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- EA and Blizzard on Blind? EA and Blizzard employees on Blind -- what's it like where you work? Have you ever worked in a smaller gaming company or tech company ? How does it compare there?
- Anyone working for Electronic Arts Digital Platform team I am considering joining EADP as a software engineer. How is the culture, career progression and wlb in this division? #electronicarts #softwareengineer
- vote Offer evaluation - EA vs Bytedance Which product manager opportunity to choose - EA (Austin) vs Bytedance (Bay area (non-Tiktok team)). Bytedance base is 54% above EA. I need immigration support to file my H1B. #productmanager #offers #bytedance #ea
- 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
- Netflix Games? The next Stadia or…? What does the Blind hive mind think? Netflix hired a former EA former FB exec to run their games initiative but it smacks of “oh shit we’d better have something with games just in case”. Games take years to make and are stupidly difficult to get right even from veteran teams that know what they’re d
- Looking for a referral in tech. Executive Assistant 20 years experience. Past experiences includes hedge funds, IB, Startups and adTech. Largely C-Suite coverage, Project Management and EA team lead. Smart, experienced and savvy.
- Executive Assistant Career? I have a friend (seriously, it’s not me) that is considering switching into EA roles. She’s been a teacher/team lead for 7 years or so, but wants to leave education. How realistic would it be for her to land an EA role with that background? What companies might be a best fit with highest
- Michael Lewis left EA for Twitch! Is he good? Let’s talk about the man! Michael Lewis (which joined Twitch after leaving EA/Origin). Anyone worked with him at @ea? What do you guys think about him? Is he good? At Twitch his first thing he introduce was the concept of « design Sprint » to build next gen Extensions that will be iterated in be
- EA offer - RSU Hi people of Blind, Just doing a sanity check here. Was offered a competitive package from EA. Yay me! but RSU came out to 110k over 3 yrs (33% per year) for a non-eng role. Wondering if that sounds about right. (the amount and the 3 years thing) Also does EA typicaly offer a sign-on bonus? Any
- Switching role from Data Analyst to Data Scientist I am joining as senior data analyst at EA although have more interest towards data scientist role.Is it eventually possible to move to a data scientist role in Global Analytics and Insight at EA ? Is team change a very rare thing or quite normal? Any insight will be much appreciated.
- Split.io Decently fast growing startup that is one of the few doing what they do in the dev tools space. Interviewing now and they seem to have a super cool team. Anyone actually use their stuff and/or work there? Apparently new relic, twilio, Godaddy, salesforce, and ea / electronic arts are all customer
- How is EA's Work culture ? Specifically the EA Cloud, Tech ops team that sits in Seattle,Austin . Glassdoor reviews widely vary and so are the comments on here. TIA!
- How is work culture at EA Madden group? Hey, guys I got a position in EA Madden team at Orlando. How is work culture and life over the studio? Appreciate ur opinion.
- Referral to Yelp & EA Hello Blind, I am looking for new grad roles as I am graduating this December. I found entry-level positions in Yelp and EA for which I am a good fit. Looking for a referral to apply to them as I feel that would get me a better shot. Would really appreciate your help :) GPA: 3.85, LC: 400+, YOE:1
- Electronic Arts (EA) Data Scientist - EA Sports security Hello, I had first round of interview at EA sports for Data scientist - Sports Security role at Vancouver position? Can someone provide more information on the EA sports security and tech stack of data scientist within this team? What could be base salary and TC breakdown ? What benefits are pro
- EA Games Seattle Hi, How is EA seattle formerly PopCap games. Interviewed for a cloud based position and was offered 135K base. Is this a stable team and worth relocating from bay area?
- AWS Executive Assistant phone interview A recruiter for AWS reached out to me about a phone screen for an EA position. Any tips/advice? She didn't specify what team and I applied for several positions.
- 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:
- vote EA vs OCI vs Amazon offer choice Hi, folks. I recently got offers from EA (Redwood, CA) and OCI (Seattle) and there is another option for Amazon I didn't interview with yet. Very hard to make decisions, can anyone give some suggestions? EA: SDE2 Redwood City, CA TC: 217k + 10k signon breakdown: base 150k, 15% annual bonus, rsu 135
- Hiring-just raised $15m A round (first) Hey blind peeps! I have tens of positions to fill: SWE Dir SWE DS FEE Product Dir of product Office manager Tech Recruiter EA Video Creative Looking for top people. PM me your LinkedIn if interested. Sorry can’t share name and more details now.
- Hiring - just raised $15m A round (first) Hey blind peeps! I have tens of positions to fill: SWE Dir SWE DS FEE Product Dir of product Office manager Tech Recruiter EA Video Creative Looking for top people. PM me your LinkedIn if interested. Sorry can’t share name and more details now.
