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- Keep Slack Status Active What do you use to keep your slack status active when you are away?
- vote Slack status when you are working? Reasonings are welcome.
- Keep active status on slack always I'm being more productive due to wfh and have bit more free time. I want to utilize that time in a good way (maybe read up some books etc) Does anyone know if there's a slack hack to always look active. I'm delivering my work on time so ideally my manager wouldn't care about my slack status, but no
- What's the best Slack Status for FMLA/STDI during Pivot? Any particularly good options? LeetCode 'n Chill? 🌴Vacationing? Pipped?
- vote Can I change my Slack Status to "LC & GTFO" in my notice period? Anyone knows if I can change my Slack Status to "LC & GTFO" after giving a 2-week notice? Will the manager mark the norehire checkbox for that? Will they do a garden leave mid-notice? #tech
- Going AFK During the Workday Best way to keep Slack status Online while AFK? Don’t want to get caught using a macro or something. I only work about half my workday, and ideally I could somehow keep my slack status online and go do other shit. I have Slack on my phone so I could still react when necessary. Has anyone done anyth
- Internal debate at Apple about remote work And how pay cuts might affect employees. They’ve also been cracking down on the fun Slack channels. https://twitter.com/zoeschiffer/status/1420149606696898561?s=21
- How to show online on Slack How to show my slack status as online when I am just napping? Asking for a friend, obviously TC : 45k
- Slacking Off Recently switched to using Slack. Any advice on slacking off? I was thinking just install Slack on my phone and leave the house during the day to fuck around. Will my team be able to see that I am online on my phone but not my laptop? Will my status become inactive if I don't have the Slack app runn
- Micromanagement Hey guys how do you manage with micromanagement? Like daily 1:1, daily stand up, online status, daily priorities on slack? Plus how’re you doing questions the whole day? #tech #software #RH
- Wfh life @slack how do I keep my status as active? It keep going away even when watching videos. #wfh #remotework
- Thoughts on Salesforce Acquiring Slack Salesforce : We're thrilled to be acquiring Slack! Combining @SlackHQ with #Customer360 will be transformative, creating the operating system for the new way to work. Together, we'll enable companies to succeed in the all-digital, work-from-anywhere world. Deal : 27.7 Billion Dollars https://tw
- Twitter shipping speed by 2023 So to hit it's 2023 growth targets Twitter wants to "double the number of features shipped per employee" what does that mean. Everyone is gonna just work twice as much, or there's enough slack to find 2x more efficiency in the company? https://twitter.com/TwitterIR/status/1364941813589504001?s=20
- Companies that DON'T do any stand-ups? My first job was a small startup and we didn't have stand-up. I loved that and still can't get over how much I hate standups many years later. Are there any decent-paying companies that don't do any stand-ups? Basically, they won't start "checking in" with you for "status" updates until they notic
- How many LEETCODE problems for BIG BIG $$$ I want the big big greens. Stacked all the way to the ceiling. Baller status. New car. Sexy wife. Name brand slacks and shoes. But I don’t know 100% how many LEETCODE to memorize. After how many problems can I have hot sex nightly with a high quality partner?
