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- vote Will you pay to use Instagram? The fundamental problem with the current form of social media is user is not the customer. This is because user is not paying to use the services. Its the advertisers who pay. So the social media is selling user's attention to the advertisers. Now companies like Facebook rely on money generated fro
- Pay at Insta I recently got an offer at Instacart as Sr. Software Engineer how much pay can I expect?, is it a good company to accept the offer? could anyone share your suggestions over here#equity #offer #startup
- Whos pays the most? Stripe, Netflix, Insta, Airbnb, Roblox It looks like no one can touch the TC at Netflix or Stripe from the offers I’m seeing.
- Instagram wants me to pay for promotions I have a drone photography page with 1.5k followers. I used to get 200-300 likes on my good photos and 100-120 on my okayish photos. Around mid April, there was a point where everything just switched and my best photos get around 90 likes now. Nothing changed on my side. I even tried to post with be
- Would anyone here pay to be verified on Twitter or IG? Turns out two of my friends at Twitter and Instagram have been selling verification slots for the past 5 years. They are trying to recruit me to help find new prospects. Would any of you pay a large sum to be verified? I can imagine it would help job prospecting. Some people fawn over social status
- How much does Insta/tiktok influencers make 🤔? Never got to figure out how much many influencers make from Instagram or Tiktok! Someone like khaby lame. Apart from sponsorships, what pay would they get from insta/tiktok?🤔 #tech #Instagram #tiktok
- Do Instagram/OnlyFans models live better than SWEs? I can't help but wonder if Instagram and OnlyFans models have life figured out. Let's just look at the facts ladies and gentlemen! -They are their own boss, don't have to answer to any shitty manager -They choose their own hours and any meetings they have are self-imposed, they can choose not to ha
- Pay scale for Facebook/Meta Singapore E5 What is the pay scale for Facebook/Meta Singapore at E5 level. #tech #facebook #meta #instagram
- What motivates software engineers to choose NASA over FAANG NASA has brilliant software engineers who work on ridiculously difficult problems, but I wonder what motivates these engineers!! NASA pays shit in comparison to FAANG, and those engineers could easily make 3-5x more money working on trying to get underaged girls addicted to instagram, but they choo
- Trying to get an idea here If in the AppStore - I am giving keyword “Ins”, although the top search is Instagram, what pops first is ad for tiktok. I’d assume it’s based on relevance. But do tiktok pay way higher to promote their App, to hide the search for Instagram and just to float on top?#tech #instagram #tiktok
- referal for technical program manager IG! I’m willing to pay 10 bucks to get a referral for technical program manager at Instagram. Assess my background before pulling the trigger if you like. :)
- How does FB make money ? Sinple question, though trying to not sound like that senator who asked Mark. i dont remember paying for FB/Instagram/Whatsapp and i dont know anybody who does. in contrast, I dont know anyone who doesnt have amazon prime. curious how FB makes money.
- vote Instagram PMM vs. Adobe PM Instagram Product Marketing Manager vs. Adobe Product Manager Which do you think is better in terms of prestige, resume building and pay? and any other factors you think are important? TC: 200k
- Why do you work at Facebook? Is it the work culture and pay? Or do you genuinely believe in the products. Personally I dislike social media products like snapchat, Facebook and Instagram. I feel they are not making society better. Yet so many top talent devs work at Facebook. I don't get it!
