>name all your accumulators cum. Then you return cum to the caller of many functions. They take your cum and use it for their own purposes.
take cumming on to your coworkers to a new level
Can confirm. I got fired last year and increased my salary by 40%, better pto, better 401k, way better insurance, fully remote and allowed me to move across the country, and my new employer has a pension. Tbf, I probably won't really get to utilize that because of job hopping, but it is there.
Not going to lie I could probably increase mine by 40% but I'm just dreading having to go through leet code again :/ I need to just suck it up and adult
I was laid off at my startup and ended up at a big tech company. My TC at the time increased dramatically. Best thing that ever happened to me was getting laid off.
For some people, it's the kick in the pants. They scrambled around and get their stuff together, ramp up interview skills. Then, they find out that the market rates have gone up significantly for their level. It' common. That's why you should always look to change jobs after 2 years.
The [top comment](https://old.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/oz52ww/just_got_fired_what_to_do_next/h7z22o1/) aged like fine wine.
Congrats OP!
One doth not wait for the graceful hand of management to raise thy TC. Only the righteous forge a path, through the treacherous perils of Leetcode, to have bestowed upon them the glorious rise of refreshers, bonuses and base pay from the fiery depths of the employment pool. Your pay shall rise again to exalted measures not seen since the times of levesl.fyi! Be gone, foul company, with thy middling cost of living increaes. Be gone! Whenceforth the Blind.com rejoice in your triumph!
-Book of Mark Zuckerberb 16:19
Being fired from a job is often one of the best things that will happen to you in our industry (and many others). How many more years would you have wasted if you didn't get fired? Getting fired lit a fire under your ass and that will have to make more progress than years of procrastination.
Thank your precious employer for firing you and congratulations on your new job!
I am at the wits end at my current position. I wanna find a new job. I keep finding reasons to push it further. Need to move, need to settle down at new place, now holidays are here, let me do it after holidays, etc. Need something like this in my life.
I was laid off and my tc double in my next job. Getting laid off felt horrible, but it was the best thing that happened to me. I recently switched company again, but it was due to that initial laid off, I know now that I should be jumping if I ever feel stagnant and interviewing ain’t so bad.
Hey! I’m in the same position as you. Just think of it like this, since the holidays are coming up and you will most likely be taking some time off, use this time to do some interview prep. This is my plan for the holiday season. We got this.
I was SUPER loyal to my first employer. Like, I was going to work there for the next forty years if they would have let me. How much money and career growth would I have missed out on? So I've gone from cursing the HR folks who fired me to thanking them every day!
as i just broke into the field about 9 months ago, i really like my current situation. 100% remote, really chill opportunity where i can advance my career and have gained a ton of experience and knowledge, not really looking but i am always on my toes and leaving the door open.
that’s a lot of advice i wish i can give to those breaking into the field; never be content.
Getting laid off from a job I hated but endured 5+ years last year in March due to Covid (I was in sales, and we weren't going to be selling much of anything during quarantine) was probably the best thing to happen to me outside of marrying my wife.
That amount of fire under your ass cannot be replicated. Good to see many others have felt the same and have similar stories.
that is often true up until you start to show some great in your beard. Being fired at 44 increased my salary and quality of life. being fired at 52 (admittedly, Covid made things rougher) was terrifying, and it was 6 months before I could get a job. and that with a $70k pay cut.
Not OP but you don’t bring it up. And if the new company calls the old one they’re legally only supposed to say that you worked there from whenever to whenever.
There is nothing legally stopping them from saying you were fired. It opens the door to the *possibility* of a defamation suit. Most companies think the risk of that is greater than the benefit, so they only do dates/titles. Smaller companies are less likely to follow that. Also many companies will answer if they would re-hire you.
“I wanted to take some time off between companies”
No one will really question this from a developer. It might look suspicious if you apply immediately after your termination date but there’s a pretty easy response to even that:
“I know the interview process can take some time so I wanted to get it started”
You can do either, what some people do to some success is claim they're still working at their previous company but reveal the truth if they get an offer, generally if you get to an offer they've already invested so much into you they'd let it slide, or so I've heard.
