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- List of Non FANG companies with a culture of innovation Peeps, Please share your ideas here on what according to you are the present day companies that resemble what Google , Facebook , Uber etc were when they were martured startups ? Great culture , strong engineering talent and innovation. I am curious about where their super strong engineering leade
- Meta does nothing wrong: I don’t feel entitled to privacy I see no issue with companies collecting my data for business purposes. Without corporate data collection I would be shown irrelevant ads (not less ads!), would have never been recommended some amazing songs (discovered No Rest for the Wicked recently) and movies, and would also not be able to enjo
- Best tech companies to invest in Looking for 10-15 year outlook. What do you think? FAANG is probably not a good option. Google is going downhill and is becoming the new IBM so probably not. Facebook is going to die like myspace AMZN is ok, but they will get busted by the regulators probably AAPL is failing to innovate. Netflix ca
- Should I switch to Google ecosystem? I’m currently a junior in high school and use iPhone 11 Pro, MacBook Pro 2019, iPad Pro 3, AirPods Pro and Apple Watch 5. As you can see, I’m in an Apple ecosystem. I think I’m going to use these for about two or three years but Apple doesn’t seem really innovative nowadays so I’m thinking of switc
- Why are people so narrow minded Saw a thread about FB not being innovating and Google being innovative but people over there has a lot to say about google deprecating projects, isn’t that a great sign at least you get to do something new and if it works out it works out if it doesn’t it doesn’t and move on to the next big thing, a
- Why home prices are falling in Seattle and Bay Area? IPOs have dried up. When Facebook went IPO j heard 1000+ employees were j start millionaires. The next wave of innovation (after software, hardware, internet/web, mobile and the social) is not sure when. AI seems to be cool but not sure how many companies will become the next Microsoft or google or
- Got an offer at Google. Am I crazy for also considering Microsoft? I've been at Facebook for a long time. I'm totally burnt out due to long hours, bureaucratic BS, and pressure to constantly innovate. I need to get out. I am not looking to get a promotion or be a superstar. I'd rather have a job where I put in my 40 a week, do something that is appreciated, go home
- Tools and infrastructure teams at Google/Facebook Recently a google recruiter reached out regarding a software engineer role in tools and infrastructure team. Just wanted to know in general how good these teams are at Google/Facebook Edit: Here is what I mean by good, just wanted to know about these differences between product focused team and t
- vote Credit Karma a good fintech to join? I'm interviewing at Credit Karma and it seems likely I'll be getting an offer. The offer is 60% higher than what I'm being paid at Google. Just their base alone covers my full Google pay. However, Credit Karma feels like an old school fintech that hasn't really innovated much in the last couple of
- vote Zuckerberg vs Reggie Fils-Aime https://finance.yahoo.com/news/facebook-metaverse-vision-questioned-gaming-000200681.html Quote from Reggie: “Facebook itself is not an innovative company,” Fils-Aime told Emily Chang at the South by Southwest event in Austin, Texas, on Saturday. “They have either acquired interesting things like O
- link Fred Wilson (VC): Apple and Google App Store monopolies must end https://avc.com/2020/09/mobile-app-stores-and-crypto/ “I am strongly opposed to the monopolies that Apple and Google have over mobile apps that run on iOS and Android. I am rooting for Epic/Fortnite in their battle with Apple over the 30% tax that Apple charges developers for distribution in their
- Looking for referrals to top companies in Infrastructure, AV, Collaboration/ Unified Communication .. faangmula+ Looking for referrals to top companies in Infrastructure, AV, Collaboration/ Unified Communication Looking for titles Sr Manager, Director, principle engineer./architect.. L6/L7+ depending how your levels compare. Innovative business professional with experience scheduling live webcasting & medi
- H1B (the great, the cheap, the truth) Here is my thoughts about immigration, logical analysis. 46% of H1B applicants are masters degree holders (2021 lottery) H1b is split between Product companies (FANG, any hot tech startup, most of silicon valley) vs Service companies (AMEX, Verizon, healthcare companies etc rest of the USA). Prod
- Seattle PM Comp Tiers I gave it a shot. Thoughts on list below? What am I missing? Not getting specific comp levels for each, but thought this would be useful as a general guide. Tier 1 (A) Google Facebook Tier 1 (B) Amazon Microsoft (lvl 64+) Apple Uber Airbnb Oracle Lyft Salesforce eBay Hulu Twitter Dropbox Tableau
- Executive Engineering Openings // LinkedIn EDIT: Thank you for all of the love. I'd like to place emphasis on the executive hiring part. If you're not at Dir level I won't be able to help. We post all other roles. Hope this helps! Thanks Blind! Lots of uneasiness in the market with Twitter and Robinhood. LinkedIn is hiring executive engine
- Which company isn't evil? Which are good to work for? I completely ignore recruiters from certain companies, like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and now even Amazon. I adored these companies when I was younger, when they were innovative. Now they seem like part of the problem. If you can buy that Trump is symptom of a larger problem, these companies are