- Interviewing at Google, Amazon & Meta I am currently interviewing with Google and Amazon for ABP & EA role. Does anyone know how long it takes for the team match phase at Google? I have done 2 team match interviews so far. Does anyone know what is asked in 3 hour interview with Amazon? Most other companies don’t have such lengthy interv
- Senior EA seeking opportunity recently laid off from Uber. Any FAANG directors / VP’s looking for a solid EA with 8+ yoe? supported Prod & Eng directors/teams + C suite level execs (including CEO in previous role) and also assumed CoS responsiblities with a wide scope. struggling to land anything in this market since layoff.
- Referrals Needed! Hii! I'm brand new to Blind. I'm trying to escape a pretty toxic work environment that also severely underpays employees. My experience is in Marketing and I have had several different roles (MarComm, Branding, Strategy), though my current position is Marketing Analytics Manager at a mid-sized heal
- WebEx Failure I am so over WebEx! The constant failure and having to rebook meetings and wasting everyone’s time is mind-boggling. Even the DC courts are stopping, as well as circuit and federal courts. Zoom is being used, which also has issues. I’m now doing everything in Teams because I don’t trust WebEx any lo
- Can you help me evaluate 2 offers? Currently a Sr. Eng. Manager at EA Redwood Shores with 6 years people management experience and 6 years of experience as an individual contributor (YOE 12) Received 2 offers that I should decide on: 1. OCI - Sr. Eng. Manager - M3 - TC $390K 2. Okta - Software Architect - TC $410K Okta role is an
- FANG + Unicorn Referrals Please! Hey blind, Currently, I have an offer to continue doing Sec Engineering work. However, I am trying to go for PM/TPM roles. I founded a non-profit during the pandemic, and would love to leverage some of my business sense/engineering background. I would appreciate any referrals/support. Hope all is w
- 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
- FAANG + UNICORN Referrals Please Hey Blind Family, Currently, I have an offer to work as a full stack software engineer 2 for a bank. However, I am trying to go for PM / TPM roles. I would appreciate any referrals / support. Hope all is well and stay safe! YOE# 2 TC: 120k <3 #referral #referrals #interview #hiring #jobhunt #bi
- 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
- 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
- You're being recruited and flown out by an executive before discussing comp - what do you do? I'm transitioning out of GE and have had lots of calls lately, with a few progressing. Out of the blue, an EVP calls me and wants me for a leadership role that I haven't applied for. We talk for ten minutes and then his EA schedules my flight and car service (with permission). I'm joining him and
- Compensation Tiers of Companies for Tech Jobs By popular demand, I'm reposting one of my replies on another thread. This tiering is based on both trajectory and overall scale of total comp (base+bonus+stock) for IC positions. Edit: subsidiaries with the same pay go under the parent (e.g. Twitch and Amazon) Based off of all the comp data points
- Referrals please for PM / TPM roles Hey Blind Family, Current Status : Pursuing an MBA within finance and graduated with a bachelors in Computer Science. Full-Time Network Operations MGMT Engineer / Campus Ambassador. Eligible to work for any employer within the US and I do not need any sponsorship! Past Experience: I’ve done sever
- Referrals Hey Blind Family, Current Status : Pursuing an MSBA, graduating in December 2021. Have an MBA in Marketing and engineering undergraduate degree. Eligible to work for any employer within the US and I can work without sponsorship for now! Past Experience: Data Analytics, product analytics and Sales
- Referrals please! Hi, I'm a software engineer with 5 and half YOE. My expertise is with game development (front and back end) and web development (back end). I'm proficient with C#/Unity and Python/Django. I'm currently looking for a new challenge either tackling large scale game/web development or learning/working
- vote Should I take the counteroffer from my current employer? I put in my resignation with my current company last Tuesday. I'm currently in Enterprise Architecture with a focus on cloud leading architects through building guidance, patterns, practices etc. I’ve had some challenges moving roles in the past at my current company (getting blocked etc.) and it wa
- 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
- Going to switch companies, manager offering promotion now, confused. I am Sde 2 in Amazon . Have been Sde2 from past 4.5 years( Top ratings throughout , victim of reorgs). Currently leading my team and charter. I have no issues with team ,.however it felt my org is pretty unstable (frequent leadership changes) . Also my hike has been 0.4% base, no stocks. Casually tr
- Chime interview experience Here’s some update since the last post … The recruiter got back to me eventually and we’ll sync later this week. Glad it’s not a black hole after all. Thanks all for the comments / advice :) ================================ Interviewed with Chime couple weeks ago and am still upset with the pro
- 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
- Amazon candidates beware - know this before applying to Amazon Been in Amazon for 6 years as SDE. Plenty of my friends ask me about joining Amazon. Four years ago, I encouraged all of them to join and apply. Recently, I stopped. This is why. # NYT article is true Recruiters will refute this and say that 1) Amazon has changed a lot 2) NYT article is only true f
- 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