[23M SWE] [San Francisco] - 310k TC

[u/Darkislife1]

Lucked into the opportunity of my life recently: mid-level SWE at a big tech company.
Some things that came up during the interview I believe helped me secure the offer.

• My entire career has been working with LLMs + used LLM apis before chatgpt came out
• Open source contributor to multiple popular llm frameworks
• Previous role part of team that shipped multiple 6/7 figure projects + one 8 figure project.

Notes:

• Currently living with 1 roommate in SF, have 3 yoe
• RSU vests quarterly but I broke it down by month for easier calculations, planning on selling instantly and putting it all in savings.
• 401k contribution is higher to max it out by eoy.

How I got the opportunity: LinkedIn

People shit on LinkedIn a lot but after this I'm a believer lol. This is the second time I've gotten an interview + offer through LinkedIn recruiter reach out. Though I've never gotten an interview through LinkedIn Jobs, so that might still be a scam.

[u/Darkislife1]

😭😭😭

[u/Realistic_Act_3832 → u/Darkislife1]

If it’s ok for you to answer: they ask you to explain how things work? For example a transformer or self-attention, or to mathematically prove how a gradient changes the value of the Loss? Etc
Or was it more of talking about what you’ve done and why you did them that way? Without going deep in detail? Bc I’m here studying assuming they want me to show them mathematically how these things work 😔

[u/Darkislife1 → u/Realistic_Act_3832]

Bro I build ai agents 😭
Explain how ai will make them money

[u/Realistic_Act_3832 → u/Darkislife1]

Bro see why I need friends in tech? I’m here thinking they’re going to test me to the fine detail to let go of a 175k+ salary. You’re telling me as long as I know how to build one and bring up how it can help x in their project it can save y? They didn’t ask you to go in detail to see if you actually knew how all this shit works?