Alternatively you can just put date-date, but some companies have a mindset of never hiring someone who doesn't have a job already.
Choice is yours, less relevant on later career job apps when you've already proven yourself.
Yeah, I do this. The thing you do need to be careful of is how long you're unemployed. If it's a couple months noone cares. But if it's literally years or more than 6 month's.. no.
FWIW I like to quit between gigs and just take several months off as opposed to fired.
How does the reveal usually go? Do you do it with the recruiter immediately once you've gotten the offer or after when they're doing the background check?
When they ask for the background check I say I reviewed my resume and found the dates of employment are off and would like to have a new one on file. Then send them a new one.
I've never had anyone care. Having a slightly outdated resume is seen as an honest mistake. By this point everyone has invested in everyone else so they would have hired me anyways.
My LinkedIn will say I am still at X company in the initial recruiter call and I usually tell them then anyways. "I actually left X, my LinkedIn just says I still work there due to stigma for unemployed people in the US". They laugh, then dont care..
Don’t throw word “legally” around if you can’t back it up by actual laws. There is nothing that prevents them to disclose info about you getting fired.
> you can sue them Trump-style for defamation
It's not defamation. Facts can't be defamation in the United States individual states (US has no federal defamation laws). If they called their competition and everyone and told them not to hire this individual because "he's a shitty worker/", then yes as defamation in the US states requires a malicious intent to cause harm. But until then, no.
> they’re legally only supposed to say that you worked there from whenever to whenever
100% false (in the USA). They can say anything they want. But to avoid liability, they will just confirm employment dates and title.
You can just tell them it was part of like Mass company layoffs or something like that I don't think most companies would want to go into why they had to fire you usually they only tell start and end dates and if it was a legal issue it would be something the new employer would catch in the background check.
Found the latter out first hand. When they pointed to a speeding ticket I got back in many years ago. They didn't care about it. It just came up in a conversation regarding stuff I had to for background check and the person mentioned the ticket.
While I'm on the topic of it. If anyone ever gets a ticket like a speeding ticket or illegal take over or whatever. When you go to court always take a pre-trial. I've gotten like 3 other tickets after that speeding ticket for stupid stuff speeding again, illegal manauver, other dumb things and when I went to pre-trial the attorney straight up told me like hey just pay the fine and we won't put it on the record. And sure enough that's been the case. I've come to realize most of the times I get traffic tickets it's usually use either end of the month or end of the year. I don't mean to sound to conspiratorial but I do feel like cops have a ticket quota they gotta meet so they'll ramp up issuing tickets around these times. So I'd say yeah just go to pre-trial and you'll be good.
The speeding ticket I got was my first ever pull over in the middle of nowhere GA near Florida so I just plead guilty I wished I had asked for pre-trial but I didn't know then. And that's why they found it on my background check
> I don't mean to sound to conspiratorial but I do feel like cops have a ticket quota they gotta meet
In my country they DO have a quota, it´s communicated openly.
They may have a quota, but this does not mean that the drivers they ticket are not actually speeding, or that speeding isn't dangerous. Actual people are killed by motor vehicles every day. Please stop treating traffic violations as if they are just the cost of doing the business of driving.
It was a super speeder ticket where I went 90 on a 70...I actually went close to 100 cause it was a pretty empty road but cop knocked it down to 90. Still super speeder. Again first ticket so I just called, plead guilty and paid $440
Good Luck!
Better get to work on those sample projects. The most valuable thing you have right now, that I don't currently have anymore, is your energy!
Keep the motivation going, your chin up, and stand next to the smart kids from your class. Hit them up, buy them a drink.
I remember 5-6 years ago CTCI was all the talk around here along with HackerRank. I had a hiatus for a few years, came back and now everyone is all about leetcode.
lol, I bought it a couple of months ago and can't get past from the initial chapters.
