lowiqengineer

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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
In what way? I grew up Asian and went to a state school, I got the message that I was incapable of accomplishing anything from an early age!
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
Are you advocating censorship? So much for the tolerant right!
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
“Irony” or “makes complete sense?”
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
> You should compare yourself now with your past self six years ago: are you a better person now? Kinda? I had more potential then, I could have done Facebook after sophomore year and had my career set for life. Instead I failed that int
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
> We're not a majority, but it's hard to compete with us, it's not helpful to compare yourself to us, but it's hard because that's what interviewers compare you against. This makes me so sad. I've prepped ha
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
...only because other folks implicitly look down on me
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I’ve never seen anyone from my company disclose, which has way more engineers.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
> Funny to see this article—I was interning at a company that used S-expressions instead of JSON internally right around the time this post was written. (Seeing it for the first time now though.) Weirdly long-winded way of saying you wor
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
This is really less “sentinels can be faster” and more “assuming invariants can be faster because you’re reducing comparisons”.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I've seen your username before on CSCQ. Tell me - is there any hope for people like me? Any way that I can come even close to matching your total compensation anytime soon (Which I'm assuming is around $350kish)?
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I make less than that ($150k for 2 years) at a FANG. Yikes. You're really not helping me maintain my will to live here.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
> The job market is imploding around us while we work cushy tech jobs. Abject misery abounds as people lose their loved ones and their livelihoods. This is also the case for people at Google, etc but they still manage to find time to com
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
- Recruiting/resume updates (not many interviews lined up, and even with offers would max out likely less than what I'm currently making) - Interview preparation (not going well, but I blame my inherent intelligence for that unfor
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
That's kind of you to say, but I do personally know lots of people at Facebook, Google, Lyft, Citadel, Stripe etc that _do_ make this much or more. Meanwhile, even the L6's at my company make around $300k - that's about what
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
World income is irrelevant since I live in a nice part of America, not the world. And yeah, I do make about as much as your and my grandfather made over the course of their careers. Unfortunately, if I'm making an apples-to-apples comp
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
> or have some other successful characteristic that you do not. That's both fair and true, but I'm someone without any successful characteristics. > You don't need to have gone to a particular school. All of the inter
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
This comment really did not help my depression as someone that makes $150k two years into a FAANG job. I've never even been able to get interviews from HRT or Jane Street, and my Citadel offer was less than $200k...
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I mean I'm all of those things too but I have way less money and external validation
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
Ive never met a single one. I feel completely insulated from the top strata of society that looks down on me because of it - it’s really depressing what going to a state school has done to me.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
What should I do if I know i have a low IQ?
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
Agreed. And this makes not even being close even harder for me.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I have steady employment too. But I don't have society giving me unlimited external validation. Instead, people think I'm subhuman for where I work and went to school.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I mean I can probably go on LinkedIn right now and find someone that fits these loose criteria. They’re fairly common!
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I know I’m not anywhere close to extraordinary, but it still makes my heart ache seeing someone with a Google or MIT hoodie or a RocksDB jacket on my evening walk. I’ll settle for being considered more than just a mental defective just beca
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I doubt there’s anyone at Google that doesn’t clock out after 8 hours and they make $200k starting. With my tenure closer to $300k.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I don’t really want to be Charlie Parker extraordinary, I just want to be Harvard CS major who makes $500k as a T5 at Google extraordinary. I assure you, that person has more diverse friendships and more leisure time than I do.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
> There aren't as many uber successful people out there as the internet makes it seem. I live in a city with two elite universities (guess which one). They're literally all around me . Getting into either of those is my defini
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I fully relate to this, but the worst part is being judged as being defective and unsophisticated by the extraordinary people that I surround myself with. It feels like I've already failed at life most days.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
How do I maintain flow? I end up extremely depressed and disillusioned if I get stuck on a problem - that’s really what’s stopped me from doing consistent prep.
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by lowiqengineer 6y ago
I’m gonna take a wild guess and say that if it was Google they wouldn’t have that opinion, eh?

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