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- Software Engineering Salaries for Pivotal Labs NYC I looked at Glassdoor and it seemed rather low. How much can I expect for a senior developer with 12 years of experience? Seems like a cool place to work
- Career pivot out of semiconductor industry into medical/healthcare tech - Accept a job with lower salary for better WLB? Hello Blinders, I guess my question is actually two parts: 1) I have been working as a Sr. Product Marketing Manager for a global semiconductor manufacturer based out of Silicon Valley for the past year after having completed my MBA from a top-15 biz-school in the US in 2020. The compensation is
- vote Is hardware a dying industry? Salaries are still low compared to that of software engineering. As a new grad, should i continue staying in this field or pivot to software? Tc : 12 lpa.(India) Yoe <1
- Yearly raises What’s the typical salary increase for Pivotal? If you don’t know, I’d like to hear about what it’s like at your company.
- vote VMware offer evaluation #vmware #pivotal Looking for an offer eval for a Sr. Product Marketing Manager role SALARY: $153,000 BONUS: 17% RSU: $ 72,000 over 4 years TC: 197,000
- Do we have a pee bottle Slack channel at Amazon? At Amazon, we have internal Slack channels to discuss WFH (remote), salaries (pay-equity), and Focus/Pivot/PIP culture (i-got-pipped-en). What about the FC associates? Is there a channel to discuss pee bottles and 💩 bags? #culture #officelife #workplace
- Amazon put me on pivot and gave 8 days to choose I need an advice from the blind community i have been put on pivot plan and have been given an option of a severance which is just 2 months salary and if not the improv plan i work in the HR not tech but i have 4 kids too so i am very much confused and need a genuine advice please. I appreciate all
- Curious Currently looking for employment and coming from broadcast media in communications role. Want to pivot towards tech and I wouldn't mind working at one of the FAANG's due to the salaries and perks. But what others companies outside of the FAANGS are great companies with good pay and benefits.
- Amazon Settlement money Settlement amount : What is the maximum amount did someone take away from Amazon as exit settlement after choosing severance in Pivot? Salary(Current month) + severance + leave Encashment + gratuity bonus?
- vote #VMware offer evaluation Cross post from Marketing group. @vmware #pivotal Looking for an offer eval for a Sr. Product Marketing Manager role based remote SALARY: $153,000 BONUS: 17% RSU: $ 72,000 over 4 year YOE: 8 in PMM TC: 197,000
- Amazon severance (Hire and Fire principle!) Hate moving from MS to AMZ Why is Amazon severance one fourth of your one month salary? Currently in Pivot/PIP plan and the severance is only 1/4th of my one month salary. If i resign before completion, I will get half month salary. Is this the norm at Amazon? Amazon hire and fire is horrible! Hate the move from Microsoft
- link Salary Benchmarking - Google Sheets Created a Google Sheets based on olmb40's original "Salary Benchmarking" post. Let's get some data in, run some pivots, and see what we can find. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eRqxoY7V1ROjCdUqf3h4igmmfXg7YxTZxsiUZ9OZM2I/edit#gid=0
- Looking for PM roles/referrals Looking for a PM role in tech. PM experience: 1 Total experience: 8 Salary expectation: $170k Based in LA but open to WFH or relocating I pivoted from business development & marketing to PM at a digital marketing start-up. Now looking to break into tech. Started applying and interviewing recently
- Which is better for marketing- Amazon or Meta? Got two job offers in marketing from Amazon and Meta. One is PMM (meta) and the other is brand marketing (Amazon). It’s a big pivot for me from F&B, so would love to hear from other marketers what would be the better move! Priorities for me are culture, growth potential and salary if that helps TI
- HCI Masters Degree Worth It? Currently a visual/motion designer but honestly feel stuck in terms of career paths, salary etc. thinking about applying for grad school in HCI so I can pivot to UX/Product Design has anyone else done the same? Really looking for any advice lol. TC: 82K YOE: 2 #ux #productdesign
- How does product management ladder compare to engineering/data science ladder in terms of compensation? I believe I'm in a pivot point where I know I'm interested in product management and in a verge of a PIP. I'm thinking to get into product management. Hence would like to know how salaries and growth differs.
