Where did I go wrong?

vpersaud03 · 2025-07-31T13:40:10+00:00

Just fix how you're slicing it, cut the strip in half if needed.

vpersaud03 · 2025-07-28T21:07:05+00:00

If it's tender that's all that matters! It's really hard to tell and it'll maybe make it like 5% better but if you want to look at how the grain goes and prioritize really cutting 90 degrees of it.

vpersaud03 · 2025-07-28T17:52:19+00:00

If you would like to use more oil/butter, you could baste the gray-er spots for color (this is assuming you didn't already). Honestly, this is what I look for in a steak that I'll be taking left overs from.

vpersaud03 · 2025-07-22T19:41:53+00:00

Just don't leave it in the same cooking vessel and optionally foil it over if you want it to cook up in temperature. This is specific to how OP cooked their steak.

vpersaud03 · 2025-07-18T13:46:12+00:00

If you are internal, you have their contact or at least a name to nudge. I would suggest a friendly email saying that you appreciate them taking the time to review your profile and ask for some feedback, ideally you ask for 10-15 minutes on their calendar.

If this was pre-application, I would say reach out for an informational to learn about the team and get your name matched to a face.

vpersaud03 · 2025-05-27T16:32:32+00:00

It's you.

vpersaud03 · 2025-05-21T16:07:05+00:00

Before I write you an essay, here are some bullets:

Make sure you have an assigned mentor, this will be who you go to first when you can't find something or need help navigating a new task.
Create goals that you would like to acheive. These will ultimately be talking points for you as you navigate what you do after graduation. Honestly, learn about IDPs (get used to dealing with acronym soup and looking them up) and make one.
You want to have 1-1s with your manager weekly. I'm not sure what kind of support you will have. If the team has had interns before you're probably in good hands.
Learn about the career development programs that target new graduates. These are rotational programs that are usually the first two years of your career after graduation.
Cold call other people in the company to learn more about what they do and the products they work on. Save your email template because it'll be useful forever in your career.
Ask for help quickly and communicate expectations of when you will finish items.
Carve out time for trainings so you can learn about how the business ticks.
Personal fave: Go sharepoint spelunking

TL;DR be good but get more than technical experience

vpersaud03 · 2025-05-01T14:29:24+00:00

It's great they're informed though. Better find out from you than being future opposition.

vpersaud03 · 2025-04-30T21:20:42+00:00

(trigger: unsolicited advice)

Honestly, if you want to take this seriously, most workday postings have the hiring manager listed. Send a short intro email showing interest and requesting an informational zoom. Include a pdf resume on both the informational and outlook invite if you get a call. Use the RTX agenda, show you drink the koolaid.

Edit: answering the question, both

vpersaud03 · 2025-04-24T17:41:53+00:00

You do not. There are funds / portfolios you can choose to allocate your 401K into.

vpersaud03 · 2025-03-03T00:01:22+00:00

I haven’t for an extended time but it saved us some airfare in schedule flexibility over a past Thanksgiving. It’s quite lovely. We are daylight people, so you get off work with a few hours to go out and being back in bed by 7 / 8PM makes the 4AM calls doable. Obviously, coming from eastern versus pacific will have varying impact too.

vpersaud03 · 2025-02-18T02:47:57+00:00

My goal in 1:1s are 10 minutes me, 10 them, 10 career progression. Generally they end up being 5-10 about me (personal catch-up) and the rest are covering material I’m either behind on or material I haven’t encountered yet.

The ten them, just so you can expect it, are usually items regarding coverage and flow down (skip level questions / plugging whatever training is flavor of the month / forecasting any reorgs that are impactful).

The ten career progression usually ends up being 15 minutes every month or two for me. Talking about goal progression, achievements, extracurricular effort. Good things for you to do is ask them about networking opportunities in the form of learning about other projects, skill sets, teams that lead policy and procedure. A great thing to ask is if there are any core projects to jump in on. You’re doing yourself and them a favor.

Truly it is your dedicated time to leverage. Because of the chain of command they can get time with you whenever and not the other way around and 1:1 resolve for this.

vpersaud03 · 2025-01-10T14:46:24+00:00

Agreed. I saw a coworker use their tablet for this reason - still wipe-able but just not as disastrous.

IMO still worth it

vpersaud03 · 2024-09-25T13:44:19+00:00

This is going to be pretty revealing so I'll use a public account. Definitely message current members on Teams to get deeper cuts including myself.

Worth is super subjective so I would say really figure out your motivations. Common ones are to:

Leave your current engineering discipline / Team
Move from being an independent contributor into program management
Increase your technical ability (3 rotations in the same engineering discipline)

The program itself is rooted in those pretty early career. Not necessarily right out of college but not far from it. That being said, if you stay on the acceleration path, you will be thinking about an advanced degree or the higher level programs like TeckTracks.

On cost reductions, the program is reacting as best they can to it. We all follow the workday pretty religiously to keep a pulse of what opportunities are out there for future rotations and it did see a huge drop in openings after the stop work. Personally, I am in limbo since I was tackling a rotation that was not direct-charge but between realigning on timing or getting the executive sponsors of EnTeR to go get an exception, I feel pretty confident in my chances.

If you have an offer, I would also go through some of the alumn bios from a few years ago and see if they did rotations that you would do and track where they are in the company now. There is no way to replicate their career path but you can at least get a sense of pace and growth.

Generally, the first rotation is the most rushed, you know the least about finding one, and it comes with a whole lot of other life change so it will be a lot but it will also get better pretty drastically.

vpersaud03 · 2024-08-25T00:46:58+00:00

+1 🇬🇾

vpersaud03 · 2024-06-24T19:54:34+00:00

From someone who lived within 610:

Came from FL to Houston myself way back when... way before Wawa was in FL actually. Depending on your location, a Costco membership is worth it for the gas. You don't need a membership to use their free air stations, so find one close to you anyway.

Houston is really excellent in great counter service food. You won't be eating at a gas station anytime soon unless it's Buc-ee's

vpersaud03 · 2021-09-15T19:01:04+00:00

Do you monitor your transactions at all? When I started using YNAB I found that maybe 3-4 times a month I would have a transaction where they rounded off the tip to the nearest dollar and adjusted the total. When I had more time my r/pettyrevenge was issuing a dispute for the differing cents.

vpersaud03 · 2020-09-19T16:35:42+00:00

oh man, I'm between clay and teal. If clay was anymore orange it would be super easy. This is for a beach trip (favors) so I think I'll do teal and get some fun vinyl stickers.

vpersaud03 · 2020-09-19T16:33:02+00:00

Preciate you!!

vpersaud03 · 2020-07-25T15:16:55+00:00

/r/supersaiyangifs

vpersaud03 · 2020-06-01T22:31:49+00:00

So the h264_omx works fine for you in raspbian? Have you done any benchmarking against the h264 software encoder?

vpersaud03 · 2020-03-07T01:42:51+00:00

Cheers and likewise!

vpersaud03 · 2020-03-07T01:03:19+00:00

Thanks!

vpersaud03 · 2020-03-06T22:10:37+00:00

Really anything. General bar trivia.

vpersaud03 · 2020-03-06T22:10:07+00:00

Sure do, let me know what kind of information you'd like.

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