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Gap Promotions
- vote Asked for promotion, got a behavior close gap plan instead Boss proposed to get me promoted. However, he received feedback that I need a mentor to close behavior gap to next level in a year. Should I:
- Manager won’t promote me! How to tell I’ll quit if I’m not promoted? My manager won’t promote me. We submitted promo doc for review but he keeps coming back with gaps every quarter!! He is a newly promoted manager and doesnt have the backbone to back up my case during promotion review meetings! I’ve seen peers with less experience get promoted on other teams. I’ve lo
- Amazon offer! Applied for a L6 Sr.TPM role at amazon. Did great on interviews and was recently offered the role. BUT their offer was for an L5 instead of a L6. I asked why I was down leveled if I did so well on the interviews. Recruiter mentioned it was to make sure there is no technical gaps and recruiter ensure
- Meta E5 Hi, I’m an SDE3 at Amazon, promoted in Q1 2021. My TC right now is 270k. I took interview with FB and I was between E5 and E6. Unfortunately due to some gaps they are able to offer E5 position. I’m still waiting on numbers but recruiter said he will be requesting top of the band. What could those
- SDE To PM I’m an SDE 2 looking to transition into L5 PM. But an L5 PM makes lesser than an L5 SDE. Is this gap likely to propagate into further promotions? Will compromising on this pay gap worth it in long term if I make it into a PM manager in upcoming years?
- What does this mail from Google recruiter post interview mean? Info needed for moving candidature forward: Name, cgpa, internal refrences, expected comp, promotion summary, gaps in employment, achievements etc. Does this mean my interviews went good and they are moving to HC? Or does this happen irrespective of performance? TC 39lpa YoE 1.7
- Women engineer challenges I am Sr at Microsoft. After extreme hardwork, i got promoted to “Senior manager”. Male colleagues, at my level, who were performing equally good got promoted as ICs to Principal. I was given an option to choose between IC/Manager but never thought it will be a level gap too. I wonder what i did le
- vote Counter-offer of a promised promotion I'm currently level 5 Data Engineer at Facebook, TC around 350k. I received an offer from another big company for ~400 TC + 50k signing. My manager says that if I stay at FB, they'll promote me to IC6 this July with "high probability". I'm a bit tired of my current work and ready for a new role,
- vote Help evaluate my offers from Meta vs Amazon Got two SDE2 offers recently, hard to make a decision. AWS SDE2, 220k base,146 shares, 2 years sign on 1st year: 220k base + 200k sign on + 5%RSU = ~ 450k 2nd year: 220k base + 160k sign on + 15% RSU =~ 450k 3rd and 4th: 220k base+ 40% RSU =~ 390k Meta 184k base, 450k RSU, 1 year sign on 75k, recr
- Sde 3 comp seattle I am currently not making much (actually sde 2 comp) as a freshly promoted sde 3 in Seattle. If I move to California would my salary be recalculated. Or is there no way to close the current gap in my salary. TC:241K SDE 3
- Pay increase for a specific race I am a black SDE at Amazon and I got a pay increase of 15% with no promo. I asked my manager about the reason for the big bump and he said that Amazon is fixing its pay gap between races. How accurate is this? My level is the same and I have not been promoted.
- Promotions at Amazon Since amazon has a salary cap and refreshers vest after two years if you are promoted/receive a sizable target TC bump, will you not realize this change in TC for 2 years or do they provide some sort of gap coverage similar to how they handle initial sign on bonuses?
