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- Any FANGs working with contractors with European limited companies? I work via my limited company from a LCOL European country, no stocks, only cash and it's fairly tax efficient. I make 210k$ (7 yoe part time while studying + 8 yoe full time) but because of the tax benefits I'd need a 300k+$ salary to match my take home pay (and even more in other countries with w
- Is the US hiring standard higher for Canadians without referalls? Should I aim for amazon in Canada first ? TLDR: Canadian wanting to move to US . Microsoft phone Interview feedback was a maybe for next round, because code worked but was not perfect/clean, may or may not have the budget to bring to onsite because I'm Canadian. Is this type of standard always higher for Canadians? Should I aim for workin
- vote DocuSign P3 offer - not sure if worth it? I just received an offer from DocuSign for a P3 SWE position - YOE: 5 (in January) Location: Colorado DocuSign P3 - Base: 130k Stock: 140k Bonus: 5% TC: ~172k Current (System1, Senior SWE [some title inflation going on here]): Base: 125k Stock: ~120k (IPO soon, but definitely not a rocketship) B
- No point chasing promo in Amazon Been a L4 for 2 and a half years now. Manager just gives some BS reasons for not promoting while he has promoted 2 other folks. I have delivered more things and have worked on more things than them. If you go by CR stats, mine are double than them in posted and commented. I have done Ops wins, wrote
- I don’t want to go back to the office tomorrow Can they fire me if I refuse to return? Our group head said that going back to the office is no longer a guideline, but a policy. I’m so anxious - what should I wear? What am I going to eat for lunch? How can I recharge between meetings without my pets? How can I squeeze in a bike ride in early af
- Microsoft SRE, offered job by Oracle today I'm an SRE II at Microsoft with TC of ~265k. Today I was offered a contract-to-hire position at Oracle. 6 months @ $156.25/hr (325k per year, W2 not 1099) Convert to $330k salary after 6 months. This is obviously a risk, but sounds pretty legit. I'd be working with technologies I prefer (Linux
- H4 EAD vs L1 Hello fellow blinders! My girl friend (and to-be wife) is currently working as a Software Engineer in Microsoft India. She joined only a couple months back. I expect to have my I-140 approval in 3 months, and we are trying to evaluate two options: 1) Apply for a H4 EAD as soon as I get my I-140 app
- Seeking a referral for PM position at Google! Happy to chat more about my profile! I have a friend in Google but he’s helped me too many times before so I’m hesitant to reach out again :/ I’m really seeking a change to boost my growth. The leadership changes in my org has left the team in a state of chaos and it’s worrisome :( Plus I really want to switch to a product firm! My
- AWS - Work hard, Make History... Make the company record profits, quarter after quarter, and then bend over for your efforts. I see an entire team that just got pay cuts, in the form of 5% TC increases, on the tail end of 8% inflation. When Amazon wants to boost revenue, they pump the price of Prime from $119 per year to $139. Wh
- LeetCode and CodeForces I’ve solved about 1200 LC problems (competiton rating: ~1850), and want to supplement with CodeForces and other competitive programming platform to add to spice to the daily grinding. Now, most of remaining LC problems are LC hard, which I can do, but honestly it takes a lot longer to due difficulty
- Will Turning Down Facebook Contract Blacklist Me Currently working at a startup as a data engineer. Base pay is pretty low (80k) but we get profit sharing and other bonuses which can boost that to over 100k. WLB is fantastic (5 weeks PTO, ~33 hrs a week) and I'm the only DE right now so I get pretty much full autonomy. Plus I get equity and I'm du
- What's next after Architect profile for Technical? Need your thoughts and suggestion - I am from technical consulting background, and have 19yrs experience in SAP Landscape Architecture, Integration, Development, Project implementation. Recently, my job application was rejected for Value Advisor role, saying mba is preferred and that made me think
- Looking for a job in Product management Hi Blind community, I am an Assistant project manager in construction and I'm getting my engineering management master's degree. I am sick of the long hours and some of the people I work with and want to join the Product management in a tech company. I will be graduating in May of this year and wa
- vote Skyworks solutions or ADI Hello, I am doing a co-op at skyworks from January and I have it till August then I will go back to school for Fall 2022. However, I have also offer for summer internship from ADI. I started applying for summer(even though I have at skyworks) because of my team and manager. I feel like I am
- Riot Games was childhood and still is my escape from the stress of being a software engineer I was always a gamer since young, like a big portion of S.E's for me, even as I was becoming a software engineer, games have been my escape from all the uncontrollable and hardships I would face in the world of software engineering. Especially games from Riot games. I loved the competitiveness and t
