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- Switching to Tech industry Anyone has done the switch from pharma to Tech? I work in pharma for around 7 years and currently for under 1 year at Novartis as Global Manager in Dublin but be a little bored of pharma and Dublin overall. My goal was it to relocate to the US within the company but Novartis does not have many site
- New Zealand tech industry How is tech industry in New Zealand? How much pay cut should I expect compared to USA? ##tech #apple #facebook #newzealand
- Work life balance in hardware industry. I am currently in Apple hardware team. Currently I have almost 24×7 job with morning 8 to 5 with Cupertino and after that with China. Just wanted to see if any other companies for mechanical engineering have a better work life balance. Insights and suggestions welcome TC: Base: 150k YOE: 8 #hardwar
- Recruitment surge across industry? I've been in the industry a while now. But in last few months have seen a bit unusual amount of mails from recruiters. Is the market really that hot? TC: 510k Yoe: 11
- Music industry? Any advice on getting into music industry whether it be the streaming companies (Spotify) or big labels (Sony,universal, etc)? Early in my career looking for business development roles. Saw an account manager role at Spotify on LinkedIn but it got taken down after a few hundred apps in 3 days...musi
- vote PhD (Stanford, Harvard & MIT) vs Industry (Google L5) Never had such difficult situation to make a decision. Everyone I have consulted with says "choose what you want to do in your life". But I do not know what I want. I'm turning 30 soon, still an engineer @ Google L5 and expecting a promo within a year or so, working too hard on it. My pay is awesom
- vote Seattle tech industry quality of life If you work for a tech company in Seattle/greater Seattle, can you rank your quality of life? Trying to plan on what is next, so I want some insight into what the situation is here for 2022. #worklifebalance #Seattle #techcareer
- Tech Industry makes people arrogant I accept it. All this high TC makes people arrogant. Combine loneliness, high TC, narcissism and introvert traits and all you get is a disastrous arrogant cesspool. Males and females alike. This industry can get you lonely at times. It is a huge rabbit hole. Take care of yourselves.
- What’s the next cool industry? So pre-2007 Banking had the best lifestyle (parties, concerts, Pebble Beach Golf outings, general excess). The Great Recession killed the fun there. Then, along came MarTech. Again, crazy parties, concerts, and general excess. Eventually, GDPR started a death of fun, but I feel like COVID accelera
- Who broke our industry hiring? So, I am an experienced engineer, with references (usually internal), top companies (FAANG) experience, major contributions to high-profile OSS projects. Why do I have to do multiple calls with a recruiter, phone screen (or two) plus a whole day of Zoom? I don’t think any other industry requires s
- Where are the adult industry engineers? Sites like pornhub and xvideos are huge and they need a lot of front end, backend, infrastructure engineers, machine learning engineers, data scientists etc. How come I never see any job postings or anyone talks about it?
- Regret switching industries I started my career in manufacturing and the pay doesn’t even compare to tech. Tech is overhype. When I interned at a manufacturing company my hourly was $27 and early pay day they included a 15% gain of that weekly earning. During the winter time they gave me profit sharing which is just because
- Marketing Manager industry transition? I've been in marketing for 8yrs now. Primarily I've worked for manufacturers in plumbing/finished goods. I've made my way to Marketing Manager and I'm at 120k base + 20% bonus. Managed budgets, launched products, managed co-op and so on. I'm looking to make my next move up (Sr Mgr/Director). As I
- vote Vertical Farming Industry What is your opinion of this industry. I see some companies like Bowery Farming using a lot of technology. Is this a good industry to get into?
- Founder or Industry? my cofounder and i just got into YC (y-combinator) with our super early stage startup, I also have new grad offer from google what should i do? i’m not super financially stable and a year or two in industry would help money wise…. but then again, YC is YC
- vote Is it a good time to join self driving car industry? Hi people in the self driving industry, do you think it's a good time to join as an engineer? Some friends told me it may take another 5+ (or even 10) years to be prime, I wonder how valid the statement is. TC: 320k YOE: 5
- Is switching companies before shipping frowned upon in games industry? For example say you’ve only been there one year and the game hasn’t shipped yet Would future employers not want to hire you? Or is it common for people to hop
- Google PM well regarded in industry? I've heard from my colleagues that being a PM at Google isn't as well regarded by recruiters/other PMs in industry as being a PM at, for example, Amazon, Uber, or Facebook, and that you won't learn as much through PMing at Google vs these other companies, as 1. Google PMs have much less structure a
- vote Question for tech industry renters only Where do you currently stand on the idea of home ownership. TC 500
- Sales/Marketing Industry Future B2b sales is internationally a multi trillion dollar industry. Software sales is paying stacks for people with regular sales skills (as opposed to specialized phd type skills) because there’s so much money here. Are the next gen abm/crm tools the next wave? Salesforce is already huge. Thoughts on 6s
- Switching from Fin Industry to Tech Industry Any examples of folks in tech management (Dir/Sr. Dir) in Fin companies like Wells, Allstate that have got opportunities at Tech companies like the FANG one’s in similar roles? If so how did you do it? Any pointers from people that have done it would be great. Hope to get an idea of the level of th
- Aerospace to Tech Industry I currently work in Aerospace and I’m thinking about jumping to the Tech industry. Have a little over 8 yrs of experience. 3.5yrs in the high tech security industry and about 5 yrs in defense and space. How hard would it be to jump over the tech industry? And what about salary expectations and advis
- SWE in the Airline Industry What is the work, WLB, comp, and benefits like for a SWE in the Airline Industry? I travel frequently and I thought about applying to one of these companies for the flight benefits. TC: 113.8k YoE: 2
- What happen to Canada tech industry? Recently I have seen a lot of US tech industries are massively hiring in Toronto and Vancouver with competitive salary (recently Spotify)? Are there any reasons behind the hiring spree? #tech #canada #wayfaor
- Low balling Microsoft industry hires Microsoft low balls industry hires. This is a well known fact. To all the managers: Do you think we are fucking fools who can't read what is written on Blind? Your good industry hires will not stick around in Microsoft because of this. Microsoft needs to lose good industry hires when the project i
- Gaming Industry Benefits? any benefits to working in the gaming industry? prettt excited to start a new position with a studio. free swag / collector’s editions..? ;)
- The Industry has idiotic compensation philosophy At Amazon new hires paid more than existing hires despite lacking literally the most important distinguishing factor for any software developer: Domain knowledge. Literally tribal knowledge is the only reason anyone should be paid well. Software engineering skills themselves are basic shit any boo
- Does the gaming industry really suck that bad? Gaming and game development has always been a passion of mine, so from that perspective I’d love to make games. However, I keep hearing that working in the gaming industry is generally terrible and way more stress than it’s worth. Is this true? I know like most things it probably depends what compan