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- 1 year career gap I have to go back to my home country for a year to take care of my dad ☹️ He needs me! Is my career finished? What should I write on my resume?! What should I tell HM if by slight chance passed resume screening?!? Help please l! Can’t sleep from stress! I’m already 38 and have wasted lot of time i
- Resume advice - Career Gap A friend of mine was attending grad school with me. But she didn't start her career right away as she wanted to focus on new born baby. Now, she is entering job market with 3-year gap on resume. While she was stay at home mom, she took some online courses to keep her skill active. But, her first tw
- Career Gap - Looking for Referrals Posting on behalf of friend. My friend left his previous job just before lockdown to start something of his own and it failed since lockdown started immediately. He has a career group in his resume and looking for job. Looking for recommendations for the below:- 1. How to justify gap in career? 2.
- vote Is career gap a big deal ? I feel i am getting way below market pay. At the same time I am very interested in financial markets and all the volatality these days. I feel if i switch now, I can get a raise but I want to try trading myself algorithmicaly for the love of it. Have little experience in this from part time personal
- [India] career gap repurcussions on interviewing I'm an SDE and am being asked to leave my position due to performance issues. Given my situation I'll need some months to prepare for interviews. Is the career gap going to be a big red flag in order to land interviews/offers. I do think I've good cause to justify the personal time off. What is the
- Do people care about large career gaps? I have a 7 year gap on my resume where my mental health was in the toilet. I have two yrs experience since resuming. Do people care? I have 2 yrs experience before the gap. Do I have 4 years experience or would most people only count the after? Trying to figure out where my TC should be is a pain.
- Gap year is it bad in my early career I need to take a break from work possibly 3-6 months maybe a year, for health reasons concerning a family member, I'm constantly distracted at work and can't seem to focus, im losing the will/determination to work and get shit done each day to a point where I'm getting depressed from overthinking an
- How bad is a 4.5 months' career gap? As the title suggests, how harmful is it or what uncomfortable situations do you need to face in the future due to a 4.5 mo career gap on the resume?
- link Gender Pay Gap Solved: Dont have kids in career building years. I read this and thought I’d share. Seems NYTimes has figured out the solution. Women are having babies at the wrong time. Quote: “The issue, in general, comes down to time. Children require a lot of it, especially in the years before they start school, and mothers spend disproportionately more time
- Thinking about taking a gap year, is it worth risking my career? I am 33 years old, wife 32. Before we have kids we’d like to take a year off (after covid is over) and travel the world. But we’re both worried that we’d be taking a big step back in our careers and things are going well for us right now. But we also want to travel and explore the world before kid
- Career as SDE in India after 2yr gap Hi, My friend completed her B.Tech (ECE) in India. But due to COVID and family reasons she couldn’t start working. Now she is trying to self learn programming and want to apply for new Grad roles. Will she be eligible for them? Or what are the other options she can try. Could you help me know whic
- I want to take a gap year. Is it too bad for my career? I want to take a one-year break from programming and focus on other things in my life, friends, family, international traveling and etc. I'm not financially free although I have enough savings to live for at least five years. One of my concerns is that, what does that make me look in front of future
- Having to be endlessly productive It’s tiring. In school it’s grinding just a few years for college. In college it’s for a good GPA/internship/job. At work it’s for career growth/rewards/promo. So when can you actually take a break? When you retire? I want a long break where I can do absolutely nothing productive. But seems like ev
- How PIP impacts career of Amazon employee in India? What if they are not able to clear interviews and get a job? How will the career gap impact?
- Controversial: Discuss promoting women in technology I am all for diversity and understand It's harder for women in tech and they do face a lot of bias sometimes. Although I find it counter productive as giving (sometimes undue) advantage may further increase this bias. Focus should be to invest in females in STEM at the ground level when they are yo
- Partner was undocumented, recently got work permit. Looking for full-stack engineer position. Obviously has a gap in employment. How do address it best during the interview process? Anyone was in similar situation?#career #tech
- link Gender Pay Gap at Microsoft “Farber's analysis found that the gender pay gap at Microsoft "persists after you control for standard human capital factors, location, performance reviews, and the type of work each employee performs," including workers' job titles (defined at Microsoft according to employees' "Career Stages," whic
- Do I have to write all my experience on my CV? Or I can omit some? Do I have to write all my experience on my CV? Or I can omit some? That would leave a few months career gap though
- Leetcode Premium Subscription Dear Blind Community Starting with DS/Algo revision journey in order to prepare for SE job interviews after a career gap. Would anyone be kind enough to share an LC premium subscription?
