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- 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
- 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
- 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
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and industry lounge. - 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
- 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
- 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-
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Looking for referral ( laid off unfortunately ) Hello everyone, I got laid off 10 days ago as company shut down a business domain. I am looking for jobs in cad/ circuit design and I have little backend knowledge as well. I have very limited time to find something Yoe: 5+ years If you can help Me I will be grateful to you Thank you in advance
- 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+
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Stock market - profitability Anyone find it a good thing to have this stock market correction. Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Salesforce, Amazon are all incredibly profitable. And they aren't going anywhere. This crash will really hurt the unprofitable tech companies. Some of which will never turn a profit. This means w
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and industry lounge. - 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
- 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
- What do you really do? I'm a refinery worker without a college degree that worked hard enough to climb the ladder into a management roll. I manage direct reports and give guidance on business strategy year to year. I'm curious what the apple/airbnb/netflix/quora/tech employees do? Your TC is most higher than what I typic
- 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
- CA WARN report What insights are you able to draw from this report? https://www.edd.ca.gov/Jobs_and_Training/warn/WARN_Report_for_7-1-2018_to_06-10-2019.pdf Some of the things I noticed... - Even some big names in Tech regularly let go significant # of employees - Apple/Western Digital/Tesla/Paypal/Marvel/Symant
- link Apple treats its IT contractors so badly ? https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tn-apple-contract-workers-20190212-story.html Apple does provide thousands of jobs around the world, but working conditions for contract employees right in Silicon Valley are borderline abusive. There may be a duty to deliver profits to share holders, but Appl
- link Visa approvals for tech workers are on the decline. That won’t just hurt Silicon Valley. Outsourcing and consulting firms — which provide IT services for companies whose main business isn’t tech, and which tend to rely more heavily on H-1B visas as a share of their overall workforces — have received the brunt of the decline in approvals. The situation isn’t as bad for the biggest tech c
- vote FB, Apple, Uber New Grad Offers Hey everyone, I'm deciding between new grad offers for SWE from these three companies. For a little background -- I will be graduating in June with a BS and an MS, both in Computer Science (concentration in Artificial Intelligence), from Stanford University. I interned at large tech company for la
- Apple Senior Business Analyst interview Hello, I have two video interviews with the hiring team for the Sr BA role in BPR (Biz process re-engineering / Decision support) team with Apple. Loc is CA. 1st round is with a Data Scientist and 2nd round is with BI Analyst. What is the level of difficulty of questions for SQL, Python and Data
- Apple Search Engine Will Apple ever make their own search engine? A lot of searches come from iPhone so it would be a massive business for them I would think. I’m kind of surprised they didn’t buy yahoo when it was for sale and fix it up. I know google is king at search engine but I feel like Apple has that big ecosyst
- Companies with only one shot at an interview! Are there any companies with only once-in-a-lifetime shot at their interview process? The business insider article seems to suggest Apple is like that, is that true?
- link Verizon officially dumps the Oath name for its media group https://www.fiercevideo.com/video/verizon-officially-dumps-oath-name-for-its-media-group?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWmpGbVpERmhaamszTXpRMSIsInQiOiJWV01nd2pHaW51XC9DdWc1S1FqYWh5WEVWXC96QTNHR0dFUUFicFN1OWhKWHQ5WmFETXl1dzloZXBHVHdJV0tldFBBaDd1R3BYUFBFNWM4TE91XC93NGNwY0xrNFpVYVcyQWpBeldJUFROSDMzTGR1eldNV2xza2pNTHp
- No good Hardware positions ? I'm a embedded guy. Masters in Electronics. Currently stuck doing software. Hey guys, I am exasperated. I use to run an embedded instrumentation business that I inherited during college. I've got extensive electronics embedded, PCB design, FPGA etc. But it seems there is no hardware engineering positions that pay comparable to software. I'm stuck doing DevOps for STBs. It
- Who will AR market? Who will win AR business? Apple vs Google vs Facebook vs Microsoft vs others? If others please comment whom. Please reason.
