Last week I spoke to a HR rep at Sprint. He ensured me that the jobs in OP are safe. The bulk of layoffs will come from the T-Mobile side as their salaries are 30-40% higher than Sprint employees. The brand may be T-Mobile, but the corporate culture and compensation will be strongly influenced by...Read more
Tc 230k. I didn’t finish sprint work because I was stressed due to layoffs I was not laid off
New to Blind. Is link sharing allowed? I just wanted to share this news article - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/02/t-mobile-conducts-layoffs-as-it-prepares-to-complete-sprint-merger/ #layoffs #merger
Union predicts tens of thousands of job cuts after T-Mobile and Sprint combine. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/02/t-mobile-conducts-layoffs-as-it-prepares-to-complete-sprint-merger #layoffs
Rest and Vest at Google over? Google CEO to employees: Help us improve productivity and focus https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/31/google-ceo-to-employees-productivity-and-focus-must-improve.html Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced to employees Wednesday a new effort called “Simplicity Sprint,” which wi...Read more
Quarterly planning, sprints, performance reviews, layoffs, LC and interviews, learn new frameworks and next cool stuff during the weekend. Rinse and repeat. It’s so tiring. F myself for choosing a tech career for money Tc 400k
Currently being headhunted for a very intriguing position at T-Mobile corporate in Bellevue, but am slightly worried about the Sprint merger. Have there been any rumors of layoffs in Analytics roles?
Those of you who remain at large tech companies that had sudden recent layoffs where even the managers didn’t know until the day of so couldn’t plan ahead, who is doing the work? Completing underway code during the sprint, emailing customers who were mid-email-conversation, doing a sales demo, send...Read more
So I joined the company last year and just after 5 months OptumRx and Red ventures started a joint venture. I had to look for a new job, so I went to Optum tech. Got promoted one level with a decent raise. I got good reviews from the manager but now the team started expanding really fast. The manag...Read more
I would love to hear the experience of people who were put on dev-plan and managed to get rid off Amazon with a job offer and also could you answer If you continued performing in the sprints or you just focused on the job hunt? #severance #layoff #pip #amazon
Waiting to hear back from a recruiter regarding a role, but due to COVID-19 she says the process has slowed down a little and they’re working hard on their end to finalize decisions. But I’m also wondering how the merger with Sprint will contribute to the climate at T-Mobile as well? #layoff #covi...Read more
1. **Speak in Code**: Engineers use code for communication, not English. API, IDE, SaaS—secret launch codes for their UFOs, obviously. 2. **No Biological Needs**: It's known that SDEs at Amazon and Meta work on weekends, at night and pee in bottles. A cover-up? They don't need to pee or sleep! 3. ...Read more
I am done with the constant state of crisis in America. If I lose my job in the next recession, I'm planning to relocate to a cheaper COL country until hiring recovers. I'd have a longer runway with my savings without compromising my QoL too much. Who knows, maybe I'd like it so much that I wouldn'...Read more
I’m an engineering manager and I want to transition to product management. I have been trying to move laterally for over a year but with layoffs and reduced headcount it’s been tough finding openings. Getting a job at a new company would be fine except everyone wants specific pm experience. I do hav...Read more
I guess i ll be Pip'ed next week. I'm a new hire sde Retail within 6 mo. Got a mail today from manager with a meeting request including the hrbp in it as well. Previous 1:1 have been okayish till date. We mostly discussed about tasks working on and blocks causing delay and how to resolve it. I'm pu...Read more
print(“hello world”) “”” In the fear of layoffs. Is it a right time to dive deep in solving leetcode problems. Since it is a two way door 🚪 . We should add problems solving ticket to the sprint to burn points for next few months. Or should I do some meaningful side projects raising my personal ba...Read more
Engineering layoffs are coming to Ulf’s organization ( National, Regional and Markets!!!! 10% is the initial target. Friday July 15th, right after the vaccine exemption expectation!!! Who should be worried? Unvaccinated employees with non medical exemption, Sprint employees with teams consisting o...Read more
👆 I feel I’ve a good feature velocity. I’m being honest in providing the timelines and I complete it on time, some team members provide 2-3 sprints as timelines of the thing that could be finished in a week. So the PMs and my manager assign me to work on critical products. But this doesn’t reflec...Read more
SDE I, TC 190 I joined Amazon 3 months back, had a mental breakdown at the time so I wasn't up to doing work, been coasting and doing nothing but playing League. I'm ok now and want to get my shit together but I think I'm in big trouble. Apparently, I'm pretty good at pretending to be busy it seem...Read more
Why don’t we see more technology coops. Where the employees own the majority of the business. My thesis is, this type of business structure would outperform the current VC/Investor backed model. Especially in middle market/sme software. Where big companies don’t actually improve their product. Grea...Read more