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- 10+ YOE engineer/architect moving to CA advice needed 35 year old, architect-level experience in web/cloud dev, some ML experience (in finance). First half of the career spent outside of the US. In the US couple of startups and a job as a developer in a financial institution. US citizen. Looking for general advice on how to go about connecting into the
- Offer at Lucid Motors I got an offer at Lucid. Pondering it at the moment. I wanted to get the community’s impression. Offer: Title: Senior Embedded SW Engineer, AD platform Base 145k RSU 100k over 4 years, 25% vest first year. 5k bonus 14k reloc Current situation : Senior Embedded SW Engineer, TC 112k Yoe: 6 in auto
- H1B stamping in Singapore Hi Blinders, I am an Indian citizen. I need to get my H1B stamped as I previously entered on F1 and changed my status to H1B in 2020. I am currently in US and I need to visit india this December. There are absolutely no appointments in india right now and given the number of people in backlog, I am
- Mortgage with parents I’m a new grad, and I have very little context about how mortgages work. My parents live abroad and want me to invite them for GC once I become a citizen. (I’m not Indian/Chinese, got selected for my h1b, started PERM. So would take 7+ years from now.) My parents told me they’ll sell one of/all th
- Weird Apple interview experience I currently live in Canada and was applying for a role at Apple HQ. I did the first technical screen and then had an interview with the hiring manager where everything was positive and he said he would like to invite me for the virtual on-site. I’m happy about it and then a few days later the recrui
- Switching companies - can final week at previous company overlap with first week at new company? I already put in two weeks notice at Microsoft and am deciding the start date with the new company. I think my final week at my current company and first week at new company will both be light weeks (for my new company, the corporate laptop hasn't even arrived yet so I think my first week will just
- looking for HW EE referrals - FB, Apple, Waymo To the good people of Blind, I first hope you are able to WFH and are with your families. I am in a tough situation at work as well - so having to look around. I am looking for Hardware Engineering references - especially sensors, AR/VR, home automation. Im hands on - comfortable with analog, boar
- How to buy FANG stocks if you are living in India Hi Folks, I am an Indian citizen residing in India. I figured out that I can't invest in Amazon(AMZN) shares because the company isn't listed in local stock markets. Is there any workaround? Amazon has provided me with RSU, can I somehow buy additional stocks using that account (Morgan S). I trie
- link Which political leaders really support merit based immigration system? Any names of such political leaders? A few most recent news sources related to this agenda: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-putting-american-workers-first-restore-economy-greatness/ . . https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/16/politics/merit-based-immigration-explainer/index.html . . https://www.pri.org/
- New Grad Hardware Referral Hi, I'm a BASc electrical engineering student graduating in May '22. I'm grateful to have an Amazon new grad offer (blind tax in Canadian pesos: 112/111/32 first year/34 2nd year), but not sure if I want to go down the software career path vs. hardware. I'm currently looking for new grad referrals
- vote How to deal with cocky ex-Google, Ivy league guy? So right now i work at startup, and recently the guy joined our company as a senior product manager. He is ex-Google who graduated from Ivy league. He is not my manager, but he is way more senior than me and i will be working often with him. The first time we met, he asked me “which school i went
- Getting hired with 20 months H-1B left & no i140 My wife is a full stack SWE on H1-B and wants to take a break to deal with burnout and some health issues by switching to H4. Her current company is being insanely slow to get her GC rolling taking 4+ months to start even the trivial first steps of PERM. Sticking it out at current company for GC doe
- vote Data science in SWE role at FAANG I want to continue doing data science out of personal love for statistics and curiosity toward open world, research-oriented questions. (Undergrad-level math background, but no graduate degree - so academic/RS job is out of the question.) 1. Is this sustainable for career growth on SWE ladder (to r
- Does Amazon UK/europe hire SDE grads from overseas? Hi everyone! After receiving the link to OA3, I logged on Amazon Jobs and realised the assessment was for a SDE grad role in Edinburgh. I submitted the online application in early January thinking it would more likely be rejected as I am based in Australia. Does anyone know if Amazon hire oversea ap
- Moving to Russia? How hard/bad is it? Hello Blind fam, Long story short; my gf is Russian and we’ve been considering relocation. I’ve been to Russia multiple times to meet her family, friends and see the vibes in general. I can honestly imagine myself living in Moscow but I’ve been doing some research for awhile now and I’m not sure of
- vote Amazon New Grad SDE offer evaluation vs Nordstrom Return Offer Hi everyone, I just interviewed and received an offer from Amazon. I also have a return offer from Nordstrom from the internship. Give opinions on offer to take + any advice on negotiations. Amazon Offer: Base: 120k RSU: 88k over 4 years (5, 15, 40, 40) Sign On: 27.5k TC: 152k, location is Seattle
- Want to move to US from Canada Hi All – First Post, new to the community. I am looking for a change of scenery and would like to move to the US. Also, higher wages are another good reason to pursue my move. I am a Canadian Citizen and from what I know work authorization won’t be an issue because of TN-Visa. I have been trying for
