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- Next steps in my career after 2 IPO exits? I’m a mid-career Bay Area techie. 29/31 with my partner. Net worth together is 5m+. Cash TC together is 400k+, equity comp I included in the net worth and I don’t want to count future ones as it fluctuates still with this market. 2 IPO exits for me and one for my partner. We were employees who joine
- Here’s why Bitcoin is “valuable” Read this one-by-one: 1. Money is not just a medium of exchange. 2. Money is a collectable, that CAN be exchanged. 3. Throughout human history, people collected all kinds of items. Some of those were often exchanged (usually for other items) - but not always. 4. Examples of collectables include, co
- ***** What Motivates You ****** Dear @team, I joined this forum a week back , I went through some of our friends posts and Their TC , I feel I’m poor guy (interms of tech, tc, investment) joined rich club . I have 14 yoe and TC:154k .. none of my friends, peers school mate in the faang and making such TC. One question to FAANG and
- Made SDM lick his own spit Background: I used to work at amazon 1.5 years ago. Looked for internal positions got snubbed. One manager entertained till the end. After whole loop called for one more round and gave me a problem to implement delete a node from red and black tree. I got blanked and moved on. Got an offer from FA
- link Buy home in a good school district(Greater Seattle), now or wait? Me and my wife are expecting a baby in Oct this year. Currently, where we live(own a house), does not have a good school ratings (sub 4 for all levels). I want to move to a better school rating suburb but unable to take a leap of faith, due to housing bubble burst chatter + skyrocketing prices + tho
- tech stacks matter for your career leetcode matters (at the present time) but i believe tech stacks matter as well and intentionally working on junk non transferrable stacks is a risky move. I remember when the job market wasn’t nearly as good and I remember horror stories from the last dot com bubble in the early 2000s. Trust me on
- vote Should I care about my title? Super confused about this. I have 2 offers I’m seriously considering. Don’t know how to value them. Need some help from experienced PMs around. I’ve been a PM for 7 years now. My 2 offers are: Offer 1: PM level: base: 175k Equity: 500k/4 Cash component: 175k Offer 2: Staff PM: Base: 200k Sign-
- Which career path is optimal? Dear Blind community, Back End vs. DevOps vs. Data Analyst, If I wanted to develop a high-paying career in the US(get into FAANG), which career path should I take? I am more familiar with heavy mathematics and script based languages like R,Python. I am working as a SWE for a no-name UK Algo Tra
- Blind makes me want to change jobs I worked so hard to get into tech, I basically have my a dream job and if I think about how much money I'm making now compared to how much money I've made throughout my entire life before this, I would never have believed it until it happened. Looking at myself in a bubble I am incredibly happy wit
- Bigger vision in life than TC Is our life all about TC or doing shitty software development? I find this career very boring, mundane. I am not really passionate about daily job now although personally I am very passionate about computer science and tech. People running a race to get into Faang ultimately for what? Higher TC but
- Future World Predictions Let’s write what you think will happen in the future (within 5 years). I will start Due to visa situation happening in USA, a lot of people will decide to move back to their countries and start to found their own companies in their home countries. Eventually some will survive and there will be many
- Does time in market vs time market applies now? Not trying to be super cynical here or negative. but want to be pragmatic and make a right decision. The near future or current status of overall situation considering below * Coronavirus * Virus affect on all industries across instead of few sectors like before * Repo market * Housing bubble/Mortg
- How nice it must be to not know what depression is I have had bouts of depression since I was 17, in late 20s now. The bouts have become frequent and are triggered by some of the stupidest and silliest memories since lockdown because of all the isolation. Getting therapy, feels like I'm making progress some days, feels Iike I'm gonna live this all m
- How come people still think the virus caused this recession Yes rona was a black swan. But the recession, potentially a depression was destined in 2008 when FED began massive QE and blow up the bubble. The root cause is the shitty corp debts and oil price war between saudi & russia accelerated the crash. Also Trump has been pushing FED to cut rate since his
- vote Home: Buy or rent in this market? To the more financially successful folks out there, and there appears to be a LOT out here. I've about $125K in savings, excluding emergency savings for 6 months, per my budget. Dual (uneven 1:2) income household. No home yet since I moved from Alabama and had to sell and move (couldn't rent per H
