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- Electronic Arts job offer, redwood YOE 6 Masters degree Base: 175k RSU: 110k vested over 3 years Annual Bonus: 20% #offer #tech
- Experience w/ internal job application at Electronic Arts? Considering applying for a position as an internal candidate. EA policy dictates you must notify your current manager if submitting your application; obviously if it doesn't work out it is not a great situation. Does anyone have experience going through this process and how did you handle it? #elec
- How Stable are jobs at companies like EA/Blizzard/Nintendo? Wondering what job stability is like for developers at these companies...Does you staying at the company depend on performance of the game a lot?7
- Career growth, Internal transfers or relocations within EA Software Engineering, is it an option? Hi there, I'm wondering, is there an option to get internal transfers or relocations at software engineering 3 levels at EA? I have a job offer from EA, and I was wondering if internal transfers are as common as bigger companies. For reference, I'm in a console game development team in British Colu
- MSFT vs EA I have just received 2 offers for SE2. One for MS Azure and other for EADP Ecomm & Identity. MS in Redmond and EA in Redwood City. The confusion is that I want to work for MS. I personally love the work and have no idea what and how EA is doing. But, EA is ready to pay an extra ~60k per annum in TC
- Should I move to EA? Currently considering a position at EA and wondering if it'll be a step above current job at Valve. I don't really have any issues in terms of compensation but some part of Valve culture is a little challenging for me related to supposedly "flat" structures that aren't always so. What's culture
- Electronic Arts referral Was wondering if someone at EA can provide a referral. It's a finance job in Redwood City. Thanks.
- Technical Project Manager - EA Recruiter reached out about a Technical Project Manager role at Electronic Arts. Anyone have any insight on what the role is? How much power do they have to actually do their job? Room for growth? Salary expectations? Making video games has always been a “dream” but I’d always heard the industry
- Referrals Looking for referrals for Data Engineer/Analytics jobs in Austin. Thanks in advance! Currently interviewing with Facebook and scheduled for virtual onsite loop. YOE: 7 #Apple #Google #Paypal #Expedia #oracle #EA #eBay #Cisco #Walmart #dell
- Do companies that want 2-3+ YOE consider candidates with less experience? Wondering if companies still give interview opportunities to people who have less than the required years of experience, and has anyone gotten a job after interviewing? Field: Product TC: 115k YOE: <1 #InstaCart #Udemy #EA #Scopely #productmanager #pm #product #salesforce #bigfishgames #glumobi
- EA onsite for a devops/infrastructure engineer I have an onsite next week with EA for a job in Orlando FL. I'm super excited and I'm curious what I need to do to prepare and the job seems to be working with the game studios to configure the servers that runs the tools that helps the game studios. I don't know how I feel about going back to devop
- Advice: PM Offer From EA, need to delay offer for Netflix interviews Hey Blinders, Recently got an offer from EA for a senior PM position as follows: Base: 160k Bonus: 15% RSU’s: 110k over 3 years TC: 220k Old manager at Netflix wants me to join team, says process will take until end of January. TC would be much higher and product sounds interesting. Pros of EA:
- Commute options to Redwood Shores from South Bay My wife got a job in EA - located in Redwood Shores near San Carlos Caltrain station. Are there any shuttles to that place from South Bay? Is Caltrain the best commute option? We live around 15 mins drive time from Caltrain station.
- Executive assistant/ business admin roles Hello everyone im trying to help my sister break into tech, she has an AA and over 8 years of experience in EA and office administrator roles, she will earn her bachelors this summer as well. Any job ids of referrals for anything of this nature or even entry level recruiting roles. Thanks
- Is the gaming industry getting even less stable? I know that EA, Blizzard used to be the most stable companies in the gaming industry -- almost like the government job of gaming. With the layoffs at Blizzard this year and all the drama happening -- Do you think that the gaming industry is becoming less stable? What factors do you think are affecti
- Referrals in Austin Girlfriend got a new job in Austin and I’m hoping to follow her down there in a few months. I have 3 years of dev experience, mostly in python and c++. Also open to product roles. Looking for referrals to #dell #visa #ea #sparkcognition #atlassian #homedepot #vmware #ebay #paypal #roku #facebook #a
- C-suite Executive Assistant Compensation? I had a recruiter reach out to me regarding a C-suite EA role (it's one of the Alphabet companies, their comp/benefit structure is on part with FAANG) . Another one at AWS supporting a VP and some directors. I work for a mid-sized company now, previously used to work for a one of global tech conglom
- Dana Marineau and Colleen McCready from EA - thoughts? Dana joined CK as VP of Brand and 10+ people have quit under her new leadership. Colleen joined as our new Chief People Officer by her referral. What's the opinion of these two leaders in EA? Should we be even more scared? Should everyone be looking for new jobs?
