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- Rejected by tier2- companies I have worked at FANGs for several years and had prior experience. While not at the end of my career, I have reached financial stability and want to optimize for WLB, can't take 50+ hours/week anymore. I have deep tech management experience at senior levels. Unfortunately I keep being rejected by l
- Long term growth and worth making a career in software development? Is it worth doing an MBA to switch careers for eventual long term growth? I am thinking of long term financial growth. No doubt doing it'll be extremely hard, but will it pay rich dividends in the future? Or how should I plan my career if I plan to stay in the software development field? My curre
- Quant vs roles in tech? I worked at both Amazon and Bloomberg as SDE and I have lots of passion and experiences with machine learning (so basically I’m MLE). I’m strong and interested in both engineering/CS and math/stats, and my career goal is certainly to bring these two together. So for career development, I could cho
- SWE financial Independency What's a typical and practical way for a software engineer to move towards financial Independency? - How many years and how? Note: for instance let's say: - the target savings would be 2M USD. - cost of living "excluding" housing of 60k / year. Please think practical about career progression, p
- vote Scope or TC for seniors? Picking between two companies at the moment. By TC, I mean effective hourly pay. Usually when you have more scope, WLB may not be as good. I have no children, but would like to start settling down and have a family in the next few years. I do take care of my family/parents so they are dependent on
- career progression as PhD-SWE in early thirties (non-US) I am an L4 SWE. I am in my early 30s and i spent the later half of my 20s doing a PhD. I am not very content with the long-term career trajectory that i am predicting for myself. What are my best prospects for getting a good non-linear trajectory of career growth. Should i stick it in my current
- Atlanta (remote) vs Bay Area I currently live in the Bay and have 2 offers on the table. Both are Senior SRE positions. SF - 340 tc Fully Remote position - 160 tc If I went with the remote I'd move to Atlanta for family reasons, hotter weather, and lower cost of living. I'm looking for advice on if taking the remote position m
- Why are designers paid lesser than developers? I enjoy being a designer and love what I do. But when I look at what I’m getting paid compared to an SDE at the same level, I wonder if I made a mistake choosing a career in design. Is this a problem with FAANG companies or is this across the industry? An L6 UX designer makes about $100k less than
- vote Twitter vs Twilio Have accepted an offer as a partner engineer at Twitter. Am way more interested in Twitter's product and business than I am in Twilio's and believe I can learn more at Twitter Additionally, Twitter role has little to no travel requirement offering me bettrr WLB. While at Twilio I have to travel ext
- Laid off, looking for referral Experience : Data Analyst (Financial company) DBA/Data Engineer (Healthcare company) Database Consultant (Microsoft), laid off. YoE: 8+ Education: Masters in CS Skills: SQL, Python, Tableau LeetCode: 600+ Recent interviews: Capital One, Onsite at Amazon, Google, for SDE roles (career-shift). No of
- vote Deciding to dropout last semester of college while working I have a decent dev job that pays well for an entry developer. I make 75k a year. School has always been a struggle for me and I never did well in it. I'm at my last semester with 3 classes left. 1 of those classes I've struggled and repeated twice. If I fail again I cant get my BS computer science
- TC Google Durham NC I’m thinking of applying for a SWE III (L4) at Google in Durham (Google Cloud Hub). There’s not a lot of data on levels fyi, do any of you know whether my salary expectation is realistic? Expected base: $120k - $130k Expected TC: $180K Current TC: $150k YOE: 9 I’m an Engineering Manager in the e
- Working in Tech vs Investing I’ve always been interested in finance but recently more and more so, especially on the financial valuation and investments side. I’m seriously considering a move into Investment Analysis at a HF/VC but need some advice from the Blind Community. What are the pros/cons of working as an investor vs S
- Where I can work as SDE-1 at the age of 30? Hi All, ---- Writing this on behalf of a friend ----- I am from a Financial background, but I didn't like it. Last few years I have not been working at all. Last year I got excited about coding and did a lot of leetcode/etc. Now I know that I like coding. I want to get a job in software engineerin
- Story of my life! Indian guy, grew up - I would say barely made it - in lower middle class family of 4 (parents, elder sister and I), I still remeber living in a chawl 10x10 living room, 8x8 kitchen, with tin roof shed overhead, no toilet in house. Always a makeshift bathroom (did not have 4 walls) using just piece
- From finance developer to quant I’m the incoming new grad software developer for Bloomberg. Unlike most SDE, I have huge interest in math, statistics, machine learning and quantitative research. So I’d like to be a quant or quant developer at Wall St someday. So I’m wondering what Bloomberg teams I should join, if my goal is to b
- vote Negotiation after accepting an offer? I have already accepted an offer from company A. However I received another offer today from company B with 20% more TC. I absolutely hate company B as it’s more of a Junior role with horrible tech stack hence I have made my decision to join company A at any cost. But also I wanted to make some fin
- If you could re-do your 20s financially, what would you do? Hi, I just started working full time. My TC is 200k, with 130k being my base. I live in SF, and I’m currently trying to furnish my apartment and I see the way money is pouring out of my bank account for expenses. I was wondering if you could redo your 20s, what would you do differently financially?