- link Don't join RevolutApp! Take a look at this snapshot taken from the slack channel of RevolutApp. This is the message from their CEO Nikolay Storonsky. What an asshole! What's wrong with these young people as CEOs why are they so heartless. Also if you apply for a job there, you have to bring them 200 customers in ord
- Do you work on weekends? I have been working weekdays from 9am to 11pm for a few months now with no weekends break. My manager regularly pings on slack during weekends to know about the status of deliverables. I can't help but feel burned out, and helpless since other members of the team are happy to comply. I am new to th
- vote Most attractive companies/startups list, from a nobody I work at IBM so literally ignore this post. These are the most attractive companies to me, to work for. Would basically do unspeakable things to work at any of these. Based on TC, brand, rocketship status, and tech. no specific order Public companies: Slack, Salesforce, Google, Facebook, Square,
- vote WLB for Managers with young kids How many additional hours do you (managers with young kids) work in a day. I feel like after 6-8 hour of meetings, I need to catch up on emails slack , status updates, presentations etc .. which could easily take 1-2 hours additionally. End up not sleeping before 11ish :( I wonder how would it be v
- Is New Relic trying to get bought? Constant, silent layoffs. Morale has plummeted to the ground. It feels like execs are shaving the fat off the company with no future plan in sight. None of the higher ups care about engineering, they only care about sales and slapping lipstick on broken products. Every few weeks people disappea
- vote Email etiquette vs. Chat/Slack/In-person? I'm comfortable with all forms of communication at work but when there are toooo many things to do then I prefer dropping 'emails'. But I see that some people have horrible 'email etiquettes', i.e., either they write bad replies; or they don't reply on-time/at all. I know some people prefer chat/Sl
- Overwork during Quarantine - How to avoid it? I joined my firm end of last year, analytics team. Since quarantine, people started to send out a lot more requests - I've been working 8am-9pm, 6 days per week. Sometimes 7 days for the past 2 months. I also got some peer pressure: my colleges were online(based on their Slack status) even it's 10p
- Shopify Is a Sinking Ship I'm posting this publicly to get the word out there, but Shopify is not a well-run company. While the majority of people and the WLB are both fantastic, the entire company direction and its culture have been decimated by the pandemic. I don't want to be all doom and gloom to potential new hires, but
- vote Is this toxic culture? Everyone on the team has to keep their status updated at all times with slack/emails to the entire team such as: “I’ll be out 3-3:30pm to pick up a package.” I can understand these since it’s normal work hours, even though our team has no on-call duties. But people also say stuff like this on FRI
- Request for referrals Hi all, Happy New Year! I'm looking to connect with individual contributors, hiring managers/recruiters for referrals for SWE positions to any FAANGMULA+ companies and up and coming startups. LC: 175+ YOE: 3+ Status: Have upcoming interviews with Google, Tiktok and Goldman Sachs. Please drop a
- It's the holiday season 🎉 Just imagine No broken dev environments No broken CI No broken staging environments No on-call pages No code review nitpicks No bullshit meetings where everyone feigns interest No 1:1s No PMs who think their work is the most urgent No clueless managers trying to squeeze work No directors who remain
- How to do u show leadership on resume when you aren’t in a leader role? I’ve been on multiple smaller groups here where we have nontechnical leads and I’m usually the one who picks up the slack in that area and become to go to person for the technical details of the project. The nontechnical leads are basically secretaries that flow our status to management and do meeti
- Referral for Data Science roles Hi, I am currently working with Google Marketing team as TVC and am looking to switch jobs in the field of data science, product management and program management. I have extensive experience in A/B testing, personalization, web analytics, recommendation engines and visualization. Education: MS (F
- People at work are making me miserable ... Switched job recently. I only listed a couple here that happened 'within' a week ... #1 I shared my work and asked for feedback, they raised a bunch of issues that were previously discussed and decided which I pointed out. I said I really am not sure how to proceed based on the discussion and asked
- How do you deal with unempathetic TL? I have a TL that shows no empathathy and is unorganized. He habitually pings me after 5:30 pm and asks "can you do this tonight?" (not that I don't want to work overtime occasionally, but it's totally unnecessary. He could have been just a little organized and have things planed during work hour,
- MLE/ SWE Referrals Needed! I’m looking for MLE/SWE referrals at FAANGMULA+. I'm living in the Midwest, trying to relocate to the Bay area. Lost my job offer in the Bay area due to COVID last year, took up a job at a startup that low-balled me big time to maintain my visa status. Been seriously leetcoding, brushing up ML/DL
- Moonlighting Looking for advice. I'm currently moonlighting (I have more than one job) for 2 companies 1 startup (unicorn) & a service based company in both as a senior software engineer. In the startup company everything is good, cool colleagues, fun project, a lot of interesting shit to do with new technologies. I'm happy there.
