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- 2nd Attempt FB PM Interview Guidance I interviewed with FB last summer and made it through the process but didn't make it through the hiring committee. They recently reached back out and want me to interview again I've spent my entire career as a PM, really loved the FB interview process and was excited about the prospect of working
- Picking between offers In the process of background checks for an offer, one of my old bosses offered me a job, having a hell of a time picking between them now. Job1: large tech co, small group with a big mission. Handful of my favorite excoworkers there. TC around 250, very slight raise. Awful dinosaur policies and ben
- vote Just a confession!! For last 5 years at Amazon, felt stressed at times but also felt good at other times. Was truly motivated to make things better for customers. Felt we were on a mission to really serve customers. Never felt was in consideration for PIP always top rated. However always used to feel that my salary can
- Bay Area location to buy Hi folks, I’m considering buying my first property and want to gather some opinions as part of my research. I’m single, in my late 20s, and my comfortable budget is about 1.2-1.3M. Basically looking for a decent place that allows acceptable commute options (~30-45min) to major companies, and close t
- My Workplace Discrimates Against LGBTQ, and Expects Its Employees To As Well I work for a non-profit that does humanitarian and aid work around the world. It’s religiously affiliated, but everyone who works here comes from many different thoughts, opinions, and religious backgrounds. This has never been an issue as we all share the same mission to help people in need. Howeve
- Wonder what other DE folks do in their daily work. I work at startup in Bay area. I liked the idea and mission this company is pursuing, and I think we are doing good. But I realized that people in other companies with same title, data engineer, not necessarily do same thing. Especially folks at big companies. So I wonder what DE folks do at their
- Uber vs Twitter Hi, y'all. I am currently in the process of switching companies after burnout/disagreement with my current manager (long story, can switch teams but also want to explore new opportunities). I received verbal offers from Uber and Opendoor a week ago and finished Google, Two Sigma onsite this week. H
- Fremont: good areas to buy sfh for around $1.8m? We're looking to upgrade from our small condo in sbay to a sfh. Most houses we like in sbay are well outside out affordability range, so we are now looking to expand our search into the east bay. (We've done several affordability analysis including selling our current house and using the equity towa
- vote Help a new grad choose: MS (bing ads) vs. Palantir (gotham) About me: undergrad in CA, studying CS. one prev. internship at a startup. Goals: Make a lot of money in the short and long term. Work hard to start and then chill more as I have kids. Offers: (base/stock/signing) MS - max new grad apparently 110/150 over 3.5 yrs/50 =~ 167/yr over 4 yrs AI/R - Bi
- Pivoting into a completely different field after 8 years of engineering? Here's my path: Full Stack (3 years) -> Lead(3.5 years) -> Solutions Archtect (1.5 years) Something that's has been on my mind these past few months is where do I want to go or be in the next ten years, and I don't think it's coding. At every role I've worked at, I've made it a mission to invol
- Here's to the Billionaires No. This is not a joke. This is not going to be another post on how the rich keeps getting richer or how the top 1% owns more than 50% of the world's population. This is a nod to those who had that vision, the drive and the fire from within to realize their dreams. The ones who couldn't wait to ge
- Ask about lower position/level (even internship) if rejected? Anyone ever do this? Really want to get into a particular company. Call it excitement about their mission. Obvious answer is to leetcode a ton, learn more about their domain, and ace the interview. But that doesn't always work the way you want it to except for a few of you interview geniuses on her
- Product Designer - Seeking quick career advice For the past 4 years I have been working in more unconventional roles that had attributes of product design within them. Half that time was spent at a small casino software company as Head of Product. The most recent 2 years, I co-founded a restaurant technology startup that had a lot of amazing acc
- Asking the right questions to gauge the kind of work I'll be doing at a 50 people startup. (8 YOE, Senior engineer). I really enjoyed my interviews with this company, the people were great and the mission as well (I'd rather not name it). In my various interactions, I could see that they had smallish engineering team sizes, and didn't have a QE or a SiteOps/SRE dept, as is not unexpected
- vote Left FAANG for Startup but now want FIRE Looking for some opinions. I joined a series A startup during the pandemic in August last year after 6.5 years at FAANG. At the start of 2021 the startup raised series B valuing them at north of 600M, with the next step being to break above unicorn status. Things are going good, and I believe in t