- link Bye bye Apple car Back in January Apple Blinders said that a lot of these positions were reassigned elsewhere. However, it appears that over 190 were actually let go. https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/amp/Apple-self-driving-car-layoffs-hit-190-employees-13649994.php
- 10 Things You Can Do To Really Be Part of The 1st Class...(#4 Give Up On Your Dreams) 10 Things You Can Do To Really Be Part of The 1st Class...(#4 Give Up On Your Dreams) If you're young still, still full of ambition and beliefs. Beliefs about how you are going to change the world or how you are going to make it better and you were born in or live in America - Give those up! It's n
- Bogus Startups burning VC money! I got a call from a recruiter to interview for a role at a startup company. Upon arriving in the office I saw that the office is extremely swanky. Free breakfast tacos. Fridges full of soda. Beer taps. Everyone with latest Apple hardware. I could compare this office to something from a more establis
- vote Apple Eng Mgr VS FB Lead SE? Which route should I take? Looking to move away from coding and focus more on strategy and business. Don’t mind people management, i’m good at it. Don’t mind SE vs SWE. Tired of sitting 10h at my desk starring at my screen all day. Both are in Seattle. YOE 13. Similar TC break down (10k difference)
- Apple Business Analyst Interview I have an interview coming up for Business Analyst position with Apple (Decision support). Location is CA. What areas should be covered for prep? Can anyone share any insight what to expect? Thank you in advance.
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and industry lounge. - Looking for relevant leads ( laid off unfortunately ) HI All, I will really appreciate if someone can help me with relevant leads or referrals. I got laid off due to recent shutdown of a Business unit at Globalfoundries. I am actively seeking career opportunities in the Semiconductor Industry: CAD/ Design Automation/ Physical Design Verification / P
- Pro Programming or MBA UCBerkeley I am MS EE graduate but very new to programming... I have 8 years Apple experience and 10 years total... I am 35 years old.... Thinking of changing careers which one is better MS CS or MBA ? Before anyone answers that it depends on interest., frankly I love both fields... Example: - I have been ver
- Referral for specific roles at FB— Ex. McKinsey & Co. BA, currently at Indeed Hi all—looking for a referral to two specific Facebook roles in the Menlo Park office. One of them I made it to the final round last year—product role, and the recruiter mentioned that I was almost there. He stayed in touch with me throughout the year and wanted to get me in the interview loop cycle
- MS CS or MBA UC Berkeley I am MS EE graduate but very new to programming... I have 8 years Apple experience and 10 years total... I am 35 years old.... Thinking of changing careers which one is better MS CS or MBA ? Before anyone answers that it depends on interest., frankly I love both fields... Example: - I have been ver
- link H-1B: Apple and outsourcer Infosys get whistleblower ‘visa scam’ lawsuit tossed out https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/15/h-1b-apple-and-outsourcer-infosys-get-whistleblower-visa-scam-lawsuit-tossed-out/ Former Apple and Infosys employee Carl Krawitt claimed the two firms conspired to fraudulently obtain B-1 visas — instead of the harder-to-get and more costly H-1B — for two Info
- Apple referral needed I'm looking for business intelligence roles in Apple. Currently l5 BIE with Amazon. Thanks.
- Apple business analyst / data analyst Asking for a friend who is working at ucsf.. My friend has 9 years experience as financial analyst got a call for business analyst Apple.. What should total comp+equity+singing bonus etc should be? The position is asking for 3 years experience and she has over 9years.. Any tips on levels at Appl
- Amazon Lab 126 OPM I am been contacted by Amazon Lab 126 recruiter for a Senior OPM position. I been with Apple for 4 years and is an ICT 5. I am a senior OPM on Sustaining team. I got 25 years of industry experience. Although I am not actively looking, but since it been 4 years and my initial RSU has vested, I f
- what type of sales role at FAANG just curious what type of business development b2b sales roles are available at FAANG? just fyi, ive been in sales role for post MBA 6 years and total about 10 years, and most of my sales experience is to sell hardware materials to FAANG companies as a supplier. just curious what type of sales role