education system is good colleagues are nice proper work life balance
visionless leadership and incompetent managers low payment poor and hostile culture
Need good battery, good camera, prefer Samsung as she is familiar with it Budget: $500
About to close on a home. Looking to install 85 inch tv in living area. Please share any brands/models you recently bought and share any experiences. My budget is preferably under 2000 dollars. Also, I see that Samsung is giving decent discounts for Microsoft employees. Any other companies have bett...Read more
Need to purchase a television for our new home. No budget. Want a great TV. Thinking about a Samsung framed tv. Any thoughts? TC: $175
Folks which refrigerator to buy? I have $1250 max budget. I am ok with side by side or french door. Only finding Samsung and whirlpool in this range . Please suggest. TC: 250k Yoe: 15
Hi, all. I’m looking to invest in an Android phone as a burner phone for a business trip that’s coming up soon (and for any future travels). My choices are between the Samsung Galaxy S9, Samsung Galaxy A23, Motorola Moto 2022 G Stylus and Samsung Galaxy Note 20, though I’m open to other options. I’...Read more
I had a good career as a SDE with companies such as #ibm #oracle #samsung #Cisco However midway through my career I became a SDM and I loved it when I got promoted and few years post that. But now I have started hating what I do. Mainly just navigating politics over technology, navigating budget o...Read more
Like look at the pixel, it looks extremely dated and way worse than Samsung or apple. Flagships. Also looks worse than one plus and other more budget alternatives. Also not considering phones their google assistant hardware does not have the same level of innovation as Alexa. Also they could have c...Read more
Purchased Pixel 3a, random restarts, and occasional slowness on basic use. Returned and then purchased Pixel 3. Random restarts, in no network area it shows LTE as if it is a static icon, BT issues, no 3.5 mm Jack. Since the time Amazon blocked mobile email on all android phones but Google phone bec...Read more
My 7 year old Samsung LCD just made a snapping sound and the display went pitch black. Sound is still coming though. So it looks like I'll need to buy a new one..pretty bummed as it was a great tv otherwise. I'm thinking from Costco, but if anybody has recommendations, I'd appreciate it. Budget is ...Read more
Worst case * Google search suffers from decline of revenues due to startups leveraging LLMs and the way people search for info changes * Google ads suffer due to LLM * AWS and Azure win cloud and gcp cant keep up * YouTube revenue stagnant * revenue loss affects budgets for other orgs and products l...Read more
I’m planning to buy TV and confused with below two models. One with direct LED and another with Edge LED. I’m inclined towards direct LED (better brightness and dimmable) as compared to Edge LED Direct LED - UN9070 - 1.4K https://www.costco.com/lg-86%22-class---un9070-series---4k-uhd-led-lcd-tv--...Read more
I work for Amazon web services AWS and got affected by lay offs, need to find a job asap to keep my visa or else I need to move my family to India but the market is so bad, even the interviews are getting canceled due to budget cuts. This is very stressful. Please let me know how the rest are coping...Read more
Hello everyone, I'm a senior software engineer and working on really cool AI engines. I am really interested in the project/work assigned to me, but I hate the company policies. I believe that the policies are not employee friendly and I feel really frustrated while working. I quickly want ask you ...Read more
I’m currently a student who is graduating May 2023 and currently doing my internship at Tesla. I did my internship at Amazon and got my return offer but due to layoffs it got postponed to December and My current team is not having an headcount at Tesla. I can’t wait till that as I need to get a job ...Read more
I had to leave my last job due to personal reasons end of last year. I interviewed at a few companies I found interesting. Here's the summary for few of them: 1. Offer at a well funded startup. Did not join as offer was lower than my expectations. 2. Position got closed midway between interviews. 3...Read more
Hi Blind fam, One of my friends who works as SWE for a mid size company got laid off today (without any prior notice) due to the budget constraints in the company . It's not just her but their entire team in the US from various domains. I feel pretty bad for her as a friend and also as someone who...Read more
Hi everyone, I am an upcoming SWE new grad (Dec 23') from SFSU and I'm hoping to get referrals. I recently did an internship with (a big tech unicorn) and crushed it, but didn't get a return offer due to lack of budget. (I even helped other engineers outside my team with technical issues and involv...Read more