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- IB vs Tech I read a lot of posts on here and I love how transparent people are as it helps people like me who are young and unsure. I don’t know if I should be looking into tech or investment banking. I have a bachelors in finance and 2 years of experience. Currently working on a Masters in FinTech. Both non
- Curefit culture Hi folks I am a 2020 grad and working at goldman for the past year. I have interviewed with curefit recently and every inteview was a do or die and the last round was Hiring manager round. I did pretty well and passed all the interviews comfortably. After the process was done the HR asked me to wai
- vote Is this the lowest MS India comp Hi all I am new here and also joined MS few weeks ago Prior to this I was in a smaller company which was also my 1st company After my interview with MS, they sent me the offer letter without even asking for any expectation The MS recruiter was not ready to negotiate with my below competing offers.
- Referral/Guidance for Disney, WM, or Similar Hey everyone, I’m looking for referrals to Disney (Studios, Marvel Ent. or Studios), WarnerMedia, or a similar entertainment company for marketing roles. I currently freelance as a digital marketer (2+ YOE) after an 8 year career in retail (old TC: 200k). I was pleased with my accomplishments in r
- What was the hardest time you faced in your career which made you more stronger? Same. Motive is to seek motivation for hard times. Sharing mine: I once switched job to a startup for making more $$. Came all alone to a new city. But to my horror it was extremely toxic place. Colleagues used to be scared of getting yelled from boss. It was a small company. 6-7 people. And the C
- How to get into PDT/Hedge funds/HFT/PE? I’m currently working as a full stack dev, been at my current company about 7 months, but I was curious if anyone has gotten into any of these types of firms from a non FAANG. Went to a non Ivy (good state school), haven’t worked for a FAANG, my work history consists of 1-1.5 years per company, not
- Amazon screwing me! Literally Joined a startup in London 6 months back on a tier 2 visa. Since the startup is not doing well and its future doesn't seem sorted, I interviewed and got an offer at Amazon London. Here is how the Amazon Recruiter are gaming me: Current TC = 72K pounds + 8K relocation bonus that was paid to me fro r
- vote Amazon Luxembourg to London team and location change after interviews I had interviewed for Luxembourg team for SDE1 role, although my priority was London location. I just got an email from recruiter about extending an offer after the interviews and asking for salary expectations and other details. Now, I'm confused what to do in order to get matched with a London te
- NYC companies with strong engineering culture Trying to come up with a list of NYC companies where the tech part is strong. I'm not talking about prestige or brand, what I mean is: * good approaches (examples: proper automated testing, high-quality code, reasonable architecture) * sane stack (for example statically compiled languages) * reasona
- Feeling hopeless and anxious. To start off, I joined Goldman right out of college (probably my biggest mistake) and allowed to be pigeonholed into front-end development (my second biggest mistake). Over time I grew to like FE dev but I totally neglected backend stuff. I've been doing this for close to 4 years now. Now, that I p
- Exit opps for PE/HF investment middle office analyst Currently @WF in NC but I’m very desperate to get out and welcome any legit helpful suggestions because I’m very much at a loss. I love the role in terms of the experience gained (portfolio management support with meeting client requests/demands, investment manager research and point of contact for
- New hire compensation talk at MAN Group - Quant Dev Goldman has really failed to deliver at my Jan comp talk and now I have the last round interview scheduled with MAN Group for Quant Dev role in their AHL team - equities systematic trading business (or something apparently exact placement decided afterwards). According to the recruiter the money ta
- Google offer Got an offer from Google, but seems they are low balling me. Current offer is 145 base / 15% bonus / 360 rsu - TC 256 No sign on bonus That is already after negotiating (still in progress) Initial offer was 140/15%/ 280 rsu + 20k sign-on - TC231 Location - Sunnyvale This is L5 for app eng. Curre
- Frustrated with Tech Career, Need help!!! With my regular dev job, I get bored for some reason and just loose motivation to work on anything. Mainly coz I dont see the worth of the thing I am doing, I seriously lack passion as a dev. I dont get excited when you say this impact millions of customer. I think who cares, i am not a businessman.