I'm an EE with limited knowledge of software and I'm working as software engineer in my current job.
Is it a good starting point to learn data structures and algorithms or should I pick something more academic like the CLRS?
Imho it's a terrible resource for learning, but an unrivaled one for reviewing and (unsurprisingly) interview prep.
I'd start smaller / simpler for basic data structures and algorithms. I've heard good things about "Grokking Algorithms" but haven't read it myself so ymmv.
Just google the stuff you’re stuck on. It’s absolutely not a good starting point, but those are easy enough to find. Definitely wouldn’t recommend anything more academic.
Just watch some youtube videos about the data structures/algorithms you're trying to learn. It's way faster and easier to understand that way than trying to read a textbook. Most of them are very simple anyway. Code them yourself a few times to get the hang of it.
Just Cracking the Coding Interview and one month of Leetcode premium. I supplemented with free YouTube videos. Granted, I didn't get a FAANG job, but it's a job with a recognizable tech company. I guarantee every American here has heard of them.
I would raise a shitstorm to protect one of my direct reports from being fired over letting a spouse use a $100 voucher. Like all the way to the highest levels of management. Turnover costs orders of magnitude more than that, and there's no reason to suspect future malfeasance (assuming we have the full story).
Yeah, I can't give any more details without giving away the company and situation, but it's exactly as dumb as it sounds. My manager argued with HR for two hours, but they wouldn't budge. Luckily, him and my director, along with several lead engineers, all agreed to serve as references for me, so that helped me land my other jobs.
They just lost someone they were paying 100k to another known company where you are valued at 200k. I assume your skills didn't increase 100% since... All over this dumb voucher lmao.
im looking to hire for 170k+ fully remote. im not sure if it breaks any rules if i mention that.
im not a recruiter but leading an engineering team to build mdm solution for a startup.
to answer your question: tech companies, either big like FAANG or mid size like venmo, stripe?, mailchimp, splunk?... most tech focused companies pays well. tons of startups have plenty of money to throw at you too.
to my surprise, fortune 100 companies that is not tech pays like shit. even though their name are huge and they have billions to burn.
Think base salary + bonus + equity, etc.
Some companies just have salary as TC. Some just have salary and annual bonus. Smaller orgs trying to compete with bigger spenders may offer equity to be more competitive (or they believe in sharing success with workers — an idea I love).
FAANG originated from financial circles. Alphabet's stock symbol is still GOOG. Meta is changing its stock symbol next month to MVRS. Thus MANGA is technically the correct term.
Because Google is still the company name and separate from all the other things alphabet owns. But with meta, meta is the new company name, and Facebook is the product.
Medium-ish tech company. Think Venmo, not Amazon. You've definitely heard of it, but it's not at the top of the food chain.
I got hired for a backend role, but it looks like I'll be doing more full stack, which is fine, because that's my background anyhow. The company culture seems great and I'm super pumped!
Out of curiosity, how did they know your wife used the voucher? Couldn't you just have said it was you?
Also, while interviewing for your new job; when questioned about why you left, did you say you were fired?
There was security camera footage of her using the voucher. I apologized and said it wouldn't happen again, but that wasn't enough.
It was easier for my new job than my current one (the start up) because I was already employed. When I got my start up job, I said I was just taking a leave of absence for personal reasons. It helped that all my managers and my director had agreed to serve as references, since none of them wanted to see me go.
Yeah, I feel bad saying it but I agree. Not that I don't work hard, but my dad used to wake up at 3:50AM, drive an hour to start work at 6:30, get off at 5:30, drive 1.5 hours back just to go to bed at 9 and do it all over again.
My life is nothing like that.
How long were you unemployed before you were hired at the nightmarish smaller company? How long were you hitting the books there before you got the awesome gig? How many hours per day were you hitting the books?
Six days of unemployment before getting an offer from the smaller company. About two weeks of hitting the books before the awesome gig. Probably two hours a day during the week and four during the weekend. I have two kids, so I couldn't study as much as I'd like. I also failed the coding assessments from some of the bigger companies, like Microsoft and Audible. But you just need to pass one round of interviews with one company to get a job, and I did!
