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- vote What is your next venture after Amazon? Right after Amazon, what do people commonly do
- link Amazon Used Privileged Information From Venture Fund Portfolio Companies To Launch Rival Products https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-used-privileged-information-venture-073703163.html#tech #amazon
- How is Haven Healthcare? Recruiter reached out. This is Amazon, JPMC and Berkshire healthcare venture. Heard of its wlb and compensation? O.O
- Lost my job today. Need some references. Hi all, With mixed feelings, I lost my shitty job today. I’m ready for my next venture in Data Engineering. Requesting referrals here. #google #apple #facebook #meta #airtable #netflix #dropbox #aws #microsoft #intel #cisco #samsung #square #twitter #stripe #uber #yelp #asana #instacart #postmates
- Big Shots always land fine Terry Myerson joins Madrona Capital as a Venture Partner nd Carlyle Group. Landed a sweet job in 5-6 months. Assaf Ronen, left Amazon, got rescinded offer from Uber. Now heads product at SoFi. What do you guys think?
- Most interesting non-tech jobs at tech firms? Just a partial list. Would love to get people's thoughts. Corp dev at Netflix Content at Netflix Strategy at Google X Investments at Google Ventures BD at Facebook live sports Corp dev at Amazon Product at AWS machine learning and AI
- Amazon New Initiatives group Does anyone have insight into this org? Seems like a cool group working on new tech/prototypes but can’t find much info about them. Recruiter is also saying they can’t share details of the job/project until after I join. How’s their work culture compared to rest of Amazon? Do they have freedom and u
- Senior Business Analyst/ Scrum Master Referral Hi everyone, Looking for a few referrals for Meta ( Facebook) Amazon, and Google. Im currently a Senior Business Analyst/Scrum master, and will like to venture into one of the 3 companies listed above. I have several certifications such as CSM, POPM. SAFE DevOps, etc. if anyone could provide me with
- Cloud tech Need advice on how to go about into Cloud technology world. Where to start ? Is AWS worthy to venture into or should we learn all the Big 3 i.e AWS, Azure, GCP. My thoughts are to start with AWS cloud practitioner and move to AWS Sol. Arch Associate and so on. Am I heading the right path ? Please gu
- Looking for referrals Hi all L6 tech product mgr here at Amazon leading a mature data product but interested in venturing out. Appreciate getting referrals to the FAANGMULA+. The plus could be the following or any other up and coming company I missed. Thanks in advance: #hulu #lyft #bytedance #tiktok #robinhood #ub
- New Grad - Bay Area Amazon vs SoCal Amazon Hi! I have the choice to select bay or socal amazon and was just wondering if it would be worth to stay in southern california. I know that the bay has alot of opportunities too so this decision is difficult Currently staying in socal to stay close to my S/O but also feel like venturing out and exp
- Uber offer - How is the WLB, Culture and future potential ? Hi, I got offer from Uber for Staff position(L5B) recently for Bangalore office. Wanted to know about 1. WLB (i know it is team specific, how is it in general ?) 2. Culture (i know Uber had great culture engg few year back, is it still the same ?) 3. How is the future looking for Uber in general ?
