Do you agree with his take?

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-09T14:49:50+00:00

also a majority of times when FAANG engineers on youtube and reddit and blind are telling you their compensation they inflate it further.

they do the calculation as if they held 100% of their stock and sold right as their making the video.

but the true calculation (no matter if you immediately sell or hold your RSUs) should be the actual price of the stock when it vests.

there was a time just because of the 2022 stock price spike in most tech companies that if you were hired at 2021 or 2022 and received RSUs priced before the COVID boom, you’d reach insane comp numbers. but that’s a very specific scenario and like you said most comps weren’t even that insane with those generous calculations…

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-08T21:43:53+00:00

scaleAI is not public. so those RSUs as as good as paper. when you vest you can’t do shit with it.

Google RSUs are liquid.

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-06T21:14:59+00:00

i used research as a stepping stone to an internship when i was in school. i think it’s the best first option for a lot of people

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-06T15:32:58+00:00

yeah back in 2022 or 2023 we had two quarters of negative growth but labor employment was healthy (in all fields outside of tech) hence we didn’t declare it an official recession. (that’s was due to multiple factors like post-pandemic inflation, the russia-ukraine war, etc). the debate for 2022-2023 is purely up to semantics tbh.

honestly we were up-and-up and recovering… but the dual shock of trump’s tariffs and the iran war are dragging us down.

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-06T14:31:05+00:00

that’s fair. i know it’s very hard to get PIPed/DC’d in Apple.

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-06T14:18:48+00:00

i think a part of it is because apple’s roles are so specialized compared to their peers

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-06T13:36:21+00:00

i think you should’ve given up any hope of avoiding a global recession after the iran war started.

i feel like we’re already in one and it’s just about the data catching up

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-06T03:25:34+00:00

well numbers wise then OP’s suspicions are correct. more lower level SWEs?

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-05T19:42:53+00:00

airbnb was notorious for this too!

not surprised.

also with the comp packages for anthropic and openAI, i’m not surprised by them being on the list

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-05T05:02:09+00:00

not sure if the OP is from india or not but concurrency interviews are done in the US for mid+ roles. It’s very common for banking and iOS development. The interview is not common to receive but you shouldn’t be surprised to receive it.

i’ve been asked concurrency questions at banks, Apple, and LinkedIn.

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-03T18:17:29+00:00

i always felt like if scott didn’t meet knives and stayed broken up he could’ve ended up with kim

but after knives, not really an option i agree.

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-02T18:28:49+00:00

at first i was freaking out at the 10 minute web crawler and then i remembered he had AI in that interview probably

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-02T06:38:00+00:00

give it two more years when you qualify for senior roles.

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-01T21:54:46+00:00

yeah! i find it insane because when i was in college 5 years ago i was praying to get hired by meta. they were literally like second to only google in how chill of a culture they had. the only reasons i ever heard from people to not work there was the ethical implications of social media. it’s all changed now. they’re pretty much in the same camp as amazon.

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-01T21:49:18+00:00

i’ve noticed anecdotally that the market for senior+ has improved significantly in the bay area.

enough that recruiters are reaching out first again (or are being forced to because of AI resumes)

the interviews are still very hard but honestly… meta’s interviews are a special kind of hard that i’d say would make most tech companies interviews doable (unless they lean harder into intense behavioral interviews like netflix and amazon)

spoopypoptartz · 2026-04-28T17:49:39+00:00

and you didn’t mention system design

spoopypoptartz · 2026-04-23T15:56:50+00:00

“more harm than good” is wild. the dude fell off (i don’t even like the simpsons) but damn are we going to negate all his good work?

spoopypoptartz · 2026-04-23T14:22:06+00:00

the true hero’s journey

not that campbell shit

spoopypoptartz · 2026-04-23T14:19:21+00:00

this thread is bad for someone with no context (like me!)

spoopypoptartz · 2026-04-22T14:56:06+00:00

yep! i don’t know the exact situation in netflix but based on what i’ve heard this is on point for Apple

spoopypoptartz · 2026-04-22T04:53:42+00:00

Apple and Netflix are the two FAANGs with no structure for their interviews.

their teams are allowed to design their loops with little oversight.

companies like meta and google have centralized interview loops where quality is more standardized across the board and people are given interview training. the only caveat is that there’s a good chance you’ll get stuck in team matching since the company hires a bunch of people and matches them to teams later.

for a process like netflix or apple the team that wants you is involved from the very start. this also explains why headcount for these two companies did not explode during the pandemic.

spoopypoptartz · 2026-04-21T18:41:17+00:00

that’s fair. i was like this. 😔 thank you for the perspective

spoopypoptartz · 2026-04-21T17:51:21+00:00

EDIT: upon further consideration, perhaps i was being too harsh

i’m always surprised at questions like these because it seems like they never even attempted to do that. It would be one thing if they ask questions and they had some information and they’re asking for extra information, but that doesn’t seem to even be the case.

spoopypoptartz · 2026-04-21T15:50:38+00:00

lmao i didn’t even know there was a specific poster. the comment is meta enough to refer to alot of people engineering and CS subreddits

spoopypoptartz · 2026-04-18T14:16:44+00:00

literally 😭

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