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- Dismissive Hierarchal colleague What do you do about toxic colleagues? We have a 5 year fintech with a new (1 month) colleague at Director level. In culture we're supposed to speak out and leave meetings of no value but the plan on paper rarely goes into practice. I'm on boarding too (2 months) and all I've heard as priority on
- How to tell your manager that your being slow because you are paired up with an unresponsive person on the team? I’ve recently switched jobs. In my new team my manager has paired me up with a senior engineer who’s the sole owner of a project. Others who have worked on this project are no longer there in this team. I am having questions about certain flows which i obviously won’t magically know. The documentat
- Not learning anything since 4 months. I don't know where I should I post this. I am a campus hire (India) for the role of Application Engineer. After two months of training I was assigned to the team which works on one of the product of Fusion Apps. The problem is my manager is least concerned with mentoring me. He did take two sessions
- Cybersecurity Internship referrals required Hi Guys I am eagerly looking for an internship in cybersecurity in India/ Abroad. I past experience in 2 internships and Bug Bounty. I am currently doing my Bachelors in Cybersecurity and Have vast experience in SOC, Web App Pentesting, and Network security. #internship #security #intern #fintech
- Has anyone moved from a technical role to a TPM? If so, did it work out? I've been deep in analysis and light engineering for most of my career. 6 yoe, 300k TC. Lately I've been having more fun forming and executing team and service visions, even though I was brought on to perform analysis. Part of it is due to my manager completely faltering here and me feeling like I
- Severe imposter symptoms. Help! How to deal with it? Hear me out. In the past few months, my role has gradually changed from a principal level ic who codes to a staff/architect level with no coding. I became the architect of a big part of our product. It’s a big org. I mostly attend meetings, occasionally overseeing technical wor
- Referrals! Hi Blind community, I'm a rising junior, majoring in CS, Applied Math, and Cognitive Science at a T10 school. I have a couple of internships under my belt, and have completed 200+ LC problems and two decent personal technical projects (https://adonde.netlify.app/go if you'd like to check it out!).
- Looking for referrals Hello everyone, I'm looking for referrals to any FAANGMULA+ companies. Principal/Director/VP/etc or higher in Program Management (Tech), Architect, Solutions Architect, Infrastructure, or Information Technology. Have 20+ open apps with Microsoft all status show "HM Screen" or "Recruiter Screen" f
- Referral Required ( Worldwide ) Hello Everyone, This is my first post so please pardon for any mistake. I am looking for job switch, I have 1 year of experience as SDE-1 in a product based start-up in India. I need referrals in companies to increase my chances of getting interview calls. I am willing to relocate anywhere in the w
- Established Tech Company Landscape / Comp Groupings ---------------------------------------------------------- BigCos GAFAM (US): Google, Meta [Tier 1] Apple [Tier 1: AI/ML / IS&S / SWE / HWE; Tier 2: IS&T] Amazon, Microsoft [Tier 2] BATXJM (China): Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu [Tier 1] Xiaomi, JD, Meituan [Tier 2] -----------------------------------
- Looking for Summer 2022 PM internship referrals Hi people of Blind! I am applying for internships for summer 2022 and would greatly appreciate referrals for Product Management intern positions. I have been applying to some online, but have not been hearing anything back. I am currently a Junior with previous Product Management experience. Commen
- Terrible onboarding experience. I wanna quit. I’m only 2 months in, but it’s been hell. The onboarding experience has been the worst. I haven’t had a formal reoccurring 1-1 meeting with my current manager and every time I ask about it, they say they’ll get around to scheduling it. My onboarding buddy also went on PTO so I never had a go to per
- How to get into Research oriented roles at FAANG like companies ? I am working at Adobe systems Noida as an SDE and simultaneously pursuing a PhD. I have been trying to find roles where i can do some research too. What criteria do these companies have for selecting people for such jobs ? Recruiters, hiring managers, research scientists never reply, applying on the
- 2022 Internship referrals Hello Blind Members, I am currently an international master’s student in United States, and I have 3 years of experience in Software Engineering at Goldman Sachs. I've been applying for both SWE internship positions for summer 2022, and was wondering if anyone would be willing to offer any referral
- Telecom Account Executive. Referrals for new opportunities Hi guys, I am an Account Executive at Sprint (NYC). I am a top performer blowing out my quota consistently over 450% every month. As an AE at Sprint I sell telecom (obviously) and SaaS solutions such as 365, Gsuite, and cyber security solutions. My salary is very low $49,600 however I am on target t
