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.
Apple got there. Any hope for Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, others to share % with employees? https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/01/24/starbucks-boosts-worker-pay-gives-bonuses-after-trump-tax-cut/1060883001/
It was 6.50$ and I don’t see tax on my receipt. Is there any minimum threshold amount of purchase above which the sales tax comes into picture? PS: so hot food items are excluded from taxes across USA? #misc
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/seattle-repeals-head-tax-after-backlash-from-amazon-starbucks
How many U.S. dollars will a Starbucks venti latte cost including sales tax in the year 2029 (10 years later) ??? Please share your expectation.
After our director set unreasonable deadlines for a very important project that would save Amazon multi-million $s of tax money every year, my 2 teammates and I worked late nights and weekends for 2 full months (consistent 70+ hour weeks) and successfully launched the project on time and presented i...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
Does anyone have an idea about the type of technical coding questions i can expect in the onsite. There is one round for coding and one theoretical. And the coding one just says ML, so not sure if its model building or something else. Any advice would be appreciated. Blind tax : 150k, 4 years #sta...Read more
I have been working as a contractor for the past 4 years, and I think my work is not as demanding as a FTE. (if they get 300k and I get 190k, I know I shouldn't work like them). But even so, I was able to put my own money in my stock accounts and accumulate 4 sets of investments: $60k Google stock...Read more
I always see people sitting in Starbucks and they have some code opened on their screens and they have their head phones on. Since some of them are pretty cool looking I also decided to work in the coffee shop for 1 day. My experience was that even if you have noise cancelling head phones still th...Read more
Total TC (pretax) is 550k~600k (half is base), and about 35% goes to tax. Monthly costs of 3.5k for mortgage, 3k for daycare and afterschool programs (so we can work), 3k for grocery, gas, bills, etc. We don't really save much at the end of the month from the base salary, although we seem to earn a ...Read more
Pretty much what the title says. I'm expecting a M1 offer from Meta (yet to receive offer numbers, will update) and would probably look to join in Nov. At that point I'll have ~2 years and 9months left on my H1B. I'm currently in the PERM process with my current company and is about 1 month out fr...Read more
I know there are a lot of people who complained about how expensive the living costs in Bay Area is. But the thing is, the living cost can be just around $1200 a month if you find a company that covers meals and you are not picky about stuff. No I’m not talking about being homeless and/or live in y...Read more
being jobless from 3 months and getting rejected from every damn application made me realize referrals is the only way get picked for a HR call. 3 Yoe, jobless from 3 months, ex-netapp intern, MCS@ASU. Need referrals for suitable roles. (SDE, SRE, Data Engineer etc.). cant apply for senior roles. ...Read more
A startup had 12 months of runway left. The lead VC was concerned. He wanted a successful fundraise. He wanted paper returns. He was in the process of raising a new fund! He hired me as a CTO coach for a month. $20,000 flat fee I charged for being a full-time CTO coach. I shadowed the CTO. I...Read more
As rumors swirl and whispers grow louder within the coffee industry, the future of Dutch Bros hangs in the balance. The beloved Oregon-based coffee chain is considering relocating its headquarters from the lush Pacific Northwest to the sunny deserts of Arizona, a move that has stirred quite the pot ...Read more