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- Salesforce Acquisition: How will employees be paid out at Slack? Will there be layoffs? I’m on vacation for 3 weeks and away from my laptop. What are the acquisition details? Will there be layoffs? Does my unvested stock vest right away?
- Why doesn't SFDC buy Dropbox? Dbx market cap is currently below $9.5b. SFDC could acquire Dbx for $15b (about half what they paid for Slack) and it would be less than what they paid for Tableau too (especially if you adjust for inflation). Why acquire Dropbox? Same reason they acquired Slack. Seems like they're trying to compet
- vote Slack vs Etsy (engineering) Applying as a senior mobile engineer. More excited for Etsy as a product, but priorities are wlb, compensation, career growth. Which should I go for? Please vote and add why! Compensation ++Slack Wlb tie (is this true?) Pto ++Slack (unlimited) Career growth/promotions ? (i hear that Slack might
- How's Slack as a company? A recruiter from Slack reached out. How are they to work for? Do they get paid in Salesforce stock?
- Director Marketing/ Growth Marketing Referrals I am a L6 with 15 yoe. 2.5 years at Amazon. Specialities: Digital acquisition, paid media, marketing automation. Accepted counter and in a terrible place. Please HELP! Looking for referrals. @Slack has an opening for Head of Paid Digital. Can anybody from Slack refer? Any other referals?
- vote Help me decide - Spotify or Slack? Role: Sr Engineer. Yoe 7 Spotify: 230K base + 255K equity / 4 years Slack: 230K base + 300K equity / 4 years Which one would you choose? What is your opinion on each of these? Tradeoffs Spotify: bigger company and better WLB. Not as challenging technically. Slack: smaller company backed by Sa
- Got slackers at your work? Signs are they don't want to come back to office coz they can get away with hiding or pretending to be busy on Teams. You message them and about 4 hours later it's end of the day they finally reply. Actually they were probably doing errands or home projects and get paid on company time doing a perso
- Holidays 2021 Which companies has a week off (Not PTO) from Christmas to New Year ? Edit : Updating the list for ease 1. Slack 2. Marvell 3. Vmware 4. Apple 5. Cisco 6. Genentech 7. Mural 8. Gilead 9. Autodesk, Roblox (2 weeks off) 10. Bloomreach 11. HPE #holidays #officelife
- vote Do you finish unfinished conversations of friday during weekend over slack? Curious if we should finish any unfinished conversations of friday over weekend? I prefer nope we shouldn’t, let it be for monday! Ain’t got paid for weekends😒 Thoughts 💭🤨 #tech #softwareengineer #slack #weekend
- can employers legally put you on pip while on PTO i was on pto this week and my manager slacked me if i were available a quick call today. i was presented w development plan right after the call. is this even legal #pip #legal #employmentlaw pls help w next steps and suggestions
- Told coworker how much I get paid as kind gesture He trying to take all the work now even though he’s already overbooked and the stuff he completes is wrong. He then goes back to manager and says he does more work than me and demands to get paid more. Then manager threatens I get demoted and lose pay if I don’t pick up slack. Wtf?
- How much actual work do you do? When I take out meetings, email, slack, social time with colleagues, learning, standups, updating JIRA, bathroom breaks, lunch… I am at 19 hours in a week. Much of that 19 hours is design docs, code reviews, some coding, ops, … in other words things I think I am being paid for. Senior looking at s
- Why Google keeps failing so awkwardly in making a good chat app? Google fan here. I really love most of what you do and believe that if it wasn't for Google things would be quite different for smartphone users (Apple paid hell) and engineers (back to the dark room earning pennies unless you climb the ladder up to higher management). But Jesus Christ Google Rooms
- Referral Help Needed Hello everyone, I'm looking for referrals to any FAANGMULA+ companies (or anywhere else). Expertise: Digital marketing & e-commerce strategy. Specialties: multi-dimensional personalization, agile (Kanban), paid media, marketing technology & automation, journey design, infra management. TC: 350k
- Best time to apply during senior year? I'm going to be graduating by next June, and I'm studying leetcode pretty hard to get ready for interviews. I'd like to apply later so that I can have more time to improve my skills. I want to work for a company like Dropbox, Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, robinhood, slack, zoom in backend development. What'
- Change Salary after Offer My friend and the entire office she works in is getting laid off. She interviewed for a different role at the company and got an offer making significantly more than her current role. They made the offer verbally and in writing over slack. Had to wait till Monday for formal offer. They must have rea
- 2 weeks notice now? I'm starting new job in Jan. Should I give 2 weeks notice(+/- few days) right after New Year or tell my manager now that I'm going to leave soon? Just trying to be a bro kinda shit, plus my manager can think about my replacement etc. Next week i'm on PTO, trying to slack as much as possible before
- What are the top firms for designers? Is it same as eng? Would the best firms for eng generally also translate to being the best firms for designers too? I know at FB, eng is treated as first class but designers are also pretty important and get paid well + get challenging projects + learn from other high caliber designers. Would it be also fair to assu
- Front End Devs, What are your Dream Companies to Work For? List your dream companies to work for considering the following criteria: * Developer Experience: Get to work on great tech with really smart engineers. * Career Growth: A company where one can grow meritocratically. * Impact: Your work is pretty valuable to the company. * Compensation: Get paid ha
- It's bloody hard being a working woman Shout out to all my fellow women who manage work without any recognition or acknowledgement of all the effort being put in, big and small, in keeping sanity at home. All the unspoken chores that you silently pick up, which go unnoticed. For the one time you complain, being called out for not being f
- Who pays well ouside of FAANG? I’m currently an Analytics / Data Engineering manager with about 15 yoe total (some lead roles), and 1-2yrs in management with dirext reports. Moving to NYC to be close to my partner’s family. Outside of FAANG, who has offices in NYC or remote that pay well? All this LeetCode prep looks exhausting.
