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- Partner Development at AWS vs. Azure vs. GCP vs. OCI Currently a partner manager at AWS. Comp is good (~260k before stock appreciation) but I am not sure I can last another year working at Amazon. It’s blood sucking (putting it nicely). I’m interested in what it’s like at other cloud providers. Has anyone moved from AWS to another one of the cloud pr
- vote Is it conflict of interest if I work for AWS while my partner works for Azure enabled products? SDM at AWS + PM lead at Azure enabled products at MSFT
- link Arista telling the truth about Azure’s non growth and Satya’s financial engineering Arista has been telling the world how Azure and Microsoft are not growing. The spend on new orders is significantly lower for many quarters and JEDI is not gonna make material difference. Satya for all his financial engineering of the stock price cant save Microsoft’s partners business and the truth
- Azure title inflation Why are Azure Partner Groups joining Google, AWS as Principal? Is Azure title inflation so bad? Or is it they are badly underpaid? Or it’s jumping a sinking ship at all costs? Have seen two Partner Groups become principal at Google in the last two months.
- Microsoft Huge Layoffs in Q4? In Window's org and MCIO?...Most impacted - Service engineers, Program managers. Partners and Principals. Now Cloud group has lots of trash added with recent reorg. from OSG. OSG devs are of very low standard compared to Azure devs. They won't stand a chance. Heard from a Partner group manager that
- Lot of partner promotions at MSFT There are lot of partner promotions at MSFT these days esp. in Azure. How much do these guys get paid in year 1 vs year 4?
- Disney and Microsoft Partnership! Anyone working on a team that deals with this? https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/16/walt-disney-studios-partners-with-microsoft-azure-on-cloud-innovation-lab/ Seems cool!
- Referrals needed for senior security roles (remote) Hi, I'm looking for referrals for Principal/sr. staff/Sr. Security Partner/Architect roles YOE: 20+ years IT Experience, 10+ development and 10 InfoSec Architecture (AppSec/Cloud) Certificates: CISSP, AWS Security Specialty, Azure Security, CCSK etc. Please DM me if need more info for referrals.
- Microsoft offer/ team review Location : Hyderabad, India TC: 35LPA Level: 61 BREAKUP: 22.5 LPA Base + 2LPA Joining bonus + 4LPA Perf bonus + 7LPA stocks for 1st yr. YOE: 2yrs Team: Azure Partner Experience If team is bad, what's the possibility of a team change before offer acceptance or post onboarding?
- Microsoft offer/team review Location : Hyderabad, India TC: 35LPA Level: 61 BREAKUP: 22.5 LPA Base + 2LPA Joining bonus + 4LPA Perf bonus + 7LPA stocks for 1st yr. YOE: 2yrs Team: Azure Partner Experience If team is bad, what's the possibility of a team change before offer acceptance or post onboarding?
- Is it ok to join under a bad team in a big corp than join a start-up abroad? Location : Hyderabad, India TC: 35LPA Level: 61 BREAKUP: 22.5 LPA Base + 2LPA Joining bonus + 4LPA Perf bonus + 7LPA stocks for 1st yr. YOE: 2yrs Team: Azure Partner Experience If team is bad, what's the possibility of a team change before offer acceptance or post onboarding?
- Microsoft SDE2 Onsite Hey Blind! I have an onsite coming up with a team in Azure for SDE2 role. I got the schedule and looks like I have 5 rounds. 3 high level managers (including partner level engineering manager), 1 senior SDE, and 1 SDE2 (lunch interview). Is that normal? Seems a bit unusual. How do I prep for this?
- Need advice for my spouse to get a job in Tech Hello, My partner is a consultant at Accenture with 3 YOE (all at Accenture), with engineering background (not computer science or maths). She's mainly working on tech-oriented projects (digital strategy / AI). She doesn't have an elaborate tech skillset but she's picking it up (Azure certification
- Day of a ML platform product manager I work as a PM for a product and I spend my time in with user researchers, product designers, marketing, define features and get them implemented with engineers & partner with different teams. I have been trying to get a sense what product managers in an ML/AI platform team do or any Azure/AWS team
- vote Microsoft Research is ruining my MLE external applications On my resume I state that I am a Machine Learning Engineer partnering across Microsoft Research and Azure to build and productionize AI solutions. Is the reference to Microsoft Research and association with "research" the reason why hiring managers looking for machine learning engineers do not like
- Whats my best option with Amazon or Microsoft with my cloud experience? I have 2.3 yrs of experience being a cloud PM (Product Manager) straight out of college at a MSP and 3+ yrs of digital marketing working at smaller businesses. Most of my PM experience is with AWS & Azure and I have my aws cloud practitioner cert. so I'm targeting Amazon and Microsoft primarily. I
- AWS Role Hierarchy Hey! I am interested in jumping into the cloud space in the next year or so (graduated last spring and focusing on CCNA, Linux+, Sec+ (required for govt work) and building Python skills). From what I can see on the AWS page, these are the typical non-SWE roles they are hiring for. How does the foo
- My partner is looking for US sponsor Hello blind, I'm in US on f1 and my partner is in india. We have been trying to get him here too. He works in Microsoft India and has about 5 years of experience mostly on the azure distributed database backend side. Internal tranfer from Microsoft is still dicey and we have to ask for it. Would it
- Salary for Microsoft Dynamics Global Blackbelt Technology Sales Pro Hey Everyone, I'm seriously considering officially applying for a Microsoft Dynamics Global Blackbelt Technology Sales Professional position. Informal discussions have already started. I could really use some advice to prepare myself to negotiate salary. Here's the job description • Strategic Sales
- Bad Microsoft Experience - who to contact? I had an interview yesterday with a team in Azure. Everything was going well till the last round when I met with the director and he asked me what you could have been if you stayed at MS, I said I could have been a principal right now. I’m working as Sr. Software Engineer for the last 2.5 years. He
