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- Mechanical Engineer Shift from Defense to Consumer Products Mechanical Engineer at Lockheed Martin with 3 YOE trying to make the switch from defense to tech/consumer products (still working as a mechanical engineer). Applied to a bunch of reqs from companies such as Peloton and FB but have gotten rejections without even a recruiter call. Has anyone successf
- Rf Engineer job, Orlando FL Hello guys, i am wondering what the rough estimate pay as an Rf engineer is in my case for a position in Orlando Florida i have 2 y.o.e and a Bachelors Degree. currently making 83k + 10% bonus in New England. I am currently applying for the various open Rf engineering positions there, what do you
- review my resume Hey blind, I really need to get my resume reviewed. I have been applying to faang companies for 1 year and no one is biting. Ive paid for review services but still nothing comes up. Any suggestions? I need to get out of lockheed martin. I am not learning anything and I feel guilty since I am early
- Technology Consultant referral Worked as a BI Engineer for over 4 years now. I am looking to switch careers and get into consulting / product development. Any help would be great. Yoe: 4 years Tc : 108k #tech #bain #ey #deloitte #kpmg #kpmgus #pwc #lockheed #capgemini #accenture #google #amazon #meta #healthcare #boozallen #boo
- Program/Product Mgmt Referrals? Actively applying and seeking referrals for Program/Product Mgmt roles in the ATL area, targeting: Microsoft, Google, Delta Air Lines, Lockheed Martin, Amazon, Facebook (Meta), Salesforce Seems tough to break into Tech industry. I have a solid engineering foundation (9yrs) w/ an MBA, and most my re
- Are all YOE equal? Just curious. What YOE counts as YOE? Let's say someone has worked at Lockheed Martin for 20 years as a Software Engineer but all they've done is 99.99% word documents and 0.01% fiddling with legacy C++ code. If this person had no idea how modern web applications are built and applied to BiG tEcH,
- Tech Companies hiring TS/SCI Cleared Engineers TC: 250k Lets get a list of Tech companies confirmed hiring TS/SCI cleared engineers. Not looking for traditional defense contractors (Booz, Lockheed, etc) Ill start: Microsoft (Redmond WA / Reston VA) AWS (Seattle WA / Herndon VA ) Salesforce (Reston VA) Palantir (Seattle ? all over the place
- In Defense.. Can’t seem to hear back from NVIDIA I keep applying to NVIDIA and can’t seem to hear back, I’m looking at hardware/EE roles. I’m not dissatisfied with my work at LM, I just keep hearing horror stories of it being a stagnant career for younger people… Like it’s either a great first job or last job to coast to retirement. I know C, Veri
- Screwed up easiest Amazon phone interview Feeling like poop because I’ve been trying to leave Lockheed Martin for around a year now but kept getting stuffed at the resume screen . Finally got the chance at asde2 position at Amazon after online assessment with a phone screen and screwed up the coding part. It was a super easy binary tree que
- Total Compensation Hi everyone, I was wondering what is the typical compensation for someone who has 3 years of experience in the Bay Area. My background is in the project/product management and data space. I have my PMP and scrum certs along with my Salesforce admin and CISSP cert as well. I am currently interviewing
- Referrals Hi everybody, I am looking for referrals to FAANG+ companies in the bay area. The companies I have listed are the ones I have found positions for. Even if your company is not on the list, I still would appreciate it if you could leave a comment and I will look through your company's careers and see
- HR Next Steps- at Intel After many interviews I have been selected as the candidate to move forward in the hiring process. The hiring manager has expressed interest in me at Intel and would like to move forward. Does anyone know what the HR next steps are, how do I negotiate compensation, sign on bonus, etc. what should I
- How to ask for a higher salary For some context, I do NOT work at Lockheed anymore, I switched to a much smaller startup. The startup is small enough that if I switched my header to that, I could be “discovered.” Anyway..I started at Lockheed in August 2019 and left Sept 2020 for this new job. When I started at Lockheed, it was i
- Need a referral for ME in Bay Area 🙏 I recently got my job at Meta in MPK. My partner is graduating from college in May but we are struggling to find her a job in Bay Area. We’ve been long distance for 3 years and we kind of don’t want to continue long distance if she can’t find employment here. She’s a mechanical engineer with previo
- PM Referrals YOE: 2+ TC: $135k Hey all, I have experience as a product manager working on enterprise web apps, optimization engines (data science), and virtual reality. I have a strong foundation in agile, lean software development, user centered design, and psychological safety. Background: 11 YOE working in
