Tech user here. > Graduate degree Comp Sci. > Bay area > Have worked at several tech companies (10+ years) > Know people at just about every tech company > Can comment on a broad number of issues from deep tech related inquires, market projections, h.w/s.w, business side of things to hiring, offshoring, H1b-visa meme, the diversity hiring meme, and generally anything else you can probably conjure up.
I'll start by bringing over some inquires from other threads I posted in today and answer them here
Have you ever been in the top percent,or around them? Are pedoshit CEO's a real thing? (Sorry if not completely tech related)
Ian Ward
Proof and use tripcode noob
Eli Cooper
what pizza and soda? did you wash your hair?
Adam Richardson
> I have several questions lets start with the state of the hardware market. Ram prices exploding, GPU prices are soaring and have limited stock. There is also the issue with the forced upgrading to Windows 10 spyware by a variety of methods like only giving updates to modern hardware, locking gaming api's to it and other methods. It seems the planned obsolescence and forced upgrades are becoming the norm. Yes, this is a reality in tech and yes companies ask engineers to purposely do this kind of shit to push customers into new hardware and software. Sometimes a product is released and it gets used not as intended or begins to get used in a manner that starts to overlap another one of the company's higher margin segment and they will instruct engineers to disable features in firmware/software, gimp them, or they will rewrite user agreements to restrict usage. There's even cases where telemetry software is used to see what customers are doing and then changes being made via software updates to disable it once the market intelligence is understood and a profit making product steered into it. That being said, all companies have support timelines for various h.w/s.w for perfectly good reasons. They're many times paying engineers $125k+ entry to maintain products they no longer make money from. Mathematically this can't go on forever. APIs are locked and other things done to create en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_segmentation w/ various profit margins attached. Sometimes it gets downright niggerish and yeah they sometimes gimp already released features to protect defined segments. Nigger shit is happening wholesale right now
Levi Scott
Give me the lay down on the anti white infection of foreigners, and left wing identity politics consuming the tech industry. There have been many high profile incidents with GamerGate, Google Memo, and other stuff almost every day. Why is happening,what are the effects of it and what are the long term consequences of it?
Ryan Roberts
> One of the things you can look at is the lack of competition and very small amount of players. What do you think about all this happening, and why has the industry turned this way? Greed and the idiotic principal that a public company can grow forever and most yield returns to investors every quarter. > Why is it happening now? Because several heavily invested memes had no ROI and didn't pan out : > Green energy tech > IOT and because several tired markets are fully matured : > Cloud meme > Big Data meme
You're seeing people hitting the wall in all sorts of markets. You can parallel tech's activity with Hollywood : A lack of substance and innovation resulting in profiting taking and failed reboots for relevancy. Why is this occurring? Because people have become delusional disconnected from the world and the customers they serve in ivory tower bay area. You'd be amazed at how many techies here know fuck all about tech and the consumers who use their products. It's why there's always such a head scratching perplexity at the dumb shit that's done and comes out of here. It wasn't always this way. But as buffet says, it's cyclical the three I's : > Innovation > Iteration > Idiocy
Grayson Jenkins
Civic Yes. You'll definitely see shit in the higher echelons of tech : Drug usage, escorts, hookers, etc .. The standard vices. It's not a secret. I mean, the bay area is pretty liberal and things get amplified with money/power. > Swinging > BDSM > Orgies > Kink > All sorts of drugs Are known publicly to be frequented in the bay. vice.com/en_us/article/kwpm5a/inside-kinkcoms-san-francisco-porn-palace A more prominent example of private clubs/etc that exist to cater to such people.
> Are pedoshit CEO's a real thing? (Sorry if not completely tech related) I could imagine.. who do you think has the money for such off item shit?
There's all sorts of assholes who've flocked to tech. Tons of ex wallstreet guys came over when the crash happened .. Tons of bro-grammers and chad bros where most of this shit is centered. Otherwise, it's a pretty wholesome mix of people. Whacked out liberals are a new thing.. it came along w/ the expansion of meme frameworks/languages and other diminished tech&social oriented platforms.
Carter King
Lets see here...
Grayson Bell
> Pizza : Papa Johns > Soda : Perrier
> Did you wash your hair? Yes, did you see the lights on?
