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- Microsoft India, Spotify Sweden - designer TC? 10 yoe. Currently at Adobe as Lead (5.5) in the design team, 38 lakhs base, 9 lakhs RSU. Also earn profit through the ESPP of about 10 lakhs a year (which will now reduce as the stock will plateau out) . Msft India and Spotify Sweden have been after me for a while and I would love an idea of what le
- Looking for referrals, Leaving amazon Hello everyone, Seems like I am done with amazon, looking for companies which treats its employees better. YOE: 5 Years TC: 67 L Please DM or comment below so I can DM you. Thank you so much! #swe #jobhunt #software #engineering #referral #hiring #adobe #affirm #anaplan #airbnb #airtable #apple
- Adobe hiring - Referring Adobe has started hiring again in full force. Wanted to share some love and give referrals to anyone stressed at their job or in need of a change Some Perks Unlimited PTO (usually take 4 weeks off) Every third Friday off Monthly internet reimbursement 500 wfh equipment fund 600 fitness fund 10k c
- Adobe Hiring - Giving Referrals Adobe has started hiring again in full force. Wanted to share some love and give referrals to anyone stressed at their job or in need of a change Some Perks Unlimited PTO (usually take 4 weeks off) Every third Friday off Monthly internet reimbursement 500 wfh equipment fund 600 fitness fund 10k c
- Lay-off at Adobe Emeryville Really heartbreaking. I am one of the affected employees. How is everyone else doing? They gave totally unfair reasons for lay off. Very disappointing I would like to know what is the end date and how many months worth of severance package did others receive? It seems they used one to two weeks fo
- Urgently need referrals Hi all, the startup I work for is going to lay off 90% of its employees next week. I’m on H-1B visa and desperately need a new job. I’m a full stack engineer primarily using React, NodeJS, JavaScript and MongoDB. I am pretty adaptable with learning new languages / environments and have some expos
- Walmart ecommerce benefits Got a verbal offer from Adobe Stock team and still waiting for official numbers. Meanwhile, contacted by recurtier from walmart UX Design team. How is the overall growth for UX engineers at walmart and how are the benefits at walmart ecommerce teams? i see medical plan pricing kinda of sucks for bot
- All benefits for Atlassian India employee? Hi I am about to join Atlassian in 15 days and even after asking HR multiple times about all the benefits, she is reluctant to share it. Found it very irritating that I need to ask HR multiple times about actual benefits for India as online information is not correct/complete (e.g. Eye and Oral ins
- WFH/Hybrid/Back to office companies Master thread Creating a master thread so can track which companies are WFH vs hybrid vs old school back to office. This is what I have so far. Update in comments about any company you know and I will update the list or correct this list if you work for any of these. Amazon is mostly appearing to be hybrid or
- Referral: Got Laid Off From Blockchain Startup Hey guys, Because of recent events, I got laid off as one of the early employees for a blockchain startup. Because of the COVID-19, I've been having a hard time finding a new job. Looking for referrals for software engineering positions. I'm quite skilled at Functional Programming and Distributed
- Running list: First wave of layoffs and hiring freezes Consolidated based on information from other threads. Please share if you have information on upcoming layoffs. Layoffs: 1. eBay 2. SaaS startup (Sequoia Capital funded) 3. Google - cloud (February data unrelated to current situation) 4. Lyft (coming soon) Hiring freezes: 1. Affirm 2. Tubi 3. Uber
- Why companies are not remote friendly in India? Why the hell all companies are opening offices when in meetings they say that we are able to deliver in wfh setup. Whether its service companies like tcs, infosys etc. Or product based like Salesforce, Microsoft, linkedin etc.All of them, leaving some startups, are hell bent to call employees. Why t
- vote Evaluate offers Hi, I have these below offers. Can you suggest which one could be better (“adding your reasons would help in decision making if you something specific”) 1. Adobe level: L4 Base: 210 RSU: 250 Bonus: 60 Annual bonus: 15% Org: experience cloud 2. Apple Level: ICT4 Base: 200 RSU: 300 Bonus: 50 Ann
- Referrals Needed - CS graduate passionate for NLP and ML Hi Blinders, I am a CS grad student and will be graduating in Spring 2020. I am looking for roles in NLP and ML domain. I have 2 years of prior in machine learning and NLP working on projects like automating employee reimbursement portal, classifying legacy documents and extracting entity informati
- Referrals for Product Marketing Hi everyone, I have 8 years of experience in financial services as a data analyst—also 2 years as head of growth and product marketing at a startup. I would love to join a tech company as a Product Marketing Manager. Why am I looking for a new job? US BANK acquired Union Bank (public info). 90% of
