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- Do I give up on my career? I’m 30 years old with a base of 150k. I’m a HW engineer who gets astounded by 20 somethings getting 200k out of school. At this rate I should probably go back to grad school and major in CS
- Messed up my career Joined G as a DE two years back. Work has pure SQL and nothing else. I just write a few SQL queries and nothing else. Internal transfer is getting super tough as there’s no work to show for. Previous work experience as DE was core engineering roles ( airflow, spark, devops etc) What exactly do I do
- How to level up: career advice needed I thought I was making a lot of money until I got on Blind.. I make 82K base as a Network Engineer... Now I am not even sure if I want to be a Network Engineer anymore.. I am bored and salary seems low compared to other fields. Any advice on leveling up my career? TC: 100K YOE: 2.5 years #salary
- Break up, depression, career Got onsite call from multiple big companies, but not able to focus because of broken relationship. Loosing confidence, and sense of purpose in everything after the break up. Can’t move on. And it became worse after I came to know that she actually moved on and had physical and emotional relationship
- Messed up my career I was a scholar till my 12th. Neglected studies in Uni. Now I am regretting my life with people around me are earning 5 times than I do. Feeling lost.
- Moving up in career Hello, I have been working at VMware for 1 year as an SRE at my team I feel like there is no progression and there is no innovation, I wanna learn and grow more! I have a passion for security as well! I was wondering if anyone could possibly give advice as to possible companies I could go to where
- Is it okay to give up on your career choice? I feel seriously stuck between a rock and a hard surface. I can't see myself doing anything in my career apart from being a Solution Architect (which is typically a customer facing role) and hence, seems to require frequent travel to customer sites, especially now that travel seems to be bouncing ba
- vote What's single handly holding up your career? Put any other options in comments. TC: 700k with 2 jobs
- vote Should I give up on career? Everytime I focus on career, my life gets horrible. Only reason I want better career is money. Besides that, I have hobbies family exercise etc and live a wonderful life outside of career. I have adhd and autism so balancing is difficult for me between career and personal life So should I stop ca
- Google Early Career OA coming up Hi Blind, I have my Google OA coming up which will be 1 hr and 2 ques. I have been leetcoding from the past 1 year, what type of ques should I expect ? Any resource to practice specific ques ? Also, is the level of ques asked in OA much higher than their Onsite’s ? Exp: New Grad #engineering #so
- Symantec has screwed up employee motivation & career Symantec has screwed up employee motivation & careers of folks in this company now — Do you guys feel that way? Can it rebuild trust in its employees given that we should be treated like customers? How many more layoffs should we expect - given brodcom happens or not? Have you started dusting your
- How do I "catch up" in my career? Senior manager here with 18 years experience, managing multiple managers. Looking around me, I see people with 50 to 60% of my experience at my level or above me. Almost every one of them has 0 to 2 years of management experience compared to the 7+ I have. I’ve been consistently rated strong throug
- How to level up my career? Want to understand how to up my game? I'm level 61 at Microsoft. Want to know how I can have more impact on my team and my manager? Any help from anyone who is a manager or at a higher level will be useful. TC: 170
- Did I screw up, career wise? I’ve been looking for other software engineering jobs outside of the state I currently live in, And almost all of them want an engineer with years of experience in Java, but for the last two years I’ve only coded in Golang, so I feel like I don’t qualify for a good portion of jobs out there. Has an
- Career path after failed start up? Let's say I'm an engineer. I have an idea for a start up. I quit my job and start said start up. It fails miserably. What are my options after that?