Cooper Ross
>Do you believe hardware is compromised by design? Yes, in serious cases it is... In most cases its due to lazy engineers, a lack of what the private industry has in way of documentation/systems engineers to review work, and/or development that progresses from proof of concept/buy-in to production dev w/o cleanup. I've seen production code where 100 different modules of engineers literally copy/pasted an example file and changed some defines and committed it. It caused 20% of the utilization of the customer's RAM to be pre-allocated on boot in a critical embedded system. Hard-coded passwords to ease dev that are never removed.. you really love the cases when you see : '123abc' in someone's production code. Any other serious backdoor requires very high and low level cooperation such that it's known. I recall that this is hidden by literally locking out the repository of a module and doing other things to ensure it cannot be deciphered in the compiled binary. Same concept applies in the hardware world in equivalent ways
Connor Johnson
> Give me the lay down on the anti white infection of foreigners This dates back to before I came to the bay area but the gist of it is that whites had the market cornered back in the day and wanted to expand their profit margins. Bay area has convenient connections/flight access to Asia pacific. California has a history of exploiting foreign labor to build it up to what is today. There was already tons of foreign populous due to this. So, the Asia manufacturing boom became a thing, H1b visas were booming.. tons of foreign labor coming and going being exploited here or there. The boomer era foreigners got exploited the hardest. It's essentially asian/indian engineers and white managers/execs. It's been that way for a while and only recently have them been breaking through the glass ceiling. As they began doing so, all that hate/ill treatment from the past came up in vengeful reverse discrimination against whites. I had a shaddy ass Indian manager tell me once that the shit he did was payback for what the whites (a la British) did to India. Some have bad blood, others are culturally just racist as fuck given the homogeneous country they come from, others are just corrupt and doing favors for kick backs much like many shady people do. Can't really say what the cut is but its pronounced and you'll notice it after some years out here. There's all sorts of slang terms and references to such practices/norms. > left wing identity politics consuming the tech industry The bay area was always liberal and left leaning. There's a whole history to that. As for it infecting tech wholesale that's due to the social media + framework economy bringing in busloads of normies centered on normie products. Many of the new tech companies have this culture, the old guard tech companies and hardware companies don't have too much of this shit as there's real work to be done. You won't see colored hair and bullshit at the top semiconductor companies.
Easton Perry
> There have been many high profile incidents with GamerGate, Google Memo, and other stuff almost every day. Why is happening It's pent up stuff that's been hidden in the closet for some time that's long past due. I mean, I can give you a laundry list of shit that is clear and present to anyone out here that gets hushed up : > Age discrimination > Racial Discrimination (Mainly by foreigners in low level management/hiring positions).. I literally had a friend of mine who went to school with me who worked at a particular company tell me I didn't get a role because I wasn't indian and that the particular group I interviewed with only hires Indians. Interview was flawless and I even corrected the shit out of one engineer who tried to stomp me on Translation Look-aside Buffers (Go figure given the shit that's occurring right now) yet I didn't get an offer. He told me he'd poke around.. Got back to me and told me laughing that the group was racist and only hires Indians.. This is normal shit in the bay area. Whites keep foreigners out of higher level management and exec positions. This too is a norm foreigners Ree abut > Diversity hiring is a meme.. it's literally to pad numbers on reports to fuel growth in minority markets they haven't penetrated. > None of the social signaling that's done is genuine > H1b visa fraud and abuse happens at just about every tech company. They pay them less, work them harder, and threaten to pull their visa if they speak out > Companies hire over qualified people for positions to keep their competition from getting them > Hiring practices are shit and everybody hates them.. Most people game them and a number of them are shit engineers > Don't ever openly reflect conservative views > Females in tech is a meme to, just like diversity hiring, tap the growth potential of that untapped market. They underpay them vs men and its just for show... I can go on and on .. People got tired of it and are speaking out
Asher Garcia
What other tidbits can you indulge us with OP. Cant think if anything good to ask lol
In case you haven't heard of it, the main thing is that it uses a POWER9 CPU, which is apparently really fast and as far as we know has no hidden ring -3 shit. It also has a bunch of other nice stuff like PCIe 4.0 and ECC RAM support as standard. Pricey though.
Bentley Torres
>what are the effects of it and what are the long term consequences of it? All depends... MercuryNews/SfGate has been writing articles about this for years. There have been tons of lawsuits.. Shit just continues on : Business as usual. At this point though, these tech companies have come into the cross hairs of the govt. via their tax evasion and otherwise treasonous meddling in politics. So, this time the govt is going to dig a hole in their ass like they did during the ATT breakup. I'm sure you'll be hearing of increased discussions of the federal govt. coming down on tech as the years roll forward. New money got to uppity. But in general, it's mainly just memes. No real engineer has any time for the stupid shit you see these people engaging in. This mainly occurs at the more recently minted 10->100s of billions of dollars market cap companies. If you start up some off-topic bullshit or company gossip at a real engineering company you'll be told to get the fuck out that person's cubes and yes cubes are still normally at firms that do actual engineering work. Open offices were a meme to maximize office space and is disruptive af to actual work.
Julian Reed
Do you have any experience working in other tech hubs in the US e.g. Austin, Pittsburgh, NYC, Boston? If yes, where would you say quality of life is best? I realize your answer will be subjective but it might still be informative and/or interesting.