- PSA for Amazonians getting PIP'd I've been seeing quite a bit of posts along the lines of "I'm getting PIP'd. What do I do?" Here's what you do. Burn down sick time, PTO, optimally slack off to interview prep/chill. That's what you do. If you have dependents (individual, team, or org) why are they PIP'ing you? Because the company
- Where to go after Facebook? As an enterprise engineer (engineer for internal business tools) I don’t get paid as much as SWEs at Facebook. I’m planning my next move. I failed a Google interview back in May so Google’s out of the question. Which companies should I target for max TC. I’ve had recruiters from Slack, Stripe and
- Career Advice: MSFT -> FB/G Slight rant: Currently at msft on a great team with extremely good wlb. TC is decent on msft standards. Recently got a new manager that Im not a huge fan of. He’s a decent person but i like my old manager more. Dilemma: Im not a rest & vest person st all. Ill easily work 50/hr weeks by choice when
- Millennial time waster coworker - help This person makes millennials look normal. Side shaved head, wears jeans when we're supposed to be buttoned down, one of those skater chains, same red n black plaid jacket shirt thing, plugs in his ears. And he is constantly on IG 90% of the work day. It annoys me beyond belief. Like he gets paid he
- Management forcing an on-call rotation for the team Currently works in analytics focused program management team. Senior Manager wants to impose a weekend on-call rotation schedule for the team “in case something breaks” Since it’s “rare” that something breaks and “only need to check slack here and there and it’s usually just a quick 30 min fix” he
- How are you supposed to study for interviews while burned out? So I feel burned out from my current job. I swear new manager is coming in and running this place like Amazon. I’m still chugging along at it instead of completely giving up and doing nothing just to get the manager off my back. (Slack pings gives me more anxiety). I’m spending the rest of my free
- Mid lvl engineer looking for referrals Hi everyone! 26 year old software developer here. I've always wanted to try and work at a more prestigious company and have been working hard the past few months in terms of interview prep. I'm looking for referrals to any FAANGMULA/Big N companies. LC 200+ YOE: 4 or 6 (including paid internships)
- Designers – how do you safely copy design files from your work computer onto your personal computer? I’m a designer at a mid-sized tech company. I’ve been working here for a while now, and I want to start updating my portfolio and creating some case studies for the projects I’ve worked on. I’ve thought about this a lot of different ways, and I can’t think of a way to safely make a copy of my desig
- Referrals please, leaving Bloomberg I actually like my team but feel like my market value is higher than what I'm getting paid at BB. Interested in any and all (mid to large-ish) companies that can pay around $250k+ for mid-level/L4 equivalent engineer in the NYC area or remote. Done around 150 LC in the last couple of months so star
- Breaking my back for other coworkers to get the recognition I’m sure this isn’t something new… We’ve been on this project for the last 10 months. I was assigned all over the project. For multiple times, I was pulled into a brand new track to solve something they were stuck on for days if not weeks. I researched and researched, even work longer hours and wee
- Is Data Science and Data Engineering Diluted with Lackluster Talent? As someone who currently works in data, I can say that the teams that I encounter on a daily basis are a joke. Their products are terrible, not thought out, aesthetically displeasing and just overall you can tell there is little to no skill behind the products and data pipes and visuals that many Am
- vote Offer decision Software Engineer Non-FAANG low TC I need your help! I just started a new software engineering job 6 months ago at a big telecom company where my TC is 140k in a major Texas city. But the problem is culture sucks! My mentor never answers me on slack, no one has been supportive, and most of the work is done offshore. I don’t collabora
- Burnout or lazy? Background: Team with very high operation load (Oncall for a week for 12 hours each day with an average of 30 pages per day). My work has been taxing both mentally and physically. Manager keeps taking more tasks from leadership and pushes them to the team. He makes sure that I work extra hours befor
- Resume Review Service I've been doing resume reviews for people on Slack, Discord, some FB groups, etc pro-bono. Over time, I've collected insights and helped people get their foot through the door for FAANG+ companies with helping them transform their resumes. (For most people on Blind/in FAANG, you probably already ha
- Working for 3 companies at once Im leaving Amazon for FB at end of year. I also just recently passed the goog HC and am stuck in team matching right now. Does anyone know if being overemployed at the FAANG companies can actually get you in trouble? I heard people do this at smaller places where you can get away with slacking?