- Move to tech from aerospace/defense? I am currently working in defense for Lockheed Martin. I started a year ago. My pay is low at -170k + a very small bonus with 7 years of indirect experience and a masters degree. I am in Sunnyvale. I have been interviewing at other aerospace but they all seem slow and depressing. I have a few offers
- Post Your TC Timeline! What does your TC timeline look like over the course of your life or career? Pre-tech: 13y/o - $4.25/hr doing farm work 15y/o - $8/hr working at a waterpark over the summer 17y/o - $9/hr working at Subway 18-21y/o - 24-25k E1-E4 USMC 21y/o - 25k retail 23-27y/o - 48k getting my CS degree on the GI
- Is it too early to change teams? What is everyone’s thoughts on moving teams within 7-10 months of working at a company and being on a team? I’ve been contacted about applying to another team for a L2 position (currently L1) and it would be on a team that would be more interesting. My concern is that I’d be moving teams too early o
- vote Daily discretionary & food spending Just curious. I find myself spending around $60-70/ day on average between food and say a random purchase a week (ex: an Apple Watch amortized over the week) which ends up being 30-40% of my after 401k paycheck. It’s pretty easy to buy something for $200 every week and realize it increases your week
- Worth it to fight for higher TC? No longer at Lockheed, I was there for an entry level position for 1 year. I’m at a small startup where I work remotely. I’ve been at this new company 1.5 years and while the work is cool, I’ve decided that I want to start the process to leave. However, that’ll take time because interview prepping,
- Tax Implications in Poland - Remote Work US Company Hello, I want to live and work in Europe, specifically Poland. I'm wondering what tax implications would be like if I was working for a US company, remotely, and living in Poland. I have considered doing some short travel stints (several months) and living there longer term (1-4 years). Would I ne
- BD for Defense and Aerospace or SaaS/PaaS and Tech? Sorry for the sh*tty title because I know the two fields deal heavily with one-another, however I'm interested to hear the thoughts of our TeamBlind members on this. I'm at a crossroads in my career right now and currently work for a tech startup that offers a PaaS Machine Learning product as a Dir
- Am I overthinking this? Accepted new offer as new grad Currently live in Florida (near my hometown). Accepted new offer in Dallas, TX. I’ve worked for Lockheed less than a year as a new grad. New company seems to have an awesome culture and I’m looking to make friends/connections, while also developing industry relevant skills. This wasn’t too good at L
- Rejected from Intel After as many as 6 interviews with Intel. I received a full time offer from Intel to join as a technician program manager in their Hudson, MA location. After I received the offer, I asked about relocation to move from Connecticut to Mass. All of a sudden I received an email from HR stating that my o
- Where should I be looking? I'm getting older and want to work for a company that won't actively try to kill me. My TC can stay where it is for the rest of my career. I don't mind boring products or legacy code. I just want to minimize the number of hours I have to work while meeting the bar for my team. In other words, I
- Rate microsoft offer Just got offer for level 60 at Microsoft, have a competing offer in DFW for higher pay but small company. Jober offer for Microsoft is in reston or Redmon. They said no to a 61, and that they are maxed on cash, could maybe do more stocks. I'm also asking them to pay closing costs on house. 122 ba
- FANG Career Advice Hi fellow blinders, if I could please get advice on my future career path I would really appreciate it. [My #1 goal is to get into FAANG and maximize TC.] I recently just started as a new-grad at a defense contractor think [Lockheed Martin - Northrop Grumman] However, I want to transition into FAAN
- SWE with military background, want to move to management I am a low level IC in Google. Was Senior SWE is my previous company (total YOE 6.5 yrs, 1 yr at G), and was on track to becoming a manager but had to leave. Btw, severely down leveled here. My goal is to switch to management and then climb up. I don’t enjoy IC roles anymore and get bored with codi
- Best way into software @ middle age? Hey Internet Over the past many years I’ve been doing avionics technician work, managed to finish a degree in some random BS at an online school in computational science (regionally accredited and all, not selling myself too sort), got on with Lockheed as an entry level electrical engineer.. and th
