nythrowaway

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by nythrowaway 5y ago
I moved from Silicon Valley to nyc met a couple other nerdy friends talked to girls every weekend with them at the bars. I cold approached them. The first were very hard but I got used to it.
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by nythrowaway 5y ago
What does this mean on a real world level in NYC? Can anyone offer 350+ to 15+ YOE in NYC besides FAANG. 4 years ago I interviewed and failed 6/6 design and 4/6 leetcode (passed lyft and fb leetcode). 4 years ago I studied about 5
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by nythrowaway 8y ago
In nyc there are Orthodox Jews who work in medicine and finance and law who will not answer the phone or work on the sabbath. These are people who can make millions a year and are otherwise slaves to their jobs working 80 hour+ weeks. They
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by nythrowaway 8y ago
I managed to get a A- in Ericsson’s 373 as an undergrad (grads took the same class but had their own curve) in 2001. Great class, great experience, great teacher. Pushed me to do algorithms at a difficulty I didnt hunk possible.
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by nythrowaway 8y ago
I don’t understand why getting a degree in cs at a good peogram isn’t good enough for the proof you can code. I had to write a ray tracer in graphics, calculate recurrence relations and code them in advanced algorithms analyzing all sorts o
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by nythrowaway 10y ago
congrats! Anyone know how much the payoff for a standard dev at trello is in a deal like this?
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by nythrowaway 10y ago
This data actually has the impact of me not applying for a job. I'm thinking of looking around - been at my current gig as a senior engineer for years and I have about 15 years experience. But at my current comp at a major Corp in nyc,