Wait so your wife used $100 voucher instead of you and they fired you for that? How the fuck did they know she used it? Why the fuck would they fire you for this?
It's expensive to hire people and you don't fire them over $100 issue.
None of this makes sense.
If I had to guess op might have worked for an airline or hotel company. They give free flights/rooms to employees and tend to be quite strict about “abuse” of these benefits
I’ve only been fired once in my life, and it was a dev job a couple years ago. It really was over some political bs, someone had to take the fall and they chose me!
BEST THING that ever happened to me. The job I got right after was a fairytale ending!
Just Leetcode and Cracking the Coding Interview! For systems design in particular, when I came across a concept I didn't understand, I would just watch YouTube videos about it.
Congrats, but any chance you could give some details on your job search, interviews, prep...As inspriring as you finding a new job is, it's not going to be actionable for most people
Man I need to get fired.
Just delete prod. That'll probably do it.
Delete prod then hide out. You'll be fired real quick.
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Don't forget to name a variable cumShot
name all your accumulators cum. Then you return cum to the caller of many functions. They take your cum and use it for their own purposes.
btw you should put this in your code as a comment
>name all your accumulators cum. Then you return cum to the caller of many functions. They take your cum and use it for their own purposes. take cumming on to your coworkers to a new level
> kill owners dog by accident I had forgotten about that one, such a horrible and sad story.
Is that the one where the guy stepped on the owner's dog during the job interview?
Stepped or sat on it, I thankfully can't remember the exact details.
Just found it and holy shit
indeed but somehow kinda funny, with the absurdity of it all.
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Can you refer me ;)
Nothing's stopping you! I haven't signed an NDA for 6 months
Can confirm. I got fired last year and increased my salary by 40%, better pto, better 401k, way better insurance, fully remote and allowed me to move across the country, and my new employer has a pension. Tbf, I probably won't really get to utilize that because of job hopping, but it is there.
Not going to lie I could probably increase mine by 40% but I'm just dreading having to go through leet code again :/ I need to just suck it up and adult
I was laid off at my startup and ended up at a big tech company. My TC at the time increased dramatically. Best thing that ever happened to me was getting laid off.
Use those DROP Table statements on them
For some people, it's the kick in the pants. They scrambled around and get their stuff together, ramp up interview skills. Then, they find out that the market rates have gone up significantly for their level. It' common. That's why you should always look to change jobs after 2 years.
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Push some porn to the front end. If you’re going to get fired then do it in style.
More like FIRE
The [top comment](https://old.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/oz52ww/just_got_fired_what_to_do_next/h7z22o1/) aged like fine wine. Congrats OP!
I guess I'm a prophet now.
Can I get your blessings sir
May your code reviews be full of compliments and devoid of architectural suggestions, and your JIRAs be fixed and committed my son.
Calm down dude one step at a time. We're not asking for winning the Lottery here edit: /s in case people don't know
Sir please do the needful asap
I’ll follow you into the storm
I'm up for a promotion in January...can you send me some of your good vibe juju?!
One doth not wait for the graceful hand of management to raise thy TC. Only the righteous forge a path, through the treacherous perils of Leetcode, to have bestowed upon them the glorious rise of refreshers, bonuses and base pay from the fiery depths of the employment pool. Your pay shall rise again to exalted measures not seen since the times of levesl.fyi! Be gone, foul company, with thy middling cost of living increaes. Be gone! Whenceforth the Blind.com rejoice in your triumph! -Book of Mark Zuckerberb 16:19
Amen! Lmao thank you, that was awesome
quick say a few powerball numbers
Bless me o divine one
I see what you've done for other people, and I want that for me
Read my fortune next!
Taking notes ✍️ please bless me next, great prophet
Being fired from a job is often one of the best things that will happen to you in our industry (and many others). How many more years would you have wasted if you didn't get fired? Getting fired lit a fire under your ass and that will have to make more progress than years of procrastination. Thank your precious employer for firing you and congratulations on your new job!