Jack Walker
When will the techmeme stop so the housing prices will finally normalize? Will the shitty codecamps finally reduce wages by churning out more and more """"""""coders"""""""?
Oliver Scott
>where would you say quality of life is best? NB this includes the bay area as an option. Wondering whether I should move or stay where I am.
Hunter Fisher
The state of poos. Funny how the currymuncher was knocking Britain, but the poos fake british accents daily themselves to re enforce their caste system. Speaking posh is part and parcel with poo caste hierarchy. Poos are trash, honestly.. Nuke em. We Dont need em.
t.white man
Blake Russell
Hmmm, bay area living is a meme. $125k base starting avg .. ~$11k goes to cali in income taxes, $3k goes to bogus cali social programs, sales tax is absurd, gas tax is absurd, traffic is a nightmare. Rent prices are insane. Most people live w/ roommates to cut down costs. Forget affording a house if you're not a power couple (male/female tech w/ six figure incomes). Most people drive basic bitch cars because you're charged a tax on the value of your car every year for registration. No one gets involved in local politics or governance which is why its a shit show and bay area infrastructure looks like 3rd world even after all the taxes. Weather in San Fran is horrible. Gentrified San Fran lost all of its culture/allure years ago. The best thing is the weather/nature/outdoors but techies rarely have time to enjoy it. The lavish company perks are to keep you at the office working. Most people work 10-12 hour days. You aren't paid overtime. It's illegal but its the culture you learn to adapt to and not speak out about. Tons of jobs have gone oversees such that the bay area is now mainly a lavish showroom to establish to investors that you've made it. Most of the smart people left and fucked off to Ralieh NC, Texas, Seattle, Portland. It doesn't feel like America. You're surrounded by foreigners who look at you like you don't belong. Relationships are shit and shallow in general. A lot of people are superficial af especially San Franciscans. You'll spend a large amount of your time as a developer fixing shitty code/bugs as opposed to writing new features. Everyone tells you the opposite in interviews. Everything is encap'd in APIs/Frameworks. No you will not be touching the interesting code. I dunno user, it's like Hollywood. It's mainly a Mirage.
Nathaniel Lee
What are good places to look for when you want to hire a web developer?
Sebastian Price
local newspapers
David Jenkins
Craigslist
Kayden Robinson
Mirrors my experience at an SV internship perfectly. Thank God I got a remote job straight out of college
Andrew Murphy
I can't say much but I will be looking into alternative platforms in the coming months due to how the industry has been behaving w/ supplies/pricing for work related reasons. For personal usage, I know too much about TPMs to be alarmed and concerned. It was the topic of Grad studies/Research in Comp. Security for many years : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module. It's considered to be the hallmark of computer security. It has a great deal of access as it should and was designed to have to ensure security/protection. No the code will never be publicly shared for many sound reasons. To even develop for some of these you need a hardware based key and are monitored. The code is reviewed by : trustedcomputinggroup.org/.. By and large its just a pervasive security model that underlies most and basic comp security now-a-days. Plus, enterprise IT uses a number of the features to keep things secure. You have to be doing some really off the wall shit to be so concerned that you invest tons of money in a platform simply because it doesn't have a TPM. Even then, I'm sure, you're on someone's list if so and are going to be compromised some other way. I echo the idea of having privacy and non bot net hardware/software and I do what I can do to sensibly minimize it in my personal life but I don't feel the need to go to extremes.
Most PCIE cards don't even come near the bandwidth of PCIE 3.0. A number of cards still ship in PCIE 2.0 so that's not a selling point. ECC is a meme for the most part unless your work requires it.
Daniel Powell
Seeing how many retards are being memed into a tech degree, how long before the Bay Area get supersaturated with CS graduates? Also how long before we see a noticeable decline in wages due to the increase in supply of people able to perform tech jobs? Pls respond
Noah Collins
All depends on you. I'm going to give you a winded reply on this but it is general form. When you're in your 20s you'll want to be near all the action, parties, action, memes, and social currents of the world. As you get older, you'll tire of that shit, it wont be worth the cost, and it will seem like noise. It will be tangential to what you want out of a quality life. A big criteria is picking your climate. A second is understanding the culture of a region. Northeast has a more serious culture that isn't as laid back and it has more extreme weather. It does have a real community feel especially in Pittsburgh. It has a homely feel and you'll meet genuine people. NYC has is more business oriented and has like minded culture but there are areas in which people let their hair down. Austin = warmer climate, younger, more liberal... You gotta look at cost of living/taxes/weather/culture w.r.t to quality of life. Pay flattens out but costs don't. West coast is super chill, ethnically diverse but less american. It's highly expensive, people a bit more superficial and flighty and more transient. As I get older, I am considering less bustling tech hubs with a surrounding community culture that's more Americanized. I've worked at the big name meme companies. I've done all the crazy shit in my early 20s.. Now those regions are just noise, it's out of my system, and I don't look back like the weirdos who are trying to relieve their younger years... So, you move to a place that best suits you which should change over time. Careers at a company are overrated. Always make sure your salary and titles are going up and you're doing something challenging and you'll have the freedom to go where you want and command what you deserve
Jonathan Bailey
Also to piggy back off this guy's question, what are the best tech areas to get into that are the least likely to be outsourced in the future? Get a graduate degree and work for a defense contractor?
