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- Fired from Google, next steps? I joined Google as a new grad FE SWE and was on the high end of CME and improving. A year into wfh (about 1.5 years into my career), my team merged with another team. I felt completely lost in the new codebase and had trouble keeping up/onboarding. Felt like I would write code but it always had side
- What is the hardest company to get fired from Title
- Ever been fired for non-perfomance causes? I’ll go first — I crashed the company car into a USPS truck. Why? It was my first week ever driving alone and they asked me to operate a huge fucking truck on a narrow and busy street. No injuries or tickets though. Why were you fired? TC — 150 base, volatile RSUs (not Amazon)
- vote Fired from BigTech I was terminated last year from BigTech. Will I ever get another job in another BigTech company? Not a layoff. Terminated for moonlighting. Lack of judgment on my part. Trying to move past this but the events still haunt me till this day. Not looking for sympathy. Rather, advice on how to approach
- Fired from Facebook under false pretense * This is an updated post as the original had to be deleted for personal reasons * I was fired from Facebook. Not because I wasn’t good enough - I was. Not because I violated any policy - I didn’t. I was fired because a colleague that didn’t like me, filed a false complaint about me. The experienc
- FIRE Done! AMA. I’ll be submitting my resignation at Meta in the middle of March and my wife will be submitting hers at Microsoft this July. If we can do it, you can too!! Ages: 39 (me), 35 (wife), 7 (daughter 1), 3 (daughter 2) TC: 430k for me as a E6 TPM at Meta, 490k for my wife who is a L66 Eng Manager at Mic
- link Amazon’s hire to fire is confirmed https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-managers-performance-reviews-hire-to-fire-internal-turnover-goal-2021-5
- That time I was fired from Microsoft. Back in 2009 I was fired from my job in product planning at Microsoft. I had been doing customer and market research for what became Windows 8. At the time there were lay-offs happening all over Microsoft and actual terminations (i.e. firings without severance) were amped WAY up. My manager put me
- Manager tried (and failed) to fire me after I gave notice I’m a quantitative researcher. I gave my two weeks notice while my manager was out. He never accepted my resignation or replied at all…and when he comes back he repeatedly tries to get me on a zoom call. I dodge him and say I want everything in writing and I want HR on any meetings with him. I then
- vote I think I’m gonna get fired… Forgot to put myself on mute during an important executive meeting and was watching Ali G videos on speaker. Headphones were plugged in to the laptop and I put those aside so couldn’t hear a thing they were saying in the meeting. Manager called my phone and asked me to put myself on mute. I couldn
- vote Facebook fires back Facebook Director of Policy Communications Lena Pietsch blasted Haugen, noting she "worked for the company for less than two years, had no direct reports, never attended a decision-point meeting with C-level executives – and testified more than six times to not working on the subject matter in quest
- vote Will you FIRE? what age are you planning to hang it up?
- What’s your FIRE goal? FIRE = Financial Independence / Retire Early 1) What’s your FIRE number? 2) How did you come up with it? 3) How far along are you? 4) How or where are you investing. I’ll go first. 1) My FIRE number is $15M. 2) I calculated it by multiplying my annual expenses by 33, plus a paid off home. $36k monthly expenses including taxes, plus $1.1M
- vote FIRE Target With people having different opinions on FIRE goal, let's see what is most popular among tech.
- Indians on FIRE Given how difficult is it get a GC or even a H-1B for that matter, have any of you (Indians) considered or already FIREd? The incomes in the US are massive compared to what it costs to live in India. My girlfriend and I for example, could retire at the age of 28 with a safe withdrawal rate of 2,00,0
- Coworker got me fired My coworker who same level as me was bossing me around. At one point i told him to fk off(not literally) but by ignoring him, etc, when i was full of his shit. Like when i was late for 5 minutes after lunch, he says “Lunch is only one hour, where have you been?”, etc But he was way longer in compa
- 26yo, 1M NW, what’s a good FIRE number? Tc:300k for me and my gf, living together. Not married yet, need a fire number for the US for both me and a future wife, doesn’t have to be CA-based. #fire
- vote I want to fire my co-founder Looking for advice on if I should do it and what other things I should consider. We’ve raised $2M, have a few paying institutional customers using our software, and are just beginning to hire employees. I’m CEO with more equity, he’s CTO with less equity. He’s a great software engineer and has built
- vote Fired for venting on slack about boss Netflix has let go of 3 marketing executives after the thr trios conversation talking negatively about their bosses were captured and seen by senior management. According to the article none of the comments were abusive or disparaging, there was no need for termination This also raises interesting
- How to get fired at Meta I want to quit Meta but I don't have the courage to resign
- AWS Hire to Fire, is it true? Should I switch? Got an offer from AWS L5, wanted to know if they really do this? Current TC - 150k New TC - 240k Should I take this offer?
