I recently got an offer from chewy and disney(national geography). For me work life balance matters a lot. Which company I should choose in terms of work life balance? Please give me some suggestions regarding that.
Can someone help me what would be a good base package to accept offer for Associate Principal DevOps at OCC, Dallas, Texas location? Benefits are these: - 8-15% bonus (variable) - 6% 401k match every $ invest they will add 50 cents upto 12% - 22 PTO, 9 national holidays, 3 months parental leave - i...Read more
I work on a hardware team at Apple, making about 210 TC as an ICT3 with 4 YOE. I feel that work is requiring me to in way too many hours and is being extremely nitpicky to work on thing that arent very technical/important. I’m getting burnt out/going crazy. Am I crazy to switch to working at Lawer...Read more
I am an Indian and I am grateful to US for allowing me and my fellow nationals to come into US for working and enjoying what this great country has to offer! To all Indians - Stop making unnecessary posts like you are the best at tech or India is the best or such non sense. It just increases prejud...Read more
I have gotten a Walmart offer for data scientist position. The offer looks handsome, also Walmart is a very good brand to build a data science career. The only issue is the location, Bentonville, AR. I tried requesting for remote, Sunnyvale, Dallas location and nothing worked. So I guess I will have...Read more
Hi Guys, I was supposed to join FB in a week but due to the advancement of greencard dates (in October visa bulletin) for Indian nationals, I wanted to postpone the start date by 6 months so that I will apply GC with my current employer. But the FB recruiter is not responding. The FB already did H1B...Read more
If you are having a rough time finding a job, you are probably having it better than me. I had a pretty good career in FAANG for the last ten years, moving up the ladder and spending the last five years as a manager and was about to be put up for promo to L7 manager when I got laid off last fall. ...Read more
Hi, This post is for anyone who is personally in this process or who knows people who are in the H1B Visa process and it’s taking a toll on them with the additional pressure of layoffs. I've been in the tech industry for years, and I've seen firsthand the stress and frustration that comes with nav...Read more
I am currently in my first year of cap-exempt H1B. My current employer is willing to file PERM, and a bit new to the process. They have just filed 1 in their entire history which was approved last year for a guy with PhD. I do not have many options to switch employers easily other than to a nonprofi...Read more
Posting for a friend who does not have access to Blind: I am an indian national and I have two offers one for USA (on F-1 visa here have to go for H1B next year) and another for Spain as a Senior Software Engineer and Senior Backend Engineer respectively. Following are pros and cons. Company in USA...Read more
Got a verbal offer from Microsoft today. The role was advertised as 100% remote; but now they want relocation & the pay isn't up to expectations Very frustrated by the lack of transparency and waste of time. But here is my experience: Recruiter screen: I told them I was looking for remote only ro...Read more
Hi all, I am graduating this spring and I am struggling to decide between new grad opportunities. I am currently an intern at SNL and am expecting my team to start talks about bringing me on full time post graduation. On the other hand I have a new grad offer from Walmart Global Tech. A new grad fro...Read more
(update: the 6 to 9 months is unlikely, it would probably be 10 to 15 based on current data) I don't know what to choose. I have the option of staying at a job earning 110k salary + 1% equity (that I believe will not be worth anything), and get a green card in 6 to 9 months*, or accept an offer at...Read more
Hi Blind Members, Recently got offer from Early Warning LLC(Zelle) accepted it but changing my mind now. Getting Jump of 40-50K including base bonus and 401K no stocks/equity on the table. 1. I’m full remote in current job in case I join them need to go office 2 days a week this year and might be...Read more
obligatory tc - $90 per hour, consultant. obligatory yoe - 16+ in java, includes 9+ in android, 13+ in the US on an immigrant h1-b work-visa. TLDR; i have no clue how to salvage my software engineering based career, because this is all I can do. 1) i have employable skills, adequate for software en...Read more
I'm seeing continued articles talking about people leaving California for other states. The two biggest arguments I see are taxes and cost of living in terms of housing. I moved from NYC to LA 4 years ago. I was used to NYC cost of living so the change wasn't that crazy. The biggest difference was ...Read more
Tl;dr I was forced to resign in late September due to the company's financial instability. My expertise lies in, but is not limited to, product marketing, performance marketing, and ads optimization. I'm seeking a referral for remote work worldwide. If you're interested in knowing why, please read o...Read more
from a friend who works there copied me the email he got from his CEO. TL;DR: You should be working in the office because#coronavirus you probably won't die. Only old people will die from it, and even if old people die from it that's better than dying from old age. A company that makes software to...Read more
Warning: super long post The Taiwan conflict is heading towards hot war so I thought I should provide some background which is that this is part of the long Chinese Civil War (1915 - present). 1915: Only 3 years after the fall of the Qing dynasty, the Chinese Civil War breaks out in response to Ch...Read more
Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is. Let us first consider the question from the point of view of scientific knowledge. It might appear that there are no essential metho...Read more