Levi Edwards
I have another question: Shed some light on the NSA, botnet, information gathering in hardware, software, and social media. Edward Snowden and other NSA whistleblowers have revealed that they are datamining everything. There are backdoors in almost all consumer products that quietly collect info in the background. An example is an aquintece that works in telecoms got the weirdest job. It was discreet, quiet, and off the record. He was assigned to essentinally put a giant splitter for one of the main telecom trunks on the west cost where it made a copy of all info going into towards a government entity. So how common is this is shit, how is it being used agaisnt the average person, and what are the long term effects of this?
Sebastian Thompson
It will stop when there's a crash. It never lets up until them. Housing prices across America and the globe have gotten insane. Best advice I can give is to get to a reasonable place where you can quickly advance your career if starting out and live way under your means/save and invest. You can always take your Cali money and buy a house cash somewhere else after some years and after you've progressed towards higher titles... At about that point you'll have done all sorts of crazy shit and be ready to find a waifu in which a home purchase is reasonable. IMO, think as different as you can in order to get away from the insane housing cost rat race. There's no sense working like a dog 12 hours a day so that you can live lessor than a walmart manager from the south .. Gotta decide if living around a bunch of dry techies is worth the cost.
> Will the shitty codecamps finally reduce wages by churning out more and more """"""""coders"""""""? Don't work in the meme framework industry. Find some real engineering work that you can't teach in a camp. Wages are going down due to global wage arbitrage for the most part. Code camps are the least of your worries vs. Asia Pacific/India.
Easton Kelly
Bay area is an unaffordable meme. Only come here if you have a clear plan to cash in,advance your career, and cash out. It's possible here, you just have to make sure not to get caught up in the hustle/bustle. You'll have roomies which can be fun. Tons of shit to do in the bay area. Everyone's intelligent and hard working which is a big plus. Tons of networking opportunities and tons of job opportunities. You just have to be a focused time and stay on the ball and make sure you're progressing. Don't come here and backslide/get caught up and you'll be fine and exit with quarter of a million in the bank after some years.. then you can slow down and settle down in other slower paced tech hubs w/a more mature crowd that will be more your speed by then.
Charles Williams
Question from the other side I'm Indian What's my best shot at a programming job in the aerospace industry? I just don't want to work with 20 year old tech Just joined college Thanks
Adam Johnson
What crypto should I invest in, Mr silicon valley insider?
Sebastian Stewart
I mean definitely.. alot of the racism is just pure ignorance and cultural baggage to be honest. True enough, you can see Indians continue the caste system among themselves w.r.t to how they treat north and south Indians. Honestly, I've never encountered so much racism in my life until I moved to the bay area. America has its issues but has predominately been composed of mixed ethnic groups for some time. Asians/Indians in the bay area come here from Homogeneous populations and cultures and it's like they could give a single shit about American norms/customs and practices. Fuck race relations. People will smile in your face and say the most downright racist and hateful shit behind your back. Much of its cultural but its ignorant given that were in America and have laws against that. This is probably the most frustrating thing in the bay area. Yea people are educated Academically but many are ignorant as fuck, racist as hell, two faced to feign professionalism, pretentious, and have no reasoned foundation for the shit they do outside of work. Its why the bay area/Calif has one of the most asinine state/local govts in the country. How does it all function? By exploiting overseas wage arbitrage. Silicon Valley exists, accumulates tons of money, and pay so well because its the capital of the trade deficit .. > Produce in cheap country > sell at insane price in wealthy country Boomers really fucked this country when they decimated its manufacturing base and sent tons of jobs overseas so they could live high on the hog. You can see it locally in Fremont/Milpitas where manuf. used to be. Oh and the only reason why liberals care about illegals here is because they're literal slaves who do all the labor.. the south didn't want to let its slaves go either. It has fuck all to do w/ them caring about these mexicans. They treat them like social outcasts here.
Nathan Young
Was going to make fun of you by calling you an old dinosaur.. Nice image op, nice image.
Can you still walk though? All those hours of sitting and coding must have been though. Also you must have one hell of a home setup to do your own projects.
Gabriel Garcia
I'm not sure how to speak on that, I work lower in the stack.. maybe these two are right or just meme'ing : Just about everyone does that shit out here. You'll likely get 5 web developer's cards within an hour hanging out at a coffee shop/bar. Oh and beware of shaddy ass Indians trying to pitch you their venture/investment opportunity in B&N and other social atmospheres.
