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- Should I get a masters or continue working with a lower pay? A few details about me, I am currently a software developer at a place with amazing work life balance. Things are often a bit slow, and I’m not working on a valuable tech stack. Promotions rarely happen. They also require relocation to a LCOL area. When covid happened, I realized I did not want to r
- Why women leave stem I finally understand why women leave stem now. I graduated from college ~7-8 months ago, and finally had my first job as a manufacturing engineer. My job requires me to interact with the workers on the production floor in order to get their opinions and feedback for projects. Within the first 3 mo
- Reminder to AVOID amzn My role feels like it has reached a breaking point. Our systems are so poorly designed and laden with tech debt that it is almost impossible to make substantial changes without breaking something important. Management is too busy breathing down engineers' necks to Deliver Results that there is absol
- Weird GCP TPM interview I recently interviewed at Google cloud for L5 tpm and had the weirdest interview experience. Wanted to share my experience and gather feedback, if this style is an industry norm. Location:Seattle. My background: I have over 8 years of TPM experience (4 years at Amazon) and 16 years of industry ex
- link I want to work but unable to find a QA Job Hi People, I recently got layoff due to reorg in my company(Not performance issues as i got awarded for my work twice in two years). I am on notice and till 30th April on payroll. I am keep trying in several companies but unfortunately not getting in. What i have noticed in the interview process wa
- What do data engineering positions at other companies look like? Context: Currently, an L5 DE at Amazon (non-AWS) primarily working on non-DE tasks since I'm the only one with SWE skillsets. My manager is great and doesn't provide much, if any, direction for my work so I do have the ability to create architecture / processes, implement them, and socialize them. T
- Crack that PIP! (Amazon pivot) Received Pivot doc this week. Tell-tale signs from boss were all there. He basically just went cold on me one day, all of a sudden and seemed like a different person from then on. Details of my mistakes started being sent to me via very detailed and longwinded emails. Project support dropped off.
- Request for referral for data position at Accenture Can someone please refer me for any data science role at Accenture? I noticed they have so many data positions, and one I am interested in just got recently posted. My background: 1. Masters degree in Information Management Systems with a capstone project in machine learning using Tensorflow in the
- Looking to connect with NLP/ML/DS Hiring Managers and Recruiters * I have a candidate who at the age of 31 decided to transform her career from Non-Tech to Tech along with all her family duties. * She is now 33 and going to complete her MS in Data Science with a 3.95 GPA in 10 days. * Currently she is TA for NLP and DL courses at her university. * At the start of
- Final Thoughts - Amazon TL;DR - It has been a bitter-sweet journey. bitter in terms of work, sweet in terms of money. After 2.5 years at Amazon, I would like to highlight following that I have experienced during the timeframe. Compensation: Pros - Good salary, stocks, joining bonus. Cons - Low annual appreciation, 401k,
- Reporting a Sociopath A former friend of mine who has been working full-time for a Silicon Valley company as a developer managed to convince his bosses to let him move to Asia and work remotely. I moved here ten years ago and started my humble startup in the medical space. I'm not a developer, but since my friend was i
- Amazon - Is it me or the culture? Hi Blinders, I was hired a year ago with Amazon as L6 PMT. A little bit about me - I have a 15 years experience in the field, MBA from a top tier school, 2 kids - under 4, 15 months apart. My first manager was very hands off and initially I enjoyed all the ownership, enablement the role provided.
