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- Here is what non-confrontational talent review really causes I have a director reporting to me that has received “meets expectations” for four years. Three months into managing her, and I cannot believe the dumpster fire that is her team. I’m shocked at how BADLY she has been allowed to perform. 76% attrition rate and she takes 18 months to fill a single rol
- invention assignment agreement (remote and/or FAANG) Recently got an employment agreement with non-compete, non-solicit, invention assignment agreement, and NDA attached. Fine with most everything except inventions clause: Assignment. Employee hereby transfers and assigns to <company> all right, title, and interest in and to all ideas, invention
- Uber PM role interview Hey all, Big fan of Uber despite the media reports, and see a huge upside in several fields for years to come. All companies have to go through conflict and undergo growing pains and evolve into political beings - internally and externally Moving along from that vote of confidence, I submitted a d
- vote Low salaries in Canada explained It is clear that TC for Software Engineers in Canada (Toronto/Vancouver/Montreal) is about 40-50% of the USA (Silicon Valley/Seattle). Some explanations in order of strength include a lack of Venture Capital culture, a demand-supply issue, and slightly higher operating costs in Canada due to regula
- Stressed, burned out, what to do Leaving out some details to avoid getting doxxed. Joined Amazon a couple years ago as sde2. I am based in Vancouver so this is actually a pretty big deal; they offer one of the highest salary and there are few other large companies hiring (this is before covid and remote work) so was excited to joi
- Background Check for Startup Founder I’ve pretty much only worked for myself. First was self employed through my LLC as a freelance SWE then PM where I subcontracted put the SWE part of the work. I represent this work as a software development studio. I was the sole “founder”—this was a combination of work through platforms like Gigst
- 1 year experience UX Designer in #FAANG Hi Blind community, Immediately after graduation 2019, I landed my first ever real job as a L4 UX designer (no prior internship experience) at Amazon, it was and still is a dream come true. This one year my biggest learnings have primarily been around just how to do a job as a professional, how a
- Feeling demotivated due to work politics Manager and lead asked me to make presentations of my work and listened to me explain everything telling me our director has given our small team a slot to present our work. I added a some of my Ideas and showed my interesting results. Manager later told that the lead will present most of the slid
- Marketing Analytics to PMM/PM I work as the analytics lead / product Owner on the digital analytics team for playstation. I have about 7yo of marketing/product marketing analytics experience - including my current role as a FT playstation employee as well as analytics consulting experience in companies like Facebook, Adobe and e
- Q about health care debate, employers, & comp Within our HR portal/employee profile, my employer used to show a pie chart for total compensation... x amount for salary, x amount for bonus, x amount for 401k matching, x amount for healthcare. This went away a few years ago. However, fact remains that most major companies are shelling out big mon
- No Degree Entrepreneur Into CMO Role Long story short, I’ve been running an agency for 4 years now. I’m 22 years old. The agency really took off 2 years ago since we deliver insane ROI / crush KPIs... then we were referred along to companies within the same “investor circle” and the rest is history. Clients are mostly Fortune1000s (10
- It's a false narrative that we can keep the economy running by NOT locking down Some people claim lockdowns hurt the economy as though there was some other option that wouldn't hurt the economy, as if we could just wave a magic wand and make COVID go away by deciding not to have a lockdown. These people probably also blame the weather girl on the TV news for the thunderstorm t
- vote New definition of TC: Average salary of first two years TL;DR Because one is likely to just stay for a couple of years, change the TC formula to account for just 2 years average than 4 years. TC = Total income in 2 years divided by 2 Why? 1. Average tenure at a job is roughly 2 years. So taking average of 4 years can lead to incorrect decision from com
- Dropbox Onsite Experience Recently had my onsite with DropBox and wanted to share my experience: Coding 1: Detect duplicate files in file system. Eventually got to the optimal solution but didn't complete a second question after answering the follow ups. Coding 2: Question was about an ID allocator. I explained multiple
- Looking for SDE Canadian/Remote referrals. 3+ YOE Full SDE roles: 16 months in an AI-semiconductor company as an embedded and C++ app dev. 1 year in a small AI company where I did algorithmic optimization, wrote drivers for Windows 10 & 11, conceived and own a project soon to be deployed to 10 million Lenovo + another large undisclosed OEM consume
