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Indian parents issues

#dating #marriage #relationships Indian parental issues I'm a now M33 who moved to US for grad school a few years back. I come from a upper middle class Indian family with super high importance on education. I'm their only child and my mom is possessive about me, sometimes in a toxic way. I was a

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Aug 11, 2023

30 Indian Male in US-started anti depressants 3 months back and feeling a lot better now. AMA

Hey, I am a 30ish Indian male. I was really depressed and anxious from Nov 2020-May, 2021. Had to visit emergency in Feb 2021 misinterpreting an anxiety attack as heart attack, when I started feeling tingling on my left hand and leg. I was prescribed lexapro 5mg by my GP after the ER visit, when he

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Aug 30, 2021

An Advancing Personalized mRNA Cancer Vaccine Launched Phase 3 Clinical Trial

Cancer vaccines have long been seen as a beacon of hope in cancer treatment. However, despite decades of development and clinical trials, their success has been limited, with no cancer vaccine surpassing current monotherapies in terms of recurrence-free survival benefit. Amidst evolving understandi

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Aug 21, 2023

Reseller bots coming for… baby formula?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurendebter/2022/05/13/baby-formula-shortage-bots-snap-up-inventory/?sh=37c91c01a26b Hustlers gonna hustle I guess? I wonder - who here among the Blind community thinks the tech/retail industry at large should do more to handicap the reselling/botting industry? TC - 4

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May 14, 2022

Uber / Lyft market share + growth

Any Lyft folks here who can dispute this? Information article below: Source: Second Measure Data The once-hot ride-hailing business is cooling down—just as the two biggest players are thinking about going public. Revenue growth rates for the U.S. ride-hailing businesses of Uber and Lyft slowed thi

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Sep 12, 2018

Let's talk about women/relationships.

Warning: This might be long. I wrote it on desktop and am sure it looks even longer on the phone. Hello all. To be up front, this post is directed at all of the frustrated young guys that I see on here who seem to be genuinely suffering when it comes to their own self images and interactions with w

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Jul 17, 2023

I’m mentoring a college junior with excellent technical skills but ZERO social/behavioral skills, idk how to handle him

I’m sorry, this is long. I’ve been talking to this kid for about a year now. He’s a junior currently at the school I graduated from and he’s trying to get his first internship. About me, I graduated last year with one internship at State Farm, currently working there full time, based in DFW fully

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Jan 18

BE CAREFUL GUYS!

To my good folks out there: There is a war going on and you are a part of it. Much like what we know, this isn’t a physical war, this is a digital war that involves collecting data on individual to use later, spreading misinformation on internet, changing behavior by pushing certain habits to peopl

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Sep 5, 2023

AWS domestic surveillance

Pasted from reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/6phcxi/i_will_remain_quiet_no_longer_and_americans_need/?st=J5K4QEUA&sh=a3d6934e In 2011-2012 I worked for AWS on the PDX OPS team. We were responsible for the installation and upkeep of a newly created data cluster in Boardman, OR and

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Jul 25, 2017

There Are Better Healthcare & Sport Practitioners Out There

I've been burned by the traditional healthcare system. There, I said it. The system is expensive, which is one thing, but more importantly (to me), it usually doesn't help me out too much. As an endurance athlete, I am two things: (1) constantly pushing my body to its limits in order to achieve new,

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Jan 23, 2023

I feel I'm at the end of my rope in Amazon...

Hello, I've been under a year at AWS and I never felt so out of place, underperforming and I never got just a harsh-brutal feedback as I've got so far... I am barely reaching "the bar" and every month it feels like my ass is on the line, it is almost like by design that amazon want to break you, bef

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Nov 23, 2020

It's A "Cold War Every Day" Inside This Group At Apple

A group inside Apple called Information Systems & Technology, or IS&T, builds much of the company’s internal technology tools — from servers and data infrastructure to retail and corporate sales software — and operates in a state of tumult. IS&T is made up largely of contractors hired by rival cons

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May 26, 2020

Am I an ATM to my parents? [Rant]

I find it difficult to talk about finances and money with my parents. For context I am Chinese-American and my parents are immigrants. They are financially comfortable. My parents think that children are obligated to repay them for raising them and spending money on them growing up. I can't say I ha

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Aug 29, 2023

Event company (Marcus Evans) charged me a $2k registration fee for a conference that they prohibited me from attending.

