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- What's the point of internal mobility then? Ranting, my company claims to champion internal mobility due to substantial overhead on onboarding. However, when you apply for a new team, you're grilled just as hard as an external candidate but your TC stays the same. What's the point then if TC doesn't go up?
- Need advice on first day office Hi , I am joining a startup company this Tuesday remote. For some reason my Work laptop (via ups) got delayed which was expected to be delivered on Friday and probably will be delivered in Tuesday ( no service on weekends and due to 5th july observed holiday on Monday) . I'm not sure what could be
- Anxious and nervous about my first day at the new job So, I m going to join this new company in the next 3 days and so far I have not received any communication from the HR about my virtual onboarding process on the first day. No laptop has been shipped and there is simply no communication from their side. I tried reaching the HR a couple of times and
- How is starting a new job remotely? I'm sure it will suck if you have to start a new job remotely. How is it actually like for those who actually switched jobs during COVID quarantine? How was onboarding and will your company provide an onsite orientation opportunity when WFH ends? #software #swe
- H1B Tranfer RFE I recently joined Microsoft on 12th Aug, 2019 on a H1B transfer receipt and received an RFE on the transfer. The lawyers had cleared onboarding and did not realize it was risky. Now, I also have an offer from Google. Google is my dream company. I want to move there. Can I initiate a H1B transfer wit
- Starting in 3 weeks @google (PM), advise? Any quick tips for my first month? 1/ noogler week, what to do during and pay attention to? 2/ bay area, Sunnyvale, cloud buildings. What should I learn and who should I meet? 3/ general PM onboarding tips? I started in the past at both large and small companies and remember how painful large c
- Prior to joining - layoff - seeking new opportunities #layoff Before my start date of the upcoming week, company HR contacted me saying that due to the #coronavirus, they're not onboarding anyone at the moment and this may be the situation for the next few months. Looking for new opportunities please and referrals! (not sure if 'layoff' is the right
- vote Hold both jobs (Resign after joining new company) UPDATE: I didn't do it. Instead I gave a 1-week notice at my old job before joining new one. I received some stuff in the mail from new company, confirming that they are on-board with the hire, giving me the confidence I needed to switch during the pandemic. Hey all, (California, not on H1-B/visa)
- Founder/CTO Opportunity worth it? I came across an opportunity that was offering massive (20-30%) equity but NO salary! The company is looking to onboard a Co-Founder/CTO to help launch an app. Anyone have any experience with opportunities like this? Worth the investment of time for the right idea?
- vote Coinbase team matching: Infra or Platform I'm joining coinbase in September and need to match a team: Infra-Reliability: Reliability team helps engineering teams across the company keep their promises in design and production. They do a lot of the classic SRE stuff around performance & observability but also build tools. Platform-Onboardi
- Coming from United Kingdom to SF What is the culture like for overseas staff members, I wouldn’t know anyone or anything in SF but I’d love to work for the big tech companies and need to know what it’s like for someone in my situation. I’ve got pretty decent experience and qualifications. #pm #onboarding #recruiting
- vote Onboarding first day etiquette Just started new company remote (full time). I haven’t actually talked to anyone. They just sent me a charge code and a bunch of onboarding training modules. Is this normal? Should I make a meeting or something or just wait. I don’t want to be annoying lol I did send an email saying hi though T
- How's the attrition rate at your company/org? A lot of dropboxers have been leaving this year which is really sad. I think my org (dropbox core, engineering/design) has a projected attrition rate of 40% this year if folks leave at the current rate. We have also been onboarding as many folks which is a huge drain between interviewing and onboard
- New grad leaving job in 1 year If a new grad leaves a FANG company or other big tech in exactly 1 year, would they be burning the bridge and have trouble coming back in the future? I know for industry hires, 1 year is fine if you don't do it too much, but new grads need more onboarding help and bring in less value in that first
- List of companies with fast promotion / engineering culture Which company fit the following engineering culture? * Quick onboarding of design and architecture of the system to new hires * Promotion highly depends on individual’s mileage and not an external committee (> L5) * Ability to spend more time working on features than fixing 3 year old bugs * Dep
- No offer letter for contract position? My girlfriend got a verbal offer for a contract position at Microsoft. The consulting company is not sending any formal offer letter, but they have started other onboarding formalities. They are saying that it is normal for hourly positions. Sounds fishy to us? Is it normal for contract positions
- PM interview feedback I want to find out why I’m not getting the interviews, so I can improve. So I asked the Hr. Stripe: the reason for no hire is the team has over hired, and now is focusing on onboarding new hires rather than onboarding more. Pinterest: overall good. One feedback is you elaborated the situation but
- Amazon Raise the Bar BS How many of you think that Amazon’s raise the bar and the philosophy of onboarding folks smarter than 50% of the current workforce is BS? I am not the brightest of the pack, but I work with a bunch of incompetent folks who have no business working in Walmart tech support, let alone a tech company.
