22 years old, graduating with my undergrad in math. I have an offer for Jane Street, 300k tc + 75k signon. I also have an offer to work with a professor which has a very good alumni track record (almost all of them are Deepmind / Gbrain / etc or in academia still) for my PhD. I'm in the process of...Read more
This is all anecdotes under AWS. Finally AWS bad culture and terrible employee treatment has started firing back. Teams are having hard time to hire. Folks pass the bar often get better offers elsewhere or demand out of band TC. Another usual source of talent, India, is under Covid disaster so they...Read more
It's so hard to get a design jobs in the current market due to 1. Companies only desire experienced designers 2. 9-11 rounds till you get an offer (including presentation,app critique,design challenge) 3. Less openings compared SDE 4. NOW F$_&king coronavirus leads to hiring freeze 5. I am on a v...Read more
I know the golden rule is that you generally can’t negotiate without competing offers, but I have scheduled onsites with a few well known companies that can match or beat the proposed TC from the one offer I do have (which is my first choice). The current offer that I have has a hard 7 day expirati...Read more
I am in a situation where I really would love to move, but have some serious golden handcuffs. There is no way I would get a matching salary without at least L+1 I have been 6 for 4 years and at some point I was in a position I could become 7 but I was burned out and switched teams. Last time I int...Read more
Everything has been golden here ever since we announced stock buybacks in the U.S. at last all hands meeting. I am pretty confident in an IPO in 2024-2025 time range, hoping for a big return for those who have a good amount of RSUs. TikTok is hiring and please DM if you would like a referral. Plea...Read more
Hi everyone, I have offers from Amazon and Google (undergoing team match). My H1B got approved (i797a) with COS this year (2021). I just read on various articles that I can't apply for H1B transfer until Oct 1 ( 1st week ) Is it true? If yes, will Google/ Amazon wait for the next 3-4 months for th...Read more
Elon Musk’s Boring Company Ghosts Cities Across America. Snake oil salesman. 😂 ONTARIO, Calif.—The unsolicited proposal from Elon Musk’s tunnel-building venture arrived in January 2020. To the local transportation authority, it felt like finding Willy Wonka’s golden ticket. Officials had started ...Read more
After 2 months of multiple round of interviews , I was about to get offer letter from PANW this week . But I got confirmation from recruiter as they have reviewed the position and decided to close the position for now . Recruiter final comments on call. 1)They might open the position in future (a...Read more
I’m a new grad and an international student. I’ve been waiting for my Canadian employer-specific work permit for 4 months and moved to Canada right after receiving the work permit. After joining the company for 1 month, I got laid off. I gained few experience over the employment and missed out the g...Read more
After 2 months of multiple round of interviews , I was about to get offer letter from PANW this week . But I got confirmation from recruiter as they have reviewed the position and decided to close the position for now . Recruiter final comments on call. 1)They might open the position in future (a...Read more
What happened to the golden age of tech where there were many unicorns working on truely innovating tech that one could be passionate about. Now its all about faang. I remember when i first was getting excited about software engineering i would watch videos on tesla ai and silicon valley, the social...Read more
I’m not a developer. I’m in business analytics (not DS either). As many of you did, I wanted to work at Google and I had applied for numerous postions in the past with no response. I wasn’t even disappointed because i knew it was a long shot. I guess 2020 is my lucky year because I applied for ano...Read more
Just joined as SDE2 and getting paid 300k+ a year. My previous job post a lot of interesting challenges so I expected the same at Amazon. What I got is all brainless work, all operations, no innovation. 90% of time just follow the runbook. It’s so easy my cousin in high school could do the job. Wha...Read more
Two options: #1: Currently have a full time job at unicorn startup + 1 Part time job at a tiny startup : Total TC = (full time) 220k base + Unicorn ISO's worth around 80k/year + (part time) 70k/year = 300k base + Equity Full time job at unicorn is boring but pays well while part time job is ...Read more
Hey Nvidia Pals, first off thanks for all the GPUs, they've helped me a lot! I've noticed over the last year that Nvidia has some very competitive, remote-eligible systems engineering positions that align really well with my skill set. The thing is I need a while to leetgrind and sharpen a couple o...Read more
Hi guys, I'm a digital design engineer in Ireland who has received 2 decent offers for senior positions, and I'm really stuck. My gut says Cadence, but even after 1 year with Qualcomm the RSUs would result considerably more money, and would feel stupid turning something like that down. Am I being bl...Read more
L64, $250k TC, PhD+4 yoe looking to get into tier 1 FAANG. Been very frustrated grinding LC lately as I can't still reliably clear tier 1 coding bar. To keep morale up, I compare to how much better it is to when I was back in science (have a hard sciences background in chemistry and physics, not CS...Read more
Hey Blind I got an offer from singapore startup with 20ppl in tech and 1 data scientist there. It is a travel company. I got option of moving to singapore or working remote from India at same pay scale. Got 7k sgd/month (no esops + 15% fixed bonus one time annual + 10% performance bonus annual) i...Read more
Questions at the bottom. Thanking you in advance for reading this. I used to be very hardworking, high achieving, resilient, positive. However, now looking back, things already started to fall apart 1-2 years ago: - sleeping at 3am & getting <;=6 hours of sleep while having to cram - switching ma