canada

[storm stream]

undefeated

[fickle juniper]

bro same

still never been rejected by OpenAI

[storm stream]

objectively you're better than Sam Altman

[fickle juniper]

perfect logic right there

[storm stream]

bro if Sam Altman got pip'd

how long do you think @timid tartan will survive at AWS

[steel escarp]

quite a while

[timid tartan]

0

[steel escarp]

every company needs a FE engineer

[timid tartan]

Literally pip'ed right after the onboarding

[fickle juniper]

@timid tartan will be BackToDepression in no time

[timid tartan]

[fickle juniper]

r u making fun of FE engineers?

[storm stream]

mf how are you back to depression

you got top 3 offer in canada

[timid tartan]

And top 3 most expensive city to live in

[storm stream]

maybe top 2

[candid oxide]

top 1

[timid tartan]

True

LMAO

[fickle juniper]

do ppl still complain about Zon wlb?

[storm stream]

who said you have to live in Vancouver? Have you heard of white rock?

[fickle juniper]

or is that over now that offers are so rare

[timid tartan]

LLLMAAAAOOOOOOOOOO

[steel escarp]

no i actually got rekt at FE when I was interning at IBM

respect for steven

[timid tartan]

Mf

I won't be doing FE at AWS

[fickle juniper]

is Steven a fe engineer? lawl

[lapis tide]

you should

[timid tartan]

No lmao

I'm bad at it

[storm stream]

LMAAAOOO

[fickle juniper]

isn't he like everything cuz he's had like 20 internships

[steel escarp]

I remember u said the same thing last year

[lapis tide]

70 of which are faang

[fickle juniper]

wait ur steven??

[storm stream]

Steven is the Mathew Chanda of Canada

[timid tartan]

Stfu it won't happen lol

[storm stream]

[steel escarp]

this one as well

[fickle juniper]

u changed ur discord LMAO

[timid tartan]

[timid tartan]

Yeah

[fickle juniper]

oh LMAO

[lapis tide]

dox

[timid tartan]

[timid tartan]

Half of that is not even legit internship lol

[fickle juniper]

good strat ngl

cover all the ATS terms

[timid tartan]

Also it's not 20 for sure

LOL

[steel escarp]

bro this mf steven took pictures with his team at AWS in a picnic trip and flexed it on instagram

[timid tartan]

Meh

[timid tartan]

LLLMAAAAOOO SHUT UP

[fickle juniper]

[storm stream]

LMMMMFFFFFFFFFFFAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[fickle juniper]

i mean i would flex it too

[storm stream]

holy fuck Im ded

[timid tartan]

I really shouldn't have let you follow me on IG

[storm stream]

[timid tartan]

Stfu 😭

[storm stream]

the infamous grouse picnic

LMMMFFAAAAAOOOOOOOOO

yo dm me your ig

[timid tartan]

I mean hey when else AWS is being non-frugal

[steel escarp]

when steven joins and leads the team

[timid tartan]

Mf

[timid tartan]

Ngl that's true

[steel escarp]

am i ever wrong?

[storm stream]

nah he will sell YVR14 and make everyone work from tents

mf is so cheap

[fickle juniper]

holy fk we have someone from Circle AND AWS, too much TC ngl

[storm stream]

I mean....frugal

[timid tartan]

LMAO

[storm stream]

well... that's still one person

[steel escarp]

you're making 200k at hubspot 👀

[timid tartan]

That's @steel escarp

[storm stream]

[fickle juniper]

i wish

[candid oxide]

are u remote canda or onsite in ma

[fickle juniper]

i am remote in WA

[storm stream]

USD or CAD 👀

[fickle juniper]

tho am in Van atm

[storm stream]

do you have to pay tax in both countries rn?

[fickle juniper]

there is a tax treaty

so technically no

but this yr I will be a resident of Canada

[storm stream]

[steel escarp]

he's in state 🤣

[fickle juniper]

so I will probably pay Canadian taxes 💀

[storm stream]

fuckkkkkkk

[fickle juniper]

altho actually idk how that works

[storm stream]

😭

[steel escarp]

I thought u can declare as a non resident

[candid oxide]

didnt hubspot bump pay super high

[steel escarp]

in canada

[candid oxide]

in last yr

[steel escarp]

hubspot pays u thru us bank right?

[fickle juniper]

yeah, but I was alr in Canada for 6 months before starting

residency is based on how long you were in Canada pretty much

[steel escarp]

hmm

lol

idk that

[fickle juniper]

I started in June, so I think i'm automatically a Canadian resident

[fickle juniper]

it did go up a lot

but so did the expectations

[steel escarp]

need to get my citizenship and dip asap 🤣

[fickle juniper]

can't go weeks without a PR anymore

[candid oxide]

was kinda mad hearing they bumped after they rejected me for intern after good interview last yr 💀

[steel escarp]

actually? 👀

i thought hubspot paid like 40s for interns in canada last year

@timid tartan ditched them

[fickle juniper]

they bumped product pay across the board

I got a 15% bump in base before even starting

[storm stream]

Wowwwww

HubSpot is goals

[steel escarp]

fck wish circle did that

[timid tartan]

???????

