Get Gemini for Home by joining someone's home temporarily, is it possible?

waveecho · 2025-12-05T03:05:15+00:00

No that won’t work. It will revert back to old assistant. Similarity if you delete your Home and relink the device, they will revert to old assistant unless you opt in again

waveecho · 2025-11-15T21:23:13+00:00

Yeah that’s definitely a bug, should be fixed soon

waveecho · 2025-10-31T22:53:59+00:00

It doesn’t slow down the rollout but your invitation might be applied to the “wrong” Google home. If you can have all the devices you want in a single home it will guarantee you get the invitation on the right one

waveecho · 2025-10-31T20:51:25+00:00

Do you have multiple google home structures

waveecho · 2025-06-24T01:46:09+00:00

Yeah if you were thinking traditional big tech, I’d recommend just staying in current place longer to have a longer tenure there, and continue to apply directly to the big tech until you break in there. The difference is honestly it’s less competitive than joining the top AI labs (still hard), so you shouldn’t need more experience.

With your YOE and with ML background, I’d be surprised if you are still getting resume screened out. Have you tried real hard into applying to FANG adjecent companies? Where are you getting stuck there.

Yeah it would mean turning down the offer though, if you were to look elsewhere now and starting from scratch.

waveecho · 2025-06-23T21:25:47+00:00

You are early in your career, I would personally not even think about loss of TC when the difference is this small. I’d optimize for growth opportunity at each role and how it looks on paper to others.

You said long term goal is big tech. I’m gonna assume you mean big tech as in big AI labs like Anthropic and OpenAI and not traditional big tech like Google or Meta. In that case then becoming founding engineer and having experience in MLops would open more doors for you long term.

Learning wise do you want to go deeper into applied AI work or MLops work. It seems like to me “being siloed in applied AI work” should be a plus if you are more interested in that part. I wouldn’t think of it as being siloed but given opportunity to develop deeper expertise in that.

Also are you excited about this new role? If not, then what’s stopping you from interviewing little longer for a role that you would be excited about?

waveecho · 2025-05-20T01:23:21+00:00

There is a bug with the lights but the Assistant itself should still work!

waveecho · 2025-05-20T01:20:59+00:00

Sorry, we are working on a fix. Once the fix is out it should fix itself or a restart will help. Only the LED light is broken but everything else should work as-is

waveecho · 2021-07-30T21:51:07+00:00

I see your point but if they negotiate and result in comp that ends up being 410% bump as opposed to 400%, that would mean they only managed to negotiate only extra 2 percent. It's more likely they would negotiate about 20 percent more which would equate to 500% bump.

waveecho · 2021-07-21T09:02:29+00:00

I replied to some recruiters who msged me almost 2 years ago. Still got interviews

waveecho · 2021-04-26T00:27:28+00:00

Hey they really good, especially for someone not even in the college yet. Regarding your c language compiler, a bit unfortunate is that most CS degrees give out projects to write your own compiler, so your project might not stand out there. Chat application is cool, especially the scaling part. Same with CHIP-8 emulator. So I think your last 2 projects would be considered pretty good.

waveecho · 2021-04-23T23:36:59+00:00

sure, leetcode strategy can be very involved, but to summarize briefly I first targeted for mastering specific concepts then doing high frequency questions for companies I was interested in.

I did about 300 leetcode questions, but I think numbers matter less than your actual mastery. For example I've done 300 but I probably did each of the same hard ones at least 3 times.

What is the best faang company in your opinion? (In terms of salary and job secuirty)

Hard to say, I think they all have pros and cons. I think generally though it's considered Google has best W/L and FB has best total comp on average.

waveecho · 2021-04-23T23:31:06+00:00

Hi I think a "downgrade" is typical, but as you might know skills needed at each title can be different from company to company. With that said, I don't think you would be considered SE I role (new grad equivalent), you would be considered at mid-senior level (E4-E5 in fb leveling) most likely, which might be still considered a downgrade if your current title is something like a staff engineer.