- Laid off from Airbnb Hi everyone I hope all is well! Unfortunately this past week I was laid off from Airbnb with the massive cuts they had to make. Although very devastating I am trying to be proactive and start my job search. I was hoping to possibly get a referral for Spotify, Microsoft or Electronic Arts. I apprecia
- Airbnb Layoffs Hi everyone I hope all is well! Unfortunately this past week I was laid off from Airbnb with the massive cuts they had to make. Although very devastating I am trying to be proactive and start my job search. I was hoping to possibly get a referral for Spotify, Microsoft or Electronic Arts. I apprecia
- vote Need help with offer evaluation Hi, I am working as a contractor Data Analyst at Facebook. I recently received two job offers: 1. 2500 employee size - SaaS company (construction management software) Base: $117000 Stocks: $52k over 4 years Sign on: $5k Title: Senior Analyst 2. Electronic Arts Base: $110000 Stocks: $37k over 3 ye
- Requested medical LOA and might get fired I'm an EA to the CEO of my company and have been having persistent health issues resulting in sick days. Long story short I've discovered a serious disease and when I spoke with my boss it seemed like my job was on the line because of having to take time off to deal with this. If I keep pushing with
- vote EA Offer: Go remote or not? Hi Blind community, I have an offer from EA working either in the UK (Guildford office) or remote within the EU. I don't want to give too many details about the TC to not dox myself but I'm happy with what I'm getting as it's a solid increase from my current job, especially after tax. Now the ques
- Stagnant and lazy career Hello all, Little bit of context , a very close friend of mine recently got a job at Amazon as an EA and convinced me to apply for the database consultant job at Amazon. They think I may come in as L5 .My background is database administration and I currently love where I work but feel like it’s beco
- Best company to rest I feel weird even asking this but here we go. I'm software engineer. I'm working on my own product right now but I'd like to take a job where I can work 1-2 hrs/day and still be useful to the company. So I searched for roles like "architect" or low level positions like Data Engineer. What companies
- Do companies usually wait for 6-7 months to wait for a student to graduate before one starts out? I'm finishing a graduate degree (MSc in CS, Canada), and I think I did really well in a few interviews for some companies (namely, EA and a few startups). Do you think companies would usually wait for one to graduate before hiring them? I will be able to legally work full time only from May. I know
- Asking for a raise, as a contractor, WFH, on my six month mark What do you think about my asking for a raise at my six month mark? I pay for my phone and internet, my two monitors, my work chair, all used to perform my job WFH. I get no reimbursement. Plus, my day-to-day costs of electricity, sewer, gas, food, water, coffee, have all gone up. I’m also working m
- Help Finding Job to Relocate to Orlando TC $140k YOE 7 Currently a Business Data Analyst in NYC. Spent career doing BA, Project Manager, Data Analyst work for banks and Bloomberg, mostly supporting middle and back office. My wife and I are looking to relocate to Orlando for family reasons. I would like to continue working in finance if
- Chief of Staff - TC and growth expectations? Interviewing for a CoS position at a fintech, and from what I can glean so far it seems to be much more of a strategic role than a glorified EA role (although I'll vet this in the interview process). Anyone have any insight on what to potentially expect from a TC perspective? The job spec is looking
- Chase an L1 VISA, or a higher TC To give some background, I'm from a middle-class family from India, and I couldn't afford US education for my Master's, and I'm finishing a Master's in ML in a top uni in Canada on a free ride. I'm graduating soon, and I have an offer at EA as an SDE 2, albeit with a low TC (105 CAD TC). I am conf
- Looking for Data Science referrals Hey Folks, This is my first time posting on Blind. I am currently working as SDE on ML applications in the Payments domain and I am looking to switch to Data Science roles. I have been in the current role for close to a year and have worked with designing data pipeline, feature engineering along wi
- My boss doesnt seem to understand boundaries. I WFH and if she calls me and I dont answer, she will FaceTime me! She doesn’t get it that perhaps I am in the bathroom or brushing my teeth, or dressing. It’s as though she owns every minute of every hour. I am not able to eat breakfast, lunch, take a break, go to the bathroom, or anything. I need
- Looking for Referrals in Vancouver (Or Canada) As the title suggests I'm looking for Referrals for jobs in Canada. I'm an SDE2 working at one of the Amazon Vancouver offices. Fell in dev plan currently. The deadline was in late March. Last week I heard from my manager that the deadline was extended to early May since I was meeting the bar and m
- Admin Compensation Google I am wondering what compensation is like for EAs/ABPs at tech companies (facebook, google, twitter) for 3-5 years of experience? Upon getting a job offer, is it ok to negotiate? Do they ever give sign on bonuses? Thanks!!
