Students at the Bay Area’s best universities once dreamed of working for Apple, Google and Meta. Then the lay-offs happened https://t.co/6dwAYr4oju
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Students at the Bay Area’s best universities once dreamed of working for Apple, Google and Meta. Then the lay-offs happened https://t.co/6dwAYr4oju
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) October 14, 2023
H1-B chads stay winning.
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Only a boring idiot codecel would want to work for FAAGN thinking they'll get the high pay and soul crush grind.
Get clearance, work contractor for gov, make $$$$ for nothing.
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How tough is getting into that?
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Helps to have some background experience prior.
In terms of clearance, its laughably easy. Absolute shit flinging r-slurs can get secret. Which might be tightening up now after we had that kid leak military docs on his groomercord lmao.
But contract companies, depending on the company can sometimes just hire and sponsor anybody because they need warm bodies to fill the contracts they won.
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Starting from base with an engineering degree in a relevant field, how much time would this take, would you reckon?
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How much time for what? The clearance or getting job worthy?
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I would assume the two are related. Let's go with job.
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Somewhat, its just each have their own time delays.
As for job, I don't know what specifically in engineering you have, but im assuming involving computers. I'm also going to be assuming you just went through the uni with nothing extra.
If you have 0 work experience the contractor/gov jobs you'll have to go for will be entry level and the pay for that will be around the 60k-70k range.
To find the right job, as in, its with a company that isn't trying to grind you into dust and or are revolving doors, it will take you roughly six months depending how much job searching you do and interacting with recruiters who will all be hitting you up trying to find you a place to fulfill empty spots in their contract. Because contract companies lose money ultimately when they win a contract but dont have enough workers for all the spots.
In my old job my PM got fired because she would fill any and all slots with people who were unqualified for the job.
Now you don't have to sift through months to find the "right on" and just pick whatever job ranging from being a password reset monkey or a little better, a test engineer.
This will also depend how you've tailored your resume and sell yourself on your skills, especially going from entry to journeyman and perhaps something more serious than the entry stuff you would have been doing.
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Not one single person is gonna read all that
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Excellent, thank you. I have to bootstrap a career, and this was very helpful.
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Glad I could help, lemme know if you need more info
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Nothing happened after Chelsea except intel dorks could no longer take their mass storage devices into the SCIF
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and our yearly FOUO training gets ten minutes longer.
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What's your MOS and where are you stationed and your name and rank?
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I'm a contractor not a boot lol
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The trick with it is that you can't get the clearance until someone is already hiring you for a position. I once started a government contract, and our entire team got laid off after less than one month, and it takes about 3 months for your forms to process with OPM. They called me a month later for my background check and I said, well I got laid off, but is it ok if we just finish this anyway so I can apply for other jobs? They were like no, sorry, talk to you some other time and hung up.
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You should've lied
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They really might not have figured it out if I had.
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