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- vote Is Google a step back in career? At other companies, for SWE, there's a lot more scope involved and having to own multiple pieces of a platform or project. Based on my medicore team match calls with Google so far, there aren't many wide scope projects to take on and it's very independent work and not much collaboration or XFN acros
- ergonomic tricks and advices for setting up work station feeling back pain even though I'm still quite young. I have been cheap my whole life and never had any office furniture piece that is more than 100 bucks. In fact my current desk is a white picnic table. To all coders: What is one thing you do or one piece of equipment you bought that was a game cha
- Amazon Compensation Change (India) Hi all, are there any concrete info pieces about how much Amazon is changing the base and TC in india? I'm into Program Management (non tech) at L6 #e-commerce #retail #salary
- It is so stupid to believe tech companies want to RTO because of real market Do they own those properties nearby? Do you really believe employees of tech companies are a lot compared with the neighborhood?? Do you believe owners of tech companies worry about the local economy??? Do you believe Putin started the war to help US to sell natural gas to Europe? No. None of them m
- Moving to USA; How to polish English? Hello everyone, I am doing an internal transfer inside MSFT. I am moving from Europe to the USA. My English is good, but I would like to have a great level of English. What is the best way to polish it? Should I immediately start with English classes, engage in some community, or just wait to na
- What’s the point of a DS manager? Seriously - what’s the point? If Individual Contributing DS are developing/productionizing their models into X cloud architecture and other relevant team members (Data Engineer, Solutions Architect, Dev, Product Manager, etc.) are managing pieces of a use-case/ product - it begs the question. Is t
- vote Fellow techies, do you ever feel like just a piece of a machine that produces products specified by others? Sometimes I feel like I'm a piece of a software or a machinery that's just delivering outputs asked for. Nothing much meaningful in the grand scale. I mean WTH do the majority of our works mean to the world? Not saying non techies are doing much meaningful work but feel like they should feel less o
- Prep for Meta Tech Screen I have a tech screen for an M1 position at Meta coming up. Just some Sql questions and system design, if I understand correctly. But I'm wondering if I have to get the sql queries right first time around or they are ok with me iteratively coding towards the solution. I've never been a fan of coding
- vote Resume for Google? Entry-Level I am preparing to send my resume out soon, but I need the Blind community's honest feedback before I send it off to my dream jobs. (Any help would be appreciated in the comments or DM!) If you look at my resume, the titles under experience section could invite questions. The company I am working a
- Tech/ Fintech stock prices affecting employee morale? + attrition? Wondering if any tech/ fintech employees who have sizable equity packages are rethinking career moves right now, or feeling frustrated in current role as higher growth tech stocks get hit? Full disclosure I’m a journalist working on a piece about how employees are reacting amid falling share prices.
- Data Science or SWE with ADHD I have ADHD and I work in Mid Market tech sales at AWS. One thing I know now is that sales is an absolutely terrible career for me as there is so much gray area where you have no real external structure to your day. It’s all on you to create that structure, like sending emails, developing deals piec
- Product Manager Referral YOE - 3 (in product management) Hello everyone, I'm seeking out a product manager role in the tech industry. I have 3 years of experience as a founder in the consumer space and overall 4+ years of experience. I live in India but am willing to relocate or open to remote work. It'd be great if you g
- Are the Amazon pay hikes for TT real? For non-tech too? So OLR just finished and my boss confirmed I’ll be TT again - I’ve been TT for 4 years in a row, and despite this only got ridiculous pay increases of less than 2.5% p.y. as I’m already in the upper band for L6 in my locale. I was hoping to be promoted in Q1 but this won’t happen; my boss is confide
- Any good personal side-project ideas? I've been trying to break into Software Engineering role coming from a Mechanical Engineering background. I've done alot of coding projects at my work but they use old tech/languages (VBA, Macros, Access SQL DB, Embedded Software, ect.) My personal projects so far have been small scale stuff like si
- link My Journey to Meta (updated post) I wanted to provide everyone with an update post on my journey to Meta. Last year I wrote a super detailed post that gave insight on my journey and helpful tips on nailing the loop for a non tech M2 role. See post here:"My Journey to Facebook (super detailed) (Tech Industry)" https://us.teamblind.c
- Match a team on Amazon (PM-T) Post MBA Hey, I've recently accepted an offer as a post-MBA hire at Amazon/AWS. Matching to a team has been basically a block box, but they have said that teams could request me so I'm hoping to network and meet teams who are looking to hire. If you are looking to bring on an MBA grad to the team, happy to
- Ideas to benefit from joining bonus I recently got an offer from a tech company and here is my offer breakdown Base: 165k Joining bonus: 40k Yearly bonus: 10% of base Rsu: 120k split over 3 years Age: 26 I have no plans to use my bonus as of now and am afraid if i will spend it on something which doesn’t give me any return of value
- Referrals I joined Capgemini out of college in 2021 Jan as an intern. Due to Covid and general uncertainty I got selected by the first company that was hiring (Capgemini) as a Senior Analyst (A5) they were hiring for A3 and A5 got TC of 6.8LPA INR. I think I have learnt all I can at Capgemini. I consistently
- vote Data engineer to PM or Data analyst I am considering career change from data engineer to product manager or data analyst(possibly business intelligence) I have computer science degree and worked as software engineer + data engineer for 4.5 years. I want more top down view in my work. Tech requirements are too broken down into small
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- What’s the oldest piece of tech you use on a daily basis? Hardware? Software? Programming Lang? Whatever...! COBOL? You bet!!!
- Fuck FAANGMULA! Lets just stick to FAANG! Bunch of overvalued piece of shit! #tech
- vote Unpopular opinion JavaScript is a bad language. Last man standing in the battle for the internet, but just such a messy sad piece of tech. Don't get me wrong, it's a great thing to know and will open many doors if you're good. But really JavaScript needs to be replaced. TC: 🥜
- Blinders of Blind - What Would You Do Differently? If you could change one piece of your past, what would you do different? #tech
- LinkedIn is cringe It seems like only 100 IQ crap on my feed. I hate the platform now. Sick of these crappy LinkedIn influencers. They’re all piece of shit, nobody cares about the cringy stupid crap you post day in day out. I just wish we had another professional network which incentivised non-cringe stuff. Worse is t
- ~1B startups most likely to go to 10B and beyond One of the best pieces of tech industry career advice I've come across recently is to go work for late stage startups valued around $1B with the potential to go 5-10x in 2-3 years. There’s virtually no risk at that stage, you get paid a market competitive base, and the potential equity upside is si
- Experienced folks in tech.. What is one piece of advice you would give to people new in their tech careers, knowing everything you know now?
- What is the absolute best career advice you’ve received? Why was it a game changer? How has it helped you? What’s another piece of advice (different) that you’d give to someone else? Especially someone looking to rise through the ranks and land at a top tech company?
- laid off from airbnb high performer, great references and worked at fb etc before hand. looking for referrals for non tech roles. very sad about this blow but gotta pick up the pieces and keep moving forward. any help is greatly appreciated
