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Zero communication of annual or quarterly goals. Projects and priorities change weekly. Layoffs every month for the last year.
Can you all help me decide between two offers? The first is a salary gig—100k base with up to 6k potential bonus, standard benefits package (minus 401k match), 15 days paid leave. Second is a contractor position with a rate of $75/hr. There’s a chance it might eventually turn into a salary position ...Read more
I started at FB in August 2020, and I just got the results from my first PSC. I received a "Meets All" and I got a .9% raise to my base salary. I also received my guaranteed 10% bonus (pro-rated) and 42 RSU's. Because it's my first review, I can't tell whether this is a good outcome or not. How do ...Read more
Have an offer from a bulge bracket competitor. Negotiated a total comp number but offer letter only has base salary in it. Bank is saying bonus is “in the system” and will be met on a handshake agreement basis. They also told me no banks will write the bonus number as a guarantee in the offer letter...Read more
I interviewed for a Data Scientist/Data Engineer (VP) role for Finance. But the formal offer letter just mentioned it as VP in the Administration division. Wondering if Finance comes under Administration division? Any thoughts on the offer? Base: Negotiated from 170 to 200k Bonus: No guaranteed bon...Read more
I am being converted from full time to 20 hrs per week. They are offering hourly rate in line with my base salary. I think I will have to negotiate on this. If they remove my position completely after a few weeks, would they have to offer any severance? Is this a trick to convert to part time and ev...Read more
The answer to this is actually quite straightforward and can be summarised in optimising over one or more of these axes: 1. location 2. company Location Switzerland is the best country in Europe for high salaries. A 100k there is achievable by a new-grad getting a junior job at a local/regular com...Read more
Hi Blind friends! I recently cleared the L5 loop and got a verbal and an email confirmation of it. The recruiter is trying to schedule a negotiation call soon. I am currently living in Singapore and will have to relocate to Canada. I just needed some advice on a few things: 1) what compensation s...Read more
I know many people would think it's unlikely to get effective, but the wage-based rule is a hope for many people here. But I also heard that it would not necessarily benefit people in the tech industry because the required base salary will be pro-rated based on the job title and the location. Especi...Read more
I'm a SDE II at Microsoft right now and have received an offer to work for an UK based startup that currently has four people: the two cofounders and two C-suite level hires. Because I don't want to leave my current gig yet (want to finish current project + lock in bonus by staying till at least Jul...Read more
Not far from the sweeping impact of “economic uncertainty” on tech companies everywhere, Gateless (an AI start up first acquired by Kodak and then sold to Guaranteed Rate) has just laid off their entire Data Science & System Engineering department as well as many other employees across the board - m...Read more
So… Currently I am working as an Associate Software Engineer (TC 75K) at a company which is pretty slow to promote. I estimate I’d hit Software Engineer status by Summer/Fall 2021 and Senior Engineer status in 2024/2025. Most Senior Engineers at my company currently make around TC 120K-150K. I’ve be...Read more
Dear Blind, I am a 25 year old mechanical engineer and I have two offers that I'm having a hard time deciding between. Both are located in southern california Offer one: Offer one is at a sheet metal/HVAC company that I worked for before I started working for my most current employer (I left a yea...Read more
A LOT of people coasting along at Oracle, and have been for many years. They get their peanuts salary and No RSUs in exchange for a guaranteed paycheck every two weeks. Meanwhile the managers (VP and above) rake in the pay and bonuses and RSUs. The managers are parasites on the back of the hard wor...Read more
Assessing the Effectiveness of Practical Project-Based Learning in Data Science Education We all know that right now the demand for skilled professionals in Data Science has surged exponentially. With industries harnessing the power of big data to drive innovation and strategic decision-making, ind...Read more
12 week minimum + 14 week + 1 week for each year of service. + vacation pay this equates to 6-7 months of pay. instead of paying 6 months of pay wouldn't it be more appealing to get the work from them and make their life miserable so they resign? most people prefer not to seek any legal support fo...Read more
TLDR: Manager chain refused to fairly compensate me, and when I finally switched teams they opened a req that pays almost double 😑 Current job title is L4 "Business Intelligence Engineer" in SF bay area with following comp plan: Base - 87k Sign on Bonus - 12k 11 RSU - ~37k TC - ~135k My title is...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
I was a summer intern with the firm in 2020 and returned to join the firm full-time in 2021. I joined the same team, GBM, where I interned. When I joined, there were a few good folks on the team - by "good folks," I mean people who are fun, easy to relate to, and good to work with. Over the course o...Read more
The process has been very confusing, so here's what I wish I knew upfront: 0. Noone knows which conditions qualify and which don't qualify for FMLA. It's said that "burnout" alone may not qualify as serious enough. It's said that "adjustment disorder w/ anxiety + depressed mood" may qualify. As w...Read more
Warning: long post. TL;DR; at the bottom. (*In Blind mobile app, only the first half of contents are shown because the post is too long. The second half has been added in the comments section. There is no issue reading this in desktop browser from teamblind website.) I started prepping for intervie...Read more