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- How to manage over achievers? I have multiple sr. Engineers and one of them is a solo player and an over achiever.. he is not the best mentor to other sr or Jr Engineers. He swoops into any large project and gets it done in no time which leaves other sr.Engineer in the project frustrated because they don't get to flex. His hab
- What technical achievements are you proud of? This keeps coming up in interviews and I don't feel like I have a good honest answer. I've only worked in defense. I'm not particularly proud of anything I've done at work. It's not that I've accomplished nothing, I just don't really care about what I've done - defense is a shitshow of red tape and
- vote Have you achieve FIRE? tc 250
- Highest achievable SWE TC in London I'm curious, what's the highest TC in London you guys have seen for London software devs, without being some in some extremely senior (cto level) management position? And at which company? The absolute peak of what I've seen or heard of so far is around 350k gbp tc at the likes of citadel. But in a
- vote Did you achieve everything you ever wanted? What were your aspirations for success in high school? Did you ever meet those? TC: 180k Yoe: 3
- How fast can you achieve L4->L5 promo at Google? I joined Google last year as an L3; was promoted in 2 cycles with high ratings. How long can I expect to need for promo to L5? I was thinking about 5-6 cycles. TC:~215k USD YOE: 1y
- How did you achieve your first million-dollar? What age, and primary source of income? TC: 320k
- vote Finally achieved long-term goal. Now what? Some background: Slow start to career, cracked FAANG a few years ago, got disillusioned but was stuck in mid-level for a while due to politics, finally upleveled externally and will be starting a new remote role for a non-FAANG tier 1 company as a Senior 2, in a tier 2 city (so things like housing a
- Taking first steps to achieve FIRE ? Just wanted to know how to start the first steps towards achieving FIRE. I had invested 10k in crypto and made a mess out of it. TC 120k #personalfinance #investments
- Asking someone whose achievements impacted the world Does it feel like your life is fulfilled? Do you still feel lack of something?
- vote Poll: Most difficult mid-level promotions to achieve? What is the most difficult mid-level SWE promotion path in FAANG? @Amazon @Apple @Meta @Google #engineering #software #swe
- What NW could I achieve by being perfectly average? Assuming no lucky breaks happen in my life and no excessive spending, what’s a realistic NW after a 20 year career? TC: 204k YOE: 10 Edit: this assumes my startup equity is worth $0.
- I was able to achieve a proper wheel (chakarasana) pose!!! I've always been super inflexible!!! Today I did it! I did it in 14 days, it might be long for some people but I am 100% noob when it comes to Yoga. I wont post any pictures because people start coming at me like their life depends on fighting me. 😑😐 But the point is if I can do it, you can do i
- Achievable/Median TC for 8 YOE? What’s an achievable Blind level TC for 8 YOE (2 years at a FAANG and a M.S. Computer Science)? Looking to LC to GTFO in the next 6 months. I’m not a rockstar or 20 percent high performer or anything. I was thinking 300k? Would that put me at the median? Thanks! #swe
- vote Do you still work after achieving financial goals for retirement? This is for folks who have made enough money to retire. It can vary per person but let's take the minimum enough to retire comfortably (3M in US, 1M in India). Do you still work and how is work now with no expectations from yourself? If you don't work, what do you like to do ? Also, please feel fre
- Why Everyone is in rat race to achieve higher TC? Why are you in a rat race to achieve higher TC? Please take some time out to sit and think on actually why are you ruining your precious present time to get more tc than required. Have you ever thought how much do you require to live a peaceful life? Have you ever thought, when are you going to st
- I feel like a failure because I consistently achieve less than what I'm aiming for. Any advice? I like to think I can do what I put my mind to. And I have pretty high goals / expectations of myself but I've been reflecting on my past goals and realized I've never achieved anything 100% to the degree I want. Examples: - Wanting to go to Stanford, ending up in another really great college - W
- How hard is it to achieve $300k+ in DevOps? Edit: Do you have to LC? Are you required to know all parts of DevOps? For example, I don’t have much exposure with CICD, but I do have lots of exposure with Kubernetes, GitOps, microservices, and some IaC. TC: 140k
- How do I achieve 300k+ TC as a Solutions Engineer in Canada? I'm currently a Senior Solutions Engineer. YOE: 4, of which 1.5 was as a Team Lead. TC: 220k Canadian dollars (CAD) In the US, someone in my position would receive above 250k USD, I know this because I work with SEs in the US. How do I break into the 300k+ CAD range without moving to the US? Which
- Best way to have 10 million dollars by the time I’m 35? I am 25. Making 95k tc. What are the most sound ways to achieve this? Tc: 95k Yoe: 1.5
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- Forte rating "Achieves" I am 6 months into Amazon and I have been working day in and day out and completed 2 projects. In my meeting my manager told me that I have done very good work in past few months but all I see is rating "Achieves". I am very disappointed 😞 I don't understand if I have done good work, why did I get
- Leetcode milestone achieved! Plan is to solve around 50 more mediums and then focus on System design. Targeting senior roles. I don’t look at the solutions at all since I am a stubborn person, and if takes way more than others to achieve 200 questions. I have an interview scheduled with Google for end of February. Please encour
- Achieving $10M in savings My goal is to save up $10M and live off the interest for the rest of my life. What are your ideas on how I can achieve this? I'm open to risky ideas that make it happen faster, slow/steady ideas, etc. I just need to make sure I'm making the best decisions with each passing day. Current TC: $150
- 5x achievement Happy v day
- vote Are you a coaster or achiever? Coaster - does the bare minimum to get by.. takes more time to get promoted, if at all, but doesn't care as long as getting paid. Achiever - constantly tries to improve things around, aggressively targets goals. Moves up the ladder quicker than others. Tc: 220k Yoe: 4
- India has achieved herd immunity, change my mind! The number of cases are going down. I think it is because of herd immunity has been reached. Almost every in my family has had covid symptoms. I suspect lots of people were asymptomatic as well. I don't think it was mask compliance. Lockdowns worked for the first half of the year and then later eve
- How I achieved a net worth of 500k I’m 27 years old, living in a medium COL area. I finally achieved a net worth of 500k. Of course there are plenty of folks on Blind younger than me who have way more… But most of those people have really high-paying jobs, whereas I’ve never had a high-paying job. So this advice is for people who d
- vote Achieved FIRE. What would you do? You made it. What’s next?
- vote Lot of high achievers on blind! I feel like there are lot of high achievers on blind with TC in ~half million. Achieved it in very young age. But I do realize that there are silent majority that is just spectator of the show. Age: 32 TC: 🥜 (160K)
