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- Cisco hardware team sucks I’m putting 18 hours days and manager keeps throwing projects on my face and when complains he gives back saying work life balance is my own problem how to deal with this shit!
- How is work life balance in #Cisco hardware/asic engineering like (milpitas location)? Interviewing with #Cisco (milpitas Bay area). Want to find out employee #wlb in hardware/asic eng Thanks!!
- Legacy Hardware when shifting to SDN(Softwaredefined Networking) Have a quick question. When an org. shifts its networking system from legacy to SDN, the exisiting legacy hardwares can still be used or should all be replaced to the ones fit for SDN? Thanks in advance #IT #Hardware #SDN #cisco
- Former Insieme team in Cisco Anyone familiar with this hardware team in Cisco? Have heard that since this team was a startup, the culture here is different and the team stands out from the rest of Cisco. Comparatively fast paced work, aggressive goals. Agree/disagree? #hardware #interview #semiconductor #cisco
- Meta refresher benefits Need info, TIA! I'm expecting an offer for IC5, awaiting salary details. Refresher concept is new to me, how are refreshers given in Meta. Whats usually the refresher range for IC5? For instance if it's 100k, how much is given for Meets expectation. Will it have multiplier same as bonus or evaluat
- Semiconductor companies that are doing cutting edge work, but have not received media attention Hi, I was thinking if there are some mid-size or startup companies in the semiconductor industry which are doing some great work. Would like to keep a list for future job opportunities as well. Thanks!! #hardware #semiconductor #intel #synopsys #amd #arm #cisco #facebook #amazon #google #lyft
- Who lowballs? I've heard Cisco and HPE/Aruba, any other companies that tend to lowball in hardware?
- Working as a senior Lead in Qualcomm India, Looking for referral in abroad open position in US. Can you guide me pls ? #semiconductor #hardware #software #amd #qualcomm #nvidia #intel #marvell #cisco #arm #cadence #austin #sandiego #USA #silicon #texasinstruments #referral #interview
- Being a software engineer at Cisco Which are good software engineering teams at Cisco ? I am considering AppDynamics . Will the experience help in getting into good software companies in future . My current understanding is that working for Cisco makes me not so desirable for high paying software companies because they have perceptio
- Need Cisco Referral Hello everyone! I am an Electrical Engineer student who will be graduating in December 2021 and am looking to work full time for a entry position in January / upcoming spring. My work experience includes: -Foundry Product Engineer Intern for Samsung Austin Semiconductor - Software Engineer Inter
- Cisco referral Hey guys and gals, Would anyone be kind enough to help me out with a Cisco referral? I have 3 YOE in hardware and project management. Thanks!
- Job description different than expected Hi, Blinders, I recently started at cisco, with the understanding of the role was a hardware position. After working for a few weeks it has become evident that the role is more inclined to be a software position with the required knowledge of hardware design (ASIC/ FPGA). I am more interested in ha
- Where do you see the networking hardware industry headed? Both Juniper and Cisco have announced that networking path is heading towards software. What does this mean for the career hardware folks down the line? Will we all end up white boxes for everything?
