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- vote India- Manager scared me that leaving cognizant is a bad idea.dea. Hi, Currently I'm working in Cognizant as Test analyst and I'm serving notice period. I wanted to work in development but Cognizant put me in testing citing business reason. I have a job offer from a Product Based Company(The company is average) I'm joining there mainly to learn as I have lied in m
- FOMO on US TC. Joined Uber 2.5 years ago as new grad and currently working as SDE-2 in Bangalore. SDE-2 in US easily earn 200K and maybe even more with stock appreciation or blocker buster IPO like Airbnb, Doordash etc. Seeing these numbers, I have FOMO that US TC, career growth and lifestyle will be better. I d
- Do I need a slap back to reality? I know that this post might get a lot of backlashes, as a common mentality on Blind is "Grind grind grind, the higher TC the better". But the reality is: everyone is different and chooses different paths; I'm just not sure if anyone else has the same experience or if I just simply need to change my
- Is it tougher now to get a job as an experienced dev? So to start things off, I've been doing web dev for 4 years now at the same company. Began with pure front-end using AngularJS, mostly was just pigeonholed but grew to like FE. After a couple years of working on the same team, things slowed down considerably, management changed, people started leavi
- When the market is greedy Thinking through this a bit to decide my next move. My thesis is that the recently IPO-ed companies are wildly overvalued. There is no fundamental change in AirBnb business to justify a 5x in valuation. Doordash got a nice boost by the virus but that's going away and there's no certainty about the
- How to deal with Crippling Anxiety (work related)? I don’t know when it started but I feel I have always had this fear of failure in my life. My worst nightmare is to show up to a meeting where someone asks me something and I don’t have an answer for it. I have extremely low self confidence even though I have done really well at work. People around
- How to heal from past trauma? 5 years ago I went through a very tough time in my life and those days still haunt me. Witnessed first death in the family, my grandfather passed away 5 years ago and I had nightmares for months regarding the same. I grieved all alone in a room with nobody checking on me. My parents live in India a
- vote Reporting to a Junior in a new company?? EDIT2: I think most of the people who are giving me the title of being toxic etc are having the same thoughts as I do. Without knowing and working with me they have formed an opinion based on the discussion we had in this post. Anyway this doesn’t bother me as that’s the same reason I am sceptical t
- Leaving job and setting up team for success. I am leaving my job of about 18 months as a data analyst. When I came on there was no one managing data. Over time i built out pipelines using Python and MS office (automate, power query for ETL, etc) as well as a bunch of dashboards that are used across multiple brands/departments for BI. This led
- vote Does real estate purchase make sense? Given the increase in tax rates, I am considering whether real estate investing would be a good idea for me. My current TC is $900k, and NW is $1.6M, with a portfolio 90% in stocks (heavily US tech and US large cap) and 10% in other things (REITs, fixed income etc.). Indeed, my portfolio has been d
- vote Goldman Sachs vs. IBM EB vs. Capital One Internship? My goals this summer for internship ranked by priority: 1. FAANG-worthy internship on resume 2. Internship experience 3. Return offer pay, experience and location 4. Internship pay My offers are: 1. Goldman Sachs: 10 weeks; 50/hr with OT; 3000 housing; New York, NY 2. IBM Extrem
- Switched from Android to iPhone And holy shit, the OS feels like a gigantic step backwards. Yes, most apps run faster, and that's great. But what the fuck's up with iOS notifications? Surely it's not greater than a few weeks of engineering effort to de-dupe them? Why can't I dismiss an alarm before it goes off? Why the hell ca
- 4.5 YOE with limited exposure to technologies I am an average 4.5 YOE guy. I am going clueless over my IT career. As of now I can think of two career paths: a. Software Development b. Data Science/Machine Learning And I have got myself in a situation where neither I can claim to be a SDE expert/proficient nor ML expert. I never worke
- Unpopular Opinion: International students with a Data Science degree shouldn't get OPT approval for SWE jobs Context: International students require H1B VISA or similar to continue working in the US. Before they are able to get this VISA sponsorship, many of them utilize a provision under student VISA called Optional Practical Training (OPT) under which students receive temporary work permits for a year (3
