- vote New grad, Citadel vs Robinhood I just finished interviewing for tech and fintech, and have managed to pick a favorite/winner from each category. However, now it's sort of a apples and oranges comparison and I'm at odds as to which one to pick. Wondering if anyone who has worked in either (or even both!) can give some insight. C
- vote Apple vs Stripe I have new grad SWE offers at both Apple and Stripe, and am having trouble deciding which to take. Apple ICT3 135k base / 150k RSUs / 50k signing Stripe New Grad SF Office 123k base / 24285 units / 50k signing I’m not sure how to calc the TC for Stripe - recruiter mentioned a new preferred price
- Apple is the worst place for mothers I had always been a top performer and got good ratings every year until... I went on maternity leave last year and it has impacted my career big time. I am not able to recover from it even after a year. There was a reorg and I was the only person who knew about this project. I trained the entire t
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and industry lounge. - Box or Intuit? Everyone has opinions. I am curious to hear them. hypothetical...PMO role for both locations. Work life balance, day to day, growth, long term outlook, office life, and whatever else you can think of. I realize its an apples and oranges comparison given the size and mission. Take a stab at it anywa
- vote Whats the best FAANG to work for right now as SWE? Seems like all 6 (Yes I’m including M) have their set of unique problems: F: Privacy issues, lack of purpose (imagine being in the team in charge of Group Chats), overall disdain among millenials APPL: boring hardware company, software mostly outsourced to TCS or like whatever bodyshop (Avanto or
- 🥇 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
- 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
- Need Resume Review I recently moved to Los Angeles, looking for a job in a creative team on a client side. I have experience as an Art Director in BBDO and Saatch & Saatchi. Last 6 years I work as a Chief Creatve Officer in my own Agency of 45 people With clients from Fortune 500. I am looking for career shift in to+2
- WFH no more I just signed with Apple to move from LA to Cupertino. I am currently working from home but shitty manager is forcing me to leave. So now my TC went up by 25% but I’m freaking out and having panic attacks. Have not worked in an office for 5 years now and am so used to wfh lifestyle. Can someone pl
- 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
- Apple opening offices in NYC (Hudson Yards)? Heard it's in advance talk for leasing spaces, anybody know if true and which teams? Interested for careers opps..
- Apple India to California? Is it possible to move from Apple India office to California? I see they are expanding in India and have good amount of openings
- Apple Seattle: new office move? Apple Seattle folks: any news on when occupancy of 333 Dexter will start?
- Adobe vs Apple Hi, receive two offer at their Seattle office Adobe SWE Base 180K RSU 185K Bonus 7% Sign on 30K Pros: work life balance, two campus shutdowns per year, good culture Cons: technology might not be cutting edge (use c++, java and some AWS service) Apple lvl 4 Base 172K RSU 225K Bonus 10% Sign on 3
- Don’t disappoint us Apple. Back when Steve was around, Apple keynotes would be really intresting. He was great presenter and he used to make things more intresting. But even if the products are good, the keynotes are not intresting after he left Apple. Particulary, Tim may be a very good CEO but he is not the best presenter a
- 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
- [DA] Sr. Data Analyst Range in LA (Los Angeles) TC: ~117K + Options Any people mind sharing their TC for senior data analyst positions around Los Angeles (LA). I'm in line for bump due to out of cycle promotion catching up in next year's comp adjustment cycle. (went from DA to Sr. DA after being in that position for 2 years) What increase should
- 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
- Apple CEO Tim Cook should resign Under his watch, Apple has fallen way back in innovation and being cool. It is just a shadow of it's glorious past. All Mr Cook has done is release new iPhones every year. Apple has become an iPhone company under his watch.
- link 4-year degree not necessary for coding "I don't think a four year degree is necessary to be proficient at coding. I think that's an old, traditional view. What we found out is that if we can get coding in the early grades and have a progression of difficulty over the tenure of somebody's high school years, by the time you graduate kids l
- Advice on getting more interviews Hey guys, I have been trying to interview in FAANG and other good companies this year but it has been difficult. Applied in 12 companies (FB, Goog, Amzn, Apple, Netflix, Microsoft, Uber, LinkedIn, Lyft, Airbnb, Dropbox and Palo Alto Networks). Got Interview calls only from 3, FB, Goog and Amzn. From
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and industry lounge. - Booz Allen Hamilton Potential Offer Hi everyone, I have a feeling that I may receive an offer from Booz Allen Hamilton and I have some questions. Before that, here’s a breakdown of my situation: Current Company: NASA, not a contractor. I’m leaving due to stagnancy and extremely toxic pompous and arrogant culture. TC: – $112k base
- Google to Amazon? I’ve seen a lot of Amazon > Google but not much the other way. I saw Amazon has an office in Santa Barbara, and am considering applying for a role there as I love SB. Google has an office there as well, but not for SWEs. Anyone care to chime in that’s made the switch either way? I’m unhappy with m
- link Hate has no place here -Tim cook Gotta applaud apple Ceo https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tim-cook-tells-white-supremacists-002721543.html When will zuck grow some balls ?
