- TOP TECH COMPANY RANKINGS - 2019 EDITION 0: Google, Facebook, Netflix 1: Uber, Airbnb, Apple, LinkedIn 2. Dropbox, Lyft, Square 3: Microsoft, Amazon, Pinterest, Twitter, Slack, Stripe 4: Salesforce, Yelp, Bloomberg, Adobe, Box, Tesla, Indeed, Splunk 5: Zillow, Oracle, IBM, VMWare, SAP, Twilio, Tableau, Glassdoor, Walmart Labs 6: Everything
- Ibm cloud Is it worth taking job at IBM? In term of future growth and opportunities.
- IBM Offer I recently recieved an offer from IBM for a research engineer in formal verification. The breakdown is as follows: Base: 150k Signing bonus: 18k RSU: 0 Location: Austin, TX What are your thoughts on the offer? TC: 0 (PhD student graduating soon)
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and industry lounge. - What do you think about starting your career at IBM? Is this a bad move? Or a good one? I got an offer for about 100k and don't have competing offers yet. I really like the people that I interviewed with but am afraid that this might not be a good job to start my career. Do people move from IBM to FAANG or will there be good future opportunities beyon
- How much immigration cost do I pay back when switching a job IBM has sponsored me both H1B and Green card. I have signed the agreement that I’ll repay the entire immigration cost to IBM if I leave the company within a certain period. The paper never specified ‘how much’ though. In this case, does anyone know appx amount of cost to pay back for both H1B and G
- Application status Hello IBM-folks, I had an interview 5 months ago and I see that my application still in ( interview Phase) !!!! Why this ?
- Low caliber of managers at Cisco Got fed up with the low caliber , politics and ineptitude of Indian managers at Cisco. Almost all of them were Indians and they all either knew each other or tried to outsmart each other. Nobody was strong technically. Moved to IBM , see the same story. What is it with these low quality Indian manag
- link Amazon recruiter contacted me, I sent my CV and he sent me the following NOTE: I am not looking for answers. I'm just interested in knowing if this has been a typical route to get hired as an SA. I have previously applied and had a couple of interviews, but no offer. I want to put my best foot forward. Also sharing for the benefit of others. ****************** Thank yo
- Anyone else maddened by their Lightning-adapted headphones? I made the jump to my iPhone 8 after breaking the screen on my 6S, and now I’m dealing with something that was never an issue when I had a headphone jack. My phone will randomly pause/play/skip my music all the time with no input, even managing to bring up Siri sometimes. Any time I’m walking somewh
- Tier rankings for the tech companies If you have problems with discussing tiers, then GTFO of this post. These rankings are based off the data points from other tier blind posts, If you think these rankings are off, then please comment with your own rankings. Tier = Pay, prestige, wlb, culture, benefits, talent pool, brand weight on r
- 🥇 MAJOR TECH EMPLOYER POWER RANKINGS (SEATTLE ONLY, Q4 2017) These rankings take into account: desirability, compensation, prestige, reputation, quality of life, exclusivity, company trajectory, social brand value, career growth opportunities, stock performance, location, office quality and a secret sauce of other factors. This analysis is focused specificall
- vote Best Tech Companies To Work For In 2019 (in no particular order) : ✓ Jane Street / Two Sigma / Citadel ✓ Google / Facebook / Amazon / Microsoft / Netflix / Apple ✓ Uber / Lyft / Airbnb / Pinterest / LinkedIn ✓ Snap / Twitter / Slack / Palantir / Square / Rubrik ✓ Yelp / Quora / Box / Dropbox / Twitch / Hulu / Spotify / Snowflake ✓ NVIDIA / Salesforce / Adobe /
- Bad name vs no name companies Just occurred to me - should be relevant on Blind, where so many are preoccupied with "prestige" of the company, whatever that means - that some relatively big names are actually worse on your resume, than noname companies. Example: Cisco, IBM, Oracle. I wonder about VMware - and inclined to include
- Entry Level Front End Dev at IBM Interview Process I'm applying for an entry level front end developer role at IBM. Does anyone know what the interview process is like and what the questions are? I heard that it's possibly a video interview with 3 questions?
