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- Insane US tax I am Indian citizen, US green card holder and invest in Indian equities. In India on equity the tax rate is flat 15% for short term and 10% long term (more than one year holding). Contrary to this in US short term gains are added to income depending on which tax bracket you are in you are taxed and
- Facebook hiring only candidates with 5+ years experience? I’m an L5 here, and was looking to possibly make a move to Facebook in the near to medium term. However, a recruiter told me they are only hiring those with at least five years of experience for my role (SWE, MPK). It doesn’t matter what my current level is; there is a hard tenure requirement. This
- Favoritism. Biased boss How do one provide feedback to a manager who is extremely biased to a certain direct..She overlooks bad behavior as if it’s no big deal about this employee.. on a contrary makes a haystack of a needle with others.. It is frustrating to watch her constantly showing affection, constantly praising this
- post-interview feedback themes from recruiters real? Hi, the FB recruiter said that they arent allowed to give specific feedback after an interview but they can give themes. I just got an email and it doesn’t make any sense. It’s literally contrary to what the interviewer told me on the day of. I figured I would get something helpful? Are these “feed
- Gaps in Offer Letter Hi, I got an offer letter from MS (SDE position). However, the letter does not contain a joining date, no details about the stocks other than the amount (eg, no details about the vesting period), no relocation benefits, no mention of health benefits. The recruiter said, other than the lack of reloca
- When do recruiters contact you[INDIA] ? I am a new grad from tier-1 iit . I am joining one of company nutanix, sprinkler, Alphonso, appdynamics Tc- 29-31 Contrary to popular assumptions most of new grads even from tier 1 colleges don't have recruiters approaching them for interviews(except from hfts where noone wants to join). But I s
- Backstabbed by coworker Manager told me she heard a bad story X about me from a teammate, but that story is quite the contrary to what I did. I explained what happened and sent her all the relevant emails. I was very upset, and I am wondering if 1. I should start looking to change teams 2. I should send an email to the te
- PIP Amazon - PM Getting PIPed at Amazon after working more than 12 hours a day for the entirety of 2020. Number one reason being I didn’t earn my peers’ trust. On the contrary, my forte is filled with earn trust as my superpower (8) by my peers and other project stakeholders. I even achieved more than what was expe
- IC track dead-end, where to go next? I am a Staff @ Intuit and like what I do. I have been consistently told that I do good on people management and leadership has come forward with giving me a large sub-team (around 12 reports) within my current bigger team. I personally don’t think I’m good at people management contrary what everyon
- vote Are you the same, if not more happier, than before? With WFH and all the life coming to standstill, many ppl complain that they feel depressed. I, on the contrary, don't feel much of a change, except some longing for physical exercise. My day=work+chores+friends on phone+ family on phone+ movies/series+books. Before this, every weekend I used to worr
- Where do people live in MTV/Palo Alto/RWC that’s not $$$$ or a dump Moving to the Bay Area, and it looks like all the apartment complexes around RWC/PA/MTV are all terrible. I can’t really find a single place with reasonable rent and not negative reviews ranging from stolen packages, break-ins, rats/pests, homeless people on premises or homeless in stairwells, etc.
- Spreading some positivity around H-1B extensions. Finally my case is approved. Initial extension+H4 I539 Filed June 01 2018 Approved Oct 04 2018 SOC 15 1199 Wage Level 2 Full time in a Fortune top 10 company MS in US major CS Updated in new site Old site still shows received. This has been a big scare. I believe the Trump nightmare will
- Hiring Application Security/ Product Security engineers My team in Amazon is hiring for multiple Product Security/AppSec engineers in the payments space. We are building new secure platforms and require engineers with a strong background in security architecture, application security, cryptography, etc. The roles have cross-org impact and high visibilit
- How to make LinkedIn / Resume less boring? I’m struggling with making it interesting vs listing all my skills. I mean everybody lists things like python, Java, scrum, agile, quantifies a few of individual tasks and then that’s it? I find that so boring. Contrary I’ve seen people write just a sentence or two like “I am exceptional on the use
- Property Tax in 94583-2030 (San Ramon) Fellow friends in San Ramon, can you please guide me what is the total property tax bill in San Ramon. I am considering to buy a property in SR and put an offer for $1.2M. All the websites say property tax is 0.85% but I don't think that's correct when I see the property tax bill of previous years,
- How to be less opinionated/ more open?? Hii Blind Fam, Help me out here. I have a very strong sense of right and wrong. For some issues I am very dogmatic and, to some extent, impractical. For eg, splitting bill after dining out i.e, equal contributions etc. I respect contrary views but that does take the person on negative side of my li
- Internally Moving From Alphabet Subsidiary to Google My recruiter for one of Alphabet's subsidies told me that it's easy to transfer to other companies under Alphabet (including Google) without having to re-interview. So long as the job I'm applying for is similar in another Alphabet company, I was told that I would just need to put a packet together
- Accidentally called people who primarily develop using vim "insane"during an interview I was talking about tools I used for development during a zoom interview and I said yeah I use vim but usually vs code to navigate large codebases and that I know people who use vim for everything and I think they are insane . I wasn't trying to insult people who use vim primarily, on the contrary
- Google recruiter reached out to me A Google recruiter reached out to me recently for an informal chat; contrary to popular opinion on the internet, our conversation was rather smooth and friendly, I wasn’t asked to talk about quick/bubble sort or any technical term (I know all that will come later in the interview). We only talked a
- Am I on FOCUS plan/DevList at Amazon? Hi, I am working at Amazon for the last 2 years. 1) May I know what is the process of putting an employee on FOCUS plan or devlist? 2) Is the HR involved in the process? Last week I was told I was not meeting expectations and that I need to take a special task (to improve one of the Leadership Pri
- Two Sigma or Google I am New Grad and got offers from these 2 companies. In terms on compensation I think there is much more room at Two Sigma (I heard they can have crazy bonuses even 100% base, actually any insight on that is welcomed, and much feaster raises, promotions). My opinion: Although it is something totall
- vote Title or TC? For long term growth what would you choose and why. Does higher TC lead to more higher TC or does higher titles lead to more higher titles Will the answer change between management vs IC Update1: The reason i ask is - I can have different titles (staff engg, principal eng, senior eng) .. but they
- Why karma didn't work here? Everybody talks about karma and laws of nature, I also believe in this, but I have worked with a guy for the last seven years. Though competent, this guy somehow use to become close to managers and leads and get all good work and none in the team got any good work, recognition, or growth. The guy wa
- Happy New Year Blind! It seem like the wiser I am getting, the lonelier it's making me. I spent new year at home as my friends got covid (with whom I was supposed to celebrate) and I didn't have plans to travel. This is the first new year eve when I was alone and contrary to my expectations I was happy about it as I didn
- (Indian Passport, H1B Visa, currently in US) easy tourist visa options? What countries can I get the visa for easy future travel? I do not have any immediate plans but want to gets visas for smooth plans in the future. For example, Canada Visa is easy to get without immediate travel plans and comes with long term validity. Same for US B1/B2 visa - 10 year validity and
- vote Interesting study about critical thinking of engineering students https://phys.org/news/2021-03-supertest-students-russia-india-china.amp Quoting from the article, “We found that, as the students progress in their studies, their critical thinking skills remain approximately the same in Russia and India, but significantly decrease in China. On the contrary, Ameri