I have seen people (colleagues) literally walk into FAANG and other companies after barely passing (or not passing interviews) because they had someone who would “vouch” for them. I have had mediocre (and less than mediocre) engineers hired into my team because I referred them/agreed to “vouch” for...Read more
What is the morale inside the company (other than Sales and IT - they are heavily affected by the latest layoff)?
I got an offer from Palo Alto Networks in as a Senior Engineer. Yoe 12. What is the expected compensation I can negotiate without counter offers.
I understand the importance of networking and have come to know that they give new perspective into looking at career and life in general. Calling out blind community! 1. Based on the experiences that I have had, I think I can give back to the community. I think I am in a position to mentor/just ha...Read more
Got a job offer from Palo alto Networks ( prisma cloud) and I currently work at Microsoft.( azure networking) Both roles have to do with their cloud offerings. Plus palo gives me an opportunity to pursue 3 major cloud platforms. Planning to move for salary growth and compensation. Looking to ask a...Read more
I’m thinking of moving to Palo Alto Networks. I know their comp is nice, but I know next to nothing about their culture. Anyone know what their culture is like? Are people happy there? Challenging projects? I’m thinking of moving there maybe next year as I feel like Li doesn’t have many interesti...Read more
Who gets paid more TC in the long run? A network engineer in companies like Google, Facebook, MSFT or a QA engineer in vendors such as Cisco, Arista, Nuage, Juniper etc. Tc:170k
Palo Alto Networks offer eval for Sr. Software Engineer in Test, SD-WAN Total exp 3.5 yr Base 170 Rsu 80k
Warning to all the prospective employees who might want to join . Don’t just look at the recent stock price pop and what the analysts say . I have never worked anywhere where the management/HR is this dishonest. They were so much into flex work and promoting themselves as a remote friendly company. ...Read more
What level does senior staff software engineer in Palo Alto Networks maps to FAANG levels ? What are level structure in Palo Alto Networks ?
Nancy pelosi bought 2M of $200 calls just now, should we also buy?
Got numbers from Arista Networks for System Software role in Bangalore office. TC Offered: 26 base + retirals + 7.5K stocks + 4.5 anniversary bonus Total: 39 LPA Yoe: 2.5 years Also how is the learning and work at Arista? Edit: If you are saying not worth joining, can you please state your reaso...Read more
How is it like working at Palo Alto Networks? Been reading Glassdoor/Quora. Be great to hear from people who are working there too. Thanks!
I just moved to NYC and currently work in tech as a program manager. I’m looking to meet more people in the NYC tech community. What are your favorite tech networking groups?
I have been a network engineer at Amazon for 6 years and lately realized that I am just getting sucked into solving small problems here and there and do not feel like my knowledge is growing or my career is heading anywhere. Any solution I design for a problem is developed by an SDE and gets the ov...Read more
Have google phone screen in couple of weeks for network engineer. Any google network engineers, pls advise what to expect, particularly in regards to how many coding related questions, and Linux administration. Also Overall difficulty level same as amazon/FB or harder? On-site has purely technical ...Read more
I have an open agenda to find out different projects/technical possibilities on using data science in networking, DNS etc People who are data science experts here and/or networking experts can you please share your ideas.
Role: Dev in prisma cloud group Current at Cisco :G12, 340, SBG(after recent stock crash) PANW offer: Sr PE Offer: 235 Base, 15% bonus 480 stocks for 4 years - comes to 390 per year Reason for change: frustrated by cisco politics, non stop reorgs and clueless woke leadership. TC probably will go ...Read more