- [DATA] Best Paying Companies V1 In order, descending SWE: Akuna Databricks Asana Citadel Pinterest Wish Alibaba Brex Robinhood Yext Snap ByteDance Two Sigma Waymo Affirm Palantir Stripe Instacart Roblox Facebook AirBnB Plaid Flexport PM: LinkedIn Lyft Facebook Twitter Google Uber PayPal Indeed Workday Dropbox Salesforce Visa Wa
- Depressed at 24 with no career prospects I'm a cs grad who's working as a software engineer in a hardware role with 1 year of experience now. I chose this job because I couldn't find others during the pandemic. But now it's pretty hard to land interviews in sde roles with this hardware experience on my resume. Any advice? Will it get more
- Hows Pensando Systems doing now - Oct 2021? Any thoughts on how is Pensando Systems doing now and what would the future be for Pensando systems? With new switch partnership with Aruba - will it take them somewhere? Waiting on a potential offer - any inputs welcome. Unfortunately, Not much on Blind about this company. #hardware #networking #p
- Recession Seeems like there may be a recession coming. Last time companies had massive layoffs. I am curious what would trigger that? For a hardware selling company like Cisco I can imagine but for some of the pure SW based companies like google (ad) or the ones profiting from infrastructure services like ama
- Should I switch or should I stay? Is it 🚩?? Am I switching jobs too often? Is this a red flag? I just hit a year here at Cisco last month. Looking back, I have not learned a single dam thing here and don’t see my career progressing. I want to switch but I am afraid employers will see it as a red flag. What do you guys thing? Here’s a rundown
- Who's actually hiring in hardware? Who's hiring in hardware these days? Seems only Google, Facebook and some Apple teams. Difficult to actually know, can't figure the fake perm job posting from the real ones.. Qualcomm, Intel, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, Cadence, Synopsys, Marvell, Roku, Apple, Facebook, Google, Cisco, Micron, Huwa
- Referrals :) Hello everyone, I'm looking for referrals to any FAANGMULA+ companies. MEng, MBA Grad YOE: 7 years in ops and program management Please drop a comment so I can DM you my info. Thanks! #ops #hardware #projectmanager #programmanager #strategy #referral #hiring #jobhunt #microsoft #slack #zoom #pa
- link Qualcomm offer related query Currently at Cisco grade 6. Have a call setup with the Qualcomm recruiter tomorrow to discuss the pre-approval offer numbers. Have final rounds pending for Apple and Facebook. What kind of numbers can I expect for a senior engineer with 3.5 years of experience and a MS in that field? Levels.fyi for
- Advice on job switch Hi Guys, This is my first job switch and I am kinda confused on a few aspects. I already have offers from Cisco/Intel and waiting on replies from Nvidia and Apple. Intel has given me a deadline to respond to their offer and I don’t think I will have answers from the other teams by then. What would
- Lesser known high paying companies I see a lot of software developers are going to software companies only... Any particular reason A Player SE’s avoid going to hardware companies like cisco, Arista,HP, Brocade, A10 networks The only apparent reason to me is Pay. However, I have seen people making 450k with less than 10 yoe in HW i
- Getting Started out of College I just graduated with an MS in CS and landed a job as a Software Engineer in Cisco. It's a low-level hardware/systems oriented role and not something I like very much at the moment (It's only been a week though). I'm a little alarmed at what my future prospects are. I don't know if working in this
- Reapply policy (cool-off period) in hardware/semiconductor companies Interviewing for full-time roles in RTL design, Verification, Firmware design for FPGA, ASIC, CPU, GPU. I would like to request inputs on cool-off period after interview rejection for the following hardware/semiconductor companies, before one may #reapply: 1. #intel 2. #amd 3. #broadcom 4. #med
- link Am I making less? I switched to Cisco Meraki about a few weeks back. I always wanted to do hardware programming. My TC went up from 183 to 231K. I have about 4.5 years of experience. This role is a 100% remote role. I am happy with my TC and Role. But, everyone around me is telling me that I should be making 300K or
- Masters student intern Referal Hi there everyone, I'm sure you've seen many of my posts as I am a new-comer here. I spent the first week of my time attempting to understand what to expect here at Cisco as an intern. I want to take the time to thank everyone who has contributed to shaping my perspective about Cisco and providing r
- vote Do tons of internships vs full time for a year I deferred my master programs till next fall (honestly, not even sure I will go) so I have a gap year. Did CS undergrad in mid tier school. I already did 4 internships, 2 at Big N (think Salesforce, Nvidia, Cisco) 1 at big pharma, 1 at medium size hardware company all in ML. Should I do a bunch of
- Cadence Intern looking for hardware referrals [Using univ account] Hi Blind community, I am an ECE graduate with 9.3/10 GPA and currently an intern at Cadence Design Systems, India. I have experience with FPGA and Verilog. Also I am interested in other roles related to ASIC design or any other electronics field (digital/analog) suitable to my