- vote How to exit current company Joined with new company on January 10. Onboarding is just finishing up and they’re about to get me interfacing with customers. Onsite company event on February 16. Joining AWS in February 28. I’ve gotten various input throughout the process. Should I put in my two weeks on the 14th and if they fir
- Manager Change - New Hire I got an offer from a company. A few days later, the recruiter said the team’s manager (who interviewed me) is going to leave for a different team. They’re going to backfill that manager role at the same time I come onboard. Is this a huge risk to take on as a new hire? #tech #offer #advice
- Can I take sabbatical on h1b to care for children? My wlb is hell with two small kids. Want to take a 3-6 months unpaid sabbatical from work. Company policy is aligned and manager is onboard. I am on h1b. Any visa implications? If yes, what is the max sabbatical(unpaid leave basically) that I can take on h1b? Anyone tried taking time off on h1b? Pl
- PTO before joining the company I'll be joining my new company (Consulting) in late Jan and I plan to travel to India in Mid Feb. Will it be okay to ask my recruiter for PTO's even before I join the company? I do not want to postpone the trip by more than a week and plan to stay over there for at least 3 weeks. I'm fine with WFH.
- Webex meeting with team lead I joined a new company recently. I was working closely with my team lead as I am new and onboarding remotely. I am doing screen share today and accidentally showed him Gmail window ( for 30 seconds) in which there were recruiter conversations for phone screen interviews. Will he tell my manager ? An
- Spotify: hiring during COVID19 I am starting in a few weeks but am getting nervous hearing about other major companies rescinding or delaying their offers last minute. Would love to hear from current employees what the environment is like now - how has hiring/onboarding of new team members been affected? To anyone else who migh
- Startup Offer Review Is this a lowball? If so, how to negotiate without another offer yet? For Solution Engineering Base 100K Bonus 25K Sign On 5K (could maybe increase to 10K-15K) Loc: SF, 2x onsite a week with commuter cost paid each month. Would need to commute by caltrain or car but after onboarding manager doesn’t
- Facebook onboarding - Data Engineering Hey! I am starting at Facebook soon as a data engineer. However, due to slight H1b transfer delay I asked my recruiter to push my onboarding date. The recruiter got back saying the next 2 onboarding dates (each 15days apart) are full therefore i may have to wait until the third session which is lead
- Will I get in trouble if I accept the offer and didn't join? I accepted an offer from a company. My joining date is next month. Now they are asking me to fill a onboarding form where they are asking passport, PAN and other details. I have an interview with Amazon next week and if I get selected I am planning to go with Amazon. Will I get in trouble if I fill
- Suggestions on pivoting careers? PM or HR Hello, I have been licensed as a mental health therapist for over ten years. Most of those within a healthcare system/hospital and others with insurance company doing claims and reviews. Prior to getting my masters degree I worked in HR and Onboarding. Recently completed Tech Recruiter certificatio
- Switching companies as a solution/pre sales consultant I recently changed careers into presales consulting at a SaaS company (not oracle) and love it so far. I’m curious though, when it’s time to leave how is onboarding for this role with a new company/product? My company spends months training us on product. For anyone who has switched, has your new c
- vote Clueless Managers? I’m on a relatively new team, 4 months old. My manager was a manager at Amazon for a year who's been here for 6 months. He has utterly no idea what he’s doing. He got onboarding from our skip manager and he got onboarding from our team lead, but he still doesn't have any idea what he's doing. He's j
- Which laptop to choose Amazon? Mac or Windows(sde1) Hello, I recently received an amazon offer, in the onboarding process I can choose from a Mac and Windows laptop. I typically use a windows laptop. There a choice to get the 16 inch new Mac pro which is expensive and I want to experience Apple products so I am tempted to go against my regular OS.
- google new hire onboarding Anyone know whats going on with new hire orientations? I’m due to start on monday the 16th and it looks like the normal process just changed but no communication about it via email. There have been alot of updates the past few days with how companies are handling this with the COVID-19 issue. Any i
- Not sure why there is so much hate about Amazon on Blind I recently joined AWS as a Sr PMT and my experience in the first couple of weeks has been entirely opposite of how folks pn Blind describe the company. The manager is extremely supportive, has been super helpful in getting me onboarded, asked me to not stress myself, the team is super nice as well.