- Referrals( past google) 600lc Hi I want referrals from companies like Lyft and Airbnb. I am at a hot state completing 600 coding problems in leetcode. If you refer me , the probablity of landing a referral bonus increases manifold :p I am a new grad!! I am open to all companies not just the a lve mentioned ones! 1. Vmware 2. Ibm
- Advise Currently at Intel Labs with 2 YOE. PhD in ECE. Got job offers from the following places: IBM TJ watson AI hardware (Research position) Facebook Oculus hardware (not Reality labs, product/implementation role) Google Cloud hardware (product/implementation role) Goal: to stay in research as much as po
- There is no counter culture in tech anymore There are no new Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniaks out there anymore. Where are the hippies? Where are the freaks? The punks? They've been replaced by a bunch of psychotic MBA sociopaths who only care about money. When Jobs and Wozniak started Apple they were obsessed with taking down the corporate who
- New grad Stripe, Tableau, IBM referral Title says all. Leetcode score: 250+
- How is Red Hat since IBM purchase? Any insights or still too soon?
- link What happened to old fashioned flame and tech wars online? Now every discussion online(not only here) seems to be about compensation, new VC hipster products like AirBNB for dogs or SWJ inclusive stuff at some company I miss the old days when you read Slashdot and an article about a new Java release would get 400 comments how much Java sucks or how anyone
- Compensation Tiers of Companies for Tech Jobs By popular demand, I'm reposting one of my replies on another thread. This tiering is based on both trajectory and overall scale of total comp (base+bonus+stock) for IC positions. Edit: subsidiaries with the same pay go under the parent (e.g. Twitch and Amazon) Based off of all the comp data points
- Tier rankings for tech companies in the Bay Area Tier = Pay, prestige, wlb, culture, benefits, talent pool, brand weight on resume, people have starry eyes when you tell them where you work at Tier 0: Be your own boss Tier 1: FNG Tier 2: Apple, Uber, Airbnb, Lyft, Linkedin Tier 3: Amazon, Microsoft, Stripe, Pinterest, Slack, Snap, Dropbox, Robinh
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and industry lounge. - Tier 1/2/3 companies in Bay Area for SWE Let’s do this millionth time, Tier 1 considering pay, prestige, wlb, talent, benefits etc. Here are my rankings Tier 1: Google NetFlix Facebook Apple Uber Tier 2: Amazon Linkedin Dropbox Lyft Airbnb Microsoft Twitter Robinhood Slack Square Pinterest Tier 3: Salesforce Oracle Reddit Quora IBM Nv
- What are the assessments for an Entry Level Data Scientist at IBM like? Reached the next steps for an Entry Level Data Scientist role at IBM and wanted to know what completing ONE or MORE of the following assessments means. How often does anyone have to take all three assessments: Cognitive Ability, Personality and Coding? What are any of these assessments like? How co
- Good job Apple by revoking enterprise certificate of evil Facebook. Once again Apple valued our privacy. Indeed Apple is the saviour of human kind. Respecting privacy is in DNA of Apple right from Steve's era. These Facebook guys just do anything for user data and go to any extent for it. They are just evil. Also Apple saved us from evil IBM. Also Apple tried to save us from evil Microsoft. But sadl
- link WTF! We definitely need H1B reform. Top ten companies with approved H1B visas in 2017. Company. H1B Salary Bach/Mstrs/PhD COGNIZANT 28,908 85k 22k/6.5k TCS. 14,697. 73k. 11k/2.9k INFOSYS. 13,408. 85k. 10k/3k WIPRO. 6,529. 75k. 3.9k/2.5k DELLOITTE. 6,0
- too late reply when you apply for a summer (May-August) internship position and you get a reply in October LOL. Are you kidding me IBM!
- link IBM is laying off more than 1,000 employees Jobs page shows 7k openings though. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/06/06/ibm-layoffs-affect-more-than-1000-employees.html
- Everyone talks FAANG salaries but what about LIGMA? LinkedIn, IBM, Groupon, McDonald’s, Adobe Top tier salaries Incase anyone asks, TC 170
- vote Indeed vs IBM vs Cisco Assuming I have identical offers from each of these three companies, which one would be best to join? Considering: - growth/learning opportunities - weight on resume - culture - outlook - etc.
- CGI, Deloitte, etc in Toronto vs Big Tech in USA What would the benefits be of working at somewhere like CGI, IBM, or similar around the GTA versus going to FAANG or similar in the US? Friend's dad is a director or something at CGI and was trying to sell it as the best choice after graduation. I think I have my mind set on something else but alwa
- link IBM uses A.I to find employees who are about to quit with 95% accuracy https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/03/ibm-ai-can-predict-with-95-percent-accuracy-which-employees-will-quit.html what the fuck ? Explains their complete lack of a promotional career path
- Google... First off I’m not a google hater but I don’t understand what google is doing as a business. Why aren’t they trying to expand their business? Amazon reinvests everything because they constantly see opportunities out their to improve customers lives. Amazon a couple years ago was worth half of google
- Worst of IBM -shoot at me Will be joining IBM. But I have heard it's the worse company to work for. In that spirit, shoot at me the worst of IBM that you know. Like really really bad. Go scorched Earth.
