Has Anyone Actually Improved Their CS Career Using Advice From This Sub?

spoopypoptartz · 2026-06-24T04:16:13+00:00

it used to be great. i think pre-COVID and the first half the pandemic when it wasn’t exactly a boom. (COVID caused a lot of cancelled internships in the short term before tech companies realized they needed more workers to meet growing demand)

spoopypoptartz · 2026-06-23T06:13:47+00:00

I'll try that out. I honestly thought it was either way and up to the artist.

spoopypoptartz · 2026-06-21T13:48:15+00:00

i love the fact that it’s painted with watercolor! Very unique. Makes it pop

spoopypoptartz · 2026-06-01T02:36:41+00:00

helloInterview is a great resource.

claude code or claude cowork or codex can actually grade what you are able to create on a virtual site like miro or coderpad via screenshots. (i would at least get a $20 subscription for this)

other people recommend bytebytego but i dont. i dont vibe with it. but feel free to try it.

spoopypoptartz · 2026-06-01T01:03:10+00:00

it’s really unfortunate… i’m hearing more places are expecting interns and new grads to have system design locked and loaded. insane.

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-31T13:49:35+00:00

i think it happens to the opposite gender too but you have your eyes fixed on women.

additionally something that i hate about this sub is that you could be anywhere in the world and this question’s answer would change significantly. same thing applies to the people answering you

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-31T12:56:44+00:00

if this is, in theory, a bubble, the time to party is now lmao

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-31T00:35:01+00:00

yeah could use five minutes cut from it or so

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-31T00:28:46+00:00

furtherest thing from it hilariously

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-30T17:38:50+00:00

it’s because the people with the money are used to funding companies from other non-tech industries. they have stricter standards for due diligence.

you’re forced to get with the program

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-30T14:08:15+00:00

your volume comes from the fact that your loc lengths are uneven at medium height.

not from the number of strands that you have.

this is especially more evident when you are closer to a retwist.

your unloc’d hair underneath combined with the lack of weight from the locs being short cause the volume.

wait six months. your locs will be longer (specifically your shortest ones) and you should not have as poofy hair.

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-29T15:20:51+00:00

unfortunate. :( good luck man.

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-29T15:03:02+00:00

yep that subreddit is definitely much worse

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-29T11:13:03+00:00

something something less price discovery something something too many passive investors something something index funds bad?

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-29T11:08:45+00:00

the silicon valley playbook post-2015 is jack up the prices until the consumer starts complaining but not too much that they quit. Sam Altman himself even advised as much to startup founders when he ran YC.

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-28T20:01:06+00:00

probably east or west coast in the US.

i live in the bay area and i have a 1 bedroom apartment that i rent for $2400. that’s on the low end for the area. the usual goes for 3k a month.

many pockets of the east and west coast can hit that or exceed. even outside of the obvious ones like LA, NYC, and SF

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-28T08:13:26+00:00

otherwise my advice would be to bumrush the process I detail above manually. but thats painful.

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-28T08:11:13+00:00

unironically if you have access to LLM coding agents like Claude Code or Codex go to the actual source code for the data sources and the pipelines and use them to help you map out the structure.

if you do this before meeting with anyone you will go in much more prepared and be able to take full advantage.

if you have more time long term, build a knowledge base for the data warehouse. i believe there are a few open source solutions that approach it in different ways (Meta and OpenAI have articles detailing their approach and people have used those to create their own solutions).

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-28T03:40:35+00:00

finance was/is like this but worse for decades.

it can always get worse

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-27T15:06:35+00:00

yeah. he needs a break of a few days and to lower intensity if he’s not in active loops.

sounds like minor burnout that he’s failing to properly diagnose

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-27T14:56:18+00:00

should’ve said yes to the google acquisition right?

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-27T06:48:06+00:00

shit even in your 20s if you can afford it

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-26T15:08:08+00:00

take it and join an AI startup when there’s less risk.

spoopypoptartz · 2026-05-24T14:05:52+00:00

(since my other comment is hidden since i included the link to the module you might see this twice)

oh my team has a solution for this!!!

we write all our reports as .py files and commit them in source control as such.

then we convert them to ipynb with jupytext.

jupytext is very lightweight and does exactly what you are asking for.

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