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- FOMO after seeing salaries on blind, levels.fyi I work as a SAP consultant in India. I make 9.3 LPA (~$12k). After seeing the salaries which full stack developers, ai and ml developers make in India and in USA, feel like a career in SAP consulting in India is not worth it. Salaries in SAP consulting are approximately 2X the YOE. A SAP consultant
- Moving from Engineering to Sales Has anyone had a good experience moving from engineering to sales? I’m considering doing it in a couple of years. The big reasons are: 1) totally new skills to explore and I think sales & dealmaking are extremely valuable 2) I’m a good public speaker 3) I’m already tired of Dev work, I’ll be bored
- XRP future So I have a small position on XRP, and so far I have lost an amount of a couple Macbook 16inches worth of money. I have been holding Ethereum for a while, and I am thinking of transitioning from Ether to XRP. Coinbase is suspending XRP (I am assuming that they are doing it because they want to be c
- Folks in Toronto, what's kept you from moving to the US other than visa or family I'm wondering what are the reasons to not move to US tech hubs (Bay Area, Seattle, NYC, etc) for tech jobs. Even considering the high CoL in US, after tax and expenses and taking exchange rate into account, I find that you can still save up around 2x each month in US compared to Toronto. This wage g
- Investing $200k while on H1B in the US I am working in the US on H1B visa. I am new to investment. I have $200k in cash to invest and would appreciate your suggestions. Out of $200k, I will not need $125k in the near future and I might need the other $75k after around 6 months. I am not sure whether to invest in the US or in my home cou
- How to react with such interviewers? Case 1: Oracle principal engineer was interviewing (read: interrogating) me about my resume like, "What level are you at FB? It's quite a big jump to get hired at E5 coming from a startup, no? Oh you got promoted internally? I've been with FB and it sounds far-fetched. How can a frontend engineer be
- Recession is COMING..brace for impact! If you follow news you might have known this by now. 1) Coronavirus Outbreak Nothing to say here we already know this. 2) Stock exchange crash( it's all bearish) This is driving me crazy..everyone 401K, investments,savings everything just keeps crashing for every 1% drop in S&P. It is down more tha
- Leave of Absence - Anxiety & Migraines Title explains it - I am officially losing my f**** mind dealing with non stop work being shoved down my throat because my new and 5th manager is incompetent and priorities are constanlty being shifted. I work until my legs are literally numb, dread waking up, and want to cry but dont even have time
- vote are offer negotiation services worth it? i saw a service advertised on levels fyi where they’ll help you with the offer negotiation process in exchange for a fee (several hundred to low thousands depending on level). are these worth it? (any offer negotiation service, not just levels one). has anyone used these services and if so how were
- Just made a Twitter account I just made a Twitter account for the first time. joined because of an upcoming interview, but finding the conversation really fun so far, and thought some of you may be interested to follow or join. I’m still figuring out what themes to tweet about. Here are some of my areas of expertise I am eage
- vote Venting about ex-manager Hello blinders, So a few months back I left my then current company, during a project critical time I must add. My then current manager wasn’t able to match my new tc so I left in two weeks. Everything was fine. We exchanged pleasantries. And things like you are always welcome back and if you need
- I am trying to sell bay area (san ramon) home without RE agent Any investors out there looking to buy in the bay area (San Ramon)?? I have a 2200 sq feet house in San Ramon (Top school district) and voted one of the best towns to live in the country. Many tech employers nearby (Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, Amazon, Zeiss, etc) House is currently rented for ~4k on a
- Has anyone successfully negotiated a voluntary resignation at Amazon? I am on a PIP, and also have a disability that has never been accommodated. I have gone through the channels to request accommodation and my manager still will not. He treats me as if it's an inconvenience to him and continues to document every failing I have with the PIP. I don't have another job l
- Delay/reject offer after accepted Good Friday to everyone, I recently accepted an offer from amzn (mostly because of family matter), however the process on the visa is taking too long and during that time, I got into a relationship with a lovely women who is my current partner. I have asked for a delay of 6 months to wait for my g
- Why You Should Be Concerned With Dilution So, I want to preface this by saying this is an attempt to learn/validate what I think I'm learning by explaining it to someone else. Every other discussion about equity here will have someone saying "and you'll be diluted to x". You may be wondering, so what, if I own 1% and the valuation goes up
- Offer evaluation (Expedia vs Twilio) - London Hey, I’m a new grad and was made an offer from Expedia a while ago. I kept doing interviews with other companies partly for practise and also hoping I’d get a much better offer. Today Twilio got back to me with an offer (and apparently a strong hiring vote, whatever that means) and I wanted to see