- Companies with L1 assistance I have been in US for few years on H1 and I have been thinking of trying to venture back to India to see work conditions over there. But I would like my options open to be back to US. What companies other than Amazon are helpful with L1 transition to US, if i choose to come back to US. Reason I cho
- Remove/Add startup in a resume for FAANG A few years ago, I quit the job to start a venture but it did not work out. I did not register the company and had 4-5 employees with mutual understanding (equity only). Currently, I am working and would like to join FAANG. I am updating my resume and kind of stuck with my resume- Should I add or
- How to find a job in venture capital as a technical guy? I am a ML + Finance specialist with fairly rare skills. I think I could generate a lot of value with what I do across multiple businesses, as I currently do at amazon. Think big amplifiers on ROI, growth, etc. and opportunity identification. Someone suggested to me that venture capital might be goo
- vote Got an L6 offer from Amazon, need advise This is a South African story. My family lives in Cape Town. I have just signed a new agreement with my current company to switch to working on a part time basis (20h/week) so that I can start focusing on my new AI/ML venture part time and still earn enough income to cover life expenses while the bu
- Should I join Amazon? Got an offer from Amazon recently. I was really excited as it is my first FANG job and i liked the project very much. Huge learning opportunity. Happy with numbers too. Honestly, felt like an accomplishment for me given my background. But, after reading horrifying posts on Amazon culture here, i am
- Career shift to SDE I currently work with Amazon as a data scientist. My bachelor's has been in CS and Masters in data science. I'm trying to venture back to sde roles given sentiment for data science in general. What are the different things that are required to crack SDE roles in fang? Is it just leetcode and system
- 👉 Any Project/Business Operations roles? I am aggressively looking for new roles as my firm could be cutting down on headcount soon. I have been scoping many job pages and, while there already exist few non-tech project/operations roles, there are even fewer currently due to Covid-19 (maybe except AMZN). 🔺🔺🔺 If your company/somewhere y
- vote NYC vs Silicon Valley for Tech? Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, TikTok, etc. are heavily investing in NYC right now. Facebook recently leased the entire Farley building in Manhattan to triple its current local work force. Apple is expanding to another building in Manhattan. And Google and Amazon are also expanding corporate campu
- Apply to jobs in Canada (For a friend) I have an Econ degree and I work with Bain in India doing strategy consulting. I have my Canadian Permanent Residence lined up and I wish to move my career and life to Vancouver Canada due to family reasons. Question to the blind community- what jobs should I be applying to in Vanco
- vote Next Credit Card: Amex Plat vs Sapphire Reserved vs Venture X It's been a while since I've added a new card and I have some expenses coming up so I figured now could be a good time to add since I should be able to hit the sign up bonuses. I currently have two low level/entry cards that I'm looking to use less (not great rewards/benefits) and then mainly I use
- vote MLE Career in FAANG vs MBA -> Startups/VC Currently an applied scientist in MS enjoying ML work with 2 YOE. Would you choose to build MLE career in FAANG or focus on entering the startup and venture capital scene through acquiring a MBA from Stanford or Harvard. I am asking because I am getting the feeling that who ever gets promoted up th
- How to leverage brand name of a FAANG company effectively as a PM? Seeking guidance on this since I joined Meta 3 years ago, after leaving a pre IPO company after a short tenure of 3 months (so no stock vested and they IPOed successfully). Naturally, it would have been more financially rewarding to stay there, but it was the brand name that drove me to Meta. Since
- vote Credit card setup The only “good” cards I have right now are the Amex Gold and Amazon Prime card and I want to build out a good setup so that I can balance getting good travel/lifestyle benefits and some cash back/statement credit if I want. I had a few ideas for setups and curious what everyone thought or if they ha
- vote Best FAANG in 10 years Everybody now wants to work at G or F. I think F and G have a future less bright than their present. Their only source of revenue is advertising, which is the single most fought thing by congress, society and overall regulations; Their cultures are somewhat imperfect: G is super slow and often fail
- cto to vp of engineering Was brought in as founding tech member to take an idea and build it. Founders were convinced the idea was a hit because of 2 existing brick and mortar businesses in the space and the idea being what was missing in the space. Decision was to not include 2 existing businesses in the new venture becaus
- vote Interviewed for Amazon SDM, proposed for TPM I thought I did pretty well other than one SD in my full loop. Total YOE 17 with about 9 as SDM and currently manage 14 people including assoc managers, principals. Actively participate in tech discussions, designs etc day to day, in addition to putting out fires. I seem to have done a terrible job
