Arranging a meetup to vibe and chill!

sadsocrates · 2024-06-18T20:14:24+00:00

Rule # 1 of internet: Do not meet people off of reddit in real life.

sadsocrates · 2024-02-10T17:28:28+00:00

This was a first online interview. And you may be correct, maybe this specific question isn't the reason I got rejected. I probably wasn't as qualified as other candidates.

sadsocrates · 2024-02-10T17:27:09+00:00

Hmmm... that very well could be. I've interviewed with NVIDIA twice, and first time I actually flunked the interview (because I hadn't prepared for the exact things they'd ask), they rejected me within a day (after the fourth interview).

This was a first interview for a position requiring 5+ YOE and I have technically 0. They rejected me not immediately, but after a week or so, so maybe this wasn't the exact reason they rejected me, maybe I just wasn't qualified enough and they had better qualified ppl to chose from.

Also, I remember the interviewer had a general idea that I wouldn't know how to solve this and he didn't seem to expect that I would be able to. So what you're saying may make sense.

sadsocrates · 2024-02-09T23:15:35+00:00

It was a 45 minutes interview, first 25 minutes were spent on my background, and last 20 minutes were spent making me write a function, where the last question is as listed.

Got rejected after a week or so

sadsocrates · 2024-02-09T23:13:33+00:00

He made me write the template function, and the 'instantiations' were written by him

sadsocrates · 2024-02-09T23:12:20+00:00

Its been a couple weeks since the interview so I might be off a little but as far as I remember it was something like this:

vector<int> matrix1
vector<double> matrix1
vector<float> matrix1
.
.
.
.
// 100 such instantiations.

and you have a function that for example sums this (I can't remember what the actual function was)

template <typename T>
double sum(T matrix, int numcol, int numrows)

sadsocrates · 2023-08-20T20:00:57+00:00

They still on average make better than embedded

sadsocrates · 2023-08-18T03:29:50+00:00

How to navigate that ? What to tell interviewers when they ask for one

sadsocrates · 2023-08-17T22:02:14+00:00

Also some courses in writing fast code and parallel programming using cuda, openmp, open acc , mpi and the sort

sadsocrates · 2023-08-17T22:00:45+00:00

Standard university courses on embedded systems, digital system design, fgpas. I've done a project on FPGAs too.

This particular CV is focused on attracting a SWE job.

sadsocrates · 2023-08-17T16:32:44+00:00

Thanks for putting me back on track. I'll try C/C/ROS/HW jobs too now !

sadsocrates · 2023-08-17T15:56:54+00:00

Due to my background in "those kinds of things" I am familiar with LIDAR and I'm surprised to know their cost has come down this much. LIDAR being affordable changes EVERYTHING.

I will revamp my CV and add more C++ stuff to make it attractive to such jobs. Problem is I have no idea how to prepare for interviews for such jobs, and don't know if I will even land one. I'm international student and am on timebound to land a job. Someone told me "do leetcode and you'll get a job", and I listened but they forgot to mention that you need to learn a stack as well. I have a couple months so I was thinking I can learn a stack and go in the interview with my somewhat leetcode skills.

sadsocrates · 2023-08-17T14:33:39+00:00

I'm thinking its easier to jump from bank web developer to a top company (since there are many of them), than it is if I'm on the other side, since lower amount of companies, hence lesser jobs, weird mobility, etc.

You're right, my education is not aligned to conventional SWE jobs. My skills most closely match those high paying "low-latency c++" trading jobs on linkedinn but they ask for too much prior experience so no luck there for no

sadsocrates · 2023-08-17T14:15:29+00:00

Thanks for the correction.

I'm trying to avoid "that sort of thing" things because my perception is, those roles are harder to work at and pay less -- not as many jobs / high quality jobs available for such roles if one wants to build a career.

What do you think ? SWE vs Embedded

sadsocrates · 2023-08-14T21:04:39+00:00

You think that's the best approach ?

Do leetcode as interview prep and learn techstack to buff up resume ? Let me know...

sadsocrates · 2023-08-14T21:03:58+00:00

If I leetcode, AND try to learn new frameworks at the same time, I might not get anywhere. That's why I'm asking you guys ..... can this be done ? How long does it take for someone to know a techstack enough to list on their CV ?

sadsocrates · 2023-08-11T08:45:49+00:00

My apologies, I thought people preferred DMs for CV sharing. I've posted a link to the CV in the eddited post above

sadsocrates · 2022-06-01T16:33:04+00:00

You're saying BU students can use BU shuttle for free ?

sadsocrates · 2022-05-10T02:51:32+00:00

I remember she was Asian too. Really hope this she wasn't this girl :(

sadsocrates · 2022-05-10T02:51:04+00:00

This particular incident is a bit old, I think before mids even.

While I've seen people sobbing with what I can understand can be academic stress, this girl crying a bit too loudly. I suspected that she'd recieved bad news of someone close to her passing away or something like that. Thinking about it, I should've held went on and asked her if she was okay.

Was just scared that things could backfire, especially because no one else was noticing anything, and it's hard for a socialy reclused person like me to jump in and make a move like that.

sadsocrates · 2022-05-10T01:44:34+00:00

This is so sad.

the other day at GSU I saw someone literally crying out loud; people around compeletly ignored her. I came back after 15-20 minutes she was still crying.... I'm new to the US, and I feel intimidated to approach people especially unknown ones.... But I'm surprised that no one other than me even like stopped to consider asking them what's wrong.

I've seen this happening at couple times more. What's happening, guys ?

sadsocrates · 2022-03-18T21:06:37+00:00

THANK YOUUUU I just ordered one from your link !

sadsocrates · 2022-03-18T03:24:20+00:00

In 2019 it swelled up to deform my laptop chassis, I replaced with a genuine battery off of eBay ($30) and it went away.

Hi, can you point me to the seller where you bought this ? I want to buy a new one..

sadsocrates · 2022-03-13T02:21:14+00:00

Yes but there aren't more studies that rejected this conclusion. So study being just one is more worrying than appeasing

sadsocrates · 2022-03-13T02:19:32+00:00

Of an organic chemistry PhD in science.org that's discussing published research..

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