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<ec> interviewing w/ Jane Street fuuuuck me right up
<jfhbrook> damn
<jfhbrook> I'm technically interviewing w/ 2 sigma
<jfhbrook> have an onsite monday that like
<jfhbrook> I'm a moron cause I just accepted a great job with some other people
<jfhbrook> and I don't think I can actually stomach working for a hedge fund
<jfhbrook> but I also didn't expect to pass the first few screens so
<jfhbrook> just wanna see what this looks like
<ec> o,o
<ec> good luck
<ec> I'm feeling absolutely incompetent and unworthy of a job
<ec> god, what, five, six months into my job search? feeling v v v soul-sanded down to a soft-touch finish
<ec> p. sure i'm never going to program ever again and that i need to start considering what my next career looks like
<ec> what do you think of machinist, maybe I'll learn to machine late in life
<jfhbrook> hmmmm
<jfhbrook> I enjoyed working on a lathe but that sorta precision work
<jfhbrook> you fuck up you have to start over
<jfhbrook> takes a lot of focus
<jfhbrook> it's also whack because I broke my foot
<jfhbrook> so like, how am I going to get to central manhattan at 9am? a 90m lyft?
<jfhbrook> actually, yeah 🙃
<jfhbrook> in another week I can start proper walking on my foot again
<jfhbrook> well "proper" - with the boot
<jfhbrook> it's already getting better but I'll need the boot for like 6-8 weeks
<jfhbrook> it sounds crazy though, at 9am they slam a laptop with ubuntu on it and start making you do shit apparently
<jfhbrook> I don't know what to expect beyond that
<ec> er i completely lost you
<ec> manhattan is a machinist thing? or ubuntu? what has do w/ foot?
<ec> leaving for titterpig soon
<jfhbrook> no
<ec> waiting on a damn pizza i postmates’ded a bajillion years ago
<jfhbrook> I took classes in college on machining
<jfhbrook> the interview with two sig is in manhattan at 9am
<jfhbrook> and my foot being broken makes it extra difficult to make that trip, since I would typically subway and walk
<ec> oh yikes
<ec> idk New York things
<jfhbrook> manhattan is like new york new york like the shit in oliver and company
<ec> if Jane St were absolutely idiotic and missed that i’m horribly underqualified for this job, I’d be interviewing there, tho
<ec> idk what oliver and do is
<ec> co
<jfhbrook> old disney movie!!
<jfhbrook> a retelling of oliver twist in 80s new york
<jfhbrook> with katzendogs
<ec> okay you’re introducing me to too many new concepts way too fast
<ec> are you typo’ing “cats and dogs” or is that another thing
<jfhbrook> no it's not another thing I meant cats and dogs
<jfhbrook> just kidding around!
<ec> hahaha
<ec> i’m sorry i’m in a very … complicated mood rn
<ec> tired
<ec> my apartment has only been *under* 26C/79F exactly once in the last week, i’m melting
<ec> and job search is going remarkably poorly — in addition to jane st stress, i got turned down by not just my best most realistic option, but also my *reliable-backup* to my realistic option, this week
<ec> i have. literally nothing on the table.
<jfhbrook> anyway new york is 5 boroughs: manhattan, which is an island, that starts downtown in the financial district (wall street), goes through lower manhattan - soho, the village, chelsea etc then midtown - like the really big buildings (other than WTC1 which is in downtown), then central park and the upper west side (seinfeld) and the upper east side (girls)
<ec> hahahah except jstrt who’re gonna literally laugh at me
<jfhbrook> then harlem, then the bronx which I don't know that well but is supposta be chill
<jfhbrook> yeah it's really hot in new york too
<ec> oh wall street is a literal new york thing
<jfhbrook> yeah it's a literal street
<ec> i always thought it was like, ivy league
<ec> slang
<jfhbrook> nah it's a street in downtown where the new york stock exchange is based
<ec> “all these companies with tall walls” or something
<ec> whadda Wall Street people say on the 9th of june
<ec> “nyse.”