- vote L1 or H1B --> GC path for Filipino without Masters Greetings, I am born in the Philippines and have been working in GS in Hong Kong for 3+ years now. I am currently looking at opportunities in the US (inside or outside GS). I just got promoted to VP recently so I think L1 path is now also feasible in addition to H1-B. I have no masters degree but
- Internship woes and worries TLDR/summary version at bottom. I guess I'm no good at behavioral interviews? I'm a first year masters student in Information systems. I have 1 summer left for an internship and have been getting rejections almost weekly for the past month from Goldman Sachs, Exxon mobile most notably. I have an o
- link Optymize - Remote Engineers/Developers Optymize is a worldwide technical talent marketplace that connects companies with verified, remote engineers who have robust technical & communication skills and work in their timezone. A number of leading companies like Sidewalk Labs, RD&X, Yello and Planoly leverage Optymize to scale their enginee
- Choosing Between Summer Internships Hi guys, first post. I am a sophomore at Stanford studying computer science; I was originally planning on graduating early in 3 years instead of 4 (all these companies treated me as a junior) but now I am thinking of graduating with the rest of my class but with a BS and MS in CS. I am interested in
- GS -> FB. Concerned that FB is too similar to GOOG. TL;DR - Got a SWE offer from FB (MPK). Worked at Google before, didn't like it. Currently in GS, I like it. I feel that I would not enjoy FB since it's similar to Google. Is moving to FB worth it? Long version: An FB recruiter reached out to me so I decided to do the interviews since I haven't expe
- When to move on? When is it time to move on from a job? I’m pretty comfortable in my job, but also bored and frustrated. I have an average FAANG salary (350 TC, L5, perf usually EE, but have never done better than that). 17 YOE with 10 at G. Married, turned 40 this year and have a kid. Boss is chill, super flexible
- Advice / Requesting for Referrals in Bangalore/Hyderabad for SDE1 -YOE: 1y -College: Tier 2 -Have participated in ICPC Regionals, completed GSOC -Leetcode : 310 {43 E, 241 M, 26 H} -Background: --Backend/Generalist I have been looking for a change actively for the last 3-4 months, as work in my current company is very slow, and disorganized. I was planning to ap
- Career Change Internship Programs / Jobs for Coding Boot Camp Grad I'm posting this on behalf of someone else. She is in early 30s with a college degree (not CSE) and has left a career of being a school teacher and is looking for opportunities as a software engineer. She has completed a coding boot camp while working as a teacher. She has applied to a few companies
- vote Confused. Help me out guys! Long post warning In 2021 during vacation season I planned to study and apply for jobs I prepared for 50+ days did around 300 LC. Didn't enjoy a single day wasted my vacations days long weekend everything to get into a good firm. I was able to crack phone interviews of most of the companies I appli
- Jane Street Referrals for New Grad SWE and Quant Research (I've posted this separately to Tech Industry and Finance Industry for visibility. I'm new to Blind so I apologize in advance if that's bad practice.) Hi guys! I'm a senior pursuing a B.S. in Mathematics (computational concentration) and a B.S. in CS. Quant finance is my favorite CS industry due to
- Help! Unable to deliver work I have recently joined Goldman Sachs. And I was pretty excited about the work and company. But now I regret joining, I was always able to have high impact in my previous roles, but in current one I am unable to deliver. My manager is quite good and helpful, but I feel I don't understand even a singl
- Unemployed for 1 year, looking for help Hey folks, I was laid off from my startup working as a SWE last year due to the pandemic and am looking for advice and support. For some information about myself, I'm 26 years old, graduated from a good college with a math major, went to a coding bootcamp and have worked at small startups for ~2 ye
- Offer evaluation: Oracle India, PMTS, OCI I have an SDE with total 12+ yoe, currently at Amazon, but not at all excited to continue in Amazon. I do not wish to disclose my current level and TC at Amazon just to get unbiased evaluation of offer from Oracle. Oracle OCI India offer details - (Below amounts in INR) Designation - SDE4 (Princip
- Request for help/advice Hello all....I have about a year and half experience with a startup in the valley as a PM. Had to leave because of Covid Restructuring a few months back. Been actively looking for PM roles but with no luck. Made it to final rounds in Goldman Sachs, Pinterest, Tesla and few other mid sized product fi
- Career Advice Need an advice from fellow blinder. Been in Amazon for 1year and 7 months and with total 4 yoe. Current TC: 23L Was hoping promo in this quarter but manager is targeting next one due to some gap(feedback from one of the sde3) . Promo could happen in next quarter or the one after that. Manager is a
- Any “finance bro” esque meme instagrams for SWEs? I find all these ‘finance-chad-bro’ type Instagram accounts annoying as hell because these dudes literally have a superiority complex (as do us software engineers but we’re better than them lol). All they post are memes that make it seem like they make so much money as an analyst at Goldman Sachs l