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Oxide is the only company where I check the careers page hoping that they have a position which I can apply to. Happy to see their success. Especially so if yo
by shimman 9mo ago
Oxide is the only company where I check the careers page hoping that they have a position which I can apply to.
Happy to see their success. Especially so if you've been following their journey through their podcasts (easily the best tech podcast out there if you care about your craft; no filler, all killer).
- ilogik 9mo ago+1 for the podcast. I would try to apply but as far as I know they require 4 hours overlap with PST which excludes Europe
- embedding-shape 9mo ago> I would try to apply but as far as I know they require 4 hours overlap with PST which excludes Europe Wouldn't that depend less on where you are and more about your sleeping schedule? I generally go to bed around 04:00Z, up around 11:30Z sometime, seems that would work regardless of location, no?
- AlejandroM_E 9mo agoUnless the position *strictly* requires the overlap (e.g. Manufacturing or Program Management), you can apply. The required overlap is the expected team commitment you should abide to, the logistics are up to you to make it work. If that sounds encouraging, please apply!
- embedding-shape 9mo agoI'm happily voluntarily unemployed, but happy to hear my reasoning was accurate regardless, cheers and good luck :)
- ilogik 9mo agoIf I were in college, that would make sense, but I like to spend evenings with my family.
- embedding-shape 9mo agoYou just need to find the right family it sounds like ;) We both have the same sleeping schedule so works out for us, and we hang out more than ever. But YMMV.
- dcre 9mo agoIt doesn’t strictly exclude Europe, we have a few employees in Europe. But as the other reply says, they work slightly odd hours.
- patkai 9mo agoSame here. As a teenager I dreamt about working for SUN. Oxide comes close in a way.
- bflesch 9mo agoCan you name some people who are working there and who you look up to? I need some new idols after the old idols all went up in MAGA and Epstein files .
- Graziano_M 9mo agoIs Jessie Frazelle still there? She is very impressive.
- robszumski 9mo agono, but still being super impressive. CEO of a company rebuilding a CAD rendering engine because they put an LLM on top of it. So you describe the mechanical specs of the part you want and it models it. Takes all the tedium out of modeling stuff. Super cool and many applications.
- pcl 9mo agoOh cool! That looks like a super interesting product. https://zoo.dev https://zoo.dev
- panick21_ 9mo agoThey had to do CAD while working on Oxide and realized that it sucked. So she went off to solve that.
- AceJohnny2 9mo agothat's taking yak shaving to another level!
- throwaw12 9mo agoBryan Cantrill
- dylanowen 9mo agoI've seen Bryan Cantrill present at a few conferences and his talks are always the best.
- jjice 9mo agoOxide and Friends is the only computing podcast I listen to anymore. It's a bunch of fun and they have insights I actually value. The original On The Metal podcast they did is incredible too. The interviews they had with computing legends are just fantastic.
- newsclues 9mo agoI love the new podcast but miss on the metal so much. It should be quarterly at least
- muvlon 9mo agoI used to enjoy it much more before it became just another podcast extoiling the virtues of AI-assisted coding. I have too many of those already.
- jcgrillo 9mo agoI appreciate their treatment of the current AI boom cycle. Just last night they had Evan Ratliff on from the Shell Game podcast[1], and it was a great episode. They're not breathlessly hyping AI and trying to make a quick buck off it, instead it seems they're taking an honest, rigorous look at it (which is sadly pretty rare) and talking about the successes as well as the failures. Personally I don't always agree with their takes, I'm more firmly in Ed Zitron's camp that this is all a massive financial scam, isn't really good for much, and will do a lot more harm than good in the long run. They're less negatively biased than that, which is fine. [1] https://www.shellgame.co/ https://www.shellgame.co/
- EvanAnderson 9mo agoHas the audio quality / recording method for Oxide and Friends gotten better? I have this horrible "completionist" tendency and I got stuck on a 2021 episode where the audio needed post-processing and I just never got around to it. I loved On the Metal and it was a bummer to fall behind on the new show.
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- pjmlp 9mo agoI already know it is out of my league, however the podcast is great to listen to.
- 999900000999 9mo agoI actually did apply, The mere application takes hours upon hours, and for what a generic rejection email. This isn't the worst though, I recently went through an interview with another startup company, and after six interviews and a take-home project I found myself getting the same generic rejection. The CEO went out of his way to tell me he didn't like my resume since I've had to hop around a little bit to stay employed. Concerns that should have been handled in the initial call, somehow get pushed back till after I've wasted monumental amount of time. Things are looking up though, I'm starting a job soon and the entire interview process was more or less a 30 minute phone call with the technical manager. That's it, two days later or so I had a verbal offer. I don't need to change the world, I need to pay my rent.
- grim_io 9mo agoYou're not changing the world either way, you would just be working for a more demanding guy. Fuck em.
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- 999900000999 9mo agoThis is my favorite response in the thread. We aren't talking about getting a job at doctors across borders or something, we just want to manipulate bits of silicon to increase our networth.
- moregrist 9mo agoI really tried to like the podcast. It’s been a few years, so maybe it’s improved. The topics were good. The guests were great. But Bryan Cantrill was just terrible at letting his guests actually talk. Bryan, if you’re listening, please let your guests talk. We have a large amount of content on YouTube if we want to hear the Bryan Cantrill take on, well, anything and everything. And it’s often amusing and sometimes right. People don’t tune in to a podcast with guests to hear the host pontificate. They tune in to hear the guest, and sometimes the guest/host dynamic. When the host talks over the guest, you don’t get either. After the Jonathon Blow episode, I gave up. Dude had interesting things to say about C, C++, and Rust, but most of what we got was Bryan talking about Rust. I guarantee anyone tuning into the Oxide podcast knows Bryan Cantrill’s opinions about Rust. And firmware. And Oracle. And Linux. Etc. etc. Let your guests talk.
- tverbeure 9mo agoAnd lawnmowers.
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- bcantrill 9mo agoWell, a couple of things. First, the Jonathan Blow episode[0] was over six years ago. Second, it was nearly a three hour conversation -- I don't think I can be accused of not letting him talk? Third, I definitely remember that I felt I had to interrupt him to move the conversation along. Fourth, I had to pee really badly, I was absolutely freezing, and I was quite concerned about missing my flight to New Zealand that evening with my family for Christmas (which I damned near did) -- and I have no doubt that I was not at my best! I do try to get better at this stuff, and I re-listen to our episodes to improve as an interviewer. If it's been "a few years", maybe you haven't listen too much to Oxide and Friends? I think we've had some wonderful guests and great conversations over the span of the podcast -- though I also have no doubt that it's imperfect, for which you have my profound apologies! [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkdpLSXUXHY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkdpLSXUXHY
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- agentultra 9mo agoI applied last year. But they had too many candidates apply to consider my application. This is good news for them. I expect there will be more competition for positions there should any open up.
- EvanAnderson 9mo agoWorking for them would be cool, but just getting to work with their gear would be great. I am so tired of commodity Dell x86 servers (and garbage drivers, management hardware, etc) and support technicians who have no resources to actually support the hardware (beyond telling me to update the firmware and pray).
- pronaosk 9mo agoAs an AWS heavy user, spinning up an oxide VM really does feel so slick.
- ge96 9mo agoI try to listen to the podcast the main guy's brain seems to be on overdrive can barely talk