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- IBM Offer Review Partner role being offered in GBS cloud practice. Base $350k, bonus 35%, RSUs $45k. Signing bonus $75k.
- vote SAP to IBM? Downgrade or upgrade? I work with latest tech at SAP in a young team and culture is pretty good here. WLB is good and problems are complex and interesting. How is IBM doing for developers? I know it used to be great but it is not leaving a really good impression for me so far looking at all the reviews where people are
- Unpaid time off [Asking for a friend] My friend wants to see if they can take unpaid time off for 2 weeks at IBM. Is this a thing that will be looked down upon? Will it affect their professional career at IBM in a negative way? They're concerned about their manager not giving them good reviews and looking down upon them. #mentalhealth
- 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:
- Reviewing offer as a Project manager I got offer a job as project manager and I’m trying to review my total compensation. I have 3 years of experience as a Software#tech #tech Developer and lead multiple projects as well. Current compensation: 92k New compensation: 100k It’s this a good offer for Austin Texas? #ibm #salarycomparis
- IBM websphere? Don’t know much about it. Know at least one person who said it’s utter crap and even IBM doesn’t use it. On the flip side google seems to return mostly positive reviews. Any insights?
- IBM AOM Status Hey Blind, Just curious if anyone else who has applied to this program has heard back yet? My application has been under review for over a month now. #ibm #apm #pm #productmanagement #product
- Companies that don't have much expectations from an engineer What are some companies that don't have many expectactions from the average software engineer. Performance reviews etc only for namesake and a chill low political environment? I am thinking something like IBM, Salesforce etc would fit into this mold. I'd like to join such a company even though TC
- IBM Offer Negotiation Tips I’m expecting to receive an offer from IBM today. The recruiter has told me the offer needs one more approval before she can discuss it with me. When I told them my target salary, they didn’t seem put off by it at all, so I think I should have asked for more. 😔. I was also reviewing their medical
- Looking for a referral Howdy, I'm not learning much at IBM and wanting to join a fast pasted company with good salaries. I have 1 year experience running my own own company and 6 months experience with IBM. No joke, you can consider me entry level. Didn't learn much at IBM, learned a ton with my own company but no code re
- Is Verily that bad? Have an upcoming tech screening for a Senior SWE — Data Infrastructure role. For “Project Baseline”. Hiring manager seems to be ex-IBM/Watson Health. Are things as chaotic as they seem on the company’s Blind reviews? Lot of complaints about leadership and company direction, balanced by being able t
- Facebook is a dead company The bar is absolutely on the ground. PSC review process is so deeply broken and now extremely political (FB folks, feel free to share your experiences...) wasted money on contractors and external vendors on dead projects. We are literally bleeding money and extremely inefficient. Our ads business mo
- Internships After Graduation Is it possible to get a swe internship after graduation? Every internship opportunity I come across are designed for current students. I’m in a position where I can’t get an internship since I’m not a student anymore. And I can’t get a full-time swe job since I don’t have professional experiences l
- Looking for summer internship referrals Hello, blind community! I am a first-year Master's student at UW Madison. I have 2 years of experience as an ML engineer. I'm looking for SDE/Machine learning/Computer Vision summer internships in 2022 and was hoping for a recommendation (except Meta and Adobe). I've research experience too. One p
- How do promotions work for your company? I'm curious of how promotions work at other companies in this industry. At IBM we are required to fill out a packet of information to "prove" that we are experienced enough to earn a promotion. This packet takes roughly 24 hours of additional work, must be reviewed by our manager, and is then sent
- vote Boot Camp vs Bachelors vs Both? What's your honest opinion on boot camp from a desirability in the marketplace perspective? I read a lot of mixed reviews and would like to know from possibly hiring managers here what is important to your hiring decision. I'm going for my bachelor's in Software Development already and just about t
