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- Leaving IBM for AWS Likely will take offer from AWS and looking to start ~ May 3rd or so. I’ve heard that once you notify IBM, you lose access immediately to IBM related network and are basically pushed out the door the day of notification and can’t even fulfill your “two week notice” due to non compete, etc. If this
- Amazon AWS vs IBM Currently working as Full Stack Developer at IBM, work has been good but recently environment has not been good. Now I have job offer from Amazon AWS from both UI and Backend teams. What would you suggest? In terms of career growth and work life balance?
- Working for IBM cloud vs AWS? I have got offer from IBM Cloud as Sr staff software engineer. I have been getting calls from AWS and also MSFT Azure. If I don’t mind salary, how will be working at IBM cloud vs AWS and MSFT for career and learning perspective?
- IBM vs AWS for Software Engineer Which one's better growth and opportunities wise?
- AWS or IBM for career dev, work/life balance, raise/promotion Guys, if you had two offers with similar compensaton packages, would you go with IBM or AWS? I want a company where I can learn and grow but I also have a family so I dont want to be working weekends, for example. Something tells me that life at IBM (likely under B9) will be much easier than at AWS.
- vote AWS L7 Products vs IBM Executive as Director of Products What would you pick, I have an offer for AWS L7 PM Tech and a promotion as a director at IBM. The big pro for aws is salary which I don't think IBM will be able to match. On the downside the work at AWS is something that I have already done and in IBM it is in a new area (of course plus politics) a
- vote Who wins the cloud race in 10 years? AWS is the obvious leader right now with Azure right behind and Google/IBM/others also trying to get a foothold. Who do you think wins the cloud race in 10 years? #amazon #google #aws #ibm #oracle #alibaba #tencent #microsoft #azure #salesforce
- GE - Get the jab, or lose your job GE is now mandating covid vaccines for WFH employees. Get the jab, or lose your job. What are your thoughts? Is your company also bending the knee for incompetent Joe Biden? #ge #techcareer #softwareengineer #softwaredevelopersalary #aws #engineering #software #aws #facebook #Google #cisco #ibm #re
- Public Cloud Companies? AWS Azure Google Cloud Platform Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Alibaba Cloud IBM Cloud Rackspace Cloud Others?
- Request for referral at FAANGMULA Hi, I am looking for referral at FAANGMULA or companies like Salesforce, IBM, Adobe etc. Can anyone refer me? Have YOE 8.5+. Looking for program manager or engagement manager roles. Highly appreciate your support in advance. #faang #facebook #uber #microsoft #salesforce #aws #amazon #referral #ref
- Palantir & IBM deal. Thoughts? Good? Bad? Also doesn’t Ibm have shitty tech and are at cloud disadvantage compared to AWS, MSFT and GOogle?
- Google cloud market share What's the latest update on Google cloud market share? I think AWS is till #1 and Azure, IBM, Saleforce then Google cloud?
- vote IBM research, Amazon or NVIDIA Need help evaluating and choosing between these offers. Ph.D. 1 YOE. What do you advise? Good pay, work-life balance, and future career growth are equally important to me. Pls leave a comment and fill the poll also. #aws #nvidia #ibm IBM Research: Research Staff member Base: 185K || Sign on: 30K ||
- vote AI and cloud war, who is winning? There is articles everyday favouring one over other. Heard that azure had lead in last quarter followed by AWS and Ibm in terms of revenue but not sure about will they be able to hold it. General perception is AWS is better in cloud offering and Google has better AI stack. Azure is super strong seco
- Is Cisco dying? It seems like alot of companies are moving to cloud (AWS, Azure and GCP) and they are killing IBM, Cisco, etc Does it still make sense to study Cisco technologies?
- Pip'd @ AWS- Referrals needed. Hi Blindfam - The title speaks for itself. Got pip'd and chose to leave and took the sev rather fight it. Married and have a 2 yo child. No visa issues. 1.5yrs @ AWS. L4 - Non tech YoE - 8+ TC - 140K # AWS #Amazon #Microsoft #Square #Dropbox #Facebook #Datadog #Hashicorp #Uber #Vmware #Yelp #Deloi
- Hey y’all! Looking for referrals for Saas/tech companies. Hey everyone! I’m looking for a change of companies. I have 9 years of sales experience and looking for referrals to various tech/software companies. Your help is much much appreciated! Current TC is 175k #google , #twilio, #workday, #microsoft, #aws, #adobe, #oracle, #ibm, #docusign, #redhat, #s
- Cloud outages/service notifications On IBM cloud there seems to notifications for emergency maintenance or sev 1 issue every few weeks for something on there. I was wondering if this is normal and this happens on AWS and Azure this often?
