Comment by guywithahat
8 days ago
The one good thing about them all being so young is it explains why I never got an interview; at 28 I was too old to ever get a job there
8 days ago
The one good thing about them all being so young is it explains why I never got an interview; at 28 I was too old to ever get a job there
Why would you apply to work in this debacle. Ever.
To move slow and break DOGE?
You can criticize it all you want but I'd be working directly for the President and the richest man alive, doing incredible LLM-powered work that's basically never been done before. Not only would all the work be innovative (and thus fun), but it would look incredible on a resume
“Incredible” is far from a given. If DOGE doesn’t provide enough benefits to cancel out the billions if dollars of economic disruption it’s causing, or if the purported savings turn out to be misrepresentation instead of real, you look like a political hatchet man instead of an engineer. A reputation for making mistakes (like making your web site world-writable) and jumping to conclusions probably isn’t what you want.
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> but it would look incredible on a resume
working at doge? your resume would be straight in the trash if i came across it.
50% of the country might support this. The software industry, especially the lower levels like engineers and managers, leans left politically.
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I really hope this is an outlier and the median smart guy like you has a bit more of a moral compass and doesn't seem to willing to sell their own country for a cool line on a CV.
Those Doge kids are likely going to be scapegoated and sent to prison in a few years.
Yup. At 28 you’re going to have way more things in your life distracting you from the job, you’re probably prioritizing work life balance which is a red flag.