[steel escarp]

wut

👀

[storm stream]

i went to this hubspot talk then got a "interest form" for future positions

last week

[timid tartan]

I didn't even ditch

[storm stream]

I was like mf hiring season is over

[timid tartan]

I just withdrew my app

Bcs I already signed CB offer at that time

[steel escarp]

so u did ditch them

[timid tartan]

How is that ditching

[steel escarp]

how's not

🤣

[fickle juniper]

m8 u'd probably have HS offer if you took it

they let you pick US or Canada

[steel escarp]

^

[storm stream]

nah the thing is

[timid tartan]

Je ne apprends pas

[fickle juniper]

altho honestly no way to tell

at that point

[storm stream]

steven is passioante about crypto

[fickle juniper]

can't really blame ya

[steel escarp]

well steven was like mathematically 50 > 40s so cb > hs

[timid tartan]

I mean

[storm stream]

steven #livescrypto

[timid tartan]

That's pretty much true

[timid tartan]

Stfu

🤣

[storm stream]

[steel escarp]

Je n'apprends pas?

[timid tartan]

Oh fuck

BRUH

[steel escarp]

you're welcome

[timid tartan]

NOOOOOOOOO I MISSED IT

[storm stream]

you failing your french test mf

[timid tartan]

Literally gonna fail

[storm stream]

[timid tartan]

😭

[steel escarp]

worse

you failed a ucalgary C- French

[timid tartan]

[fickle juniper]

french test? Dafuq are you guys in grade 12

[timid tartan]

Bruh I always missed that short form thing

[storm stream]

steven taking a GPA booster

from 4.0 to 4.1

[timid tartan]

Wdym GPA booster

[fickle juniper]

u took French as a gpa booster tu es stupide

[timid tartan]

This course is the hardest one for me this term

[timid tartan]

Nah not as a gpa booster

I just wanted to give it a try

Turns out to be hard asf

[steel escarp]

agree

[fickle juniper]

ohh ok i can respect that

[steel escarp]

stupidiest decision I have ever made

[storm stream]

you should have taken persian 101, I would help you

[fickle juniper]

bro if u took english 101

i could help u

[timid tartan]

But I kinda like French and Deutsch honestly

It's just that they're hard and need a ton of time to even be somewhat decent

[fickle juniper]

damn man called it Deutsch instead of German

[timid tartan]

[timid tartan]

That's how it's called no?

[storm stream]

ya it is

but why you gotta flex on us like that

we get it

[timid tartan]

LLLLMAAAAOOOO

[steel escarp]

oh

we call it

[fickle juniper]

it is if you're smart

[steel escarp]

deutschbag instead

[timid tartan]

Tf

[fickle juniper]

it does make u sound like a deutschbag

[storm stream]

deutsch is the java of human languages

verbose af for no fkn reason

[fickle juniper]

wow Deutsch is the greatest human language??

[storm stream]

[fickle juniper]

[timid tartan]

The longest word in the standard German dictionary is Kraftfahrzeug-Haftpflichtversicherung – which is the word for motor vehicle liability insurance.

LMFAO

How tf do you even pronounce that

[fickle juniper]

spraken de deutschs?

[storm stream]

mf you the one that took deutsch 101

[fickle juniper]

fk i can't even spell deutchse

[timid tartan]

I barely remember anything 😭

[steel escarp]

bro

steven can speak french german korean english and another language

[storm stream]

naturlisch

[timid tartan]

Mein name ist Steven

[fickle juniper]

don't forget JavaScript

(because he is a FE Engineer)

[timid tartan]

Lmfao ok I still know that one too at least

[fickle juniper]

no hate to fe

[steel escarp]

don't start it he will give u a long list

[storm stream]

LMMFFAAOOOOO

have you seen the skills section on his resume?