- Looking for Tech Referral Hello Blinders, Blind newbie here looking to get into tech. After 16 years of public service (6.5 years with current group), I think it's time to move. I’m looking to be further challenged and growth. I work for a highly visible innovative group, that’s received many accolades and set standards for
- Looking for Salary Transparency for User Researchers Hello! I’m a Senior User Researcher with 10+ years of research/insights experience and an MBA. 2.5 years have been in UXR specifically. I’ve only worked at one tech company (besides consulting) in my career so I have very little visibility on what a User Researcher should be making at my level. I ex
- How to get startup idea off the ground Me and a couple of friends have an app idea for a startup, however we're extremely new to entrepreneurship and we don't know what our next steps should be. We built a business plan and did some market research, the idea is all fleshed out and I even did some basic prototyping with Adobe XD. If we we
- vote Compare : product / growth offer for non tech Interviewing with all these companies for growth roles. I’ve been reading the reviews of all the companies online / on blind and just want to test the waters on what everyone else would do. I’ve worked in multiple FANNGs and starts ups all within marketing analytics. I’ve found the best part of an
- link WFH Money Savings for employer 22,000$/year Hi All, Stats are out an employer saves 22,000$/year if an employee works from home permanently these are huge numbers for an employer. Whooping 2 Billion Dollars savings / year for companies by asking just 2000 employees to work remote. Many employers noticed working in office is less productive
- What is a good salary for Indian employees in product companies I have always heard each company has a formula to calculate range of salary for any employee. Do anyone of you know if there is any such formula to check if what I am earning is good? I don't want to go by websites to see how much each company is paying for specific designation, as the are flawed by
- link Negative effects of diversity hiring https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/parliament-proceedings-60-of-dropouts-at-7-iits-from-reserved-categories/article35752730.ece : Companies in the west: You may realize soon that your "reservations" aka diversity inclusion based on race, gender would have similar negative affects because those r
- Amazon vs Atlassian culture I am currently evaluating competing offers from Amazon and Atlassian in India, and the money offered is similar (with Amazon offering 9% more overall). I have decided that I'll base the decision on the work culture, and am leaning towards TEAM based on what I've read here and elsewhere. However, I s
- Tech Consulting to APM/PM Roles, tips + referrals Hi everyone, looking to transition from consulting to an in house PM role, preferably for a slightly larger company (> 1000 employees) and have about 1.5 YOE out of college. I'm currently in a product management consulting role where I transitioned from more software development/engineering experi
- link WSJ Top 250 Best Managed Companies - top 30 dominated by tech companies https://www.wsj.com/articles/explore-management-top-250-11639167806?mod=article_inline "The Management Top 250 ranking, developed by the Drucker Institute, measures corporate effectiveness by examining performance in five areas: customer satisfaction, employee engagement and development, innovation
- Leaving PayPal[India] after 8 months I have put down my papers today , would be leaving for better opportunity .. Some findings-- 1. I was working in TPX - BTR (Release Engineering), this team is internal to Paypal working on a very niche[Managing Paypal releases] domain which was not a good career move. 2. Paypal is a Employee friendl
- Software Engineering: Microsoft Offer team questions Recently was made an offer in the MS C + E team under Microsoft digital. It was through a hiring event. Excerpt from job description: “Microsoft Digital helps all Microsoft employees get their jobs done, by strategically managing and maintaining horizontal platforms such as SAP, Adobe, our busine
- Feeling Low!! Hi all, I want to take a moment and thank you all for taking sometime and many of you here gave me referral's, found amazing people here, no doubt world is surviving with the great people like you guys!! Im very happy that I met some awesome people here, but unfortunately despite being referred to
- vote Apple Austin Sr QAE/SDET offer expectations Long post alert Hi recently got interviewed at Apple IST org and yesterday got a call from recruiter that they are interested to make an offer. Currently working at Amazon Current details Amazon- L6 QAE in Sunnyvale ( 2years, joined as L5 QAE in 2017- 5 years in amazon) Overall experience-12+ yea