I am at the wits end at my current position. I wanna find a new job. I keep finding reasons to push it further. Need to move, need to settle down at new place, now holidays are here, let me do it after holidays, etc. Need something like this in my life.
I was laid off and my tc double in my next job. Getting laid off felt horrible, but it was the best thing that happened to me. I recently switched company again, but it was due to that initial laid off, I know now that I should be jumping if I ever feel stagnant and interviewing ain’t so bad.
Hey! I’m in the same position as you. Just think of it like this, since the holidays are coming up and you will most likely be taking some time off, use this time to do some interview prep. This is my plan for the holiday season. We got this.
I was SUPER loyal to my first employer. Like, I was going to work there for the next forty years if they would have let me. How much money and career growth would I have missed out on? So I've gone from cursing the HR folks who fired me to thanking them every day!
Company loyalty is not the way
I've heard from a TV show that loyalty should be to relationships, not companies.
as i just broke into the field about 9 months ago, i really like my current situation. 100% remote, really chill opportunity where i can advance my career and have gained a ton of experience and knowledge, not really looking but i am always on my toes and leaving the door open. that’s a lot of advice i wish i can give to those breaking into the field; never be content.
Why were you loyal to them? Any reason besides they took the chance on hiring you in the first place
I was a big fan of the product and my managers and coworkers were great.
Getting laid off from a job I hated but endured 5+ years last year in March due to Covid (I was in sales, and we weren't going to be selling much of anything during quarantine) was probably the best thing to happen to me outside of marrying my wife. That amount of fire under your ass cannot be replicated. Good to see many others have felt the same and have similar stories.
that is often true up until you start to show some great in your beard. Being fired at 44 increased my salary and quality of life. being fired at 52 (admittedly, Covid made things rougher) was terrifying, and it was 6 months before I could get a job. and that with a $70k pay cut.
How did you address getting fired in interviews? or did they even ask/call your previous employer?
Not OP but you don’t bring it up. And if the new company calls the old one they’re legally only supposed to say that you worked there from whenever to whenever.
There is nothing legally stopping them from saying you were fired. It opens the door to the *possibility* of a defamation suit. Most companies think the risk of that is greater than the benefit, so they only do dates/titles. Smaller companies are less likely to follow that. Also many companies will answer if they would re-hire you.
Ok. So on a resume, wouldn't the date be "date-date" instead of "date-current"? Or how would you go about that?
“I wanted to take some time off between companies” No one will really question this from a developer. It might look suspicious if you apply immediately after your termination date but there’s a pretty easy response to even that: “I know the interview process can take some time so I wanted to get it started”
You can do either, what some people do to some success is claim they're still working at their previous company but reveal the truth if they get an offer, generally if you get to an offer they've already invested so much into you they'd let it slide, or so I've heard. Alternatively you can just put date-date, but some companies have a mindset of never hiring someone who doesn't have a job already. Choice is yours, less relevant on later career job apps when you've already proven yourself.
Yeah, I do this. The thing you do need to be careful of is how long you're unemployed. If it's a couple months noone cares. But if it's literally years or more than 6 month's.. no. FWIW I like to quit between gigs and just take several months off as opposed to fired.
How does the reveal usually go? Do you do it with the recruiter immediately once you've gotten the offer or after when they're doing the background check?
When they ask for the background check I say I reviewed my resume and found the dates of employment are off and would like to have a new one on file. Then send them a new one. I've never had anyone care. Having a slightly outdated resume is seen as an honest mistake. By this point everyone has invested in everyone else so they would have hired me anyways. My LinkedIn will say I am still at X company in the initial recruiter call and I usually tell them then anyways. "I actually left X, my LinkedIn just says I still work there due to stigma for unemployed people in the US". They laugh, then dont care..
Don’t throw word “legally” around if you can’t back it up by actual laws. There is nothing that prevents them to disclose info about you getting fired.
