- vote If there are world war between FAANG who would win? Who would win a war between FAANG if the employees are the soldiers? Here's my analysis of armies: Amazon - like China; largest army and can outnumber anybody; uses oppression tactics to win over small business like China does with Hong Kong and Taiwan; Bezos = Xi Google - like U.S. army; most int
- TOP TECH COMPANY RANKINGS - 2019 EDITION 0: Google, Facebook, Netflix 1: Uber, Airbnb, Apple, LinkedIn 2. Dropbox, Lyft, Square 3: Microsoft, Amazon, Pinterest, Twitter, Slack, Stripe 4: Salesforce, Yelp, Bloomberg, Adobe, Box, Tesla, Indeed, Splunk 5: Zillow, Oracle, IBM, VMWare, SAP, Twilio, Tableau, Glassdoor, Walmart Labs 6: Everything
- China as the New World Power flexing its muscle all these companies apologizing to China because of China threats to stop doing business with them. all these companies are caving. china can make them do whatever they want. china can crush american economy in a minute by turning off all business with apple and other major companies. more powerfu
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and industry lounge. - Did apple Seriously take down an app because it was pro-Hong Kong? https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/09/apple-pulls-hkmap-from-app-store-the-day-after-chinese-state-media-criticized-its-unwise-and-reckless-decision-to-approve-it/ This is some wild stuff...First the situation with Blizzard punishing a pro hong kong pro-gamer and now this? Are American Businesses
- Apple employee learning resources I am starting my next career with Apple. I am currently working at Cisco. I wanted to know if Apple has some benefits in terms of free subscriptions to online learning resources. I am used to refer videos, courses, books from Oreilly and Udemy and being a cisco employee you get them free(Cisco has b
- From laid off to 6 offers and 2x TC Sorry this post is late, I know some people were waiting for me to write this TL;DR: Got laid off, was sad, studied hard, did a bunch of interviews, did a bunch of back-to-back onsites, got 6 offers, doubled my previous TC This is my story on how I went from someone that never leetcoded or done a
- Tier rankings for the tech companies If you have problems with discussing tiers, then GTFO of this post. These rankings are based off the data points from other tier blind posts, If you think these rankings are off, then please comment with your own rankings. Tier = Pay, prestige, wlb, culture, benefits, talent pool, brand weight on r
- Anyone else maddened by their Lightning-adapted headphones? I made the jump to my iPhone 8 after breaking the screen on my 6S, and now I’m dealing with something that was never an issue when I had a headphone jack. My phone will randomly pause/play/skip my music all the time with no input, even managing to bring up Siri sometimes. Any time I’m walking somewh
- 🥇 MAJOR TECH EMPLOYER POWER RANKINGS (SEATTLE ONLY, Q4 2017) These rankings take into account: desirability, compensation, prestige, reputation, quality of life, exclusivity, company trajectory, social brand value, career growth opportunities, stock performance, location, office quality and a secret sauce of other factors. This analysis is focused specificall
- vote Best Tech Companies To Work For In 2019 (in no particular order) : ✓ Jane Street / Two Sigma / Citadel ✓ Google / Facebook / Amazon / Microsoft / Netflix / Apple ✓ Uber / Lyft / Airbnb / Pinterest / LinkedIn ✓ Snap / Twitter / Slack / Palantir / Square / Rubrik ✓ Yelp / Quora / Box / Dropbox / Twitch / Hulu / Spotify / Snowflake ✓ NVIDIA / Salesforce / Adobe /
- Which companies have real data scientists? I have a MS in DS from top tier CS university, and I have been working as a data scientist for less than 1 year. Daily work includes analytics & AB testing (60%) and building ML models (40%). The current team has some modeling projects, but the larger organization is mainly doing analytics. Their da
- Now I’m feeling shitty Been in IT for quite a bit of time and working in the same company for over a decade. Always known as a high performer - grew through ranks and now is at a director level role. Salary and bonus is close to 300k. Always thought this is good pay and along with other benefits, it’s almost one of the be
- Looking for HR Consulting I have an unusual situation. I've been a business founder for the last six years, built the Creative Agency from scratch to 40+ people on board and contracts with Fortune 500 companies in Moscow, Russia. Before I've been working in the worldwide agencies BBDO and Saatchi&Saatchi on large accounts.