- vote Right way to do the transfer / Europe to US European citizen considering an internal transfer to US from Europe. However, the fact that only my base would get adjusted really turns me off as my RSUs are 🥜 So at first I never considered this as highly likely, but recently I have the idea of moving to a lower cost area such as Atlanta. In tha
- Should I tell a recruiter I'm out of the country? I'm currently living abroad during covid, is it a good idea to not share this information with the recruiter? I'm a US citizen. I recently had an interview with a game company and was told I would have an onsite after the first few rounds, then last minute I got a rejection and wasn't given any reas
- Don’t join companies that have large layoffs and move overseas Regardless of job family. If you have options, avoid these companies like the plague (not like covid, cuz that didn’t work too well) Don’t have options? Fine, but try to leave, jobs are abundant currently. They paying you a lot? What good is more money if they laid off 100s of your fellow citizens,
- Do I need to change SSN card after naturalization to start a new job? I last week became a US citizen through naturalization after 10+ year of immigration adventure. Next week I will start a new job, but I do not have a US passport. They also took my GC before the oath ceremony and gave me Certificate of Naturalization. I assume that document should be enough for work
- Finding a job in Israel within Amazon So I am fresh out of college and working at amazon in the US this year. At the end of my first year of work I would like to move to Israel. Ideally I would like to continue working for my team remotely from there. I am a citizen of Israel also so there should not be an issue from that end. If my man
- AWS Dublin offer evaluation and negotiation Hi ! I am coming from a non faang company in EU and finally got my first big offer : Amazon Dublin. I am also interviewing for Google Zurich but from what I have heard the process can take up to 6 months due to very long team matching. And that would be if I pass Google bar (solved 240 leetcode, mo
- Apple and Google interviews Hello Fellow citizens of Blinds, I want to get your opinions or suggestions to break thru Google and Apple first barrier .. ie recruiter review and sparking hiring manager interest .. I have been trying to break thru Apple and Google and have applied to several (together around 50) opportunities b
- RSU tax policy during vesting event I accepted offer from a US company and granted RSU. I am gonna work for their EU entity but I see that RSU comes from main US entity. (Also mentioned in the grant document) What sort of tax/es should I expect when first vesting event comes? Am I gonna get double taxed for RSU both from US (income)
- Blasted a recruiter today.... Recruiter reached out to me with a lengthy post on how she was so impressed with my linkedin profile and she has a role which is tailor made for me. I asked her one question. Do they hire H1B. She said no. I gave her a blasting about how recruiters waste our time and are cruel to us. They should fi
- Value of TPMs in FAANG I keep hearing from FB employees that TPMs are not first class citizens. Is it really true in most cases across your FB orgs? TPM roles have been synergized and very much a critical role to run programs these days. Moreover you hire TPMs after rigorous interview process which means you have best of
- Chances of immigrating to the US from Germany I am currently a student in Germany, studying Business Administration at an acclaimed University (for Germany, I guess US folks don’t know anything outside of their continent) Trying head into the field of Data Analytics in relation to Behavioral Management and Business process re-organization. Ho
- InMobi : Take or break ? I had gone through interviews and in last talk with HR I was informed that feedback was positive. I am expecting offer/numbers in next few days. So wanted to get some info from current/past employees. How’s the engineering at InMobi ? Is it a first class citizen? - From discussion with engineers i
- Career Question: Startup or FAANG I am currently working in one of the FAANG’s with a TC ~525+. So far it’s going pretty well from career perspective and I am expecting a level bump by 2022. I have been approached by founders of a startup to join them as their first employee with ~170K salary and 5% equity. These founder have over 1
- How can I reduce/avoid Tax in Canada? What options Candian PR has for side gigs? Moved to Canada from US two months ago. I cried when my first paycheck came and the rent I pay in Canada. Honestly, I miss US for the quality of life, paycheck and the friends I left behind. When I was on H1B, I could not think of anything else other than corporate jobs. I guess all immigrants in US
- How's the offer in Canada? I got a full-time job offer as a Senior Software Engineer from a small size company in downtown Toronto. Compensation is CAD 135k base + 10% annual bonus + 50 stock options (Company is private so I don't know what's the real value of stocks). Currently, I am working as a Principal Engineer with TC 1
- Find a job in Bengaluru from US How do i go about researching, applying for and interviewing with good companies in BLR? I value quality of engineering work, quality of peers and compensation as my top 3 requirements at a prospective employer. My background: I was born and raised in India. Currently am a US citizen and have been
- link Media keeps incentivizing CEO's diversity initiative that promote racism. https://www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgrath/2017/12/12/unions-are-dead-why-competition-is-paying-off-for-americas-best-workers/#22973555578a The first three paragraphs in this Forbes article literally make the following points: 1. First, Intel CEO laid off 12,000 employees (mostly old employees) 2
