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- How to get into Tech Sales? Long story short, 2002 I went into the audio engineering industry and was there for 10 years. Recession and technology advancements changed the industry reducing jobs. Jumped into landscaping to make money and get back on my feet, went from a laborer, to cad operator to designer. Company closed and
- Which laptop based off financial situation? Hello, I know there are some financially literate people here so I would really appreciate your help 🙏. My laptop (MacBook pro) recently died after 5 years (got it freshman year of college), and so I’m looking to get a new one. Thinking of just sticking with MacBook since I’m most familiar with
- link Cisco's recruiter pestering for my salary and other offers It's been 2 months in since I started with phone screen and recruiter is very slow in responding and taking about 3 weeks for each next step, so far 2 phone screens and one on-site in last two months. During the on-site, the lead engineer saying " you are open in the market for long time as I first
- Recently joined a bay area startup called Verkada, having mixed feelings I joined Verkada after a brief stint at another bay area company. The interviews went smooth, the recruiters pitched hard, the execs wooed me with fancy food and a generous offer I couldn't refuse. Some N months later my bubble is burst and I regret coming here. It all started when I discovered tha
- Ranking the SWE Technical Bars of Tech Companies I work in tech recruiting (full disclosure: recruited in the past for Google and Uber ATG) and was helping a new recruiter with getting calibrated on profiles. So, I figured I would make a list to share some top tech companies with her while she searched for top Software Engineers (SWEs). But once
- vote Help me choose - Canadian Edition Hello Everyone, I've been very fortunate to receive few offers from companies. All are in Canada. All in CAD. (Ranges are estimates). Thanks to Blind for all the interviewing tips. Current TC: 105k CAD YOE: 2 ********** Startup (Toronto): Level: idk Estimated TC: 160k-175k CAD (Base + Bonus) Sto
- Feeling Low!! Hi all, I want to take a moment and thank you all for taking sometime and many of you here gave me referral's, found amazing people here, no doubt world is surviving with the great people like you guys!! Im very happy that I met some awesome people here, but unfortunately despite being referred to
- vote Amazon L5 vs Google L3 SWE Hi everyone! Wanted to pose this question as I am going to have to make some tough decisions soon, I am currently at Cisco as G6 I passed both the Amazon L5 and Google L3 interviews (Hiring committee too) and currently in team matching for both, I have seen a similar post to this and wanted to see
- H1Bs/F1-OPTs really that bad? (Rant alert) I have done my master’s in the US and I am on H1B right now. Whenever I try to understand this anti-H1B/OPT debate - the math somehow doesnt work out. Just for an example - I remember all my batchmates on F1 student visa were extremely hard working, never went out to party like their American count
- Try for internship or full time role first? Any referrals? Posting on behalf of a friend: I’m a recent immigrant to the US, and have a Master’s in Data Science from a non-US university. Just graduated this past summer and while waiting for my green card to be able to work (should have it in the next few weeks), I have been practicing my data skills and try
- Sanity Check I’m a senior graduating with a degree in #software #engineering this fall and I’m trying to determine if my expectations are realistic. Background: I currently go to the largest public university in my state, spent a year working at a small startup building a react application from the ground up, a
- Job Interviews Hi, I have interviews with Facebook-RPM, Apple, Robinhood, Microsoft and MasterCard coming up over the next few weeks. I am mentally burnt out from my job. I am about a year and 2 months plus at Cisco. I really want to quit my job and focus on my interviews because I believe I will walk away with
- Still can't get hired. Feeling so lost. 3rd post about this. Turned down for 2 more positions. Background: 15 years experience IT Sales, Security, Personnel Management, and Project Management, no real programming experience. Experience with Nessus, nmap, Splunk, Active Directory, AD OU, slurm, Apache, PHP, MySQL, Exchange, Cisco and J
- Graduating Soon, looking for advice TL;DR: Self-funding, recently unemployed grad student graduating next semester, anxious about the SDE job hunt, looking for any advice on how to land interviews for entry level positions or potentially even upcoming summer internships. I've already read up on how to prep for them and I'm in the LC g
- Try for internship or full time role first? Any referrals? Posting on behalf of a friend: I’m a recent immigrant to the US, and have a Master’s in Data Science from a non-US university. Just graduated this past summer and while waiting for my green card to be able to work (should have it in the next few weeks), I have been practicing my data skills and try
- vote Help me choose - Canadian Edition Hello Everyone, I've been very fortunate to receive few offers from companies. All are in Canada. All in CAD. (Ranges are estimates). Thanks to Blind for all the interviewing tips. Current TC: 105k CAD YOE: 2 ********** Startup (Toronto): Level: idk Estimated TC: 160k-175k CAD (Base + Bonus) Sto
- Blind glossary for newbies Every proper forum has a glossary page for new visitors. I've started one for you. You're welcome TC: total compensation. Normally base+annual bonus+annual allotment of RSUs GTFO: get the fuck out, as in TC or GTFO YOE: years of experience COL: cost of living RSU: restricted stock units Refr
- Looking for Referrals in Vancouver (Or Canada) As the title suggests I'm looking for Referrals for jobs in Canada. I'm an SDE2 working at one of the Amazon Vancouver offices. Fell in dev plan currently. The deadline was in late March. Last week I heard from my manager that the deadline was extended to early May since I was meeting the bar and m
- Bad feeling for CA SV tech I just want to throw this out there and see what everyone thinks. I believe there is a high probability that CA tech workers will face a 'take it or leave it' situation in the near future. What is this take-it-or-leave-it situation? It's to take a pay cut or leave it and find a new job. Here's why
- Would taking an Engineering Manager job for a year hurt my chances for FAANG as a SWE? Hi all, I worked at Cisco for 5 years (Closer to a SRE than SWE - was in Internal Tooling), then went to IBM (and another company we were divested to) for 7 years (2 years SWE, 3 years Services SWE). Most recently, I've created a product from scratch using Spring/React. I've sold it to customers, de
- Career advice - Have to change jobs ASAP - without proper time for LC - Engineering Manager path? Hi all, I worked at Cisco for 5 years (Closer to a SRE than SWE - was in Internal Tooling), then went to IBM (and another company we were divested to) for 7 years (2 years SWE, 3 years Services SWE). Most recently, I've created a product from scratch using Spring/React. I've sold it to customers, de
- vote Is 100% 401K Match up to 5% of salary above average? Saw this from the startup perk post https://www.teamblind.com/post/Most-ridiculous-startup-perks-4JoNF6FN OP was saying 100% Match up to 5% was a good perk from their company. Some comments say their companies match up to 12%. Updated: Analog puts %5 of salary without needing contribution from the
- vote Horrible culture and politics at work: how should I act? I have been at a company for a while, mostly as individual contributor/tech lead. I have done a lot of work around architecture, scalability, and generally keeping projects technically on track while minimizing the amount of code that needs to be written. About a year ago we hired one senior techni