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- Giving up on FIRE Given timing, seems that we're in for a deep crash in market and Lyft stock is pretty much in the gutter. I bought a house in Seattle during the 2017 craziness and I assume I'll be a bag holder there for a while. Basically I wanted to get to a FIRE situation with spending $40-60k / yr. But that se
- vote Will I F up my FIRE plans by spending now? Age 27 TC 125k in Phoenix, Arizona. Been living with parents and so far have 400k in index funds. No wife no kids no plan of marriage anytime soon. Thinking of moving out now and getting a new apartment in luxury tower and lease a BMW. What do you think?
- link Gotta fire up those LPs The LPs are coming to use. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/30/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-essay-claims-toxic-workplace.html
- Will Amazon fire you during your ramp up period? I’m overwhelmed with the information that I’m being given. Question: have people been fired during their first 90 days?
- vote Shots fired! Google up next. Well that didn't take long... "We have reviewed Waymo’s claims and determined them to be a baseless attempt to slow down a competitor and we look forward to vigorously defending against them in court." Can Uber put out fires on this many fronts at once? Not that there's much of a choice, I suppose
- Snap on fire today. Up 10%!! Any snap employees selling? Huge gains today
- How Fxxked up do you need to be to be fired? I fxxked up really bad yesterday and caused two big incidents. It is mitigated now but my team will be affected negatively and will do a lot of post work. The manager didn't say anything yet but I can feel the vibe that I'll be let go probably after VP knows. Not looking for any comfort since that w
- Timnit Gebru firing sounds crazy. What’s up with Google Brain? #google #brain Edit: I thought the way Google claimed her firing was a resignation was crazy. But now that more details are coming to light, about the research paper being denied publication, it makes this fucked up. My interpretation of what’s up: employee was terminated for cause, because she d
- H1B Start-up and how to set a hire-fire relationship! Hello Blinders I am seeking advise on how an H1B holder could potentially engage in a start-up venture. Has anyone successfully done this before by establishing a hire and fire relationship or acted as board members while on h1b (through mesures such as being a 1/3 holder of class A shares). I am
- vote During interviews did it ever come up whether you quit vs. got fired? I'm just considering coasting until fired vs. quitting and I want to know if there's a difference during interviews or background checks for either option. I currently have interviews scheduled but still need to take them. I might want to try and get more interviews in the future. tc 100k
- link Who will get fired for this fucked up PSC culture at The Facebook ? https://digg.com/video/qin-chen-facebook-employee-suicide
- vote Stay at FANG and get FIRE or go to start up and risk no FIRE If I stay at FANG, I can get FIRE in about 5 years. But... I'm bored. Some startups are reaching out but of course... Higher risk, potentially no liquidity for awhile (already got burned with Airbnb). Spouse says, stay until FIRE and then do what you want. Is it worth waiting 5 years? Got laid off
- Recently fired/quit from startup, trying to come up with a plan A year ago i was hired as a data scientist in a very niche field at a pre-revenue start-up. i hated the job i had before, and this field meshed well with my background (i have a BS in biomedical engineering, which was related to this company’s value prop). i lived in Seattle (very expensive), but i
- Today I woke up from a nightmare about being fired from Amazon Can’t make this shit up 🤣
- Anyone else hoping lots of people get fired over the Covid Mandate so the Job market heats up? Federal contractors are required to have all US staff vaccinated by 12/8. There are "religious exemptions", but this crap did not work at Hospital or American Airlines. Will take time to sift through them, but many are going to get fired. This is for all employees at any company that has federal con
- What are your scary rock bottom life stories? Do you know any one who got fired and ended up homeless? Would love to hear rock bottom stories to keep life in perspective. What is the worse thing that can happen if you fail at your job?