Jace Torres
>You'll likely get 5 web developer's cards within an hour hanging out at a coffee shop/bar. Damn.
Dylan Bell
OP is a sanitation engineer, Jose plz , we will raise your wage by 5%. Plz Jose, don't spill the beans.
Christian Williams
Me and several friends started bets on when this was all going to go tits up 5 years ago and it still hasn't. Bay area keeps filling up. VCs keep funding asinine startups. Earnings keep growing. I don't think it will pop until the next big financial crisis. Who knows when the feds will hand Jesus the wheel. All degrees/disciplines in software engineering arent made equal btw. You have people spread all throughout : > en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model The top layers are saturated as fuck due to a low barrier of entry. The bottom layers are still in high demand because they require real engineering work and degrees.
> Also how long before we see a noticeable decline in wages due to the increase in supply of people able to perform tech jobs? Pls respond Not going to happen. The way the formula is worked out is as follows .. The biggest solution for a company w.r.t to reducing wage costs is by sending the jobs oversees. Thus, they just downsize their American footprint. The royalties of this wage arbitrage are what fuel bay area's insane wages. Its not that wages will go down its that headcount will. So, there hasn't been a decrease in wages due to supply .. maybe a topping out in web dev/application layer/meme framework dev and downsizing but no broad market wage declines. You really gotta focus on a real engineering discipline if you want longevity and stability in tech. You need a degree IMO and you need to work on a fundamental component of tech. The rest is just the froth that floats on top.. It comes and goes w.r.t to consumption and packaging of the lower levels.. Economic headwinds hit them first. If any jackass from a code academy can do your job, I dont need to tell you that you're in trouble.
Thomas Carter
Not OP, but I knew a guy in college who did a dual degree in aerospace engineering and comp sci and graduated late as a result, he ended up being a programmer at a major airline company and left after a year or two and now works at a major bank. Don't be that guy.
Nathan Ross
Defense contractors are stable af. So, there's always that. You cant be a fuckup in life because background checks still exist and are taken seriously. Aside from that, infrastructure and low level tech is always a sound area. Virtualization/frameworks/docker hit it hard but given the hardware Renaissance kicking off, it's back in vogue. You have to understand, everyone higher up on the stack depends on you : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model. All homes need a foundation. The further up you go, the less job security and the more volatility. This is always where you run into self-made/code academia code monkeys. Outsourcing occurs in every area of the OSI stack down to ofc IT management of infrastructure. It's jut a normal business practice of Global companies now-a-days to have operations stretched across low cost centers. Essentially you need to become more highly skilled and desirable and you'll avoid the chops that come. Tech companies have natural attrition. It's not abnormal for a tech company to fire anywhere from 5-15% of its lowest performers regularly. You can see how the rat race/10-12 hour work days get started in the bay area from such practices.. My advice is to get into it if you genuinely enjoy it and are driven to succeed and work hard and enjoy working hard/the challenges. It's not the quick money it used to be (if ever that was the case). You're gonna work your ass off for it and its grueling. Do so and rise above the pack and you'll be fine.
Hudson Martin
>It's not the quick money it used to be (if ever that was the case) Yes, it was the case back in the dot-com era (circa 2000). You'd have people that worked as mattress salesperson in the mall hand you their resume asking for a position in your tech company.
Jack Roberts
I mean, there's tons of resources for you to go into detail about but I mean.. All net traffic is monitored, filtered, and scoped to varying degrees. Before you end up on a list, you end up in a database likely in a dormant state haven't been picked up w/ the normal flow of info. Keywords/activity patterns escalate you. It's all baked into network infrastructure and choke points of the web. This is completely known btw and detailed. You can google some of the mammoth data centers that do this. Google even busted them trunking off of their networks lol. So, it's just there functioning on network traffic.
> There are backdoors in almost all consumer products that quietly collect info in the background Not really, this is a little paranoia .. Network infra has all the goodies deeply baked in which makes sense because you aren't an issue alone. You're one when you start spreading shit across a network. Edge nodes/devices have bugs and gaffs that allow for backdoors to be machined. They'd only typical go this far if you were on a list and a person of interest. They're not doing this to everybody just people of interest. At the end of the day, if they want to get a line on you, they'll get it. Just accept that, do reasonable things to protect yourself, dont be worried/paranoid, and just don't get involved in crazy shit and you'll be fine. I don't agree with this practice but it is what it is. Its not gonna change. Fucking around on the darkweb/encrypting stupid emails will get your ass put on a list that's for sure. So, full-retard opsec is actually counter productive.
Isaiah Cruz
Thanks for the detailed response. I am still in college getting my CS undergrad. I have been studying lowlevel OS development, and worked on a Linux driver. I also really enjoyed my systems classes.