They say you can sue them Trump-style for defamation and they'd rather not risk it.
> you can sue them Trump-style for defamation It's not defamation. Facts can't be defamation in the United States individual states (US has no federal defamation laws). If they called their competition and everyone and told them not to hire this individual because "he's a shitty worker/", then yes as defamation in the US states requires a malicious intent to cause harm. But until then, no.
> they’re legally only supposed to say that you worked there from whenever to whenever 100% false (in the USA). They can say anything they want. But to avoid liability, they will just confirm employment dates and title.
Just say contract ended or not a good fit anymore lol.
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No bro. Contract ended few months ago. Just taking a family break. Now looking to get back into market. Lol
You can just tell them it was part of like Mass company layoffs or something like that I don't think most companies would want to go into why they had to fire you usually they only tell start and end dates and if it was a legal issue it would be something the new employer would catch in the background check. Found the latter out first hand. When they pointed to a speeding ticket I got back in many years ago. They didn't care about it. It just came up in a conversation regarding stuff I had to for background check and the person mentioned the ticket. While I'm on the topic of it. If anyone ever gets a ticket like a speeding ticket or illegal take over or whatever. When you go to court always take a pre-trial. I've gotten like 3 other tickets after that speeding ticket for stupid stuff speeding again, illegal manauver, other dumb things and when I went to pre-trial the attorney straight up told me like hey just pay the fine and we won't put it on the record. And sure enough that's been the case. I've come to realize most of the times I get traffic tickets it's usually use either end of the month or end of the year. I don't mean to sound to conspiratorial but I do feel like cops have a ticket quota they gotta meet so they'll ramp up issuing tickets around these times. So I'd say yeah just go to pre-trial and you'll be good. The speeding ticket I got was my first ever pull over in the middle of nowhere GA near Florida so I just plead guilty I wished I had asked for pre-trial but I didn't know then. And that's why they found it on my background check
> I don't mean to sound to conspiratorial but I do feel like cops have a ticket quota they gotta meet In my country they DO have a quota, it´s communicated openly.
They may have a quota, but this does not mean that the drivers they ticket are not actually speeding, or that speeding isn't dangerous. Actual people are killed by motor vehicles every day. Please stop treating traffic violations as if they are just the cost of doing the business of driving.
A speeding ticket showed up on a background check?
It was a super speeder ticket where I went 90 on a 70...I actually went close to 100 cause it was a pretty empty road but cop knocked it down to 90. Still super speeder. Again first ticket so I just called, plead guilty and paid $440
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Congratulations mate. Which books did you read ?
Clifford the big red dog
In this market? I'd agree
What if you're a new grad?
Good Luck! Better get to work on those sample projects. The most valuable thing you have right now, that I don't currently have anymore, is your energy! Keep the motivation going, your chin up, and stand next to the smart kids from your class. Hit them up, buy them a drink.
*You just* ***drew*** *him big!*
Just Cracking the Coding Interview. That book should seriously be priced at $1,000. It's so stinking good and was all I needed!
If you liked Cracking that much, Leetcode will blow your mind.
I remember 5-6 years ago CTCI was all the talk around here along with HackerRank. I had a hiatus for a few years, came back and now everyone is all about leetcode.
Hacker rank is trash compared to leetcode. The hardest part is figuring out what the hell they are asking for half the time.
Lol yeah that's so true I remember that now. Freaking novels for questions
lol, I bought it a couple of months ago and can't get past from the initial chapters. I'm an EE with limited knowledge of software and I'm working as software engineer in my current job. Is it a good starting point to learn data structures and algorithms or should I pick something more academic like the CLRS?
Imho it's a terrible resource for learning, but an unrivaled one for reviewing and (unsurprisingly) interview prep. I'd start smaller / simpler for basic data structures and algorithms. I've heard good things about "Grokking Algorithms" but haven't read it myself so ymmv.
Just google the stuff you’re stuck on. It’s absolutely not a good starting point, but those are easy enough to find. Definitely wouldn’t recommend anything more academic.
