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- UX Researcher seeking team match for HC with Google Partner of mine (see below) through with interviews is looking for a team match as a UX Researcher. Comment in thread (if you don't want to burn a DM and I'll DM you) or DM me if interested/can assist. Posted in Design Career as well. Thanks in advance: --- I completed my on-site about a week ago a
- Equity vs Base + Location 2 YoE. ICT3. Currently making ~160k TC ($110k base, approx $45k/yr in RSU and maybe $5k cash bonus) with reviews coming up in a couple months. Got a verbal offer from a pre-IPO (unicorn status) company based out of NYC (Where I would rather live) with a $145k base, but really low equity–maybe $15k
- New Grad: Does joining a Series B as an APM make sense? I am a senior at a T10 Undergrad (CS major) and have been offered an APM role at a Fintech startup. The startup is funded by top VCs (think Greylock, a16z, etc.) and the founders are very experienced with running fintechs. The startup currently has ~25-30 people but that will expand to ~50 people by
- Digital Marketing Interview Advice I have been applying (no referrals) to Digital Marketing positions for the past 120 days and often made it to second round interviews. I have been unsuccessful at landing a full time role, but I always look to see who was hired for positions. It seems that my skills and abilities are being overlooke
- Getting into tech companies @ 40 All, I work as a VP of engineering at a travel company and manage a team of 150-200 peeps. Left recently because of the disagreements around strategy. Immigration slavery more or less bound me to last two jobs(15 years).i was always valued and promoted regularly at the companies I worked for
- Am I eligible for an L1A as a Senior Product Manager? Hoping to get some thoughtful advice on my situation. My personal information: + canadian citizen + 25 years old + bachelor degree in business (top canadian university) + parents are both green card holders (E2 visa route) My company’s information: + has american and canadian entities + has (3) am
- IT engineer trying to figure out next best steps Currently I am working for an MSP and am very happy, it is a very small company and the owner has made it a family like work environment which has definitely grown on me. But I have about 4-5 year experience current position as a IT engineer and have always tried my best to see what the market has
- Any reason to do a CS PhD? I'm a Canadian in the middle of my MSc in Computer Science at UofT. I likely have the opportunity to continue on to a PhD either at UofT or similar after this degree. However, is there anything I would miss out on by NOT doing a PhD? During my BSc, I interned in both the Bay Area and NYC at well kn
- 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
- What's your favorite Trump quote? On "nuclear": “Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good jeans, very good jeans, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, O
- Walmart contract position vs Blink Health (Seattle) Hi everyone! I am on F1 visa. I am looking to switch jobs. I have blink health offer for SDE1 position based in Seattle. I am in the final rounds of interviewing with Walmart (behavioral round is the last round). I have applied to Walmart through a consultancy here in Bentonville, Arkansas. Bit of a
- Google TSE Role vs. Microsoft SE Role I'm currently a lvl 59 SQL Support Engineer at Microsoft. TC 120K. I was approached by a Google Recruiter for a "Technical Solution Engineer" a year ago and ended up getting half way through the interviews and quitting because a family member died. The recruiter reached out again recently about me
- Move to Denver or Salt Lake City? Hey y’all, I recently secured a permanent remote gig and I’m trying to move west from the Northeast. I’ve visited both for each about a week. I’ve narrowed down my choices to Salt Lake or Denver, taking into account costs, and airport access which I need. Other primary reasons are proximity to nat
- How to effectively get screening calls? Hey Blinders! Current Role: DE 2 YOE: 2.5-3 Years Location: Knoxville, TN TC: 90K + 10% Bonus Education: MS in Data Analytics It's been a while since I switched jobs and have been neglecting networking with recruiters all together. The more I grew into my current role, I started learning some AWS
- Funny and Sad at the same time! A little bit of background story : I've been working as a QA in the last 4 years with a shitty salary and now I'm looking for an exit strategy, especially that I don't want any heavy coding role and I'm looking forward to switch to a Program or Product Management role but the problem is I only have
- Fraudulent Hire; Fired When Questioned Want to get a second option on both: the case and my rights, given that some time has passed. This happened 4-5 years ago in NYC. I was poached by a recruiter (from a rather nice gig) for a VP Engineering role and promised a huge chunk of equity for the products that I would be in charge of buildin