- vote IBM Band 7 vs Intuit SDE 1 (Stocks vs Base pay?) Need some help reviewing the 2 offers I recently received... (also any tips on negotiating would be appreciated) IBM Band 7 / SDE-2 (Infrastructure team - IBM cloud) San Jose, CA --- Base: $135K Bonus: $15K Stocks: - Intuit SDE 1 (Software Engineer in SRE team) San Diego, CA --- Base: $118K Bonus:
- IBM - Hybrid Cloud Hello, is there anyone that works in the hybrid cloud/red-hat department at IBM. IBM is clearly working on gaining market share in the cloud wars with AWS, azure and Google cloud having a large market share. I work with a consulting firm called Thechumeffect.com that links the African market to the
- Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect - interview input Folks - I'll be attending MS Cloud Solution architect (container/cloud native) interview. There will 3 rounds of interview. Any pointers to prepare would be appreciated... I have worked mostly on AWS and IBM Cloud. #tech #microsoft #azure #interview #cloud
- Looking for Referrals Done with my time in Amazon and looking for new opportunities. Would the masters of Blind be ever so kind to give referrals for the following companies? Walmart/ Walmart Labs IBM Apple Cisco Intel Robinhood VMware Thanks in advance Blind tax: TC 163k 2YOE all in AWS
- Referral request Tried hard to move to Canada, internally. The Manager in IBM Canada is willing to sponsor and bear expense for relocation. The current/local manager played the trick. He said on the face that he will support the relocation but denied when a HR internally approached him about my movement. The HR forw
- Why is Dell Spinning Off VMware?? I know what the news says, can someone share the real reason? It’s hard to believe that someone would spin off a profit giving entity. Has Dell realised that VMware doesn’t have any future? #tech #software #virtualisation #vmware #dell #vmwarebase #tanzu #avinetworks #carbonblack #spinoff #stock #
- Referral needed in tech companies for non-tech positions! Hey Folks! I am looking for referrals in the tech space as I am ready to leave the banking industry after 5 years. Please comment and I’ll dm you! TOE: $91k CAD YOE: 6 years #referral #apple #facebook #meta #amazon #google #tech #shopify #salesforce #wish #airbnb #dropbox #ibm #aws #microsoft
- SDE 2 moving, need referrals Hi Blind community! I am an SDE 2 looking to move from AWS to new companies, and I need referrals to most of the big companies - Facebook, Airbnb, Lyft, Grab, Tesla, Zillow, Apple, LinkedIn, Indeed, Snapchat, Robinhood, Capital One, IBM, Spotify, Redfin Please let me know if any of you can help m
- Being laid off, need reference to Google, AWS, MSFT Hello, I just found out my org is undergoing a layoff at IBM. I am currently looking for a reference or email to a recruiter at Google, AWS, or MSFT for solution engineering. I have 3+ YOE. I also have great references from my managers and colleagues. This would be greatly appreciated as I also hav
- Moving to Austin, TX I am planning on moving to Austin soon. I dont have a job lined up yet but wife does. Any referals would be greatly appreciated. I am a full-stack software engineer specialized in javascript environments. React/React Native/NodeJS/ExpressJS/Docker/Kubernetes/Python/Flask/PostgreSQL/AWS TC: 135k
- how much do top salespeople make at cloud platforms? i've always wondered this. i know zero about sales like say AWS lands a new customer that commits to spending $10m+/yr or someone at databricks, google cloud, azure, ibm cloud, snowflake, any of these cloud / ai platforms who can win huge contracts. there has to be some salesperson who closes out
- Looking for Referral, Chance to Shine 😊 Hello everyone, Looking for a referral as things are changing in my team. Currently high-performing tech sales. Experienced selling infrastructure and software, mid-market and enterprise. YoE: 1.5 years Here is a shortlist, but open-minded and appreciative of your help. Amazon (AWS) Microsoft (A
- Comparing the engineering life in specific orgs in big companies in the US? GCP vs AWS vs Azure vs OCI vs Alibaba Cloud vs IBM Cloud How does the WLB compare in these companies? How does the pay compare for the same levels? How does the job stability compare in these companies? YOE: 7 Currently at Amazon for a year. TC 255K.
