Cool products to work on and good experience. Remote work is easy if that is something you want.
Work just as hard as other tech companies for less money. You have to make senior or else you will eventually be let go.
I am currently finishing up my MS technology training and have received an offer at Marshall Wace The Marshall Wace salary is almost double but I don’t know how I feel about leaving MS right after finishing the training and committing to a team. Do I take or decline the job? #tech #finance Yoe: 1...Read more
I'll join Microsoft in a month as a security engineer. I'm wondering if MS provides a training budget that I could use for certification training or conferences. I am not referring to academic reimbursement for college courses. Also, what resources are available for on-demand training? For example,...Read more
everybody knows that it’s hard to join FAANG (+uber and ms, i suppose), but what about tier-2 companies as a training ground? which ones would you recommend and why?
How’s the MS Leap program to enter into the job role of TPM? Do they pay during the training? Is TPM better than SDE? #tech #msft #sde #tpm
$5k per year. Should be for relevant training. 15 yoe and already have a MS. I could probably get another online one (ML + AI), but probably not. Any advise on how to use the tuition reimbursement?
I have over 18 years experience in the software industry and for a year or more now I’ve been trying to learn AI/ML but I’ve not really found the right training materials. I was thinking of doing a MS in machine learning. Anyone done something similar before? Is it worth it? Money is not a concern. ...Read more
I want to learn about cloud technologies and get beginner level certifications. Should I go with AWS or Azure? I have heard both Amazon & MS have pretty good basic trainings available on their websites. Thanks.
A whistleblower alleges that MS has been paying bribes in foreign countries to secure phony contracts. The yearly anti corruption compliance training doesn’t seem to be working. https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/25/22995144/microsoft-foreign-corrupt-practices-bribery-whistleblower-contracting TC 147...Read more
Currently SDE II at AWS tired of all the grunt work required in cloud computing. I’m more interested in doing ML work, not just deploying pipelines and servers but also modeling and training. How do I make the transition? I know there are online courses out there, but surely that’s not enough to get...Read more
I heard the job market for MLEs in FAANG and other big tech companies has gotten better. Can anyone confirm this? If so, is this only for Sr-level and above? Would I be considered for that if I have an MS, 2 YOE in distributed systems at a big tech company, and 3 YOE working on computer vision and ...Read more
I heard the job market for MLEs in FAANG and other big tech companies has gotten better. Can anyone confirm this? If so, is this only for Sr-level and above? Would I be considered for that if I have an MS, 2 YOE in distributed systems at a big tech company, and 3 YOE working on computer vision and ...Read more
Recently got an offer from Amazon for a BI engineer role, unsurprisingly they are using Redshift , myself has been using MS SQL all my life, during the interview they ask generic SQL question not PostgresSQL specific question .. they didn’t even care if I have experience in RedShift , for anyone who...Read more
Hi folks, interviewing with Google and looking to see what else is out there. Looking for Senior IC or EM in Infrastructure / Security. Will owe you a favor :) Currently Senior Consultant, Microsoft Federal. Top performer at MS (award winner, SSA, corp leadership training) YOE 13+2 Intern / In Rol...Read more
Will these ten courses be sufficient to gain the required software engineering training at a college? This is for MS in CS with specialization in software engineering. 1. Database Systems Concepts and Design 2. Introduction to Information Security 3. Software Analysis and Test 4. Software Architect...Read more
Is anyone able to offer referrals at Google, Stripe or Square? I see a few roles in each that I'm interested in. I'm currently a DS with 4 YOE, and my MS in Computer Science. I have experience training/deploying production ML models, and looking to make a jump before my org has layoffs soon. I can p...Read more
I have been a good programmer most of my career and also a good manager. Done cloud computing, big data, C and Java etc. Sharp increase in the stability of cloud computing seems a bit scary to me as the same has increased profoundly in the last 5 years. Azure/GCP now sell a lot of big data products ...Read more
I'll be joining Google soon as T5. Super excited and also nervous. I have 15+ yoe but mainly on microsoft stack. My team will be using Java which I only used to solve algorithm problems (ie leetcode) 🤣. Know nothing about the framework/ecosystem in Java world (but I'm very solid with Ms stack inter...Read more
Been a part of Linkedin for the past 6 years and recently decided to interview at a few places namely Meta, Pinterest, Few Startups and Nvidia. Interviews went well everywhere. Just heard back from Nvidia (software), I seem to be a little confused about weighing between Nvidia and Linkedin. I'd li...Read more
Looking for Internship referrals to a Data Science internship opening at Unity. Browsing MS programs and about to take the GRE. Just graduated a DS bootcamp from University of Denver with prior internship experience in Music Management, prior experience in Data Quality, Support, Project Management:...Read more