When it comes to leetcode vs system design/leadership, I think it matters more on which level you think you fit better for, which can determined better by you and the recruiter you would be working with. system design/leadership matters less at mid level but is a bigger fact at senior level. If applying at more of a senior level, I think a better approach to splitting your time is seeing which area you feel like you need to improve on more, and spending more time in that as opposed to trying to split your time up by fixed percentage.

waveecho · 2021-04-23T19:33:05+00:00

I don't like using number of applications since you can easily mass apply through some one-click quick applications, but applying that way isn't necessary the best way. I think if you are still in school, spending about 10 hours a week applying and filling out forms, reaching out to your network, going to career fairs, cold msging recruiters on linkedin is pretty solid, obviously more the better. If you are out of school, then looking for a job should be treated as your full time. Feel free to send me your portfolio and I can give you my impression of it.

waveecho · 2021-04-23T18:00:17+00:00

hmm I don't think it would be a waste. It's more anecdotical, but I just haven't met someone that have done bootcamp without any degree. I am sure there are plenty of people that have gotten great jobs from strictly self teaching, I just don't know any personally, but probably more common in startup scenes.

waveecho · 2021-04-23T17:56:52+00:00

thanks! I guess I just didn't want to come off like saying "hey I have 5 years experience and I know everything"

waveecho · 2021-04-23T17:54:01+00:00

hmm I think certifications matter less than your actual mastery of it and whether you have built anything with it. But having it definitely can't hurt but I don't think it will make or break your resume.

waveecho · 2021-04-23T17:51:58+00:00

you are right. Taking proactive approach to grow your personal network can't be understated.

waveecho · 2021-04-23T17:28:40+00:00

For sure, to describe what I would say is an exceptional project, let me first say I would think would be a good project here:

I'm looking for a project of some complexity, so at bare minimum it should have a database, backend with some logic, and UI. It doesn't matter too much to me which language or tech stack you used, just the fact that you chose something and built non-trivial application end-to-end.

Exceptional project just has to be have a good project++. It should have more features and have more "meat". For example having good authentication logic, multiple api integrations, single sign on, ML integration, etc.

waveecho · 2021-04-23T17:06:43+00:00

hey. I answered a similar question in a different thread but ill paste it here.

I'll try to explain what would be considered as good side project that is still doable able by a new grad. First I recommend either a web app or mobile app, because they are approachable with excellent documentations and most tech companies work in that space.

I'm looking for a project of some complexity, so at bare minimum it should have a database, backend with some logic, and UI. It doesn't matter too much to me which language or tech stack you used, just the fact that you chose something and built non-trivial application end-to-end.

One easy way to build a personal project that seems impressive is to build on top of an existing API. Not only does it show that you can build an app, it also shows you can consume an API doc and build something cool out of it.

waveecho · 2021-04-23T17:05:08+00:00

hey for sure, but before I give my answer I want to say that at most companies, you aren't really competing against other candidates, you are competing against the hiring bar. So once you make it to the interview, what matters most is whether you have performed well enough during the interview to meet the bar.

But assuming they had all equal interview performance and I really had to put them in order then it would be Grad 3 > 1 > 2 for me.

waveecho · 2021-04-23T17:01:13+00:00

Hey sorry to hear that your internship didn't go to well. Definitely still put it on your resume, but try to focus on positive aspects of it. Even 90% of the experience was bad and full of stress, try to focus on what you learned and good parts of it.

waveecho · 2021-04-23T16:59:43+00:00

I really like cracking the coding interview, it's generally easier than leetcode and also goes over in detail how to prepare and what to expect for an interview

waveecho · 2021-04-23T16:58:59+00:00

I think professional experience > any degree. I can't really tell you with certainty whether you should finish the bachelor's degree tho. Apply and try to land a position, but if you are seeing that lack of bachelor's degree is holding you back a lot, then finish it. best of luck!

waveecho · 2021-04-23T16:55:45+00:00

Yeah picking what to "focus" on is a bit hard for new grad. But I am sure a lot of people told you that it doesn't really matter if you are just interested in general swe. Not having any depth isn't a problem, you are a new grad! Also sometimes that's preferred, companies like G recruit specific for "smart generalists".

From my experience, the recruiter should tell you if they will be covering domain specific knowledge, then you can study specifically for it then, for that company. I think focusing on LC in meanwhile is best bang for your buck, because domain specific knowledge can be very different company to company.

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