Post #2952597
2026-05-08 20:06 UTC
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- Decide if you're a better fit for big company culture or small company culture. One tends to learn way more at small companies where one's scope of responsibility is wider. Working at a small company can be a WILD RIDE. Big companies offer more stability but they're likely to pigeonhole you. Most engineers I've interviewed from huge companies like Intel don't know much outside of their tiny area of responsibility.
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@fundamental@social.treehouse.systems 2026-05-08 21:09
@leaf@furry.engineer For engineers in general, trying to figure out the specialization track (while dodging industry trend shifts) and identifying the right scale of a company is such a mess (you really don't know what you're signing up for until you've been there for a while). 100% agree with the advice.
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@jackemled@furry.engineer 2026-05-09 01:58
@leaf@furry.engineer This is probably good advice in general. Also I can't wait for big companies to start selling self immolating AI generated chips because "our superintelligent chatgpt-4-o-balls.exploder-mini instance designed it to be perfect & flawless".