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Husband ask about hypothetical layoff (Blind)
- stegosauru (Google): You sound terrible
- WeWerrk (Google): I asked my wife this recently and her response was, ‘we’ll figure it or maybe we’ll just FIRE’. She’s amazing. Glad I’m not married to someone like OP lol
- AgentOfAI (Microsoft): Man tech people have 0 emotional quotient. Wondering how your marriage held up so long
Rejected by Anthropic twice, so Elon took me in. (Blind)
- Fiinbale (itana): Elon Musk D-rider. You’ll be perfect for xai
- tiredness (Apache Software Foundation): Good luck working for Elon.
- KeWO35 (Amazon): Just want to say Kudos to you for going through the entire emotional roller coaster of making it through multiple rounds and still not closing the deal. And that too twice! Conpanies dont realize the mental toll the prep and the process takes. There should be a way to compensate for this.
Nvidia is in for a rough phase (Blind)
- kea21$ (NVIDIA): I hear “tell me more about your cuda graphs” is a great opener at bars
- k3hpxz (NVIDIA): Lmfao ok bud
- jUtX47 (Cerebras Systems): Pretty stupid move by China. Jensen would have anyway sold to China which is the right move. Export controls are dumb. You don’t need to honeypot him. Now nobody will sell to China.
Should I join Google? (Blind)
- layoffs 🫡 (ex-Google): Lowkey they should rescind your offer if you’re actually debating on this
- donewithit (Google): ‘you can survive a year or 2’ and the alternative is a Google L4 offer;
and the offer doubles your TC;
TAKE IT! Even if you don’t like the team you can change teams within Google; lots of options at L4 - WEXiE9ysg5 (Meta): How long was your team-matching? (I’ve been in L4 team-matching for 1 month and only 1 call and they filled it internally)
Bay area AI job market & “networking” questions (Blind)
- chat2 (Meta): 1. Yes, just move
2. Not even a little if you are good and zero if you are great - amanreddy7 (Meta): From the AI infrastructure side, I would say the trip is worth it only if you go with a specific goal. Meetups help when you can talk about one concrete thing you built or fixed, like a cluster problem or a network issue, because that is what hiring managers remember. Just showing up to network in general rarely moves the needle. On the market itself, the part I see hiring actively is the infra side, people who can build and run the clusters, while generalist AI roles get a lot of applicants. Are you aiming at research roles, or at infra and engineering roles? That changes which meetups are worth your time.
- datjvdsbnn (Uber): Meetups are full of bums with less experience than you, just apply to companies you’re interested in and then move for them. Your resume should be fine to get a non research ml job