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- Microsoft Referral Hello Blind community, I am in search of a Microsoft referral for a data engineer role and would appreciate it if anyone would kindly help refer me. YoE: 3 TC: 100 #microsoft #dataengineer #dataanalytics #datascience
- Austin move paycut for FAANG What % of my base would be cut if I move from Redmond to Austin? For msft, it's 12.5% Blind tax: 380k
- link Layoff prediction chart, anyone seen this? CHART: This data shows which tech companies are most at risk of cost cutting and layoffs in coming months https://www.businessinsider.com/data-shows-which-tech-companies-most-at-risk-of-layoffs-2022-5 Click below link to bypass paywall, curtesy to @public2 https://archive.ph/OZUHm Update: Faceboo
- Feeling Frustrated Joined MSFT as a SWE (L60) and have very less opportunities to push code. Work involves mostly RCA and OPS. I'm very early in my career and I want to code. Need suggestions from Blind Family. TC: 200K #msft #meta #amazon #aws #engineering #software #swe
- Share LC premium subscription? Firstly, interned at MS in 2021. Still have a blind account with Microsoft. I'll be graduating this Friday and yet to find a full time job. I've a few interviews lined up. Maybe people who have already found a job can share their unused LC premium? Desperate for a job at this time. I hope people can
- Cloud Solution Architect Career - U.S Hello Blind Community, I have 15+ years of experience in IT. through which I worked on domains: Application Development (Oracle), Database Administration ( Oracle), ERP system admin (Oracle e-Business Suite), Linux, Project Management, etc. In 2020 during the COVID pandemic, I was WFH and had some
- Block and Apple will win Web3 game Meta - Metaverse doesn’t make sense, nobody gonna use VR for long time Microsoft - Not sure what’s their plan, AR looks good but I am not sure if Microsoft will be able to make something good. Google - No Idea but except Google apps most of their product is shitty. Apple - Have a great AR tech an
- Referral request for recruiter roles Hey blind. My wife needs referral for some remote recruiter roles. Would appreciate your help TC €100k #yelp #microsoft #datadog #ebay #referral #recruiter #remote
- Microsoft Offer Evaluation Hi Blind fam, Asking for a friend. Microsoft offer L64 Cloud Solution Architect Base - $175K Stocks -$140K Annual Bonus - 30%(7.5 revenue based, 22.5 performance based) Joining Bonus - $25K Current TC - $166K L4 Data Engineer @Amazon, expecting a promotion end of this year Thoughts on the offer
- Microsoft Referral Hello Blind, With the Meta hiring freeze I’m looking for some other opportunities in case my interview gets cancelled (it hasn’t yet, for some reason, let’s hope it stays that way). If anyone is able to provide a referral at Microsoft that would be awesome, but I’m open to most any company. #micr
- Bloomberg in recession? I made a post recently comparing msft and Bloomberg in a recession. Majority of blind picked microsoft. Bloomberg has literally never had a layoff for sde, donates bunch of profit to charity and does not have shareholders to answer to. Msft is not like that being public. Am I missing something? Lik
- Most overused words at other companies There's already a similar post on MSFT blind. Let's hear what the most commonly used buzz words are at other companies.
- link Microsoft mass layoffs coming? MSFT beat expectations but not by a whole lot. I anticipate as economy worsens and gdp gets worse, next quarter they will not meet wall streets expectations. Historically, Microsoft is pretty quick to jump on the layoff club and start mass layoffs as we saw in 2009 with 5000 people let go. Do you
- vote Leave Microsoft L61 for Google L3? Hey blind I'm L61 which is swe 2 at Microsoft. Contacted Google HR and went through loop but got L3. Microsoft is my first and only job out of college 2 years ago. Google L3 TC: 240K Current L61 TC: 190K should I leave for Google? I have good rapport with Microsoft manager and great ratings but
- Microsoft Identity team Dublin How is the WLB? Oncall load ? Leadership vision? Growth opportunity? Blind tax : yoe-15, TC-€180K #microsoft #identity
- Best Microsoft product!! I was having this discussion with my buddy who works at Microsoft. Would like to know what blind thinks about it? I'll go first: Halo, Office (okayish) and Windows 7. #tech
- link I made it. I switched careers and I got an offer from Amazon. Hey guys. I finally made it. I must talk about myself a little bit. I'm a law school graduate. Last year I graduated from law school but in my last year I was trying to switch to Software development. I was trying to get into bootcamps but even for bootcamps I was getting rejected. I created this to
