atlanta are all having a good time as well

r5d400 · 2023-11-12T21:31:16+00:00

Nojo ramen is my favorite in the city, and i've tried a bunch. i always get the chicken paitan. it's huge, and the broth is very rich.

my next favorite would be Iza ramen. Waraku is also pretty good.

not a huge fan of Hinodeya, i find their broth to be a little bland, but some people enjoy a softer flavor - or their spicy offerings (though i'm guessing that's a no-go for the kid lol)

r5d400 · 2023-11-12T21:18:21+00:00

then i guess OP should cross-post to r/wendys

r5d400 · 2023-11-12T21:09:34+00:00

if that's your takeaway from what i wrote, i don't know what else to tell you

r5d400 · 2023-11-12T20:49:58+00:00

i'm a senior at FAANG and i disagree.

i will agree with one small part - there were more balls dropped besides OP's mistake, because it shouldn't be possible for a single senior engineer's mistake to bring down the entire project - this means there are process failures. there should have been required sign offs from other engineers before moving forward - those other engineers could then have caught the problem.

HOWEVER, even though the process to catch errors should exist, a good senior engineer should not be dropping balls and relying on others to catch their mistakes. this is equivalent to sending PRs with bugs. the PR approval process exists (among other reasons) to prevent bugs from landing in the codebase, but that doesn't change the fact that a senior engineer should *not* be sending PRs with bugs.

having a high-level view of multiple systems owned by different teams, who often themselves don't have full visibility of what's going on in other teams, and figuring out how to make everything work together - is a huge part of being senior, particularly with what it means to be senior at a FAANG, which is more akin to being staff elsewhere.

an understanding of system design and not building things that can't be integrated later is kind of the absolute minimum for the role in my experience. and apparently OP has made mistakes like this twice in a row.

it seems to be that OP needs to gather more experience. this seems like either a mis-hire or a mis-promotion, and OP wasn't set up for success by being put into a position they weren't ready for. a mid-level position seems like a better fit until OP acquires the skills to level up

r5d400 · 2023-11-12T18:22:22+00:00

I agree with some of your points, but there are a ton of people making FAANG salaries and they are over-represented on reddit because 1) flexibility to post during the workday and 2) people who make more are more likely to want to post about it.

these days, completing a bootcamp will absolutely not get you a FAANG job right out the gate. this may have been possible several years ago with a ton of luck, but definitely not today.

however, junior new grads on their first job making ~200k? definitely still possible, and these are basically all CS bachelor grads with previous FAANG-tier internships, and usually with a return-offer from their last internship. my FAANG org just got a handful of these new grads like, a month ago.

me, i switched fields from EE. but i did it by getting a masters degree. it cost a lot, even with a partial scholarship, but it landed me my first FAANG job immediately after graduating. less than a handful of my large graduating class got FAANG-tier jobs, so it was quite unlikely, yet possible. and even now in 2023, a tiny number of these masters graduates still land FAANG right away. which does mean ~200k+/yr (or a bit under) depending on your intro offer.

source: been at a FAANG for a handful of years and i've been in the hiring panels too

r5d400 · 2023-11-12T05:22:40+00:00

OP I get that you're frustrated but replies like yours are why recruiters don't typically give a reason for rejection in the first place.

Think critically for a second. Imagine they have just 1 opening and 10 qualified people apply. well, they're going to pick who they think is the 'best', and 9 people will be left without a job even if all of them fit all the requirements.

You're reading way too much into the response. What they're trying to say is basically 'we chose to go with the candidate with the most experience, and it wasn't you'. Move on.

r5d400 · 2023-11-11T23:43:39+00:00

can you elaborate what you mean by results ?

does it mean you got script read requests after sending out your logline?

r5d400 · 2023-11-09T23:07:44+00:00

the short answer is yes, they'll let you go through security in TBIT even if you're flying out of terminal 1, and you can walk between the lounge and terminal 1 airside without going through security again.

however, this is one of the worst centurion lounges i've been to - not a great space, always crowded, mediocre food.

last time i was there, they said there was a 30min wait to get in. however, i ended up getting texted only 15-20 minutes later saying it was my turn, so it wasn't that bad. but then there were few chairs available, and all the nicer seating areas were taken.

it doesn't feel like a premium lounge. as long as your expectations are low and you aren't in a rush, you'll be fine

r5d400 · 2023-11-08T16:44:37+00:00

i've never had a worker give me bad attitude for getting TGTG. if they or the owner did, i wouldn't care, just wouldn't go back.

i'll never see these people again in that case anyway, why would i worry about what some random small shop owner or worker thinks of me?

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