- I think I'm broken I don't want to get out of bed. I don't want to eat. I don't want to talk. I don't want to do anything except sleep. I've never felt like this before. It feels like the world has turned gray. I took all my PTO and that didn't help. I talked to my manager to get more time off but they said there's n
- link Coding Interview Preparation in Seattle I see several posts asking for how to prepare for coding interviews. I commented on 2-3 of them with details about a few eastside coding meetups. Let me try to gather my thoughts here, will update if I need to add more. Here is how to Prepare for Tech Interviews * Time to Success: Depending on
- Looking for internship referrals Hi everybody. I'm looking for Fall 2022 referrals 😅 😅 😅 A little bit about me: - 4 SWE internships at Big N and some startups (Received the highest rating at 3/4) - Interning at Amazon in the summer - 2 paid part time contract SWE jobs (1 ongoing) - CS at T20 - 250+ LC Fall 2022 will be my sixt
- vote IBM: Young grads — stay away. Join if you are lazy and complacent or a Boomer/Gen X. This is a complete sinking ship. 1. Work life balance may be the only benefit that IBM provides you. If you're fortunate to be assigned on a chill team, work from home 1-2 times and work for less than 30 hrs per week all year round. If you aren't so lucky, you'll be working your asses off to pick up the others' slack. Maternal/pate
- vote Is “Diversity” going too far? Interviewed three new grads this past two weeks. Our team needs to fill a hiring quota. First Candidate: Had to ask a question very similar to Number of Islands on Leetcode. Another question was a basic DP problem. He was sharp on his feet. Previous intern at Capital One. Marked as inclined to hire
- PM Community Thanks (Google Prep) I joined Google a few weeks back after a few months of interviewing around and wanted to give some thanks and relevant advice back to the community. I got a lot of value from reading a ton of blind posts about the interview process at Google and many other top tech companies and want to at least pay
- Coronafied WFH policy WFH employee will be expected to work at a level consistent with the employees working at the office or in a manner and frequency that seems appropriate for the job and the teams involved. WFH employees must meet the following requirements: 1. You must maintain technical availability and efficien
- Terrible onboarding experience. I wanna quit. I’m only 2 months in, but it’s been hell. The onboarding experience has been the worst. I haven’t had a formal reoccurring 1-1 meeting with my current manager and every time I ask about it, they say they’ll get around to scheduling it. My onboarding buddy also went on PTO so I never had a go to per
- Early startup employee post-mortem TC: $120k (non-tech) YOE: 8 EDIT: I rose to VP level and large areas of the company's success were on my shoulders, along with 2-3 other people at a similar level. I worked for a startup for the last 8 years and finally decided to quit (company is closer to 15 years old but didn't make any money un
- Nurse Practitioner seeking medical affairs role Hello, This is my first first post on any "public" forum...EVER. I am currently a Nurse Practitioner (NP) working in home care/transition of care for a start-up now being wholly acquired by our primary capital venture (UHG). I am seeking to move into medical affairs with any industry- pharma or med
- link Woman in tech got PIP'd after confronting her manager about co-worker who found out about her NSFW art and teased her Original: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/7rwcit/coworker_found_out_that_i_used_to_draw_nsfw/ Update: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/7t9vp8/update_coworker_found_out_that_i_used_to_draw/ *****The updated post has been removed, here is a snapshot of it:*****
- WHY most of Big Tech does NOT want fully remote https://ez.substack.com/p/the-work-from-home-future-is-destroying "...remote work inherently messes with the power dynamic of the worker and the boss, and it is going to make many, many brains malfunction.” The reason isn’t just about control, but the very fabric of how employment or contract work
- Deteriorating mental health at Amazon It's been 9 months as SDE 2 at Amazon and I've already swithched teams. Now I'm unable to cope up with working here because of the following reasons :- 1. Struggling with Internal tools and legacy Coral Services. People in my org don't care about NAWS. I'm sick of Apollo, MAWS, Coral, LPT and inte
- A positive amazon experience I keep hearing such negativity about Amazon so I want to share my experience with others. The negativity on blind does not fully represent the company and certainly does not represent my personal experience. No I'm not a recruiter or manager. This is not a fake advertisement. I've been in amazon fo