- Lost interest in growing up the career I used to be passionate about my career and used to work hard until a few months ago. Now I have lost interest in promotion etc. and look my job just as a recurring lifelong work. It is not that I don’t like my work. The work is still challenging and there is a lot to learn and grow myself. What’s
- Marginal gain in happiness going up the career ladder I have observed that people who are doing well than me professionally - at better companies, or up the career ladder, or have PhDs, or studied from better schools - live very similar life to me. I think the marginal gain in happiness going up the career ladder is minimal once you are past a certain
- vote Uber India vs start-up/Career Choice Posting on behalf of Friend. Please dont just vote, share your reasons/ arguments. I have 2 yrs work-ex as data engineer in series D startups. Built data platforms from ground up mostly for batch and micro-batch processing. tech stack- spark, kafka, s3, glue, athena, superset, flink, airflow. Offe
- Seeking guidance to level up in career TC : CAD 66k YOE : 3 (This is 6 years on paper but 3 years were useless because I acquired bad practices and wrote really bad code most of the time) Failed Microsoft & Amazon (probably SDE 2) coding rounds in last 2 months. Not received any response from other lower level orgs. # Strengths * Decen
- Need help in shaping up my career Hi, I’ve 8 years of experience as a software developer and I know I code really good. Been receiving appreciation for the kind of different technical skills I work on. My problem is unable to move to a new job because I’m not good at data structures and algos. Went to fb,amazon,apple onsite and co
- How did your career shape up after a PM career @ Walmart? How long were you at Walmart as a Product Manager (any level) before you got your first promotion or before you moved out to another tech company? Were you in demand among tech recruiters with Walmart PM experience on your resume? Looking for inspiration. 6 YOE. TC: 270k
- vote Does PIP screw up career chances? Just curious, talked to my friend who is a recruiter the other day. He said usually background checks are a simple “would you hire this person again” question. In the case of a PIP or a dev plan, the answer to that question would be No, right? Will other tech companies not hire you if you leave Ama
- Career envy, f'ed up job, slow job search !! How do you cope with painfully slow job hunt, frustration from current work and to top it off, career envy? So frustrated at work lately, that I just want to quit, but can't cos am on a visa. And job hunt is slow, have 1 interview in couple weeks. Lc and grokking don't help with the negativity
- Confused about which role/career to take up.. I have been in a technical architect role for more than 15 years, and want to now shift from a professional services/technical solutions architect/technical consultant role to an industry role. While I understand I need to follow my passion, but after working as a consultant and wearing multiple hat
- Messed up my career : Leaving company within 2-3 weeks Had offers from two good MNCs for SSE role in India. Was not clear which one to join as both offers looked good. As the joining date approached, joined one org (say company A). But still having second thoughts to join another org(say company B). I just left the prev org in 5 months as the offers fr
- Best Start Up to join right now?! - Career Advice Hey all, This can probably help a lot of Blind members. Currently looking to make a career change. Although it’s a dream to be at FAANG company. I really want to consider some start ups (3-5 YOE) Personally - 10YOE as a SAE & entrepreneur - with a few successful start ups combing over 400k. In Sal
- career pivot from marketing to tech start up i’m currently a project manager for a company with 15,000+ employees worldwide but would like to join a smaller company. has anyone done a similar pivot before? if so, any advice? thanks!
- Struggling to move up in my career right now Is it just me or is interviewing very hard right now? I live in the DMV and I either get offered jobs that are so far the commute will affect my health (it has before) or get ghosted by the jobs I actually want. I’m also trying to transfer out of the generalist role to do either HRIS or training ful
- career advise - stay google or join a start up recently i talked to a start up and have an offer, now i am thinking if i should stay google or leave for atart up. my situation, in google 1.5 years and is a tl for a small team. manager is saying to make me tech lead manager in March. current tc 380k start up offers around 500k tc but stock opti
- vote Which is the best career path to move up? I’m an IC, getting opportunity to move as a manager, Tc:250k
- Seeking inputs on picking up career track to pursue It’s a long thread but hope I get your attention. I have been in software field for 15+ years. Initial 7-8 years as Software Engineer then transitioned to Tech consulting and for last few years in Presales role and then more recently as a generalist (Enterprise Arch) responsible for supporting the
- I’m not meant for a SWE career, I’m giving up Been working as a SWE for 6 years. Started at a fairly reputable tech company and worked there for several years, bounced around some other companies, got PIP’d at one place, ended up in government after I got burned out in the private sector. Sadly got transferred to a sweatshop team working 60+ ho
- Career changed after 25 years to DS and not sure how to move up I changed careers after a long (25+ years) career in finance to DS and have about 2 years of hands-on experience, mostly in text ML, Spark, etc. I have masters, but not in STEM and no PhD. When I took the job I took a pay cut to learn ML, but now ready to move on. The problem I am facing is I am pe
- Machine Learning or Product to go up the career ladder A little bit of background + Blind Tax- Academia Research Experience- 7 YOE Industrial Experience- 3 YOE TC - 260K - L62 Hi all, I am a bit stuck in crossroads here related to career. So, I used to be an ML researcher with focus on Computer Vision and switched from academia to industry because of p
- how to move up in my career without an MBA? blind family, i need some advice. late 20s single male. i want to get my mba to advance my career, possibly get into consulting. i want to attend a top 10 mba program with hopes of becoming a consultant for a top 3 consulting firm (bcg, bain, mckinsey). part of me wants to go to bschool to find a s
- Next career move after VP of sales at start up Hi all. Currently a VP at 150 person start up where I've worked my way up over the past 7 years - B2B saas. In thinking about my next move I'm leaning toward a larger tech brand to get that experience, and know that means probably being an individual contributed or lower level manager to start. Has
- Microsoft had the worst process/set-up and held back my career I wish I hadn't wasted time there. My career ended up on a pause when I got hired there. I truly would not recommend the company to any designers who are in the entry-early to mid-level level phases of the career. It has almost totally become a place to just go retire and give up.