- Indians and GC Full Disclosure : I am indian citizen who is also waiting in backlog If we need to fix the backlog issue, we need to fix the abuse first. There are three abuse paths that I am aware of: 1) H1B : everyone knows about H1B abuse. consultancy companies have many fake companies so that they can file mu
- Amazon L5 AS thinking about moving YOE: 3 w/ phd TC: 370k @ Seattle Hi. I think I stayed long enough for Amazon. Work blocked from inherent org issues and don’t think this would be resolved in foreseeable future. As I can’t deliver impactful stuff because of this, don’t think I’m in a good position to ask my manager for promo. At
- link How many of you think H-1B folk “steal” American jobs? Seriously. I am sick of MAGA idiots yammering all over about H-1B immigrants stealing jobs. Now, I do agree some outsourcing shops do visa fraud that needs to be curbed. We come here legally, pay taxes, buy houses made our life here for decades, support our communities and contribute to economy. Bu
- Is TN Visa going to be some sort of resistance to a US company for hiring me? I'm a naturalized Canadian citizen. My current fully WFH position at a big SaaS firm is okay in Canada but pay is completely crxp compared with my other team members based in even remote US cities. Factoring in forex rate they're making 40-50% more than me for doing same job in the same company My
- Should I bring up future transfer plans in my interviews? I’m currently living outside of the states and would like to go back in the near future. As a non-citizen, I would need a visa. In my current city, I’m interviewing with a company I really like and would like to transfer within this company to their U.S. headquarter on a L1 in one year or so. Ques
- vote How to proceed after not winning H1b at first try (Qualcomm) Hi Blind folks 🙋, Unfortunately, I did not win the H1b lottery this year and I am still on OPT (first year, will extend to STEM OPT this upcoming weeks). Prior to Qualcomm, I was a contractor and started the process for Eb2 (National Interest Waiver) but since I work for Qualcomm, I have not subm
- W.r.t. FBAR filing Hey folks, I have a couple of questions regarding FBAR (IRS Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts). Appreciate your guidance. Context: I for the first time filed an FBAR during my recent tax filing process. I am not a US citizen, living here in the US since 2018 (a green-card holder). Qu
- Data Scientist Referrals Hi all - I'm ready for a new challenge and would appreciate any help with referrals for data scientist or product analytics positions. I have 2 YoE in a marketing analytics position and 2 YoE as a DS in my tagged company, so call it 4 YoE. I have prior experience in A/B testing, general aptitude i
- When to resign given travel and fixed joining date? Folks, Would appreciate any advise. Spouse wants to quit her job, has another job she just got today. The other offer is suggesting last date to join as the day right after she is expected to return to US after international travel (tickets already booked, she flies very soon and has to go to take c
- Why for some people it is better to be in the backlog than to have a greencard I know everyone always wants what they do not have and imagines life would be amazing if only... I got my greencard a couple years back and have recently realized that for me personally, in my situation, it would actually have been better for me to be in the backlog. The reason is that while worki
- PhD student terminated because of mental illness This question is related to my brother’s experience. He was a PhD student in the US. During his PhD, a little over a year ago, he was hospitalized with his first episode of mental illness. His advisor immediately terminated his employment telling me that my brother was not fit to do a PhD in his lab
- Received positive hiring decision, waiting for the offer but not US citizen and in need for a visa. What are my options? I received a positive answer from a FANG company and they are now crafting my offer. However, I'm not a US citizen (EU citizenship). I've heard H1B is over for this year and I'm now wondering what my options are. I might qualify for O1. No idea if there is a cap as well. This would be my first appli
- Getting into FAANG as a PM Contractor This is my first time posting. Blind is amazing. I’ve learned so much from all your posts so far. I’m a certified Project Manager and recently accepted a role with Google as a contractor. I’m excited for the opportunity but after reading posts about Contractors at Google being treated as second rate
- L-1 Visa Holders - Unfairness, Injustice ... Just throwing this topic out there 1. Do you guys think L-1 visa employees aren't as fairly treated as their H-1B counterparts and GC/Citizens counterparts. The fact that they can't switch companies is a hurdle for them when it comes to negotiating their salaries, promotions, etc 2. How is your co
- Is there any way to postpone my start date without looking un-interested? I know this sounds weird. Any suggestion Is appreciated. I got a new job in a new company, the start date is confirmed. Then I went back to my home country. Unexpectedly, right now I really need more time to deal with something and delay my start date. I know someone would suggest honesty but I do
- Addepar Engineering Culture What is the engineering culture like @ Addepar? I have heard that a lot of the Software Engineers come from finance backgrounds as opposed to tech backgrounds and so I am just wondering if that impacts the overall engineering culture. What I really want to know: 1. Will someone who starts here be