Compensation is not bad since the recruiters are so desperate to fill their jobs asap that you can ask for the world without any attention to internal compression.
It’s a dog eat dog world now. No longer is Gap the company that values or supports family or cares about employee engagement, loyalty or tenure. You move up by who you know and how you look. Forget about diversity in the workplace. That’s all lip service. If you’re white and tall, this place is perfect for you.
I’m a solutions architect, what’s the best process to bridge the gap and transition to an AE role? TC: 📄
Was about to join Coinbase as an “Engineering Manager - Salesforce” on Monday and I hear from their leadership that my offer got rescinded along with hundreds of others. Resigned my current job a while ago for a gap of one week vacation and now I’m unemployed. This is totally unexpected. Any refer...Read more
Consider the following: 1) Anyone doing a 3 month's coding boot camp can get a job of a software engineer, even in FAANG (eg. the guy who founded Algoexpert). 2) It's not difficult to find people with a commerce background now established as SWE's or architects. 3) The pay gap between someone workin...Read more
Promo seems to be a big point of frustration everywhere. Where do u think the biggest gap is? Specifically for the mid to senior engr levels, non-architect. TC 300k
From Facebook levels.fyi. Very similar at other companies: E3 $185k E4 $275k (+$90k) E5 $390k (+$115k) E6 $560k (+$170k) I understand the gap inbetween E3/E4 as handholding vs independent. And E4/E5 as independent vs being able to architect systems. But why is the gap between E5 to E6 so signific...Read more
Has bootcamp helped anyone get a better job? Would love to hear experiences. PS: This is for my husband, who has 8yrs of experience as a devops architect but has a two year career gap. #tech #devops #architect #career
I have applied for h4ead.. have gap of 3 yrs due to visa. Preparing for interviews of Aws solution architect . I have previous 5 yrs of experience in Orcale DBA role. I am giving my certification exam in April for Aws solution architect. Please let me know which job profiles should I apply as I don...Read more
Sorry, new here learning the lingo and all that. I’m looking for info on the salary band of a Solution Consultant - Business Architect with Salesforce. > 10 yoe, when I gave my initial salary expectation there is a $25k gap, and to make it up I need to get the senior level of the job. Do I really
i always see people with engineering managers, directors and architect titles with Masters degrees. how important is it for the career growth? i am planning and planning to pursue Masters (not that i needed it) but busy schedules and money factor and gap years always stop me. need to get some perspe...Read more
What skills are required to be in Data Engineering Manager? 1. People Management 2. Technical Management(like work with devs to Architects) 3. Identifying gaps, Tech stack upgrade 4. Excellent or decent communication skills What really required to get into top companies? Currently broken. Need t...Read more
The work in my dev org is all legacy C programming and scripting around Linux. These skills do not command the 50% pay bump I want. I want to work as an SRE at a top company but we don’t have a real SRE role here so there are big gaps between what I do and what modern SREs do with public cloud, terr...Read more
I have been transitioned from technical architect role to SDM role last year. I have spent 2 years as Tech arch in my previous org. But the calls that i am getting is for entry level manager role. I think no one give a damn to an equivalent position role that you have been part of as a tech architec...Read more
Been applying to tech companies - tier 1 & 2 for past few weeks, but no luck. I get daily recruiting emails from other non-tech companies, but I’m not that interested even if position level and salary are higher. Did get AWS recruiting emails as well, but rather not pursue. Would be interested in o...Read more
Lately, I have seen L5/L6 SDE offers that are easily 50% higher than equivalent L5/L6 offers for Professional Services consultants/architects in Big Tech companies - who are expected to be 100% hands on and who pretty much code fulltime. Trying to understand the reasons behind this. What is it th...Read more
After researching quite a bit on changing careers I have decided to self study to change from my non tech engineering background into SWE. My question would be what would you consider the ideal approach for this self study? I am interested in cloud architecture so my current plan is to finish up my ...Read more
I am a L5 system architect at Google working with various teams including PM, SWE, HWE, external vendor and others to define a target spec. of products and get agreements of all key stakeholders. Organizing a weekly meeting to reduce any gaps between teams and my role is more like a feature owner or...Read more
I am a Data engineer and code frequently in python, sql and now typescript as well. I never studied computer science and this gap of understanding algorithms, linear programming and system design always remained. I feel very underconfident due to lack of such concepts and i feel SDEs are way superio...Read more
I started a new job search in April 2021 and joined Blind in 2021 August. Never known/heard about blind before. I was shocked to see the T.C.'s and realized I was a frog in the well. Got help from so many Blinders and I was able to make a Switch last year as a Solution Architect in my new company. ...Read more
I’ve been working at a small crappy govt contractor for about a year and I need to do something else ASAP. I work at the best govt agency and though my title is cloud architect, I’m way underpaid and the bureaucracy sucks. I’m over govt contacting in general. I was in mortgage banking in the past ...Read more
I am about to hit two years of experience and will be interviewing at Amazon, Google and some other companies. I know Amazon has system design in their SDE2 interview. The other companies I don't think have it. I haven't really had any experience in system design other than maybe an architecture me...Read more