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Would it work against your spouse's application if you refer them to the hiring manager directly? Considering the spouse will be targeting a different job role than yours and not in the same reporting chain. #referral #spouse #workplace #ethics
FB’s lack of ethics or transparency around fake news, targetted ads, and the misuse of personal data is causing global lawmakers to target all the large tech companies, even the ones that bend over backwards to to be ethical and transparent. if the gravy train era of FANG ends via goverment interve...Read more
I'm a married man in my early 30s and I get advertised about divorce across all platforms on my Social Media. I checked with my wife and she almost quit logging into FB recently due to the amount of targeted ads on Divorce she sees online. She said that she looked up celebrity divorce gossip for a w...Read more
In about 2 years I am targeting a company that I can stay at forever. Is there a company with all of these characteristics at once ? -Product led, where PMs are respected and are in charge of the direction -Great culture and WLB, where they ‘care’ (at least operationally) about people and their fam...Read more
I interviewed for a role at AMD, all along the way I was told its a remote role, until the offer came and then I was told they changed policies and will require moving to Austin. I a bit bumped. Role is good, but the ethics don’t sit well with me. Comment? Can’t decide Current TC: $154k Base: 120k...Read more
#amazon #hr My friend left Amazon India due to toxic work culture in the team. He was a victim of classic switch and bait by the recruiter. He was hired for a position which was nonexistent at the time. He was shifted between teams as head count. The recruiter had no ethics and purely hired him to ...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 observed a concerning trend: the working environment within our industry is increasingly toxic, with trust eroding steadily within companies. More and more firms are resorting to performance improvement plans (PIPs) as a cheap and silent way for downsizing, even targeting previously high-perfor...Read more
San Mateo, Silicon Valley, it is close to Oracle, once a 2nd largest software company in the world. It is 20 minutes away from Facebook, 25 minutes away from Google, 30 minutes away from Apple, Uber, Airbnb, Amazon in SF. So one time, I saw a policeman standing outside or sometimes inside of the A...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
A 40 year old company that is trying to transform for the past 5 years but still has no clue. Leadership is in denial that Snowflake and other cloud providers are eating away their logos and still claim they are leaders in performance. Product management and development is a joke with incompetent le...Read more
Everyone compares Microsoft refreshers to other FAANG refreshers. That's unfair. I may be on the upper end of the spectrum at msft, but I am not a rock star. I consistently get 140% rewards, where 100% is target and 200% is max. If you work hard, 140 is guaranteed at MSFT, albeit a bad manager. Her...Read more
I have been working with Amazon almost 3 years now. This is the first time my manager added me to the Focus zone for performance improvement. I have few questions if someone can guide me: 1. In 2020 my manager never mentioned about my performance improvement in any 1:1 meetings and he was very happy...Read more
Hi Blind fam, One of my friends who works as SWE for a mid size company got laid off today (without any prior notice) due to the budget constraints in the company . It's not just her but their entire team in the US from various domains. I feel pretty bad for her as a friend and also as someone who...Read more
https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurendebter/2022/05/13/baby-formula-shortage-bots-snap-up-inventory/?sh=37c91c01a26b Hustlers gonna hustle I guess? I wonder - who here among the Blind community thinks the tech/retail industry at large should do more to handicap the reselling/botting industry? TC - 4...Read more