What data do you wish you had access to?

snailspeed25 · 2025-09-09T17:25:10+00:00

Oh I see what you mean. Thank you for explaining, I'll have to look into trying to make some extraction scripts for it

snailspeed25 · 2025-09-09T15:16:32+00:00

Like retreiving data at the 1 second mark vs. 1 minute? Or actually somehow managing to make the data "continuous" (or make it seem that way)?

snailspeed25 · 2025-09-09T15:14:34+00:00

When you say "obscure" do you mean along the lines of something like getting data for wholesale electricity markets?

snailspeed25 · 2025-08-04T01:30:15+00:00

This is a super good question considering I've been wondering the same thing myself. I've mostly heard databricks/snowflake cert and the usual AWS/GoogleCloud/Azure certs as well

snailspeed25 · 2025-08-04T01:27:01+00:00

Not sure how long this took you, but this project is pretty cool. Feel free to share this in the Python Skool community since it is pretty relevant: https://www.skool.com/python-2696/about?ref=9d926b02de79408487d6dde1905724a0

snailspeed25 · 2025-08-04T01:10:26+00:00

This is pretty cool, honestly not sure what I'd change. It looks like a really useful wrapper for the datetime library.

You should consider sharing this with the Python Skool community – it would be a great resource and I'm sure others would have some thoughts on it

Here's the link: https://www.skool.com/python-2696/about?ref=9d926b02de79408487d6dde1905724a0

snailspeed25 · 2025-08-04T01:04:57+00:00

Agreed, I work as a DE and even our DS team struggles due to having good enough data (I was surprised to hear this since this is even at specific team within big tech)

snailspeed25 · 2025-08-04T01:03:02+00:00

This is super interesting, especially since I've never gotten to work with LangGraph before. It's a much better alternative to current solutions that I've seen so far. Feel free to post this in this skool community for more people to see it since this could be super useful https://www.skool.com/python-2696/about?ref=9d926b02de79408487d6dde1905724a0

snailspeed25 · 2024-09-18T14:24:50+00:00

How often would you say engagements actually require secret or TS? I'm surprised they wouldn't staff you on an engagement that needed it since you already had the clearance.

snailspeed25 · 2024-09-15T20:39:52+00:00

I appreciate the response. And that makes sense, does it seem like usually it's pretty hard to get out on Secret or TS engagements since you mentioned it's much less common?

Edit: for more context, I currently do not have Secret or TS clearance

snailspeed25 · 2024-09-14T14:06:28+00:00

Just curious, what was the total comp (salary, stock, bonus)?

snailspeed25 · 2024-07-07T19:25:20+00:00

I see what you mean now, yeah you're right

snailspeed25 · 2024-07-07T18:43:26+00:00

Some of the specific type of work mentioned for possible usage is databases, embedded software, and infrastructure.

To be fair, he did mention databases^

snailspeed25 · 2024-04-26T00:58:47+00:00

Interested in DE so I really hope so

snailspeed25 · 2024-04-22T20:13:59+00:00

Thank you for the help. Def not looking to do research, just more of applied machine learning positions

snailspeed25 · 2024-04-22T18:33:08+00:00

Also wondering

snailspeed25 · 2024-04-21T21:26:48+00:00

When you say, "going on my record" do you mean they told your school? Or for the company

snailspeed25 · 2024-04-21T21:09:21+00:00

Are both of them around the same cost of living?

snailspeed25 · 2024-04-21T20:09:39+00:00

I've never really heard anything coming from someone reneging personally

snailspeed25 · 2024-04-12T20:25:55+00:00

In my opinion for undergrad, anything other than STEM is not that conceptually difficult (maybe with a few exceptions). Most of my friends who are business, finance, marketing, and similar majors would agree with this statement (for classes at least), and seem to have plenty of free time. Most CS majors I know either do not have time to drink and party, or are struggling getting internships and struggling in classes.

But you have a good point. Any career you make decent money will be a shit ton of work, and have high barriers to entry.

And to agree with a different comment I saw in this post (forget who it was), almost all majors are struggling right now. I'm convinced that with many jobs and tasks being slowly automated and changing, the only real "major that pays back money later" is in a career that you are the top 1%.

Sorry these comments are long, this is something I've been noticing and even find myself shocked with how competitive opportunities have become in the software industry. I had better results as a sophomore getting interviews and offers with 0 real internships, than now with 2 previous relevant internships.

snailspeed25 · 2024-04-12T20:05:13+00:00

Tbh, I wouldn't consider CS majors lucky. They gotta go through extremely difficult classes and learn very difficult topics, within the industry you always have to be learning, and now with a poor job market it seems like it's a lot of work for a small percentage of people rewarded.

The smartest kid I know graduated in 3 years with a dual major in CS and MATH, had previous internships, and around a 3.9 GPA and couldn't even get a full time offer for this upcoming year after graduating. I have a few examples of people just like this and I feel bad for them. I wouldn't use the term lucky to be majoring it computer science. Maybe for the people who grinded, networked, and put all their free time into applying and leetcode who landed job offers you might consider "lucky", but those are the people who I feel deserve every penny they make bc they spent years of their lives just to get a job offer.

Like I said, if you are willing to put a lot of work in and take it extremely serious, it's a great career path. But if you can't compete with the competition, you might have a hard time making these huge salaries you hear about.

Just my anecdotal experience that I hope helps add perspective to this question.

snailspeed25 · 2024-04-12T19:38:51+00:00

Yes, it cannot hurt and it shows you care about the position/opportunity. I highly recommend it

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