The comp packages and benefits are great, as you would expect.
No work-life balance here. But with so many younger employees who are hungry and have minor life-commitments (no kids, can work long hours and/or at night), if you don't fit your manager's expectation of their ideal employee, expect nothing from them. 4 managers in 4 years here and this has been my observation with each.
I have an offer from Apple and have only 1.5 years left on my H1B. So rethinking if I should take the offer.
https://www.indiatoday.in/business/story/us-employers-use-h1b-visa-to-pay-low-wages-to-migrants-1674861-2020-05-06 The report titled "H-1B visas and prevailing wage levels" says 60 per cent of H-1B positions certified by the US Department of Labor (DOL) are assigned wage levels well below the local...Read more
How do you top earners of $500k tc save paying taxes? My yearly TC is in low $100s and last year in Dec I sold some stock(NQSO stocks from an older employer and not Apple RSU which is arrested as W2 income), hoping to buy a home but didn’t. This moved my wages to upwards close to $500k which put my ...Read more
With the elimination of WITCH H1Bs, more H1Bs will go to SWEs in highly paid top tier firms (eg. FAANG), which would mean more supply/competition for these roles (potentially lowering wages). American SWEs in top tier firms should oppose this new H1B bill unless it comes with a corresponding reduct...Read more
https://www.indiatoday.in/business/story/us-employers-use-h1b-visa-to-pay-low-wages-to-migrants-1674861-2020-05-06#:~:text=Google%2C%20ranked%20the%20fifth%2Dlargest,median%20wage%2C%20the%20report%20said. Now what say folks who keep on gushing over their TCs #google #apple #facebook
Frankly, they don't understand economics. Cost of labor is NEVER above its natural price dictated by supply and demand. No employer is willing to pay you more than you're worth. I challenge you to give me an example. There isn't any. Even if you were part of a union with artificially created low sup...Read more
*** don’t read beyond this if you don’t like brag/ flex posts. My intent is not to hurt you but to feel proud, be grateful and motivate others. Interested to get feedback as well. Yoe: 6, year at apple:6 Federal taxable wages: 576k (year to date) I am just worried that i might not be able to cont...Read more
Hi Folks, I have over 11+ years of experience in Big Data,Scala,Spark and AWS , I have applied for contract big data position with Apple through (TCS,HCL,Infosys,Tech Mahindra and so many other vendors) on 50$/hr , my question is why wages in large bay area tech for contract positions are damn low ...Read more
[Food for thought] I think there is a flaw in capitalism, it needs poor people who are ready to work at lower wages. So they've to create this cycle of continuous growth and then cook a recession or war or something else reset it back to where it was and the cycle continues... The cycle at presen...Read more
So much hate and schadenfreude about falling stocks. Daily post about how the company will fail and employees lose jobs. People rejoiced when hiring froze and kept predicting layoffs and wished employees are jobless and families affected during the downturn. Is this the true nature of most people ...Read more
Let's talk about hourly wages, and how to form and calculate them. I only worked as FTE Creative Director. I’ve been proposed an exquisite position as CW. I have no idea how to form my hourly rate. Please help those who had this experience. Creative Leads, Art Directors, and Associate Creative Di...Read more
I've been doing software development (mostly web/backend). However, recent layoffs and the AI/ML surge have changed everything. I'd like to ask my fellow blinds what other fields they may work in to maintain a solid profession and earn excellent wages. Note: I made this poll for simplicity of selec...Read more
These layoffs aren’t because companies don’t have money to pay us, it’s to remind us that, as workers we are insects that can be crushed by our CEO overlords. It’s a concentrated effort to reduce swe pay. Mark Zuckerberg spent 40 billion on buybacks after laying off 11000 employees. Google is one o...Read more
It is difficult to litigate wage suppression compared to no-poach anti-trust cases (see Apple/Google/Lucas). It is nonetheless an antitrust violation to collude to suppress employee wages the way that rain accused Satya and financebros of. This is a book review on why enforcement has failed. If this...Read more
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-01-09/science-jobs-technology-stem-majors "Most STEM graduates don’t work in STEM occupations. The Census Bureau reported in 2021 that a paltry 28% of STEM grads are working in these supposedly in-demand, highly paid and important STEM jobs. ... about hal...Read more
Inviting all insiders and market makers to share their opinions. Layoffs are still ongoing, but it mostly seems to be limited to the US. The trend started a year ago and included giants like Microsoft and Google. Interestingly, Meta and Salesforce seem to be hiring crazily (even in the US) now. I ...Read more
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-h-1b_b_5890d86ce4b0522c7d3d84af?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmVkZGl0LmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABjFz7ALDIYwC20oncfSzGWtQ1W1_Ke67EjZgMbQy7R4BLhJkSRWbqtoXyYww5Y1o2tMIuJJqDmAyBOVezfFyIjVDILjjAzljP7OtQ-oXi1hb366T1w6Je-Fg5Pg8USNw8tkOnLJoLlLPnEqeHQI8b...Read more
Every single company spouts sermons about how they're changing the world, making the world a better place, revolutionizing and disrupting the universe, reaching for the moon yada yada. Anyone with a little bit of experience in the corporate world knows that all of it is PR mumbo jumbo, corporate BS...Read more
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...Read more
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/05/google-union-pandemic/ Google is famous for its cafeterias, which serve its legions of programmers and product managers everything from vegan poke to gourmet tacos — free. But the cooks and servers behind those meals are generally contractors wh...Read more