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- Financial benefit of buying home in SF bay area #mortgage #housing Hi blinders, I am a first time home buyer and looking to buy a home in SF Bay area and surrounding areas. While researching I find that there’s not much financial benefit of buying a house. Currently I am renting a 2b2ba @2650pm. If i buy a home i’ll have to pay the property ta
- WA long term care opt out for incoming fb employee Hello there, I have a question regarding to WA LTC policy. I applied Transamerica for long term privacy care to opt out WA LTC tax when I was at Amazon a month ago. Then I resigned Amazon this month while I didn’t hear anything from Transamerica. (Also I use my workspace email for the application
- Feedback on investment portfolio Hi Blinders, What do you recommend with my investment portfolio: 1. Stocks - $100k 2. 401k maxed out - $80k (started late, 2 years ago, my wife and I) 3. Physical precious metals - $100k (gold and silver) 4. Cash - $40k (checking account) 5. ETF’s - $15k (MGK and QQQ) 6. Cash in India - $100k (FD
- Should I switch to Kaiser and non HSA insurance plan if I need to do some cancer testings soon after? I’m currently using UHC HSA and now have an option to switch to another medical insurance plan. I will need to do several cancer testing and screening in the next few months for the lump in my neck (thyroid cancer, family history). So I will probably need to meet some specialists to get it diagnose
- Working at cognizant as mid lvl dev ? Hello. I am currently looking for new job ,( I was working at gm for 3.5 years and got layoff recently . ) Recently, I got an offer from cognizant in east cost ( GA) for TC 103k. ( 100k+ cost of living adjustment for my area 3k every year, 10 days PTO, 401k , insurance etc ..) After reading lo
- Help me compare these two homes! Both are in Hayward, 1. 715 veranda cir 610k expected sale price, 3 bed, 3 bath, 3 story. 1381 SQ feet townhouse like condo near bart. Construction 2003 HOA 232 2. Kb home next to Amtrak Hayward stop. 4 bed 3 bath. 1800 SQ feet. 739k They have multiple warranties for the house (e.g. lifetime f
- Apply to Microsoft as Digital Strategist coming from UX and Product Management? Looking for my next move and Microsoft seems to be a good choice. I like their Digital Strategist role and I have experience dealing with those kind of customers and teams at my present job. I do own a Product and I‘m in charge of it in most Managerial aspects including Planning, Delivery, Relation
- vote New job or sabbatical? We just got our new comp so I have the TC for the year. I wanna take some time off this year to just chill for a bit. Lyft offers a 3 month sabbatical with one month paid cash salary but no equity vesting. So in reality I’ll only be making about 20k gross during those 3 months. They do continue cov
- Leaving Consulting for a Mechanical Contractor (NICE!) All, As it pains me to leave my awesome job that has taught me a lot as a mechanical consultant. It’s time to move on and keep my hunger for learning satisfied. I make $85k at my current company with 5-7k in bonus each year. Good insurance…but doesn’t have the best growth opportunity in the next 1
- Work is causing anxiety and depression I've been diagnosed with depression that is being caused by having to go to work. I cannot be myself and I feel I'm in the wrong role and team. Leadership is terrible, co-workers are meh. Personal life is fine, weekends and holidays are mostly productive and happy. Other circumstances: 1. I've bee
- Investment advice for 27 yo Hello, I started working recently and would love to get some advice to start working on investments from people who are focused in that area. My base is 175k Stock 300/4 Bonus - 40 (for 2 years) I am not really able to make estimation of my monthly expense but these are recurring costs (approx) C
- vote $180k W2 Full Time vs $300k+ C2C Consulting? $180k: I work as a Professional Services consultant for a product company. I work with our customers and help them implement solutions using our products. It’s a full time fully remote job with $180 base. I have two kids and living in NC now. I work only 25hrs/week max as I know the product in and o
- Relocating without pay cut by just not telling anyone? For everyone working remotely where their employer says they will adjust pay down if you move away, why would you even need to do it officially? Is there anything preventing someone from moving and just not telling management in order to avoid the pay cut? For state taxes you can just reconcile manu
- vote Should I leave Meta for Citadel Securities? Current position: - Production Engineer, E5, Seattle (WA) - Base salary: 205K - Bonus: 31K (15%) - Remaining Equity to Vest: 338K - Equity to vest next 12 months: 174K Citadel Security Offer: - SRE, Chicago (IL) - Base salary: 250K - Bonus: 325K - Signing Bonus: 50K What I like about my current p