- link The ugly side of working at Amazon 1. Only 6 public holidays per year. 2. Only 2 sick days. 3. Parking is subsidized ($160 per month), but not free, in a crowded downtown Seattle. 4. Zero paternity leave. 5. Sometimes you have to pay for your own food in team gatherings (feels silly when the business is making millions of dollars, an
- vote FAAMG? It should be FAAMG — not FAANG — but it doesnt sound as good. All the other tech giants have multiple businesses or have disrupted several markets (e.g. Apple redefined personal computing, phones, online music, and introduced tablets). Netflix is the most one dimensional of all. So which company is
- Is this a good plan for a manager? Managing Down: 1. Be human not a recorded tape by upper management. 2. Be transparent almost every time (You cannot be transparent every time. You will know what I am saying) 3. Give space to your IC to experiment and fail and encourage them in failures. 4. Provide all kind of supports (personal/p
- There is no counter culture in tech anymore There are no new Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniaks out there anymore. Where are the hippies? Where are the freaks? The punks? They've been replaced by a bunch of psychotic MBA sociopaths who only care about money. When Jobs and Wozniak started Apple they were obsessed with taking down the corporate who
- link For those justifying ban on Huwaei https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/30/apple-google-microsoft-whatsapp-sign-open-letter-condemning-gchq-proposal-to-listen-in-on-encrypted-chats/ Well it’s all matter of perception. UK, US and all other agencies are in same shady business of spying their own citizens. Check this GCHQ proposal for ghost
- Compensation Tiers of Companies for Tech Jobs By popular demand, I'm reposting one of my replies on another thread. This tiering is based on both trajectory and overall scale of total comp (base+bonus+stock) for IC positions. Edit: subsidiaries with the same pay go under the parent (e.g. Twitch and Amazon) Based off of all the comp data points
- Tier rankings for tech companies in the Bay Area Tier = Pay, prestige, wlb, culture, benefits, talent pool, brand weight on resume, people have starry eyes when you tell them where you work at Tier 0: Be your own boss Tier 1: FNG Tier 2: Apple, Uber, Airbnb, Lyft, Linkedin Tier 3: Amazon, Microsoft, Stripe, Pinterest, Slack, Snap, Dropbox, Robinh
- Tier 1/2/3 companies in Bay Area for SWE Let’s do this millionth time, Tier 1 considering pay, prestige, wlb, talent, benefits etc. Here are my rankings Tier 1: Google NetFlix Facebook Apple Uber Tier 2: Amazon Linkedin Dropbox Lyft Airbnb Microsoft Twitter Robinhood Slack Square Pinterest Tier 3: Salesforce Oracle Reddit Quora IBM Nv
- Good job Apple by revoking enterprise certificate of evil Facebook. Once again Apple valued our privacy. Indeed Apple is the saviour of human kind. Respecting privacy is in DNA of Apple right from Steve's era. These Facebook guys just do anything for user data and go to any extent for it. They are just evil. Also Apple saved us from evil IBM. Also Apple tried to save us from evil Microsoft. But sadl
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and industry lounge. - link WTF! We definitely need H1B reform. Top ten companies with approved H1B visas in 2017. Company. H1B Salary Bach/Mstrs/PhD COGNIZANT 28,908 85k 22k/6.5k TCS. 14,697. 73k. 11k/2.9k INFOSYS. 13,408. 85k. 10k/3k WIPRO. 6,529. 75k. 3.9k/2.5k DELLOITTE. 6,0
- link Should Silicon Valley hire cheerleaders like China? Seems like China is leading the way by hiring attractive cheerleaders to help motivate programmers and relieve stress. I would love to have this perk at Apple but I’m afraid the SJWs would make this impossible. Strongly considering moving back to China to get advantage of this perk. Do you think th
- What Microsoft benefits do you lose at Amazon? When comparing offers, benefits make things less black and white. Microsoft has great benefits that are easy to overlook when a big signing bonus offer is made, but that’s a long term benefit whereas the immediately available benefits can really impact life starting on Day 1. Sounds like Microsoft
- Bullying at the workplace — Apple I want to start this threat and gauge how many face the same problem. I joined Apple not too long ago (less than a year ago) as an ICT3 SWE. To be honest, I am at shock with the culture here. People raising their voices at each other (calling it passion, or strong feedback, when they were almost yel
- Comment tiers of tech companies in your opinion Tier = Pay, prestige, career opportunities, wlb Tier 0: Google, Netflix Tier 1: Apple, Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, Lyft Tier 2: Amazon, Microsoft, Linkedin, Tier 3: Twitter, Square, Robinhood, Stripe, Pinterest, Snap, Dropbox, Palantir Tier 4: Salesforce, Zillow, coinbase, Reddit, Spotify, Expedia Tie
- Harassment at Apple by eng manager, what to do? Don’t know where else to go so sharing here. Long story short, this individual was an external hire a few years ago, and since then has done nothing but continuously harass members on his team. Everyone constantly lives in the fear of being fired or given a PIP. He blackmails members on his team to
- Homeless Person sleeping inside Apple Store University Village We all want to help and hope for a solution to this issue, but when is enough enough? This individual hasn’t showered in days, and is sleeping in one of the benches inside the Apple store. There with his/her cart and blankets. Literally snoring while people walk around, ignoring the issue. I find i
- link IBM Got More Patents in 2018 Than Google, Apple, and Microsoft Combined https://www.pcmag.com/news/370180/ibm-got-more-patents-in-2018-than-google-apple-and-microso
- The game of RSUs Guys, Request you all to think of the big picture here and keep aside your caps of bias/affiliation for once. I genuinely think that this game about RSUs given out as a part of compensation is about to end. Think of it-it is not even real money-just stocks diluted of the actual shareholders who pu