- Inventing and wandering I've been pretty inspired recently by reading Jeff bezos' investment letters. One quote that struck me was that breakthrough innovations like ai assistants or cloud require letting go from the grind and letting your mind wander on things that interest you. No one was asking Alexa or AWS to get built
- Why isn’t Microsoft FAANG? I feel like everyone on here considers the most prestigious tech companies to work for to be Amazon Apple Facebook and Google (not really sure about Netflix). But why not Microsoft? IMO Microsoft has generally competitive pay, lots of diverse and innovative tech, and the leader/ one of the leaders i
- Lack of iPhone innovation I guess Peter Thiel was right about Apple no longer being able to innovate on phones. There has been virtually no innovation since the 5S, the pinnacle of phone design. Which is why I have the SE. Wish they'd keep trying to improve it (e.g. no bezels, get rid of front facing camera, etc.). Instead,
- PM Mentor Looking for a mentor who has been a Product Manager~5 years. Currently, I have interned as PM, worked as a student innovator at Google, mentored Stanford’s online ML course, and will soon be starting as an APM. Since PMing is something that I still getting a hang of, apart from just reading books,
- How to be at the forefront of innovation? Serious question- There are these people at the forefront of the innovation - In AI, Gene Therapy - Like Elon Musk etc. How can one aim to be like them? There has to be a rough pattern.. Like if I even work in a Google as a random SDE, I can never be at the forefront. Or even if I start a random f
- People at Facebook, Google. What do you think about the recent legal cases? For non techies, the general mood, especially for Facebook and Google is to be wary of them. Even a lot of people in tech are thinking twice about working at these companies. I want to know how do the employees feel. If you think the company sucks, why stay? For me personally, I feel the companies a
- Google L5 | 330K | Lowball? Google offered an L5 engineering position in Seattle. Base: 165K Sign-on: 30K Stocks: 630K Total: 330K / year YoE: 15 I work at a startup, and my base is way higher than that. Have a solid track of creating a globe-scale distributed system, including patent-pending innovations. The interview was
- Books for Engineering Managers Hi Blind Share one to three books that made you a successful manager. Here are my recommendations: "No Rules Rules" by Reed Hastings: Focus on innovation over efficiency. Fight for the best people "How Google Works" by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg : Google's culture of working with Smart
- Looking to move companies and improve SRE Hello, I have been working at VMware for 1 year as an SRE at my team I feel like there is no progression and there is no innovation, I wanna learn and grow more! I have a passion for security as well! I was wondering if anyone could possibly give advice as to possible companies I could go to where
- vote Thoughts on Google team match options + career growth? Curious, thinking of the path from L4 to L5 at Google AND the goal of working on soft skills like backbone and leadership and growing my career, what would you pick: A) Medium design team, co-owning a product with 2-3 designers in a space that hasn’t seen innovation in a while and can be a bit cont
- Why does google make such crap hardware when it’s software is so good? Like look at the pixel, it looks extremely dated and way worse than Samsung or apple. Flagships. Also looks worse than one plus and other more budget alternatives. Also not considering phones their google assistant hardware does not have the same level of innovation as Alexa. Also they could have c
- Google to Roku - good move ? Roku is matching Google salary and giving me manager title but unlikely to go above and beyond hikes as I spend more years there. Is it worth joining them when new of IPO rumour Mill is picking up fast and steady ? My only concern with their IPO is they have not done anything significant in last
- Looking to improve my career and leave VMware I have been working at VMware for 1 year as an SRE at my team I feel like there is no progression and there is no innovation, I wanna learn and grow more! I have a passion for security as well! I was wondering if anyone could possibly give advice as to possible companies I could go to where I could
- Apple (high) ICT4 vs FB E5 I have gotten verbal offers from both at the levels mentioned in the headline. No comp numbers yet though. Apple has a company-wide shutdown for Thanksgiving and Facebook said they would come back with comp numbers next week. Now, I've a fairly good idea of the of the kind of comp I maybe offered f
- Looking out for referrals for a friend Hi All, I am looking out for referrals for a friend. Current Position : AGM - Product Owner Data Science - Innovation and Data Analytics Current location - Bangalore,India (Flexible to relocate for right opportunity) YOE - 14 yrs. Positions interested in : Technical Program Manager, Product Manager,
- innovation in Tech Is anyone really innovating? How rare is it to actually want to accomplish a unique goal? Where are the ones who are trying to create the next *insert something here* to really shift the paradigm of our current time? not to be overly philisophical, and maybe I’m just young. But for Christ sake wtf.