- how to bring up career transition topics in 1:1 Currently SDE. If I want to try to transition to SDM, how should start the topics during 1:1 with manager.
- What sparked an interest to take up your career in engineering? I can't remember what I've done two weeks ago. But somehow people talk about how their interest got sparked. Do you have a story like this? TC 150k 8 yoe
- vote Girlfriend broke up with me and now I want to move back home. What should I do career wise? tldr: i was already unhappy with bay area. gf broke up with me amplifying those affects. feel like I cant stay here for mental health reasons and want to home where friends family and a support circle exists. not sure what to do careerwise This is going to sound pretty weird but hear me out. I ide
- Build up more data-oriented career at Bloomberg for new grad? Hi, I just received entry-level software engineer offer at Bloomberg. One big reason I like BB is I assume they deal with lots of financial data, and actually I do have experiences and passion for data analysis and machine learning. So I'm wondering about the possibility of data-oriented the caree
- vote Next career move? Go small, level up or go big level down? I pretty much started my startup/tech product career at my current startup (various agency product jobs before this) and I got promoted really fast. I’m good, but a big fish in a small pond. I want to go work with other big fish. Now I’m looking for my next role, but most places would have me level
- How do you coach yourself and set up for success in your career? I wanted to hire a career coach at first for a few sessions, but given how expensive they are I figured I probably should watch some videos and read some books myself. I am mostly interested in being able to discipline and organize my daily routine in such a way that I will be more productive by al
- Right career move to go to Series B start up as a new grad? Series B start up in Toronto. Doing well, growing fast, I like the culture. Series B was this year @ >$100M. Debating whether it's the right career move to go there as a new grad SWE if there is a recession upcoming. TC: 0(student)
- vote Move up career ladder w/ avg comp vs get stuck low at very high comp Hive mind, I would like your opinion for a question that has been bugging me & my partner for a while. What would you rather choose (and why). If career progression is satisfying to you (more/different responsibilities as you move up), then places like FAANG is pointless - so many over talented peo
- At a new job, but an opportunity to make a career pivot came up. What to do? Took up an offer through a known friend / ex-coworker who is one of the cofounders at a Series A startup. They just raised their first funding and hired me as their first product manager (given my niche background relevant to their product). After putting in my resignation, my manager and I talked.
- How does one line up their career best to get into FAANG without being a SE? - I currently have : 3+ YOE in fintech + Careem, in largely strategy + BI roles. How does one transition career to get into FAANG, particularly Apple, where (I’m assuming) a large part of the workforce is software/hardware engineering ?
- How to move up in career ? Is being product manager only way to get to C level suite ? Just stating my perspective here. I see a lot of executives come from product management background at Google (Sundar, Susan Wojcicki, Marissa Mayer and many more ) and other companies (Satya Nadella, Adobe CEO) Is product management the only way to move up in career and become part of executive
- vote For those who want to stay ICs, how far up the career ladder do you want to go? This poll is geared towards software engineers who want to go the senior route
- vote You want to switch careers, but still potentially stay at your current company. Tell your boss up front? Curious how many people would tell their boss they are looking to do something completely different from their current role.