[timid tartan]

[timid tartan]

Yo

Stop

[fickle juniper]

languages: all of them

[timid tartan]

Mf 🤣

[storm stream]

trick question, he has so many internships that there's no room for one

[timid tartan]

LLLLMMMAAAAOOOOOOOOOOO

[timid tartan]

Tbh this is kinda true lol one of the versions of my resume has no technical skills section

[storm stream]

[lapis tide]

steven is ai shill

[fickle juniper]

man is so goated he cuts his own skills section

[steel escarp]

my skill section is so long because i have no legit exp 🤡

[timid tartan]

Nah I just wanted to maximize the keywords frequency

[fickle juniper]

my skills section is full of skills I don't actually have

[storm stream]

wdym? running the hotdog machine at 7/11 is somewhat technical

[fickle juniper]

living in Calgary, you have to shovel snow. That is a skill

[timid tartan]

He doesn't need any exp bruh

He already owns the entire Canada

[steel escarp]

nah I was in charge of the coffee machine

techlead actually

[fickle juniper]

harder than every programming language ever

[storm stream]

that's a complex scheduling problem

[fickle juniper]

Staff ||Coffee machine|| engineer

[steel escarp]

ye gotta run it every 2 hours

they can't run it without me

[fickle juniper]

sounds like a cron job to me

[steel escarp]

can't use cloud cause store manager was afraid of providers stealing users' data

[fickle juniper]

Java (Coffee) Engineer

[stable ravine]

? called me?

[fickle juniper]

I said Staff, not Principal

[storm stream]

Damn I just got rejected for referral at CB... didn't even make it to submit resume stage

CB is ruthless

[stable ravine]

encrypt beforre storing

[fickle juniper]

damn that's rough

[storm stream]

should I tell him I know @timid tartan personally?

[timid tartan]

Bro

I told you

[lapis tide]

yes

[timid tartan]

Mf

[fickle juniper]

only if you want to be insta promoted to IC9

[steel escarp]

@timid tartan got rejected for a staff position

he's still salty bout it

[fickle juniper]

Isn't he Principal at AWS tho? It owrked out i think

[lapis tide]

senior > staff

[timid tartan]

[storm stream]

[timid tartan]

Nah I'm Andy Jassy Jr

[fickle juniper]

damn r u friends with Jeff Bezos Jr?

cuz he the real boss ngl

[timid tartan]

[storm stream]

enjoy your mansion in Point Grey

you got one of the highest offers in Canada mf

[fickle juniper]

highest offers in Canada but living in Van = almost homeless but not quite

[storm stream]

LMMAAAOOO

[fickle juniper]

[steel escarp]

i bet steven won't stay at aws for more than a year

🤣

he will try to hop asap

[lapis tide]

alexa org

[fickle juniper]

hop to where 💀

[storm stream]

nah there's no higher pay

he staying 100%

[fickle juniper]

maybe US

idt there are many opportunities for 1YOE

2YOE maybe

[steel escarp]

I think there's Asana and Chime?

👀

There's apple vancouver as well

[fickle juniper]

true

[timid tartan]

👀

[fickle juniper]

but not sure if those are worth after just 1YOE

[storm stream]

Steven will be using chime everyday tho

[steel escarp]

google can prob pay higher if he has competing offer which he already had

[timid tartan]

We'll see

[steel escarp]

not we will

i already saw it

[storm stream]

[timid tartan]

[fickle juniper]

aren't u alr 1YOE?

[steel escarp]

not yet

next march

[fickle juniper]

man talking about himself

[steel escarp]

lol

I need to do all the stupid immigration stuff

[fickle juniper]

just let us know which companies are best for 1YOE

[storm stream]

don't leave before you refer us to Circle pls

😭

[steel escarp]

then i'll think about it later

[fickle juniper]

and Steven will follow

[timid tartan]

@steel escarp is incoming Distinguished Engineer at Stripe

[fickle juniper]

wow Stripe really lowered their bar

[steel escarp]

ye ready to lose money?

[timid tartan]

[fickle juniper]

JK

[steel escarp]

have you ever heard of a new feature called double transaction? 👀

[fickle juniper]

man is 🐐

[timid tartan]

LMFAO

😭

[fickle juniper]

pretty hard to get an offer at Square Hexagon Circle

[steel escarp]

it was not that hard. I just told them I knew steven

[storm stream]

LMAO

[fickle juniper]

[storm stream]

let's see how it goes

[steel escarp]

🤣

[fickle juniper]

damn, grats on offer!

[storm stream]

LMMFAAOO

[steel escarp]

bro gotta link steven's linkedin

show him the shared connection

[timid tartan]

[storm stream]

I have so many people from CB on linkedin

ready to refer me

but no jobs

😭

[fickle juniper]

damn i gotta get me a referral for CB

and Circle

[storm stream]

are you at 1 yoe yet?