- How can I become Product Manager at Google? I'm a software engineer with close to 3 years of work experience in Java, python and data engineering. I think becoming a PM at Google would be my dream career or the best career I can think of, for me. However, there might be a large gap between where I am and where I want to be. I'm already consid
- link Thoughts on taking a gap year? Here is a article that caught my interest. Regardless of the reason. Could be family needing help or just wanting to travel. What are the pros and cons when coming back to the work force? https://www.gooverseas.com/blog/i-took-a-career-break-gap-year-didnt-ruin-my-career
- Is a Gap in Employment a disaster? Recruiters and Hiring managers. Is a Gap in Employment a no go if you are in one of the following careers? Developer Program/Project Management Tester Analyst Data Scientist Recruitment Ops What if someone takes a year off to travel? Or for a personal reason? Or from burn out? Or tried another car
- InfoSec My wife wants to start career as incident response analyst in InfoSec after gap of 1 yr & 1 yr exp. How is the market for Incident response analyst in Bay Area?
- Mid-career sabbatical? Has anyone taken a year ‘off’? I want to leave my current job, but in looking for a new one it’s made me realize I want time off to pursue hobbies and other interests. Have you hired someone even though they have a gap? I’m concerned about the resume gap etc. I’ve been working for 20 yrs straight
- Break in career My wife took a two year break when her EAD expired and had a few family commitments. She is thinking of getting back into the workforce. How big an issue a career gap in sw engineering ? Is it a deal breaker among recruiters ? Tc 245
- Is anyone quitting/thinking of quitting to become a teacher? I know that the pay gap between teachers and tech professionals must be about as large today as it's ever been. But at the same time perhaps that's allowed some tech pros to build up enough savings for a career change. And maybe there are others who increasingly recognize that their high compensatio
- vote Time between jobs So, we know there's a 60 day grace period for an H1B employee. Question is whether that is 60 days between each transfer (company switch) or throughout your entire career? How long did you have a gap between switches? #workvisa #h1b
- vote Career Prime Time? In your opinion, when is a career prime time in tech? I have made it to the Director level but I quickly noticed that there is a huge age gap between me and almost all my peers. They are all in their late 40s and I’m in my mid 30s. TC $650K
- What books are good for filling gaps in fundamentals? I went to a state school and got a degree in computer engineering (hence half my major was all about electrical circuits that I haven't used in my career) Now 9 years later reached Sr Engineer level (fang Sr Engineer level). From coding perspective I would rank myself quite strong since early in my
- Looking for Entry level in Seattle Posting for friend: B. Sc in computer science from India 2 years of Java developing experience Basic Web development experience Gap of 6 years due to family commitment Where do I start to relaunch my career ? Thanks a lot tc: 140 (mine)
- How to become UX researcher BA in Language Education MA in Counselor Education 3 years gap with two kids. Now I wonder how I can start a career as a UX researcher. What skills do I need? What classes can I take? Any useful advice is appreciated!
