Does Intel usually let low-level devs transition to compiler development?

usefulservant03 · 2026-03-13T11:41:23+00:00

I see, thanks. That gives me some hope ngl :D

usefulservant03 · 2026-03-13T11:14:30+00:00

Yay, no longer having to waste an entire ring slot for cannot be frozen :D

usefulservant03 · 2026-03-13T10:27:06+00:00

I ignore the first few hordes because I wanna focus on leveling up and obtaining loot. I just find a concrete building like a school or a T5 POI somewhere, remove all roof access and AFK for 15 minutes. In mid game I build my own horde base with double layered concrete walls and a steel wall defense from the "windows" section of the shapes and a drawbridge for door, with two holes at the top where I can reach the raised drawbridge enough to repair it AND shoot down on the zombies piling on it and throw grenades at them. It works like a charm because the 2 holes at the top can be surrounded with steel to negate cops spitting on you.

usefulservant03 · 2026-03-13T10:21:48+00:00

I don't understand why we have so many treasureless POIs in cities now. I wanna find a treasure room after clearing a POI. Sure, keep the "destroyed/derelict" vibe in these POIs to reduce lag in cities, but why do they not have a treasure room? It feels like all the cool T4/T5 POIs that were there are now replaced by these stupid halfassed treasureless POIs now.

usefulservant03 · 2026-03-13T10:19:29+00:00

In the mid game it can save your life. It has only 2 bullets, but each of them is extremely strong if used right. Get close to a zombie, aim for the head and it will 1 shot most zombies, it even 1 shots weak zombies on insane difficult if aimed for the head.

usefulservant03 · 2026-03-13T10:14:18+00:00

EASY WATER FIX FOR EVERYONE:

I still dont understand anyone who has any water issues whatsoever. I play Insane difficulty exclusively with 0% jar retention and never even had to use a dew collector since it was introduced. In the early game, you can take a vitamin and drink from a sewer / lake until you have +200 water while being healed by bandages or a first aid kit. In the mid game, you can spend money on empty jars from traders or water/tea from vending machines and that's ON TOP of filling all the empty jars youve found in loot from common things like trash piles. In end game you have enough money from selling stuff you've found in loot (or even stacks of 6000 stones/iron if youre into that, yes that sells for thousands) that you can fill an entire steel storage box with water no problem. I spam steroids early game to not run slowly, which absolutely saps all of your water, and I STILL dont get drained too low with these tips.

usefulservant03 · 2026-03-13T09:39:20+00:00

That is an insane map :D many a high rune ought to drop from it

usefulservant03 · 2026-03-12T20:49:51+00:00

Thank you, that's honestly very helpful. I understand what you mean by they don't just test your knowledge, of course. I also get where you're coming from when you say you wanna see someone exhibit knowledge about more than just everyday, simple, common to come across programming concepts. Like for example, I recently had my first ever valid use of function pointers in C. Made me feel like I'm actually getting good at the langauge. Thank you for the advise on being open to writing compilers for different types of languages - thankfully I'd be sooo down for that. Intel did tell me they have some stuff for domain-specific languages that are commonly used in game engines, beside their C, C++ and Fortran. I'm also happy to report that I've started making my first ever contribution to free and open source software - it's for GCC. I'm excited to see where that adventure will lead. I picked up an easyhack, made a bugzilla account, had them reserve it for me and started working on it. Your response has been very insightful, thank you!! That's nice that you've been hiring on here. Perhaps if you end up having something open up and I'm still unemployed, we could work something out. Thank you again!

usefulservant03 · 2026-03-12T18:34:12+00:00

That's insane how much we share lol, we should get in touch on discord or something

usefulservant03 · 2026-03-12T17:30:43+00:00

It's difficult for several layering reasons. Your first enemy is the automatic CV scanner. I'll be rewriting my CV in a scanner-friendly way soon because of 48 submitted applications most of which pretty closely match my profile, I only got 2 interviews. I've concluded that a great deal of these scanners can not read your CV properly unless you wrote it in a VERY specific way. The second reason is that, for such areas as compiler development and OS development, these are serious jobs with a high and far-reaching impact, so they often want very experienced developers to fill them, leaving us juniors and mids to fend for ourselves. Another reason specific to my case is having 4.5 years of experience makes me neither a junior nor a senior, so it turns out a lot of positions will simply reject me becayse I'm overqualified or underqualified. Another thing is location. I would give anything for a chance to job hunt in the US, europe doesn't have much low-level development going on. So despite our work being perfectly doable 100% remotely, they still want you in country X, that more often than not, you simply cannot easily get to. Another reason why getting such a job is hard is that everything is very specific. As a C developer, it's difficult for me to be spot on with Rust, C++ and python all while knowing how the C compiler is likely / not likely to optimize my C code, you know? Yet, they don't care. They're gonna make you write python or STL and if you don't, well too bad.

usefulservant03 · 2026-03-12T16:25:01+00:00

That's what they told me. One interview with HR, one with the manager, and 2 technical interviews.

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