I have an upcoming interview with discover for Principal Application Engineer. Anyone has recently interviewed with them? I would like to know what should i prepare for first round. Please share experience. #tech #discoverfinancialservices #sre
I’ve received my offer letter from Principal Financial Group and I feel like they lowballed me hard with the salary. Anyone have any tips on salary negotiations? This would be my first time doing it. #interview #finance #salarynegotiation #salary
I am interviewing for a principal business analyst position at stripe. The position is within the finance and I will be managing there financial systems. What's compensation for this position at stripe. My current position is manager & TC 160k.
My brother is a new grad interviewing for Discover financial services for Application engineer role. First round of interview was with Principal application engineer. He is scheduled for virtual on-site interview next week. Recruiter mentioned 4 interviews out of which 3 are behavioral and one is t...Read more
I have about 15 yrs experience, got an offer from Priceline.com and they leveled down to senior software engineer. Total 150k base, 15 sign on and 15% bonus + 15k in stocks. Should I join or try negotiating for a principal ? I did well on the interviews, may be because I am from financial services ...Read more
I am currently interviewing SWE role (title: Senior applications developer) at Apple. The roles does not indicate weather it is at ICT5/6 etc.. I am also interviewing for staff software engineer at Google (recruiter told me this will be at L6) Levels.fyi says ICT4 is senior roles for ICT5 etc.. th...Read more
Had multiple rounds of interviews for a Principal Product Manager role with Oracle’s SaaS Engineering team. Yet to have the HR discussions on financials yet. I want to be prepared. Could someone help me on what I need to ask? My details: Total years of experience- 8 Current company- 140k base plus ...Read more
2004 - Moved to US for Masters in CS 2006 - First consulting gig at $30/hr thru H1B shop 2008 - Unemployed half the year due to recession 2011 - Tier 2 Sr SWE ($150k) 2013 - Principal at new IPO ($320k, brutal WLB, left once GC approved) 2013 - Tier 3 Eng Manager (team size 8, $200k) 2014 - Sr M...Read more
I applied for an L7 Principal Engagement manager role and provided a $291 base/$350-$450k range to the interviewer before my loop. I just got an offer Atlanta area for the Global Financial services team as Sr. Engagement Mgr L6, claiming I did well in the loop but did not qualify for the L7 role. T...Read more
This post is my personal opinion and I am open to discussions and thoughts. Recruiters are the folks who get the right set of candidates/skillsets on the table. At its inception, they are the people who help a company grow if they get the right folks join the organisation. They are the first folks t...Read more
So some background first. I have a Bachelor's of Science and Business Administration (2012) with a focus on finance and a Masters of Science of Business Analytics (2020). I have over 8 years of total experience where I predominantly been focused on FP&A, financial reporting and data analytics in mar...Read more
Total YoE: 12 Past 5 years: Was Co-founder/Head of Product at my ~15 people startup (B2C- built it from 0 to 1) Covid + market crash = end of the road for us. For 9 years before that (~2 year of overlap where I worked FT and on startup): Financial Services and then Big 4 consulting in Product, O...Read more
I have been interviewing over the past few months and now have two offers in front of me that I am trying to decide between. First to provide some perspective, I have about 8 years of solid work experience primarily in financial and analytic roles mostly in the telecom industry. Currently I am worki...Read more
Note: Younger SW guys please GTFOH. For your pleasure My CTC is 470K per annum(15 + years, 7th year in US). Also no trolling please, this can happen to you guys too. Need some real good advise. I hope this post can be used by many more in similar situation Background: I will be 45 in couple of yea...Read more
Update to my post: Turns out this is the hiring manager, not a recruiter. They responded to my email -they wrote me they work hard to make their org a better employer. I believe they have good intentions, but wasn't it Papa Jeff who said that good intentions (by themselves) do not count? Backgrou...Read more
TL;DR: Small investors put their money on real estate syndicators .. companies go bust into foreclosure, small investors take the losses while syndicators (admins) keep their fees. I hate too much regulation but is this okay? https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-housing-bust-comes-for-thousands-of-small-...Read more