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My friend has had a rough year (stressful completion to PhD, poor job market, immigration struggles with wife). To top it off, his Google account was just hacked in what seems to be a targeted attack after losing his US…

Has anyone had success using their American citizenship status as a way to get a US tech job or a company based in the US with an EU presence to get better pay? I’m an expat in the UK and considering a change. Is it…

Going through some hardcore career burnout that has been lasting for far too long. Boring and not meaningful work, massive team and horrible oncall. Interviewed and got a manager opportunity for a team I think is quite…

Which setup is recommended these days for cheaply chatting with multiple llms (not local llms) like sonnet or openAI?

Shifting away from faang and startups in Silicon Valley that have allowed me to save some money but ultimately just build tech to help billionaires become richer, what else is there in software? I don’t mean what else…

Friends and family tell me I’m insane for entertaining the possibility of taking some time off due to burnout. I’m currently dealing with some serious depression and trying work on these things myself, but it’s proving…

I'm just now starting to realize I'm very burnt out. However, I'm still very interested in tech, but I think I'm completely burnt out on my team and morale is very low causing me to feel very demotivated to work. I'm an…

I want to work on research around social policy issues and disseminate them to the masses. I feel like I’m fairly good at teaching as well as data visualization. How do you take notes and learn new things to construct a…

I’m at big tech making rich people richer. I feel that poverty is one of the biggest problems in America and I don’t really feel anything I do directly, or at least with a large impact, helps resolve of those issues at…

I’m 28 and want to do the right things to set myself up for a successful career. For older, successful folks what did that look like for you? Just interested in hearing about your path. I can easily see myself being…

Curious if anyone went back and got a masters or second masters in CS to specialize and enjoyed it? I’m not interested in views of educational cost, etc. Justin curious to hear people that did this and why or why they…

I work at a big tech company (faang adjacent) and 5 years into my professional career I fail to deeply understand how businesses operate. Any good books that’s basically business for the engineer kinda premise?

ChatGPT is interesting. It’s a decent utility for my work, which is networking and distributed systems stuff. However, I am not particularly interesting in a career in AI or ML. Does that mentality seem detrimental? I…

Been at this big tech company for almost a year with about 5 years exp. Since start to present, I’ve just felt like I’m drowning. It seems like almost every topic I encounter requires me to deep dive for a few days just…

Been a few weeks since last posted. How goes the hunt?

Lots of content these days makes it easy to feel imposter syndrome and behind the times. What are you people who are actively trying to become a better programmer doing, learning, building or studying to become better?

I’ve been slowly burning out for the last couple years and basically have lost all motivation at work driving me to constant depression. To add on, I’ve been really sick on and off, sometimes for weeks at a time. I’m 28…

Been at this new big tech job burning out for 10 months working remote. I happened to move to a small town around the same time and feel isolated. My work performance has been sub par and can’t seem to shake it. I feel…

I’m 28 and did traditional BS/MS in comp sci route, grinded leetcode and did several (and current) stints at big tech companies as a senior engineer. I’ve always wanted to be a master of the craft, but have become more…

I’ve been in this field professionally for 6 years and work as a senior engineer at big tech. Curious on opinions for sustaining a long-term technical career in tech. Not interested in management and looking to stay…

With the rampant layoffs, are you guys getting hired? How are you doing?

I have a BS and MS in CS and at the time I did my MS focus in ML/AI. Fast forward so many years, my career has been focused on distributed systems stuff. I’m interested in ML for fun, but pretty far removed. In MS, it…

I’m looking to build a tool to migrate files between cloud providers (ie blob storage, s3, etc). I’m looking to learn best practices for doing so. The volume is a few petabytes but can be done incrementally. I was…

Can anyone recommend some resources that would help me implement a basic tool where I manipulate packets and implement a basic portion of a popular RFC?

With all the layoffs and time passing, what companies do people see as the most prestigious today? I feel FAANG is falling a bit out of fashion, but interested to hear peoples perspectives.