- Feeling Low!! Hi all, I want to take a moment and thank you all for taking sometime and many of you here gave me referral's, found amazing people here, no doubt world is surviving with the great people like you guys!! Im very happy that I met some awesome people here, but unfortunately despite being referred to
- vote Help A New Grad Evaluate Offers Hey Blinders, I have really appreciated being able to gather insights from folks with more experience in tech here to help me along my own journey in the industry, so, first of all, thank you! With all the advice etc. I've gotten on here and elsewhere, I'm now in the process of deciding between 4 g
- Marketing Analytics to PMM/PM I work as the analytics lead / product Owner on the digital analytics team for playstation. I have about 7yo of marketing/product marketing analytics experience - including my current role as a FT playstation employee as well as analytics consulting experience in companies like Facebook, Adobe and e
- vote Tekion vs Licious (Need Career Advice !!) Hey Guys , Advice Needed . Please help Current TC : 8L + 1L Joining Bonus+ 2L Performance YOE- 1 year 1 month offers: Tekion : Salary - 18.5 lac Joining Bonus - 2 lac Relocation - 1 lac Stocks - 6.5 lac vested over 4 years Total Comp : salary + bonus + stocks = 23.12 lacs for 1st year Licious
- Switching from gov/aerospace to faang/equivalent tl;dr 20 yoe software engineer and small company founder looking to get into FAANG and equivalent. Q1: which company/role do I have best shot at? Q2: management or IC? Q3: interview now or prep longer? TC ~400k/yr, all cash and 100% equity First, I'm grateful for stumbling onto the Blind community
- Depressed by Praise - Looking for Referrals Hello Dear Blinders, I am actively looking for a Data Scientist/ML Engineer role and would appreciate any support. I am willing to relocate anywhere in order for me to work for a new company in the United States. I recently got my H1B visa and it will be active from Oct - 1, hence I need the new em
- Indian immigration issue [Not crying just trying to understand] I see lot of indians are worried about immigration and visa situation. Those who came 15-20yrs back or married to american got GC/citizenship. But most of us(f1,h1bs, their families and dependents) are waiting and has to deal with lot of issues and uncertainty.
- Travel from India Any folks traveled back from India to the US recently? I am on OPT and have to travel to India urgently. Wanted to get an assessment of the situation. Thanks
- Good bootcamps for SE Job Offer I have a CS background coming out of college, but I don’t feel great about my programming abilities. Anyone have any recommendation for a bootcamp that leads to a great job offer? #engineering #software #bootcamp
- Thoughts on Jumpstart’s feature to filter candidates based on race/gender? I wonder if there even is an option to see only male, or Asian/White. Seems like Jumpstart is promoting racism and sexism in hiring.
- vote Has innovation slowed down? Title.
- Travel to India after graduation I will be graduating in Dec and will be joining Amazon in Feb on OPT. Is it risky to travel to India in December?
- Claim stimulus check on 2020 tax return? In 2019, I worked part time at my university and filed taxes for 9k earnings. I’ve been waiting and waiting, and haven’t received my stimulus check... Can I claim the $1200 on my 2020 tax return, even if my 2020 income is above the requirements? TC 200k YOE < 1
- best ways to buy bitcoin What is the best way to buy bitcoin? I've heard Robinhood is horrible :(
- Child care isn’t a transmission vector Largest peer-reviewed study, 57,335 child care centers: “No evidence of child care being a significant contributor to COVID19 transmission to adults—finding consistent with previous studies showing lack of assoc btwn school closures & transmission rates” https://twitter.com/nahasnewman/status/1323
- Referrals Hey everyone, looking for referrals I have a Masters degree in CS YOE - 3+ TC - 110k #Uber #Lyft #Dropbox #Microsoft #Netflix #Slack
- Any H4 applicants still waiting for Biometric appointment. Mine was filed in may 2020 and still waiting.
- Facebook WFH Options Hello Facebookers. Are you all allowed to WFH as per news or only some teams allow that? TC: 250k
- vote What kind of worker are you? Let’s face it. Some people in G and F don’t spend that much , especially 5 and 6. If You gave them 10M or 10B, they would live the same life. They just want more money even though they don’t need to spend that much. Some people work for a purpose like Dr. Fauci. He was downplayed but still want to
- link When Trump thought pandemic was going to end by easter.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52029546
- At what age did you buy life insurance Folks will be 34 soon thinking of getting a life insurance. Have a wife and 2 kids 😀 What age did you folks take one and which one would you folks recommend ? TC : 328k