- Canada Sucks ! Regret moving here, I want out ! I worked in the US for 4 years, exhausted my CPT/OPT and got H1b denied in 2018 during the Trumpian times. I was moved to a location in Europe and company was ready to file for my H1b. During the same time, I had Canadian PR ready and had an offer from company in Vancouver. Since I hated my then cu
- link C-levels from Chinese tech unicorns + Chinese VCs are here!!! You probably know China is getting very strong in tech, and might hear of Alibaba, Tencent, Huawei etc. But did you know China has 9 out of the top 20 global internet players by market cap and 186 unicorns? Have you heard of Bytedance, the most valuable unicorn in the world that’s not public yet($
- What sorts of tech failed although VCs put crazy $$? It seems top-tier VCs(a16z, sequoia and etc) are pouring a crazy amount of $$ in the web3(whatever it means)/blockchain field. It almost seems too big to fail. On Twitter, if you follow top VCs, it really feels like you are standing on the wrong side of history if you dismiss web3. Or at least if y
- Resume Advice for Applying to FAANG - ATS, College, etc. Hello Blind, I've been trying to apply for roles outside Amazon for the past few years. I've noticed that I rarely get responses (Probably 1 call back out of every 30 applications). I adopted a new format for my resume that highlights some of my skills. I think it might be hindering rather than hel
- PhD -> Applied Scientist -> Next Step? Would like to solicit blind crowd source opinions on what my next move should be. T+0: BS grad in engineering field (not CS) T+5: Finished PhD in engineering (not CS). Job prospects suck. Worked as researcher in academia. Self taught myself ML and DL. T+8: Landed first tech job at MSFT at L63. T+10
- The Bay Area Housing Market. I'm so glad Microsoft is in Seattle... But I have many ties to the Bae Area (lolol!) and have always looked upon the housing situation there with ravenous passion. Remember Patrick.Net anyone? Rewind to 2000. Silicon Valley is out of control on fire! Electronica is starting to happen at the Limeligh
- link Discord for technical people into Crypto + Stocks -- crowd sourced calls and knowledge share I posted a few weeks ago but I guess the link expired, here is a new link that shouldn't expire: https://discord.gg/vPxD8z9g We've gotten a lot more activity in the discord lately and happy to say I am learning new stuff in there again! from my last post: Hey folks, during the last crypto bubble
- Am I being underpaid? TC:16.5L INR YoE: 3y 4m I hold a Masters in CS (top 15 US) and currently work in ML. I might get an offer from AMZ for AS but scared about hire to fire. But also scared that I'd get left behind (both in terms of TC and skills) if I stay at current org. Manager in current org is great but senior lea
- QE infinity and inflation There seems to be a general agreement that all the money printing will lead to rampant inflation and dollar weakening, which I don't understand. Since the QE of 2008, Fed managed to control inflation by channeling all the excess printed money to assets (stocks, property) and locking up there than i
- Roast my Resume Hey, brilliant people of Blind. It's yet again time to take apart someone's resume, no hard feelings whatsoever. I'm aiming for a position that's bringing me closer to FAANG as I'm currently not able to penetrate the Big Tech Bubble (with my current company) In the first year, I started working a
- Advice Needed in Placing Savings Into Market Hey Blind Community, I’m a 30 year old living in the Bay Area with $300k in savings. I currently do not own a home and max out my IRA and company match for 401k every year. The last couple of years I’ve been very focused on building my savings and now I’d like to get more involved in the market. A
- apparently 2.5M net worth is poor for non-blinders too I am a recent MSFT aluminus. I went to the bank to make sure nothing is affected before changing employers. The person quite enthusiastically offered financial services, remarking that they'd like to help individuals like me who usually park their stocks in tech and do not diversify. anyways, a fe
- Feels like a machine not a human There I said it, I feel like I am a machine whose only job is to obey what manager says and complete tasks writing code and fix bugs. I have no motivation and I don’t feel human. Maybe I just hate my job too much. And I don’t like how pushy the working environment is - literally suffocating. I won
- Anyone from a non-standard background have trouble relating to your coworkers? I didn't go to school or spend my 20s grinding away as an entry level swe. I lived my life, learned a lot about life, hapiness, relationships. Made mistakes, learned from them. Had no money and neither did my friends, but we were all young and happy. Later in my 20s, I fell back on my nerd skills a
- Facebook London Interview I recently interviewed for FB London for E5 Android Role. YoE - 9 Coding 1 - Interviewer asked 2 problems and 1 followup questions. I nailed this interview. System Design - Nailed this one. Interviewer was happy and said that "you pretty much covered all the components with details". Coding 2 -