- 4 YOE salary growth I’m proud of my progress from non-tech analyst to data scientist in 4 years! Check out this absolutely fire (joke) salary growth (not TC - just salary): 1/ 57k - financial analyst, Amazon 2/ 75k - Pgm manager, series C 3/ 119k - Tech Pgm manager II, series C (promoted, same company as PM) 4/ 160k -
- When someone says 3 months on the job isn’t enough to judge someone We all know of that guy on Blind… the guy that get hired then ends up fire after 3 months because he is incompetent. “3 mOnThS nOt LoNg EnOuGh tO jUdGe mE”!!!!!! Bruh hiring decisions and extreme judgements are being made in 1 hour interviews. And you think you can’t be judged in 3 months? You sur
- I am extremely sad Have been working for a while pay is peanuts! I am trying to move out and look for DS/ML roles. I have interviews with some big tech firms but got rejected. I do not have the mental capacity or the time to study and interview anymore. I don’t have any upcoming interviews in the pipeline and have to
- What’s your FIRE goal? FIRE = Financial Independence / Retire Early 1) What’s your FIRE number? 2) How did you come up with it? 3) How far along are you? 4) How or where are you investing. I’ll go first. 1) My FIRE number is $15M. 2) I calculated it by multiplying my annual expenses by 33, plus a paid off home. $36k monthly expenses including taxes, plus $1.1M
- vote Are Twitter employees having a meltdown? Really curious what’s happening at twitter. Are people creating a petition/walkout in protest? I can just imagine all the SJWs absolutely seething rn that they won’t be able to enact their authoritarian policies on the rest of us. Really hope Musks first action will be to fire the entire trust & s
- Amazon to increase Focus quotas in 2022 I heard from a friend who's a Director up for VP promo at Amazon. He said that S-Team is requiring every org in the company to increase its Focus (aka Dev List) targets to 15% in 2022. This means VP orgs should place 3 in 20 of their total headcount on Focus at some point in the year, which increase
- vote Who would be satisfied with your TC for life? Never goes up, never goes down, very consistent. Let’s say for sake of argument, it keeps up with inflation, so your buying power stays the same. But you can take your money, invest it, FIRE, whatever you want. No promotion unless it’s at Amazon where your TC stays the same anyway. Yay or Nay? TC:
- How are my Twitter hommies? This is how you will be bullshitted First they will say no change for employees Then you will see critical projects shut down Then CTO will find new calling Then CEO will take retirement Then on name of business priorities, first marketing team, then moderatiom team fired Then all key people star
- Has anyone successfully stopped being so cheap/frugal? Spending is <$30,000 a year. Sometimes i comparison shop for groceries, stop planning vacations cause it seems expensive, delay car and bike repairs, get $15 haircuts where the hairdresser thinks im a student, and dont pay for things i want like delivery, lessons, or items for hobbies. Mental ju
- vote Net worth to stop caring? What net worth in Bay Area do people stop giving a shit about TC, keeping up with the joneses, career growth, etc? Basically say they’re done and jump off the rat race ? Is it the same net worth that FIRE is achieved? Or a state of mind got nothing to do with $? Just for perspective - I already d
- Which non fang companies balance wlb with decent pay? Am I under paid? I live in a mcol (remote), my work involves leading multiple projects (staff eng), lots of fire to put out, so end up working crazy hours, including night time and weekends. The work can be interesting, but it's too chaotic with family. I have about 12 yoe and TC is about 200k
- Fired without clear reason, what to say in interviews I was fired last week. It was shocking to me as I had no performance issues leading up to this and my weekly 1 on 1s with my manager had been cordial. The reason given was a laundry list of things including I was not effective, I didn't have the skills and that this was a reorg. My attorney feels
- vote FIRE is dumb imo EDIT 3: misspelled the wordings in the poll, what i meant was: 1. Prioritize fire, 2. Prioritize enjoying blabla, 3. Other. Most people on Blind seem to prioritize FIRE. For example, they'd take a job that pays more over one that they'd enjoy more, they'd rather buy ETFs than fly first class or sp
- How do you know when it's time to go? I'm curious what had lead you to fire up the job hunt in the past, accept a new role when it presented itself, or outright quit?
- That time I was fired from Microsoft. Back in 2009 I was fired from my job in product planning at Microsoft. I had been doing customer and market research for what became Windows 8. At the time there were lay-offs happening all over Microsoft and actual terminations (i.e. firings without severance) were amped WAY up. My manager put me
- Networth for 26 yo How are people here already at 500k at 26. Im sitting around 300k. Almost all in sp500 etfs. What else should i be doing? Dont have plans on buying anything, i just wanna see my portfolio go up. Dont care about FIRE either Tc 380 Yoe 3.4
- Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp down What's up engineers at fb? How's the fire-fighting going?
