Pays contractors fairly if you negotiated well. If not, you could be making 55hr for design.
Uses hiring as a carrot to overwork contractors, then dumps them off.
For those pretty white girls as a non white They go to no name colleges, have jobs like Starbucks barista and post provocative photos I am Asian and never have any problem getting matches in Thailand or even Prague. 2 days on tinder in us and not a single match from a decent white girl. Tc 430
I wonder what to do with my life and I'm so sick of this job with this fucked up team. Thinking of going back to college to get another degree or open a bussiness like Starbucks .. I don't know.. just feeling lost.
53 y.o., senior IC - lead/principal/staff. Current job after Meta kinda sucks ass (Staff SRE). I’ve always been a good/great dev (not a 10x-er tho), but every year it gets harder to keep up with you young pups. Trying to decide if coast at current job, bust my ass and LC to get back to a FAANG, or ...Read more
I am literally shaking after seeing the news. I paid off my loans a while ago. Now all of a sudden middle class Americans have to give free handouts to unemployed druggies and humanities majors working at Starbucks !!?? Now we also have to pay more taxes to buy drugs for these kids. Insane ! I shoul...Read more
Tired of hearing locals sh.t like "I worked hard, went college, got a job, and I still can't afford rent". And then media and politicians blame immigrants for "stealing" their homes and jobs. FYI immigrants worked "harder" and "smarter" and that's why they were able to save up to buy a home. We ...Read more
there was an earlier thread about TC and happiness and what I’m interested in is what people do with excessive TC once they have the upper middle class basics: house and cars paid off; money set aside for 3 kids’ college; 1 year emergency fund. my wife and i are savers by nature (having started out...Read more
Met a very cute guy recently and he is super into me, just that he is a typical working class dude. He works in manufacturing, and he went to a community college and doesnt know how to code. I didnt ask but he probably makes less than 100K at the bay. Feel like if this will not work, I probably sho...Read more
Hi everyone, looking to transition from consulting to an in house PM role, preferably for a slightly larger company (> 1000 employees) and have about 1.5 YOE out of college. I'm currently in a product management consulting role where I transitioned from more software development/engineering experi
I see so many folks bashing Blind and the people on this app about how hyper inflated their expectations are for Tc and how out of reality everyone is. Let me tell you this, I didn’t go to the best college and didn’t work in a very prestigious company starting out in my career. 2 years into my care...Read more
Hello everyone, I'm seeking help and referrals from this community as I'm facing challenges with my job applications. Despite my qualifications and experience, I'm not getting recruiter calls, and I'm unsure of what I might be doing wrong. My profile: - Masters in Computer Science with Data Scienc...Read more
Hello everyone, I'm seeking help and referrals from this community as I'm facing challenges with my job applications. Despite my qualifications and experience, I'm not getting recruiter calls, and I'm unsure of what I might be doing wrong. My profile: - Masters in Computer Science with Data Scienc...Read more
- wake up at 8 AM and throw on one of your 3 collared shirts after sniffing the armpit to make sure it’s clean. Put on same pair of khakis that haven’t been washed since the last time you went home for the holidays and had your mom do your laundry - walk 15 minutes to the subway and begin sweating p...Read more
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/05/google-union-pandemic/ Google is famous for its cafeterias, which serve its legions of programmers and product managers everything from vegan poke to gourmet tacos — free. But the cooks and servers behind those meals are generally contractors wh...Read more