- How would you address this? My company (Truepill) grew too fast and was put on an appropriate hiring freeze. HR blocked any conversation of backfills, promotions, or salary adjustments. The pay block went so far as to block an obvious gender gap where two people are doing the exact same role but the female has a lower title an
- Do away with salary ranges! Have one salary for one position We can only close pay gap if pays are transparent. If I don't know what my colleague who does same work as me is getting, I'll never know if I'm being underpaid. Time to have one salary for one job. Create more levels. Promote people to reward for performance.. But keep salaries transparent ! TC-
- Minorities should receive diversity bonus Since there has been a pay gap for minorities for years, it's only fair that a diversity bonus as a way for companies to pay reparations for years of discriminatory hiring/promoting practices. Not really interested in white male commentary, this post is for minorities to unite to demand diversity b
- What’s the point of working instead of interviewing? Even you worked hard and promoted every year, your TC will still be more and more behind G and F due to refresher. And that’s even the situation where they don’t get promoted. You see? Not only there is no way to win, but also you are falling behind more and more. So what’s the point of my work? Bu
- vote What company to join to be an EM asap. For a current high 62 at Microsoft who wants to switch to management eventually (hands-on and technical), what is the best company to apply to? The most efficient path being promoted to Senior/63/L5, and switching whenever possible. The best companies are the ones with most technical management gap
- vote Is staying until reaching L6 worth it? Hello Blind, I have been at Amazon retail for 3.5 years. I have been working on the L6-scope work for a year now and my manager believes the remaining gaps to L6 can be closed in the next 1.5-2 years by delivering more projects to fill up the gaps. Is this worth the effort to get promoted and join
- Taking half a year off Has anyone taken off half a year as a self-financed sabbatical? I've been working non-stop in tech for 12 years now, and I'd like a long break before my next job. Plan to focus on physical health, mental health, hobbies, family, as well as LC and system design to stay sharp. I've always hopped from
- Switch to Facebook or stay at Google I was down leveled at Google to L3 while having a L4 offer with Facebook. Google was not able to match Facebook but felt that I would be promoted soon. I eventually took Google L3 offer with the hopes of being promoted soon. A year later my promotion was approved, however the pay bump still leaves
- Can’t focus on working Hi folks. I have been locked in a 2bd with wife and two year old for 2 years almost. I’m experiencing declined cognitive abilities. And most importantly I really can’t focus on work. My works are months late. And whenever I open my laptop I just watch YouTube and think of a way to bullshit in the ne
- Any way to improve position if offered multiple offers and still want to stay? I had a debate with a friend in one of the FAANG companies. He really likes his job. He is equivalent (more or less) to SDE2 in Amazon. He feels stuck/cannot get promoted soon (His manager is pleased with him, she thinks there are some still gaps to get to the next level). He is doing extremely we
- 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
- vote Hiring Managers - Should I remove/minimize a WITCH from my resume ? I have 5 Years of experience with initial 3 of them in a WHICH. My work at WHICH was basically manual testing and any high-school graduate could do it. I was finally able to break that cycle and get in as an entry level SDE at Amazon and recently promoted to SDE 2. I am looking for new position now
- vote My promotion is rejected by my Manager. I am a senior dev at Zoho. Have been working very good, but my manager rejected my Promotion because of some communication gap happened during covid time. Of course I can prove back and recover it in next cycle. But he simply wasted my year of time on this. I justified all my points and work to him
- Bosses who Just criticize and never appreciate To all the bosses who just criticize when there’s a gap and not give a pat on the back or word of encouragement for doing a great job, please take this🖕 You’re exactly what’s wrong with your team and your organization. If you think you’re doing a favor with this - understand that your employees ar
- Advice: Ever quit without job lined up? Been at same company for over 5 years and promoted and recognized for my work consistently. From the outside others may see me as successful but my job is now mentally unhealthy for me but I don’t have a plan B. I have sufficient savings to not work for extended period of time. Did you regret leav
- The most catastrophic realization is that There are many people who are smarter than you and work harder than you. And that, much like the rate of expansion of the universe, the gap between you and those people are accelerating and not closing. The nail on the coffin is that those people are dime a dozen and going to the same fang interview
- Back to school while working as an L1 SWE? I’m self-taught but have the means financially to go back to school while working full time to get my CS degree. I have gaps in fundamentals knowledge that I want to address and honestly I would want to be a college grad finally. My logic is that it could help solidify me as a good SWE candidate for
- Dejected I'm Bachelors in CS from not so reputed college. In my early years (about 3 years) I worked for consulting firms where I didn’t learn much. Later I moved to bay area and due to multiple factors (career gap 1.5 yrs, no masters degree, being an introvert, lack of challenging opportunities, kid) my on
- I want to take a few years off because of burn out I’m completely burnt out and have struggled to fix it because of so many work responsibilities. I’m single and 30 and feel like all my energy goes to work with no time to relax. I normally actually like my job and I’ve done well at Amazon. I’m up for PE promotion this cycle and it takes a lot of eff
