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- Next big trend after TikTok? What do you think will be the next big trend in social after short form video (sfv) /TikTok. Fb/Instagram/snap/YouTube already copying this. What is the emerging, upcoming next kid on the block? #tech #socialmedia #tiktok #instagram #youtube Blind Tax: 1.15M tc
- vote Which among these do you spend the most time on daily? Blind Tax: 210k #facebook #meta #bytedance #instagram #linkedin #twitter #snap #youtube #google #reddit #blind
- vote Netflix isn’t a tech company. Change my mind. A tech company in todays world implies a few things. Namely that you work with technology (synonymous with anything touching computers these days, which I think is a fallacy, but I digress). But also that you are high growth and “innovating”. When we look at Netflix, it should be obvious that all th
- Need Recommendations- Trying to understand Tax Loss Harvesting before the year ends in 10 days! Any good content/YouTube videos that explain different tax loss harvesting scenarios?#investments In red on $LMND but believe in the stock long term. Thinking if should sell before end of year and buy again after 30 days?
- YouTube team @ Google NYC ? Hey just got an offer from YouTube at google NY / New York. Anybody know what the culture is like? especially things like wlb, interesting projects etc! Thanks Blind tax: YOE 1 TC 145k
- vote Does anyone get a little nervous seeing people post their SWE TCs on random subreddits? TC in SWE is driven by low engineer supply relative to demand. Every time I see some dude flexing his TC on a random thread on reddit I think "you're contributing to this field becoming mainstream and ruining our TCs". Same goes for the SWE youtubers selling their luxurious "I don't work I just make
- Moratorium on video autoplay Our shitty internet infrastructure is taxed to the maximum, now it's really difficult to #wfh Particularly if you work at Facebook, Google (Chrome, YouTube in particular), Amazon - can you raise this issue in the company? The practice has always been dubious. Now it's outright abhorrent.
- Help understanding taxes on stocks Hi all, I need to get a better understanding of how taxes work when it comes to my stocks. I’m still confused about what gets taxed when, between grant, vest, and sale, ESPP vs RSU, how much, etc. Every year when tax time comes, I *think* I know what to expect but then somehow end up surprised and t
- Help. Fell for a Crypto scam via YouTube. I fell for a crypto scam via YouTube and sent 0.5btc to a scammers account. What are my options besides kicking myself? Can I claim any tax benefits writing this off as loss? Please let me know if there’s anything else I can do to minimize loss. Thanks#personalfinance #investments #crypto
- How long can a business be unprofitable? Could one theoretically create a YouTube channel and start monetizing it as a business? Say my channel reviews video games...then each video game I purchase and review technically qualifies as a business expense no? These expenses could then offset the income from my day job for tax purposes right?
- How to learn investment and money? I grow up with always only focus on study or work, never learned or tried anything about investment, tax, stock, etc. Can someone please recommend how to start to learn that? Any book, youtube channel? I think the most difficult thing is to develop the interest. TC: 330K NW: 300K, cash YOE: 2
- Counteroffers Who here has accepted a counter offer and been happy with the decision? Been interviewing and I have a few offers ranging from 50-100% more in TC. Does TikTok counter? Would they match a competitor that pays almost double? I like my team and am invested in the product, but I cannot work at this p
- Clueless about investing, tax... 2022 graduate just landed my first job, want to learn about taxes, investing specially mutual funds and stock market and all. I was not even able to fully understand my salary breakup ;/ There's just tons of articles and videos on YouTube just don't know where to start. If Anyone have any specific r
- I regret moving to Austin TX. Last year I and my spouse decided to move from Bay Area, CA to Austin TX, the reasoning was that since we work from home because of Covid we could work from Austin as well. One year later, I can say the stay was mediocre at best, the summer was hot (100+ F all day, locals said that it was a mild on
- Please help! Meta DS PA Interviews w/o stats background Hi, got to final round and would appreciate advice. How possible it is to pass Meta DS, Prod Analytics final round interviews, ideally at L6, without stats/ AB testing work experience? Have not worked much with stats concepts such as distributions, Central Limit theorem, Bayes theorem, deciding on
- How much are you paying for internet in Bay Area? 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
- vote 2022 Lexus NX350h or Model Y (virginia) NX: Premium + Luxury package ~$52k November 2021 The NX interior and ride quality should be better. Looked at YouTube reviews and pre-order brochure. Model Y: induction wheel + tow hitch. Not getting FSD. It is missing a HUD and ventilated seats, which NX has. Kind of disappointing at this price p