Hello folks, I find myself in a bit of a rut. A representative from this company, Marcus Evan’s Group, which is based somewhere in Eastern Europe or the Middle East, reached out to me last September to sell me on attending one of their professional strategy “thought leader” networking conferences h

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Jan 13

Workplace Bullying + Racial Bias within Affirm

Again, if this is “too long” for you to read, LEAVE. Reading hard 😢 If you care about being seen as a human being, and not a color, then read. If you are a victim of bullying, whatever your color or identity, SPEAK UP. Staying silent about these experiences is what allows a flawed system to persist

1,578

Jul 29, 2023

FB Post re: Uber worth reading

I saw this on my Facebook feed, written by Diego Berdakin who I don't know at all, but we have mutual connections. Definitely worth a read as he has innumerable valid points. ----- Watching all of Silicon Valley turn its attention to bashing the team at Uber has been quite a sight to behold. At the

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Jun 26, 2017

Excuse my rant

I'm tired. Leadership doesn't listen or seem to care. I feel like I'm going insane. How can a 'unicorn' company touted as the "fastest unicorn startup to reach profitability" be in such deep shit?? I don't care how much of a diehard Thrasio fan you are, this company is going down...I work in data,

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Jul 11, 2022

Planning to ask for a raise tomorrow. Never done it before. Advice?

I have worked for this company for going on three years now and have never asked for a raise before. I have a 1:1 scheduled with my manager tomorrow and plan on asking for one for the first time. I work for a defense contractor so my job security is reasonably strong. We have won some pretty seriou

1,522

Nov 23, 2020

Strong, smart, good, and responsible people are less likely to be modern day liberals

Mentally strong, intelligent, good, and responsible people most likely don't fall for the modern day liberal agenda. Note, I am not talking about education when I am saying intelligence. You can have a PhD and still be a fu**ing idiot in many areas. I am not saying education can't prove your intelli

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Apr 2

Covid-19 Update

Edit: Stocks were recovering overnight when I posted this originally. I spoke too soon, it appears we are still in the middle of it. Cases are leveling off in China (but I don’t trust their data), but growing exponentially everywhere else. Most places aren’t taking this seriously and will be overwh

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Mar 4, 2020

Brilliant manager turns out to be two-faced and ineffective. Jump ship or wait it out?

Started a new role ~4mo. ago and from the get-go, the expectations and goalposts have shifted for everyone else, and they've only increased for me. When I came on, I was hired with the presumption that I'd have the financial, logistical, and managerial support to build out and hire a robust team tha

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Oct 4, 2022

When should women settle?

“As a single 42-year-old friend put it, for many women it’s a Catch-22. “If I’d settled at thirty-nine,” she said, “I always would have had the fantasy that something better exists out there. Now I know better. Either way, I was screwed.” “Nancy, who is married to the “predictable” guy, explained

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Dec 29, 2022

I made it!! From 85k to 350k TC in less than 2 years

EDIT1: looks like this post blew up!! Thanks everyone!! I promise I will reply to all of the DMs/comments later tonight! EDIT2: I replied to all of the DMs, but won't be able to reply to any more DMs/comments. It's too much for me to keep up! However, as I mentioned in most of my replies, I am givi

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Feb 10, 2022

List of companies hiring now . Not only Tech

Companies from industries spanning from technology to retail are hiring to meet increased demand caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Below is a regularly updated list of companies hiring right now. Instacart says it’s looking to hire 300,000 contract workers over the next three months. Amazon says

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Apr 19, 2020

Did I Win? It feels so... empty

Hope I get better advice on Blind here. This is a fucking long story. TLDR is that I fought my way through life, defeated all my enemies, almost at the end to FIRE... But the imminent victory seems empty and hollow. Ok folks, so since I was born I have been fighting for myself, to prove my worth t

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Aug 11, 2023

Race is social construct made only for racism

Dr. Kendi starts off his book with the premise and the core belief that all races are equal. The definition of racism that he uses is the belief that one race is superior or inferior in any way. As he starts going through the history of racism, he starts off describing slavery and the justification

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Sep 23, 2018

Consolidated list of why I quit my job at Tiktok

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/06/tiktoks-toxic-culture-reviews-on-glassdoor-impact-hiring.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/quit-facebook-tiktok-biggest-differences-161138573.html?guccounter=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkDXV2g_i7Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCXuGkHZvCI https://www.yo