- At what point do we accept value investing is dead Aswath from NYU Stern wrote an excellent piece a month or so ago about why value investing needs to evolve and it’s hard to argue against. I keep hearing “this appears to be the start of a rotation into value” every few months, but it never is, and there is always another explanation. For example,
- Seattle's Eastside hospital recommendation? (posting here as MS is a bubble and I don't care at this point if I go out of network) Lately I've been very disappointed with the healthcare offerings around here. It's a megacorp type of bullshit the which I refuse to consider the golden standard in a place with a very high cost of living and qua
- 20 years in this crazy business I just realized I’ve been working for twenty years and have unexpectedly been a bystander to some crazy things. Some of the beats: - grew up in the Bay Area in the 90s, my high school had this strange thing called “the internet “ which got me into programming - in college some friends of an older
- Can’t seem to get an interview(intern) Hi Blind, I’m posting here because I’m feeling desperate. Backstory is the following: As you can see my English sucks, that’s because I moved to United States not so long ago(in 2016) right after graduating High School back in my home country(former Soviet Union), as soon as I moved I started Commu
- Do you think one has a fair chance to be successful as Asian male immigrant in US? By success I mean making non-trivial amount of money, enough to allow you to buy house at palo alto with cash and not worry about it :-) By success I also mean being well connected to other high value individuals who can help and respect each other. Also it means stepping up in the socio-economic
- link AWS Solution Architect interview questions & concepts Please add questions as you see fit. Good luck! #amazon #aws #sa #interview Security IDS encryption at rest/in transit symmetric and asymmetric encryption. Web Application Firewall Vs Firewall? Where are customer encryption keys stored How would you mitigate a DOS? What is identity management? St
- Social Anxiety Issues Hi Blinders, I have been an introvert since childhood. I would not talk much with a stranger. But, if I spent time with someone, I would gradually build strong relationships with them. I am popular among my close friends and particularly jolly in nature. Work life after college has been great and I
- The Bear Market awakens... Update: while I do believe this is the start of a bear market. Tech has wiped off 1 Trillion in value over the last month and much of the tech sector is registering the most oversold readings in many years . So we are do for a big rally in the short term over the next several weeks probably (barrin
- Techies out there - Let’s make a better world. Blind folks out there. The entire tech world is built by techies and I bet we have more than enough talent on Blind to make an indelible mark in human civilization. /* We all know TC matters to this community and there have been plenty of posts as to many people wanting to do truly meaningful th
- My experience getting PIP from Amazon after 10 months as a new grad This was my dream job. I'm from a third-world country and went to a no-name university so this was definitely something I have been dreaming of since coming to the U.S. Started the job very slow. I wasn't given any real task, only bug fixes, unit tests, etc. Then 3 months in, I was given a mid-size
- Citrix Review Pro --> Tech Engineers: - Very few employees have good tech skills and like to stay as they already established reputation. They are 40+ & like their cushy software engineering job. Chillaxing in comfort zone bubble and enjoying the show as most other engineers are average/poor. - Some nice so
- Need Help getting in the Right Boat with the Right People Hi everyone, I’ve been in this app for about a month and think it’s such a great community to help each other out. You all are so smart and empathetic and I miss being a part of a smart community. I’m ex-MSFT, ex-INTL, ex-agency, ex-trying to figure out life my way too lol UC Berkeley Haas alum,
- Big bet: URANIUM shortage for multibagger. Not an expert in finance or energy. But saw a pattern I liked and invested. Thoughts? Bit of context... Nuclear power is responsible for ~10% of the worlds electricity. Even more in US, probably around 20%. Nuclear utilities require uranium to function. This demand is inflexible (no substitutes), s
- Some investment advice for younger folks Looking at the market today, particularly tech stocks, and posts I see on Blind about people telling others to keep loading even at ridiculously high values, I couldn’t help but make this post, especially for a lot of younger folks (mid 20s to low 30s) who might have cash or invested stocks without
- link For the clueless investor I study macro economics and have friends at the ground level that are more knowledgeable than me. I can tell you this, there is more pain to come in the next few months. This is the first time we have a supply shock and a demand shock. Coronavirus is the trigger but not the venom. Its all related t