Want to see the real deal?
More inside scoop? View in App
More inside scoop? View in App
FOLLOWING
Show more
Target Posts
Posts
Target
- Should we require immigrants to settle all over the USA instead of concentrating in a few places? There are 3007 counties in the United States. Today almost all h1b, greencard, and other employment visa applications target jobs in only a handful of counties, such as Santa Clara county CA, San Francisco city and county, and King county WA. This slows the assimilation of immigrants who surround
- Downleveled Offer from competitor Posting for a friend below. Current TC 180. New TC 210 + 45 sign on first year. (Supposedly the max for my level) 5 YOE in tech Current work situation is less than ideal. Both on team level and organization level. Company is starting to enter cost cutting mode and our office is a primary target fo
- How is QoL for Uber new grads in San Francisco? Hi guys. I recently got a new grad offer from Uber that looks like this: Base $128,250.00 Target Cash Bonus $13,500.00 New Hire Grant $112,500.00 (over 4 years) Sign on Bonus $20,000.00 The location hasn't been decided yet, and I think its upto me to pick whatever team/location I want to work with
- Canada PR Expert for Indians I am a recent canada PR holder and moved with my family this year. I have done extensive research before moving. I read most of the articles and studied the Canada PR process in detail and I have become expert for Indian folks who are planning to move from USA. I am flooded with PR questions from
- vote Is it okey to fire Nanny based on not getting COVID vaccine? Update: thanks a lot everyone who responded. It really help to hear from friends in the industry to make thought decisions especially for family. Here is so far update and a change in query. I had a clear conversation with her on potential layoff due to not getting vaccinated and she is still not g
- SDE Referral [India] Hello Everyone, I'm looking for referrals to any product-based companies for SDE roles. Got a promotion in my current org, but I am not liking the work much because it is a devops kind of work. Currently, I have an offer(verbally) for 25LPA at a mid-sized PBC, and I am looking to explore more oppo
- Sharing a lot of information from my recent interviews (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc) Since I am going to delete Blind soon, thought I would share offer details to give back to the community before I left. I got some help on here about interviews, negotiations and team selection, so I hope this info is useful to someone. The information is from a few months ago. Some background info
- Yet another COVID-19 Post - Seeking Advice Recently started at MSFT. WFH since 3/5. I've been mildly sick since 3/7. Today, yesterday night, and 3/8 are there only times I've shown/felt COVID-19 symptoms (not panicking.. yet), with today being the worst that it's been (feels like a chest cold minus no mucus, really fatigued). This week, I've
- Need Referrals Current : SWE Intern, Need : Software Engineer Full time Good in DSA #adobe #Airbnb #Alphonso #AppDynamics #Arcesium #Atlassian #Auth0 #Aviso #Bain #Bigbasket #Blackbuck #Bloomreach #Booz #Box #Box8 #Brex #Broadcom #BrowserStack #CRED #Carta #Cisco #Citadel #Citrix #Cloudera #Cocoon #Codenato
- Referrals @India Hello Everyone, I'm looking for referrals to any product-based companies for SDE roles. Got a promotion to SE2 with 7 months of total experience in my current org, but I am not liking the work much and the pay is pretty low. Currently, I have an offer(verbally) for 17LPA at a mid-sized PBC, and I
- Amazon's PIP Quota : Hire to fire Please read this At Amazon, There is no PIP quota by any level or role. It's just a arbitrary number that has to be met every year with the target being 6% In fact many VPs and directors don't hit their 6% URA. Many seem to be just doing enough to hit 4-5%. What they usually do is that they ma
- How to prepare for data science / MLE mid-senior IC roles (and general advice)? I'm just starting up a job search after a few years, so I'm quite rusty on interviewing skills and I have never adequately prepared before. As the post suggests, my background is in data science. I have a PhD in related field and have about 5 YoE (first in data & analytics consulting, currently as
- vote Didi Labs vs Series A vs Acquired Startup (ML) Hi All, Just finished an interviewing cycle for ML Engineer positions. Offers are all fully remote Didi Labs: Base: 192k Target Bonus: 32k Stock: 22000 RSU - vests 15/25/25/35 (once yearly) Role: More research based publishing papers, conducting experiments, open source research softwar
- link Amazon Stock Down 3.7% — Split It Into Amazon Services And Products Makes sense to split Amazon. Will be good for investors. It’s time to break up Amazon. Amazon started out in life as a website that partnered with the physical world. As I wrote in my book, Goliath Strikes Back, when such partnerships fell short of Amazon’s order fulfillment targets, Amazon buil
