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- Need Help in Negotiating I am looking out for change and already in the middle of the process for a couple companies. I am currently making 23.5 LPA fixed and 2.5LPA as variable at Wells Fargo India as a Senior Quant and graduated from one of the old IITs in India( Not sure whether that matters anymore). I have around 5.5
- Robinhood sucks Big Time Last year after the GME saga, I decided to switch to fidelity but there were still some transactions done prior so have to rely on RH for Tax documents. I tried TurboTax online and CD version - either way I am blocked where TurboTax is not able to pull my 1099-B documents from Robinhood securities
- First Investment - ETF Advice Hi, this is my first time trading and after some research I decided to put money into ETFs and hold. I have a short term goal of buying a house within 2 years and otherwise long term for retirement. My savings is in a money market fund and my investments will be in a second account that I add to eac
- Help - What will happen to my vested RSUs? Hello Blind Community, I have some RSU vested over the past two years, the recent vesting was on Dec 2020. I am planning to leave the company. Steps I have taken so far: I have accepted the RSUs at Fidelity and sold shares to pay tax all cycles so for when the RSU have vested. What will happen to
- Recently switched from Robinhood to Fidelity I recently made the swap and having some difficulty with the new UI and slowly figuring out how to do different things on the Fidelity app. I have some questions: 1. Is there any way for me to set up price alerts across the board for all securities that I’m currently holding or in my watchlist? Ro
- vote Poll: RSU Sell to Cover Double Tax? Fidelity Wrong? When my RSUs vested, I sold to cover the taxes. Now, my W2 shows the value of all my new RSUs (box 14) and it doesn’t seem to give me credit for the RSUs I sold (taxes to cover that income). My withholding on the W2 doesn’t reflect the RSUs I sold to cover (money I basically never got). But, when
- How are you guys making a million? I just started my SW eng career and I am 25. Tc : 120( base) + 60k ( RSU). About 190k a year including sign on - nah not from Cerner but from one of the aspiring cloud providers in the market. Okay my question is how are you guys making a million ? I see posts on blind making million and i am lik
- Roth IRA? And investment advice I spoke to Vanguard, Fidelity, and Morgan Stanley. All tried to sell me on their admin services so turning to trusted blind for advise considering most of you might have already gone through this. How can high earners contribute to Roth ITA with income limit? I can do backdoor IRA but then wouldnt
- How To Get Back Into Tech? I worked as Lead/Senior Software Engineer for 10+ years (not for big tech, but Fidelity/Goldman/ and a few startups). I left to start an e-commerce company and pursue digital marketing. Built out a team, led the development of mobile apps for the brand, developed API's/algo's for marketing campaign
- Will Goldman force me to sell all my stocks? I am joining goldman sachs soon and saw this post on blind. Is this true? Will they make me sell my whole portfolio? I'm going in as a PM and not for any trading platforms. "GS has no trading policy, you can’t buy/sell public listed equity, can’t buy closed ended mutual funds, you can invest in ope
- Prototypes in Product Design Interviews Hey Blind Designers, I'm starting to apply to the big tech Design jobs, and they ask for examples of prototypes. Would it be odd if someone shows a prototype made in js / html / css? From what I gather online, it seems like they want to see more of Origami / Framer / ProtoPie / etc, but with highest
- First big sell off, what to consider? I contacted fidelity about a question, a rep responded with an email asking when I good time to talk would be, I told the rep, never heard from said rep again. So who else better to turn to than the tried and true Blind community, ha. I went to make my first, what I'd consider "big" stock sell off
- Investment advice for FIRE Hi Blind community, I need investment advice from the high TC veterans. Current TC is $162k cash and some stocks. I am 24 years old and I have no debts except for a car payment. My plan is to put 6% into 401k and put rest into Roth 401k up to $20,500 limit and I would max out mega back door Roth up
- Referrals: New Grad/Early Career Hello, y'all, My friend is about graduate with a master's and is looking for new grad roles. On their behalf, I am asking for referrals from the entire silicon valley. Please DM and help a brother out!!! My blind tax: YoE: 2 TC: 200K (Sorry for the tag list! Inspired from a recent post) #apple
- Interactive Brokers UI and Usability is shit! Should I switch? I like the $1000 account creation bonus but man, their UI and usability sucks big time!! 1. When you search to buy a popular ticker like AMZN, it shows AMZN that's sold on some random exchange or some other shit that its so confusing. 2. Charges money to give you real time quotes 3. I sold a put on
- vote Oracle vs Paypal Bangalore, India - offer evaluation I'm 6 YOE Java developer and bored of working on java any more. Oracle is giving me opportunity to work on front end, work is going be 70:30 ratio for UI : backend. They use oracle jet for UI and some old tech stack for backend. In paypal work is going to be in java only where project is going to
- Question about Covered Call Expiration Hello All, I have Fidelity and recently sold some covered Calls (APPS 76 Call for July 2nd). The stock randomly sky-rocketed this morning and is currently sitting around 79 so is ITM. But is a volatile stock and will lose money quickly too if it were to go down. I have a question for the more exp
