- 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
- Frustrated about tech What got me into tech and software were articles in the 90s and early 2000s about achievements from Xerox PARC, Cray, IBM Research, the novelty of Windows 95, the resurrection of Apple with products that came from a magical world, the space shuttle etc. There was an air of innovation, out there ide
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and industry lounge. - Reflecting on the Page/Brin age Google used to have a cool innovative culture. Now it's known for firing people who speak out. No more TGIF, food is meh, lots of people getting shitty TCs. iOS still way better than Android. Oculus is doing way better than DayDream. AWS and Azure doing way better than GCP. Larry and Sergey had a
- REASONS YOU WOULD WANT TO WORK AT APPLE SWE 1. Good pay only a tad below FB/N, awesome refreshers 2. Great WLB for SWE 3. No on-call, SRE’s handle everything 4. Prestige and brand 5. Apple discounts 6. Get to see the celebs, artists on Apple events 7. Gyms are great in Apple Park and INfinite Loop, boot camp classes 8. No PIP and layoffs,
- 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
- Apple offer seems unisually low? just got offer from Apple to work in there Union Square HQ. TC: $32.5k with double pay for overtime during busy seasons is this low for Apple? ive heard of much highrt TC on this site. 2 YOE working for Microsoft over at Westfield and prior to that i worked at Amazon Prime part time on and off fo
- Pay range for Apple Business Pro (retail) can’t seem to find the salary range for Apple Business Pro retail. i see “expert” the level below. any ideas?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 🥇 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
- New Grad Roles in Austin, TX Hi, I'm currently looking for a new grad/entry-level role in Austin. I graduate in May 2020 with B.S. in Computer Science from UT Austin. I have previously interned at HPE, AMD, and Samsung. Would love to chat with anyone working at any of these companies- AMD Apple Charles Schwab Dell Expedia
- 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 /
- Apple Sr Engineer Role Data Engineer TC - $200k I was recently contacted by a recruiter from Apple for a Sr Engineer position. He mentioned that its a new position under a manager who recently joined Apple. It will be based in Bay Area and manager is aiming to build her team around this Sr. Engineer role. I liked overall
- Referral Any Big Company (Master, YOE 3, LC 218) Can anyone refer me to FANNG or Any Big Company? Last 2 years, literally I work and study 7 days a week. Education - Master’s degree in Machine Learning from a Top Tier college in South Korea (2020. feb) Experience - 3 years as a software engineer, CTO in small startup (founding m
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 2019 Global 2000 Tier1: AMRA According to 1.4MM employees of the world's 2000 largest public companies, the best tech companies are: Tier1: Alphabet, Microsoft, Red Hat, Apple Tier2: SAP, Cisco, Amazon, IBM Tier3: Wayfair, Intuit, Paypal, Juniper Networks Tier4: Adobe, Intel, Netflix, Salesforce Tier5: Everything else
- 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
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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
- 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
- Facebook/Google/Airbnb Referral Request Can someone please provide me referral for any of these following companies? #Airbnb #Apple #Dropbox #Google #LinkedIn #Lyft #Microsoft #Oracle #Uber #Twitter #Facebook #Instagram #Salesforce #Square #Tesla #Amazon #Adobe #Twitch #eBay #VMWare #Twillio #DataBricks #Box #Square https://repher.me/r/
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Google is becoming like Apple ..no Apple is actually better Just 52$/hr for C2C position in Google San Jose Job Title: Software Engineering- Application Developer (9588727) Job Location: RIO ROBLES SAN JOSE CA 95134 Medium Duration: 0 -12 months Job Description/ Roles & Responsibilities Experience as a Data Engineer,
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- New Grad Referrals wanted in Austin, TX Hey, I'm currently looking for a new grad/entry-level role in Austin. I graduate in May 2020 with B.S. in Computer Science. Got 3 offers in texas, just nothing in Austin (HPE(75k)/Jp morgan(90k)/ Capital One(100k)). Would be interested in AMD Apple Charles Schwab Dell Expedia GM IBM Indeed Orac
- 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
- 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
- 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
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and industry lounge. - 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Companies in Austin, Tx who can provide sponsorship. It would be great and helpful if anyone can provide some guidance for companies that can sponsor H1B in Austin,TX(Tried with Google n Apple but never got a call back). Currnetly working as Business Intelligence Lead in San Diego, CA as a consultant. Thanks in Advance.
- 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.