Offered Intel job in California Marketing with a non engineer background New grad from college, us citizen Total compensation first year is: $119,000 Includes stock, bonus, base
Sharing stats from my recent job search for anyone curious or currently in the same boat. Overall, lateral moves aren't too difficult to find but couldn't land a role with increased comp or level. Several roles were filled while I was in the process so being able to schedule loops quickly likely a ...Read more
I saw many posts saying only SWE are the first class citizen in Google. Actually, I’m applying different positions in Google recently and only seti and web solution engineer applications are moving forward. No response for my fronted developer application. Let’s say if a person got L4 in SWE/SETI/w...Read more
I have never heard of any individual getting any money when their data is compromised and inspire EU has become notorious with insane amount of fines. Is this the new way to make easy money for countries so they can keep up with their socialist system and unemployed population. It all seems lot mor...Read more
How do i go about researching, applying for and interviewing with good companies in BLR? I value quality of engineering work, quality of peers and compensation as my top 3 requirements at a prospective employer. My background: I was born and raised in India. Currently am a US citizen and have been ...Read more
Got an offer for AWS SDE 2 in Vancouver. Currently a VP at a bank which I think would equate to SDE 3. It was my fault, I didn't ask for an SDE 3 interview loop. Doesn't seem possible now. The offer is right at the top of the band so no real TC growth unless I get promoted I would assume. It equate...Read more
I got a full-time job offer as a Senior Software Engineer from a small size company in downtown Toronto. Compensation is CAD 135k base + 10% annual bonus + 50 stock options (Company is private so I don't know what's the real value of stocks). Currently, I am working as a Principal Engineer with TC 1...Read more
Graduated from a T20 US university, US Citizen, got only one job offer in May 2023 after 300-400 apps to work in Fiserv’s New Grad Tech Analyst Program. I was desperate for a software job so I took it at first chance. Been ~4 months in as a New Grad at Fiserv and I hate my job. I really dislike the...Read more
Currently a contractor and it is ending first week of June. My prev experiences r PMs so I am switching to BI. Had final round interview yesterday for a jr. BI role, full-time. Felt like it went well, convo flows. Recruiter called asking for feedback and said no feedback from the team yet and unsure...Read more
I graduated from a Russell Group university in 2017 and joined one of the best performing quantitative trading firms in NYC as a Software Engineer. Before that, I spent a summer interning as a Trader at a smaller shop. Let's get the obvious question out of the way: my first year comp was 250k and ha...Read more
Spent my first 2.5 years at Big 4, spent the last 3.5 years doing analyst / operations work (product ops, sales ops, data analytics). Got laid off last year, most likely will PIP'd soon. Not worried about immigration stuff (US Citizen). 90% of my work is done in Excel / GSheets. My last job actuall...Read more
Recruiter told me it's a higher-end IC3 leveling, but compensation doesn't sound that good. 95k GBP base, 150k USD RSU, 10k GBP sign-in, 5k GBP relocation bonus, 7.5% target performance cash bonus. This brings the TC for the first year to be ~131.5k GBP + ~3.5k GBP if I count 7.5% cash bonus for a ...Read more
I am a Canadian PR. I joined Meta in 2022 as an Engineering Manager(full time remote) and recently have an opportunity to move to Seattle for a new Engineering Management roll within the company. After reviewing with Meta immigration they have suggested that I am eligible for EB1C and that may lead...Read more
I've been working at FB for a few years, and I love this job. I’ve always been in good relationship with team/management, quickly grew E3-E5. Also, I’ve been always interested to work in finance, at least to try it out. And recently one small prop shop in London (which name I don’t want to disclose...Read more
I am an Indian citizen and wish to work at any of Europe, US, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Israel basically for better TC so I can be financially independent before I'm old, and WLB. It is well known that such locations give 5 to 10 times compensation compared to India for the same role and experie...Read more
Some of you are looking for new jobs or thinking of moving to finance. Probably HFT or Quant Finance if you're on here. Thought I'd share some things about GS to know before coming here. - Tech is a second class citizen here, even on front office "strat" teams. In the last 10 years you'd make more ...Read more
If anyone here has done this and has advice, I’d love to hear. I hear a lot about how it’s more difficult to do so, but I really think that I want out of consulting/agency design work. I’m a product designer at a consultancy right now. What kinds of things should I focus on for portfolio presentati...Read more
5 YOE - all data/analytics/BI roles in EMEA. TC lower than 80k GBP every year since I started. First tech company I worked in the EMEA HQ, worked hard to get promoted, then was told non-eng roles wont get sponsored VISAs and I need a Masters for a US VISA. Left the company due to FAANG offer also a...Read more
I‘m planning to take a year sabbatic, just going to travel and focus on the family. Then we will ending the trip in UK where I will try to find a role in Tech. Is this too risky or let’s go already? (Real questions at below 👇) Quick background: 20+ yoe in sales, strategy, analytics, and consulting...Read more
Blind wont let me post a google sheets link so here it is in raw format. It contains 95% of companies with more than 10 reviews. company ratings career growth wlb compensation culture management overall Formidable 12 4.7 5 4.3 4.9 4.6 4.7 Boston Scientific 38 3.6 4.9 3.5 4.2 3.8 4 Hudl 14 4.4 4.9 ...Read more