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- vote Are you really living the American dream OR just chasing the Rat race? Hi, I have been in US since 7-8 years, did masters here and working in Bay Area since then. My question is, I feel like I have been constantly chasing things like anything. - Chased College grades - Chased Internship - Chased full time job - Chased H1B lottery for 3 years - Chased better pay
- vote Best Stock Major Index Which major index do you guys invest your funds to reflect if you do? I’ve been choosing VFIAX (sp500 index), but a friend pointed out that the NASDAQ has done significantly better in the long run. For the non major index trackers, which fund do you choose? For the non investors, get the ball roll
- Bonuses at JP Morgan Chase India What are the annual bonuses/hikes over the years at JP Morgan Chase India ?? Does the CTC decrease after 1 year ?? How does the CTC looks year after year ?? Tc: 14lpa INR (12 fixed + 2 bonus) (fresh college grad) #salaries #compensation #jpmorgan #jpmorganchase
- vote Is 22 too young to be a Senior Product Designer? I applied for a job at JPMorgan Chase as a Senior Associate Product Designer and I made it to the last round. I'm pretty optimistic about getting an offer but I'm having some imposter syndrome. I'm 22 with 2 years of design experience at a highly innovative startup. I started out in college in Comp
- I know it sounds cliche, but thank you blind Six months ago I was just another small ignorant fish in the JPMC machine not understanding how hot the job market is right now or how much I was being underpaid. After discovering and downloading this app on accident and constantly spammed with notifications from this app on TC posts and how people
- Sometimes, you achieve wealth without chasing it I see a lot of people on Blind and the Internet who say: “In order to achieve greater wealth, you need to chase money and prioritize money.” That’s not always true. I know someone (male) who is studying civil engineering in college. He has been with his girlfriend since they were 15 years old. She’
- 1000x increase in TC - How did I chase my TC? Got my first job after college in a third world country with ~$2K/year 15 years ago (enough to live there). Never happy and didn’t want to bury my life there. Left the job soon and applied for a grad school. TC bumped ~10x with TA/RA job, but that’s the bottom in the US. Never happy of course. Go
- JPMC Comp 2022 Highly disappointed. Got promoted from 502 to 601 but this was standard was excepting atleast more raise then last year which was not the case. Will be starting with leetcode and DSA knowledge and leave asap now any suggestions are welcome on how to start with the job hunting as will be my first sw
- TC as a Middle Office Analyst at BB? I was previously paid hourly+OT as a specialist (450 grade) at JPMC and had a TC~95k my first year out of college. I am moving roles internally to a 502 middle office analyst and becoming salary based. Should I expect a pay cut as i probably wont be doing as many hours or a raise as I will be jumpin
- Red flags during an interview? Had an interview a couple weeks ago with a team in jpmc at JC for the CCB team. The interview was fairly standard IMO. But the manager IMO threw some red flags. She asked me about my gpa and I said it was somewhere in the low 3s, which she promptly# responded with “How do you not remember? Didn’t
- vote Moving to US, L1 vs H1B vs MS? Hi guys, I want to move to US from India. TC - 27 (27+0+0) College - Tier 3+ Experience - JPMC, Startups YOE - 2 Admits - Columbia, Cornell, Duke [MEMs for these 3], Northeastern(MS in CS). Leetcode/Competitive Programming - Yes 1000+ Qs solved Interests - Programming, managing teams, startups. En
- Chances for moving to FAANG as a New Grad Hi everyone, I recently graduated from a top public university (UT Austin) with a 3.75 GPA. I have included my GPA because I thought it would be relevant. I am currently working as a new grad at JPMC, but for various reasons (some obvious), I would like to get a job at a FAANG company. In college
- Requesting Referrals @India Hi Blind Community, I am a B.Tech CS student graduating in 2022 from a Tier-1 college in India I have interned at American Express this summer and have been preparing for Interviews for past 6 months with 260+ Interviewbit and 100+ LC Accepted problems. I am requesting Blind Community referrals fo
- Don’t wanna work anymore Don’t wanna join meetings. Don’t wanna leetcode. Don’t wanna climb any career ladders. Don’t wanna endure annoying coworkers. Don’t wanna make documents. Don’t wanna do code reviews or get my code sh!t on. Don’t want to take interview nor get interviewed. Just don’t care. Just want to live. Wan
- Compared to JPMorgan Chase, working at Google is like working in heaven Just read several posts talking about how good it is to work for Google. I'd also like to share my experience. When working at JPMC (my former employer), my manager knows nothing about the tech I am working on and is only good at talking during meetings(however, I can see that everyone did not like
- Lost 50% of my NW in 60 days I’m a new grad who saved every dollar I earned from my internships and dumped them into tech stocks the moment each paycheck hit. I know it’s not that much in absolute terms and I have the rest of my career to earn it back. But I was so diligent in not spending my money and listening to investment
- [India] will I ever able to live fearless life? I wanted to get good marks in 10th, because I had fear what if i won't get scholarship for science. And I secured state board rank 5. I wanted good marks in +2, because I had fear what if I won't get good college. And I got 2nd best college of my state. I started coding, because I had fear what if
- Moving jobs too much? Career advice for my timeline Hello! I’m afraid I’ve been moving jobs too much and that it’ll hurt my career in the long run. Majored in CS in college but spent my time partying and chasing girls without thinking too much about my career and TC until about a year ago. Career progression: Fidelity: 72k + 5k signon: I was super e