- Working for a competitor after leaving company- is it illegal? Hey Blind, Need your opinion. There is a clause in my offer letter (something i have seen in multiple offer letters)- "After Termination. For the period of one year immediately following termination of my employment with the Company (for any or no reason, whether voluntary or involuntary), I will
- What is required for L4/L5 AWS SA? I've mostly seen tenured people join the SA organization but I've also seen some junior or fresh out of school join. Currently a Cloud Support Engineer (network) and would like to make some short term and long term goals in becoming an SA. I'm coming from a network heavy background and would like t
- vote Facebook or Amazon? I am PM 65 10yoe at Msft, another 10y outside of Msft as PM/TPM in consumer products. I am in Azure right now. TC: 340K I have two final offers after negotiations. Both role are in Seattle. I am told both are out of band and required approval: 1. Facebook TPM infra L6 TC ~ $510K ($230k/ 75k sign-
- Program Manager, 8YOE - how much should I be making? After seeing many of the posts here on Blind, it seems that I should be making a lot more than what I'm currently making. First time poster. Be gentle. Current job: "Senior Project Manager" at a "Microsoft Gold Partner" IT consultancy firm. I lead projects like cloud migrations, mergers/acquisition
- vote McKinsey Vs Expedia Data Engineer [Hoping the tech bros don't give a biased response to the poll, please try to read through the points..] I have received offers from above mentioned companies. Comparison - TC: Both the offers are competitive (Approx 150k). Technology: At McKinsey the job involves working on multiple cloud part
- CSA or SA Role Mapping from Microsoft to AWS Tl;Dr - I'm looking outside and was hoping people would have insight into which AWS roles would correspond to Microsoft CSA, SA, ATS. CSA - Cloud Solution Architect; pre/post sales architecting, removing educational and technical blockers to adoption SA - Solution Architect, works with consulting
- How to learn to be Senior (skills and competency)? I was recently hired in as L63 a few months back. I have a research background, so I know my shit, but haven't had any experience in doing senior-level engineering stuff like designing, building, and maintaining a system. My team is building a system where we ingest videos, do some ML stuff and ser
- How do you define career goals? A software developer with 7 yrs experience. 5 yrs in Azure with good background around service oriented architecture. I just went with the flow so far and didn't plan too much. Just ensured I wasn't bored of what I was working on. Off late, I am close to a principal promotion and I am wondering whe
- Google L4 offer seattle Hi everyone, my partner just gets an offer from google. But she can not decide whether she want to take it or leave it. She keep asks for my opinions and I am not in tech industry. Any suggestions and advices will be really appreciated! Background: CS master degree 4 YOE Seattle based She curren
- 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
- vote Help - Amazon vs Microsoft vs Stripe Verbal offers, no numbers yet. Yoe: 10+ Current TC: 400k Amazon - SDE3, but using Microsoft to get loop set for principal. My interview went too well. Amazon interview was most difficult and for some reason there was lot of OOP/design pattern qs. Of course typical system design and real life codin
- For all those asking for advice whether to choose MSFT vs Amzn Everyone compares Microsoft refreshers to other FAANG refreshers. That's unfair. I may be on the upper end of the spectrum at msft, but I am not a rock star. I consistently get 140% rewards, where 100% is target and 200% is max. If you work hard, 140 is guaranteed at MSFT, albeit a bad manager. Her
- vote VMWare or Microsoft I work for Kernel team at Intel. I am a low level system software engineer (not a CS grad but a EE grad i.e. both Masters and Bachelors). I recently started interviewing and got offers from VMware and Microsoft. I am unable to choose one from the both, so any help is highly appreciated. VMWare deta
- 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
- link We need energy that doesn’t destroy the environment Look at this - how can this kind of destruction of natural beauty be allowed? https://imgur.com/gallery/kzEtb7w
- The world is what it is. We have to make the best of it... I am sick of people always complaining the world is going to the dogs. Leftists are snowflakes - Parents Right wing is bigoted - Friends The west exploits the developing nations. - My countrymen Google and facebook are stealing our data and we are the product. - Almost everyone You live so far away
- Need help for referrals in LA Just moved to Los Angeles earlier this year. I am a TPM with ~4 YOE. Current TC 200k. Need help getting referrals here, would be greatly appreciated. #la #losangeles #referrals #snap #netflix #tinder #twitch
- vote Do you trust Wealthfront retirement projections? I was planning retirement at 55 but Wealthfront says I'll have more than enough at 50 which is only 7 years away for me. I'm leaning toward rest and vest at this point because I'm running out of funks to give! Do you trust Wealthfront?
- Expected TC change after potential Biden’s presidency? So basic economic theory says that if the government raises the tax on some goods, the price will rise and how much it’ll rise would depend on the elasticity of the supply&demand curve (which side is more sensitive to the price change). Given that, do you think TC of overall tech companies will ris
- link What websites do people use to find jobs in India? Monster.com?
- Part Time Degrees worth pursuing I have a BS, MS (in Computer Science), MBA - all from top schools in the US. I currently do Product Management which gives me the opportunity to work at the intersection of technology and business - and I really like the job! I have found that both my advanced degrees (MS and MBA) were a great way
- Elon's Presidential Vote Given his strong support for re-opening the country, we know who he's voting for, right? For... the raise ur hand all the damn time student..., no I'm not looking for a poll, opinions only. Data and logic are not allowed in this response. Simply opinions based on nothing but how you FEEL. TC: $1
- Referral at Twitter I need help with couple of positions open in twitter which are relevant with my profile. Can someone help with it pls ? TIA
- Google Mock interviewers needed Looking for mock interviewers. You will get paid for your time. DM for details.