- Referrals please for PM / TPM roles Hey Blind Family, Current Status : Pursuing an MBA within finance and graduated with a bachelors in Computer Science. Full-Time Network Operations MGMT Engineer / Campus Ambassador. Eligible to work for any employer within the US and I do not need any sponsorship! Past Experience: I’ve done sever
- Boss Doesn’t Listen How have you or do you deal with a boss that doesn’t listen? ex: 1. asks for executive summary, then asks question about an item that is clearly bulleted 2. asks about status of x of y initiative after being briefed less than 45 minutes prior 3. during ELT meetings will speak, then when finished
- Referrals Hey Blind Family, Current Status : Pursuing an MSBA, graduating in December 2021. Have an MBA in Marketing and engineering undergraduate degree. Eligible to work for any employer within the US and I can work without sponsorship for now! Past Experience: Data Analytics, product analytics and Sales
- vote Examples of micromanagement I am a SW EM. An engineer in my team (will call him Z) asked me to not micro-manage him. This never happened with me before as I think I am a trusting person so his comment surprised me. He likes to work on a flexible schedule which I am supportive of. We have 2 weekly stand-ups that he always atte
- Diversity hires At my company we have two diversity hires that I’m aware of and I believe it’s impossible for them to be fired. But we have to keep them on board for legal indemnification (protection from discrimination lawsuit). One guy is very hard to work with. He’s been here two years and someone on my team th
- vote My manager doesn't like me Second post of the day. My manager - 1. Constantly micromanages 2. Asks me to work on unrealistic deadline 3. Asks me to work on a project without clear requirements. Even PM doesn't know what to build but he is asking me to build stuff based on assumptions (you heard it right, like an idiot and th
- vote What is your moral standard? Hi Blinders, if you are in control, how much work do you assign to yourself? I work in a very small team and dominates in some key areas of the product we are building where everybody is dependent on me. Even if we do something in parallel, everyday, some developers will be waiting for my advice to
- Looking for referrals Hello everyone, I'm looking for referrals to any FAANGMULA+ companies. Principal/Director/VP/etc or higher in Program Management (Tech), Architect, Solutions Architect, Infrastructure, or Information Technology. Have 20+ open apps with Microsoft all status show "HM Screen" or "Recruiter Screen" f
- Yet another PM broken by interview after interview? No. I'm not. I'm tired, I'm annoyed, and getting better at playing the game as much as I want to resist the status quo process, because I love PM, with all of its stress and challenges, it's my jam. But OMG it's difficult to find the company that isn't the cookie cutter FAANG but also knows WTF soft
- 7 months laid-off, looking for referrals Hi Blind Community, I hope everyone is doing fine during this pandemic. Today marks the day that I have been laid-off for 7 months now. I graduated finishing my Masters in Software Engineering in May 2020 and from April 2020 I have been looking for jobs, when I got laid-off. I am looking for Softwa
- Not moving forward after Google on-site. We wants it. We needs it. tl;dr: a rant I was told two days after my on-site that I’m going nowhere— most definitely not forward. The recruiter decided that it would be pointless to waste HC’s time by asking them to review my uninspiring interview notes. The post-interview feedback was delivered to me in its most common fl
- 7 months laid-off, looking for referrals Hi Blind Community, I hope everyone is doing fine during this pandemic. Today marks the day that I have been laid-off for 7 months now. I graduated finishing my Masters in Software Engineering in May 2020 and from April 2020 I have been looking for jobs, when I got laid-off. I am looking for Softwa
- 7 months laid off, looking for referrals Hi Blind Community, I hope everyone is doing fine during this pandemic. Today marks the day that I have been laid-off for 7 months now. I graduated finishing my Masters in Software Engineering in May 2020 and from April 2020 I have been looking for jobs, when I got laid-off. I am looking for Softwa
- Manager gaslighting. Help! I am feeling so threatened every single time I interact with my manager. In person or over the video conference. My manager pretends to be nice but my manager is not nice at all. On the one side my manager says “you don’t have to feel stressed”, on the other side my manager is constantly pushing an
- Experience interviewing at Slack Sharing this because I searched for information here when my interviews were approaching and didn’t find anything particularly useful. Brief personal background, currently leetcoding with a view to start interviewing at faang companies by like mid next year but I randomly came across an opening for
- Anyone hiring for a new grad SDE? Referral would be greatly appreciated Hello everyone, I'm a new grad (Jan' 2021) with YOE- 2.5 years in India and an internship in the US. I'm looking for referrals to any FAANGMULA+ companies. Anyone willing to save me by hiring me? #help #tech #sde #hiring #newgrad #f1visa #opt #bayarea #us #software #engineering #swe #engineering
- How to get to partner level at Microsoft (L68) or other executive jobs How to get to partner level at Microsoft (L68) or other executive jobs There is a very valuable post on blind about an interview process for engineering leaders from last year: https://www.teamblind.com/post/Interview-Cycle-Facebook-M1-Google-L7-Microsoft-L68-and-Local-Public-Company-dRQmWtbh This
- link ‘ Build on your lot’ builders with cost+floor plans in bay area,ca. I searched but couldn’t find builders with floor plan catalog & approx cost. This was the only one- https://thomasjameshomesusa.com/northern-california/ Any recommendations? Thanks