- vote Diversity, Inclusion and H1B After attending multiple D&I trainings and conversations from my company, many of which have been mandatory, I see a gap between our proposed values in terms of promoting, “Equity” and our treatment of H1B visa holders. We go into extreme lengths to talk about promoting an environment free of racis
- Losing motivation to work after getting promoted I recently got my SDE1 -> SDE2 promotion and since then, I have kinda lost motivation to work. I always try to procrastinate my tasks. I have been thinking about this and it could be because of multiple reasons: 1. Burned out because of the hardwork before promo. 2. Huge gap between SDE2 and SDE3
- Why dont tech companies revise pay for existing employees? In almost all companies except those who give refreshers, pay lags after few years in a company compared to new hires even if one is promoted. While i know that if new employees are given salaries based on current market situation, otherwise companies can't hire quality BUT It doesn't make sense
- Amazon L5 offer Currently an SDE 2 at Microsoft with ~2 years and a half experience (got promoted to SDE2 around 6 months ago). I have an "offer" from Amazon, but we didn't discuss the numbers yet. And I'm wondering what ranges to expect. The problem is that, from what I've seen so far, I doubt they can match what
- Facebook E5 vs google L4 offer I have two offers. One is Google L4 and the other is facebook E5. They have the same TC. The team at google is pretty good but I don't know what the team at facebook will be. I like scalability and ML. I don't know what are the expectations from L4 at google and E5 at facebook. For facebook, if some
- vote Is there a level difference can help me win those in G and F? I start to think of a life where I can’t make G or F forever. I am trying to figure out some ways to win over those in G and F. One thing I can talk advantage of is level difference. Luckily, many people in G and F are limited by level ceiling. They might stay in 4 or 5 for a very long time. If I
- Doubled salary but no promotion in 5 years Pretty much have been here after graduating. This was my dream company. My salary pretty much doubled since I've been here, but they won't promote me. My title is pretty much junior level, but basically been a doing senior level stuff for at least 2 years I feel. Recently a bunch of senior level eng
- Leaving Amazon India in 8 months What can be a good reason for me to give to the prospective hiring managers for this immediate change? My original reason is low TC. I joined as an L4 SDE with 2 YOE taking a pay cut believing I would get promoted and compensation would become equivalent to L5 after 1.5-2 years. But after joining
- Campus hire is curial for G and F as a result G and F are almighty. Everyone wants to work for them. And career success can’t be achieved in any other way. But the problem is that when they do industry hire, they lowball you in level. They might even lowball employees from each other. Thus your career will fall behind by years if you don’t get
- Mom’s of Blind Give me some words of wisdom on how to “manage it all” with more than one child. We only have one (nearly 6) at the moment, which seems like a huge gap in age and wasn’t exactly what was planned, but we’ve finally gotten into a good rhythm/schedule as a family and are finally in a good spot to start
- vote Amazon downleveled SDE2 to SDE1 after onsite Hello, I gave Amazon virtual Onsite last week, My performance was fairly satisfactory I thought I did good to get SDE2 but recruiter told me there were gaps and scope of improvement so we can offer SDE1, Compensation range will be according to SDE 1 standards, Internally my promotion is due I am sur
- Intern vs. Full time at Google My friend who writes a lot of functional programming code for a Data Engineer was recently promoted to Data Engineer II at Amazon. She’s a problem solver and wants to move over to a formal Software Engineer role at Google or Facebook in the next 6 months. She has applied to the Online Masters in Co
- Re-interviewing for FB M2, recruiter refuses to give feedback from previous interview A little over a year ago, I interviewed for a M2 role at FB (now "Meta"). I ended up receiving an offer for M1, but decided to not pursue the offer further since it was not aligned with my career growth goals. I recently reached out to my recruiter to explore re-interviewing at M2 as I am now promo
- BIE L5 to L6 promotion Hello, I joined Amazon as an L5 BIE 15 months back. My manager (L7) has said to me he is looking to promote me to L6 in Q2 of next year. However he hasn’t talked anything about the promo doc/accomplishments wiki I need to put together. I just got to know about this after talking to another BI manag
- Tips for Facebook E4 -> E5 promo? Not even at FB yet but starting in December I wanted to know what I should look for in a team during bootcamp for career growth, and what I should do once I’m at FB to get a promo? I have ~4 YOE and feel pretty confident about working in SDEII level roles. Not sure if FB is similar to other places
- Should I lie about not being a transwoman? I’ve been searching for a new position for 6 months now. This is the first year I started openly identifying as a transwoman. People are more than happy to promote my posts looking for work but I rarely make it past a phone screen. I’m beginning to wonder if I should just pretend to be a cis male or
- Sabbatical Been on team and company 4 years. I am thinking of taking a year off working internationally in an unrelated role, then coming back to the tech scene. I've done well, gotten promotions, and taken on leadership. I have had managers offer, without asking, to be a reference before they left their role.
- 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
- Unregretted attrition. WTF! Is there any legal action I can take? So this happened to me, never thought it would but it did. I useful to read posts on Blind and think who would be those managers who would do such a thing, now I have also experienced working under one. I resigned in December and my manager was like is there anything we can do to make you not leave