- vote Shamed for low TC Absolutely not trolling. Just need some honest opinions. Location is Seattle. I accepted an offer with Microsoft at 440k TC and will join in a couple weeks. I was really happy with my TC but when I posted about that on Reddit anonymously, I was viciously attacked for having a low TC. Wanted to poll
- ***Microsoft offer posts getting removed - Deliberately*** We recently noticed every time a Microsoft employee do an offer evaluation post - it get flagged and removed immediately. See an example below. I feel someone deliberately doing it. Cant teamblind fix this rant? TC: 270k, SSE #microsoft #teamblind #blind #blindapp #faang
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- Biggest regret quitting MSFT I was so underpaid and subjected to radiation level politics but boy the MSFT blind channel was awesome. With 17 impression on my posts went on fire, it used to take Atleast 2000 impression to on fire in MSFT. Blind used to be my daily dose of entertainment, it’s gone. Those who wonder what happe
- Offer evaluation help Hi Blind folks!! Need help with the offer evaluation. Offer 1: MSFT Level : L62 Base: 40L Stock : 100k(4 years) JB: 13(7+6) Bonus : 0-20%(avg: 10) Offer 2: GS Level : VP Base : 51L JB: 3L Stock: 55k(4 years) Bonus : 12-15 as told by recruiter (prorated) Got MS offer before and accepted it (not su
- Lying abt having competing offers during salary negotiations Is it ok, to lie abt you hving multiple offrs while having compensation negotiations with HR? How do you lie? Or what you do/say when HR asks for proof? Blind tax- TC 230k #Compensation #tech #faang #facebook #meta #google #Microsoft #apple #Amazon #Netflix #software #salary #offer
- Microsoft Hiring Event Atlanta Hi Blind, Has anyone done the MSFT hiring event for SDE I/II and can share their experience? What is the expected difficulty for technical questions? Should I prep system design? YoE 1 TC 170K
- If Meta is metamates, what about your company? As the 👆 Alphabet - Alphamates Playstation - Playmates IBM -> Stalemates Zillow -> Housemates Pixar -> Animates Alibaba -> Illegitimates Microsoft -> gatesmates Amazon-> primates Continue... Blind tax 250K
- vote Will MSFT buy Zoom? I am an unofficial predictor of industry M&A and I think yes, you? In reference to - https://www.businessinsider.com/cloud-companies-takeover-targets-acquisitions-this-year-google-microsoft-amazon-2022-1 Blind Tax - 265 CAD #tech #acquisitionscience #m&as
- 8 failed FANG interviews but finally did it! Here are all the failed on-site interviews I’ve had the last 2 years, does not include the failed phone screens. 2 @ Amazon 1 @ Google 1 @ Facebook 2 @ MSFT 3 @ Apple. Finally landed an Apple offer TC: 235k. I’m 27 with 4 YOE. This is 131k higher than I was making at Intel - 105k TC. I never
- vote Is Microsoft turning into Amazon? On Blind, everyone talks about how bad Amazon is in terms of culture and WLB. That needs no introduction. However, been following a few posts on Blind pertaining to Microsoft as well, reading a lot of the same info that people on Blind put down Amazon for. Overbearing managers, Bad WLB, Not good cu
- vote Nvidia vs MSFT offer evaluation Update: went with Nvidia. :) Can’t thank y’all for your inputs. MSFT’s offer is final. Nvidia has a small room for negotiation in terms of sign-on. The deadline is tonight for MSFT. Role: Hardware Engineer. (Design Verification Engineer) Yoe: 2 Microsoft: Hillsboro, OR. Base: 131k RSUs: 200k/4
- Adobe India Perks vs 🥜 Can someone please list out the main/not so common perks of Adobe available to employees jn India? How it is different from 🥜 or any other company with comparable WLB? Blind Tax TC: 50 Yoe: 5 #adobe #microsoft #google #meta #amazon
- [International Relocation] Microsoft Redmond Hi y'all Looking for some help from the community. I recently joined Microsoft in their India Office as an L62 What is the process to move to Redmond and how much time does it usually take? Blind Tax: TC: 75 L INR YOE: 3.5 #microsoft #relocation
- NFT Trader, 3 mil in 6 months - AMA I’ve been seeing more and more posts on Blind about NFTs but it seems very few people are in the space and pass judgement very quickly. Ask me anything about NFTs- I’m 23 years old with 1 YOE at Microsoft. I started getting into NFTs 6 months ago and made $3 million with my partner. We are now sta
- Referral Needed Hi Blind Community, Looking for positions at Amazon/MSFT in analytics/finance/strategy. I have 11YOE and looking for a change. Thanks in advance!