But whenever I look at job/internship postings, they always want people for webdev or java backend stuff. Is it possible to land an entry-level position working with operating systems, or is that reserved for PhDs? Finally, do security clearances require anything beyond not doing drugs and not being a criminal?
Chase Flores
>An example is an aquintece that works in telecoms got the weirdest job. It was discreet, quiet, and off the record. He was assigned to essentinally put a giant splitter for one of the main telecom trunks on the west cost where it made a copy of all info going into towards a government entity. So how common is this is shit, That's old news.. that's 90s era shit. This is just a norm now. Deep packet inspection via trunked lines w/ smart filters occurs even in corporate infrastructure. It's quite common and a defecto standard of networ infrastructure. It's been detailed ad nasuem and given a thumbs up once it hit public knowledge. There's no reason to rehash this.
> how is it being used agaisnt the average person, and what are the long term effects of this? You're being monitored over all digital platforms by public/private entities. It's how the whole web and transaction system functions. It's just a standard. I know people who work at data broker/data bundling companies and the stories they'll tell you will make the NSA seem like childs play. Long term social effects depend upon what these idiots due w/ the data. So far there's tons of deep manipulation, disinformation, and exploitation going on in the private sector. Honestly, public sector looks mild compared to the shit they do. At least public sector has an agenda and security in mind. These private data brokerage, trackers, and aggregators do insane shit w/ people's data. People haven't done shit about it so it continues.
Jacob Morris
I want you to go into detail about the education system and the leftwing cancer that has been growing there for years. What do you think about the flood of worthless CS degree being pumped out? What about he left wing ideology being preached there? Aren't these big universities just making money from trust fund kids + foreign exchange students? How has your experience with academia change your perspective on the world?
Oliver Flores
Hi Indian user. Well, if you're a U.S citizen there's tons of public sector jobs. Private sector you have space-X... that's your best bet at not working on 20 year old tech. Public sector has a lot of red-tape and beuracracy but its there for a reason. It's the only reason why Space-X is what it is today having huge bodies of paper work/documentation and standards to go by.
A strong degree in embedded control systems should land you in the right place I could imagine. Image processing coursework.. whatever is related to what you intend to specialize in. Look into where the industry is going and do your homework. It's definitely an industry that's growing. Connect with people in the industry.. Read some linkedin profiles of space-X employees. See what they studied/specialized in. Don't be afraid to ping someone and ask them questions if they're where you see yourself.
But yeah... programming in aerospace I'd say embedded systems which you can fork into control systems
Ayden Morris
Crypto is a cancer and a meme. I don't support it and I feel I'll live to see it either die or enslave the next generation. Greed a la a pursuit of the dangling carrot is often used to ensnare you in something that will make you first off. Money doesn't grow on trees. There is nothing free in life. Fast money = risk for fast losses. Robbing peter to pay Paul principles are shell games that transfer wealth not create it. People rage at those who ushered in and supported fiat 1.0 but you can find those same fucks dick long in crypto. Greed is a mother fucker and how (((they))) ensare dumb fuck goys. You can do as you please aside from this advice... I'm not a supporter of it and have never touched it.
Austin Moore
I'm young user. I'm not a boomer. I'm a millenial. I can still walk. Tech is a grind.. It's why most women have it hard. It's an anti-social mind fuck that taxes you mentally if you're one of the ones who actually does something.
> Also you must have one hell of a home setup to do your own projects. Yeah, I have a mix of equipment but made the decision to orient myself on affordable consumer level hardware some years ago so that what I eventually produce could be used by the masses. It's what leads me to my lament about the dickhead shit happening in the consumer hardware market. I'm giving several companies to the end of Jan. to show good grace to consumer markets. After that, I'm pursuing alternative hardware and spinning my own custom solution. It will be affordable. But yeah, that's a tangent, I'm young, and I have a super comfy setup. I have a ripper and I have lots of other goodies .. I'm making something for the anons of the world.
Joseph Wood
Everyone's trying to pitch some shit to you or look for the next opportunity/leg up in the bay area. The typical convo is : > Name > So, where do you work user? It better be in tech... Then come the general feelers and networking.. then comes the searching to see if you are the next ladder step up. It really impacts the social climate and can't get old after a while. It's why I embraced the outdoors instead as a way to keep my balance which is beautiful out here.
Alexander Cruz
Top fuckin kek. I can only imagine. I ran into a vet once who told me about that time period. I loved our convos : > *points out to parking lot ..You see all of these cars out there.. You see the new guy.. the idiot who just bought a bimmer/lexus.. Yeah dude, when the .com crash came there was nothing out there.. nothing dude... maybe a honda civic and a toyota dude.. It was just all gone man. Now, fuck it man, I prepare to be laid off any day. Right now if I get laid off, I already have my resume in at 5 companies. You see all of these idiots hunkering down because layoffs are happening? fuck it man, I don't even care my bag's already packed. I've seen shit man. I lost all my money on Nortel stock. I'm still writing off the losses today.