- Amazon Software Development Manager Vs Linkedin Software Engineering Manager Which is better in terms of work. In Amazon as SDM, my major work is to give status updates to higher ops. TPMs are trying to venture into product management and keeping title of TPM to keep their salaries up. So SDM is mostly into giving status updates. Typical SDM has two Sr. SDMs, Director, Sr. D
- Senior engineer and management opportunities So I’m a senior dev at a big tech company about to hit 9 years and my manager wants to know the path I wish to venture down next. I can go staff or go manager. I like the idea of manager but what are career opportunities like as a manager? I find I have lots of options and got nearly 7 job offers fr
- Canada opportunities for mid level SWE working on data IT opportunities in Canada for PR holder. current TC is $75-80K CAD from service tech company. YOE:9 Multi faceted role playing in these 9 years makes me jack of all but king of none. technical hands-on cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, data governance,cloud based ELT solutioning with data lake and
- Bored and unmotivated to work. Need advice I work in an Amazon subsidiary. Reasons I am bored and unmotivated: 1. Mostly average engineers in the company. Some are plain dumb and yet being promoted, which says a lot about the management. 2. New SDE-2's being brought from outside while neglecting promotion of SDE-1's inside of the company
- Best Online Masters Programs for non-STEM backgrounds? I’m toying with the idea of getting a masters, if I do I’d want to go online so I can work full time, have a better chance of getting into a better program and spend less overall. I have a business background but work for AWS so I would say I’m “lightly” technical. I’m considering either looking at
- IBM - Hybrid Cloud Hello, is there anyone that works in the hybrid cloud/red-hat department at IBM. IBM is clearly working on gaining market share in the cloud wars with AWS, azure and Google cloud having a large market share. I work with a consulting firm called Thechumeffect.com that links the African market to the
- Need Mental Help for Toxicity at Amazon I just completed 5 years at Amazon, tech but not SDE, L7. Got promoted to L7 in less than 3 years have got great ratings all through but realized I was always consumed by work (not working like 14 hour days but always thinking about it). But with life changes with a baby, seeing COVID impact back h
- Product Management Internship Referrals Summer 2022 Hey Blind! I am applying for internships for summer 2022 and would kindly like to request referrals for Product Management intern positions. I have applied to some online, but to no avail. I am currently a 3rd year studying CS and Finance with previous Product Management experience at a startup as
- vote Startup: stay or leave I am an SDE with 5 YOE, 3.5 of which at Microsoft and Amazon. I have joined an early startup (more of a side venture of an established business) 1.5 years ago as an early employee (0.02 stock options). I had to take a pay cut (a substantial one) on the hope that this will pay off in the longer term
- Rethinking Healthcare - Looking for technical developers TL;DR Looking for technical developers (android/iOS UI and backend) to help with building a healthcare app for chronic diseases (focusing on cancer initially, but also applies to diabetes, etc). Problem we are trying to solve: We believe that we can do better for patients with chronic diseases. We
- What is TC (Salary + Bonus + Stock) Benchmark for Product Management VP / Director role in top tech companies in NJ / NY Hey guys, I am new to Blind. And new to job market with around 17 years as Startup CEO/CMO, IT Manager, IT Senior Manager, Architect and started career as Java based product development programmer, I am also google certified, Hubspot certified marketer, AWS certified architect, Sun certified, PMI ce
- vote Should I pursue PM or strategy - and with which offer? Hi Blind I am post-MBA (Mech E. pre-eng so non-coder), 2 YoE Strategy (MBB), 2 YoE product (primarily 0->1 or even 0->Alpha/Beta). Current TC (240, though in Aussie dingaroos) Interests/goals: What I really get a kick out of is identifying novel product opportunities and seeing them translat
- TPM Amazon - rejected but no feedback nor comments for corporate policy I applied for TPM role at Amazon. The process took 4 months. I passed first screening interview, undertook 5 interviews in the second phase. I know at least 1 interview went very well, as per verbal comment of the interviewer who expressed wishing to work together in the future. I sensed the bar-r
- link From ‘boomer’ companies to encroaching giants, Canada’s tech sector has a labour problem If you want to understand the biggest problem in Canadian tech right now, ask someone who jumped from a Canadian company to an American one how their life has changed. You’ll probably get one of two answers. One of them is about money. A Toronto-based engineer who spoke to The Globe and Mail recentl
- How Lyft’s Missteps Killed its Chances of Overtaking Uber Article: I If there were ever a time when Lyft had a chance to catch up with Uber, it was last year. A constant barrage of negative publicity, including a #deleteUber social media movement, offered Lyft a gift in terms of picking up business. But while Lyft made some gains, it still finished the ye
- 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