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Scientist willing to do crisis support, "coaching", etc.

So these days I'm quite a successful research scientist. To be where I am now I definitely sacrificed human interactions a lot. After reaching a few years ago what felt like an absolute lowest point in my personal life — when all the shit has finally accumulated and collapsed — I finally started imp

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Aug 16, 2022

Why I Wear a Suit

When I was a kid I dreamed of wearing a suit - like the men I saw on television. At the time I had no idea what these guys did for a living, but I wanted it all - buzzing my secretary, asking her to bring me a cocktail and sit on my lap while she took dictation. You can't blame a guy for dreaming bi

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May 18, 2018

Google Hiring Freeze Updates - Week of 10/10/22

Creating a separate thread to track the any progress on this topic for this week. There has be a tremendous response and a ton of useful information posted in the past couple of months. In the last 3 weeks, the views/comments have trended lower and hence I created a quick pool within this thread. 90

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Oct 9, 2022

Let's talk about women/relationships.

Warning: This might be long. I wrote it on desktop and am sure it looks even longer on the phone. Hello all. To be up front, this post is directed at all of the frustrated young guys that I see on here who seem to be genuinely suffering when it comes to their own self images and interactions with w

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Jul 17, 2023

Google Hiring Freeze Updates - Week of 10/03/22

Creating a separate thread to track the any progress on this topic for this week. There has be a tremendous response and a ton of useful information posted in the past couple of months. In the last 2 weeks, the views/comments have trended lower and hence I created a quick pool to gauge the interest

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Oct 2, 2022

Common to give a 'secret test'?

Since I am in Automotive engineering career, I faced some passive-aggressive behaviors from some people. Some managers or supervisors saying "This is a test!" to justify their passive aggressive behaviors. Some guys are giggling with this phrase behind. At one of my previous job, my supervisor is

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Aug 18, 2021

When should women settle?

“As a single 42-year-old friend put it, for many women it’s a Catch-22. “If I’d settled at thirty-nine,” she said, “I always would have had the fantasy that something better exists out there. Now I know better. Either way, I was screwed.” “Nancy, who is married to the “predictable” guy, explained

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Dec 29, 2022

I feel I'm at the end of my rope in Amazon...

Hello, I've been under a year at AWS and I never felt so out of place, underperforming and I never got just a harsh-brutal feedback as I've got so far... I am barely reaching "the bar" and every month it feels like my ass is on the line, it is almost like by design that amazon want to break you, bef

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Nov 23, 2020

Navigating englife with a disability

Blind tax: TC: 320k YOE: 7 This might be a long post, so for those who just want a disappointing CliffsNotes version of the post: "struggle, trouble, dealing with it, in a bubble. Could I have done it some other way? was there any other way? And I guess it's time I'll change things now.". [Since thi

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Oct 15, 2022

avoid American Airlines software engineering

I was discriminated as my background, culture, beliefs, & ethnicity are not welcomed at American Airlines. Non equal opportunity, & ethnical bias is evident. AA is not a diverse place. Seems like only certain ethnicities can thrive there. My manager said that I had to go to the AA Dallas headquarte

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Jan 4, 2023

How I got a job in BigTech despite multiple rejections/hurdles

I think all of us need to share our failures more with the world than our successes coz thats what motivates people...i know lots of people have started coming out with their worst failures to eventual success stories in recent times with the great courage and this is my attempt to uptick that trend

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Jan 14, 2022

Brilliant manager turns out to be two-faced and ineffective. Jump ship or wait it out?

Started a new role ~4mo. ago and from the get-go, the expectations and goalposts have shifted for everyone else, and they've only increased for me. When I came on, I was hired with the presumption that I'd have the financial, logistical, and managerial support to build out and hire a robust team tha

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Oct 4, 2022

How to Choose the Correct Label for Your Application?

Barcodes come in a variety of shapes and sizes, each with its own set of advantages and disadvantages. It will be challenging to choose which barcodes will work best with your Application from such a large number of barcodes. Most importantly, barcodes can help your company with the highest level of

Dec 20, 2022

Covid-19 Update

Edit: Stocks were recovering overnight when I posted this originally. I spoke too soon, it appears we are still in the middle of it. Cases are leveling off in China (but I don’t trust their data), but growing exponentially everywhere else. Most places aren’t taking this seriously and will be overwh

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Mar 4, 2020

Feeling Stuck in a Relationship

Me and my gf are in our 30s, we've been in a relationship for over a year now. We both live in a HCOL area. She is local, I moved here not long before meeting her. Initially, I was planning to stay single and date around. I went on a few dates and started hanging out with my now gf more consistently