- Should I interview without system design experience? tl;dr: I have 8 years of front end experience and know nothing about system design. I want to work at a FAANG. Should I cram system design or just apply now and see what happens? I'm a front-end leaning full-stack engineer with 8 years of experience contracting for a bunch of different startups and
- Colorado requires job postings to list comp 1-1-21 Blinders, Just want to let you know that Colorado passed a ruling (Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act -1/1/2021) which requires all job postings to list starting salary or a range for any role that is based out of that state(does not necessarily apply to roles that have modest travel to the st
- Robin Williams is a lot on my mind these days. I am watching various movies of his in Netflix and elsewhere and feeling sad, sometimes tearing up. It all started with a post in Blind where someone said they're stressed and depressed and having suicidal thoughts. Someone responded that op is an idiot and they have
- Getting an offer in the bay tips? Currently live in Chicago but have been planning to move for a long long time. Was looking to pick between Raleigh and SF Bay. Decided to go for the bay due to more opportunities cause I don't feel like coasting anymore. Have a B.S. in IT switched for BS CS to IT cause management was breathing down
- Software to Systems Engineer Transition I've been working as a SWE in SaaS companies software problems for 4 years. I've built apps in react. Helped improve and implement GQL servers. Managed and setup databases. Built data pipeline applications on Spark and Flink. I have lots of AWS experience. The problem is some of the most interestin
- Unpaid time off on H1B Asking for friend: I am on H1B. My paid PTO got exhausted already. Now, I need to fly to my home country in the month of December. My father had an operation in the month of June. I wanted to see them and need to take care of them if anything needed. My employer is asking me to take an Unpaid PTO f
- Facebook E5 remote rejection Went through the four-interview gauntlet last week. I felt I had done awesome on the behavioral, pretty good on first coding challenge (find word with wildcards in dictionary), just ok on the product architecture (ticketing system), and somewhat bombed the second coding challenge (Ngrams with skip
- What TC/level for a startup founder at Google/Facebook? Hi for the past 2 and a half years I have been working on a startup, self funded as the sole engineer to build a product which is on a par with a new mobile operating system, or a programming language, or a IDE, or a machine learning framework like Tensorflow. Sorry for reasons of anonymity I cannot
- First time performance review Hello everyone, I interviewed for the business analyst position and joined my first job in the US 5 months back. Last week, I received intimation to complete the performance review. When I accepted the offer, I was lowballed but decided to join due to visa restrictions. Even though I interviewed for
- Promoted 20 months ago, only to find out they never processed it? Unsure how to handle this.. was recruited into an engineering role of design engineer II, came in and did extremely well, turned an entire failing engineering department around, etc. 20 months ago I️ was promoted to a supervisor tole and got a measly 9.2% raise. have been operating as a supervisor
- vote Bottom of band L5 SDE?? I think this is really messed up. Been at Amazon for 2 years as SDE2 with TC 190 (lowballed when I joined), and in the last two years, every single person has left the team except me. We have hired more people to replace in the mean time but the hiring bar has been so low that these people can’t do
- How to handle “startup discrimination” @ FAANG interviews I’ve been sensing some interesting but strange rejection from some interviewers towards the work I’ve done at startups, not because it was not “the right solution” but mostly because it was not “large scale” or “high impact”, as in small startups you don’t really have to deal with very large systems
- Looking for easiest possible PM job Looking for easiest possible PM job. The day in the life looks like this... The product is so easy to understand that the PM is like "yes, we definitely need a submit button" without needing to talk to a customer. In story time, I tell the development team, "hey development team, we need a Submit
- Confused and seeking advice L3 165K Not sure if all big companies or every team operates this way. I'm in a team without sprint planning and everyone gets assigned their own project for length of 2-3 months after ramping up (3 months). Each of us is supposed to own the project end to end: design, coding, testing, rollout etc.
- Google Interview Prep pointers Currently an L4 at Amazon. Would like pointers on my approach: Got reached out for an interview loop with google. Since I fucking hate leetcode, I asked for a couple of months at which time I’ll schedule interviews. I’m hoping to get ready for November. The recruiter said L4 but senior at the same