- vote Am I switching companies too much? I started working in Jan 2017 when I graduated college without any internships as an SWE being paid 72k at Fidelity. Aug 2018 I started at jpmc as an swe. TC: 125k. Realized I could make way more money and started studying. November 2020 Got a job at a small unknown company with great WLB and TC o
- Internship roadmap to Big Tech in USA/CA/UK I’m a freshmen interning at a Series A Startup (flair), but although I like my team, the pay is kinda low. For my sophomore year, I received an offer from JP Morgan CIB Division, and I think it would be a good idea to try a huge corporate company that at least has a known name (even though it’s not
- Looking for work in space exploration I have about 3.5-4 YOE in several different disciplines including ME, Propulsion, Test Eng., plus several internships from college days. My main goal is to get out of defense/DOD work and strictly into civil/commercial side of things. I’d like to work at SpaceX, but am chasing the passion, and not
- Regret going to JPMC interview first, not Amazon’s Hi, so I’m a 2020 grad in India and during my campus placements in my final year, I had a couple of decent interviews lined up in the same slot. I went to JPMC SDE first (since probably they started interviewing earlier than others and the HR knew me) and got selected. So at this time I knew nothing
- feeling void. lost ambition TC: 230 YOE: 3 I lost motivation and desire in life. After college I’ve chased after being a fang engineer in SF so that I can learn skills to build a startup. Now I lost all ambition even though I now have skill to create. I’ve worked hard for the first few years and got GC and promotion. Work is
- Is TC chasing good? Albeit a general question and I would love to read the responses but I also want opinion on my situation. I have about 20 yoe in tech jobs (sw engg and test engg) with 150 TC. I never worked in FAANG or any other silicon valley companies. Always worked within retail and financial industry (in their
- vote Amazon vs Capital One (Internship, both DC Metro) I was fortunate to receive a SWE intern offer from both. Capital One is at their McLean HQ, Amazon is DC Metro so I guess HQ2 Arlington. Last internship before graduation. What should I choose and why? Internship pay is higher at C1 ($58/hr vs $50/hr), but new grad is ~125k TC (all base) whereas Am
- Higher TC different company? - Sr Mgr/Director I’m making a good TC for an Amazon L7 SDM (550, mostly RSUs, top ratings every year, Seattle) but I have kids going to college in two years and am wondering if I should make a move to one of the better paying FAANG companies. Has anyone else left a decent paying, interesting leadership role to chase
- switching from SWE to Marketing hi all, I hope that this question is not so far off the hook crazy because I’m 100% serious about this long story short, I’ve basically never really enjoyed CS/ SWE. From college education to my first two jobs, I would hope that getting a new job would make me happier but it would turn out that the
- How to take a step back I don’t know what made me think this all the sudden. Everyday it seems like I wake up check the stock market and crypto market. Watch numbers and charts go up and down. Refreshing mint to view my net worth. Grinding through Jira issues. Rinse and repeat every day. It feels like I’m in a time loop a
- i want to be in FAANG in 2021.. hey guys. really stuck at a crossroads in my career. currently a devops engineer, but feel like a glorified sys admin. straight out of college pretty deep in debt, and lot of financial responsibilities/ goals i want to hit in life right now. i’ve tried applying to a few SWE jobs in the NYC area but
- quarter life crisis compounded with H1B I know this topic has been discussed a bit here. But as a H1 holder experiencing a quarer life crisis, the tragedy is just on a different level. I am the regular guy spending most of my 20s life fulfilling the college->master->FANG (OK I do not even end up in those top companies). I feel like my
- vote Microsoft Azure Compute vs Palantir vs (Possibly) Google Hello Blinders! I’m a current junior in college and have a choice to make about my last summer internship before I graduate. I am extremely conflicted about my offers and I wanted y’alls professional and life advice. - Microsoft Azure Compute team at Redmond HQ (already accepted offer) Pros: Team
- link How many of you think H-1B folk “steal” American jobs? Seriously. I am sick of MAGA idiots yammering all over about H-1B immigrants stealing jobs. Now, I do agree some outsourcing shops do visa fraud that needs to be curbed. We come here legally, pay taxes, buy houses made our life here for decades, support our communities and contribute to economy. Bu
- RAISE Act is not merit and would cause problems People are already enrolling in graduate degrees they don't need or want just to tick a box on an immigration form and get themselves classified EB1 or EB2. These are people who have no interest in becoming researchers and are primarily only interested in an immigration benefit. They wind up in jobs
- 10 companies and 7 offers in 1 month Giving back here to the community with the details of the 10 companies that I interviewed with, the outcome, and the offers with the TC and breakdown. I took upon myself a challenge to open my LinkedIn to “open for opportunities” and then interview with any company that reached out. I then did solid
- Covid won't kill me, mental health might do the job though Long post ahead !!! I am an Indian guy from a lower middle class family. My entire childhood I seen our dire economic situation and tried my best to land on my feet ASAP and help my family to improve our situation. Helping my family from age of 19 alongside my college, took loan for education, tryin
- FANG level expectations with only a Bachelors + 1 YOE Hello, I am trying to plan out the next 5-10 years and would appreciate advice from those of you who who’ve gone through or just know about this topic much more than I. About me and the problem I’m facing / my drive. I am 31. Graduated with a BA in Mathematics from a state school in 2019. I have a
- 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