- Advice for Designer Without Conventional Experience A UX designer I know is trying to make a portfolio but has a couple of issues with how to display their work. They work at a reputable government consultancy on a very large public user facing app. They feel that they don’t have a full enough UX process to make convincing case studies. Their org do
- Cybersecurity Internship referrals required Hi Guys I am eagerly looking for an internship in cybersecurity in India/ Abroad. I past experience in 2 internships and Bug Bounty. I am currently doing my Bachelors in Cybersecurity and Have vast experience in SOC, Web App Pentesting, and Network security. #internship #security #intern #fintech
- vote Simply don't understand all the hate with Robinhood "Complexity is not the measure of excellence. That's how promotion works sadly but it should not be how things are rewarded." * Summary of responses: 60% of poll participants use Robinhood. There is a reason why everyone else is copying RH. If usecase is sufficient, RH is best. Below is the summary
- UX portfolio advice - Mid/Sr level UX Designer Hey Blind UX fam, I haven’t updated my portfolio in 2 years since I joined Amazon. I have worked on several projects in the last 20 months. Considering Amazon’s bias towards action (aka project delivery) and less towards user experience, not all of my projects have the most polished UIs. As I’m co
- Could Robinhood block people from SELLING? Given all the recent news with GME and other stocks, I’m very worried about RH doing more shady things, especially during the squeeze (if it happens) and block folks from selling. Either that or have some sort of outage that will break the app or something. Either way, my trust and confidence is com
- 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
- Full explanation of the GME, RH, and Citadel debacle Alright ladies, listen up. I just spent the whole day going down the rabbit hole of this whole GME / RH / Citadel debacle. This is going to be long, so you might want to lie down and suck on your pacifier because this one would take quite awhile. Let me start off by saying that I have a smooth brai
- 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.
- Facebook WFH Options Hello Facebookers. Are you all allowed to WFH as per news or only some teams allow that? TC: 250k
- vote What kind of worker are you? Let’s face it. Some people in G and F don’t spend that much , especially 5 and 6. If You gave them 10M or 10B, they would live the same life. They just want more money even though they don’t need to spend that much. Some people work for a purpose like Dr. Fauci. He was downplayed but still want to
- link When Trump thought pandemic was going to end by easter.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52029546
- At what age did you buy life insurance Folks will be 34 soon thinking of getting a life insurance. Have a wife and 2 kids 😀 What age did you folks take one and which one would you folks recommend ? TC : 328k
- vote Stay or switch companies? I'm a designer, planning to switch to a smaller company. Even if I get promoted, I don't see myself growing much, and the work is getting boring. However, this company is less well known, but the culture seems awesome. Base: 101k Bonus: 2k Current TC: 103k New company. Base: 108k Bonus: 7k RSU- 5
- Referral Needed Looking for a referral. I need a fully remote position for personal reasons. I do not mind sharing why in my DM. YOE: 16- leadership roles. Do not mind being a individual contributor. Do not need to be a manager but I am great with people. Current Title: Capacity Planning Manager Education: Master
- Anyone hiring SDE with 1 year experience Anyone hiring SDEs with 1 year experience. Currently at Amazon and don't like the team. It is impossible to move within Amazon at L4 level. #tech
- vote Should I buy stocks on or after Election Day? What you guys think? #Amazon #Apple #Google
- Rationale behind a 15-min interview, and what to prepare? I've got an interview scheduled with a hiring manager of a BB bank and was told by HR that the call will be a 15min. I was curious who has had experience doing a 15min interview as an interviewer or /viewee and can share what was the focus of the call during the short timeframe. Also, if you were th
- Facebook referral Hi, Can someone refer me at Facebook for a SWE position? Really appreciate it! #tech #software #referral #job #opening
- vote How Much Are You Spending on Healthcare? I realize I'm spending a ton on healthcare (premiums + out of pocket). I have a couple of health conditions but I'm not dying. I'm averaging about $1100 per month this year. How much do you spend per month on premiums and out of pocket combined? #healthcare #health #personalfinance
- H1B appointments in India Reaching out to understand the current situation with H1B in COVID. I visited India in 2019 December and got H1B visa (previous employer) on my passport. I started with new employer in February 2020 (with new H1B) and have not visited India since. I have a few questions w.r.t. this: 1. Do I need to
- vote Did you take PTO to Vote today? 📩
- Referral to FB Hi - I was wondering if someone from #facebook could provide a referral to a specific role in the ProdMgmt org? Appreciate it.
- Need Referrals I am interested in a back-end software engineering role at FAANG (plus..) I have 12 years of Industry experience. Would you mind referring to your company? Already scheduled for Amazon next month. Thanks. #swe #engineering #software #referral #hiring #jobhunt #microsoft #slack #paypal #facebook #
- Referrals I am interested in a back-end software engineering role. I have 2 years of Industry experience. Would you mind referring to your company? Thanks. #swe #engineering #software #referral #hiring #jobhunt #microsoft #slack #paypal #facebook #twitter #dropbox #amazon #atlassian #google #instacart #squa