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- Amazon Workforce Staffing Does anyone have insights about Amazon Workforce Staffing team? My wife got a call from them a few weeks ago for a position in the US. They said the team is growing and they have positions in Europe as well, so the location is flexible. She is a Research/Data Scientist (7YOE). I'd appreciate if so
- Workforce Staffing team in Amazon does anyone have any insights into workforce staffing team in Amazon? hows the tech, culture, wlb etc. thanks for your help
- Is it true, Facebook and Amazon fire 10 percent of under performing workforce every year? How true is this?
- Amazon having the outcome of bleeding talent AWS is down. Amazon is finally having the outcome of PIPing its workforce. #Amazon
- Some questions on how real are Amazon PIP stories Hello All, Sorry for the long post. Wanted to get some genuine feedback from Amazon folks especially managers. I have an offer to join Amazon. It's an L6 operations role. I have been terrified about the horror PIP stories on Blind. A close friend and mentor who works at Amazon gave me the followin
- 2022 Prediction: More PIPs coming Amazon PIP culture won't change. Amazon hired the largest chunk of it's corporate workforce in 2021, more people with same/similar/slightly URA target = more PIP Let that sink in for anyone applying. Welcome aboard folks. TC: 275
- vote Latest news on work visa This will only have negative impact in the market. As it reduces the skilled workforce in top tech companies like Google, Facebook, amazon, Microsoft etc. https://www.vox.com/2020/5/24/21266920/trump-h1b-opt-visa-immigration-student #workvisa #h1b
- vote Amazonians on Focus What percentage of the Amazon blue badge workforce should immediately be put on Focus? In the below percentage ranges, the left value is open interval and the right value is closed interval.
- link Amazon 55000 New hires What’s your opinion on Amazon basically targeting to hire 55000 (40,000+ in the US) corporate employees in the coming months? Don’t you think it effects the quality of workforce? WOULD THE PAYSCALE REMAIN ThE SAME? Source: https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-amazon-ceo-unveils-55000-tech
- Amazon Austin better than other locations? Is Amazon in Austin a lot better than other locations? I see a lot of scary comments about working at Amazon but nothing much about the Austin location even though they have a pretty sizeable workforce there. What gives ?
- Need a referral for Senior Product Job Hi Everyone!! I have 11 years of supply chain and workforce management systems in Product management. Looking for a referral with #tech #salesforce #amazon #microsoft #google Thank you!!
- link Mass Migration from SF to Seattle. Compare LinkedIn's workforce report of Seattle vs SF: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/blog/linkedin-workforce-report-may-2018-seattle-wa https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/blog/linkedin-workforce-report-may-2018-san-francisco-ca Seattle gains the most people from SF. Seattle gains more people from NY, C
- Laid off at Hopin, seeking referrals Technical PM recently laid off due to a reorg at Hopin (affected 12% of their workforce) Looking for remote-only YOE: 10 (Engineering and PM combined) TC: 200k #pm #product #productmanager #referral #meta #amazon #netflix #google #airbnb #uber #lyft #robinhood #figma #slack #faire #salesforce
- Not returning to work post mat leave Hi all - My maternity leave ends in two weeks and Due to personal reasons (wanting to stay home with our child) I’ve decided I am going to take some time off before returning to the workforce. Is this a common situation? I imagine it is. I worry Amazon/manager will some how black list me from the c
- vote GoPuff Is this a good time to join GoPuff after recent news? NEWS 1)3% layoff: https://www.grocerydive.com/news/gopuff-laying-off-3-of-its-global-workforce/621417/ 2) Market values of delivery apps like Gopuff, Gorillas plunge as losses pile up: https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2022/03/03/market-
- Taking a break from work Been at Amazon 2 years and consulting before that. I feel like I’m losing my passion for life. I’m not interested in other similar jobs at other companies, and thinking about taking some time off to do whatever I want each day, travel, etc. Has anyone taken extended time off? What did you do? What
- vote Is Amazon work force in a bad shape? Hi All, I’m just curious to know if Amazon is really struggling to hire people. I’ve been getting atleast 2-3 recruiter inmails everyday on LinkedIn. Talked to a recruiter and they’re willing to give $250-260k+ TC even for someone with 1.5 yoe with L5 position. But my concern is that if Amazon wor
- Amazon as 2020 Forbes Best Employers. I see a lot of rant here from Amazon and other professionals about the WLB in Amazon. However, it secures second position in the World's Best Employers list for 2020 as presented by Forbes recently. I understand as Amazon has a huge workforce so there can be a lot of difference in opinions. But the
- What is about the Amazon PIP? Is it true that every year, Amazon just need to get rid of 6% workforce, so they find somebody to PIP? And then they may do unreasonable things to the person: micro manage, unrealistic deadlines, just hoping the person will quit? Is it true that if the person quits, then the company didn't need to
