https://nationalpost-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/nationalpost.com/news/canada/ottawa-international-student-visas/wcm/72e33524-7455-45f2-b6de-ebed8c6f37dd/amp/ We all know who this is targeted for. India accounts for 50% of international students in Canada Wish they cap F1 and H1 in USA too, all the...Read more
I've heard from several people now that Indians get treated worse at tech companies than other races, especially those on visas. I also see lots of complaints on here about poor work culture and wlb at several tech firms, and again wondering if this was in any way targeted more at Indians. Feels a b...Read more
Granted they target at small to medium sized enterprises, I wonder in what way they can approach larger customers who uses data a lot and not becoming tooooo expensive? Currently it is priced by computing units right? Any thoughts and complaints about their product and prices?
Mentioned the recent issue of trolling in the posts where users bullied and harassed other users and targeted Albertsons company employees. Provided 30 links. Complaint is acknowledged by team blind. Also my account is unblocked within 24 hours. Edit: I also saved link to this post and took the scr...Read more
At a bit of a career crossroads. Currently an L7 SDM at Amazon. No major complaints, but I cant help feeling like the culture/workenvironment is not quite what im looking for. I have recieved an out of band offer for L6 TPM at FB (~450k once projected refreshers are included) which is the same as w...Read more
Is Tata trying to replace Americans with cheap H1b slaves? https://www.wsj.com/articles/fired-americans-say-indian-firm-gave-their-jobs-to-h-1b-visa-holders-6da7cf26 A U.S. visa program for skilled foreign workers has long stoked concerns over American workers losing their jobs to lower-paid forei...Read more
Company 1 : Leetcode hard dint solve it. Company 2: Leetcode medium. While typing the code out, made a minor bug and before I could write the next line, the interviewer pointed out the bug and corrected it. Later the feedback was there were bugs and interviewer helped to correct it. Reject Compan...Read more
Not surprising. Tesla has not really shown willingness to fix issues. Having a man child, cry baby at the helm doesn’t help. Regulators with the California Department of Motor Vehicles are targeting Tesla's license to sell cars in the state after accusing the company of deceptive business practices...Read more
My manager left abruptly. Then *his* manager announces intent to also abruptly leave. It seems like managers were asked to do something they didn't want to do. I cannot be sure, but I am guessing they needed a URA target, but couldn't find one. And frankly: there is no one on my team who is bad. I...Read more
I'm getting ahead of myself, but I'm in a weird position where I'm getting let go on April 9th (the three month timer on the layoff has arrived) and have a bunch of interviews scheduled for Meta, Amazon, etc. in mid-April. If I got a team match before then, I'm in a place where my path to promotion ...Read more
For companies where each team is responsible for their own hiring, how do you accommodate the 3-12 month delay between meeting new college grads at a career fair and their start dates? Are there separate targets and/or a different recruiting processes? We hire primarily new grads from college caree...Read more
https://apnews.com/article/social-media-seattle-lawsuits-mental-health-965a8f373e3bfed8157571912cc3b542 The public school district in Seattle has filed a novel lawsuit against the tech giants behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat, seeking to hold them accountable for the mental h...Read more
Looking for PM roles outside of Amazon/AWS for the first time. I’m focusing largely on companies in the B2C space, as I’m kind of sick of a lot of the crap that comes with B2B and having to get on the phone and deal with complaints from customers with issues all the time. I’m an L6 PMT at AWS, have...Read more
I got an offer for IC4 role at FB in early march and i pushed joining date to Sept to wait until stocks are vested in my current company. As the start date is approaching and my current company stocks are going crazy high makes me have second though whether i should join fb or not. And there isnt m...Read more
A junior who recently joined from a defense background was accusing me of personally targeting him when i asked him to improve his work and behaviour with other team members. He is not my direct report. Later his manager came up to me and told that he was considering filing a harassment claim on me....Read more
I’m a new grad (Master’s degree) and have been working at Amazon (post Summer internship) for 6 weeks. I just got an offer from Nvidia for the Firmware Engineer role. Base: 145K RSUs: 104K over 4 years Sign-on bonus: 15K Location: Santa Clara, CA Level: IC2 Current TC at Amazon (standard New Grad)...Read more
Every time I take a look at European News, I see the EU pushing more regulation targeting Meta, Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft. In reading through a recent article, I saw that the EU is taking up to 0.05% of annual worldwide revenue from these companies to “monitor” them and I think it’s absol...Read more
Hi All, I want to be very candid about my experience at TikTok. I can only speak for my own experiences and can’t say this is true for the entire company. As of a short time ago I passed my first full year at TikTok and all I can say is that I wish no one, even my enemies experience such experience...Read more
I've been asked recently by hiring managers why I left that job or why I left this job. These are pretty awkward questions because they are inviting negativity. The answer is never going to be "I loved my job so much that's why I left..." I read that most people say they leave a job because of a ba...Read more
Joined cisco ~6 months ago and Manager joined 10 months ago. I am the senior technical engineer and this org is not technical and depend a lot on 3rd party vendors. when joined the state of affairs are disarray and no clear goals and very shortsighted like they don't know what happens next quarte...Read more