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Girlfriend is nearing H1B Deadline (Blind)

• bonbonB (Apple): You’ll have to marry her
• EfYK67 (Atlassian): Just get a paper marriage. Why complicate things or make more stress for her?
• slackerswe (Microsoft): Congratulations on your upcoming wedding.

Husband left Meta and so happy now (Blind)

• Abcdmicros (ex-Microsoft): I had opportunities to move to Meta and Uber, but I choose Microsoft instead, and even now Microsoft is too fast paced. The reason is , my parents they worked hard to give me the best education and opportunities, but they were never around and my father passed way at 60 without even enjoying his retirement or meeting his grandson. So at the end he lost his business , all these things they don’t matter anymore , what we miss is him not the money. So with the education he gave me I can have a good job 200k+ and enjoy life and be present to my kiddo and wife. Remember time will never comeback , and some people will do anything for money, even sacrifice your mental health to achieve their goals.
• BkVX37 (Celestica): 3.8M is good enough to live a comfortable life and being financially secure.
• prepprep (LinkedIn): You only need money to protect your investments going forward. Let the 3.8 million grow while you and your husband find a low stress job.
  
  In another 4-5 years 3.8 million will grow to 6-7 million which should be enough to retire.

Offer eval for friend: OpenAI or Etched (Blind)

• GcgS40 (Yardi): OpenAI without a doubt. Etched is extremely overhyped right now and there are problems with their chips right now. There are several ai chip startups that will overtake Etched, OpenAI has already cemented itself as one of the best, this isn’t even worth considering.
• missingm (ex-Stripe): Had to go through the same decision + 2 other companies.
  
  Picked openai at the end. Etched has better upside sure but is much more risky, it could just as easily go down. OpenAI will go up and undervalued at their current valuation. At this point a small drop in openai’s valuation could cause negative waves through the market. With etched they can collapse and the market might not budge.
  
  My 2 cents is if your friend wants to take a big bet on becoming worth 9 figures, etched is a good place to be. Otherwise take openai and still end up very wealthy.
• tufdhjfdyd (NVIDIA): 4.8 m at what valuation? Is this rsu or stock options. I wld be very wary of their valuation it keep 2x every month, and the money they hv raised v valuation does not add up.

Googlers don’t know how good they have it (Blind)

• bovr (Google): Everything moves soooo slow
  Working weekends to get pip
  Its completely team dependent
• notG3 (Google): Generic comment about grass being greener on the other side.
• HNIb88 (Apple): Yes most googlers work on avg 10-15 hours/wk and i am so jealous.

Thousand impacted at Amazon layoffs today… (Blind)

• geniusMind (Meta): I wish my ex manager is canned
• ngkY33 (Amazon): i read a comment on reddit a few days back that there would be 2 rounds - October 7th and somehwere near 27th. 7th came true. I think 27th also would.
• IlIIl|lIIl (Roku): Leadership at Amazon