- link I'm a FIRE blogger/podcaster retiring in my 40s. AMA 08-19-2020 UPDATE I will no longer be checking this AMA, so if you have any new questions, please reach out to me via the "connect with me" options below. I had a great time chatting with all of you! Thanks for the fun experience. :) About me: - I’ve been heavily involved in the FIRE community for
- vote FIRE vs Startup? Which will you pursue in life? TC: 111k
- I got fired from FB and want to go back I got fired at FB in 2013 and got a job at Google immediatelly. I was E4 at FB then offered L4 and google, promoted to L5, then going to be promoted to L6 this cycle (delayed promo because of no perf) which is a huge deal at Google. I was in infra at FB and got fired because of having an adverse
- What are your FIRE markers Lean - 2M Medium - 3M Fat - 5M TC: 300K
- vote FIRE is dumb imo EDIT 3: misspelled the wordings in the poll, what i meant was: 1. Prioritize fire, 2. Prioritize enjoying blabla, 3. Other. Most people on Blind seem to prioritize FIRE. For example, they'd take a job that pays more over one that they'd enjoy more, they'd rather buy ETFs than fly first class or sp
- link Googler who penned manifesto fired https://www.recode.net/2017/8/7/16110696/firing-google-ceo-employee-penned-controversial-memo-on-women-has-violated-its-code-of-conduct
- link Robinhood to fire 9% of FTEs https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/robinhood-fire-9-full-time-employees
- vote Can boss fire you if he gets a sense you will quit soon? Let’s say you hinted at quitting (perhaps hinted at job searching or company/org red flags) but you still perform strong. Let’s say you’re also one of his top reports (brought you to be part his new special team) Can the boss just fire you? Technically most companies can fire you for whatever reas
- link Anybody knows what happened? One of Google's leading AI has been fired in retaliation for an email to other employees... https://www.businessinsider.com/timnit-gebru-ethical-ai-fired-google-2020-12
- vote Unvaccinated employees fired! Citigroup planning to fire those who are not vaccinated. What about those who have medical reasons not to take the vaccine? Doesn’t this oppose land of the free in the national anthem? https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/07/business/citigroup-unvaccinated-employees-fired/index.html
- Amazon mangers - Do you hire to fire? Amazon managers, do you hire to fire ? Or know other managers doing it? I understand it's all business and nothing personal. You have to manage your team and also fulfill pip quota.
- Just got fired Surprised with HRBP on 1:1 call with manager, was told that for the past several months I haven't been performing and I was being let go from Facebook with severance. Decision was final and apparently there's nothing I can do to fight it. Only have had one performance review and received a MM. I am
- FIRE number? For those pursuing FIRE, what is your FIRE number? How many more years to achieve this? Any advice? #fire
- Yet another FIRE post and AMA My TC: 404K, 16 yoe Husbands TC: 370k, 18 yoe I’m 38, husband’s 42 and daughter is 10. We’ve not yet resigned but plan to do so in a year or two after we set up our passive income streams and figure out insurance. Net worth 9.3 Million. Our investments are 6.3 Million and our primary home (paid o
- Realistic FIRE number for India in Pune/Bangalore No property Explain your answers if possible of what you'd do with your FIRE number. TC 280k NW= -30k (loans)
- Can't force myself to FIRE I have reached the threshold for both age and NW where I told myself to FIRE. It just seems I can't do it. I think the main reason is where I see the monthly expenses of ~4500 for just groceries, kids sports, utilities and hobbies + 4000 mortgage on our primary house. Kids are 9 and 11 so long wa
- Fired without clear reason, what to say in interviews I was fired last week. It was shocking to me as I had no performance issues leading up to this and my weekly 1 on 1s with my manager had been cordial. The reason given was a laundry list of things including I was not effective, I didn't have the skills and that this was a reorg. My attorney feels
- FIRE number We're thinking of pulling the trigger to FIRE. We're considering to sell our primary house in the bay and move to Portland for a better pace of life and outdoors. We're are both in our late 30s, and we have around 3.5M in net worth including the house. Would that be enough? We don't have kids and no
- vote Parag Agrawal to be fired soon? Poor boy - Perhaps he can come to Amazon as an L7
- Does 4% withdrawal for FIRE account for inflation? Let's say the the inflation halves the value of the dollar in 10 years. Can I expect that my principal would have doubled in this time so that I'm able to have the same purchasing power?
- vote Why no PIP/Fire posts from Facebook/Meta ? I understand that Amazon aggressively puts around 10% into focus, and PIPs 5%. From what I know even Facebook has an aggressive policy towards low performers/lowly ranked people. Facebook might even be directly firing people without even focus and PIP. Why then is Blind full of Amazon shit stories,
- vote What else after Google SWE? for FIRE I have a good chance of attaining Google for new grad. For someone that just wants to go into industry and reach FIRE status as soon as possible, the next step seems something along the lines of investing my capital via side hustles / alt. investments or fully starting my own startup / joining one e
- What would you do after FIRE? FIRE = Financially Independent and Retired Early Would you still do what you are doing now? I found this question very enlightening. Because whatever my answer is, I should just live that life NOW, regardless I am in fact FIRE or not. Our tech salary and savings probably can afford that, but our l
- What’s your FIRE number? How much NW (in USD minus the home you’ll live in) do you think you need to FIRE. If you had X today, you can stop working for rest of your life if you want. What’s that X for you? Just respond with $X, Location (where you will live if you had X), family member count (number of family members this
- vote Got Fired from Wells Fargo Today after struggling for 9 months in Wells Fargo by starting my day off at 4:30 AM, I raised my opinion that these working hours are not suitable for my lifestyle. The reaction of my manager and HR was ‘can you do at 5 AM?’ I explained them that these hours will not leave any balance to my perso
- vote Google to cut pay from and eventually fire unvaccinated employees Do you agree with this move? https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/12/14/google-employees-to-lose-pay-if-dont-comply-with-vaccination-policy.html
- vote FIRE and settle down in Florida Not sure why more ppl arent doing or talking about this. Assuming you can save and retire early, what wrong with this plan? 1. Make >7M in net worth by the time you're 40. 2. Settle in Florida 3. Buy an awesome house for ~2M+. I've seen a lot of negativity about Florida, although I'm not exact
- link Fb engineer in Seattle died of 'mysterious fire' https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/meerut/desi-woman-with-fb-in-seattle-dies-in-mysterious-fire/articleshow/89838739.cms Hard to believe such thing happened.
- vote 🔥 Senior Engineer Poll 🗳️ For those laid off/fired in last 2 months 🔥 TC: 470 YoE: 9