- Idk what I’m doing - Comparing offers Hey everyone, I’m currently entertaining two offers and am wondering if anyone can offer insight: Me: Yoe 4, BS, MBA EDIT: Located in CO Ringcentral (RNG): Base - 125k Bonus - 12.5k RSU - 18k per year TC: 155.5k Raytheon (RTX): Base - 115k Sign on - 3k Sponsorship for ts/sci w/ CI polygraph Bo
- Any Site Reliability Engineers? Share your experiences? I'm a software engineer working at Lockheed Martin Space and a Master of Computer Science student. I've been reading Google's Site Reliability Engineering book and have really enjoyed it. I've interviewed with Google once before (onsite) and was told by a recruiter to reapply after gaining a year of
- Becoming a better programmer I am thinking about future career goals. My goal for my career has always been game development. I would love to create a game from scratch and publish it for a lot of people to play however when I tried to do this I quickly realized that my engineering skills need a lot of improvement. I currently
- vote Early Stage Start up offer Early-stage start-up with less than 6 engineers and a total of 12 people. They have pretty good leadership backing them and doubling revenue year over year. Net-zero at the moment and are receiving at least 3 years of funding. 125k salary, 5-15k signing bonus (Waiting for the final offer but this w
- Sde offers Booze Allen, Raytheon, Lockhead Got offers for SDE roles at Booze Allen, Lockheed, Raytheon and a few others. Have a lot of reasons why I am switching overall never intended to stay here. Just here for the experience. All offers are higher some by a little others by a good bit with locations significantly cheaper to live than seat
- Feeling dejected. Just had an interview that didn't go too well. It was a company that gave feedback, and it was... pretty brutal (I am still thankful for the feedback, it will definitely help me in my future interviews). I was called an "inexperienced" engineer and "too junior" for the role. I know I'm not a true "s
- Ref flag or normal behavior? Note: I no longer work at Lockheed, I’ve been working at a small-medium size startup since Sept 2020. Don’t want to put the name for anonymity. When I first started at my current company in September, it was a pretty typical on boarding process. Getting familiar with the tech, meetings w the manage
- Got new job..not exactly what I was hoping! Hey guys! I’ll give you a backstory before I get into the meat of this post. My first new grad role was an entry level software engineering position at Lockheed Martin space. For a lot of reasons, I wanted out..location, not wanting to stay in defense, etc. After about 1 yr 1 month of experience I w
- Travel from India Any folks traveled back from India to the US recently? I am on OPT and have to travel to India urgently. Wanted to get an assessment of the situation. Thanks
- Good bootcamps for SE Job Offer I have a CS background coming out of college, but I don’t feel great about my programming abilities. Anyone have any recommendation for a bootcamp that leads to a great job offer? #engineering #software #bootcamp
- Thoughts on Jumpstart’s feature to filter candidates based on race/gender? I wonder if there even is an option to see only male, or Asian/White. Seems like Jumpstart is promoting racism and sexism in hiring.
- vote Has innovation slowed down? Title.
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- Travel to India after graduation I will be graduating in Dec and will be joining Amazon in Feb on OPT. Is it risky to travel to India in December?
- Claim stimulus check on 2020 tax return? In 2019, I worked part time at my university and filed taxes for 9k earnings. I’ve been waiting and waiting, and haven’t received my stimulus check... Can I claim the $1200 on my 2020 tax return, even if my 2020 income is above the requirements? TC 200k YOE < 1
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- Child care isn’t a transmission vector Largest peer-reviewed study, 57,335 child care centers: “No evidence of child care being a significant contributor to COVID19 transmission to adults—finding consistent with previous studies showing lack of assoc btwn school closures & transmission rates” https://twitter.com/nahasnewman/status/1323
- Referrals Hey everyone, looking for referrals I have a Masters degree in CS YOE - 3+ TC - 110k #Uber #Lyft #Dropbox #Microsoft #Netflix #Slack
- Any H4 applicants still waiting for Biometric appointment. Mine was filed in may 2020 and still waiting.
- Facebook WFH Options Hello Facebookers. Are you all allowed to WFH as per news or only some teams allow that? TC: 250k
- vote What kind of worker are you? Let’s face it. Some people in G and F don’t spend that much , especially 5 and 6. If You gave them 10M or 10B, they would live the same life. They just want more money even though they don’t need to spend that much. Some people work for a purpose like Dr. Fauci. He was downplayed but still want to