- vote 3 way negotiation/promotion - Product Designer Hey everyone 👋🏼 I was hoping to get some perspective on my options as I really have no clue what to do. I really enjoy working at company A (a series A startup), they have some decent benefits, people are good, fully remote, the product has potential, and equity is good. I started shopping aroun
- URGENT (Family Emergency): Looking for referrals/recommendations for AM/BDE/CSM roles! Hey there blinders, Fairly new to this community, thought I would reach out for help/resources! I am currently working at IBM in a hybrid TAM/CSM role for the zSW side of the business managing accounts with >$50M in annual stream subscription revenue in a remote role, living in NYC. Looking to
- Worked as intern at Mid-size company seeking advice on asking for full-time & possibly advice for interviewing elsewhere Location: NYC I joined this mid-size (11.3M annual revenue/ 121 employees) company as an intern this past summer for $24/h, when I joined I was pretty much clueless, by the end of the internship, I was offered to stay at the company as a part-time employee (no change in title or pay). I have grown
- vote Accept the offer, reject, or accept and keep interviewing? I recently got laid off. But been interviewing with a few companies already, and got an offer the same week I got laid off. The offer is from Omnicom Group; which seems low to me. Director of Product, NYC, $160k base, no bonuses or stocks. I loved the team, product, fit. There’s a lot of flexibility
- PM Community Thanks (Google Prep) I joined Google a few weeks back after a few months of interviewing around and wanted to give some thanks and relevant advice back to the community. I got a lot of value from reading a ton of blind posts about the interview process at Google and many other top tech companies and want to at least pay
- Facebook Onsite Experience Hi All, Just had the FB NYC Onsite and wanted to share the experience. 1. Found out that my schedule was messed up and that I would have my Product Design interview first (I was expecting it the next day). The interviewer was good and kept me out of the weeds. This was my best experience in the
- To Asian American Men - Moving to Asia - Changed My Life Hi, Recently, I've been reading a lot of posts on blind. All of these great guys, that make plenty of money, in the valley or Seattle, that are depressed because they're single. I wanted to share my story, and hope many of you will make the same decision as me. I used to work at Microsoft in a goo
- Evaluate offer from a market making firm in NYC I recently accepted an offer from a market making firm in NYC that will trade only Fixed Income IG bonds. It's a small company backed by a larger firm and I will be the 6th employee of the company. I wanted to get an opinion if the offer is competitive enough with other tech firms. YoE: 3.5 Current
- Best MSCS program for Transitioning into Software Engineering Hello all, I graduated from West Point with a BS in Operations Research (basically a math degree), and I am now looking at transitioning from the military to the private sector. I enjoyed the coding portion of my undergraduate degree, so I’m looking at getting into software engineering. I’ve applie
- vote Quant at Wells Fargo, or SWE at IBM? I’m a new grad (Master’s in Computer Science) set to graduate in May. I’ve been having a hard time deciding between the following two opportunities. I’d be really grateful if people could offer any advice and help me make the right career decision before it's too late. 1. Quantitative Analytics Spe
- Feel like I was duped for a rental So last month I rented a room in a warehouse type place in the mission for 1700 a month and signed a sublease until September. It was a room in a 6bed 1bath in the mission district of SF. I know it’s a bit overpriced but I really liked the aesthetics of the warehouse. Paid one month rent and one mon
- vote is Google worth 40K more annual aftertax income compared to Meta? got L4 for Google and E4 from Meta. Today got impressed and overwhelmed by Meta HR, a really gentle and warm recruiter. He's the only HR that didn't hesitate and directly skipped those garbage back and forth steps. He's also never badmouthed at any rival company, never tried to gaslight me and judg
- Advice Needed: From Retail to Full Stack Web Dev (mid 30s) There's probably a lot of posts on this already but I need to know how to maneuver this career transition. So quick facts: -Im in my mid 30s -Over 7 years of jewelry retail operations experience -currently working full time -Mortgage -No savings -A bit of debt -Single no family -Just graduated fro
- Employee background check Full disclosure-i’m working for a startup in NYC that takes advantage of foreigners & junior engineers that are just looking for work experience. We are not getting paid, even though we have clients, because the company is so much in debt. The CEO treats me very well because I take on work of an ent