- FIRE question Family of 4. I am M 33 been at FAANG, equivalents, and pre IPO companies. Young kids. Seattle suburbs. Here is my FIRE plan and looking for advises on things I am overlooking. Combined TC $600K+ Last 3 year expenses have been less than $100k per year including monthly payments to all loans, and
- bored with tech industry and usual grind of shipping products year by year bored with tech industry and usual grind of shipping products year by year. I have been in this industry for 15 years now. with great progressed all along worked on the first iPhone to all the way to latest one including other products. nothing seems to be challaenging enough for me. getting bored
- Canada Parents super visa? Is the super visa for a PR holder’s parents easy to get? Has anyone here brought their parents over to Canada? Im contemplating moving from the US to Canada in a couple of years despite lower TC if I can have my parents over for 2 years at a stretch. Parents health and care is a growing concern bac
- Micro Focus: How to not do the right thing. Micro Focus: How to not do the right thing. TC: 450 – YoE: 10+ (Can’t say more or would be too widely identifiable) Let me tell you a story abut Micro Focus. Yes it’s worse that what you heard… HP/HPE were not bad. But not only is it now a world of stagnating products, uninspiring leadership or
- Help Finding Job for Partner in Europe I’m looking to xfer to a European office in the next year or so (in order of preference: Zurich, London, Munich). My partner has < 1 YOE (just finished grad school) and is currently working as a data scientist at a non-tech company (think bank/insurance/telecom). How difficult will it be for the
- vote I’m back. Meta vs. JPMC offer. They’ll open an Executive Director role for me (next level up and I was on track to promote end of this year anyway, but I’ll get it earlier). I’ll have to interview into it because it’s off-cycle, so it’s not guaranteed. Mgr said it *is* but it’s not technically. I’d interview with two other MDs.
- Sales VP offer at Series C - what to ask for? I am in the final rounds of interviews to be offered a Sales VP opportunity at a Series C SaaS tech startup (series c recently raised, 120 employees, market leader in their segment). I am expecting an offer in the next few days. What should I be asking for? Salary - 450k OTE (50/50) (CEO gave verba
- Not interesting workplace- Unhappy supervisor hello folks, recently I started a new software dev role and after 2 months I realized that the volume of the job is overwhelming for my work-life balance and also the coworkers are not contributory and supportive. I shared this with the supervisor as well. After couple of days he returned to me an
- vote Selling or renting the first house while moving to the new one We bought our first house almost 3.5 years ago at the peak for 1.4m in 2018 in bay area, Cambrian park. We just bought the new one and planning to move there in a month. The house price for the first one has not changed much since we bought it. Maybe if we sell in March we gain something not sure bu
- Is it just me or is it impossible to get a doctor's appointment in bay area? I've only been here for 6 months and my wife and I are struggling to find care. Every place seems to be booked out for months and no one returns calls. I've been looking around San Mateo and so far trying to find a lab to test me for sleep apnea has been impossible. No one that takes my insurance i
- Contractors / Consultants what’s your next step in career? I am non CS degree masters who is working as a Data Analyst with an agricultural company. I don’t have any stocks benefits or even health insurance compensation given to me. My consultancy charges the end client in a range 60-70$/hr and I receive about 70% of that as my income before tax. I want you
- vote Is it worth it to leave a stable low stress job chasing high TC? I'm an non technical manager at Amazon. I have been on the same team for 3 years, I live in a LCOL area and I like my job (I'm good at it). I see a path for advancement but it will take years to get to the compensation level I really want. I work 8a to 5p with an hour lunch m-f, no on call, no O
- I’m so grateful to work in tech So many posts about things that suck. Tech employees don’t even know how good we have it. Came from a corporate retail company: - that told all employees that we couldn’t work from home because the retail employees can’t wfh. Old coworkers say that except for 8 weeks in 2020, they never stopped co
- vote Should I buy a car? Just asking simply from a financial standpoint. Car(used obviously) budget: max 13-15k TC: $150k (Seattle) (base 130) Age: 23 (graduated last year) Rent: $1350 Other expenses/month: $700 Cash savings after everything(including estimated car payment and insurance): $4500 Debt: Student loan payment
- Renovating condo in SF Hi everyone, I bought a condo in SF last year, knowing I wanted to renovate the bathroom and kitchen in the next few years, but it was livable. However, after discovering a bathroom leak that is causing damage to the floor, I decided it was time to start that process. Does anyone have referrals fo