- Minimize tax obligation on 400k income This is my first time making around this much, and I don't know how to optimize my tax obligation. I'm of course willing to pay my fair share, but if the laws allow me to reduce my tax burden, I'd be dumb not to do that. I'm an unmarried head of household. Much of the income is tied to stock appre
- Husband indulges in options trading everyday My husband has recently started to buy and sell options on an everyday frequency , obsessively listening to some investment guru on Youtube and plays with his set of savings in stocks on Robinhood based on that. He sometimes brags to me about his wins and sometimes stresses about the losses. Stayin
- Manager interview at meta Hi Blinders - I have an interview scheduled for a manager of PM's role at meta. I was told during screening that the interviewees can be from any group within meta and may go into product management questions unrelated to job requirements. The job is for in-house applications, but I may be interview
- Google Business Intelligence Analyst With youtube team. What’s the career outlook and promotion track like? I already cleared 4 interviews and getting to the VP and HC soon. But their proposed TC is lower than my other offers and it requires me to move to Bay Area to get slammed by high tax and rent. If I come back applying for google
- Is buying Tesla Model 3 worth it? Here is my situation. 1. I have a 5 year old Camry. Pretty decent car. I drive only on weekends. 2. Booked the Tesla model 3 when it was announced couple of years back. Now it is ready to order (delivery in 2-3weeks). The default configuration is long range battery, premium interior and rear wheel
- link Help me get my third pullup! I can run for 20-30 miles at will, cycle 150+ miles, won a few local triathlon and cycle races. Can do pushups and toe to hand monkey bars till kingdom come. Can even probably do a 60 lb bicep curl. I can't do a third pullup in a row to save my life! Help me! Been at it for a few months focussed on
- Somebody makes US$4000 a month, spend $1500 in Asia, she seems happy and rich As opposed to me, earning $200k base, but after tax, and all high expenses in the Silicon Valley, I almost spent it all every month. (ok, maybe I can save $3000 each month, but it is not even enough for living expenses for a month). Together with the high stress, I feel like I am in bad shape. I k
- Google on-site System Design Hello I have an upcoming google on-site in a week . Just few clarification questions on System design round 1. Will it be based on past experiences or more generic like design a Instagram feed/youtube/whatsapp ? 2.Being a Software Infrastructure engineer should I put more weightage to Bandwidth
- Help a crypto noob understand why I should be excited about crypto A lot of people don’t understand crypto, don’t want to understand it, and wish people would shut up about it. There’s comfort in the idea that crypto is just a fad, a buffer against FOMO, regret, or obligation to learn something. However people who are into crypto are *really into* crypto and believ
- How much is Auto Pilot a marketing gimmick vs the real deal? I was reading an article in which legally Tesla calls their system an ADAS aka L2, unlike a fully self driving car which is probably L4 or L5. For all the drivers using AP or folks who work at or have experienced a Waymo or Zoox; how convinced are you about Tesla’s claim? The regular updates rolle
- link Side business (active income) while on H1B - no actual rule on USCIS site? So this guy on YouTube keeps advocating that you can do side business on h1b as long as you pay taxes to IRS and have ITIN (for business) - https://youtu.be/f3X_0cpuKXo He claims he sent emails to USCIS, DOL, IRS, secretary of state etc.. and everyone said it should be fine or not under our juris
- Taxes as a SWE (Write Offs, Advantages, $$$$) Hey, everyone. I was hoping you all could help me. I don’t come from money, and am feeling very overwhelmed by all the information I’m finding. I used to make pennies and was just a TurboTax guy. About a year ago I left a FTE position for an exciting contract position. In the early weeks, some of
- Online business on h1b Hello.. I have some ideas on starting YouTube channel and also start Amazon FBA Businesses. I am on h1 and I have seen online that companies like Amazon or Google are not going to stop you from using their services. I am not sure who is going to verify if there are alternate sources of income. I al
- Tesla 3 + CR-V vs. Audi Q5 We had shitty cars (2 of them) all our lives, never new ones. Now that I make tree fiddy (actually more like 375k), I want to buy a new car. I'm expecting my first child next year so I want to get a compact suv / crossover. At the same time, I have been in line for for Tesla 3 and I'm waiting for 35
- Nosql vs sql Looking for some advice here. I am trying it really hard to understand what it take to use nosql vs SQL one. I went through few youTube videos and sys design book some are using nosql and some SQL..but no one seems to really provide (was not able to understand myself mostly) clarity around it othe