- Amazon Verbal Offer SDM L5... Interviewed at Amazon for SDM Role in san francisco bay area, onsite was two weeks ago. 5 business days after onsite, received a call from recruiter saying this was a “special” and “interesting” situation. From what I understood, the bar raiser and hiring panel liked my responses to the behavioral
- Common Blind abbreviations AI - Artificial Intelligence AMZN - Amazon AWS - Amazon Web Services BI - Business Intelligence BIE - BI Engineer BS - Bachelor of Science or bullshit DE - Data Engineer DS - Data Scientist EE - Electrical Engineering or Enterprise Engineering EM - Engineering Manager FANG - Facebook, Amazon, Netfli
- workplaces with hacker spirit No offense to you TC hunters, but I’m getting tired of the corporate mentality at Apple of produce at all cost and the expense of shitty code and processes and no cool side projects. Amazon is the antithesis of a place I’d like to work. I don’t care what the bar to entry is - what companies have the
- link Top 50 companies where everyone wants to work https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/top-companies-2019-where-us-wants-work-now-daniel-roth Sales Force rocks and almost in top 5 in all the lists published. 2019 list Top Companies to Work For 2019 50. Workday 49. Snowflake Consulting 48. DocuSign 47. McKinsey & Company 46. ServiceNow 45. Nike 44. JP
- Understanding bayarea political views Most of the people at G, FB, AAPL are left leaning and hate on Trump. I’ve met a few that are for Bernie and like Ocasio. A lot of them want a change because of inequality and lack of opportunity for the poor etc. all makes sense to me But when you look at the companies like Google/Fb/apple, all of
- What is AI/ML like at Apple now with JG? Wondering what work and careers, related to AI/ML field, are like at Apple under JG's leadership. Seems like they are investing in a lot of new AI/ML hires, and someone said "comp is no longer supposed to be a limitation" for bringing people in. It also seems like the infrastructure is years behin
- Do tech companies (Amazon, Apple, IBM, Google, Facebook) pay lip service to hiring veterans or not? I see a lot of companies say they want to hire veterans, but when I dig deeper into their hiring practices, it seems like they're only paying lip service.
- H1-b (new, amendment, transfer) - Odds of Denial for Final H1b Decisions Hi Guys, First off, for those who did not read my update on the other post, the published data is only for case decisions of the LCA stage of the process - so can't use those. After some research, the best thing I got is a published report by the top 30 employers for H1b Case decision by USCIS (thi
- link Google, Apple ditching college degree requirements *How will this affect software engineering tech salaries?* Hi Blind Community, CNBC reported "More than a dozen companies, including Google, Apple and IBM, are no longer requiring applicants to have college degrees" (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/16/15-companies-that-no-longer-require-employees-to-
- Music streaming service Ideas for a new music streaming service? Objective is to solve the pain points of the top music streaming providers like Spotify, Pandora, Apple, Amazon, Google while keeping the business model profitable.
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and industry lounge. - Apple's heroic fight to save human kind... Okay. Since there are lot of Apple haters here, I'm gonna write their adventurous history to save human kind in multiple occasions. Year 1976: Only there were IBM mainframe computers. No one had ever thought of making a personal computer. IBM just ignored the technology to common people like you an
- It couldn't be that easy to get interviewed by a FANG+M?? Until I tried. Lesson Learned: I couldn't understand why ppl kept saying just go interview with another company to leverage your offer. How easy can it be to just get interviews at the top tech companies in the world? I swear I thought yall were lying. Then I got hit up by Microsoft for a job function I'd never consider on my ow
- Let's predicate: Bay-area in the next decade Starting from me: - Companies will keep making more profit, FB will peak at $300, APPL peak at $300, G: $1500, Amazon is already at peak, Uber's market cap peak at 150B, Airbnb: 150B. - Though Donald is opposing it, more Indian engineers will move in (profit for business and they are qualified), m
- Microsoft Interview question: why would you leave AWS to join Azure? Asking for a friend: I have an upcoming informational and am pretty sure I will be asked: why would you leave AWS to join Azure? I love AWS and Azure, but could use a better TC. My manager is good so I can't blame him for the move. Both compute... So it's apples to apples on business line.
- Apple Cupertino Price of Living Currently considering an offer at Apple Cupertino in Operations from like tech company in the North West. Would go from being a homeowner that would have the house paid off in under 10 years (equity) to renting in Santa Clara (throwing money away). Pay bump would be maybe to 140k, plus stock options
- Is MSFT Going to Fix Their Windows Update Problem? I've never had issues with Windows Update until last year when it nearly killed my PC. I now have a Windows and Linux machine - One with all my important stuff (linux) and the other for gaming (windows). I'm absolutely terrified every time I see a new windows update, and after nearly losing years
- link Alex Jones plucked from Apple app store He's in a real jam now. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/business/infowars-app-alex-jones-apple-ban.html
- Austin - Buy a house on H1B With apple announcement and other optimistic business news , is it work buying a house in austin ? looking for at least 3% appreciation per year for next 10 years or so Concerned about possible 20% correction due to a recession
- link Apple to buy Drive.ai https://9to5mac.com/2019/06/06/apple-buying-drive-ai/ What a huge waste of money? Drive.ai never had a real business model and raised $70M+