New grads in finance ($90k TC): just bought my first Rolex
New grads in engineering ($180k TC): this month I’m going to find out if I can hit my macros while spending less than $150 on groceries
The scale shift happening in real time:
The leading AI companies are adding more ARR in a week than most public SaaS companies generate in a year.
Multiple billions per week and accelerating.
If you're stuck in the Bay Area tech rat race / psychosis, make time to travel to other places.
Go to a small town in Europe or visit Asia - you'll see that life can be about much more than whether you're IC7 or IC8 or what company you work for.
Don't be the person to put on your tombstone: "He got divorced and neglected his kids but at least he made D2 at FAANG"
you see a guy with a 6-pack and mistakenly think he's a chad
no, that is an autistic man and his autistic special interest is being hot
one wrong turn and that 6-pack would have been a binder of magic the gathering cards
Hot take: If you’re living in NYC, do everything you can to explore the city.
You live in the most alive cities in the world.
Go out, explore places, work from different spaces, and meet people.
My gut feeling is this layoff will not restrict only to oracle but it will also extend to Microsoft, amazon, meta, Salesforce, Atlassian, accenture etc companies as well.