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- Amazon Commercial Architect? Hi everyone! I have an interview for a Commercial Architect role on Amazon’s OPTICS team coming up and have some questions for the Amazon community. 1. Any insight into potential level/comp I should try for? 2. Any interview tips beyond studying leadership principles and finding relevant stories?
- vote Amazon prime commercial selection is shit Now i see why bezos only pays you in 🍌🍌. Why am i getting a commercial for the chelsea peretti movie while im watching the fucking chelsea peretti movie? What's the best case scenario here?
- vote TS/SCI Role or Commercial At Amazon Recruiter is letting me pick between two SWE roles to interview for. I’d have to upgrade my clearance and there’s always the chance I wouldn’t pass the polygraph, but that sweet $45k/year clearance bonus would be nice and hopefully more job security. It’d also be nice if interviews were slightly mor
- Looking for referral for commercial, non-tech positions at Meta/AMZN/MSFT Currently working in a commercial role at CVX and want to pivot towards renewable power. Hoping to transition to tech companies looking to ramp up data center infra. If anyone could give me a referral it would be greatly appreciated. I'm based out of Houston and would seek to work remotely. YOE: 6
- Take Servicenow commercial sales position over AWS engaged sales position? Take Servicenow commercial sales position over AWS engaged sales position?
- Amazon compensation Hi blind community, I've started my interview process with Amazon for "finance manager" with their commercial business. I was wondering what kind of compensation range I can ask for with Amazon?
- Has anyone else sworn to never buy from WayFair? Their TV commercials are uniquely loud, annoying, and STUPID. Pair that with the dominance of Amazon and the wealth of brick-and-mortar furniture and hardware stores everywhere... Yeah, it's pretty easy to swear to never use WayFair. Fuck them for making such terrible commercials.
- amazon interview i have an interview with amazon for a non technocal role, so commercial around AWS. couple of questions: whats the process like? whats life like working for Amazon? compensation and reality of targets being attained? any insight woukd be great, thanks!
- Need help in Amazon Went through Amazon interview and they said its a recycle resume. How to find my ideal team in Amazon ? More of R&D than commercialization team.
- How is Finance Team culture at Amazon Can anyone share some thoughts? Toxic? Pip culture? Long hours? Im talking specifically about Commercial Finance Team #tech #amazon #finance
- does amazon have a great future in hardware? i wonder what amazon wants to do in commercial space with hardware. Is the HW devices purpose is just to bring more people to participate in their ecommerce business alone? will this HW thrive in market competition? #amazon #apple #microsoft #google #facebook
- Sales at AWS What is sales like for an L6 at AWS? How is the culture? How is the pay assuming you hit 80% quota. What segment is ideal? Commercial, startups, or small business? I’m currently trying to transition into sales and would like some insight.
- Customer facing engineering at G/Amazon? Curious as to if there are customer facing engineering roles at either Google or Amazon - similar to Commercial Software Engineering at Microsoft or FDSE at Palantir?
- Are you willing to join contractual role at big tech? I am offered a commercial contractual role at a faang company (not in the states). But only base salary, no bonus and stock options. Is it a good idea to join?#tech #google #facebook #apple #amazon
- How is aws for the government side? Is it as bad or worse than the commercial side? I am thinking about aws or azure then breaking away from defense for good. I have a top secret sci with polygraph. Tc:180k 5 yoe. I have an interview for senior for aws in a few weeks.