- link 30% of Students Rethinking Career Path Due to COVID-19 It seems with the pandemic and uncertainties in the job market, many college students are either rethinking their career path or are more open to the idea of taking a gap year. I personally regret graduating early (3 years in college) but it's something I regretted regardless of covid. If you were
- got fired, what should i do? I got fired from one of the big tech at a business strategy role. Now in career gap. How can I handle “why did you leave the firm? ” “why you are hot in employment status?” this kind of questions and background check (dont think ex-boss would say good stuff)
- Age gap between kids for working parents What’s the age gap between your kids? We do have a 2.5 year old and are in our 30s . We are considering having another kid but still having second thoughts to delay it. Not sure whether closely spaced kids will affect our careers. I have heard bringing up closely spaced kids is harder in beginning
- Saw another LinkedIn cringe post (probably the best one yet) Went like this - “9 out of 10 recruiters would have rejected Parag Agrawal’s Profile because of the gaps in his career and frequent job switches. If Twitter HR had done the same 10 years ago, they would have lost on gem of a talent who became their new CEO” The guy posting didn’t realize that tho
- Mentor a high school student remotely while working from home this summer Applications to mentor with Close the Gap foundations are now open! You’ll mentor a first generation low income high school student through a social impact project of the students choosing throughout the summer, and change their life by giving career guidance, college app advice, and generally bein
- returning to wotk after a gap My wife took a break from professional career for raising family and is now actively looking to get back to professional career. Its a 12 yr gap but she has been reading up and trying to keep up with technology trends. She has a Masters degree in GIS (geographical information systems), knows some vu
- Exhausted, need help It's been weeks and months of sending out applications, and now I am exhausted. As much as I see recruiters posting they're hiring... my messages and emails gets unanswered. When there's massive layoffs.. people are always willing to help but how about people who need take a career break whether it
- got fired, what should i do? I got fired from one of the big tech at a business strategy role. Now in career gap. How can I handle “why did you leave the firm? ” “why you are hot in employment status?” this kind of questions and background check (dont think ex-boss would say good stuff)
- Looking for a career mentor I'm a Sr. PM (L63) at Microsoft looking to grow my career. I'm looking for mentors from a different company to help me improve my interviewing skills and fill gaps in my PM skillset. Could you please msg me if you're willing to mentor me? @Google @Facebook @Uber @Lyft @Square
- how important is Masters? i always see people with engineering managers, directors and architect titles with Masters degrees. how important is it for the career growth? i am planning and planning to pursue Masters (not that i needed it) but busy schedules and money factor and gap years always stop me. need to get some perspe
- Amazon Returnship Program My wife received email from Amazon recruiter for Amazon Returnship program to schedule 1 hr interview. She has 4 years gap in career and wants to join back. It is for QA internship. Can someone who went through this interview process provide some insights? Are LPs important for Returnship as well?
- Did anyone pivot from MechE to product management? What skills did you pick up, or degree/courses did you take to achieve that? Did you have to move to the coding space, or were there gaps in HW you could own? Which kinds of companies did you have to pursue realistically? Curious about the journey. #productmanagement #productmanager #career TC:
- How young is too young? Recently, I've gotten an opportunity to transfer to a different department with interesting work. I'm a little hesitant to go since the manager is very young and inexperienced. He is very aggressive on charting his career so he is in the position he is in now. How is it like to work for someone like
- Any moms who took a career break and started again? I would like to connect and know about how you managed a baby and getting interview ready? My baby is 3months old now and im looking to get back to the job market when he is around 6-9m old. How do you find time to interview prep? I have not been on the market for years. I do have work exp but in an
- Microsoft Walk Out Questions 1. The remaining vacation days will be paid based on TC? 2. How about the insurance during the gap? If my next career will not start until 1 month from walking out time, how would the insurance work in this month? 3. Any other specific things i have to take care before it is too late? Thanks! TC
- Would you tell your manager you have outside offers in my shoe? I have 5 offers from competitors. They are all 1.5x to 2x my current TC. Still negotiating. My manager at Microsoft is chill and wants to have a career check-in with me. I'm running out of s@$& to give at work and I'm thinking about hinting at the truth. Have a conversation about the gap, etc. I st
- 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
- Transition from IC to Manager Hi Blind folks, I have 8 YOE & I’m stuck as an IC in my career. I did manage people for small periods in my previous jobs but I felt I wasn’t doing it right! I’m looking for mentorship/advice from folks who are leaders in Data Science/Analytics domain to learn, grow and understand if there is any g
- Amazon L5 vs Google L3 Currently at L4 at Amazon. Will be promoted in Q3. Comp wise Google is nearly matching Amazon L5. (Slightly less, but the perks ought to bridge the gap). Google is giving 210k, while Amazon would be around 220K Do I want to work at Amazon for one more year? - No Do I think that Google is down leve