- Advice on where/when to apply So I have been a test engineer writing no code really (using crappy in house tools that don’t rely on anything complex, so I do not consider that code. We do not write algorithms) and have been practicing leetcode. I have a BS in Computer Science and my coding is getting back up there with reading
- No motivation to work. Is this burn out? Got promoted to senior during the early days of the pandemic after working hard. Not long after, my output fell off a cliff because the work was too much for a while and pay raise wasn’t enough. Two possible reasons - WFH has taken its toll or finding out how much more I can make elsewhere is demora
- Desperate for Salvation from Abusive Manager at Facebook Hi Community at Blind, I'm at your mercy, please hear me out. Ever since entering Facebook, I've began having disturbingly negative thoughts because of the stress from work. I maintain my PSC, but my manager weaponizes any and all feedback from anyone about me and verbally abuses me in closed-doo
- Slow coder I’ve put in a lot of effort, grown and I’m still a reasonably slow coder. I’m trying to nail down why the other folks on my team are so much more productive: - better debugging skills? I spend a crapload of time debugging, sometimes a couple hours on a something silly like a C++ seg fault. I hack my
- Critique my early retirement plan Hey, I'm only 31, but I've recently put together a plan for early retirement that I finally feel good about. Inspired by another thread on Blind I decideed to post it here. It's a humblebrag only to some extent - I'm genuinly looking for feedback on whether I'm missing sth from the folks who tried
- vote Google vs Microsoft vs Amazon So, I recently posted about Microsoft vs Amazon offers and everyone asked me to take the Microsoft offer. Now I have a Google offer too and my situation has changed (a bit) with Amazon. This is a big decision (personally) and would really like to get you guys' opinion :) Education: MS YOE: 2 Goog
- How do I improve my system design skills? Not just interview point of view, but practical aspect as well. Overall I have 10+ years of experience in the software industry. Started my career as a QA engineer in one of the big service-based company(with TC: 2.4L/yearly). After close to 2 years, moved to a small product based company as SDE 1.
- Money Making Trends TL;DR: Where do people discuss trending money making strats that are hot off the press? When we start hearing about NFTs, Amazon FBA/Affiliate/KDP, Drop-shipping, new alt-coin ico's, new forms of mining (file/energy/hnt/etc), and all these income generation trends in public forums and in the news,
- Referrals requested Hiya I would really appreciate any and all referrals for any position that will let me write some code. Remote is cool, but I'm not picky. Heck I'll even give one lucky person who helps me out a tmo discount code! Really though, thanks for commenting if you do :) Alternatively, I would be very g
- link 125 cold applications to 5 offers AMZN disclaimers: Not on PIP. Good team and work. meh comp. Blind Tax: 230K, L5, 7 YOE 125 cold applications across 40 companies 21 phone interviews/online assessments 15 virtual onsite interviews 5 offers Interview Summary: - All interviews were targeted for Senior/Staff Software Engineer roles.
- vote Google: Best Locations for L3/L4? Hey all, I just passed the phone interview for Google (general SWE, L3/4) and was told to expect a call from a recruiter to discuss my background and career aspirations and team matches, who will then align me for my onsite. I understand that team matches are based on my location preferences - I c
- Non Traditional Path to Google L5 SWE I've been on blind for a little over a year now and with all the negativity, I wanted to (hopefully) share some positive encouragement for those looking to break into FAANG. As the title states, I had a very unconventional path to ending up at Google. My undergrad was in Physics. Sure we had to tak
- link ‘ Build on your lot’ builders with cost+floor plans in bay area,ca. I searched but couldn’t find builders with floor plan catalog & approx cost. This was the only one- https://thomasjameshomesusa.com/northern-california/ Any recommendations? Thanks
- vote Stocks and US Elections #personalfinance #investments Has anyone noticed recent steady sell off? what do you think, what are the chances of stocks falling after upcoming US elections if trump wins or biden wins..
- vote What will happen if Prop 22 doesn’t pass? Title says it all. Mainly thinking from the Gig companies perspectives. Vote or comment #Prop22 #tech #california @postmates @caviar @grubhub
- Thoughts on this tiktok nuclear energy influence Her goal is to save nuclear plants and advocate for more nuclear energy using weird videos on tiktok. Thoughts ? https://twitter.com/isaboemeke/status/1319674446391619584
- Ayurvedic doctor in Bay Area Has anyone tried Ayurvedic consultation & treatment in the Bay Area? Looking for references/recommendations. Thanks #medical #health
- vote Which of the following stocks will double fastest? If you were to risk all your wealth in one tech stock which one would it be at this moment?