[fickle juniper]

r/overworked

[storm stream]

you should go for it

[fickle juniper]

not yet, am at 6months

[storm stream]

sheeeit

soon

[fickle juniper]

nah, i don't plan on leaving any time soon

[storm stream]

[steel escarp]

me neither lol

wlb is awesome and product is not that bad

[storm stream]

tbh hopping after 1 year is risky these days

[steel escarp]

but they can def pay me more 👀

[storm stream]

it's not like before

[fickle juniper]

I have much to learn still

[hushed orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/sad-cry-crying-tears-broken-gif-15062040

[fickle juniper]

and no complaints about pay/wlb/etc

[steel escarp]

you can ask them to use rust 👀

[storm stream]

show them your competing offer from 2sigma

[fickle juniper]

for a sec I thought Steven changed his pfp

[fickle juniper]

that'd be fun

but i doubt it

[steel escarp]

they won't care about it

[fickle juniper]

we do have some Python and Go, but not on my team

[storm stream]

the most cracked person in #canada

[timid tartan]

A homeless beggar at East Hastings St

[steel escarp]

at least he lives a rentfree life

[storm stream]

[candid oxide]

whens best time to hop

[timid tartan]

LLLMMAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOO

[candid oxide]

2 yoe?

[storm stream]

1.5 to 2 imo

[steel escarp]

usually 2-3 years so u can get to the next level

there're some people that are extremely cracked that can get to the next level in a year

[storm stream]

3 years to hit ic4?

😭

[candid oxide]

what if flat company

[steel escarp]

for external hire usually

for circle its 1 for sde1, 3 for sde2 and 5 for senior

[storm stream]

3 for sde2

tf?

[steel escarp]

ye lol

[storm stream]

that's double the average

LMAO

[steel escarp]

internally it can be faster

ik some people got promoted after 9 months

[storm stream]

ohhhhh I see Isee

[fickle juniper]

honestly that's pretty good

[steel escarp]

that's pretty standard lol

[timid tartan]

I know someone who got promoted in 6 months

[storm stream]

in 2021-2022 people would hop every 6-8 months 🤣

shit was wild

[fickle juniper]

HS it's like SWE -> 1-2yrs for SSWE1 -> another 2-5 yrs for SSWE2

[timid tartan]

This is at CB though

But he told me he worked ~60-70 hrs consistently until he got promoted

[steel escarp]

idk because depending on the company but some places have 1 year cliff

so if you leave before a year u need to return all the sign on bonus

[fickle juniper]

holy fk

[storm stream]

I know someone who made it to Staff in 3 years

she interviewed me and fucked me

😭

[fickle juniper]

Staff at Coinbase???

[storm stream]

at Ramp

[timid tartan]

What kind of fucked are we talking about here

There are two meanings

[storm stream]

the one that leaves you jobless and homeless

🤣

[timid tartan]

LMFAO

[steel escarp]

ye its def possible to fast track the promotion

it just depends on if its worth it

idk if like 15% raise on base worth like 80 hr work week

[candid oxide]

pavel?

[storm stream]

ariel

how do you know Pavel

[candid oxide]

reason i didnt get ramp last yr

[storm stream]

you got boned by a staff eng also?

😭

[candid oxide]

got fkd by trivia

[storm stream]

no way

😭

did you try again for this year or nah?

[candid oxide]

#2024_grad_process message

[storm stream]

you interviewed TWICE before

damn

[candid oxide]

💀

[storm stream]

what round was the trivia?

[candid oxide]

one of teh technicals in fi nal round

[storm stream]

fuckkk

why would he ask trivia

so random 😭

can I dm about the questions you got?

[candid oxide]

ye

it was like unix trivia

i t hink u alr dmed me b4

💀

[storm stream]

LMMAAOOOOO

I'm not surprised

[timid tartan]

Bro is literally the biggest Ramp simp ever

[candid oxide]

fuuuck ramp

[storm stream]

stfu

[candid oxide]

its just a credit card

[storm stream]

😭

[candid oxide]

💀

[storm stream]

yeah fuck ramp

I totally don't desperately wanna work there

[candid oxide]

😭

[timid tartan]

[tawny zephyr]

is there an internship ez to get for inexperienced people

😁

not STEP or any of the other ones

[drifting shore]

no internship is ez to get

[tawny zephyr]

I guess I am trying to ask

are there companies that are lenient about hiring people

people who arent in uni yet for example

[drifting shore]

iirc ibm and amazon got some special program for highschoolers

[tawny zephyr]

bro screw ibm

they genuinely dont take anyone

wb amzn

[steel escarp]

how's cohere? 👀

I think your best bet will be some local start up

[tawny zephyr]

waiting for december

thats when they told me to reach out

Dec 15

thats when I get CMU decision

[steel escarp]

👀

CMU + cohere

[tawny zephyr]

nah i'd rather not work then

[steel escarp]

who r u goat?

🤣

[tawny zephyr]

if I get in lol

[tawny zephyr]

wish

[steel escarp]

don't forget me 😭

[tawny zephyr]

🙏

[steel escarp]

y not btw

every experience counted

[tawny zephyr]

do fun stuff

wherever i go i'll have to do work

one summer I rather just relax

work on side projects

go on drives

work on my car

be a functional human being

[storm stream]

hows MIT ash

[tawny zephyr]

its great

[storm stream]

[tawny zephyr]

yessir

hows princeton?

