Why do people just say “Hi” or “IM?” and wait for you to respond before asking their question? Just send your question! #culture #officelife #workplace
What the title says, I’m curious how many people have a side hustle in addition to their 9 to 5. Would love to know what the side hustle is too if you’d like to comment. Thanks! Update: oh wow, I would have thought more people had a side hustle, this is interesting. Thank you to those who participa...Read more
Hello Blinders Can you share your experience on the general work culture, wlb and office life in microsoft vs Intel. What would you choose and why ? I have heard the wlb and good working environment at microsoft lately has gone down and I hear similar things for Intel but I personally don't feel ...Read more
When I started my career several years ago, I thought professional success is 90% hard work and 10% luck. As I progressed, I had an opportunity to work with amazing leaders and I assumed that such leaders are the norm and my conviction in the recipe for success further strengthened. Over the last 3...Read more
I interviewed for an internal lateral role (not at Toyota) and had a take home case presentation that I spent about 20 hours on and presented in the first round. I don’t feel it went well and would need to spend a significant amount of time revising and prepping for the next interview next week with...Read more
Serious question: why? Like the whole bowl is just smeared on the remnants of your guts and makes it unusable to others
If Teams disappeared global GDP would immediately rise by 200 billion+ per year.
I am a new manager to a team of technology product owners (PO). I need help in how to deal with a business partner (BP) that is causing issues for my team. It is important to maintain good relationship as we will need to work with them and their team regularly. The problem is they are non technical...Read more
I know this has been a since-forever thing but why do office/public restrooms stalls have to have that ridiculously huge door gap thru which anyone can see you doing your thing? I didn't experience that in Europe, I think particularly the ones in Germany are truly private.
I may get in to Pure but I am very skeptical I heard lot of things about Pure - That the people they hire in India is way under bar and they were hired on much higher level when they don’t deserve to be.. also heard that most of the Engineering, Product Management etc are moving to India… Is this tr...Read more
Manager finds ways to tell me things that are very obvious aspects of workplace, tasks in general which indirectly feels like an insult .. how do you deal with such things? .. last Friday she told me - if you don't have something to say then mute your mic on the call while not everyone does it TC 2...Read more
which one are you?
I got zero rewards in Sept 2023 making me ineligible for internal team change. This year I want to request my management to give me some rewards but at the same time I don't want to sound like I am asking for team change eligibility. How to go about asking for some rewards to management? #zerorew...Read more
The one supplied at work is too rough for my skin. I want to use a premium brand. Will it look weird if I carry it with me from my desk whenever I need to use the restroom?
I joined this company almost a year ago, and I’m currently 5 months pregnant. It has been a horrible pregnancy so far, I’ve had multiple issues over the span of the last 4 months, including multiple visits to emergency, monthly infections, constant nausea, GERD etc. My workplace has been pretty tox...Read more
Random co worker who I don’t know and he seems to be way senior to me working in a California office just cold IMs me ( in the portland office ) asking if he can order some electronics to my home and requesting if i can ship it to him to save sales tax . He just copy pasted a template message and ...Read more
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-best-u-s-companies-to-work-for-according-to-linkedin/ Really? Jp Morgan? Amazon? Is this surprising to anyone else?
What are some ways in which I can deal with daily situations with the coworker. This coworker is an "all talk" kind of person, who does like 5% of the work, but takes credit for work done by others and presents it as their own. When it's something they were supposed to have finished/fixed but haven...Read more
Im swe in my mid 30s, couple of kids, good wlb, mostly happy. Im not really interested in grinding and trying to get to the next position. Looking into doing the least amount of work for the most pay. I frequently get asked to partner up for different businesses or startup ideas which i mostly igno...Read more
A while back, I shared how I was trying to keep up with the avalanche of info on Slack, as a newbie, like from the teams, different groups, specialties, vibes, people, clubs, IT, DMs, you name it. There's just a ton of Slack messages, and no time to read them all. At my last job, things were way mor...Read more
Hi, I’m going to be working at the headquarters soon and was wondering what the dress code is like. Is a polo and sneakers fine?