- vote Where to go next? TC - 295 - L65 - 18ye Spent the last 12 years at Microsoft as a PM. I am coming back from medical + maternity leave in January. I am also not super motivated to stay at microsoft. Pay is low, wlb is not that great in my org and I feel like I have reached a ceiling. I have other offers from other t
- AWS SA or TAM - Dance with the devil? Current situation - Datacenter SE at an independent VAR with 15 YoE. Currently have great WLB, but TC hasn’t kept pace with market, they’re stuck focusing on on-prem tech + pro services, it’s a race to the bottom. Current TC: 150 (110base, 40 commission) Currently also building a real estate portf
- vote Should DS ppl in FAANG get a good MBA? I'm currently ~5 yrs into my DS career. Worked at Amazon, Google, and currently a Senior DS making ~230 TC. Have path to staff DS within a year and it's not a huge bump, I guess the title and just general influence at work is cool. Was wondering what y'all think if MBA is worth it at this point. I
- Totally unmotivated at current job, but not ready for top-tier interviews I want out of my current job. I'm so totally and completely over it here. My only motivation has been reduced to "make something up that can be discussed in the daily standup so it looks like I'm doing work". The job is a dead end. I'm underpaid. I have no teammates that work on my projects aside fr
- Questions about Referrals New to the community - hi I have 3-4 YOE and have been looking for new opportunities recently. This time around I’ve only applied directly through career sites/job boards instead of using any employee referrals. So far I have got to the recruiter phone screens for a couple of companies like Spotify
- job change advice hi all! I started working at Microsoft as PM right after college almost a year ago (~11 months). I have learned a lot since then, manager is really good, I am at L59, during our last 1:1 he did mention that coming July, L60 is possible but given corona pandemic he does not want to promise it, but on
- Job search and advise #interview #finance Recent university graduate here and currently stuck at morgan stanley working a number crunching job in the isg product operations division. Im trying to boost my credentials so that it won't be as much of a pain in the neck to apply for jobs. How useful would learning sql and t
- Please help me decided, should I quit ? First, a little about my self. Im 20 years old and I am studying computer science at a second tier private uni. I started my search for an intenship this year and I was very desperate as I am graduating soon. I applied to many companies for swe but didnt get many calls back, so I decided to branch o
- vote Afraid of food poisoning from too many gummy 🐻 vitamins. I used to just eat 2 multi-vitamin gummies a day like a normal person. A few months ago, my wife wanted to buy Vitamin D supplements (we live in Seattle, speaks for itself) which Costco had in gummy form. She also bought Vitamin B12 gummies for energy boost. I also have a child who eats 1 kids gu
- link EU Policy A Money Grab Every time I take a look at European News, I see the EU pushing more regulation targeting Meta, Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft. In reading through a recent article, I saw that the EU is taking up to 0.05% of annual worldwide revenue from these companies to “monitor” them and I think it’s absol
- Lyft/Twitch/Other referrals or Advice Hello all, I have close to 5 years of experience in corporate FP&A and am currently a Senior Financial Analyst. I’ve been applying to a variety of tech companies, but despite being seemingly qualified (Running end to end forecast process and presenting to C level executives, modeling experience, bu
- Amazon/AWS PIP I am a new grad hire, joined AWS as a SDE-1 9 months ago, My manager started talking to me harshly in the 1:1s since the end of 3 months of on-boarding/embark plan itself, mostly on why my feature tasks were taking a bit longer, why the LPs are not followed properly and some other shitty reasons. He
- link India OKs $170-mln plan to promote Indian RuPay debit cards, rivaling Visa, Mastercard Great move by India. Monopoly of Mastercard and Visa has to be broken. NEW DELHI, Dec 15 (Reuters) - India on Wednesday approved a 13-billion-rupee ($170 million) plan to promote domestic RuPay debit cards and low-value digital transactions to boost their use in marginalised populations, in a mo
- Using supporting documents (e.g. PowerPoints, excels, etc) during an interview Curious about everyone’s experience/ opinion on using supporting material during an interview. Sometimes a picture or slide can convey the message so much better than words ever can lol. I’ve prepared some boilerplate slides that seem to be common across interviews, and thus far the interviewers ha
- Apple refresher and base relationship About to negotiate an offer with Apple and seems they won’t be able to match my other top offers and they are doubling down on “very good refreshers”. Suppose that is true, but how good is that? I’ve heard folks referring to its amount using xx% of base, so does that mean if I negotiate a higher ba