- vote Data Science at Sharechat / Moj - Culture Hey Blind Team I wanted to understand how is sharechat culture and work life balance? Information regarding this is less on blind. I wanted to know what is their salary band for DS 2 and DS 3. I have 4.2yoe and current Tc: 39L How is company culture, is it remote, number of hours per day? Saw me
- Microsoft Team Matching Process Hi Blind Community, I recently cleared my Interviews with Microsoft on a virtual hiring event. Unfortunately I was not picked by any teams that attended this event. My profile was created and added to the talent pool. If any one from Microsoft know that their team has any openings please help me in
- Microsoft mentor Hi , I am going to join Microsoft soon and seeking a blind mentor here from Microsoft. Please drop in a message below or me directly if you accept to chat with me over blind helping me and hopefully each other over Microsoft journey. I will be joining as L64 IC SDE. YOE 15
- vote Introducing FAAAM (FAANG is out) FYI - FAAAM stands for Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet (Google's parent), Microsoft Big papa Microsoft is touching $2T soon. And I'm glad my TC is touching $500k L65+. The great part? I work 30 hrs/week, have zero work stress and get so much time off every month I have friends at Linkedin, who
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- Boston Tech scene sucks for big'ger' tech Been trying to find opportunities for a while. Twitter/Salesforce/Microsoft/Google all have only remote positions for teams which are horrible and managers are open to hire anywhere in the US. Only found wayfair, which in itself, blind says is horrible. Any suggestions? Looking for 350+TC for seni
- Looking for Referral Looking for referrals to Google, Microsoft, Apple, LinkedIn, Square, etc Systems Engineer or something like it Washington-DC area or remote Blind tax: 100K YOE: 1.5
- What’s wrong with Microsoft ? Hi blind, joined Microsoft a couple weeks ago, so far I’ve been loving It!, people is helpful. In standup we also get asked how we are doing personally not only about work. Microsoft blind only complains about TC, seriously I could not care less this money is enough for me to live ok and enjoy my
- vote Which Blind channel has more fun Moving Microsoft->Amazon. Should I keep my msft Blind account or switch to Amazon now. If I switch, I'd lose msft access.
- How does Microsoft Bonus Work if you leave? Hello, I currently work at Microsoft. I read somewhere on blind if I leave after June 30th, I could receive my year bonus. Is this true? How is this paid out? Thanks! #msft #microsoft
- vote Switch or wait for GC Moved to Redmond MS from India as a manager, EB1C about to be filed. I am super pissed at the peanuts at Microsoft. Should I give up the GC and switch or wait for the GC? What does the blind crowd think? TC: 230 YOE: 16 #greencard #eb1c #microsalaryatmicrosoft
- GC line where are we Saw someone got his GC post in blind and definetely its a milestone for Indians, especially on Eb2/3 category. Just wanted to know how painful it is with n umbers. I go first Came to USA on 2012, Priority date 2017 and Expecting GC may be in 2027. #apple #google #facebook #microsoft #amazon #ibm
- Microsoft ODSP Org I received a verbal offer, awaiting details, from the ODSP org. Prior blind posts suggest it’s pretty good, but I wanted to know how it’s doing today, right now. I’m super excited about this. I’m awaiting other offers but I’m pretty confident I’ll probably end up going with Microsoft but I want to k
- Apple to MSFT currently making ~350k (without stock app)/ ~500k (with stock app). yoe 7. All 7 at Apple. Any point of interviewing at MSFT? Can they match this for L63 ? Thanks
- MS or look more? I work in Expedia Chicago. I have an offer from MS (TC $240, base $155, L63 SWE). YoE 10. I am scheduled to join in a month. After seeing the posts in Blind I am rethinking my decision. I have few recruiters contact me from Salesforce and other local tech companies. Should I look around or take the
- Wayfair Offer Evaluation Hello Blind Community, I have an offer from wayfair L3 location is Austin. They are offering me 182k base and 65k in stocks at 200 dollars evaluation which is bullshit. Also have good signing bonus around 80k for the first year and 25k for the second year. So if I calculate my average take home o
- link Blind has become a HR's nemesis https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/22/the-anonymous-job-review-site-that-has-hr-departments-on-notice.html Instead of thinking Blind as a nemesis, if I was in HR, I would use blind to know the pulse of the employees better and make it a better place! Or the least give a try The platform initially caught
- vote Microsoft vs BlackRock offer eval Msft(L62): Base - 131k RSU - 145k over 4 years Sign on - 45k over 2 years Annual bonus eligibility - 20% of base TC 205k, Atlanta BlackRock(Associate VP): Base - 150k Annual bonus - 40-60k RSU - 55k over 2 years TC 225k, Atlanta(remote ish) Can you also comment why one over the other? Blind tax:
- Which team is better at Microsoft? Which team is better at Microsoft? 1- Services platform for Microsoft 365 apps 2- Microsoft Dataverse team 3- The Business Applications Group ( which is responsible for dynamics 365, power apps, power BI and dataverse) #Microsoft #microsoftinterview #microsoftcareers #microsofthiring #Office #