- Jumping from Defense to Commercial - Transition Idea Should I leave my current, slow/low growth defense contractor job to the commercial side via AMZN/MFST cleared jobs or do I go straight to commercial? - Currently located in the DC Area - 4 yrs exp and working on MS in Computer Science Main reasons for leaving defense: - most of the tech is not th
- Google L3 versus Amazon L5 (non-tech) Currently working at Google as a L3 (most likely will get L4 within 1 year) in Europe. Am now doing interviews at Amazon for a L5 position. How does the level compare between Amazon and Google? Also, what salary range would L5 at Amazon be for non-tech (Commercial Role). Further, is level negotiabl
- recommended path options for high TC? Trying to figure out a good way to up my TC. Im not in SF or Seattle so maybe my options are limited (im in NC). any advice given my background? experience (chronological): 2 yrs developer (commercial saas startup) 2 yrs senior devops/sre (commercial saas startup) 2 yrs devops/sre manager (commer
- vote Act random when online or .. Based on apps using AI on user data for commercial purposes, political etc., which one seems like right strategy? Act random online: ‘like’ some random posts on FB; forward random articles; view unrelated videos on YouTube etc., Sites which target: FB, Twitter, slack, YouTube, amazon etc.,
- vote Meta Stonks up ⬆️ or down ⬇️ after earnings. #stonks101 #metaverse I think Meta’s R&D cost and operating cost will increase. Users growth is close to saturation. They are still struggling with ads targeting. - Google Ads & Amazon Ads are giving tough time to meta for Ad revenue. - For Monthly active users & daily active users, Tik Tok is eating their lunch. - I
- vote Small startup vs Amazon for SWE I Title. Just started at a small startup about a month ago, when amazon finally sent out an offer for SWE I, and i cant decide if i want to stay at the startup or join Amazon. Im early in my career, only a year out of college, and im trying to be well poised for future job opportunities Startup is tr
- Project Manager Job/Referral Help! Hello! Looking to get back into the tech industry into PM role remote or in Austin, TX. Experience: - (Almost) 2 years Project Manager / Account manager at a commercial real estate company. 75k TC - 1 year tech sales before this with various clients from NoSQL databases to security applications t
- More phone screens after Amazon onsite Hi all. I recently completed the Amazon onsite loop for a commercially-focused role. Had a call with a recruiter who said I was "Very Amazonian" and "Great fit for the Amazon culture" and I did "very well" in the interview process but ... no offer. He said that there are two other teams that I could
- GraphQL Momentum and Apollo Culture I know several large brands (Expedia, Air BnB, etc) are using GraphQL, but curious how prevalent it’s becoming to reduce Rest calls? And to build on that Apollo seems they are the only real player in the commercial space (AWS AppSync and others exist but don’t seem prevalent). What’s it like worki
- AWS offer feedback please I have 14 YOE, TS/SCI clearance, commercial and DoD experience, many tech/security certs (CISSP, AWS SA Pro, Google Cloud SA Pro, more) and have spent most of my career in senior+ roles... AWS offer for security consultant TC is ~220k. I’m really hoping to get involved in aws space/sat projects if
- Tech Referrals Hi everyone, I am looking for referrals to FAANGMULA+ companies. I have 2 years experience in commercial real estate and 2 years experience in sales strategy and operations at WeWork. I am looking to move into a strategy, operations or product role in a tech firm. Please drop a comment below so I
- Referral for databricks/Aws/snowflake/gcp Hello, Looking for referrals for databricks/aws/snowflake. Currently I am in an enterprise role and have been for the las 4 years but I do not have direct experience in the cloud computing but do in Saas. Would I need to take a commercial position for the above or could I land an enterprise role?
- L62 offer @ Microsoft - Commercial Software Engineering (CSE) Got an offer for a position on one of Microsoft's CSE teams. Curious about how competitive the offer is as well as any experiences people have had working at Microsoft, specifically within the Commercial Software Engineering division. Will be as anonymous as possible as the offer is for a smaller
- 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
- FB and Google dev tools Are big tech companies who develop cutting edge dev tools for internal use doing so because THE BEST minds are already hired and there’s a limit on how brilliant someone can be to boost productivity so they’re creating tools to increase dev productivity since that’s a market they see can either boos
- PM qualifications I am wanting to transition into a product management role at a consumer internet company (amazon, google, netflix, etc). I am concerned that my background is not seen as relevant as I have been a product manager for 10+ years but for embedded software and hardware commercial and military aviation el
- vote House decision - help Need help to decide which house to settle for - Both in same location, about 15 mins apart, similar ISD, same size. Below are differences - 1) No back neighbour but metal fence and nice park view at back, But people walking on trail can see my backyard because of metal fence, 10mins walking dis to