- vote Should I stay at my startup or seek higher TC (or grad degree)? I’m an early employee (#11) of a mid-growth, tech-enabled manufacturing startup in a small (but rapidly growing and really fun) city. 5 YOE, 4 of which have been at this company. Base Salary = $66k, and then I have +/- ~10% incentive comp. I have stock options currently 2/3 vested worth around 0.3%
- vote Tesla or Tiktok Technical writer in the Bay Area currently at Tesla for about 11 months. Total YOE: ~3 years. TC: ~100k (77k base + 31k RSUs) Tesla Cons: No matching 401k, good medical, but barely to no benefits, low low salary, not a ton of upward growth in terms of hardware documentation, not a lot of money in
- Figuring out Next Steps, advice? Hey all. I work at a small-mid tech startup in the Midwest and have officially run out of room to grow, the culture is changing etc. I've got about 8 years as a Business Analyst/Strategist and 5 years in Testing. The past 5 years I've worked on over 100 products as the main strategist fulfilling bo
- The road ahead? I worked for 4 years (3 years as a software engineer and 1 year as a DW ETL analyst) before arriving in the US. My primary motivation was to get a masters and move to a more functional role. Got a job as a Data Analyst in the server infrastructure team which is somewhat leadership-facing. However,
- Should I Accept Amazon SDE 2 Offer? Hey everyone, I have an offer from amazon in seattle. tc is 250k (~150 base, ~15k stocks, ~85/65 signon). Is this offer great or just fair? I have also seen people say “target for pip” when they see a high offer :), but recruiter said my interview was strong and i thought so too. YOE is 6.5. Curre
- New Grad Money Growing Plan I'm a new grad at Microsoft and I am not really financially savvy so I would appreciate some advice from the older guys on here. Basically, I want to start off on the right foot investments-wise but due to my unlimited financial knowledge (I should have taken a personal finance class but I'll self-s
- H1B in the event of a company switch Hi, This is my second lottery attempt for H1B - currently on F1 STEM OPT Extension. I have a few questions regarding my situation at the moment. I have been snooping the market for a job switch for some time now and needless to say that a few companies are currently interested to interview a
- Buy First House or Save? First heads-up: I don’t have some huge savings like most of Blind. I had a low-paying enlisted military job in first half of my 20s and accrued some debt, then low-paying tech job before landing in FAANG at nearly 30. Am 30 now and finally just paid off all aforementioned debt, but again no real sav
- Graduating in May 2020, but have been working at fortune 100 company since 2014. Three of those years were full time. Hello, I'm graduating in May 2020 from Illinois State University with a bachelor's in Business Administration. While balancing school, I've been programming and managing projects full time at Caterpillar Inc. Looking for new opportunities and hopefully a company that can let me grow my computer scie
- Need Referrals Hi Everyone, Need referral for SDE roles for a friend who's looking to switch to Europe. He's currently in Bangalore, India. He wants to work as an Android/React Native/Flutter engineer. Blind Tax: His TC: 24LPA, 2.5 YOE Mine: 5LPA, 2.5 YOE #ARM #Adobe #Airbnb #Alphonso #Anduril #Ansatz #AppDy
- Looking for some serious career advice I have for 2 years been sitting on the equity trade desk as an analyst at a St.Petersburg,FL based firms asset management division. I have my bachelors in finance from University of south Florida and a year internship with a wealth management team at Merrill lynch. My role is a hybrid role and it do
- Need refferals Hi Everyone, Need referral for SDE-2 roles for a friend. He's currently in unicorn startup(SDE-2) Bangalore, India. LC : 400+ His TC: 24LPA, 2.6 YOE #ARM #Adobe #Airbnb #Alphonso #Anduril #Ansatz #AppDynamics #AppliedIntuition #Arcesium #ArgoAI #ArthurAI #Atlassian #Auth0 #Aviso #Bain #Bigbaske
- PM -> VC I like my current role and am not trying to make a change soon, but have been eyeing a potential move into VC for a while now. I have background as an entrepreneur, a good eye for startups, a solid understanding of & ability to spot the problems companies encounter at various stages, and a decent un
- link L66 Career move options - Need advice After 15+ years at Microsoft in Redmond, currently in my mid-40s, in a leadership role and global team of 100+ I am looking at opportunities outside. Two motivating reasons: 1) I feel I can significantly increase my earning potential. Started L59 and grew up the ranks but compensation has not kept u
- Buying a house in Monroe, WA Hi all, I am considering buying a couple of years old house in Monroe, WA; I do prefer a newer house. My budget is ~700k. With the crazy bidding war going right now, the listing value has to be below 600k in order to hit my target bracket. Thoughts/questions (people who know about Monroe) - publi
- Where do you see the cloud going over the next 5-10 years? Those of you in the cloud industry, where do you see it going over the next 5-10 years? For both big tech and tier 2 tech. I have a couple of hypotheses below. If anyone wants to challenge them, add nuance, or add another perspective that'd be great. Or skim and post your take below. From what I h