[storm stream]

princeton sucks

[tawny zephyr]

dang

hope it gets better

[storm stream]

LMAO

I go to top 10 in canada

keep in mind there's like 14 unis

calgary

graduated and worthless

[tawny zephyr]

currently yes

formerly lived in Canada

[storm stream]

I remember when ash first joined the server

lil bro is grown up 🥹

[tawny zephyr]

was a lil squeaker back then

🐿️

actually I think my voice was deep back then as well

@storm stream dont you do startup stuff

[storm stream]

wdym?

[tawny zephyr]

have u made ur own startup

I am pitching to investors tmrw

so if u had any advice lol

[storm stream]

hell no

whats your startup

pitch me

I watch a lot of dragons den

[tawny zephyr]

whats dragons den

is it shark tank

but knockoff

I see

[storm stream]

i think it existed before shark tank actually

[tawny zephyr]

oh

[storm stream]

but anyway

what are you making

I'm interested

[tawny zephyr]

an application to help you learn languages using Augmented Reality

a lot of people are visual learners

we'll give people the ability to find objects from their surroundings and learn what that object is in other languages

[storm stream]

I see I see

using yolo?

[tawny zephyr]

unusual ventures and a few more

[tawny zephyr]

made it during a hackathon

so just hardcoded it LOL

but the vision is to use GPT's vision api

yeah its not

imgs

thats what my goal was at the hackathon

I teamed up with 1 berk cs student

and a stanford phd student

they didnt help at all

left the hser to do everything

I think I did the best with what I could

[storm stream]

my only concern is that doing this real time will have horrible performance

[tawny zephyr]

i mean im not computing locally

all cloud

it is a competition

theres gonna be other teams pitching

[soft hamlet]

anyone doing KPMG ace the case

[tawny zephyr]

honestly i'd take it

[soft hamlet]

I'm slowly liking business things more and more 💤

[tawny zephyr]

even tho it's 20k

[soft hamlet]

no

not worth it

[tawny zephyr]

its enough to switch my status from H4 -> O1

immigration purposes

[soft hamlet]

that instantly devalues your company

https://tenor.com/view/fade-away-oooooooooooo-aga-emoji-crumble-gif-20008708

[tawny zephyr]

oh

maybe this isnt that

[storm stream]

ez 100k

[tawny zephyr]

how yk if its a pitch comp

whats ngmi

[tawny zephyr]

if I do get an offer

which I think I can

because im gonna use duolingo as an example

and it has no competitor

[rain delta]

true

[tawny zephyr]

i see

[rain delta]

a studio in van is like $3k

[tawny zephyr]

if I do get an offer for equity should I take it?

not my cash idgaf

for high schooler I think its good

can write on college apps

💀

my friend got 1 mil funding

to start off

and then 400 - 500k after

[soft hamlet]

if you take investor money then you have to keep going with it

😔

liabilities 😔

aaa

[storm stream]

yeah who fkn cares just go for it

[soft hamlet]

can't run away with the 20k

[storm stream]

it's good exp

[soft hamlet]

^

[tawny zephyr]

honestly I dont think its gonna be all that big

[tawny zephyr]

of course

[soft hamlet]

just go for it, explore your options

[storm stream]

product idea is meh tho

maybe investors will buy

[soft hamlet]

and see what happens

[tawny zephyr]

yeah

I dont even have a corp setup or anything

[soft hamlet]

that's what I did when I first started 😄

[tawny zephyr]

is that fine

[storm stream]

in my AR/MR class another team did exactly what you described

lots of potential

could publish

but implementation is fucked

[tawny zephyr]

implementation could be improved

[soft hamlet]

code review time

[tawny zephyr]

I did this

on no sleep

< 15 hours

[storm stream]

well you hardcoded

[tawny zephyr]

no

I had the API code ready

just couldnt button it all up

[stable ravine]

@tawny zephyr you're in hs?

[tawny zephyr]

and I did it with taking a photo at first

[storm stream]

I mean the object detection part

[tawny zephyr]

Yes McLovin, I am

[stable ravine]

jk

[tawny zephyr]

im gonna call u McLovin

[tawny zephyr]

been here since gr 10 bro

ur kinda late

[tawny zephyr]

wb google vision

[stable ravine]

I joined here 3months before my graduation

[storm stream]

taking a picture isn't useful... you want some sort of live interaction right?

[stable ravine]

😭

[tawny zephyr]

yea

another team did it for a hackathon

wdym

[tawny zephyr]

dang

where do u go

should I say im a hser

will that lose me credibility

or gain me credibility

prob lose

[stable ravine]

credibility where?

