When did you stop worrying about stacking up more and more money, and start enjoying it and focusing on spending time with family, friends, and hobbies? Assuming you have enough to survive comfortably (not talking about having 50k a year for vacation 😂) and your hobbies/things you enjoy doing don'...Read more
*currently at Google* I have been offered to join a stressful team in Google (expecting to work up to 60+ hrs weeks) with promo in sight in next year. I'm currently working a few hours a day, chill manager and work, with no pressure at Google with no promo in sight. I'm early in my career. Edit: a...Read more
Job hunting for over 2 months now. 3 YOE in frontend eng. 1 YOE in product design. Should I give up? Or what's the hack to job hunting?
Can someone please share some light on this topic? After Ex. Director, it's Managing Director. So, how the process look like? What type of influence & contributions they expect to get promoted to MD?
Currently have 3YOE and thinking about next steps. Wondering if prioritizing FAANG or similarly prestigious companies makes sense so I have that recognition to leverage as I settle further into my career. Thoughts? Just superficial naivety?
Hi, I am a fresher and I have got two job offers to choose from 1) Oracle SDE1, Bangalore, India Tech stack has Java, Hibernate, Spring, Application Development, RESTful API Services. TC - 28 L (Base -16 Lakh, Stocks - 9 Lakh/Year, rest joining bonus) 2) JP Morgan Chase Quantitative R...Read more
Title. Go for high tc but chill companies or go for exciting startups for career growth opportunities? For those who’ve picked growth over TC was what you learnt worth it? Blind tax: 155k
I'm currently in the beginning stage of my career. I have two offers with me from JP Morgan Chase (Credit Risk - strategy analyst) and BCN (Bain Capability Network - analyst). The JP Morgan offer is much more attractive (about 40% higher salary compared to BCN, among other benefits), and given that ...Read more
I’m getting a super lucrative offer to join a smaller sized company in Seattle. Their engineering culture will be worse than Amazon’s (based on what I hear). I’m relatively new to the field so confused on what to do. Current TC: 190k Current Level: SDE 2 Current YOE: 1.5 Offered TC: 250k Offered...Read more
The past year at Microsoft showed me why no company is worth a shred of loyalty. I'll be chasing $$$ going forward. Jumping to Amazon (and will leave that shithole in a couple years as well). Amazon offer: L5 SDE, TC 280K Microsoft situation: L61, TC 192K Total years of experience: 2 My plan: * ...Read more
No one cares about your past experience. There are plethora of cracking the x interview courses that you can grind and pretend you know stuff. Besides, it’s all about LC these days and I have seen so many talented seniors at my place with excellent design skills but couldn’t land a job at tier 1 co...Read more
I have seen so many coworkers who’re desperate to work on new projects with different tech stacks. I for one do bare minimum and focus extra time on my hobbies instead. When it comes to job hopping, we know the actual work experience hardly matters as there are plethora of “cracking the X intervie...Read more
I am expecting offers from both of them soon and thinking if there is any preference among these two. I am planning to join as a full stack software developer. Any guidance would be helpful. Thanks.
Every year the refresher is so generous. Perks are unbeatable. Super fast career growth. It encourages everyone just to work harder and harder to chase higher TC and ego. Go #meta to $1000 per share
Got promoted to Principal engineer today, a hard earned promotion after getting rejected during 2 cycles in the past. Felt like a victory! After having couple of drinks, I am introspecting on my life. Looking at my 6 year old kid and my 9 year old dog. Have I lost all my time with my aging dog at t...Read more
What’s Chase like? I’m currently a PA SWE at Capital One and am getting reached out for lead roles at Chase. I like C1 but I know a few exec directors at Chase and career progression there might be a little faster. Looking for input on culture, tech, hybrid status & comp Chicago Office TC: ~180k
i see lot of ppl moving to vp level at chase from like mid manager career levels.. whats up with those titles and how is compensation there? like dev who was with me with around 15 years exp getting vp of software engineering role at chase
Choosing between these two options. Both are in NYC. Both are hybrid. C1: 2.5 days. Chase: 3 days. Chase is Consumer Banking. C1 is card. Chase seems more interesting as I’ll be able to learn about more products while C1 is just card. Leaning towards Chase as it has a better name and C1 seems to be...Read more
I am a mid career professional 8yoe. People who have a lot of experience and advantage of hindsight, what’s your advice? What to look for in a career. Did you chase those high paying jobs or it just happened as a byproduct?
Have been chasing “career” / prestige / TC and have done okay. Mid-30s and TC is about $1.2M. Director+ role. Have a great and supportive wife and planning to have kids at some point. But I feel lost and like I haven’t really found my purpose. Feel like I’m not really creating anything or chasing ...Read more