- Importance of big brands for PM career? I work for a small-mid size private SaaS company (~5 B valuation). I’ve been able to rapidly grow within the product org by leading the “innovation” teams and taking products to market. I have been approached by a couple of larger companies e.g. Salesforce, AWS, MSFT for product roles. Not sure if
- IT Consulting Exit to Tech Hi everyone, looking to transition from information technology consulting and auditing to a tech focused role. I have 3 years worth of commercial and public consulting under my belt but I feel like I can move on to better compensation/duties within role. I have been looking to apply to Facebook, Mic
- Can some salespeople at AWS offer me advice please? (Incoming college intern) Hey guys, I’ll be joining AWS this summer as a commercial sales intern in Seattle. My goal is to make it to enterprise sales, and then pivot to either account management or a director/VP role (wherever I could find one). Assuming I get a full time offer, I’ll be entered in the ‘STAR’ program as an
- Business Director in Medical Industry looking to break into tech any advice and or referrals Hi Blind community! First Blind post! I have had a lot of colleagues recently make switches to tech industry but never realized the large TCs in the industry! So I was hoping this forum can provide some guidance on next steps! I was hoping for referrals or advice on Amazon care, or any FAANG health
- To the Microsoft people who are excited about Jim Cramer talking about including Microsoft in FAANG This literally is meaningless for you as an employee. Blind completely misses the point of what FAANG is. FAANG is just a list of companies with stocks that perform well and are good investments (the acronym was also coined and popularized by Jim Cramer) It doesn't have anything to do with having
- link Who lived through first Dot Com Bubble? Any stories to tell? Just reading through Boo Hoo, a book written in 2001, illustrating the largesse of e-commerce startup Boo.com and how they spent $170m in less than two years most of it just to launch their first website. Also watched startup.com a few years ago (https://youtu.be/ibuiUXOTE4M). As a two time startu
- AWS Sr. Software Engineers and Managers Amazon Web Services (AWS) Hi all, I recruit for Platform distributed computing teams. I’ve been refraining from posting to be mindful of the hardship (and not trying to “sell” stuff), but with all the layoffs, I felt like I need to get the word out on all of these openings we have. I hate putting “
- Northbend, WA (Seattle) pros and cons as I see it. Any thoughts? I drove to north bend,wa thinking that it’s a remote place but I see a lot of new home constructions and development. The drive was also a breeze compared to the drive to north bothell from Bellevue. Looks like a good bet for a home. School district also seems good with one (probably only) of the 1
- Smaller team in Amazon government space - unsure what to trust Currently in the process of scheduling an onsite for a team called AWS lighthouse. (Might doxx me with my company name, whatever) After talking with the recruiter, the team: 1) Does not have on call (I can volunteer to on-call for other teams for 25k bonus due to clearance) 2) ~10-20 devs, mostly s
- My goal next year is to get hire by Facebook even if is as a Janitor My goal has always been to join Facebook at some point during my career. I’m a college dropout with 16 yrs of experience. The funny part is that I’m now part of the University’s board of their business school as a preferred mentor for their mentor program. I started my career with JPMORGAN and stay
- Need some help choosing between two roles I’m at AWS currently and looking to make a jump towards something more hands on. The two roles that are trying to snag me are: Sr. DevOps Architect for ProServe (Commercial) And a role acting as a Solutions Architect for an internal backend team. Don’t know the official role title, could be SysEng
- link ‘ Build on your lot’ builders with cost+floor plans in bay area,ca. I searched but couldn’t find builders with floor plan catalog & approx cost. This was the only one- https://thomasjameshomesusa.com/northern-california/ Any recommendations? Thanks
- vote Stocks and US Elections #personalfinance #investments Has anyone noticed recent steady sell off? what do you think, what are the chances of stocks falling after upcoming US elections if trump wins or biden wins..
- vote What will happen if Prop 22 doesn’t pass? Title says it all. Mainly thinking from the Gig companies perspectives. Vote or comment #Prop22 #tech #california @postmates @caviar @grubhub
- Thoughts on this tiktok nuclear energy influence Her goal is to save nuclear plants and advocate for more nuclear energy using weird videos on tiktok. Thoughts ? https://twitter.com/isaboemeke/status/1319674446391619584
- Ayurvedic doctor in Bay Area Has anyone tried Ayurvedic consultation & treatment in the Bay Area? Looking for references/recommendations. Thanks #medical #health
- vote Which of the following stocks will double fastest? If you were to risk all your wealth in one tech stock which one would it be at this moment?
- all stocks have gone up considerably high but I still lost 40 k due to day trading I would like to invest in longterm stock. Which stock will double in next 3-6 months? holding apple hoping it would run up to 130