- vote Nvidia offer eval (and novel) tl;dr Been interviewing for 4 months, finally got a good offer. Old TC -> 134k Offer TC -> IC4 205/324/15 (Remote, Atlanta) -> 286kTC YOE 12 I'm going to accept, since this is top-of-band for IC4 outside of the Bay or NYC. Pushed for IC5 and was gently denied. The rest of my search is bel
- Referrals for Data Engineering / BI jobs in Europe or Canada Hi All, I am hoping to get some contacts or referrals for Data Engineering / BI job opportunities in Europe or Canada. I am currently working in United States but willing to move out, either in Canada or Europe ( Netherlands/Germany/Switzerland/Norway ), essentially English speaking positions. H
- vote Is it worthwhile to jump ship even for 2x TC? When to startup? I'm a hard worker (80h/week for months without burnout easily) and I want to deliver value to humanity. Fix a lot of things that I see missing everywhere, mistakes, problems. I can build product as well as distribution strategy. The easiest way to know you're sustainbly delivering value is getting p
- Product Manager - laid-off and looking for referrals TL;DR: Got laid off in 6 months because CEO decided he doesn't want to build new products anymore. Looking for referrals for product roles (Austin/remote). --- I joined a small B2B SaaS company in Austin 6 months back as a sr product manager to help build new B2C products. I worked with the CXOs to
- How many YOE do I have? My career so far has been on the ops side of tech - Networking, Linux, Cloud (AWS primarily but with some GCP, Azure, Openstack, VMware + proprietary private cloud exp), Security, “DevOps”/SRE. I’m applying for my first SDE role. I got contacted by an Amazon recruiter. The email asks how many years
- List of companies hiring now . Not only Tech Companies from industries spanning from technology to retail are hiring to meet increased demand caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Below is a regularly updated list of companies hiring right now. Instacart says it’s looking to hire 300,000 contract workers over the next three months. Amazon says
- Travel from India Any folks traveled back from India to the US recently? I am on OPT and have to travel to India urgently. Wanted to get an assessment of the situation. Thanks
- Good bootcamps for SE Job Offer I have a CS background coming out of college, but I don’t feel great about my programming abilities. Anyone have any recommendation for a bootcamp that leads to a great job offer? #engineering #software #bootcamp
- Thoughts on Jumpstart’s feature to filter candidates based on race/gender? I wonder if there even is an option to see only male, or Asian/White. Seems like Jumpstart is promoting racism and sexism in hiring.
- vote Has innovation slowed down? Title.
- Travel to India after graduation I will be graduating in Dec and will be joining Amazon in Feb on OPT. Is it risky to travel to India in December?
- Claim stimulus check on 2020 tax return? In 2019, I worked part time at my university and filed taxes for 9k earnings. I’ve been waiting and waiting, and haven’t received my stimulus check... Can I claim the $1200 on my 2020 tax return, even if my 2020 income is above the requirements? TC 200k YOE < 1
- best ways to buy bitcoin What is the best way to buy bitcoin? I've heard Robinhood is horrible :(
- Child care isn’t a transmission vector Largest peer-reviewed study, 57,335 child care centers: “No evidence of child care being a significant contributor to COVID19 transmission to adults—finding consistent with previous studies showing lack of assoc btwn school closures & transmission rates” https://twitter.com/nahasnewman/status/1323
- Referrals Hey everyone, looking for referrals I have a Masters degree in CS YOE - 3+ TC - 110k #Uber #Lyft #Dropbox #Microsoft #Netflix #Slack
- Any H4 applicants still waiting for Biometric appointment. Mine was filed in may 2020 and still waiting.