- vote Should I leave or Stay? I moved to Seattle to work with Amazon one year ago as a L4 SDET. At the time my husband was finishing his Masters and working with Lockheed Martin in Dallas. The plan was that he would graduate this December and transfer to a position his company has in Seattle. Unfortunately, he's graduating now b
- Startup equity is massively underrated I keep seeing people diss startup offers compared to FAANG. The arguments generally fall under 2 categories: 1. Early stage startup shares are worthless because 90% companies fail. 2. Startup offer lower salaries so you'll lose $1M in 4 years had you picked FAANG. Both points are grossly misinform
- The Long Slow Oracle Corporate Death Spiral A LOT of people coasting along at Oracle, and have been for many years. They get their peanuts salary and No RSUs in exchange for a guaranteed paycheck every two weeks. Meanwhile the managers (VP and above) rake in the pay and bonuses and RSUs. The managers are parasites on the back of the hard wor
- Accepted new job - Seems fishy I accepted a new job with an awesome hike to my current salary. Later on I reached out to my hiring manager to get more details about my day to day. And I realized, that he has plans for me to work on Devops while my area is software development. And he wants me to work on some tools that I never h
- vote Should I take my College Roommate’s offer? My roommate just started working at this Quant Fund in NYC (52nd St. & 5th Ave), and we’re planning on signing a lease on an apartment in March. Originally, we were going to live in Chelsea near my office (17th St. & 5th Ave) and he was going to take the subway in exchange for me paying a larger po
- vote Who is just burnt out in general? TC: 🥜and Wish stock I was actually sleeping more or less quite peacefully this morning. I unfortunately had to get up for a 9:00 AM call to start the day. I can normally speed through my work and have things look good on paper, but I've barely done anything today because I simply don't give a shi
- vote Should I turn down MANGA to follow my XR dreams with Unity? I’m a product designer from Toronto with 10 YoE who just got into Google, Meta, Amazon (all in Bay Area) and Unity (Montreal). I have never even come close to being in a big tech company before this, so I think I’m finally at a skill level I am being consistently recognized for. I’m ultra passionat
- link Want to buy Cryptocurrencies? READ THIS FIRST! This is for all the new investors and speculators to Bitcoin and other cryptos. You’re probably looking around saying “how the F do I get involved? This is so confusing!” I’m no genius, but I’ve been in this world since 2013 and wanted to share some resources and frameworks for thinking about inve
- Justice Dept. announces $3.6B crypto seizure, 2 arrests https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ny-couple-charged-with-conspiring-to-launder-crypto-billions/2022/02/08/a3611d68-88fe-11ec-838f-0cfdf69cce3c_story.html Federal law enforcement officials said the recovered sum was linked to the hack of Bitfinex, a virtual currency exchange whose systems were
- Starting to feel my relationship is a mismatch and need to do something I'm venting, so please keep the "what's the point" comments out. I'm starting to realize we're mismatched. She's not a bad person, she has a lot of good things and virtues. I just find communicating between us to be difficult because we're different. I want us to be partners and agree on things, bu
- vote Unpopular opinion - Crypto has no value, it's a pyramid scheme for traders causing absolute waste of electricity. Crypto has no value. It's just a giant pyramid scheme with insane volatility. New crypto pops up, **** coins pop up, people trade with them and waste so much electricity to mine them when the electricity could be used for something else e.g. food production, entertainment, machine learning. Defi is
- Went from 45k TC to 175k TC in about a year Started working for Wells Fargo through Revature (garbage contracting company) in Charlotte NC as a contractor but internally an App Systems Engineer 5. Started off making 45K in 2019. Only base no stocks or bonuses. Got my 15K contract raise in Dec 2020 so 60K a year. Was hired as an FTE in Marc
- Block$$$ - EOS update jumped 100% today. For all of you holding EOS, it’s up something like 100% in 1 day as of this post. Rumors that they are gearing up to announce their major plans with all the crazy money they have is said to be announced in the next few hours. ***also for ETH donations: 0x2DE4CEE193BE5a6e7b80A628c9f0736D2a1CB369
- link $GTII Stock Update Hey guys. I hope you have been doing well. I also hope you have been following https://twitter.com/g_ham27 on twitter. This guy pointed out $WISH, $GENE, $BB, $AMC, and $GME squeezes. Lots of us made money off of cheap calls before they squeezed hard. Anyways, it looks like we have a beta going o
- My FB Sr. PM interview questions thought would help others I had the sense and execution interview yesterday. Product sense questions 1. Product feasibility analysis of a lending App. I focused individual borrowed over institutional borrowers for the MVP, and suggested both individual lenders and institutional lenders on the lending side. Emphasized on re
- Loophole in stock market? What gives shares value if company holds more than >50%? I am new to investment and would like to see where my logic is wrong, here goes nothing: The reason why shares hold value is because the company holds value. It's the potential that someone can buy the entire company. For example, someone can buy out an entire company and keep all their profits to
- Closing date got postponed 3 times It’s a rant post. Location is NJ. We’re supposed to close on last Friday but our lender agents ghosted my questions about progress all the time until the day before after we asked them if we needed to postpone. During the whole time, I assume my buyer agent should keep an eye on the progress becaus
