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Send me an email — I'm an '18 and if you're telling the truth about side projects, interview skills, graduating, etc. then I should be able to help you find a j

Send me an email — I'm an '18 and if you're telling the truth about side projects, interview skills, graduating, etc. then I should be able to help you find a job very quickly, either in my own org or with someone I know who is hiring. > I’m facing the very real possibility of moving back home to an unstable and abusive environment while continuing to job hunt You don't have to do this. You can do anything you want you're a free person with your own agency and plenty of skills. There are a million ways you can work around this. > What helped you push through when it felt like the system failed you? Realizing that I am owed nothing, and focusing on ways to get what I want. With your background and skills I am certain you can achieve anything you set your mind to as long as you don't put yourself in a subordinate, dependent, position.

laidoffamazon 2y ago
> Realizing that I am owed nothing, and focusing on ways to get what I want. I don't think the system _ever_ fails people with "merit" like MIT grads. It fails people like me that can't get into top schools that went to 50% accept rate public schools. I graduated in 2018 too - I guarantee people like you consider me and my career accomplishments in the intervening years to be failure worthy. I genuinely think a typical MIT Course 6 grad from 2018 would be clinically depressed if they were in my shoes.
- peterldowns 2y ago
  How dare you guarantee that I'd consider you a failure? You don't know me, don't put that on me. In fact I am pretty sure I wouldn't consider you a failure. You're saying a lot of negative things about yourself and I don't know you or your situation but I hope you don't give up.
  - laidoffamazon 2y ago
    I recognize your username and I've followed your career since ~2017 or something. I never got an interview at Stripe, not that I would have ever passed it. I'm not a L6/L7/L8. I worked at Amazon, and people think my class of people are subhuman.
    - fragmede 2y ago
      Levels.fyi has L5 at Amazon making $150k base, $220k TC. You might not be Jeff Dean or Andrej Karpathy but there's only two of them. None of us are. That's not remotely subhuman failure. https://www.levels.fyi/companies/amazon/salaries/systems-development-engineer/levels/l5 https://www.levels.fyi/companies/amazon/salaries/systems-dev...
      - laidoffamazon 2y ago
        I make more than $220k now but OP 100% makes closer to $800K+ He definitely doesn't think people like me are human.
        peterldowns 2y ago
        I sincerely hope that you seek and receive help.
        laidoffamazon 2y ago
        What help? There is no help that will stop me from being an untermensch and failure? It's not going to get me a 1600 or get me into a top school or make me earn $800k a year.
        findingMeaning 2y ago
        Don't worry. There are people with privilege who would never understand the mean. They fly high due to their circumstances and are just lucky. Us, we have go strive for living. That's the unfairness in life. It would have been so much easier if lucky ones would acknowledge their luck than attribute for hard work and what not. Everyone discounts luck while it is the biggest factor. Only action you can do is increase the surface area of your luck. Try to find meaning beyond career. There are multiple ways to get lucky. Find your own luck. After all we are in an era where people get wealth screaming on top of their lungs to the internet.
        bruce511 2y ago
  - zerr 2y ago
    To be fair, you asked someone with a zero experience to contact you solely due to MIT pedigree. You also didn't ask `parent` to contact you.
- erikerikson 2y ago
  Even your gilded claim is breaking down these days it seems. I started in state schools and leveraged that into one of the world's best (half the MIT professors had graduated from my alma mater when I was deciding where to go) for my MSc. As [likely] one of the people you reference, I am a counter example to your guarantee. No one should fail who contributes in good faith. Live life well, be responsible, have fun, spread joy, and no matter what happens in your career you'll have succeeded.
- notalegend 2y ago
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laidoffamazon 2y ago

> Realizing that I am owed nothing, and focusing on ways to get what I want. I don't think the system _ever_ fails people with "merit" like MIT grads. It fails people like me that can't get into top schools that went to 50% accept rate public schools. I graduated in 2018 too - I guarantee people like you consider me and my career accomplishments in the intervening years to be failure worthy. I genuinely think a typical MIT Course 6 grad from 2018 would be clinically depressed if they were in my shoes.

peterldowns 2y ago
How dare you guarantee that I'd consider you a failure? You don't know me, don't put that on me. In fact I am pretty sure I wouldn't consider you a failure. You're saying a lot of negative things about yourself and I don't know you or your situation but I hope you don't give up.
- laidoffamazon 2y ago
  I recognize your username and I've followed your career since ~2017 or something. I never got an interview at Stripe, not that I would have ever passed it. I'm not a L6/L7/L8. I worked at Amazon, and people think my class of people are subhuman.
  - fragmede 2y ago
    Levels.fyi has L5 at Amazon making $150k base, $220k TC. You might not be Jeff Dean or Andrej Karpathy but there's only two of them. None of us are. That's not remotely subhuman failure. https://www.levels.fyi/companies/amazon/salaries/systems-development-engineer/levels/l5 https://www.levels.fyi/companies/amazon/salaries/systems-dev...
    - laidoffamazon 2y ago
      I make more than $220k now but OP 100% makes closer to $800K+ He definitely doesn't think people like me are human.
      - peterldowns 2y ago
        I sincerely hope that you seek and receive help.
        laidoffamazon 2y ago
        What help? There is no help that will stop me from being an untermensch and failure? It's not going to get me a 1600 or get me into a top school or make me earn $800k a year.
        findingMeaning 2y ago
        Don't worry. There are people with privilege who would never understand the mean. They fly high due to their circumstances and are just lucky. Us, we have go strive for living. That's the unfairness in life. It would have been so much easier if lucky ones would acknowledge their luck than attribute for hard work and what not. Everyone discounts luck while it is the biggest factor. Only action you can do is increase the surface area of your luck. Try to find meaning beyond career. There are multiple ways to get lucky. Find your own luck. After all we are in an era where people get wealth screaming on top of their lungs to the internet.
        bruce511 2y ago
- zerr 2y ago
  To be fair, you asked someone with a zero experience to contact you solely due to MIT pedigree. You also didn't ask `parent` to contact you.
erikerikson 2y ago
Even your gilded claim is breaking down these days it seems. I started in state schools and leveraged that into one of the world's best (half the MIT professors had graduated from my alma mater when I was deciding where to go) for my MSc. As [likely] one of the people you reference, I am a counter example to your guarantee. No one should fail who contributes in good faith. Live life well, be responsible, have fun, spread joy, and no matter what happens in your career you'll have succeeded.
notalegend 2y ago
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