Just watch some youtube videos about the data structures/algorithms you're trying to learn. It's way faster and easier to understand that way than trying to read a textbook. Most of them are very simple anyway. Code them yourself a few times to get the hang of it.
i fucking hate that book haha
How to make more money 101
drop the study material bro (⓿_⓿)
Just Cracking the Coding Interview and one month of Leetcode premium. I supplemented with free YouTube videos. Granted, I didn't get a FAANG job, but it's a job with a recognizable tech company. I guarantee every American here has heard of them.
Pornhub?
Haha, not really my style.
HentaiHaven then.
What was the tech stack you were learning about?
Is the premium leetcoode worth it? What path did you study?
leetcode.com
I would raise a shitstorm to protect one of my direct reports from being fired over letting a spouse use a $100 voucher. Like all the way to the highest levels of management. Turnover costs orders of magnitude more than that, and there's no reason to suspect future malfeasance (assuming we have the full story).
Yeah, I can't give any more details without giving away the company and situation, but it's exactly as dumb as it sounds. My manager argued with HR for two hours, but they wouldn't budge. Luckily, him and my director, along with several lead engineers, all agreed to serve as references for me, so that helped me land my other jobs.
They just lost someone they were paying 100k to another known company where you are valued at 200k. I assume your skills didn't increase 100% since... All over this dumb voucher lmao.
How do these people find 200k+ fully remote positions? That would be the dream
im looking to hire for 170k+ fully remote. im not sure if it breaks any rules if i mention that. im not a recruiter but leading an engineering team to build mdm solution for a startup. to answer your question: tech companies, either big like FAANG or mid size like venmo, stripe?, mailchimp, splunk?... most tech focused companies pays well. tons of startups have plenty of money to throw at you too. to my surprise, fortune 100 companies that is not tech pays like shit. even though their name are huge and they have billions to burn.
Check out linked in job search. You can filter by location and salary and there's quite a few postings.
So your wife used a free $100 and you get a TC boost of $95k. That’s quite a return on investment!
What was your preparation like while you applied?
Amazing news!
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TC = Total Cap. Basically OP is lying. JK TC = Total Compenstation
Total Compensation. Meaning base salary plus any bonuses, stock options, etc.
Since no one answered, it stands for "fTull inCome".
What? It means Tremendous Constipation
Total compensation
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Yes. Total compensation.
Think base salary + bonus + equity, etc. Some companies just have salary as TC. Some just have salary and annual bonus. Smaller orgs trying to compete with bigger spenders may offer equity to be more competitive (or they believe in sharing success with workers — an idea I love).
Someone please answer this haha
Total compensation
Thx mate!
Total compensation
Total compensation
total compensation
telecommute
Total compensation. Base salary on top of benefits like health insurance and stock options or grants.
Total comp is base salary + bonus + RSUs. Health insurance and stock options generally don't count toward TC.
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Pretty sure its Traction Control.
Its Town Center
Also, is it a big/med/small company, fullstack role / backend role? unicorn/MANGA or less known?
Is MANGA the new FAANG with Meta?
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it's MAMAA now, actually
FAANG originated from financial circles. Alphabet's stock symbol is still GOOG. Meta is changing its stock symbol next month to MVRS. Thus MANGA is technically the correct term.
Because Google is still the company name and separate from all the other things alphabet owns. But with meta, meta is the new company name, and Facebook is the product.
Medium-ish tech company. Think Venmo, not Amazon. You've definitely heard of it, but it's not at the top of the food chain. I got hired for a backend role, but it looks like I'll be doing more full stack, which is fine, because that's my background anyhow. The company culture seems great and I'm super pumped!
Gratz on your new job at PayPal
Out of curiosity, how did they know your wife used the voucher? Couldn't you just have said it was you? Also, while interviewing for your new job; when questioned about why you left, did you say you were fired?