- Gaming Companies with WFH and reasonable WLB? I'm at a transition point in my career, I was working at a struggling small company for many years until it finally I'd had enough with the financial struggles and decided to get a new job this summer. I'm currently working a vendor contract at Microsoft while I decide where I want to land. Really
- I need advice from Product managers or equivalent I’m a recent grad (EE), just started working at amd as a product development engineer and am now thinking about next steps in my career. I love business, especially financial markets related businesses and am looking to become a product manager as my next move and hopefully move up to executive posi
- SWE turned Pre-sales I recently left my role as a senior software engineer because I enjoy the business and people aspect of tech just as much as I enjoy solving problems algorithmically. My base as a SWE was 105k at a non tech company when I decided it was time to seek growth elsewhere. My OTE now as a solutions engin
- How important is an MBA for PM? Hi everyone! My first post here on TB. I have a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from a a tier-2 college and 1 YoE in a completely unrelated field. Had a very brief stint of running my own startup and using whatever I learnt I recently cracked a APM role at a Fintech startup in India. It has been
- Companies which pay/support exec MBA Hi, I would like to know which companies pay or provide any kind of financial support for executive MBA programs in US. I am currently SDE working in bay area with 3+ exp and planning to go for exec MBA in 2 years from now. People who currently or previously went for such degress while working I
- vote Bay Area vs Seattle for HWE 👆 Things that matter: - Career Growth - Buying own house and financial independence - Good education and opportunities for kids (For future) I guess Bay Area wins for point 1 and Seattle for point 2. Not sure about 3, heard bay has fierce competition for kids and they are studying the whole time.
- Referral for Data engineering positions Hello FB folks, Can anyone please refer me for the Data Engineering Manager/Director , Analytics roles at Facebook? I applied for a couple of positions earlier but no response. It looks like referral is a basic requirement to be considered by recruiter. Please ping me if anyone is willing to help
- Mba relevance in todays tech world? I have been considering an MBA degree for a while. Ive got a Bachelors in Engineering from India (2009) and I have always liked the idea of going to school in the USA. It will definitely enhance my non technical overall soft skills. I could do with some of that. Besides that though, how will it ben
- Manager forced me to change intern feedback, is this normal? I submitted my intern feedback as no rehire. I was the mentor for this intern and know the most about their skillset and flaws. I gave proper feedback with a lot of context, they were a pleasant engineer to work with but ultimately fell short when following Amazons evaluation system. Also, I person
- Financial/business analyst transitioning to data science I spent undergrad studying statistics and financial computation and modeling. I was always passionate about the money/ business side of things, so I’ve found a decent amount of success as a financial analyst, but miss the coding and problem solving workflow. There’s a part of me that wonders if I w
- Deep Learning Researcher at HRT I’ve always wanted to get into the finance industry. I’m currently interviewing at HRT for the Deep Learning Researcher role. Just curious if a move from Google (currently am L3 engineer) to HRT (assuming I get an offer) would be an ideal move in terms of learning. My biggest motivation isn’t contri
- MS after 10 Yoe. Is it worth doing MS after 10 yrs of experience in software industry. Currently in India and SDET. Wanted to have an idea about is it worth Doing MS from US. I want to switch my career from SDET to SDE and want to specialize in Distributed System. Investment will be huge as I will be loosing 2 yea
- Anyone go into Academia after 10+ year career in the corporate world? I'm still fairly early career in software and while I have enjoyed it, the 9-5 life is pretty grating for me and I'd rather not do it for 25 years. I enjoyed undergrad and grad school and I even TA'd while in undergrad. I taught labs, had office hours, and graded tests/homework, which I feel gave me
- Stuck about what to do next Hello beautiful people. I am an engineer based out of India. Started my career with 3.5 LPA and currently I have 24 Fixed + 10% variable plus some stocks which I guess would be around 8 Lakhs per year which makes my TC approx 34 .I have 3 years of experience. I am poor at financial planning and all
- vote Is it too late for me to switch to an SWE? I'm a non-immigrant working as an Analyst in the USA. The work is not that challenging, and the pay is decent. But my first job was as a software developer for a start-up, which I miss that till this day. I love the software development work but had to stick to the job I was holding for family and f
- First SDE Offer from Sales Background Hey studs & studettes! I have an opportunity to make a transition from Sales to SDE. I’m currently 2 YOE in as an AE with a TC of $165k. The SDE role would be a program from [Twitter/Microsoft/Uber/Google] company @ a salary of ~$93k for the first 5 months and then I will interview for a FT role a