Fuck man, if anything the stories you'll hear out here .. LOL
Cooper Reed
You should aim for much more than $250k after years in the bay area. No sense in coming over otherwise.
Brayden Hill
Copypasted from thread I started which got zero response.
I'm having a tough decision to make when it comes to my career and I thought that you, supreme Sup Forumsentlemans, can help me.
I finished my bachelor's degree in Computer Science in March of 2017 and started working in company that produces software for banks in April. I've been working there on front-end since then, getting decent money for straight out of college in my country, but what bothers me is that we're using proprietary tool, so that experience won't get me very far outside of this company. What we're using in this tool is a mix of simple CSS, XML, Java and SQL. The company decided to ditch this tool and switch to Angular2 with more traditional HTML, CSS and JavaScript, what would increase my market value after getting familiar with it. The thing is that they postponed this transition until late April/May of this year and experienced programmers at this company are getting far less than most companies.
My question is: should I stay here, "waste" another three to four months before company switches to Angular and leave after getting to know it well or should I learn it by myself and get out of there as fast as possible to start getting experience that will matter more?
In the end four months isn't that long and this company will pay me to learn Angular. Safety of having this job is nice, but I don't wanna waste too much of my time if there is better option. Also I can't afford not to work, because I just bought a flat.
I want to be Java or front-end programmer, because in my region being good at this with some experience in financial sector gets you some really well paid job at Swiss banks, that have a lot of branches here. Also that opens option for easy transfer between branches and I would like to move in few years.
I know there's a lot wise and experienced people in here, so please, lend me your knowledge.
Carson Roberts
post feet
Caleb King
> webdev or java backend stuff. fuck those meme jobs.... Look for medium/small size companies doing something or startups. Look at places like Windriver/nvidia/etc. Hardware companies/embedded systems companies/Apple.
There are loads of meme jobs but you dont want that shit anyway. That's where all the code monkey pink and blue haired idiots are.
> Is it possible to land an entry-level position working with operating systems, or is that reserved for PhDs? Of course. Your best bet if you're centered on linux/os/drivers is embedded systems work... spacex, tesla, google's hardware divisions, thousands of startups .. biomedical companies/etc. GE/Samsung/Motorolla.. name a company that makes embedded devices and you'll find a slew of jobs
> Finally, do security clearances require anything beyond not doing drugs and not being a criminal? Nope. Pretty much just be drug free and no criminal record, an american citizen and you should be fine.. Bay area has BAE systems and lockheed if you want to look at what they have. All the self driving car tech should be up your ally to. Just look at your core degree competency and focus it on an application that is in demand. Self driving cars are a big ass compute stack running on Real-time linux.
Correct. But taxes become a mother fucker at that point. I think $125k is starting salary which can take you far if you progress it and gtfo at some point. If you stay, yeah you better be making north of $250k which everyone will claim they make but few actually do. The hobby of most engineers is trying to come up w/ a hotdog app startup on weekends to get a million or so from some dumbass investors. There's that.
Mason Green
If you aren't happy where you are, always shop around. I'm not sure why its a common thing to wait until its crunch time. Iron out your resume, submit it, and start going on interviews. Take some days off if you need to but you can schedule them otherwise if you can do work from home. If you dont like where you are and you feel stagnant GTFO. It's tech, you're literally killing your career by doing so. Get your resume sorted, apply to companies, and get the job interviews going. You have all the options at that point : > stay and ask for higher pay (i'd never do this just gtfo) > Leave at a time that best suits you > stay, learn the new system that is industry standard, put it on your resume and have a more strengthened chance of getting your choice job. The choice is yours. I've personally developed and followed up on outs long before it was time for me to gtfo at any company I worked for.
Leo Harris
Oh I missed an important part. I'm not a US citizen, I'm in India. Other than US, which other countries should I be looking into?
Zachary Perry
My worst fear. And thanks for the advice
Ryder Morris
What are your thoughts on controls, building automation, and embedded systems in general? In addition to that what would you recommend to someone who is young and wants to get into tech?
Liam Lewis
My point was, you don't need a stupid aerospace engineering degree, you just need a CS degree to work as a programmer at any company. Heck, I'm sure the guy could've even gone to a coding bootcamp for a year instead and save time and money. Focus on an area or two that you like within a particular degree and touch a little bit of everything.
Charles Perry
Dam son :( ...top kek. Why are you looking into an industry that isn't readily available to you? Do embedded systems and get into jobs available in your local market. Self driving car tech related work could cross over into Aerospace down the road if you play your cards right and plan for a move/etc. India's growing its space program too though I heard. Do your research and take it seriously user.
