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Impossible to turn off Haptic feedback for chapters for YouTube on iOS Totally not distracting having my phone vibrate randomly during a video Congrats to whoever got a promo off this one 🖕
Since the mid 2010s, every single update made to the mobile app UI has made the app SIGNIFICANTLY worse. I genuinely can’t think of a single good feature that was added. What is going on at YouTube? How do these people still have jobs? Are they just making these needless changes as promo projects? ...Read more
Have been asking about the fast-paced challenging teams/org with a high change for promo, and I heard anything from search, ads, to Youtube, Waymo, to GCP. Someone said GCP is a shit while other said it’s a diamond! Does anyone care to elaborate? Thanks
Did a search on YouTube and over half the screen was ads! Did a consultant recommend this or a did a PM want have $$ impact on their promo packet?
How long does it take to promo L4 -> L5 in GCP compared to popular orgs like Youtube, Ads and Search .... Does it only depend on project and mgr, or team budget and structure(like # of L4 teammates) also matter? YOE 3 TC 280k
Role: SWE-SRE TC: 225k CHF I have a choice between Google Ads, Google Cloud and YouTube for SRE-SWE. Which team should I pick if I prefer: a) Faster promos b) Good work life balance c) Learning I’ve worked in Azure and it was a shit show in terms of WLB and extremely high competition for promos,...Read more
I am currently in the team matching phase of Google for L3. I had a call with the Simsim Team in YouTube. It's a start-up that was acquired by Google. I want to understand how the work would be for a product that has been acquired. What could be the possible pros and cons. I have heard that YouTube...Read more
swe is a bit too easy for me, superb on each perf is getting old with 5hr/wk schedule and watch p*rn and youtube rest of the day. How to make it harder for myself? Manager mentioned promo and I couldn’t help myself, I said “really? That’s all it took?” I am someone who likes a challenge. Thank you.
YouTube? Zoom? Netflix? Looking for suggestions. Newly promoted IC7. Frustrated with the stock price drop, comp dropped even with a promo. Would rather be in a growing company than a troubled one. #tech #comp TC $600k
Per my recruiter, looks like I’m getting the following offer from Youtube this week. Negotiated the offer once up from initial ~200k TC. Location: Bay Area, (YouTube) Base: 152k Stocks: 130k (front loaded, 43k first year) Sign-on: 15k 15% Target bonus: 23k First year TC: 233k Currently L4 @ AMZN ...Read more
Hey, I’m interested in learning more about Google cloud platform. Do any of you have any courses or YouTube channels, or any other resources you used to pass the official Google “Associate certification” here: https://cloud.google.com/learn/certification/cloud-engineer Also, does anyone have any u...Read more
Coming from a name brand company as L4 equivalent (this is a throwaway acct). Joining google soon. New TC: ~400k, had some competing offers. RSUs are 33/33/22/12 vesting so TC is going down in Y3 and Y4. Don't want to go into specifics about the breakdown or competing offers. Some questions: 1. Wh...Read more
I am well past the 6 month promo period. Using Comcast xfinity for just internet alone without any other package and getting charged $75 per month including all taxes and fees. Own my modem. Getting 40mbps downlink but not always and internet connection keeps cutting out with insanely long ping time...Read more
So life is interesting. In a turn of events I am now a marketing lead for a blockchain token. I won't mention the tokens name here. It's a new world for me. I'm getting hit up left and right by YouTube channels, Twitter groups, telegram groups all asking to do promos. It's a new world for me and I...Read more
My net worth is around $350K. How to amass next logarithm of wealth? I don’t find much in going up a few hundred K every couple of years. Ideally want to create generational wealth & take the next step. In addition to stock gains, I have a bunch of side hustles but they only make around 10-20K per ...Read more
I am a senior engineer at Amazon (and close to getting my L7 promo) with 11 years of experience working for Microsoft and Amazon. I am planning to change jobs in 6-9 months and starting to prepare for interviews now. Last time I interviewed I just did some basic algo questions which was sufficient f...Read more
yoe: 6 and I've been at G for 6 years. Currently L4 and 300k tc. Was told by manager that I can go promo this year. Recently interviewed and got senior swe offers from a few companies, FB offer is 400k tc + 100k sign on. Also have offers from Apple, Amazon and Uber but not interested in the teams so...Read more
L5 at amazon. 5.5 yrs exp, joined straight from college. Promo timeline unclear because there are lots of senior engineers in my sub-org. Feeling burnt out as I feel underutilized and get only grunt work. On-sites lined up with apple, fb, uber and google in next few weeks. If none of them pan out I...Read more
I worked with this guy last year and felt very uncomfortible due to his inability to write code. (He is Applied Scientist2, converted from SDE) I am not sure what his major was (or thesis) but clearly he cant handle any issues in terms of coding at least. 1. Recently found out that he was asking s...Read more