Fun coworkers, irvine office has good camraderie . Excited to eventually move to the new office and finish the integration
CoStar integration and CRE can be cyclical in boom / bust cycles
Does Amazon prime X really work? I love popcorn and I saw this stainless steel popcorn machine on Prime X and it says it'll be delivered in the next ten minutes. I don't believe it. Should I order?
Interviews can cost a company anywhere from $10k - $25k per candidate. This amount includes recruiter/coordinator time, interviewer time, etc. Source: https://haseebq.com/my-ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer/ Candidates put in a lot of time and effort to interview as well. How much should they...Read more
A doctors and lawyers output is generally linear. They can meet with X amount of people/clients in a day. But they’re highly valued and in demand and rightly compensated for it. An engineer can automate a system, save or earn your company tens of millions, and get a 50k bonus for it. An engineers ...Read more
A large portion of their users is under the age of ten, and those kids have no sense how much money they spend there every day. I answered a phone call from their recruiter who had contacted me through Linkedin. They are very proud of how many elementary and middle school students are on their plat...Read more
Is it true that if it is a startup that is not one of the unicorns like Uber or Airbnb, then the TC may be just $180k - $200k base, plus stock options that may be worth $0 nine out of ten startups? That's, compared to MAANG $300k to $350k TC or contractor thru agency at $180k TC. Then startups pro...Read more
an invasion of tens of millions of criminals, rapists, terrorists, thugs, gangster, human traffickers, drug traffickers, cartels, foreign intelligence, and everyone else in between from rich chinese people wearing moncler and louis vuitton who have no business lining up in the dust and sand (one can...Read more
My company recently started my GC process. I am being asked to sign a document saying that I'll have to repay the immigration charges for GC in the following cases: 1. If I leave the company or company fires/lays me off 2. If I leave after X number of years after getting the i-140 Apparently the ...Read more
I'm transitioning out of GE and have had lots of calls lately, with a few progressing. Out of the blue, an EVP calls me and wants me for a leadership role that I haven't applied for. We talk for ten minutes and then his EA schedules my flight and car service (with permission). I'm joining him and ...Read more
I’m asking as someone with 11M NW (10M of which in index funds), a household TC of 800K from W2 incomes, and just turned 40. Plus $200K in a 529 for 2 college educations ten-twelve years away. I’m in a HCOL area, still rent, my expenses are high, but are at 4% of my NW ($300K/yr). Monte Carlo simul...Read more
We are decent people. We make a great team generally - we are attracted to each other and can communicate 7/10 times. But, we have personality differences that we haven’t made any progress on. He is a workaholic - he worked the first night together after marriage, forget honeymoon, he dint spend the...Read more
*read whole post or at least tldr before commenting* of course I have extremely high respect for medical professionals, they are life savers, but I see the constant narrative on blind that doctors are some sort of holy geniuses, when in reality the path to becoming a doctor is just extreme dedicati...Read more
This is a part of 3 part series post. Read them in order. part 1 https://us.teamblind.com/s/isDNuYPU part 2 https://us.teamblind.com/s/VXz1n07A part 3 https://us.teamblind.com/s/ij5tgwfF ___________ I left Microsoft some time ago. I switched job several ...Read more
I’m currently approaching 18 months as an account manager and I’ve been put through hell and back. From the start it was apparent that the Senior VM had no idea what they were doing and passed all the work onto me and the other AM on the team. They would always say things like, “this isn’t hard”, “x...Read more
[I didn't write this but found this old post in 'Tech Industry' group which not everyone has access to. Sharing this to more broad group to increase exposure. Original post: https://www.teamblind.com/post/SDE-guide-to-getting-the-best-offer---part1-isDNuYPU ] I left Microsoft some time ago. I switc...Read more