Security Clearance Consultant

@Bubblebathgirl FBI investigates law enforcement matters and counterintelligence issues. If they met you at the airport, you are likely a suspect in those activities. If it was an immigration matter, Customs would’ve sent you to secondary for further questioning.

Foreigner with a visa says he dreads visiting America now because he was interrogated by FBI. He lists things he says they asked him about. Good. The fact that foreigners are finally being thoroughly vetted is a positive. If he doesn’t like it, don’t come here. (vishen on TT)

@MattLoszak This is amazing! Thank you for bringing your talents to the U.S.

Today is my 2 yr anniversary of moving to America 🇺🇸 When I got here I had a duffel bag, air mattress, and $300 credit limit. Now we’re months away from turning on a nuclear reactor. You can just do stuff!

@FitFounder The word meditation is for status signaling narcissist…most never do it or they just lay there, but claim they mediated. Swap the fake meditation for breath work, it’s actually achievable and just as beneficial

I'm entering a period of monk mode from now to the end of 1st quarter of 2025. · No alcohol · Limited social events · No processed sugars · Writing 500 words a day · 10 minutes of meditation a day · Only time for business & family Doing this to prep for a massive 2026.

If you give your girlfriend an “allowance,” you might possibly not get a security clearance

@getballzy @AnjneyMidha I’m saying homeless people shit there

@Swhelton1 @AnjneyMidha u saying noe valley is shit??

One of the biggest mistakes young people in San Francisco make is spending a few years here then leaving just as their experiences/friendships/learnings are about to start compounding Us oldies in SF need to do a better job anchoring the next gen

@getballzy @AnjneyMidha Not downtown-would not live there. Noe Valley area.

@Swhelton1 @AnjneyMidha give me a break. you're conflating downtown with nicer areas. there's more than 0 kids living in SF today

@ericzhu The CCP already deployed both teams

smart idea, they just sent the wrong gender

@jonathanzliu Nothing creative will ever get built if kids always listen to adults

when i got into YC, they made us pivot away from edtech the best performing startup in my batch so far ($6M ARR) is in consumer edtech oh the irony.

@chamath This is why if the boomers want grandchildren, they need to pass on inheritance soon as possible. Otherwise, their kids will never have children because they are drowning in student loans, living in cramped overpriced apartments

In a nutshell, this.

Companies need to do a better job vetting their employees prior to submitting them for a security clearance, especially for top secret. They lose valuable time when the candidate gets denied when it could’ve been prevented by proper screening

@sama If you need insider threat assessment, please reach out.

ok gl

@mttgrmm @IbrahimS15 Interviews are not effective…better to just have a three month trial period. Some of the best interviewers were my worst employees

Thought a lot about if or how to engage, especially given @IbrahimS15's post hit some pretty broad reach (~1m views!), I figured it was worth saying something. We get a lot of nonsense hater flak, anons just chirping about what they think we do at Anduril or who they think we are as people... This is clearly not in that category. I see a sincere, genuine post - so here comes a genuine reply. First off, genuinely sorry this didn’t work out. I've had interviews go sideways (lots of them!)... It sucks. I know these moments sting, especially when you care about the mission and are excited about the company. Been there... A lot. Second, our recruiting process is designed to get a sense of both technical ability and how people might work on our teams, how you might collaborate, how you might communicate, etc. Sometimes nerves make that side of you hard to show, and that’s human. Third, interviews are intrinsically low fidelity, and doubly so for younger aka "early career" folks. Of COURSE someone could memorize some l33t algo or brain fart a basic fizzbuzz. We get a _very_ small window into someone's talent, personality, work ethic, and (most importantly) ability to learn (aka "slope"). I'm fond of saying that the absolute best, world-class hiring managers will still get it right like ~65% of the time. Sometimes we get it wrong, sometimes we get it right... sorta the nature of the game. And finally, honestly, feedback in the hiring process is a tough dynamic for companies. If we don’t give feedback, people get frustrated or make jokes about recruiting being black boxes (pleeeennnnty of memes out there about generic corporate HR people blanket rejecting without feedback... that's not really Anduril's style but the meme does exist). But then if we do give well-intentioned feedback, it can quickly end up here and we get publicly dragged for it a bit. There’s no perfect way to handle it, but we do try to be honest and fair. Wishing you the best Ibrahim. Keep going. The fact that you care this much means you’ll find the right fit, whether it’s at Anduril someday or somewhere else.

@barisakis Former NSA special agent…I’m overqualified, but I applied to a physical security job because I would love to support the mission but heard nothing from recruiting.

After finishing my CS degree from Stanford, I became obsessed with excelling in recruiting because I believe humans are the atomic unit of value creation—and assembling the most exceptional people is the highest-leverage way to compound value. Now, I'm assembling a team of unconventional engineers at xAI to scale the world's highest talent-density organization. If interested DM me or apply here

@spenserskates @anneleeskates I would not recommend. I work for a billionaire client in SF in a decent neighborhood. The other day, a homeless person decided to take a #2 behind their house. This was not an isolated incident, it happens all the time. I would not want to expose my children to these things…

It seems like everyone we know in their mid 30s in the Bay Area is moving to the suburbs to get a big yard and lots of living space for their kids. @anneleeskates and I are working in SF 5 days a week and are considering the opposite: giving up our place in Atherton to go big in SF. Is there anyone with kids who has made that move?

@zachglabman Great to see builders meeting up. Make sure if your engineers need a security clearance advise them to avoid dating foreign nationals and stay away from conscious altering “medicines”

Hosted a 100 person bbq in San Francisco with no weird tech bros Techno-industrials showed up - we had OEMs across robotics, energy, drones/seaplanes and components, castings, forgings, machining, materials. Some tech startups and VCs working w American manufacturing big thanks to @DavidZagaynov @rhobusiness @jacob_a_simon @SchramIAm @poseidonaero @doss_hq

Your Chinese boyfriend/girlfriend will likely slow down your security clearance process.

Traveling to China will certainly slow down your security clearance process!

@datsjackedup Wow…that is amazing courage under fire

@TheeDarkCircle Holy scary pants!