- How do I negotiate a good salary if I’m unemployed? Hi guys. I was pivoted out of Amazon last month (around March 12). I took the severance package and then took a short break to travel around the world. I realize that being unemployed will set put me in a precarious position for salary negotiation and that I’ll get low balled. However, I’ve read se
- Amazon pivot and background check Long story short, on a dev plan and not gonna make it. I interviewed and I have a few offers. I am effectively more than doubling my TC with one offer. Here are my possible options: 1) Resign now giving 2 weeks notice and put this bitter experience behind me. 2) Tell manager to either take me off
- Any insight into how it's working for HERE Technologies, Chicago? Interviewing for SWE. Apart from the obvious history of the company I could find online (mergers/acquisitions/rebranding/strategy pivoting).. Can someone tell me how the work culture is? Does the TC measure up with Chicago salaries? Potential for learning and growth with the company? YOE: 4 Years
- vote Help me decide a career choice Metrics: 1. Difficulty of breaking into the field 2. Number of Job openings 3. Average Salary Given the above metrics, which is a good career choice to pivot? Follow-up question - Is it easy to break into data science rather than leet coding for SWE positions? Any advice for a newbie would be
- Companies that do extreme programming? Recently I have seen quite a few startups adopting the extreme programming methodology similar to what Pivotal does, such as 90% pair programming, 9-6 firm schedules. I’m wondering how can those companies justify the strict rules and extra hours without paying above average salaries, while seemingl
- Ex-IB / PE folks who made transition to big tech? Would love to hear about what the process was like for someone who successfully made the transition into a strategy / biz dev / M&A role at a big tech firm from IB/PE role - interview process, comp, etc. Doing a lot of soul searching during quarantine and ready to hop off the finance wagon understa
- vote DE vs Backend SWE I find myself wanting to pivot to Backend because the systems design seems much more interesting - but there are also cool problems with designing analytics platforms and the like. If I stay with DE I will likely have better salary increase, at least near term. Is this “grass is always greener” or
- ESG Investment Analyst Hey there- first post! Looking for salary comps for a somewhat unique role in Investment Management- sustainability/ESG analyst. I cover equity research for all sectors but through a sustainability lens rather than traditional fundamental analyst. Been investment analyst for 5 years, was a sustaina
- Contractor to FTE Process I spent the last two years pivoting from another industry into marketing in tech. Right now I’ve been working as a P3 - contractor. I really like my team and my boss has mentioned converting me in the next few months. I have been getting calls for contractor roles at FANNG at much higher salaries b
- Transitioning to IB from different industry. Transitioning out of the Marines in about seven months. Currently a Captain (in charge of 100+ Marines, 350+ million in assets blah blah blah). Trying to pivot into IB. What can i expect in terms of positions/salary availbility with alot of leadership experience but no IB experience? Alot of exper
- Looking to break into Software role I'm a Mechanical Engineer looking to switch to a software engineering role. I've reworked my resume to focus on the software/coding aspects of my job, along with personal projects. Any suggestions on what companies I should target? I don't think I have enough LC to make FAANG yet but ideally that's
- link Amazon L6 Sr. Product Manager Offer Hello Everyone, I'd really appreciate the perspective on my offer. I have13YOE in IT Infrastructure. However, I went back to school for MBA career pivot into Product Management. I applied though MBA new grad track and through Amazon.jobs portal, so I never was in contact with a recruiter during
- Is PT UT Austin McCombs MBA @DFW worth it? Security Consultant w/access to Post 9/11 GI Bill Title pretty much says it all. I’m a security consultant living in DFW. Former military officer and service academy grad with full access to post 9/11 GI Bill. I work remotely and my salary is $185K. Studied Electrical Engineering & Comp Sci at the Academy. 30 years old, Asian male, no kids. At my
- Career change from Analytics to what? Started out as a data analyst right out of college and I'm an Analytics Manager now managing a large team. I am starting to feel bored by the data and analytics role. Want to try out one of the four routes: venture capital (investing or non-investing roles like startup operations support), UX/Produc
- Which tech career to pivot to from SWE? Leetcode hurts, the time it takes to accomplish landing something for very good pay as SWE starting to seem not worth it especially as saturation, question difficulty, and competition increases. Looking to explore other options. Don’t particularly love programming either, just another job, am willin
- How would you address this? My company (Truepill) grew too fast and was put on an appropriate hiring freeze. HR blocked any conversation of backfills, promotions, or salary adjustments. The pay block went so far as to block an obvious gender gap where two people are doing the exact same role but the female has a lower title an
- Considering switching career trajectory I’m a mechanical engineer in my 20s (working in design & mass production of parts). I’m looking to make good money (FAANG type company salary), work about 50 hours/week (or less), and live on the coasts (NY/ Boston or Bay Area / LA / SD / Seattle). I’m considering a pivot into Product Management,