- Laid off due to COVID-19| Looking for referral I have been recently laidoff due to COVID-19 workforce reduction. I am looking for the referral. I already gave interviews to Facebook & Amazon and got rejected. I'm on H1B visa. The two other companies that I gave interview for, was put on hold due to visa changes. Any help would be greatly appreci
- Anyone knows about the Amazon PeopleTech platform team? Is this a good team? How's WLB there? Thanks in advance. From the recruiter. "The platform group is responsible for building a new state of art cloud native data platform and services to securely house and vend mission critical workforce information. The new platform will offer highly scalable serv
- Brad Porter’s response to TimBray I’m an Amazonian and L8+. I think Brad’s response is distasteful and deceptive. Brad very conveniently left out: 1. Firing protesters andwhistleblowers 2. David Zapolski’s leaked email, which had Beth Galetti on it, and probably others from the S-Team, where he discusses how to discredit a warehou
- vote PSA: do not meet toxic micromanaging managers once you go into FMLA during PIP It seems common that Amazon managers would still schedule "final" meetings with you once you're already on an FMLA (a federally protected leave of absence in the US). They may try to give as justification the fact that the leave is sudden (note that anxiety/depression doesn't require the 30d notice
- Why is the promotion process so painful at Amazon? My manager is helping me work on it. But the SDE3s in my org are quite unsupportive. We have to get evaluated by them before submitting for promotion. I want to know who has more say. I'm also considering leaving but I wanted to get the SDE2 tag before leaving as I've already been in the workforce
- Career advise - reskilling/ upskilling as a leader Hello friends, I now have over 3 decades of experience in leadership positions across big names in tech, pharma, and banking. However, having been in management this long, I'm not nearly as technical as I was 20 ish years ago. Goals: I would like to reskill myself and get back to being technical
- link Visa approvals for tech workers are on the decline. That won’t just hurt Silicon Valley. Outsourcing and consulting firms — which provide IT services for companies whose main business isn’t tech, and which tend to rely more heavily on H-1B visas as a share of their overall workforces — have received the brunt of the decline in approvals. The situation isn’t as bad for the biggest tech c
- Amazon fires people so it can justify robots to governments. This is my theory, i found that for amazon warehouse workers , amazon is giving an option to reflect on the past year and if they are not happy, they can quit with $3000 severance. But the catch is they cannot work for amazon or its subsidiaries ever again. Why would a company be so mean on purpose
- vote Is this back of the envelope calculation correct? Let's say we have a workforce of a million employees - assume 100k of them would be in focus/pip every year. With 50k leaving the company per year - over a period of 5 years - 250k folks would be bitter from their experience at that company. Are the numbers looking correct? PS: I am trying to ca
- Weird Amazon Experience Im interviewing with Amazon for the first time and wanted to know if anyone has gotten this question. The interviewer told me to solve this “pip” algorithm. (I’m not sure what that means but I went for it anyways). Here is the problem: Amazon has too many workers and needs to fire at least 10% of
- link PERM/Labor Certification game over? Foreign worker community (H1/L1/F1/O1/TN), due to Facebook/Meta lawsuit is it game over for PERM program? So foreign workers have to make it past Department of Labor before going to USCIS to file I-140 and then I-1485 to get GC and EAD. https://www.hrdive.com/news/ignorance-is-not-going-to-be-an-ex
- How do you manage stress in your day-to-day? Hi Blinders! I’m looking for anyone in the workforce (both tech and non-tech) who’s willing to talk about how you manage stress in your day-to-day life (or don’t), and what you wish you had at work to help you relax and focus. Are you in control of your emotions? Or are they in control of you? How
- Future of PELOTON after COVID - Fad or Breakthru Single, soon to be married. Peloton is in crazy hiring mode. Got a job offer recently from a fairly new Engineering team at Peloton. Present job is hectic at times, pays low, zero training but there's lots of learning potential, helpful colleagues and is stable. Really paranoid if Peloton is goin
- Toxic culture!?!? I have been in the workforce for 6 years now as a SWE. Worked for 1 team in Amazon and 2 teams in Google. Worked with people in a lot of other teams as well. All my teams have been good. Great managers who were transparent about career progression and expectations always, team mates that worked col
- Hard Life Here are some sad facts about this stranger’s life. 0. This stranger is a female from non CS background, trying to get back into technical program management 1. Have been rejected by Amazon 3 times; One full time, two internships. 2. The last one was especially hard because it felt like HM came t
