The compensation of engineers at FAANG can go this high? Seriously? Edit : This must be for extremely extraordinary people right? But then, what about average people (who simply complete all tasks and yearly targets, no over the top innovations, just 9 to 5 peeps)? How high can they go?
Onto Innovation (Greater Boston) Base: 155k +15% target for profit sharing Sign-on: 10k RSUs: 50k (over 3 years)
Mass layoff and consolidation of PM (Program Manager) roles at Microsoft in FY18 Q3-Q4, especially in declining groups like Windows. Satya is focusing on cutting the fat and getting rid of unnecessary overhead that slows down innovation. Net positive for the company and stock value, but the country ...Read more
The offer: Aurora Innovation 135k base 15% bonus target $160k / 4-years equity at 11B valuation (1 year cliff, quarterly afterwards) IPO via SPAC anticipated Q4 2021 SF Bay Area I have a few years of data analyst experience at non-tech companies, but this would be my first tech job. #dataanalyst ...Read more
Hello, Currently, I have two offers as mentioned in the title. Amazon's role is internal - rolls up to Global Corporate Procurement (GCP) team, part of Finance Operations. Will need to run programs around Digital Innovations under Procurement umbrella. Accenture role is an Account Manager role, sa...Read more
I recently came across someone on LinkedIn, calling herself this "AI & ML Innovation Leader ". She is also pretty young, seems like less than five years work experience. My question is, why does a company like IBM have this role? Does it pay well? Does any FAANG company have this role? PS: My int...Read more
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure Basically people game the metrics to make the target look good. Like when schools are measured by standardized tests, guess what, standardized test scores improve but doesn’t necessarily mean students are learning more since teachers j...Read more
Hey Blinders, I am shifted to Innovation Engineering from Research team post layoff season and restructuring in Philips. Feeling demotivated as I have not been assigned to any project yet after restructuring. Job title: Research Data Scientist YOE 7 I have also done some POCs on Generative AI proje...Read more
My partner is currently looking for a "program coordinator" or a "Business Analyst" role in Toronto/Montreal. Remote work is preferred. Her background is B.sc Accounting and M.sc Entrepreneurship/Innovation. She currently works for a Bank here in Canada as a Bank Representative. Moved from Nigeria t...Read more
Does anyone have insight into growth of the Datadog stock? Is it an acquisition target? If yes, what will be the likely price paid. It is currently trading at 19 times revenue. Is it already overvalued? Is there room for growth? Here are my reasons to expect growth of the company/stock. Please feel...Read more
By better job, I mean the job that I like, the job that is less demanding, has excellent work life balance, has good people around that I like to work with, and importantly does not create stress or Monday morning blues. I think this is possible if I switch to mature companies that lack innovation ...Read more
I believe most agree that Meta as a company started with controversy and it's been gripped in it ever since. Now with the EU passing this (link below) what does that mean for the future of the company. If some of their core products rely on Advertising revenue, does the now-blemished image contribut...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
Currently in an L7 sales/account manager IC role at AWS. Working with a high-optics/large customer, so get to work on cool stuff and have a communication line in to leadership when needed. But three years in, base salary and bonus comp have slowed (stock comp still good) and signing bonus has expire...Read more
❔AI/ML presents promising solutions to various pain points, but which holds the most potential for you? 1️⃣) Personalized AI Tutor: Tailors learning experiences for kids, ensuring they grasp the curriculum at their own pace, making learning engaging and enjoyable. 2️⃣) Improving User Experience, C...Read more
Technology adoption is a balance of new capabilities designed and marketed to meet consumer use cases that are known and unknown. This is a very tricky balance to get right and many orgs with fantastic tech fail because they built/marketed/targeted incorrectly. The pursuit of this challenge is wha...Read more
TB profit Interest unit share agreement includes-- A. Everything under the sun is confidential including Anaplan policies, operational methods, target markets, potential customers, technique for running business etc etc. Very vague. Anyone faced silly & arbitrary lawsuits from PE firms based on suc...Read more
Have you guys heard Steve Jobs talk about sales people running tech org ? That's worth watching. Jobs talking about John Scully and his sales background from Coke and why sales should not dictate how a tech company is run. IBM is dying, their only hope is RedHat now. Ginni is not to be blamed alon...Read more
Hi, I have 11+ years at Credit Suisse in NY + Masters from CMU. Most of my time has been in the internal tech strategy consulting division. It has been called by different names during different times - Strategy & Transformation, Platform Strategy and Innovation, IB IT Strategy, and now Strategy & ...Read more
I'm having soooo much trouble interacting with DevOps. I am trying to set up some POCs in the AWS sandbox environment. These POCs are critical pieces of a target state ML infrastructure. Some of these are open source platforms that require certain IAM permissions and of course DevOps refuses to gran...Read more