[tawny zephyr]

u have a specific 1 in mind?

[tawny zephyr]

to investors

[storm stream]

yolo is the most popular

[stable ravine]

not in this market

[tawny zephyr]

i see

if I get 20k

I have a partner btw

[storm stream]

so can you descrive a use case?

[stable ravine]

isn't yolo dead ass old?

[tawny zephyr]

my point was to use an analogy

of how kids learn languages

🫡

@storm stream and do they make u offers on the spot

[rain delta]

hows the job market doing rn

[tawny zephyr]

bad

I rejected Cohere

biggest regret

[storm stream]

the team in my class pointed at things, classified objects with yolo, and generated an educational back and forth convo with GPT

[tawny zephyr]

wish I deferred it

[storm stream]

it ran at like 2FPS

LMAO

[stable ravine]

https://tenor.com/view/empty-roll-tumbleweed-gif-5514767

[tawny zephyr]

hmmm

I think I can speed it up

I know of someone who did it

will steal take inspo from them

[storm stream]

yeah it's possible

this is last year, gpt vision wasn't a thing yet

a lootttt has changed

[tawny zephyr]

mhm

momo

so lets say

I get 50k

best case scenario

split it into 2 cuz I also got a partner

do I get 25k in my pocket?

[storm stream]

do they just give you cash with no conditions like that?

[tawny zephyr]

no clue

@mystic gull

[stable ravine]

@tawny zephyr you're a research intern?

[tawny zephyr]

yep

uoft

I am on uoft's website

[stable ravine]

🤔

[stable ravine]

link?

your id says cali

[tawny zephyr]

etal.vicu.utoronto.ca

about us

all the way down

I see

do they make offers on the spot

or is it like

get back to you in 3 - 5 business days kinda thing

[storm stream]

ash you can get into snap research with your uoft lab exp

[stable ravine]

cracked .. please don't forget mclovins when you become vp in 6-7 yrs from now

[storm stream]

my friend at calgary was at a similar lab

did a couple summers at snap

[tawny zephyr]

fr?

[storm stream]

ya

[tawny zephyr]

🙏 I wont McLovin

I see

theres gonna be multiple vcs

ig so?

I didnt pitch yet

they saw our project

and gave us greenlight

how much $$$ did u get

idea?

no

I dont really like my partner

very unclear on communication

abt what

me not liking her

or unclear communication

yes

I told her please tell me before u take meetings with others

or change time

so I dont skip class for nothing

and shes tryna put it on me being like and please tell me your school hours type shit

and I like bruh

8:30 - 3:30

general high school hours

and what part about lunch from 12:39 - 1:16 is unclear

ppl do that?

im fine with working with her

i'll take what I can get

its just slightly annoying sometimes

no

I am basically doing everything technical

the reason shes involved is cuz she did the hackathon w/ me

and told me about this opp

to pitch

which im fine with

defo

its not even about shares

I wanna work with people

dont even have to be inclined technically

but I want to make it worth my time whether I get funding or not

so like what can u teach me yk?

where do you find funding events

I see

will look into this

I alr told unis im applying to I am pitching

so if i get an offer even if I dont accept it imma send another update

if I dont then no update

yeah

what im tryna do is

recruiter at cohere

she told me to reach out to her in dec

im gonna make a linkedin post about this so she sees

even if no funding

and then if I get into CMU

imma email her and hopefully secure job for the summer

[stable ravine]

if I?

[tawny zephyr]

wdym chanced

[tawny zephyr]

yes

if I

comp is tough

unsure

my situation is unique

moved countries twice

I rizzed an admissions officer at CMU tho

assistant director of ug admissions

she likes me I think

and then my ecs which I think are above avg

its a dice roll tbh lol

[stable ravine]

aren't you like top 1% it's p much free entry for you. what's your SAT score?

[weak gazelle]

CMU pog

[tawny zephyr]

ACT

[weak gazelle]

funny thing about america is the goated schools almost guaranteed you a goated job

[tawny zephyr]

I didnt study

got 29

[weak gazelle]

but not in canada

[tawny zephyr]

I fucked up

GPA is below avg as well

but its not horrible

[tawny zephyr]

job market

same for CMU imo

[weak gazelle]

nah it's just true in geenral

in canada

[tawny zephyr]

dang

[weak gazelle]

i don't see a Stanford CS grad not landing a 150k job 2 years after grad

[stable ravine]

your research exp is p solid

[weak gazelle]

and i've seen CMU grads with like 0 internship exp land HFT

[stable ravine]

test scores

[tawny zephyr]

das crazy

[tawny zephyr]

if u think thats solid

acc

if u wanna see full ecs

i'll send in dms

[stable ravine]

ecs?