- Evaluating offer Apple to Austin I currently work in Apple in the Bay Area as a hardware engineer and I am evaluating an offer in Austin. The offer is 120k base / 60k RSU / 50 k sign on. The company is a smaller semiconductor company. My Apple comp is 140k / 120 k RSU / 45k sign on. I am considering moving because the quality of
- vote Google team match, help me pick I met with 6 teams, I haven’t heard back from them yet but I have 2 favorites that are pretty much opposites, want your input. Team 1: develops an internal web tool, there are only 6 engineers on the team currently and they are growing to 8. It would be a proper full stack position, with each engin
- any good platforms around for getting mentors? I am a new grad at AWS. I want to find some mentors (non technical) for career path and getting perspective. does anyone know any good platforms? I am willing to pay up to $200 hourly for an experienced engineer. I am looking for someone with experience working in top tech companies or that was succ
- Software Engineering in Finance - What’s it like? Hey all, I’m looking for some advice on working in Quant or Software Engineering in Finance/ Hedge Funds. A quick synopsis of my career so far. I graduated from a top state university with a degree in economics, worked in a financial research gig for about 2.5 years, then pivoted to Comp Sci. I’m n
- Anyone else frugal? I was recently mentoring a junior engineer that's newish to their career. I was giving them the usual financial advice about spending within their budget, avoid luxury cars, 401K contributions, limit your credit card debt, etc. It made me reflect that I've pretty much lived like that for awhile no
- Facing imminent lay off, low NW, need referral Currently working in a big financial organization for 2 years as entry level SWE. Previously have worked for 3 years in 3 smaller organizations with a stint of 9 month -1 year length. Soon to be getting either laid off or thrown out. TC 95k central us region. Switched career in late thirtees with f
- How to become a Quant Analyst for Investment Bank? I have a bachelor's in Mech Engineering from a reputable, but not amazing, NYC school. Currently pursuing a masters in Computer science with a Specialization in ML from Georgia Techs OMSCS and work as a data scientist at SEI. The idea how doing quantitative finance at a large bank sounds very appeal
- Is the money worth it? 25 with ~3yoe and TC of ~400k due to stock appreciation. Really don’t enjoy working and wake up every morning dreading the start of the work day. Feeling unproductive since July. Not really money motivated, but quitting to do something else seems like a bad idea. My NW is ~500k. Unsure how to priori
- vote Please Help: Intel G7 (150K base) vs Apple ICT3 (155K base) PAST: The Peanut Pay Trauma I have been working with Intel for the past 5 yrs. Got promoted to G7 mid-year 2021. I felt that my compensation was extremely low compared to competition (couldn't afford a house after 5 yrs in job). Prepared my ass out for 3 months and cracked APPLE interview. HW eng.
- Career Advice - Post si Test engineer or switch to other areas? #semiconductor #hardware Been in ATE environment for 7 years. Working on characterization, debug & enablement for scan/array/functional content. Lately I’ve lost the passion to work in the current env. Intel has its own custom tools and of no value outside. I’ve realized that after I started int
- London vs. Zurich We want to move to Europe in the next half year. London and Zurich are on our list. I've spent all my career in systems design, so I'd like to get a position in a similar area. I have some questions about opportunities in these cities. London: - Microsoft: which teams are there? I've only seen open
- Joined MSFT BLR @L62 with 8YOE, time for promotion to L63? I started my career with a small companies and then gradually I practiced DS-ALGO and gradually moved to large product based company/ies. I have received this offer(~60LPA) for L62 now. I think it is good for me financially. I am thinking that I will work hard and would get promoted to L63 in a yea
- Looking for for SWE role, 1-3 YOE Hi, I graduated in 2020 from an accredited state university. I have strong ds and algo fundamentals. Recently got through google on site for L3 but couldn't pass HC. I Worked as front end dev and full stack. My tc right now is crap. I am looking for a move. If you can refer me or connect me to oppo
- vote Do you have financial/tax advisors? Re-posting as a poll. I come from a working class family and I started my career in government. Now I find that I am making more money than I ever really thought I would make. I make pretty smart decisions with my money. I have a wife and kids. Our student loans are paid off. Two late model cars, o
- Senior Product Designers making less than junior Software Engineers? I am a product designer with more than 5 years of experience in the SF bay area. I’m new to Blind, but looking at a bunch of compensation posts here, seems like the pay gap between designers and engineers is enormous. Except for a few anamolies here and there, junior software engineers are making th
- vote Offer evaluations Yelp(London) vs Dream11(Mumbai) Hi Guys, Would like to get your thoughts on the below two offers, as I have to make a decision in a few days Yelp(London) base: £65k RSU: £70k (Over 4 years) Sign-on and Relocation: £12k First Year CTC: £94k Dream11(Mumbai) Base: 24L INR ESOP: 12L INR (Over 4 years) Rent: 30000(After tax)/Month o