- Account Management woes: is it eBay or is it just me? Long post ahead. tl;dr: First pure AM experience. I'm in doubt about either: - Not being a good fit for the job at all; - eBay not being a good place to work in right now/ not being the place for me. Long read now. To give a bit more context: - I have done classic sales for a fair bit. - I'm in
- What does it really take to crack Google interview ? Do you have it in you ? I dont want to believe its a luck. There is something missing from common knowledge. I believe in this quote by Rumi "Universe in general gives what you deserve but you might not like it." because there is usually big disparity in what we think we are and what we really are. Coming back to the poin
- vote Decline Coinbase 65% higher TC for Microsoft WLB Location: India(MS)/Remote(CB) Microsoft Offer: ₹1.2 crores (~$163k), L65, Principal EM Coinbase Offer: ₹1.96 crores (~$266k), L6, EM Possible Choices: 1. Choose CB for TC 2. Choose MS for WLB and level India team in Coinbase is still being set-up, hence don't have insights on the culture/WLB. How
- vote Amazon AWS Virtual Onsite (USA) Completed the online assessment (OA) in first week of October and had a virtual onsite recently. Following is my experience. 1. Both OA questions were from the leetcode's OA list. First question passed 14/16 test cases, and the second one (looked like the harder one) passed all test cases. Was in
- Leaving PayPal[India] after 8 months I have put down my papers today , would be leaving for better opportunity .. Some findings-- 1. I was working in TPX - BTR (Release Engineering), this team is internal to Paypal working on a very niche[Managing Paypal releases] domain which was not a good career move. 2. Paypal is a Employee friendl
- Offer Comparison between early stage startups I’ve got a few offers on the table or potentially incoming- all startups are small and growing quickly, all are past their Series A or B. How do you make a decision between different startup offers? There’s some large differences in base, equity, company culture, and other perks (one company operat
- Worst luck for job switch or bad decision making? I am a Software Developer at Virsec Systems India with 1.5 YOE and 0.5 can be excluded as it was a gap. And this story is about that gap. I was a software developer at Arista Networks per corona. I received a offer letter from Goldman sachs which was better than my compensation at that time. But w
- product designer with 2 years experience and an inflated title needs advice Went to RISD, dropped out to avoid student loan debt. Moved to SF, took a short course from General Assembly and did contract ui/ux work for a few start ups. One of the contract employers wanted to hire me full time. I was working under their one design director. Company was small but had been opera
- Need advice. Stuck. Should I move to startup? I am a mid-level who's stuck at my current job. The company is declining. There is no clear growth & promotion in this company since they have a "flat hierarchy". Very strange for a company at this size (NYSE listed, >1k employees, operate in >50 countries). I know several people who stay in
- vote Do you genuinely like the company's games you work for? Almost every person I know that works at Blizzard hates their games. Like, can't stand them. They ALL think OWL is borderline absurd. One of my best friends operates in a "core" role currently at high level and for as long as I can remember he has had a massive hate boner for Blizzard. He just joine
- Has Silicon Valley always been a house of public relations, politics, and lies? The game is more about spinning the truth and upholding the spin than it is about providing any value to anyone. It's all about feeling good and making others feel good about you, rather than any reality, truth, or substance. I see people focus more on their word choice than their work in order to
- Working for no name contractor vs FAANG type Company - Pros/Cons, Go! I'm 2 years out of school I'm at a ~700 person contacting company doing software (MES) and control systems work for large factories across the US. I've gotten tons of responsibility since day 1. Within 4 months I was commissioning industrial controls that I had written, for a huge steel mill, by mys
- How can you push for promotion when the office politics is not on my side I'm in mid 30s. TC 90K and title is Sr. Analyst. I've made some transitions in my career and had to make some detour to settle for visa/green card so I'm a little behind in terms of my career growth. After I started my current job, my leader left the company and his role got never replaced. Other t
- finding peaceful IT role Hi People, I am looking for guidance/opinion of people who have been in the same boat as I am or anyone who has any valuable insights about how I can turn my career around. To whoever is reading this post, thank you for your time. I really do appreciate it a lot! :) who am I? in my late 20s, Sof
- vote Help me evaluate offers, including PM -> SWE transition Hey folks, its been a minute since I actively engaged on here, but am considering a move and could use some help evaluating my options. The tl;dr - Currently I'm an L4 PM @ a FAANG company, and don't love the politicking / 'stakeholder alignment' / endless doc writing of PMing here, plus my team bl
- Transitioning Into Tech from Oil and Gas in Customer Facing Roles - Dubai Hi, As you can tell from my profile, I am part of an Oil and Gas MNC (based in Dubai) that is slowly shrinking in competitiveness which in turn is killing my career trajectory within it. With the advice of my senior colleagues, I started job hunting for customer facing roles (such as Sales, Busines
- Astonishing Amazon PIP/Pivot story Just wanted to share this astonishing story of this incredible company with wow culture. It all started with me being interviewed for a position of my preference in a team at Amazon, nonetheless when I join I’m assigned a random team in a random org with no explanation provided 😕🤷♂️. I join it a
- vote Lost on trying to figure out CS masters specialization, need help I've been thinking about what to specialize in within my CS masters and I've narrowed it down to three options but now I'm stuck and lost on which to pick. I'm hoping to get some help trying to decide on which path to take based on future growth and TC because I feel stuck in loop. The options are