[tawny zephyr]

extracurrics

[stable ravine]

.... you have guiness record or wahat? 💀

dm

[tawny zephyr]

nah

[worldly ridge]

lmao ash u were in nationals for badminton

dis kid lowkey humble

[tawny zephyr]

no I wasnt

school team

I suck at badminton LOL

[worldly ridge]

no

nationals

stop ur capping

[tawny zephyr]

no im srs

I suck

sike

[worldly ridge]

man choosing between badmintkn pro or SWE

tough choice but good on u

[tawny zephyr]

thanks bro

my dad says badminton isnt a real career

[worldly ridge]

yeah i understand why

u need to be in top 10 to makw real money

idk tho bro u mightve made it 😉

u have insane smashes and placements

[tawny zephyr]

yeah

we played

u were crazy too

[worldly ridge]

wen i was ur age u r way more cracked den me

i stopped coaching at gr 10 tho. decided to focus on school too

[tawny zephyr]

🙏

u woulda been the next star fr

serena williams type shi

[worldly ridge]

yeah but nah, now im just a 🤓

[tawny zephyr]

its fine

SWE gonna pay big

[worldly ridge]

badmjnton coulda pay big 😭

[stable ravine]

wen I was his age I don't even remember doing anything

[tawny zephyr]

fr

[tawny zephyr]

honestly

I dont know

people say ur smart and stuff

its just not true

I would say committed is the right word

[worldly ridge]

lil bro ur friends with mciheal cera

[stable ravine]

committed to grind?

[tawny zephyr]

yea

I would say if we're talking straight intellectual ability

there are people wayyyy better than me

who others would consider "failures"

im just average person

trying to make the most of what I have

did Neclo get banned

[worldly ridge]

i tink he did

kekw

[tawny zephyr]

😭

[grave quest]

[zenith eagle]

gm frens

how's everyone doomin this morn?

[fiery prism]

No jobs

No life

And it’s snowing

[candid oxide]

[timid tartan]

Dooming everyday, every hour, every minute, every second

[zenith eagle]

wow look at mr bloomer here

i'm doomin everyday, hour, min, second, milisecond, ...., quectosecond, zeptosecond

[drifting shore]

anyone interviewed with wayfair before?

[timid tartan]

You mean mr boomer?

[zenith eagle]

no, bloomer as in the opposite of doomer

since ain't dooming like me

[timid tartan]

I know that, but I am dooming

That's why it's boomer, not bloomer

[zenith eagle]

boomer has it's own diff meaning

and as i said you not on my level of doomin

[timid tartan]

That might be true

[candid oxide]

bro stop dooming u have job 😭

[zenith eagle]

mfer really wants to larp as still being in the trenches

smh

[timid tartan]

Doesn't mean that Canada isn't doomed tho

[zenith eagle]

ok?

and?

[timid tartan]

That's it

[zenith eagle]

we're asking u why you doomin, not that why are you doomin about canada

go enjoy life as one of god's favourite child in this economy

[timid tartan]

Enjoy life

[zenith eagle]

this guy

[lapis tide]

fr

[timid tartan]

Nah I'm still grinding for finals and then I'll be grinding LC

[zenith eagle]

are the tables in highland hall still wobbly?

[timid tartan]

I'm not at UTSC this semester loool

Taking courses at UTSG

[zenith eagle]

man i regret attending utsc

should have gone to sg

[timid tartan]

I actually don't like SG lmao

It's too big so it's hard to go from one class to another

[zenith eagle]

thats one reason why i love it

sc feels like a cramped highschool

campus is ok during spring/summer but winter it's literally a post nuclear holocaust bunker

and i find the people at SG seem more well adjusted?

utsc seems very program cliquey and i didn't really gel with most of the cs peeps since they were in cliques from highschool who all attended utsc

i found no value in attending class at utsc, like what's the point? it's an island in the middle of suburbia

at least at sg you got downtime u can walk to the rom, explore the older collegiate gothic buildings, visit the uoft museams, go the LOA in queens park, go to a restaurant, just so much stuff to do

[timid tartan]

Uh

Ok I guess we can agree to disagree lol

[timid tartan]

In my POV, this is 100% a waste of time lol

[zenith eagle]

it's fun when u meet people and just shoot the shit and waste time

like on a lazy friday

and u have class early morn late eve

[timid tartan]

No but like I usually do school full time + work part time / full time

There’s no way I have the time anyway

[lapis tide]

back to depression

[timid tartan]

Esp if it’s school + work full time, I gotta optimize everything lol

[zenith eagle]

tru

that's why like after first semester first year i just attending class

[timid tartan]

SG would have eaten a ton of time for just walking to the classes loool

[zenith eagle]

i dont learn from class and i was going to utsc so no social aspect to it anyways

