The work life balance is pretty chill, and people are pretty nice.
Senior management, including the CEO, are pretty uninspiring. Morale, culture, pay/benefits continue to get worse since the Salesforce acquisition. People act nice, but there is a decent amount of passive aggression that goes around.
Some companies shut down during the winter holidays; others have one week of company-wide downtime so employees can recharge. At Slack, the workplace chat business owned by Salesforce, employees are taking a week off to earn “Ranger status.” Beginning on Monday, Slack employees will be expected to ...Read more
I've seen lots of job postings for Slack and would like to get my foot in the door. Have been a SWE at State Farm for over a decade, and now I'm training my offshore replacement. I'm Full Stack and language agnostic.
Late 20s male, currently going about 4/5 times a week with gf, but want to push my limit to see how far I can go. Planning to go back to the gym after 6 months of slacking. Side note, found this pretty interesting reddit post about endurance training reduces testosterone, do you guys have similar e...Read more
Kind of a weird situation came up with a training at work, and I’m curious as to whether others agree with my thought process. We had a company wide DEI training, which was fairly comprehensive. I agreed with most points except one that came up at the end. The instructor was walking through respec...Read more
The first to go will be support people, then UX designers and data analysts. The Automated Enployees will be chatbots based on a powerful LLM with special training in the subject material. Instead of a company paying 200k-450k USD for a human to chat in Slack/Teams, sketch in Figma/Adobe, do data st...Read more
I genuinely enjoy my job and therefore work hard daily. I am on track for EE+ also. I planned on swapping team after 12 months to a SWE role. The issue is I work very hard in my role so I am tired by the weekend to be practicing LC. I have read a number of posts about people slacking / cruising a...Read more
Hi, I'm looking for a simple, light weight and free/cheap tool for managing multiple concurrent projects/clients and vendors, creating processes and developing products. We are a small but fast growing team with a handful of full time employees and a bunch of external advisors/consultants/part tim...Read more
Feels like I am wasting a lot of time moving data between Jira and Excel and other tools, then manually writing reports/decks in Confluence and/or PowerPoint. Also chasing folks for updates in Slack and Jira comments. I’ve written my own Python-based tools to help but it’s a fragile stack and so fa...Read more
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...Read more
Hey Blind, I’m currently a Senior Data Scientist at a Consulting Firm looking for a change. I have a couple of models in production, having done all training, testing, and deployment (MLOPS). The other half of my job is just DS stuff, mostly one-off analytics-focused. Basically my role is a Full...Read more
Hello everyone, I am looking for referrals to any of the MAMAA/FAANGMULA+ companies, or any other top recommended companies to work for. I left my prior job for a new one but quickly realized I was lied to in the interview process. My new team was severely understaffed and overworked with a lack o...Read more
I don't know where I should I post this. I am a campus hire (India) for the role of Application Engineer. After two months of training I was assigned to the team which works on one of the product of Fusion Apps. The problem is my manager is least concerned with mentoring me. He did take two sessions...Read more
Hello fellow blind users, I am looking for referrals to any of the MAMAA/FAANGMULA+ companies, or any other top recommended companies to work for. I left my prior job for a new one but quickly realized I was lied to in the interview process. My new team was severely understaffed and overworked wit...Read more
Regardless of the job, the hard part is always people. And this is where things usually go wrong. E.g.s of day-to-day activities that emphasize on people: - using comms protocols: slack, chat, gsuite, confluence, zoom… - negotiating: with stakeholders, with internal teammates, x-functional partner…...Read more
Looking for software Developer/data science/data engineer role Python and data science role preferred but open to other opportunities also. 1 YOE Tech stack - python, java, aem, c, c++, html, css, javascript, sql Experience - received training in Java, html, css, javascript, AEM 6.5, SQL Willing to...Read more
I’ve started more than one job now that has had little to no onboarding, and just assigns you a “mentor” who is as overworked as you’re about to be while throwing you into the fire. I’ve been at my current role for almost 7 months now and have just finally figured out my initial project, so now I’m...Read more
Hey all, I'm a Senior MLE at a startup looking for a change! 5 YOE in ML, handled model training ->; deployment & monitoring. Most use cases I have worked on have been computer vision, recommendations, or standard ML on tabular data. Have worked with a variety of MLOps/pipeline orchestration to
Hello, I am a senior computer science student living in Turkey. I have been preparing for the interview processes of big tech companies for about a year. I have been regularly participating in weekly mock interviews for 4 months in a training program I attended to get used to interviewing processes...Read more
Blind, my TC is not much to talk about but here’s a “humble brag”; compassion for manager who fired me and ability to move on without letting his decision impact my self esteem. (Pic at end of post, Blind not allowing me to insert pic middle of post) ———— My only regret, if I may call it that, i...Read more
✅ Download your last 3-4 paystubs ✅ Submit phone bill reimbursement and anything else pending ✅ Change the default email on your immigration website (bal/fragomen) from your Amazon's mail to your personal email ✅ Delete any personal files (SSN scanned copies, W2, etc) from your laptops or shared dri...Read more