Ryder Perez
Great industry with a big barrier to entry for normal fags, framework fags, code monkeys, and outsourcing. Challenging work and in demand work. A growing industry that tech companies are putting alot of energy into. Tons of established players, tons of new entrants and tech, and tons of companies creating cross over tech.
If you're young and want to get into tech, stay immersed in it.. Make sure its your passion. Engage in projects you genuinely like to further your skills. Get excellent grades in highschool, don't fuck around w/ girls or hang out with retards who aren't going anywhere. Engage in math clow, robotics club, tech programming courses in highschool and use online resources to further yourself. Good SAT scores, AP courses .. to get to a good college.. have a plan by sophomore year on how you're going to get into your choice college. Apply apply.. get to a good school around intelligent people.. stay around them. Do good in your coursework. Bust your ass to get internships. Stay in the career guidance office while others are fucking around. Get the good job you've busted your ass for and enjoy your labors.
Were in a hardware boom so low level languages will become popular again. You're heads in the right place w.r.t to embedded systems.
Wyatt Wilson
^good advice. A good core degree in EE/CE/CS with exposure to applications engineering and you should be set. Don't fall for the specialization degrees. You want mobility and options and all of the core fundamentals are the same across applications. I've done work on all sorts of dissimilar shit.
Aaron Lee
I want to get into electrical engineering what would be the best to focus on in this field?
Joseph Clark
What about those who fucked up high school but are going into college? Also what is the status of college/uni today anyways? Is it all gender studies, campus riots and 100k debt?
Robert Phillips
> What about those who fucked up high school but are going into college First you have to admit you fucked up. Next that you're way behind. Finally you have to be willing and able to do what's necessary to get back on track, and on par, and exceed your peers. > Also what is the status of college/uni today anyways? Is it all gender studies, campus riots and 100k debt? A Part of taking it seriously is solving questions like this on your own. If you want results you have to put in work. No one is going to respect or give you the time of day otherwise especially with candidates who all general do and exceed expectations.
Liam Campbell
This is 100% true. I got out of the bay area and moved to a fly over state. I'm miserable working at a grocery store for pennies but it doesn't even come close to the hell of working in tech in the Bay Area. If you stick around in that place long enough you will lose all faith in humanity. There are predators and prey in the Bay Area, nobody decent is left.
Also you forgot the gigantic chunk the IRS takes when you're earning 125k a year.
Jackson Thompson
(checked) Are you me? You had a decent paying job in the bay area as a software engineer but now you're working at a minimum wage job, it sucks and nothing to brag about, but at least you're surrounded by sane people with real-life problems.
Liam Thomas
> gigantic chunk the IRS takes Yeah and now trump is giving an even bigger middle finger to high COL/high tax states like Cali so it's even worse. $125k is about $30k+ federal/fica easily.. So, $125k-11,-3,-30,-at least $2*12k rent .. you're down to $56k easy before you get into miscellaneous stuff.
> Mental sanity Yeah, I know a number of people who developed psychiatric problems and have had mental breaks. Burn out is real and having no social forms of humanity in this sterile enclave only adds to the stress from work. Everyone's looking for a way to get ahead even in relationships..
Yeah i mean, if you can make your money and gtfo before the environment gets to you, you'll be sitting pretty.. there's a reason why so many people wonder what's wrong w/ those in tech that develop socially destructive technology.. they're completely disconnected and delusional for the most part and many of them rarely leave cali making it even worse . It's why zuck looks like such a retarded fuck during his America tour.
Kayden Taylor
Alright.. gnight anons. It was a pleasure.
Noah Baker
Thank you, good night
Jackson Scott
Thanks
Andrew Collins
Thanks man, this was entertaining. Keep the trip for future threads
Leo Roberts
>$125k-11,-3,-30,-at least $2*12k rent .. you're down to $56k easy before you get into miscellaneous stuff. I remember doing this math then staring out my window blankly for 10 minutes letting it sink in. The stress destroyed my ability to form relationships, I had nobody. I couldn't think clearly anymore, I was so afraid of getting found out as a conservative or making one oversight at work and getting shitcanned for it. I was making sub 100k and paying over $2k in rent. It all became this ludicrous joke I was the butt of. The most horrifying thing was that I knew this, yet I pulled myself out of bed the next day and went to work. And did this for years after the realization. It's that point in addiction when you realize you are doing real harm to yourself, you feel sad, then you light up and cough out more of your lungs for a high that hasn't been uplifting for a long time.
Maybe, I was in IT. I worked as a machinist last year. I remember getting hit in the face with a stream of burning hot metal chips. And while it was happening I was thinking about how much more pleasant it was than my previous life.
Kayden Hughes
dads giving me 1000$ to invest in stocks ,we split the profits, where do i put it?