- Need referral in Facebook I need referral for a Data engineering role in facebook. I have more than 2 years of professional experience as a Data engineer at IBM, where I have worked on ETL pipelines migrating terabytes scaled legacy applications to Hadoop lake. Presently, I am enrolled in MS and doing internship from past
- What is it like to work at Amazon AWS sales? What is the work ethic like at Amazon? Specifically as a sales rep at AWS. Wondering what the expectations are. At IBM there really isn't much. On an average 30 - 40 hours per week of real work trying to close deals and getting meetings and stuff. Not saying that IBM sales reps don't work hard. Bu
- Need Referral for Salesforce data engineer Hi All, I am graduating in May-2021 and pursuing co-op in big data. I have prior experience of 2+ years in IBM as data engineer. I have experience working on ETL, Big data, Apache spark, Sqoop, Pyspark, AWS, python etc. I need referral for a data engineer new grad position in salesforce, which is
- How is work, hikes and bonus in OCI? How is work, hikes and bonus in OCI? Work - innovative or not? Or just working like a robot with heavy operations? I am curious if it is different than rest of oracle or same work packaged differently. It will be great if you can mention country as well. Helps to separate india and other regions
- link SAP Hiring - Advisory/ Architect We are looking for a Senior SAP Core Technology SE to join us at SAP - someone who is well-rounded and experienced with SAP core technologies - Good knowledge in S4 (OnPremise and/or Cloud), Cloud platform, Integration, Extension, along with knowledge in either Security or Database management or Ana
- Bay Area Companies that hire genaralist SWE i have almost 4 years exp working on java but did not use latest industry tools on frontend or backend as our company used a proprietary IBM framework. Considering if I can handle the leetcode and OOD interviews... is it possible to get hired in FAANGMULA type companies in L4 role without experienc
- vote Tech Consultant Tech Consultant companies keeps a huge difference between employee salary (which they give to employee working at client site) and employee billing (which they charge from clients for respective employee) to make profits. How much they should ethically pass on to their employees in terms of percenta
- link Elon's Dilemma: Build vs Buy. How long & how expensive to build Infrastructure like Twitter? @elonmusk spent $2.9B on stock for Twitter. He probably could spend less on a team to build the equivalent of Twitter. The infrastructure would take time to build, but doable. I doubt any of the big cloud vendors (AWS, GCP, Azure) would allow it. So he'd have to get into Data Centers too. Probably c
- Internship referrals Hi everyone! Looking for referrals for companies like Amazon, VMware, Nvidia, JP Morgan, FB, LinkedIn, Salesforce, Apple, Adobe, and more. I study at a top 25 cs uni and have two internships (one regional medium sized startup and one fortune 500). I have done 100+ problems from LC, CTCI, CF and cont
- vote Does it make sense to breakdown giant tech companies strickly from the point of view of consumer?? For example: 1. Will consumer/advertisers benefits more when we have Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, etc etc as different companies and compete with each other?? User can switch platform if they don't like the policy and operations of one company.. 2. Can AWS serve their customer better if they are
- Referrals - Atlassian/Intuit? India Hi Blinders, I am looking for referrals in the below companies:- YOE:3 Location: Bengaluru Core skills: Java, Spring boot, REST, microservices, docker, react, AWS, SQL, HANA, mongoDB, shell scripting. And ofcourse Data Structures and Algorithms. Basically I am open to all top tech companies, if
- AWS Architect I am going through interview process with AWS for an Architect role, and wanted to know what should I expect during the interview? how are positions structued, salaries, who will i be reporting to, etc.? I read a lot of negative feedback with high pressure, quality of life, managing expectations,
- Just passed my SAAC02. Now what? I (36) have a background in customer service and sales and would feel very comfortable translating tech speak to people that maybe don’t have a background in tech. I teach craps to drunk people as my part time gig so I feel like I can handle consulting or something similar. So far I have Capgemini,
- Experienced Cloud Security looking for Next Opportunity Hi everyone, This is my first post on Blind. I have prior experience working on cloud and I obtained my Certified Information Security Manager (C.I.S.M) certification along with relevant cloud certifications. I also have an MBA degree. I am open to opportunities in cybersecurity, and would appreci
- Looking for a Cybersecurity Position Hi everyone, This is my first post on Blind. I have prior experience working on cloud and I obtained my Certified Information Security Manager (C.I.S.M) certification along with relevant cloud certifications. I also have an MBA degree. I am open to opportunities in cybersecurity, and would appreci
- AWS: Seattle ISR AE Role Had an initial screening with an AWS Sales recruiter for an AE role based here out of the Seattle office which is where I’m based. Would like to mutually continue forward in the process. Would be great to hear expectations on the following: - Compensation package (Believe I’d be coming in at a L5
- Companies having a good data culture with open DS/MLE roles in Berlin - Seeking referrals Like the title says, I am seeking referrals in companies with good data culture, for Lead Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer profiles in Berlin (or remote in Germany). My interests are more in working with applied solutions and also getting my hands dirty with engineering aspects of the d
- Comparing offers from AWS and Red Hat I have the following two offers in hand: 1. AWS: Cloud support engineer 2 DevOps Base: $108k ; Sign on bonus: $30k(first year), $26k(second year), RSU worth of $75 over 4 years. 2. Red Hat: Senior Consultant(Containers). Got a verbal offer. Details to follow. Judging by what the HR said, it shoul
- Scared to join Amazon... I recently got an offer at AWS, similar role compared to what I am doing right now, and decent bump in TC (~30%). After reading chains of amazon pip stories and amazon culture, I am doubting myself if joining amazon is a good move I have a fairly good team at IBM with great wlb, but I feel I am no