Even execs are surprised they need to hire so much. Full remote people can skip. Upto 50% remote allowed. Perks: 50% 401k match, roth mbd, $2000 perk up, $150 monthly azure credit, $0 cost employee insurance, $80 monthly for phone, $50 monthly for internet, online course reimbursement, tier 2 refre...Read more
At Meta for 2 years and can say that Meta waste a lot of money. It doesn't feel like they spend money responsibly. Some of the things like - Phone / Laptop renewal every 2 years vs standard 3 years. Data Center hardware renewal every 3 years (AWS is 5 and Azure is 6 years). - Business class interna...Read more
All Product Managers at Cloud companies, What is the make up of inbound vs outbound work for Product Manager roles in AWS, Azure and GCP? Inbound - Scrum, dev engagement, coding, technical work Outbound - Customer meetings, conferences, sales training, business development Any other kind of work...Read more
LinkedIn is continuing to hire in India pretty heavily across all levels (SWE-Pstaff+) in spite of the layoffs. Cost of talent is not cheap there, but higher ups have been unwilling to hire much in the US for the last 1.5 years so this is a compromise. The site continues to grow but scaling out is a...Read more
Hi Blind community, Does any one have any good sources to watch videos or tech talks from employees/architects from the actual companies talking about the design and infra of their own products?? I found this really cool YouTube channel called InfoQ which has some videos from people from Instagram...Read more
So I have two years of experience in dotnet and Azure. I opted for masters in computer science from United States and chose state university so that I can easily pay off my student debt. I worked very hard on leetcode, did read the book system design by Alex xu. I know I can easily manage any softwa...Read more
Interviewed with lot of companies in last 2 months and narrowed it down to below 6 companies based on team, level & TC. Priority: Long term career growth, Scope of work, company culture. Company: Level TC: Base + Bonus + Equity (per yr) + Sign-On Team (if known) Meta: E6 ...Read more
Trying to decide between these two offers In Chicago… I have 3 YOE Offer 1: Slalom Build(Their in-house consulting division no travel) ** Already accepted this offer so I’d have to renege. Wasn’t expecting another offer Potential TC 100k, 91k base, 0-10% bonus No 401k match first year then 3% match...Read more
It has been quite a while since I left Microsoft. I know some people may identify me but so be it. It should be an interesting read for Microsoft folks. I’ll try to keep it short. Morals of the story: 1. Your director controls your rating, compensation, promotion, not your manager. 2. Mspoll is not...Read more
Background: Joined one of the MAGA companies, last year mid 2019, in a team doing AI/ML tech (think Azure / GCP / AWS). Had just finished my masters degrees at a good school and 3 YoE eng experience before that. It was my first PM job, and I thought I made the right choice (had 5 other PM offers). ...Read more
Eight years in to a job at a small-medium non-tech business, and at age 32 I've maxed out this growth path; I report to the CEO, and he likely won't retire soon. So what do you think: can I look at tech jobs? I've done a lot, my title now is "Director of Revenue" which is vague. I now lead of team ...Read more
I will try to provide as much as info possible for correct diagnosis. I'm an indian male with 1+ years of experience with a degree in Information technology. I'm working in an IT company and my client is Johnson and Johnson. I work as a data engineer. my salary is 762000 per annum in indian rupees. ...Read more
I had an odd interview on my second loop with AWS and wondered if anyone has had similar. Random Sidebar thought - AWS recruiting is fast! Amazons interview process from internal recommendation to phone screens is very quick. In both cases it was 5 days at most from recommendation to recruite...Read more
I've seen several postings asking about the culture in the Engineering organization at Microsoft Promote IQ. I am a member of the organization and can provide prospective employees some inside information. The engineers in the organization are very good and on the whole are good collaborators and v...Read more