- Amazon Hiring Ad! Take Risk, Growth or PIP Saw this Amazon Ad today looking for risk takers! The risk they don’t mention is either you become TT (top talent) or you get the boot via PIP. As a software engineer in AWS for 1 year+ (and previously in Retail), I would strongly advise you to stay away from this company. - If you have job offers
- Samsung vs Dolby vs Bodo - Internship Offer Evaluation Hello all, As title says am trying to evaluate offer from this 3 for summer internship. I have couple year of work ex, doing internship as part of my Masters program. Samsung - 43$/hr + 2$k housing/mo ( San Diego ) Work looks to be promising on Infra tooling, on my area of interest. Container orch
- vote Are tech companies tightening up the interviews? I interviewed with a famous pre ipo company today where the expectation was to solve an easy-medium and a medium in 30 mins. Just 30! I interviewed with Facebook a few months back and I was asked a medium and a LC hard(with <20% acceptance) question in 45 mins. I was lucky to have solved it a day
- AWS - 1 year in, time to leave. I even have a great manager and I am considered a top performer. Yet I am completely burned out. I feel hampered by 20 different mechanisms designed to maximize my output, yet I feel constantly constrained and instantly replaceable. The creative element of technical adoption and solving customer p
- Blind made me realize whats possible. Thank You! Its been almost a year since the private equity takeover and it has ticked all the standard changes that come with that. With no more RSU”s on the table it has really impacted the bottom line for compensation. Add on the 10% reduction in workforce but with the same workload and it has been rough.
- Alibaba Cloud Video Interview Preparation Tips I have an upcoming video interview with Alibaba Cloud. Any preparation tips, besides LeetCode and reading up on Alibaba Cloud, to take into consideration? This is for a role in the Seattle/Bellevue area. Incidentally when I received the interview invite there was mention having passed a prior inter
- Flipkart SDE-1 VS Paypal SDE-1 ( India ) I am under interview process with Flipkart (final stages) so I still don't know which team I would be working for. Currently in a team @Paypal , where we build/maintain a CRM tool used from customer rep/workers. Very low impact work , terrible learning since there is not any scale at all except for
- Can you get into a FAANG in your 40s? I spend my 20s partying, playing music and traveling the world and didn't really try to enter the workforce until 2008 (great year to try to get a job :-D ). I managed to get work as an analytics/DB consultant for a retailer in the midst of the 2008/09 recession, and spent most of my career jumpin
- I can't find a job! I have been looking for a Program or Product Manager job since August of last year. I started with one resume and I applied to hundreds of positions using the same resume. It got me nowhere. Not a single call from a recruiter. Then I decided to target my resume; I looked at the applications, found
- ML/Applied Scientist Role will get commoditized out of existence! Do you agree? Seeking out fellow ML scientist bro/sis here on Blind. Having a mid-cliff crisis now. Punch line is that I think this role will be commoditized out of existence in at most 10 years. First, we need to get our definitions straight, because terminology varies. 1) Research Scientist (50% basic researc
- vote Feeling burnout I've been very impatient and angry at home lately. Just realized I'm experiencing burnout. I personally don't think I have as much work and stress as the folks at Amazon or AWS have but I'm feeling it. Juggling my job, family and a degree at the same time. Poor choice you might say. I thought abou
- Should I take a low level role (in or out of tech) while looking for high level? Would this hurt me? Hi Blinders. Happy new year! Hoping I can get some of your wisdom & insight. Spent past 7+ years in startups abroad as a passion project founder, a co-founder at another startup & a Director PM role at another. (not in that order) Returning to the US after recently attending a few events and seeing
- link EO banning NI Visas Out https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-immigration-workers-coronavirus/2020/06/22/3b969e88-b489-11ea-9b0f-c797548c1154_story.html President Trump issued an executive order Monday barring many categories of foreign workers and curbing immigration visas through the end of the year, moves
- Vancouver - SAP - Senior Developer Please ping me if interested I can refer you :) Job Title: Senior Developer, Data Management and Platform Infrastructure Team COMPANY DESCRIPTION SAP started in 1972 as a team of five colleagues with a desire to do something new. Together, they changed enterprise software and reinvented how busin
- link It's A "Cold War Every Day" Inside This Group At Apple A group inside Apple called Information Systems & Technology, or IS&T, builds much of the company’s internal technology tools — from servers and data infrastructure to retail and corporate sales software — and operates in a state of tumult. IS&T is made up largely of contractors hired by rival cons
- 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