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Apr 16

Workplace Bullying + Racial Bias within Affirm

Again, if this is “too long” for you to read, LEAVE. Reading hard 😢 If you care about being seen as a human being, and not a color, then read. If you are a victim of bullying, whatever your color or identity, SPEAK UP. Staying silent about these experiences is what allows a flawed system to persist

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Jul 29, 2023

Expose on FLG: Part 10 FLG’s Media Develops

This is part 10 of my expose on Falun Gong, the Chinese meditation practice that grew into a huge global right wing disinformation machine. A former FLG practitioner of nearly thirty years, I am using the anonymity of Blind to share my info on how FLG went off the rails. As mentioned in the previo

Sep 23, 2023

My Very Strange Experience at TikTok

It's difficult to encapsulate my time at Tiktok in the form of a few bullet points, so as a form of closure and just so people can be made aware of how toxic this org can be, I want to share my experience in more detail. TL;DR - if you care about your mental health at all, work anywhere else. Duri

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Mar 19

It's A "Cold War Every Day" Inside This Group At Apple

A group inside Apple called Information Systems & Technology, or IS&T, builds much of the company’s internal technology tools — from servers and data infrastructure to retail and corporate sales software — and operates in a state of tumult. IS&T is made up largely of contractors hired by rival cons

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May 26, 2020

How I left Christianity and became an anti-natalist

When I was young, I was heavily drawn into Christianity because it promised comfort and love for the marginalized. As an immigrant going through racism, I felt deeply touched by it. However, I just couldn't reconcile the suffering and pain and depravity that goes around the world and the idea of a l

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Jan 10, 2021

BE CAREFUL GUYS!

To my good folks out there: There is a war going on and you are a part of it. Much like what we know, this isn’t a physical war, this is a digital war that involves collecting data on individual to use later, spreading misinformation on internet, changing behavior by pushing certain habits to peopl

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Sep 5, 2023

What should I have done?

I can’t sleep because a situation from the past arose in my brain and now it’s replaying over and over, so I’m turning to Blind to help me understand what I should have done differently. Maybe I’m thinking of it wrong. So I’m not American, on a TN visa. I was brought into a company as a Staff eng

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Jul 5, 2022

Uber / Lyft market share + growth

Any Lyft folks here who can dispute this? Information article below: Source: Second Measure Data The once-hot ride-hailing business is cooling down—just as the two biggest players are thinking about going public. Revenue growth rates for the U.S. ride-hailing businesses of Uber and Lyft slowed thi

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Sep 12, 2018

Boss Triggers Abandonment Issues

TLDR; How do I come to common ground and make peace with my manager? Our personalities are in conflict. I think we trigger each other emotionally because of our childhood traumas. I’m an anxious ISTJ, and she’s a fearful-avoidant INFP. Warning: Long post ahead about childhood trauma. Please be kin

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Feb 3, 2023

Expose on FLG: Part 9 FLG Turns Political

In part 9 of my series exposing Falun Gong, I will talk about how Falun Gong began transforming from a meditation practice into a political machine albeit against the CCP in the mid-2000s. This is the prelude to it becoming a global right wing machine in the 2010s. I apologize beforehand for using

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Sep 23, 2023

Anyone on perpetual H1B waiting for GC forever must read this...

https://ilw.com/articles/2006,1010-eiss.shtm Does AC21 Limit Availability Of Post-6th Year H-1B Status To Those Currently Maintaining H-1B Status? by James D. Eiss and Danielle Rizzo Congress passed the American Competitiveness in the Twenty First Century Act (hereinafter, "AC21") in October 2000,

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Feb 1

Will Uber sell it's South East Asian business to Grab?

Grab’s $2 billion fundraising, announced on Monday and led by SoftBank, has changed the ride-hailing game in that region, giving the Singapore-based firm what may be an unassailable advantage. Uber may have to consider selling its assets to Grab. That is an enormous turnaround on the situation for

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Jul 27, 2017

How to find a therapist for FMLA at Amazon when you get a Pivot Entry.

The process has been very confusing, so here's what I wish I knew upfront: 0. Noone knows which conditions qualify and which don't qualify for FMLA. It's said that "burnout" alone may not qualify as serious enough. It's said that "adjustment disorder w/ anxiety + depressed mood" may qualify. As w

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Dec 18, 2021

Covid-19 message

Please share this important and urgent message to those who chose not to heed the advise of the experts. Message below. ============== Please circulate to the young and people who remain defiant about staying at home/social isolation . A lot of hard headed people. Here's a Fwd... EPIDEMIOLOGY

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Mar 18, 2020