- What are companies with good product culture? Looking for companies that have good product culture - product, design, and engineering working closely together on business objectives and not just feature factory. Similar to how Marty Cagan defines good product teams in Inspired. Some I've heard people talk about before but not sure these compa
- Google interviewer hasn't submitted feedback after 10 days I was told my packet would be reviewed by Google HC today, but after messaging my recruiter to check on status she told me the review has been delayed because one of my interviewers still hasn't turned in my interview feedback?! This is after interviewing 10 days ago and hearing that he's promised m
- Moving up in career Hello, I have been working at VMware for 1 year as an SRE at my team I feel like there is no progression and there is no innovation, I wanna learn and grow more! I have a passion for security as well! I was wondering if anyone could possibly give advice as to possible companies I could go to where
- Beware of the damage of Amazon culture I personally think the Amazon engineering culture has been causing damage to the industry. It only benefits the company’s investors, top managers and ironically its customers - us. It has severely damaged the tech industry and us who are employees. I’ve met and talked to current and ex-Amazon manag
- What happened to the excitement around startups? 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
- Are these realistic sample Q's for a Google PM Interview? What level of whiteboarding should I be practicing and what timeframe will I have in the Interview? How would you monetize Google Maps? Name some innovative ideas for a vending machine. Name as many uses as you can for a wine glass. Name some ways you could integrate Google products/services into a
- Why does Blind consider FB/G better than AMZN/MSFT? Amazon is the largest public cloud and largest retailer, has innovated in Drone technology and supply chain. Microsoft is the consumer desktop giant, produces leading Office suite and is the second largest public cloud. Microsoft Research is considered to be #1 in the world. Google is a search eng
- Microsoft becoming boring b2b company? In 15 years, I see MS becoming the equivalent of companies like SAP or Oracle. SAP and Oracle make extremely popular software for the b2b market, but there's no innovation or excitement. The only people I know who use Outlook, teams, the whole office suite, are business people. Most people use gmai
- What is it like to work on the Google Adwords team? I passed the Google hiring committee and I'm currently in the process of choosing a team. I talked to about 8 managers so far and my top choice right now is one of the teams in Adwords because they use a lot of interesting technologies such as Hadoop and ML. I know Adwords is a big org with a lot o
- Is Amazon really that bad to the extent Blinders have been showcasing it here? I think Amazon has a tough WLB and a very Darwinian culture. However, it has pioneered a lot of cool tech. At least it has brought some really awesome innovation to scale. E-commerce at a gargantuan scale to pretty much sell everything and anything, Prime delivery and Prime business model, Cloud/AWS
- Worried about future I was in Amazon last year, got pipped. Was able to prepare and crack interviews, then joined Salesforce in September 2021 Amazon: Pros: Life was fast, learning was fast, lot of intelligent young people, lots of innovation happening within team!, upside for stock Cons: Pressure, backstabbing, mic
- Stripe fascination I see a lot of positive reviews of stripe here and I want to know why that is the case. In my opinion the only good thing about Stripe is the potential to be really rich because of IPO but tech wise all fin tech companies suck. There is very few tech innovation happening at any fintech company have
- Can I Improve my TC? I'm wondering if there's room to improve my TC and if it would be worth moving to the Bay area or somewhere else for example. It seems like TC in California is much higher than I ever realized TC is 140k, I'm a level 4 with PhD and 2 YOE. currently in Arizona. I'm a hardware engineer and work with
- Crumbling State of AWS (Ops Overhead) Lately, to me it looks like AWS is going to loose market share. Here are my reasons. 1. So many rants on Blind about majority of AWS work being done on OPS only. Does this indicate that AWS's architect is bad? 2. Are the other cloud providers have some other advanced mitigation techniques which AW
- vote Is Roku the next TiVo? Is Roku the next TiVo ? I am seeing the exact similar patterns with Roku's products and stock performance as TiVo last decade. Roku's products are shit and there is nothing new to offer. I don't see any innovation happening anywhere in the product line up. TiVo in good old days was a hot bay area co
- vote Who has a better culture, Google or Amazon? Before you say Google, let me clarify: I was reading about the history of Toyota and was impressed by how many things they invented in terms of culture and organization that are nowadays adopted even in our software industry. Which company do you think will have a similar impact on future companies
- vote Veterans of the tech industry, is Google the next Oracle/Cisco/Balmer-era MSFT? Too young to have seen the slow downfall of a tech company first hand, so I don't know if the signs point to this. Some signs : Google no longer pays as much, no longer is the default choice, is seen as a stable wlb place, doesn't seem to innovate at the same pace or impact, keeps playing catch up i
- link I can never work for Microsoft. After reading this article, I've been convinced that the turn I thought Microsoft was taking is a facade. They were pushing to become more open source. They seemed to become less sleazy and more professional. I even began to consider applying for a job because of this cultural shift. It looked like