[timid tartan]

🤣

???? Lmao wtf

[candid oxide]

Did it for 2 terms to farm some money

[timid tartan]

I kinda did it for almost every semester

Some semesters are hell bcs of it

[candid oxide]

loo classes are waste profs always give some easy ass exams ☠️

[timid tartan]

Some semesters are okay-ish

[candid oxide]

Uoft marks way harder

[timid tartan]

👀

Well you can argue that’s a good thing lol

[candid oxide]

Ya it is for me cuz I hate school

[timid tartan]

Lmao

I’ve been feeling guilty for not working this semester tbh

[zenith eagle]

uoft was annoying af

so much math theory and theory and less emphasis on assignments for a few of the first year cs classes

[candid oxide]

my gf goes to utsg and we were comparing class averages and my class avgs were like 10-15% higher every year

[zenith eagle]

and then i remeber they had to downcurve us

😢

[timid tartan]

See this depends on ur perspective

I personally love the theoretical and mathy stuff lmao

It’s subjective

[zenith eagle]

for cs courses that are not like full theory

why have the marking scheme like 50% final?

[candid oxide]

Should enjoy some time before becoming wagie lol

[zenith eagle]

?????

i want to get more hands on exp time

schools like cmu get it right

[timid tartan]

Well yeaaaa but hey it’s kinda a career gap

[zenith eagle]

they fucking force u through hell week

very handson

[timid tartan]

Just cut sleep

[timid tartan]

🤣

[zenith eagle]

i compare uoft courses to cmu and it's the inverse like cmu is heavy on impelmeation they teach u theory and expect u to implement it

uoft is like no lets not, anyway heres more lemmas and thrms

[timid tartan]

Yea I agree

Uoft is very theory-focused

But idk I kinda like it lmao

I’m taking a computer networks course this sem and they have two variations: the regular one with implementation focus, the other one with theory + math/proofs but 0 implementation

I chose the theory one lmao

[zenith eagle]

why?

[timid tartan]

Idk tbh I’ve always liked math 😂

I wanted to major in math not CS lol

[zenith eagle]

u literally don't learn shit from the theory/math for a swe

ah

[worldly ridge]

hi friend

[zenith eagle]

makes sense

[timid tartan]

I know lmao

[zenith eagle]

i remeber i had paco second sem first year for cs course in c

[timid tartan]

I almost always do better on mathy courses than programming ones tho

[zenith eagle]

we were talking about LinkedLists and how to implement ur own datatype and he just gave us the theory lecture and i asked can you show us how to implement this in C and he's like no there's no time

[timid tartan]

LMAAAAAOOOOO

That’s weird

I remember he went through it when I took the course with him

[zenith eagle]

and then exams u had to write C code in pen and paper 😢

[timid tartan]

But anyway

[grave quest]

hi friend

[timid tartan]

I do agree that uoft is not for everybody lol

[grave quest]

[zenith eagle]

i was so paranoid about forgetting a semicolon or something

[timid tartan]

For 90% of cs students I think uoft is a waste of time

[zenith eagle]

i don't mind if it's too theoretical if it was less work so u get time to implement and explore things on ur own

but nooooo

anyway rant over

time to get back to the grind

[timid tartan]

Tbh the strong theory/math kinda helped me once in corporate world.

I remember during my CB internship, I wrote a verfication procedure on some graphs and I wanted to optimize it. But the optimization wasn’t trivial so I wrote a mathematical proof in the PR to show the correctness

[zenith eagle]

that's pretty cool

[candid oxide]

[timid tartan]

Although honestly I don’t think the reviewer understood what I wrote anyway 🤣

[zenith eagle]

what was it specifically?

im ngl i don't think i've used any of the cs concepts in my webdev internships like at all

don't think i've used recursion

don't think i've used any complex DS aside from hashmaps

don't think i've used graphs not really

why i hate webdev

[timid tartan]

I don’t remember tbh but I do remember I had to use some set theory lmao

[zenith eagle]

feels like i'm not using my degree

[timid tartan]

Also proof by contradiction kind of thing

[candid oxide]

bro I might finally be escaping web dev

😭

[zenith eagle]

for ng?

bless

[candid oxide]

ya

[zenith eagle]

like i feel like such a soydev working in JS/react or any frontend/rails/node

[candid oxide]

I did so much rails too b4

[zenith eagle]

i hated rails with a passion

[timid tartan]

This is exactly why I really liked my CB internship lol

My entire internship was me writing graph algorithms and recursions

[zenith eagle]

bro i want to use the stuff i learnt

[timid tartan]

It was like a big LC problem

[zenith eagle]

oh nice

[timid tartan]

Yea no APIs and shit