- Counteroffers Who here has accepted a counter offer and been happy with the decision? Been interviewing and I have a few offers ranging from 50-100% more in TC. Does TikTok counter? Would they match a competitor that pays almost double? I like my team and am invested in the product, but I cannot work at this p
- Meta is out. Doomed? Here are the problems: - meta is at mercy of platform like apple and Android policies - meta has not organically grown, insta, WhatsApp are all acquisition. - multiple platform and not easy story telling - privacy regulations are getting better and it's getting harder for meta - Europe is pushing fo
- System Design - Image Storage - CDN vs Object storage For purposes of system design interviews, where should be store images. I was reading a YouTube design where videos were being stored in CDN. But in an instagram design, the images were stored in object storage. Is this because you tube videos are likely to be used more (and hence we can pay for CDN
- Microsoft more productive than Facebook? MSFT total # of employees: 140,000 FB total # of employees: 45,000 Microsoft major products: Office/Office Web Apps, Windows, Azure, Bing, Xbox, Hololens, Visual Studio, and a bunch of enterprise stuff like Dynamics, Teams, SharePoints, etc Facebook major products: FB app, Messenger, Instagram, Wh
- link 2300+ Tech Sales Salaries The GOAT corporate Bro shared this on IG (If you’re in sales, you know Corp 😉). It’s free if you’re in tech sales and you add your comp. And to nobody’s surprise, Larry ain’t paying. As an AE at Oracle I make less than an SDR at Amazon. How does your comp plan match up? TC 105k #ae #enterprise
- Maturity of Meta's infrastructure, code base and dev tooling We always talk about pays and compensation but not much talk about actual enginerring side of things. Good Infra support to unlock & scale things, code base that is well structured with best practices, tooling that enables you do things faster and efficient. Whats the case with Meta especially com
- link Facebook & WhatsApp Data mess WhatsApp is the only useful product that Facebook has, for which many would pay. I will happily pay a monthly subscription for it. Why mess it up with user personal data sharing? Everyone everywhere is complaining that Fb is shoving it down their throat! If fb forces users to agree to data sharing t
- Instagram employees: is it actually possible to recover a hacked business account? A friend reached out to get help recovering her businesses Instagram account which was hacked. Some dude in Russia demanding money to give it back. This is her small business’ account and having it in this hijacked State is costing her lots of money she can’t afford and she’s on the brink of paying
- Does all the animosity towards Facebook come from a place of jealousy? Let’s face it, Facebook employees enjoy the best perks and highest pay. Their products are the most ubiquitous. Doesn’t matter if you have an PC or Mac, iPhone or Android you probably use a Facebook product. If I talk to a nice looking woman at the bar and tell her I work at AWS, she has no clue w
- NYC Tech How is the technology scene in NY in terms of career growth and pay? From what I’ve seen, Product Manager salary estimates are about 20% lower than SF despite NYC being just as expensive. Also, how actively are the big brands out there (FB/Instagram, Spotify, Google) hiring? Is it easy to move aroun
- What do you think about Instagram letting those boys live ? If you used Instagram in the last year or so and read the comments of a big account’s post, you probably saw some bots posting unrelated and odd comments (photo below). Those bots are fake accounts with photos of girls in bikini and try to drive traffic towards their profile so, at one point, people
- Facebook's future People are leaving Instagram for Tiktok and Snap, and leaving Whatsapp for Signal and Telegram. Facebook itself is only actively used by small ratio of people anyway. They cannot get the attention of youth for sure. As time goes on, they monetize the shit of people by collecting more and more data
- vote CNN+ shutting down a month after it launched. Is this a precursor to a contraction in the micro subscriptions market? https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2022/04/21/cnn-shutdown-leaves-axed-staffers-aghast-and-furious/amp/ I have to say I kind of saw this one coming - there’s this huge glut of micro subscription services that are hitting the market right now. All kinds of Companies are trying to capitalize on
- Anyone else resent their significent other for not working? My significant other has had her business closed since covid and periodically open. There's a big monthly rent that just burns money and it hasn't been profitable in the several years since being open. I tried to see if maybe she can do something part time online to help pay, but she's resistant to
- Thank you Blind! Just wanted to thank you all for helping me out :) You all have helped me with salary expectations, investment recommendations as well as insights in the industry. Our community has helped and pushed me to look elsewhere because I'm not happy where I currently am. Lastly, it was because of your rep
- Facebook, Twitter, and other Social Virus Companies. Don't support them If you are working here, please leave and find company not destroying social fabric, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Tiktok, Snapchat, Netflix etc these platform allow billions of people to put their content online and these apps being free our generation and next are consuming such high qua
- Where would you look to find an experienced product designer in NYC? I’m working on a startup in the social media space that just closed a seed round with a major VC. We have traction and are looking to hire a high powered product person who can really help lead our UX, UI, and product roadmap. We are willing to pay good money for that person, but we don’t even know
- Wish - a fraud company exposed Wish just raised my interest because it pays good at par with US based positions in Canada even for < 2 YOE. Apart from the money, I don’t see anything positive about this company. Product is awful, I think customer reviews are fake in the app as I saw reviewer having same review for all the pr