- Pivot offer analysis for a SDM at Amazon Hello community, i am working as sdm at amazon for one year and received an offer to leave (pivot) with 3 salaries af severance. I would like to get inputs on the improve option to stay and fight to stay at amazon ( in another org for sure). Some thoughts. Pros: - get New data points in this tight d
- Pivot from my industrial career to DS? ~7 years experience,.diploma in ee, BA,.and upcoming MS.of DS. Mid 30s Grew quickly in F500, leadership and management promotions. Solid engineer in controls, electrical, software (logical stuff, not typical cs), manufacturing and supply chain too...and global experience.... Joined a startup as a
- vote Is switching to amazon worth it Have a really steady job here and my team is great and super laid back. About to get an offer from Amazon. Team that I talked to seems nice so far but hesitant because of the horror stories. Not the most amazing interview taker so won’t be able to pivot and find a new job quickly if things go south
- Looking for Work Hi I am looking for opportunities in FinTech or technology as a QA/BA on a product development team or a system admin. I have 5+ YOE in the financial service industry in client facing and operational roles but looking to pivot. I’m open to entry-mid level positions (including help desk if it’s my on
- Got my Pivot Documents today You can ask me about information related to pivot. I was in Dev plan and was on track to achieve my goals. And my manager had given me feedback that I am improving. But 1 week before the dev plan end date, my manager said that I would need to go into another dev plan for showing more skills that can
- vote Help me decide between Amazon & Facebook; MBA Internship Offer Hi All, I am a current 1Y MBA pivoting into tech and am trying to decide between an offer from Amazon and Facebook. I am a career consultant and have minimal professional exposure to tech so any advice would be greatly appreciated! A few data points: - Amazon monthly salary is $9200 (Seattle) - Fa
- Chasing FIRE YOE 8 TC 150k, almost all salary Toronto Data / business side I feel like I've maxed out for my role and the only way to move up is to suddenly become charismatic or pivot into something else. Thinking DE -> SWE, but I'm pushing mid 30s and feel like this would be a major step back in TC in Toro
- vote Competing offers: non-profit open-source vs. consulting firm (not Big 4) Two offers, both received today. Could use some advice. The org growth trajectories are very similar, and I love the idea of having a hand in the workflow and process management of each new department arm. 1. Non-profit in open-source tech TL;DR: Title higher than current role, salary lateral, bene
- 4.5 YOE Finance in Amazon, just turned L6. Salary bump sucks, what's better out there? Joined Amazon as L4 Financial Analyst fresh from undergrad. Been with the company about 4.5 years and just became L6 Sr. Financial Analyst. The salary bump is very disappointing (only $18K), now TC $140K. Averaging ~60-70hrs per week, worked on 50% weekend for the last 2.5 years, doing the work no
- vote Tech career opportunities in NYC vs Bay Area Hey everyone, I moved to the Bay Area in the summer of 2019 from NYC after living there for 5 years. The reason for the move was that I wanted to pivot into tech from engineering consulting and accelerate my career. The company I currently work for has switched to 100% remote indefinitely so I can
- TC for ML in Biomed? In Seattle, very much over the FAANG life and would like to pivot to medicine/medtech. So far I'm looking at Allen Institute, Fred Hutch, and Intellectual Ventures, but I don't know much about them including TC. It's clearly a drop, but I'm looking for some solid numbers to estimate just how much
- Looking for referral for a WFH position that pays 65k+ I am currently a speech language pathologist looking to pivot careers. Many of my skills are very transferable to other roles in project management, clinical operations, data based positions, and people operations. I have 3+ years of working in clinical research and have worked in hospitals, clinic
- Pivot? 28yo software developer. I have been working for five years now, earning a decent salary, no complaints. But of late I hit a coding slump- I really do not find it interesting anymore. I find it boring and repetitive. I dislike taking on new projects at work. Every time we get started on feature dev
- Personality & job mismatch 8 YOE, analytics in an organization trying to be a tech company that was spun out of a major player in an absolutely archaic industry. Toronto Area TC: ~150k (CAD) I've pretty much hit the ceiling of what I can expect; I'm likely overpaid for what I do, given location and comparable salary offeri
- vote Pre-A startup evaluate comp Hi everyone - asking for a friend about her current salary for a pre-A 10 person startup as a Product Manager. 1-2 YOE, and TC is “110k” 55k cash and .75% equity (supposed to be worth 60k tied to a bond, vested over 4 years) She’s younger and so only 1-2 YOE, her responsibilities at a startup of t
- MS in Bioinformatics at Georgia tech? Hello folks, I currently work as a ML Engineer in India and am interested in working on problems related to AI in healthcare, genomics etc. I have an admit for MS in Bioinformatics from Gatech. But, It seems that the average salary out of Bioinformatics programme is on the lower side (80k/yr) comp
- Self learning development: worth it? I ended up as a tech sourcer/recruiter just under a year ago. Apparently it takes about 3 years to make any money at all, and if it's not for me I'd like a good fallback so I'm not mixing concrete and cleaning up dead rats anymore. Realistically is there any chance I could land a dev job if I self