- Blind sentiment about issues at FAANG Spending about 2 weeks on blind for the first time, this is what I've gathered from most posts about the common issues in Faang companies. Would like to get a more clearer picture about how the market is right now FACEBOOK - Perm processing held up due to lawsuits AMAZON - Pip culture and terribl
- link Research on remote work shows less collaboration and info sharing Based on 61K Microsoft workers' data: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01196-4 It is a legit Nature paper, so high quality peer-review etc. coming from a UC Berkeley/MIT researcher's work mostly (who worked as Data Scientist at Airbnb and holds a master's in Physics & Astronomy, so he kno
- Should I go to Amazon? I hope those of you in the US had a safe and happy 4th of July. I am considering an offer from Amazon (Alexa org), but after doing 10 min worth lf research around here, it seems like Amazon can be quite a toxic place. Here’s the deal - My current job is rather easy. All I do is develop and mainta
- Can't Find Good Jobs To Apply To I'm from Palm Desert, CA. Mainly into computer vision and robotics, but I also do web dev (aka soy dev) stuff for profitability in between semesters. React, Svelte, WebAssembly, Flutter, Flask. I worked on using Nvidia Jetson and Intel Movidius for mobile robotics in a research lab at uni. I did a c
- Plaid / Dropbox / Corsair / HashiCorp / Lyft / GoPro / Stripe referral needed I am not a software engineer or technology background, but a Materials Engineering background from Georgia Tech with an MBA in Supply Chain Management. I work in the Procurement / Sourcing function A little bit about me. I was part of the Strategic Supplier Management Office (SSMO) at InterContinen
- *Cruise / Skydio / T-mobile referral needed* I am not a software engineer or technology background, but a Materials Engineering background from Georgia Tech with an MBA in Supply Chain Management. I work in the Procurement / Sourcing department. I have been interviewing for Procurement positions at Facebook, Microsoft, Lyft, Palantir, DocuSign
- Cruise / Dropbox / Stripe / Nordstrom / HP / UIPath / Intuit referral needed I am not a software engineer or technology background, but a materials engineering background from Georgia Tech with an MBA in supply chain management. I work in the Procurement Sourcing function. I am currently interviewing with Facebook, Microsoft, Palantir, DocuSign, Twilio, Splunk, Dell etc. The
- Would taking an Engineering Manager job for a year hurt my chances for FAANG as a SWE? Hi all, I worked at Cisco for 5 years (Closer to a SRE than SWE - was in Internal Tooling), then went to IBM (and another company we were divested to) for 7 years (2 years SWE, 3 years Services SWE). Most recently, I've created a product from scratch using Spring/React. I've sold it to customers, de
- Career advice - Have to change jobs ASAP - without proper time for LC - Engineering Manager path? Hi all, I worked at Cisco for 5 years (Closer to a SRE than SWE - was in Internal Tooling), then went to IBM (and another company we were divested to) for 7 years (2 years SWE, 3 years Services SWE). Most recently, I've created a product from scratch using Spring/React. I've sold it to customers, de
- Cruise / Nordstrom / GoPro / Stripe / HP / Hilton / HashiCorp referral needed I am not a software engineer or technology background, but a Materials Engineering background from Georgia Tech with an MBA in Supply Chain Management. I work in the Procurement / Sourcing department. I gave interviews for Procurement positions at Facebook, Palantir, DocuSign, Twilio & Splunk and di
- How Long To Getting Interviews So I'm from Palm Springs, CA and I attended not a no-name but not super elite school in New England. I did do a semester and research at an elite school in New England. I couldn't get an internship due to personal reasons. Namely my family needed me around the house to support them as certain family
- link ‘ Build on your lot’ builders with cost+floor plans in bay area,ca. I searched but couldn’t find builders with floor plan catalog & approx cost. This was the only one- https://thomasjameshomesusa.com/northern-california/ Any recommendations? Thanks
- vote Stocks and US Elections #personalfinance #investments Has anyone noticed recent steady sell off? what do you think, what are the chances of stocks falling after upcoming US elections if trump wins or biden wins..