- link Solution to fear of approaching girls in busy workspaces Hi Blind, i was sitting in library today, and a girl that i like sat in front of me. Woww, so awesome dream come true. To be honest here i have noticed that girl noticing me many times, but today she wasn't paying much attention. Idk reason, how would I, AM A NERD ? But here comes this interesting t
- Work hard no break Not complaining, but I want to hear your thoughts. Weekdays I dedicate to work. I like what I’m learning, my team, and the people who I work with. It’s interesting work and I look up to the people around me and learn a lot from them. But I work long hours, around 10-12hrs per weekday. Weekends I c
- How do features get built at Reddit? It’s wild how every feature Reddit builds is to degrade the experience. They have a passionate community, but they’re trying to become like TikTok and Instagram. I’m really curious to learn how these things are being built and what’s the decision making process like? Do engineers push back saying th
- Joining Facebook as M1 (TC at the end) First, thank you blind. I discovered it only few weeks ago while getting an offer. For those of you who got rejected- keep trying! I applied to Google and Facebook twice and failed. I finally made it. Anyways I got accepted by both Google and Facebook for M1/L6 position and felt s
- What Americans Want - A survey I did a very private detailed survey for Americans age 18-25 and this is what they want. This is a all or nothing type of deal. Not just choose one. Here we go: No work ever. Only option to work but rather spend time at gym or scrolling phone. 100% Healthcare Ability to spend 500 a day on food
- vote Facebook E6 Offer/Options Trying to figure out a few options available to me right now within Facebook. I've been told that I will have an offer next week and am meeting with hiring managers on a couple teams this week. Current TC is $160k, but with a cost of living adjustment it would be equivalent to ~$540k in SF area acc
- vote To take or not to take? Graduated last September with a degree in math, realized last minute like an idiot that I wanted to pursue software engineering, so Infosys is the only company I could land bc I had no swe experience, didn’t LC, and just needed a job asap. Been here since, grinding LC and learning programming. Just
- Copyright issue/ need legal advice I need assistance. I am on a tourism B2 visa. I have worked for a marketing company as a tailor, doing activations at a certain retail store, located in NYC. It was an under the table job - no paperwork was filled. I have hired a photographer to take pictures of the embroideries I have done with th
- Referral Request for FAANG!! Hi Everyone! For the last couple of months I've been grinding leetcode questions and preparing so hard for coding interviews. Now I feel pretty confident about my coding skills and also I'm a one of the consistent highly paid Chegg expert ranging [70k-1lakh](This just to tell you about my coding sk
- Dating burnout in 2021 Basic economics will tell you that market will adjust to demand and supply. Indeed, Adam Smith wrote this in his book on which American economics is loosely based on. Facts - Supply of men is vastly more than women in dating market - Factually, women are more attracted than men to a wealthy lifesty
- Starting to feel my relationship is a mismatch and need to do something I'm venting, so please keep the "what's the point" comments out. I'm starting to realize we're mismatched. She's not a bad person, she has a lot of good things and virtues. I just find communicating between us to be difficult because we're different. I want us to be partners and agree on things, bu
- Will you bet on Meta? Full disclosure: I am invested in Meta. I am one of those who poured in a decent amount when stocks were under $40. I still hold those. For this discussion let us ignore the macro economic factors that are outside of Meta. Yes, there is uncertainty right now about stock market in general. Yes, Puti
- Is “success” killing me? :-( Was a normal happy guy in the east coast with a decent(very pretty but boring) gf, fit body, ok paying job and used to hang out with regular dudes. Wasn’t earning much, just coasting but was kinda happy. Now five years later.. dumped my long time GF last year, don’t hangout with my old friends anym
- Internship tips? Hi! I'm about to go into my junior year of college at any ivy league school, and have close to a 4.0 gpa. I've had two previous swe internships (neither company is particularly well known), as well as a couple of software engineering personal projects. I've got a good amount of experience in webd
- Why Facebook is still relevant? (Sorry fb friends, I don't mean to offend. I just can't understand.) I am genuinely curious why Facebook is still going strong. I mean, Facebook has a lot of money and could be one of the top 500 companies people want to work for. But in fact Facebook is the top x (x<5) companies most people are
- link Post FIRE Life: Notes to self for a meaningful life in 2022 Almost a month late in posting this New Year Resolution, but better late than never. TC: 0 (Financially Independent / Retired Early) My FIRE post: https://www.teamblind.com/post/sqhzju14 Context: I've begun trying out early retirement and have been on a break for nearly an year now. Although I've
- Does anyone believe ad products actually work? Here’s my take on digital advertising after 10+ years in the industry and having worked at Google, Snap, and in the agency world. I’ve personally spent hundreds of millions of dollars throughout my career. ———————————————————— -Attribution is still absolute dog crap. No one knows how to properly
- Facebook DS product analytics. What am I getting myself into? I’m preparing for the technical interview for a Data scientist role at FB (Product analytics). Dont know what team yet, but the recruiter says this will be determined at “Bootcamp.” I went throught a lot of posts on Blind and online, and I have a general sense of the role, but would like clarifica