In this season of layoffs and job insecurity, people on visas have it especially hard, with the 60 day window. If we unionize, one of the first goals of the union would be to target mass layoffs. Ergo, a powerful union would be a sort of āsoft green cardā in its capability of reducing job insecurity...Read more
A New Terror Threat Is Emerging in Europe https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-new-terror-threat-is-emerging-in-europe-linked-to-iran-gaza-war-fb297119 on Monday, Italian authorities said they had detained three Palestinians suspected of being members of the Al Aqsa Martyrsā Brigade, designated as a terr...Read more
Recently there have been more news of the poor working conditions (inhumane expectations to meet targets) and Amazonās strong opposition against unions. How do you feel working for a company that treats its employees that way? Does it affect you? I hear a lot about Amazon being already soul suckin...Read more
As most of the fangs are on hiring freeze, I will be mostly targeting startups and other top tier companies. Have been grinding LC including topics like monotonic stacks, union find, some advance level binary search problems etc. TC : 17.5L Yoe : 2 #engineering #software #swe
We are planning to buy a home (sfh) in bay area around 1.8M -2M and confused between what to choose south San jose (Cambrian or Almaden) or Union city Most of our friends bought homes in union city but we felt currently the houses in union city are way over priced and also we felt commute is not e...Read more
Both tech roles (non-SWE) Disney (Current) Salary: 151k Bonus (discretionary and unreliable): up to 20% Union benefits (pension/healthcare): ~15k TC: 166k-196k depending on the bonus EA Salary: 142k Target bonus: 15% equity: 122.5k over 3 years Sign on bonus: 10k TC: 204k Iāve already negotiated ...Read more
I'm curious if considering the increasingly unforgiving ways that tech is going about its labor reduction, people would be more open to unionizing. Specifically, if there are going to be layoffs with a company that is unionized, the company would have to negotiate with the union and the union can de...Read more
Funny image and article about how bosses use ERGs against workers. https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/11/equal-opportunity-class-war/#inclusive-scabbing """ But woke capitalism is bullshit. Corporations ā profit-maximizing immortal transhuman colony organisms that view workers and customers as inconv...Read more
Do you have any last minute tips? - I have little to no experience with behavioral interviews - I feel confident about most of the topics of competitive programming, except Probability, Union Find, and Topological Sort - I solved all 365 daily questions of Leet Code last year Should I try to learn...Read more
I am currently a business & strategy analyst. Tc: $130k Bay Area Yoe: 3 excluding internships (have Masterās) Skills: Analytics, SQL, some Python, BI and finance focused on product strategy I think Iām making pretty low end salary for a 27 yo and would love to accelerate it. Iām not an SWE and wo...Read more
I am currently a business & strategy analyst. Tc: $130k Bay Area Yoe: 3 excluding internships (have Masterās) Skills: Analytics, SQL, some Python, BI and finance focused on product strategy I think Iām making pretty low end salary for a 27 yo and would love to accelerate it. Iām not an SWE and wo...Read more
Iām considering buying a house and need your advice on loans and affordability. Here are some details: Location: open to suburbs LA except for East LA (think 15-20M near the coast) Income: 220K + 130K equity. Total: $350K / Yr Single No debt Cash in hand 75K + 250k equity + 401K balance > 100K
Hey Guys, as the title suggests, I am expecting an offer from Navy Federal Credit Union for the role of - Production Support Engineer: Machine Learning Operations. After talking with the HM, I am sure enough that this role works for developing and deploying Machine learning models into production. ...Read more
Hi all. Hoping someone could help here. We are a biotech startup. Yes, we're venture backed and yes, we voted to unionize last week. Unionization makes sense for us from a financial perspective and we are adopting it into our core culture. We're trying to write our employment contract. I'm the maj...Read more
After doing 500+ Leetcode problems and going over CLRS 3 times, finally I got rejected due to insufficient knowledge in algorithms and data structure, and not able to come up with expected answers after many hints. (Could be because I am an Indian female? My conversations with my interviewers were a...Read more
I have been working hard on a career transition from TPM in HW to SWE. Last month I completed my interview loop with Amazon, Bloomberg, and Google. Amazon: First in the queue, blanked on one of the 3 problems, solved other 2. Demonstrated strong LP. Rejected Bloomberg: Second in queue. Solved bot...Read more
TL;DR: Being kicked out just to meet URA targets and not due to performance. I am an L6 with TT (exceeds bar) rating during the last talent calibration and I switched teams 5 months ago. I learned this week that I have been in focus since December and that I can't switch teams. I was taken aback bu...Read more
After doing 500+ Leetcode problems and going over CLRS 3 times, finally I got rejected due to insufficient knowledge in algorithms and data structure, and not able to come up with expected answers after many hints. (Could be because I am an Indian female? My conversations with my interviewers were a...Read more
Hi Team, First of all THANK YOU for such a great community here!! Blind helped me with a lot of useful information! This post is to give back to the community. I recently received 7+ offers for Senior SWE engineer at most of the companies I aimed to get into. It was a great experience interview...Read more
Tl;Dr: Physicians are an incredibly sympathetic lobby that have designed a healthcare system that disobeys economic fundamentals. People seem to think too often that the problem with healthcare is one of resource allocation, but we spend the most of any country and get the worst outcomes in the deve...Read more