- What do you do with the money you earn? My career lacks purpose. I just hit half a million in net worth (liquid assets). I've been saving for my entire career, and single w/o kids (5 YoE, now 240k TC). But I have no idea how to spend it, and it sort of scares me that I don't have any real goals. I don't want a house, since I don't like the idea of being tied
- How to evaluate Series C offer with Options? Hey Blind family. I have been loving my job for the past few years at Uber, but recently went looking for a change: I want to work somewhere much smaller with greater risk (and hopefully reward) I found one Series C whose mission speaks to me strongly and I did well on the interview too. The proble
- link How to solve Product Design / Product Sense questions Product design (a.k.a. Product sense) is the most common problem asked during PM interviews. It should not be confused with the UI-UX or system design challenges. Here, product design is a journey where you explore diverse questions and challenges pertaining to product discovery & development. The j
- Hate my manager Need to vent. I just freaking hate everything about her and can't spend a minute with her in meetings. I am working at a startup and there's only 2 people on the product side now - me being director and her being the CPO. I've been with the company for about a year and she joined a couple of months
- PSA to TC minded techies: Permanent WFH will kill our TC! It's a trap!!! Don't listen to the propaganda of perma WFH as wlb or flexibility shit. IT WILL REDUCE OUR TC if too many of us do it. It's a TRAP!!!! Why? 1) The reason why we are paid so much is because we live in HCOL areas and our TC have scaled more than COL. Sure living in Atlanta is cheaper, but nobody ear
- vote McKinsey vs Startup as a New Grad I currently have 2 offers: - McKinsey BA (Digital Practice) in a Southern Office (not sure of exact salary yet but >100k in a MCOL area) - Associate Product Manager at a Series B Fintech (90k/.05% Equity/5k signing bonus -- NY or SF) My end goal is to be in tech (most likely in PM but I don't ha
- vote Hiring Advice: Enthusiastic Newbie or Disillusioned Boomer? Have to make a decision soon. I'm filing up a vendor/temp role for a mission critical MVP project. Ok I know it's weird were using vendor/temp for this, but I only need to show MVP and speed is important and hiring FTE takes forever at Microsoft. I have a choice between enthusiastic newbie and dis
- link Chipper Cash is hiring! We are growing fast here at Chipper Cash, and looking for exceptional teammates that can help us in our mission to provide financial services to the next billion folks in Africa. We're backed by some of the best VCs (recently raised a Series A) and have a talented team that's already scaled the pro
- vote FAANG vs Series B I'm at FB with 1.5YOE and 240k TC in Seattle: * I really like my manager and team. * Work hours are more than 40 but are reasonable, * I'm learning a lot, work is interesting. * very good reviews, should get promo to Senior in a year or 2 I'm considering jumping for a Series B startup in Bay Area.
- Why u shouldnt join TikTok - Lack of DEI, toxic work culture, no career growth, 9*9*7, mental health, PIP If you are looking for diversity equity and inclusion then TikTok is not a place that values diversity or makes conscious efforts inclusion, infact the opposite. The problem isnt at the IC level but more at manager level. TikTok hires managers because they can speak chinese or they are readily avail
- Video Producer Referral Looking for a position that can offer a great TC, allows me to work in the gaming sphere, and challenges me daily. Simple as that. My current company (education tech company) is amazing in respect, systems, and overall mission but I’m looking to leave to grow into a greater role with a better TC for
- Post Interview Anxiety Got asked about defining a North Star Metric for Airbnb growth. I walk through the mission of the company (connecting consumers with hosts) thought through the user flow and mentioned guardrails surrounding drops in the funnel and introducing funnel inefficiencies. I ended up going with Bookings b
- vote Help me figure out this Series B offer Current TC: 325k, mostly pre-pandemic RSUs (YoE: 5/3 at Google, 2 at Amazon) Series B offer: 250k + 0.3% equity @ $80M valuation (60k) Series B product is convincing. I like team, role, and growth better than current role. Tired of moving protos and the arcana of Google; the magic of the culture re
- How to land L7 Sr SDM role at Amazon I have 16 YOE in investment banking Trading technology/Algo trading/ML space. I am smitten now (kinda late) by the Big Tech Jobs. But I am getting quite a few L6 SDM calls but not able to get any L7 (Sr SDM) interview calls. I have been in multiple leadership roles in the last 8 years (led max of 17
- link Is your company one of the bests with these characteristics? “The most effective mission-driven organizations encourage balance and taking care of oneself. They realize that anything other than that is foolish and will hurt the cause in the end, in the form of damaged workers and, subsequently, damaged culture. Yes, the best organizations use their messaging