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Mar 30, 2022

I feel like shit because of my coworker

This will be a long rant, so if you're not in a mood for this, please skip. Also, not at Block anymore, posting from an old account. I don't know how to survive this, this has caused a major depression and an identity crisis. I switched jobs a year ago before the market got out of hand. Ended up

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Sep 3, 2023

Boss Triggers Abandonment Issues

TLDR; How do I come to common ground and make peace with my manager? Our personalities are in conflict. I think we trigger each other emotionally because of our childhood traumas. I’m an anxious ISTJ, and she’s a fearful-avoidant INFP. Warning: Long post ahead about childhood trauma. Please be kin

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Feb 3, 2023

Breaking into Quantitative Finance

Hey All This is a long post, if you read through it all I thank you, if not TLDR: Squandered youth, came back to success, want more, good with numbers, need insight. I have a dream of working in finance, if it were ever possible, quantitative finance. The quant firms seem to be leaders/innovators

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Aug 14, 2020

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First American Discussions

First American

Indian parents issues

30 Indian Male in US-started anti depressants 3 months back and feeling a lot better now. AMA

An Advancing Personalized mRNA Cancer Vaccine Launched Phase 3 Clinical Trial

Reseller bots coming for… baby formula?

Uber / Lyft market share + growth

Let's talk about women/relationships.

I’m mentoring a college junior with excellent technical skills but ZERO social/behavioral skills, idk how to handle him

BE CAREFUL GUYS!

AWS domestic surveillance

There Are Better Healthcare & Sport Practitioners Out There

I feel I'm at the end of my rope in Amazon...

It's A "Cold War Every Day" Inside This Group At Apple

Am I an ATM to my parents? [Rant]

Event company (Marcus Evans) charged me a $2k registration fee for a conference that they prohibited me from attending.

Workplace Bullying + Racial Bias within Affirm

FB Post re: Uber worth reading

Excuse my rant

Planning to ask for a raise tomorrow. Never done it before. Advice?

Strong, smart, good, and responsible people are less likely to be modern day liberals

Covid-19 Update

Brilliant manager turns out to be two-faced and ineffective. Jump ship or wait it out?

When should women settle?

I made it!! From 85k to 350k TC in less than 2 years

List of companies hiring now . Not only Tech

Did I Win? It feels so... empty

Race is social construct made only for racism

Consolidated list of why I quit my job at Tiktok

I feel like shit because of my coworker

Boss Triggers Abandonment Issues

Breaking into Quantitative Finance

Popular Companies

Meta

Reddit

OpenAI

Intel

Samsung

Salary Comparison

Linkedin Engineer - L4

Microsoft Software Engineer - L66

Oracle Engineer - IC-5

Salesforce MTS, Software Engineer - MTS

Uber Software Engineer - L3

Popular Companies

Meta

Reddit

OpenAI

Intel

Samsung

Salary Comparison

Linkedin Engineer - L4

Microsoft Software Engineer - L66

Oracle Engineer - IC-5

Salesforce MTS, Software Engineer - MTS

Uber Software Engineer - L3

First American Discussions

First American

Indian parents issues

30 Indian Male in US-started anti depressants 3 months back and feeling a lot better now. AMA

An Advancing Personalized mRNA Cancer Vaccine Launched Phase 3 Clinical Trial

Reseller bots coming for… baby formula?

Uber / Lyft market share + growth

Let's talk about women/relationships.

I’m mentoring a college junior with excellent technical skills but ZERO social/behavioral skills, idk how to handle him

BE CAREFUL GUYS!

AWS domestic surveillance

There Are Better Healthcare & Sport Practitioners Out There

I feel I'm at the end of my rope in Amazon...

It's A "Cold War Every Day" Inside This Group At Apple

Am I an ATM to my parents? [Rant]

Event company (Marcus Evans) charged me a $2k registration fee for a conference that they prohibited me from attending.

Workplace Bullying + Racial Bias within Affirm

FB Post re: Uber worth reading

Excuse my rant

Planning to ask for a raise tomorrow. Never done it before. Advice?

Strong, smart, good, and responsible people are less likely to be modern day liberals

Covid-19 Update

Brilliant manager turns out to be two-faced and ineffective. Jump ship or wait it out?

When should women settle?