- link Perfect example of Murica In Dallas a police offer accidentally entered the house of a 26 year old black man. Upon seeing the black man the police officer drew her gun and shot and killed the black man. https://www.theroot.com/police-dallas-cop-shoots-and-kills-man-after-mistaking-1828882369 So lesson from the story bo
- Microsoft vs Apple (Hyderabad) I am currently an SDE2 at Amazon with 3yoe in total. I have offers from Microsoft and Apple. I'm having tough time deciding which option to go ahead with? Could you please comment on factors like quality of work, hike or target percentage, work culture, timings, perks Work: 1. Microsoft in the wxp
- vote UFAAGMAN Do you work during Christmas? For people who work in UFAAGMAN Uber Airbnb Apple Google Microsoft Amazon Netflix Do you guys work during christmas and new year week??? Heard some company, like Linkedin will close office for two week during the end of the year, wondering if that apply to UFAAGMAN
- Apple in Vancouver Canada I was surprised that Apple has a dev center im Vancouver and it got me interested. If anyone from Apple, Vancoucer reads this, can you answer the following questions😊 Where is the office? How is the WLB? What tech stack do you use in your project? Whats the promotion process like? Whats the TC fo
- Thinking of moving to us Recently thinking of relocating to USA (provided I get H1B). Currently: 1) Located in central Europe 2) ~7 years of exp, 1.5 at Intel (European office), rest startups working as regular, senior and lead dev 3) According to numbeo.com, in order to have my current quality of living I will need ~$18k
- link 😭😭😭 https://www.mashable.com/article/mark-zuckerberg-android-phones-after-apple-ceo-tim-cook-criticism.amp
- Recruiter ghosted after rescheduling interview twice Hi guys, Is it normal for recruiters to ghost after the candidates ask to reschedule the interview multiple times. With work commitments and other interviews I had to postpone my interview by 3 hours then by two weeks. Then I again had a blocker because of this after office team exercise my manager
- Where did you go after leaving Microsoft India? India specific question Google : small office, less teams Facebook : no engineering office Apple : customer support related work Netflix : no engineering office Amazon : does anyone even go here after MSFT Any well funded startups offering a good deal and having a strong engineering culture? Plea
- RSUs - from abroad So as some who have moved from satellite/abroad offices may know, there's a huge gap in RSUs compared to US. That's due to a range of factors, biggest one I'd say is competition and industry standard. However, outside of visas keeping you at your company, financially it would not be beneficial to r
- monthly re-verify office email we have 1-2 daily shit posters on Apple . Should Blind implement monthly re-verify of office email to limit former idiots who insist on thread crapping every chance they get.
- Move from Cupertino to Seattle? I joined Apple 10 months ago as a software engineer and I work at Apple Park. Is it too soon a move to request remote work in the same team from Seattle (does Apple even allows that given your team has no presence in the Seattle office) or look for a new team?
- Is this common at Apple? Recently the CIO visited India office and people were scared as shit. Our India head called everyone into a meeting a day before and told: - be in office before 8:30 am and leave only after 5 pm - don't bring any non apple device or laptop bags with non apple branding (and apple does not give laptop
- Apple vs Amazon - evaluate offer I'm based out of Bangalore, India; So are the offers. Even if you're based out of Seattle/SFO/NYC/London etc., I'd like to know your general inputs. Current YOE: 6 years (Years at Microsoft: 5) Level in Microsoft: 62 Current TC (in INR): Base (22 lacs) + Bonus (1.5 lacs) + Stocks/year (8 la
- Apple India -> US movement I have an offer from Apple, India. I'm trying to evaluate how easy/hard is it to move to Apple Cupertino office. For example, Microsoft in India has a minimum L62 rule. Amazon is very generous in moving folks to the US. I have no idea about Apple. 1) does apple encourage engineer movement from Ind
- 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
- Canadian Moving To California Hi all I’m a Canadian finishing my senior year, and will be joining Apple as a new grad data scientist at their Cupertino offices. Will likely live in Cupertino to avoid a long commute. Curious what I should know about moving to the USA, whether tax, social or otherwise. I have some equities in a
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and industry lounge. - 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
- Why doesnt Apple have an office in NYC? ^
- Uber vs LinkedIn Sr SWE offer Not an apples to apples comparison, yet i am having to choose between these two offers. With Uber's CEO making a public comment about going public in 2019, yet with the major hit to the valuation because of the SoftBank deal, I am not sure of the upside with Uber. I am not sure which one I should pi
- Apple UK hiring freeze? Hello everyone, Several weeks ago my friend referred me to Apple UK office, but they still haven’t reached me.. Hiring freeze? Or sometimes not all referrals got considered?
- 50 possible still I have held many roles and positions (from startup CEO , but mostly a software engineer at some known startups and known big companies) Lived in SV 12 years while at Sun and Yahoo and few startups. Would anyone hire a 51 year old to just be a senior engineer anymore? I just like to Code, sans bull,
- H1B visa lottery not selected :( need advice Hi, This year (april 2017) is the second time i applied h1b. and i didnt make it in lottery. April 2018 is my final shot. I'm contractor at apple (1.5 yrs), working with a staffing firm which might be unstable situation for me at anytime. Cannot rely completely on it. Hidden risks. As 2018 april i
- link Tim Apple https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/3/6/18253785/donald-trump-tim-apple-cook-ceo-name Good times!
- Ask for position in canada I have an interview at Facebook Seattle. Recruiter said at Facebook if you get selected you will choose team after boot camp. If I get an offer can I ask for position at Toronto Canada office? Is there any negative impact in asking that? I am aware that salaries in canada are very less but I have
- Apple policy when employee fail H1B lottery What does Apple do when their employees didn't get a H1B lottery in the end? Is there a oversea office they will send you to? If so what is the policy like? Do you have to have a similar oversea team as you are in now? Software Engineer position.