I like that it’s helping people. Learning anatomy & related subjects is cool. But I don’t feel like a spark like “I have to study medicine nothing else in life matters!” Sometimes I read the posts on reddit and that’s the sense I get from doctors. I think it’s a very respectable field but I think it’s just a job to me.
Software engineering as a career is way wayyy too socially isolating for me
I actually feel like I’m going insane. My team is fully remote, but I still have to badge in twice a week. So I can’t just move closer to family or friends. Never see any of my team in the office.
Yes, I know there are probably other teams or companies with a better culture. But lateral movement is next to impossible right now as I have a $130k job that I can’t risk & the market is really really bad.
I know I can meet new people in my city. I’ve tried for about a year but it’s just not working for whatever reason. I never felt this isolated in my life. Is this normal?
I really enjoy CS but also people & helping patients. I'm starting med school in the fall. I know I'll be basically studying full time medicine. Has anyone else found CS skills to be helpful in med school? Maybe in research? I've previously done some research in medicine related areas using LLMs and RAG techniques, developing agentic workflows, etc. and would love to continue doing similar if at all possible during med school. Probably in a research capacity.
Apple seems honestly like the best of the FAANG to me. Even though TC is lower, I never heard about them doing layoffs. Not even once. What’s it like to work at Apple? Everything about them seems very tight lipped to me. Maybe that’s a positive culture to work for.
Apple seems honestly like the best of the FAANG to me. Even though TC is lower, I never heard about them doing layoffs. Not even once. What’s it like to work at Apple? Any advice for getting in?
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