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- Yet Another Amazon Rant (Only lasted < 6 months) Hi all, tl;dr; Stay far far away if you can help it. I apologize in advance that this is yet another don't join Amazon post. I just feel that it is my civic duty to warn others to stay away if they have any other *viable* options (I know not everyone has this opportunity, and sometimes financially
- Broke, working for free, and feeling hopeless. Need help. Got an MBA to after getting laid off. I was a Business Analyst at a bank and had been working on a startup before getting laid off. I wanted to skill up and learn as much about the startup world as I could. So I went to the Fulltime at a T30 MBA program. Everything was going well. I started working
- FAANG -> startup - my experience Tl:dr; If you are a mercenary, like myself - don’t do this. If you are in to make the world a better place - respect, but I will never be able to understand you. I worked 6 years total at 2 FAANGs (and worked at another comparable company before) and then decided to join a pre-IPO startup. Summary
- Amazon in Europe - culture and daily life of PM technical Im in the final phase of interviews for a role TMP at Amazon, headquarter Europe. I am a bit scared from what I've read in some posts here, and from some news from journalist-reportage that depicts culture as a toxic environment where everything is oriented to profit, and people who generated come a
- Story of my life! Indian guy, grew up - I would say barely made it - in lower middle class family of 4 (parents, elder sister and I), I still remeber living in a chawl 10x10 living room, 8x8 kitchen, with tin roof shed overhead, no toilet in house. Always a makeshift bathroom (did not have 4 walls) using just piece
- There has been some interest on 'Moving back to India' related topics. I want to share my experience! Who am I - A Sr. Software Dev (L6) at Amazon. I have close to 12 years of experience. Out of those 12 years, 6 are at Amazon, around 3 at Microsoft and the rest at Cisco. 11 out of 12 years I worked in the US and a year in India. I moved back to India just a year ago (internal transfer to a paralle
- Career Advice Hi all, 20 yoe, 140k tc (unless i get my bonus, read below). I am currently working for a startup as the only technical person. The company is in manufacuring and is family owned and funded. I built from scratch a microservice arch with 7 services and 4 different Angular frontends. It's all hosted
- vote How to exit a toxic work environment? I’ve been at my company for quite a while, and I’ve truly enjoyed the vast majority of my time here. My bosses have been great mentors. My colleagues are talented and collaborative. I’ve been promoted multiple times during the past few years. Over the past couple of years, my increased responsibili
- TL;DR A tale: Once upon a time ... Once upon a time, there was a humongous ship named Freedom. It has a captain named Dump who governs the ship. In many years, this ship will sail to deep sea for days or months. Whenever it came back, it will full load of precious jewelry. No other ships could go so deep to the see and carry those je
- Don't want to leave IT but not sure what's here for me... Tl;dr: I discovered that I hate Technical Project Management after having done it for 10 years and want to look into something more customer facing but don't want to leave IT. I have no idea what role to pursue with an MBA with an emphasis in IT Management that isn't a step back in TC (115k) or care
- 3 tips to creating your own luck There's blind luck (pure chance) and smart luck (which we can help create). That's according to Christian Busch, author of "The Serendipity Mindset: The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck", who draws a distinction between the two. "[Luck] is a force that we can grasp, shape, and hone," Busch sa
- Disrespectful interviewers @ Spotify One of the worst interview experience in my life. Have interviewed with companies ranging from top tech companies to hot startups but never had such a bad experience before especially from a company which boasts good culture. Have you had an interview where you are trying to explain stuff to panel
- link I've started my FIRE journey in India! (Part 1: Intro and Net Worth) There's no shortage of posts here on Blind where people ask how much one needs to FIRE in India and then responders throwing around random numbers that range from practical to downright stupid. There however are hardly any first-person accounts of folks that have truly retired early. Nobody seems to
- Austin SFH - Got lucky or screwed up? TLDR - Bought a home with the only ONE bid of my life and signed the contract when the entire community who is trying to buy a home in Austin suburbs had been waiting on long waitlists or bidding like crazy on multiple homes and still not getting it. Long version: Story of my life - Like many othe
- No longer in Focus at Amazon, want to make a change. Update 1: First off thank you to everyone who has commented so far. There is a ton of information shared and I'd encourage anyone who is going through a similar experience to read through every note below - whether you like what you read or not. There are several comments making some assumptions abo
- vote Postgrad education My son is at a pivotal point in his life, and we would like to see some advice from the blind community. Currently, he is doing a bachelor in economics in the Netherlands. This is probably the best economics university in the Netherlands and he is approximately in the top 5-10% of the class. He is
- Amazon SDM in Pivot, looking for options Short version: I am an SDM working for Amazon in Canada for close to two years. I had a personal loss earlier this year, following which my performance was considered low and I was placed in Focus (PIP). I worked through the dev plan but my manager didn't find it good enough. I was recently placed
- Google L3 from Electrical Engineer (Interview Experience, Accepted) Wanted to share my roller coaster experience with Google interview process. tl;dr: ~$200k + 20k signing; 9 interviews; highs and lows; great experience; great recruiting team Quick background. BS in Electrical Engineering from decent private university. Had only two classes in the CS department
- An insiders PoV at Uber. I've seen a flurry of posts recently which outline the decline of quality with regard to Uber and ride sharing in general. I wanted to drop a post here just to be heard. Let's begin: Uber simply does not care about the quality control aspect of the experience anymore, they understand how the wheel
- My personal experience, hope it helps I had depression before when I was in grad school and ever since then I’ve been trying my best to promote awareness of mental health to people around me. I found this forum and saw a lot of people are posting and seeking advice on mental health issues they are facing. I would like to share some tips
- Visa cancellation on arrival/ GC renouncement on arrival I heard from a coworker that visas are being cancelled on arrival and then people banned for 5 years from entry for attempting to enter unlawfully. Also people being forced to sign a document to renounce their green cards. Any truth to these stories? Edit: Added WhatsApp message. Also saw this m
- Amazon pip: Seems like blind folks were interviewed! See this: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-pivot-performance-improvement-program-do-not-hire-list-2021-6 #pivot #amazonpip ---------------------------------- copy pasted: A key part of the way Amazon manages employee performance is unfair and often characterized by unattainable objectives, g