<jfhbrook> brooklyn is like, so on the west side of manhattan is the hudson river and jersey across from it, but the east side has a tidal straight ("the east river", the one they always find bodies in in law and order) and on the other side of *that* is brooklyn and queens
<ec> hahah i’m funny
<jfhbrook> brooklyn is kinda a city in its own right, queens is traditionally more suburban, but it's all a city at this point
<jfhbrook> anyway - I live in central brookyn (near where biggie smalls grew up actually) and the interview is near canal street in lower manhattan, a good 40m away when my foot is in good condition)
<ec> where’re the weirdos and queers
<ec> that’s the only good part of any city
<jfhbrook> traditionally the village - that's where stonewall is
<jfhbrook> but I hear these days hell's kitchen
<ec> holy shit i thought stonewall was a seattle thing
<ec> for … some reason …
<jfhbrook> nah new york city
<jfhbrook> the hipsters were in williamsburg 7 years ago but that place got really expensive real fast
<jfhbrook> bushwich in brookyn is quiet but also chill and fun, a lot of socialist bars are out there
<jfhbrook> I live near-ish to prospect heights which has a really chill not-quite-gay bar that I go to a lot
<ec> NQGbar lolol
<jfhbrook> yeah they're super LGBT friendly, have a rainbow flag out front, but really it's just a bar with a vague western theme and decent eats
<jfhbrook> I like their weekend bloody mary bar
<jfhbrook> they give you a glass with ice and vodka and you pour yourself some base mix and spoon up your own fixins
<jfhbrook> I dumped in a huge spoonful of horseradish last time iirc
<ec> cannot fathom bloody marys
<jfhbrook> so good
<ec> what kinda code you do jfhbrook?
<jfhbrook> data engineering in python for my day job
<ec> i’m vaguely surprised to hear you’re applying at 2sig
<ec> ah that’s right data stuff
<jfhbrook> but I'm working on linux desktop software in python right now
<jfhbrook> yeah my new job is w/ squarespace
<ec> some reason I thought frontend webby stuff
<jfhbrook> they're very kind folks and the offer was imo fantastic
<ec> wait you already got an offer?
<jfhbrook> appreciated base pay bump, fantastic insurance, unlimited pto, some RSUs
<jfhbrook> yeah
<jfhbrook> that's why this is so fucked
<jfhbrook> I don't actually want the job
<ec> i’m so confused
<jfhbrook> I just want to know if they would give me the job
<ec> you’re going in for another in-person after you got an offer?
<jfhbrook> yeah
<jfhbrook> a last one just to see
<jfhbrook> because it's been really weird so far
<jfhbrook> and I want to know if I'm good enough
<jfhbrook> but I don't want the job
<ec> o_o
<jfhbrook> like is that bad/wrong?
<ec> you’ve got your degree, right?
<ec> ooc?
<jfhbrook> not a CS degree
<jfhbrook> oh and wrt you asking about web shit earlier - I used to do backends in nodejs, made a shift about 3 years ago
<ec> ugh *how*
<jfhbrook> luck honestly
<ec> being socially associated with web, and not having a degree, is currently feeling like a fucking one-two death superpunch
<jfhbrook> I was trying to pull the escape hatch on my gig at conde, things got real toxic real fast
<jfhbrook> oh I have a STEM degree
<jfhbrook> so it's like worth 3/4 of a CS degree
<ec> yah i gathered haha
<jfhbrook> but yeah, the VP at the company that last hired me knew me from Conde and offered me a few low key gigs, one was building out an analytics product
<jfhbrook> I kinda knew python from college and it sounded like a pleasant change
<jfhbrook> and it was, a few early road bumps aside
<ec> aww that’s cool
<jfhbrook> yeah and now I'm on a proper data team
<jfhbrook> something like 7 data engineers
<ec> ugh
<ec> dunno if i talked about it in here
<ec> or if you heard it thru emily
<ec> but codeverse was a _shitshow_ for me
<jfhbrook> what's codeverse
<jfhbrook> I haven't talked to emily in almost 2 years
<ec> holy crap really
<ec> and wow yeah i really don’t talk in here do I
<ec> my one and only engineering position. got hired to build them a language, thought it was my dream job. went really poorly.
<ec> its super-sad that you’re missing out on Emily though :P
<ec> you game at all? wanna play with us sometime?
<jfhbrook> emily needs to apologize to me for accusing me of having a mental break on a public forum
<jfhbrook> if I hear that, maybe
<jfhbrook> what do you play?
<ec> oh god yikes
<ec> welp sorry i got in the middle of that O_O
<ec> recently and multiplayer? EVE, Minecraft, and i’ve dragged a couple of friends into an ancient janky game named Project Zomboid
<ec> it’s basically a less-cute, more-janky version of Don’t Starve. survival mechanics with lots of building and cooking, but overall a roguelike that *will* kill you, no matter how much preparation you do or how careful you are
<jfhbrook> oh interesting
<ec> aaaaaaand i’m trying to get people into Satisfactory
<jfhbrook> I never played don't starve oddly enough
<jfhbrook> oh jesus a friend has satisfactory
<ec> but everyone’s turned off by the Epic Games Store lmao
<jfhbrook> ahaha
<jfhbrook> I hear that if you have a game with them you have to disavow all non-windows support
<jfhbrook> but the software itself is ok
<jfhbrook> I bought subnautica off it
<ec> i … don’t know? satisfactory is deffo windows-only so that’s gross
<jfhbrook> wait no they had subnautica for free on it
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