- Comment tiers of tech companies in your opinion Tier = Pay, prestige, career opportunities, wlb Tier 0: Google, Netflix Tier 1: Apple, Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, Lyft Tier 2: Amazon, Microsoft, Linkedin, Tier 3: Twitter, Square, Robinhood, Stripe, Pinterest, Snap, Dropbox, Palantir Tier 4: Salesforce, Zillow, coinbase, Reddit, Spotify, Expedia Tie
- link IBM Got More Patents in 2018 Than Google, Apple, and Microsoft Combined https://www.pcmag.com/news/370180/ibm-got-more-patents-in-2018-than-google-apple-and-microso
- Leave employer w/o notice? I'm looking for a HR or legal expertise here but personal experience is welcomed. I've been with IBM for 5 years and haven't had a single penny for a raise. I have applied for over 1000 internal openings (seriously, over 1000) in these past years and I have been contacted back probably less than 10
- What would you do? I have a job offer for s GOV agency which I just discovered was paying me 17k below what others in the company are getting paid for. Now I scored an interview with google,IBM and an Oil and Gas company I want to reject the GOV position is this a wise decision?
- Indeed Hiring Freeze Updates? (+F1 woes) New here! Could anyone keep this post updated with any news regarding the Indeed freeze? Or, does anyone know of specific companies in the Austin area that seriously consider international students? Full story: Bf got a verbal offer from Indeed in Feb (written offer was minted and ready to go), but
- IBM entry level back end developer NYC What is the interview process like? I just cleared the hackerank. Thanks!
- Working for IBM cloud vs AWS? I have got offer from IBM Cloud as Sr staff software engineer. I have been getting calls from AWS and also MSFT Azure. If I don’t mind salary, how will be working at IBM cloud vs AWS and MSFT for career and learning perspective?
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and industry lounge. - vote What should we name our daughter! Hey blind. My wife and I are about to have a new baby girl. We are thinking of names and have it down to 3 let me know what you think. TC:290k Dropbox not IBM YOE 9
- IBM TC Austin Software Developer Im in an interview process with ibm for an entry software developer positon. Not familiar with the price difference from SF and Austin. I know the cost of living is better in austin. Im projecting other offers from startups in SF. What would be a good price to ask for considering relocation. 1> YO
- Have you seen swe or any other position colleague without a degree? For me only Contractors here. Saw an article where IBM FB and G no longer require college education. Have you seen any colleagues without a degree? If so, does this upset you because you had student loan and 4 years? I'm ok with this whole thing but overheard some others mentioning it this I am
- Referral: trying to leave IBM please help I have been working for IBM since I gratuated in digital & performance marketing but i’m a an impass in my career. If anyone could recommend me for @facebook @google @twitter @microsoft @samsung @hulu @netflix
- Technology consultant I am about to finish my master in physics (specialising in AI implementation to pattern recognition) and I'm applying to grad jobs in the tech sector, mostly for analyst roles at big tech and fintech companies. A friend of mine has referred me to IBM London for a technology consultant position and
- Non FAANG Austin Tech Companies Want to leave IBM ASAP and looking to apply to some good Non FAANG companies in the area. Anybody know the culture at these? Or have other suggestions? 1 - Homeaway 2 - Indeed 3 - Dell Open to start ups with a good reputation too.
- Referral for IBM Hi, I’m looking for a referral for a Data Scientist position at IBM. Please let me know if anyone is willing to provide me with a referral. I can share some more info about my background to anyone who is willing to help. Thanks a lot!
- Reviews on Walmart Labs? Hoboken office. previously jet.com office. finshed my master’s recently. Recieved and offer for SWE. is it a good place to start your first job in US. YOE 2 not in US. Also have GS (Dallas) and IBM(upstate NY) offer.
- I want to make sure the reason I'm leaving aligns with the companies I'm looking at or is this situation just me? Basically I want to leave IBM because I feel like I'm not learning anymore and I'm being held back by the politics. I think my goals and purpose for possibly leaving is reasonable, I want to find a company where I can grow alot, learn, and be independent to a degree ( Id still appreciate mentorship