Good WLB, fairly compensated compared to market rate, unlimited PTO
The recent merger has brought in some toxic us vs them POVs. management is uninterested in resolving and brushes it under a rug. most people are just mean nowadays
I have an interview opportunity for a Software Engineer position at the Los Angeles office.Any idea how the interview process will be ?
Can anyone help with nature of rounds/questions? #interview
For the past three months, I’ve had eight on-site interviews and I only managed to get an offer from Symantec (don’t really want to join them). Has this ever happened to anyone else? Assuming all things equal (not douchebag, not arrogant, just completely normal guy), how can one be good enough to pa...Read more
Worse comes to worse, as in I fail my remaining interviews, should I stay at Akamai or go to Symantec? In either case, I’ll still be interviewing again after 6-9 months. Akamai: 117,300 base 10% bonus, 47k/4 years rsu Symantec: 130,000 base 10% bonus, 15k signing bonus and 25k/4 years RSU The onl...Read more
A friend wants to start interviewing at Symantec, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and maybe Salesforce. He is wondering what will be the right timing in order to get offers at the same time. His target positions are Technical Director(S), Staff SDE (G), Principal SDE (MS, A). I know that it usually aro...Read more
I have an onsite interview coming up at NortonLifeLock for a Software Engineer position at their Culver City Office. Can anyone please share their past experiences or anything that might help me prepare for that? Thank you in advance.#engineering #software #swe #newgrad #symantec
Any referrals for security roles ? Looking for malware analysis, security, reverse engineering, android malware/security positions. Would be great to hear security role related interview experiences from folks here. YOE: 6 #security #software #referral #hiring #jobhunt #malware #android #google ...Read more
the company i am workiing with has not given me garantee to sponsor H1B visa. I know that they are capable of sponsoring H1B, they said in interview that in long term if everything worksout fine then will sponsor. I have a meeting with my company’s CEO, should I convey my concerns to him direct? ps....Read more
I am in process of interviewing with Amazon Alexa in SoCal. I had online tech screen, then a phone screen to decided between L5 and L6. Afterwards was told was downleveled to L5. I really think the reason wasn't able to show lot of pratical experience leading projects or having much of an impact wit...Read more
Hey blinders, I am a female and have a decent job at my current company(at Symantec now) and my WLB has been really good but my overall compensation is low and not been doing any interesting work. i got an offer from start up( about 30 ppl and seed) and they are paying me almost 70K more than my...Read more
I am a Associate PM with 1.5 years of experience in a financial services firm, working on end user products with front end teams. I am looking to move to the Bay Area, due to personal reasons. I was looking for some general advice about how to approach this move - in particular it seems super hard t...Read more
I had a layoff in 2020 after the Broadcom Symantec acquisition, I was always over achiever with high credibility and got approached by Microsoft, Palo Alto , GSIs … however I was not ready, during early Covid days unfortunately I have got divorced and separated from my kids, which has totally paused...Read more
👋Hello everyone, I was impacted by the 10% RIF at Salesforce in January. This is my 3rd time doing this post. I have gotten a few referrals that have led to interviews. I still haven’t landed a job yet. This will be my last post due to ReadyForWork trial ending soon (3 months for laid off people) ...Read more
No long texts, direct points Work Experience: - 3 years in 2 different MNCs Current status :- MS CS top 50 school international student Dominant tech stack :- Javascript, Node.js, AWS(SQS, SNS, Lambda, Eventbridge, EC2 etc.), React.js, GraphQL,C++, Python etc. Application count :- 200 - 300 ? l...Read more