I know they say business casual but I'm interested in real data from those who work or have worked there. Did you wear jeans? Polo shirt? Button down? Short or long sleeve? Slacks? Khakis? Women invited to respond but I'm a dude so more interested in men's clothing for obvious reasons... Due to th...Read more
How many hours on average week (including emails, meetings, oncalls, out of hour slacks but excluding lunch) do you need to work to get meets all as an E5 if you have average talent (comparing with other FB folks)? TC 220
Joining google soon as an M1. Current sector (aero) is more traditional in work environment. My daily dress is tucked button down, slacks, dress shoes. I’m thinking keep same except wear jeans instead of slacks. My concern is I don’t want to be too off putting to the devs that report to me. Q) W...Read more
How do pms/managers deal with slacks left and right? How do you get work done? TC: 130k YOE 1.5
More and more people are getting paid to do nothing. People work remotely and do literally nothing, or so little that that can work multiple jobs. The whole industry is based on inflated claims of impact that boil down to nothing. Teams rewrite their services for no reason while making big claims an...Read more
I know I want to work hard for my own career ambitions, but I’m losing the energy to do so from time to time. Please motivate me to work hard and get in the zone. Please no advice otherwise - I know very well how myself slacks off and I hate it.
I work as a smb sales person(1 level above entry level). I see our VPs are always working even into the late night they are sending out emails/slacks, but not sure what they are working on. Anyone here director level or above that can enlighten me? genuinely curious.
As a woman in tech, I always feel conflicted about what to wear in interviews. I know I sound sexist, but I don’t feel like I can march in with a flannel and nice slacks like a lot of guys do. I also don’t want to show up looking stuffy like I work in banking or something. Help!
He is extremely nit picky and I think he is trying to manage me out. I don’t know how the current market is for 8 yoe but I feel like no matter how much I do - he always brings small things and slacks me but doesn’t say anything face to face. I would have not cared but my Tc is 350k 8 yoe. Idk if t...Read more
Gave 2 weeks notice to leave Amazon. I thought the hard part would be the announcement but it’s actually the notice period. Feels like a looooooong time. Literally counting days! People are acting weird around me and some won’t even bring it up even though I know they know. Certain people are ignori...Read more
I have 9 people reporting to me and I work like 60 hrs per week. It’s usually back to back meetings and training people. I go home and have emails/slacks to reply, prepare for meetings. It’s taking a toll. I see other managers coasting and still getting promoted. I clearly am missing something here...Read more
I appreciate the existence of IM messages. But I've noticed conversations have purely moved from emails to slacks. There is no way for me to track and respond to 50+ work related slack conversations and groups which people seem to be tagging on a regular basis. I have tried to push back but now I'm...Read more
I got slightly lower rating than meeting expectations- atleast I think so. Ever since then manager has been trying to collect proof I feel. Created a recording of the meeting for the estimates Doesn’t give much feedback on face but slacks me after 1:1 and sends me messages there . This has happened...Read more
Coming from a much more conservative industry, my attire was dress slacks and a button down shirt at minimum - no exception. I’ve never worked in tech but am aware of the more casual nature of the industry with mixed reviews based on where exactly you’re at. I’ve recently been hired at Apple and w...Read more
I’ve been stretched across multiple time zones ever since I’ve been a tech lead, now in a manager role. Is there a better way to balance the long working hours or should I shop around for teams/companies that only operate in nearby time zones? Typical day: Slacks, meetings, code review, planning ...Read more
My manager keeps talking to me in a way that I’m incompetent and talks down to me. Example: I have been at the company over a year doing sales and he joined a month ago. He has led a few of our intro calls. So while I’m talking on our last call for the day he slacks me saying “why don’t you run th...Read more
- I almost never work weekends (1/20 weekends at most), and unless I'm on-call I completely shut out work. I treat weekends as a mini-vacation that happens every week. - If someone slacks me on a weekend, I respond almost immediately and ask if I can get back to them first thing on Monday. 95% of...Read more
Work from home has been a disaster for collaboration. I know this for a fact because I’m a collaborator. My, sorry OUR, best work happens when I get the free time to work a document and can come over to your desk to make you work on it too. In a work from home environment you can ignore my slacks. ...Read more
This is a story of two of my friends One guy is the smartest and hardest working engineer I know . He is from Eastern Europe so English isn’t perfect but it’s ok professionally . He had a 4.0 gpa while working full time ((40 hours) doing construction work so he could pay for college . He led a chi...Read more
I have an issue communicating with a senior member. I am swe. The way he treats me makes me feel that I am stupid. E.g., most times he tells me or slacks me "in future" do this, do that, or, "remember that it is not the way we do it" or "why did you did that, did not we talk about it in our meeting...Read more