- Background check. I worked for my family business but didn’t receive a W2. On my resume I’ve listed my experience as though I work for this company (obviously haven’t mentioned it’s a family run business) and now I’m wondering what the background check process is? It’s not going to show up on my BC that I worked for
- vote Asking manager for performance expectation? Starting a new job at a startup. No prior experience with their tech stack but was hired under the expectation that I’d learn it. Is it reasonable to ask my new manager about timelines regarding how long it’s acceptable for me to be learning/onboarding and what the expectations will be after 1 month
- H1B Repayment Agreement I recently received an offer from a company and during the onboarding process came across repayment agreements for H1B and GC that I need to sign. It basically says if I leave the company within 2 years then I will be liable to payback the employer costs related to immigration and any legal fees. It
- Salesforce or Splunk Hi I’m picking between salesforce and splunk right now. I don’t have the final TC yet but trying to understand which one will be better for career path. I’m a Devops / SRE and will be joining a service team in both company. I’ll help my team to onboard to Falcon stuff at Salesforce well at Splunk I
- M1 with 1M TC and less than 2 years manager experience. Who would match my comp? I’ve been talking to recruiters and basically none of the companies I talked to were confident that they could offer me a pay bump. TLDR 6 YOE <2 years as an EM 1M TC this year, 1.2M TC next year, 2M unvested in stock (got extra equity twice). I’m a top performer in my org. I’m only switching
- Onboarding buddy is ignoring me - what to do? I recently joined FAANG. My onboarding buddy is ignoring me: doesn't answer questions, cancels meetings (promising to reschedule, but does not do so), yet on stand ups says "feel free to ask me anything". Other team members are supportive. Should I confront him or discuss this with the manager? F
- Google new employee orientation Life is almost getting back to normal, most folks are vaccinated, most businesses are removing mask restrictions and companies are planning to open hybrid work soon. Does anyone know if G is planning to start new employee orientation in person anytime soon? I am joining in about a month from now an
- Nightmare onboarding or normal experience? I started working for Capgemini and the onboarding process has been really strange and almost unplanned despite everything they tell us. The first weeks were learning soft skills for consulting and then split our group of 50+ into different languages and specialties for training. Training lasted lik
- Startup: How hard should I push Equity? 165TC Received offer for crypto company. They said they have only given out equity to leadership (directors and above). They said they are working on equity plan for remaining employees but a big TBD. I’m coming onboard as a Sr Product Manager. How hard should I push for an equity package? I do p
- Virtual onboarding Can anyone who recently started a new job share the virtual onboarding experience please? How would it be compared to if it was in person? How long did it take you to ramp up? How do you feel when you can’t meet your day-to-day teammates? Do you feel like it is harder to know the people and the comp
- Starting new job as staff engineer Hello folks, Starting staff engineer soon early next year what are some tips / ideas folks would like to share to help me excel at the job. Looking for how to onboard and help team faster seen not a domain expert. #engineering #software #swe #linkedin I do understand LinkedIn staff might not be
- Looking for a referral to a tech org Hey community! I'm a product manager working at DTC brand leading their eCommerce build and strategy for the past ~2 years. Previously, I was a growth marketer working on go-to-market strategy, onboarding experimentation, and designing a referral program for an online grocery company. I want to tak
- Return company equipment So, I am kind of in a weird situation. I was supposed to join company X around end of March but due to having a better offer from my current employer I had to renege from company X. They had already sent me a couple of boxes a month in advance of my joining date while we were waiting for other proce
- Leetcode-free Recruiting Process? I see many folks in companies using LC approach to "weed-out wrong candidates". Has anybody analyzed the impact of such practices on business and industry as a whole? Is it good, bad or useless? Are there any alternatives to get good people onboard? It'd be good to see a scientific approach with s
- How long should you wait before leaving a company? I started at a startup company a couple months ago. I haven’t even got out of onboarding yet, but I already don’t like what I see. The responsibilities are not aligned with what was illustrated when I was interviewing. I’m now concerned about my performance and it’s causing more stress than what is
- vote Managers, would you be pissed off if new hire wants to leave after 3 months? I’d love to get perspective from people managers. Context: Recently started a new job and having serious doubts Pros: Promotes great company culture overall, great product, colleagues in my location are really nice though I don’t work with them, decent pay Cons: onboarding has been confusing and
- I regret moving from Amazon to Microsoft (can I be rehired?) Recently a recruiter contacted me for an open position at Microsoft, I went through the interview process and I was offered a SDE 2 position with a bettee TC to what I had at Amazon (SDE 1), I accepted the offer. I've been working at Microsoft for 3 months now, but I'm not feeling like this is wha