- vote What will happen if Prop 22 doesn’t pass? Title says it all. Mainly thinking from the Gig companies perspectives. Vote or comment #Prop22 #tech #california @postmates @caviar @grubhub
- Thoughts on this tiktok nuclear energy influence Her goal is to save nuclear plants and advocate for more nuclear energy using weird videos on tiktok. Thoughts ? https://twitter.com/isaboemeke/status/1319674446391619584
- Ayurvedic doctor in Bay Area Has anyone tried Ayurvedic consultation & treatment in the Bay Area? Looking for references/recommendations. Thanks #medical #health
- vote Which of the following stocks will double fastest? If you were to risk all your wealth in one tech stock which one would it be at this moment?
- all stocks have gone up considerably high but I still lost 40 k due to day trading I would like to invest in longterm stock. Which stock will double in next 3-6 months? holding apple hoping it would run up to 130
- link We need energy that doesn’t destroy the environment Look at this - how can this kind of destruction of natural beauty be allowed? https://imgur.com/gallery/kzEtb7w
- The world is what it is. We have to make the best of it... I am sick of people always complaining the world is going to the dogs. Leftists are snowflakes - Parents Right wing is bigoted - Friends The west exploits the developing nations. - My countrymen Google and facebook are stealing our data and we are the product. - Almost everyone You live so far away
- Need help for referrals in LA Just moved to Los Angeles earlier this year. I am a TPM with ~4 YOE. Current TC 200k. Need help getting referrals here, would be greatly appreciated. #la #losangeles #referrals #snap #netflix #tinder #twitch
- vote Do you trust Wealthfront retirement projections? I was planning retirement at 55 but Wealthfront says I'll have more than enough at 50 which is only 7 years away for me. I'm leaning toward rest and vest at this point because I'm running out of funks to give! Do you trust Wealthfront?
- Expected TC change after potential Biden’s presidency? So basic economic theory says that if the government raises the tax on some goods, the price will rise and how much it’ll rise would depend on the elasticity of the supply&demand curve (which side is more sensitive to the price change). Given that, do you think TC of overall tech companies will ris
- link What websites do people use to find jobs in India? Monster.com?
- Part Time Degrees worth pursuing I have a BS, MS (in Computer Science), MBA - all from top schools in the US. I currently do Product Management which gives me the opportunity to work at the intersection of technology and business - and I really like the job! I have found that both my advanced degrees (MS and MBA) were a great way
- Elon's Presidential Vote Given his strong support for re-opening the country, we know who he's voting for, right? For... the raise ur hand all the damn time student..., no I'm not looking for a poll, opinions only. Data and logic are not allowed in this response. Simply opinions based on nothing but how you FEEL. TC: $1
- Referral at Twitter I need help with couple of positions open in twitter which are relevant with my profile. Can someone help with it pls ? TIA
- Google Mock interviewers needed Looking for mock interviewers. You will get paid for your time. DM for details.
- Need referral at Cloudflare, London - willing to pay As the title. #tech #cloudflare
- Fb l4 refreshers. What are they like in 2020? Considering an l4 SWE offer. Can someone help me understand what the typical refreshers.are like now ? I see older threads but would like newer info to help me decide. Tc 250k
- vote Workspace diversity Can you openly be anti-BLM or indifferent to BLM at your company ?
- What do you guys think of Rivian's future? Is it a good time to join? What do you guys think of Rivian's future? Is it a good time to join? #equity #startup
- How should I hedge my portfolio from election result next week All my assets are in stocks and I am super anxious. Should I sell them all now which will trigger massive tax for this year or should I wait and a crash may happen if market overeact on election outcome? TC: 115K Investment value: 9.4M
- vote Do you miss hardware Lounge? There use to be good discussion and I loved scrolling through the posts. I think hardware posts have reduced significantly since HW Lounge disappeared #hardware #semiconductor