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My friend has had a rough year (stressful completion to PhD, poor job market, immigration struggles with wife). To top it off, his Google account was just hacked in what seems to be a targeted attack after losing his US number.

All passwords changed, completely lost access and cannot gain any access back to the accounts. All phone number/recovery options changes en masse. Lifetime of photos, etc. have been lost and he is really bummed.

Given that a lot of technies and Googlers exist on this platform, would someone be able to point me in the right direction to help him out? Is he completely out of luck? All the changes happened in a sequence.

Time of hack: - December 12th GMT+1, 2025

Has anyone had success using their American citizenship status as a way to get a US tech job or a company based in the US with an EU presence to get better pay?

I’m an expat in the UK and considering a change. Is it much harder? UK salaries are very low and cost of living is very high, so trying to open my options.

Going through some hardcore career burnout that has been lasting for far too long. Boring and not meaningful work, massive team and horrible oncall. Interviewed and got a manager opportunity for a team I think is quite interesting, but have zero management experience. Anyone enjoy this transition to gain new perspective?

I enjoy helping people and have a decent engineering background. This is at a “big tech/faang adjacent” company

Which setup is recommended these days for cheaply chatting with multiple llms (not local llms) like sonnet or openAI?

Shifting away from faang and startups in Silicon Valley that have allowed me to save some money but ultimately just build tech to help billionaires become richer, what else is there in software?

I don’t mean what else is there to do to relax, but I mean to get fulfillment and truly benefit society. I’m just an average dev, but my viewpoints about the world have changed since I was 20 (now 30) and feel it would be nice to at least consider shifting to something remotely useful for the world.

Mostly interested in those that left the cushion that is Silicon Valley to find joy in their work.

Edit: left the US to UK

Friends and family tell me I’m insane for entertaining the possibility of taking some time off due to burnout.

I’m currently dealing with some serious depression and trying work on these things myself, but it’s proving to be challenging and have set a timer to re evaluate before I dig myself into a deeper hole.

Am I disillusioned to think time off would help me? Clearly the tech industry job market is tanking, so I see there is risk here. Would be nice to hear from people in a much clearer state of mind than myself.

I’m 29, have about 1.1M USD with 150k cash emergency.

Hoping to touch grass for a few months away from a screen and remember life is worth living. I’ve spent countless years second guessing myself hunched over, studying courses, doing graduate school, breaking production, fixing production. It’s fine, but my head is elsewhere and I can’t seem to care about anything anymore.

Fitness wise I’m healthy, eat healthy, sleep well, workout a lot and socialize with friends.