lowiqengineer

I’m an L4 at Amazon and will make about $150k this year (inclusive of stock growth). My job is fine, but I constantly struggle and wrestle with the fact that my job is considered unimpressive by my peers, and that…

I'm considering starting a new job hunt, but I'm out of practice. Unlike most folks, I still haven't gotten into competitive companies after doing ~250 or so problems (perhaps because of my aforementioned IQ leading to…

There are countless YC founders and other notable engineers who dropped out of elite schools like MIT and Stanford and yet more who talk about going to their state school despite getting into better institutions. I…

I know about a few finance blogs but most don’t address folks like me - single, no debt, but crushed by high rent and a mediocre 401k match. I currently put in 28% of my pretax income into my 401k and have been for 4…

I’m currently a software engineer at a big tech company. One thing that has always bothered me is that I always do poorly on standardized tests, such as the SAT (~2200, but with a 700 Math, lower than anyone I know). I…