- link Passed L4 for G&FB - sharing strategies Giving back to the community by sharing the strategies/tips/resources that helped me get L4 offers from Google and Facebook. There are no innovations here. My goal for this post is to provide: - A few useful tips that you might not have seen yet - Strategies that worked for me Coding interview pre
- Help Breaking into big tech Hey guys, wall of text incoming. A bit about myself, I am 24, have a bachelors and masters from two great universities (1 Ivy and 1 Top 15) in electrical engineering. I had my undergrad paid for by the military in exchange for working for them for a few years post graduation. I did some cool work i
- london for career growth - SWE Good to see an increase in number of Europe-based openings and discussions here on Blind. I’m a student and I finally cracked FAANG internship interview for summer 2021 (FB). The position is in London, and I’m very excited. I want to try hard and deserve that full time offer. I come from a poor c
- My pitch for Bitcoin Why I think you should buy Bitcoin: Bitcoin is sound money, meaning it is hard money (ie Gold) that is highly divisible, salable across time and space, and leads to a low-time preference of participants in free market economies. A low time-preference leads to the accumulation of capital through sav
- Leaving Management for IC? I’ve been an engineering manager for a couple of years and am expecting a promotion to engineering director at the end of the year. This promotion is one of the few ways I know of to get a raise at my company. In fact, I first moved into management, in part because it was the only way I knew to get
- Coping with loneliness/depression I live by myself. I am yet to get over a failed marriage from a few years ago. I am not interested in getting into a new relationship. Some days then, I feel lonely/depressed. I am lucky to have extended family near by that look me up, continue to invite me out even when I decline, sometimes come
- link I've started my FIRE journey in India! (Part 2: Financials Before Leaving US) Part 1 (Intro and Net Worth): https://www.teamblind.com/post/sqhzju14 In this post, I'll go over the financial stuff I had to consider before I bid the US goodbye. Gotta warn you, this won't be an entertaining read. It's a long laundry list of money matters laid out in excruciating detail. - Over
- 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
- Not getting along with recruiter, but company loves me TL;DR Outside recruiter is a knob but company loves me. I wanna take her out of the equation (not the agency, just this specific recruiter). How do I handle it? I've worked with alot of outside/contingency recruiters and have always had really positive experiences. The other day got a call from on
- link GME Stock Market Implosion Copy pasta from WSB I'm glad this place has quieted down enough for some actual DD written by a monkey with a keyboard and Adderall. Disclaimer: I am that monkey. Let me explain to you what happened, play by play. I will give you illiterates who hate reading a spoiler up front: We were within appro
- link Insights about tinder and online dating (long thread) About a year ago some friends scraped 70k pics on tinder and it was reported a few months later: https://bit.ly/2ZbFVwf They said their goal was to outdo the guy that did 40k and was reported in the news a few years ago. Anyways, not to be outdone, I decided to scrape millions and do 2 TB worth of
- Critique my early retirement plan Hey, I'm only 31, but I've recently put together a plan for early retirement that I finally feel good about. Inspired by another thread on Blind I decideed to post it here. It's a humblebrag only to some extent - I'm genuinly looking for feedback on whether I'm missing sth from the folks who tried
- Workplace harassment Intent of sharing the experience: (1) if you are someone who is experiencing it now, please report to HR or atleast have a conversation with your HR, (2) if you are a manager and your employee indicates there is something inappropriate behavior towards them from a colleague, please help them to take
- link EO banning NI Visas Out https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-immigration-workers-coronavirus/2020/06/22/3b969e88-b489-11ea-9b0f-c797548c1154_story.html President Trump issued an executive order Monday barring many categories of foreign workers and curbing immigration visas through the end of the year, moves
- Google Team (Borg) That Keeps Services Online Rocked by Mental Health Crisis https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-01-20/inside-google-s-brewing-mental-health-crisis-claims-of-toxic-work-environment When Chewy Shaw left Google’s site reliability group in April, he told colleagues in a memo that interactions with his managers had made him depressed and suicidal. “I n
- Looking for talented Quant and Dev to join! Scientech Research Capital is a quantitative trading firm embodied by a group of scientists and technologists. At Scientech we strive to leverage the innovations and breakthroughs in technology to discover fundamental values in the financial markets. We pride ourselves in adhering to scientific prin
- link Post FIRE Life: Notes to self for a meaningful life in 2022 Almost a month late in posting this New Year Resolution, but better late than never. TC: 0 (Financially Independent / Retired Early) My FIRE post: https://www.teamblind.com/post/sqhzju14 Context: I've begun trying out early retirement and have been on a break for nearly an year now. Although I've