- Moving to Microsoft, paranoid about ZR I quit Amazon on a dev plan (prePIP) and now have an offer with Microsoft Azure (sde). How often does one get ZR/PIP at Microsoft compared to at Amazon? UPDATE: To give more context:- I joined AWS as a new grad. I had previously worked on research and theoretical stuff before. During my internship
- Comprehensive Canada guide So many questions about Canada ,job prospects and stuff. Thought I’d share a detailed and comprehensive guide to working in Canada 1. Salary range: — Canadian company: senior dev 100-130k CAD. Staff level would be 130-180k CAD — US company : senior dev 130-180k CAD Staff level : 180-250k CAD There
- 7 months laid-off, looking for referrals Hi Blind Community, I hope everyone is doing fine during this pandemic. Today marks the day that I have been laid-off for 7 months now. I graduated finishing my Masters in Software Engineering in May 2020 and from April 2020 I have been looking for jobs, when I got laid-off. I am looking for Softwa
- Yet another PM broken by interview after interview? No. I'm not. I'm tired, I'm annoyed, and getting better at playing the game as much as I want to resist the status quo process, because I love PM, with all of its stress and challenges, it's my jam. But OMG it's difficult to find the company that isn't the cookie cutter FAANG but also knows WTF soft
- Topics to cover for Senior/Staff Engineering positon Hi everyone! I've been Software Engineer for almost 10 years and I've always worked for product companies of all sizes (from Startups to big corporations). The thing is, I love Software Craftsmanship and everything around it. I love getting better as an architect, I love learning about what's new
- link Called up by HR for posting video A friend of mine posted the following link on a slack channel in her office meant for “random funny casual topics”. https://youtu.be/Fx8JnW0mY-k After 10 min, her boss asked her to take it down stating that a few reported to her that it was “inappropriate”. She took it down without argument. A mo
- Performance rating discussion This was my 1st time that I discussed team members rating with mangers and other TLs (I am a TL) I can sense favoritism going on but one thing I noticed if someone points out that a person is not performing everyone in the meeting try to find out the bad examples related to that person. if someone
- vote Have you been assigned a task at end of day? 1.Have you been assigned a task at end of day like 6.30 pm and been asked to finish it ASAP? 2.Have you been called or pinged at MS Teams or Slack at 12 am to finish an issue by early morning of next day? 3.Have you been asked status updates at regular times? 1 status per 2 hours 4.Have you been giv
- Is this scare tactic in offer negotiation? Should I compromise? Going to use different companies in this example, but this is what happened, say at Facebook and Google. I was fortunate enough to receive a verbal offer from both of them here's the story: 1. I got the FB verbal offer first, I asked them what range I should be able to expect, and she said it will
- link Woman in tech got PIP'd after confronting her manager about co-worker who found out about her NSFW art and teased her Original: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/7rwcit/coworker_found_out_that_i_used_to_draw_nsfw/ Update: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/7t9vp8/update_coworker_found_out_that_i_used_to_draw/ *****The updated post has been removed, here is a snapshot of it:*****
- vote Should I resign or get PIP’d? Got exceeds expectation in last year’s forte feedback. Had manager changed twice. I don’t get along well with the new manager. Last October, when I told him I’m thinking of changing teams (after going through 4 rounds of interview and getting an offer from different org), he told I can’t as he has
- Looking for Internship Referral Hello Blind, I am looking for referrals to internship roles in software development or product management. Currently in my final year in Computing Science at a top 40 university. I have completed 2 previous internships, one which was in software development and the other in product management. I am
- Feeling demoralized about finding new job About 7 months ago I joined a new company. I was hired on as a senior. As of late things have not been working out. Mostly not happy about a few people on my team and it feels like its time to go (software lead is never around and slacks off and former manager was a micro manager of sorts and theres
- Need Data analyst referral I am an experienced Professional with 2+ years in Data Analytics with AWS Cloud Practitioner certified. I worked as Intern in the same organization. Proficient in SQL, Advanced Excel, Tableau, Python, and Data Reporting with some experience in machine learning models. Previously I worked as Software
- Did I make a mistake? Too late for a referral? I haven't yet reached out to anyone for a referral -- is it too late? I.e. since I applied, is there any incentive for anyone to refer me? If so, does it hold any weight? I applied for what looks like my dream role at Slack (Director level, non-engineering) and I'm assuming that there will be dece