- Interviewing but i don’t even want a job I need a change so looking for work at other companies. All jobs look boring to me. Maybe try a pm role? Or a solo startup? Lost all motivation to fix other people’s mess, maybe time to make my own mess. Same story everywhere. I don’t think i can handle ramping up on yet another janky legacy stack
- Fired from Facebook under false pretense * This is an updated post as the original had to be deleted for personal reasons * I was fired from Facebook. Not because I wasn’t good enough - I was. Not because I violated any policy - I didn’t. I was fired because a colleague that didn’t like me, filed a false complaint about me. The experienc
- vote Should I leave Google for Stripe? Got an offer from Stripe for a Finance and Strategy role. Team at Stripe seems interesting and there is a lot of opportunity ahead for growth. Google is chill, role is also interesting and high visibility, with great wlb and benefits. For other context, I’m a single 27 year old in NYC, and can work
- Life is not all about money *Edit* OMFG this thread blew up in a day, I didn’t check blind as I am out with family for a week for kid’s spring break Thank you for all suggestions, trolls or even sheer anger here in comments or dm’s. I’ll try to answer some general question 1. I didn’t make all in startup, i made like 3.5-4m
- So you FIRE’d; what did you spend your time on? For anyone who has had the option to retire early, what did you end up spending your time and money on? Travel? Time with family? Love to hear some stories - include your FIRE number and age of retirement TC: 800k+, 15-25 YOE (don’t want to dox myself) #fire #retirement
- vote Timnit fired from Google: Here’s my hot take Good riddance. Demanding to know the identities of your paper’s reviewers so that you can inevitably intimidate and retaliate against them for their feedback, as Timnit has done dozens of times on Twitter, is unacceptable. She should be fired, and she gave them an easy out by giving them an ultimat
- vote How poor am I going to be with a 140k base in San Francisco? Just got an offer with a 140k base. It is a lot for me but, here I read, it’s peanuts. I already live in the second most expensive city in Europe - London. So it is hard for me to imagine that 140k is very little in SF, but let’s let you speak up! YoE: over 2 Edit: married, no kids (and not going t
- What’s going on with Amazon’s employee churn? Average tenure at AWS is 1.3 years. So someone, somewhere is failing horribly. All the pseudo science of evaluating people based on LP’s and establishing bar raiser standards clearly isn’t working. Those that make it through these interviews that your “highly skilled interviewers” matched them for d
- What are some “good” companies that have lowered their hiring standards over the years? Due to so many other more prestigious companies coming about, people doing FIRE, etc that they have to consider lowering their hiring standards to keep up with the number of people leaving for better opportunities #tech #swe
- 3.5 YOE, feel hopeless I feel hopeless w my financial status. My TC is down to 370k due to stock drops. My portfolio keeps dropping. Might be lower than 650k now. I’ll never be able to Fat FIRE at this rate. What would you do in my situation? How do I pick myself up by my bootstraps? What do I do to create generatio
- If you have been fired, share your story I’ve been fired twice in my career, both times back to back and both times because I wasn’t doing any work. The first time I was 1 month into the job and I totally saw it coming. I was just completely uninterested in the code base but the job paid well. I thought I could coast for a while but I was
- Please, do not interview with Doordash. Had an onsite with Doordash recently. Almost all of the interviewers were extremely rude and not even paying attention to what I was speaking. For a coding interview, one of the interviewers even said, and I quote, “I don’t get the code when people are typing and explaining. Finish the code and run
- Meta cutting benefits and then freezing hiring... hmmm i was also told that insurance premiums/copays are going up... and other stuff like chair for home office as remote worker doesn't qualify as an expense. There is a camp that sees meta stock crash as temporary setback but if you zoom out and look at recent events it doesn't tell a good story.. Red
- Twitter acquisition seems like a bad move for Musk From a financial standpoint, the amount of debt he had to take on to fund the acquisition is pretty massive, and I can’t imagine him being able to make sweeping operational changes in short order to boost revenue. There may even be advertisers less willing to place ads on Twitter because of the perc
- What is the current drama at your work place. Gush! I'll start. I work with a domineering engineer who was just made lead engineer. The power has gone to his head and literally everyone who works with him hates him and talks mad shit on him. They all complain about him to the higher ups in an attempt to get him fired and just follow his orders in the
- vote Why do people care so deeply about not burning bridges? Seriously I think some people care too deeply and bring this conversation up every single time. My understanding of burning a bridge, is that if you don’t intent to ever return to that company, then by all means burn that bridge if you were ever disrespected at that place. It’s very likely those pe
- 27 years old and NW is $15 million Hello fellow Blinders, That’s right. You read the title correct. I’m 27 and just hit a net worth of $15 million. I can’t even believe I typed that out. I don’t really like to brag to my friends or family but I felt safe posting this on blind. Before you ask how I accomplished this, I got EXTREMELY