- Tech Support Engineering 3 role in DFW market w/Cisco... Contacted by a recruiter about a TSE 3 position (networking hardware) with Cisco in the DFW market (Richardson) and have talked salary/status (100K based on hourly rate, OT, contract to perm) , and was curious about the overall experience working at Cisco. I know the rate is pretty low compared t
- Corporate Nepotism Is Corporate Nepotism an issue just at Google or in other tech companies as well? For example - hiring of friends from past employers and elevating them to broad Scopes and positions without them having earned it while others have to prove themselves and work their way up the ladder (which based on
- Noobie career advice I graduated CS recently and took a software engineer offer in a hardware facing role in Cisco. I was thinking of switching roles internally/externally after a year. Given that my tech stack right now is only C, will it be difficult for me to land SDE interviews after a year of experience in this tea
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- vote Companies for a great Product Career This is just my list based on my perception of companies for product management, Most Sought after (mix of work/pay/brand/WLB) - Google, Facebook, Stripe, LinkedIn, Uber Great place to be - Standard (At least one of work/pay/brand/WLB) Amazon, Twitter, Apple, Airbnb, Microsoft, Adobe, Salesforce,
- Does it pay more to be a HWE or SWE? I'm a L6 network engineer that grew to hate networking after years working on the field. I think memorizing the behaviour of all those protocols and cli commands is the absolute waste of someone's life. Hearing the words "Cisco", "juniper" or "BGP" gets me sick ...I just couldn't care less and I thi
- vote List of Candidates for 2022 top 100 Planning to create a top 100 ranking for 2022. Here are some of the names (sorted alphabetically). Please add the ones I missed. If there is enough interest, I will create the ranking post after I have a bigger list. Ranking parameters in order of preference: Pay, Growth, Smart Peers, WLB, Mission/V
- Changing job roles and stacks Hi Everyone! I'm a 2020-2021 MS CS grad from a decent school (Top 20) I didn't get a lot of interviews during covid and I wound up taking what I got which was a very hardware centric SDE role. (Building device drivers, checking registers and the like). My title is still software engineer, but I woul
- vote Sales engineer or Product manager for internal switch? Just curious what everyone thinks (only folks who are in hardware/ software sales) and know much about career progression within sales and product management. I have a verbal offer (still waiting on numbers) and have a pretty good shot at landing a sales engineering job. Am already a sales engineer
- What is a realistic TC expectation for a PHD fresh grad in Deep Learning in CS? Hello, I am just wondering what is realistic TC expectation for a PHD fresh grad in deep learning in computer science. It seems that the TC can varies a lot in different companies. Even within FAANG, there are many different levels and TC packages. I estimate that for the low end, it is around "100
- I am feeling lost in life. I have badly fucked up in life. My parents were going through a divorce when I was in high school and I was a total brat. I stopped attending school and harassed my mom into buying thousands of dollars worth of computer hardware and stuff. I was playing computer games 24x7. I ended up getting a 225,000 rank out of 1 million candid
- No one still wants to hire me? Super frustrated. Made a post a while back posting my basic anonymous credentials looking for some advice. Still can't get a job. Giving a bit more background. Background: 15 years experience IT Sales, Security, Personnel Management, and Project Management, no real programming experience. Exp
- Ready for a Challenge? We are a growing, successful, and award winning Managed Services Provider based in the greater Boston area with a presence in San Francisco, New York, and Philadelphia. Size, less than 200 employees. We are hiring. Constantly. We are primarily looking for IT Support professionals, but also have
- Still can't get hired. Feeling so lost. 3rd post about this. Turned down for 2 more positions. Background: 15 years experience IT Sales, Security, Personnel Management, and Project Management, no real programming experience. Experience with Nessus, nmap, Splunk, Active Directory, AD OU, slurm, Apache, PHP, MySQL, Exchange, Cisco and J
- Recently joined a bay area startup called Verkada, having mixed feelings I joined Verkada after a brief stint at another bay area company. The interviews went smooth, the recruiters pitched hard, the execs wooed me with fancy food and a generous offer I couldn't refuse. Some N months later my bubble is burst and I regret coming here. It all started when I discovered tha
- Man, I feel f******. Me again. Still can't get fucking hired. Just got turned down again, 12th interview. Starting to feel like it's time to an hero. Background: 15 years experience IT Sales, Security, Personnel Management, and Project Management, no real programming experience. Experience with Nessus, nmap, Splunk,
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- 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
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- Ayurvedic doctor in Bay Area Has anyone tried Ayurvedic consultation & treatment in the Bay Area? Looking for references/recommendations. Thanks #medical #health