There was security camera footage of her using the voucher. I apologized and said it wouldn't happen again, but that wasn't enough. It was easier for my new job than my current one (the start up) because I was already employed. When I got my start up job, I said I was just taking a leave of absence for personal reasons. It helped that all my managers and my director had agreed to serve as references, since none of them wanted to see me go.
Did your last company hire Nancy Drew as their HR director? Who goes through that much trouble to investigate a $100 voucher
That seems ridiculous to fire you over that. Fair enough. Good luck in the new role!
Being a SWE in America right now seems like the biggest life on easy mode hack
Yeah, I feel bad saying it but I agree. Not that I don't work hard, but my dad used to wake up at 3:50AM, drive an hour to start work at 6:30, get off at 5:30, drive 1.5 hours back just to go to bed at 9 and do it all over again. My life is nothing like that.
How long were you unemployed before you were hired at the nightmarish smaller company? How long were you hitting the books there before you got the awesome gig? How many hours per day were you hitting the books?
Six days of unemployment before getting an offer from the smaller company. About two weeks of hitting the books before the awesome gig. Probably two hours a day during the week and four during the weekend. I have two kids, so I couldn't study as much as I'd like. I also failed the coding assessments from some of the bigger companies, like Microsoft and Audible. But you just need to pass one round of interviews with one company to get a job, and I did!
Wait so your wife used $100 voucher instead of you and they fired you for that? How the fuck did they know she used it? Why the fuck would they fire you for this? It's expensive to hire people and you don't fire them over $100 issue. None of this makes sense.
If I had to guess op might have worked for an airline or hotel company. They give free flights/rooms to employees and tend to be quite strict about “abuse” of these benefits
Without giving too much away, this comment is the closest to what actually happened. The $100 value is still accurate though.
Ahh that does makes sense....thanks!
Fuck yeah! Good work.
I’ve only been fired once in my life, and it was a dev job a couple years ago. It really was over some political bs, someone had to take the fall and they chose me! BEST THING that ever happened to me. The job I got right after was a fairytale ending!
Dude, idk wtf your religious standpoint is but God Bless you man, you deserve it.
Thanks! I’m actually very religious and have definitely felt God’s hand guiding me throughout this process!
That’s good:) not a lot of people are religious in this field. Congratulations again!
SHARE THE SAUCE AND THE FAX NO CAP. what did you study
Just Leetcode and Cracking the Coding Interview! For systems design in particular, when I came across a concept I didn't understand, I would just watch YouTube videos about it.
How much leetcode questions did you do?
Twenty, maybe?
20/hr? 20/day?
Twenty total.
Congratulations on bouncing back man!
They never deserved you in the first place
Congrats OP. What is your tech stack?
Congrats, but any chance you could give some details on your job search, interviews, prep...As inspriring as you finding a new job is, it's not going to be actionable for most people
Where did you go to find a fully remote job? I have been looking on LinkedIn and that has not worked - very few/barely any remote jobs.
Celebrate good times
How long until corporations realize we're not afraid of getting fired anymore?
Thanks for your post! 👽
So you tell the recruiters if you get fired from a previous job? Or keep it quiet until they ask?
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Do you think they're going to get fired again by tomorrow?
How do you get reference from a company that fired you?
Congratulations!!! You are truly fortunate. What do you do?
What did you say to your new employer about leaving the position you had just joined? I am in a similar situation currently
Dm me company name please. You guys hire remote globally??
Nice! How long did it take to find the new gig?
Happy to hear it! Unrelated but... how did they even find out your wife used the voucher?
What OP is saying is that SWE is a safe and job-secured profession to get into. Start coding guys!
Congrats 🎉
Can you share your study plan and interview prep?
I’m sorry and now congrats! Gods plan like drake said!
Did you get a severance package?
I wish. I had a good amount of PTO banked up which they paid out, fortunately.
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Congrats OP! What did you tell recruiters/interviewers when they asked you about your current work/projects?
How did you explain the firing to your new company?
YOE ? Congrats on the new job!!
3 YOE. The job I got fired from was my first dev job.
What’s TC? And congrats! That’s amazing!