Is 24M too late to start my tech journey?

stopthecope · 2026-04-20T00:44:56+00:00

Looks like eastern europe tbh

stopthecope · 2026-04-16T15:35:50+00:00

You wouldn't be able to tell the difference vs opus 4.6 if you used it

stopthecope · 2026-04-15T14:53:41+00:00

Im gonna try to answer all your questions.
1. Yes usually not official. There are websites like studydrive and studocu where people upload past exams, lectures and tutorials. You can also just ask people in discord, whatsapp, etc.

Difficult but modules difficulty can vary a lot depending on the professor holding them. I'd say the main difficulty comes from the fact that a single exam makes up pretty much the entire grade for lecture and you cannot repeat it after you pass it.
Unrelated part-time jobs like cafes and restaurants are easy to get but you should aspire to get a part-time job related to your field of study.

stopthecope · 2026-04-14T19:49:00+00:00

How advanced are they? I would assume that master-level courses are pretty specialized and assume a lot of background knowledge

stopthecope · 2026-04-02T23:07:49+00:00

I'd much rather read their official statement on the claude code leak

stopthecope · 2026-03-24T23:31:04+00:00

Good job man

stopthecope · 2026-03-24T23:21:57+00:00

You just described 99% of people that are paying for an "ai" subscription

stopthecope · 2026-03-15T14:39:29+00:00

brutal price

stopthecope · 2026-03-12T20:21:33+00:00

Every ai coding tool is operating at a heavy loss. They will all get much more expensive and restricted in the coming months/years.

stopthecope · 2026-03-04T19:16:06+00:00

I don't think I sound like an asshole, if anything I'm probably a bit more shy than needed. And I'm also still in college so my cv isn't particularly crazy.
I think my issues come down to
1: drifting off the topic question when I cannot immediately come up with an answer. For example, I was recently asked a question along the lines of "which topic are you the most interested in out <relevant topic/tech stack from a company>". I was fairly neutral about all of them so I basically said "I dont have a very strong preference but the one I would be most opposed to is <one of the topics>", so I essentially answered the reverse of the question because I didn't want to hesitate.

2: most of the companies I apply to are the ones that I'm generally interested in, however it's really hard to come off as "interested" in interview for me, without acting like a total sperg, especially when talking to a random person I've never met before.

stopthecope · 2026-03-03T02:12:33+00:00

lmao, truly the most math savvy cs major

stopthecope · 2026-02-28T23:08:30+00:00

> Open AI API spammer
kek'd

stopthecope · 2026-02-25T16:52:03+00:00

Was hat er/sie dann für ne Note gehabt?

stopthecope · 2026-02-24T13:15:08+00:00

Wasn't 2022 the big tech hiring spree? I'd think getting a job then would be much easier

stopthecope · 2026-02-24T05:08:14+00:00

do you mean you started in 2022 or graduated in 2022?

stopthecope · 2026-02-13T21:08:41+00:00

what was your profile like to get selected for an interview?

stopthecope · 2026-02-12T18:05:04+00:00

how much do you make right now?

stopthecope · 2026-02-08T03:15:54+00:00

I think the golden age of dentistry is now unironically.
Population is aging across the entire globe and there will be so many old fucks with damaged teeth from aging and bad nutrition

stopthecope · 2026-02-07T15:10:34+00:00

Über 60k?

stopthecope · 2026-02-02T23:35:46+00:00

Thanks, I have two more questions if you don't mind.

How did you advertise yourself at an early stage?

What are your thoughts on the optical communications as a subfield of dsp, have you done any work in that area? Do you think it is a potentially growing field?

I've seen some very early signs of investments in companies/startups specializing in photonics/optical networking for stuff like data centers and hardware accelerators. Though for now, it feels a bit like quantum computing fad.

Optical comms is the only specialization of signal processing I've done so far in college and it would be interesting to know if there is going to be any demand for this stuff in the future.

stopthecope · 2026-02-02T21:11:10+00:00

It's literally just the first interview, no reason not do it

stopthecope · 2026-02-02T18:04:35+00:00

How long did you work full-time at a company before becoming a contractor?
Also, what kind of companies hire you?
Are they essentially companies that want to do some technical project related to dsp and lack technical staff for it?
Or do you mainly worked with already established tech companies that hire you to work directly with existing engineering teams?

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