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- vote How much influence does your spouse have? Curious as to how much influence does your spouse have on your career decisions like accepting promotion, changing companies, etc. Edit: removed relo as we all agree that is different.
- I'm dumb. Teach me some office politics PLEASE Examples: What did you learn over the years by making mistakes, or seeing others make a mistake. What are useful things for promotion consideration. What best practices when interacting with people in the office. How to realize it's time to leave. (I tag 3 big companies whose employees must hav
- 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
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and industry lounge. - Manager won’t counter. Now what? Question: Has anyone ever tried to use an offer from another company to get a raise in salary, have that fail, but then stayed on with the company? How did that work out for you ? Details: I recently interviewed with a company and in return got an offer. It’s a nice bump in TC (about 40k), but unfo
- Google feels like a mistake... I joined Google right out of college 3 years ago (T3). I was bright-eyed and motivated. I had other offers, but I thought Google would be the best in terms of comp (which it was) and maybe experience too. They said I would get a choice of teams, but after 3 months of the "process", I only had one "
- UX Design role, am i being lowballed? Have offers for a UX Designer position. Both companies are in my top-companies list and teams are great. They both have similar promotion cycles and growth. Looking for feedback on just the compensation aspect, assuming all other factors are equivalent. LinkedIn: Base - 135k, 250k RSU (over 4 yea
- Internal Promotion Pay Caps Was customer support and pursuing degree, now senior engineer, span of 5 years. For any internal promotion we have a percentage cap on salary increase, TC was 45k as pleb, market rate for position offered was 90k at the time (4+ years ago)... Still not at original market rate for position and now mo
- Currently at Apple. Interviewing at Google X and Facebook I have been at Apple for a few years, currently IC5 with TC of 400K (180k+40k bonus+170k RSU refresher), and 2018 W2 was over $500k due to stock going up. I have a good relationship with my manager but I feel stuck in the position with no promotion possible, so a couple months ago I sent my CV to G
- Lowball promotion I currently work at Amazon. I had an off-cycle promotion last year, SDE L5 to L6. I got a base increase of 10% and no additional shares. Last year as an SDE2 I was earning around 250k total comp, this year after my promotion I will earn around 225k due to the drop in stock price, and the fact that I
- Is my boss dragging me along? I've told my boss I'm around 20k under average comp. I like my work, I just had a friend hired from a referral a while back but I'm very underpaid compared to the dozens of companies that reach out to interview me. Boss told me today the project we've been working on will be a perfect selling point
- Typical Promotion Pay % Increase? I was a Product Manager at Capital One where promotion raises varied anywhere between 10-15% of your salary to move up one level. I just joined a Healthcare company where promotions are only 5-7%. What is the typical promotion % increase at other companies? My new firm seems low ...
- MSFT SWE fulltime offer, where else should I apply I interned at MSFT in seattle this summer and received a full time offer after I graduate (undergrad) in may 2020. The offer is 110k base, 120k stock, and 30k signing. It seems like I am supposed to negotiate in some way, but I feel uncomfortable doing that without another offer. I obviously dont w
- 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
- Linkedin vs Pinterest offer eval base, bonus, stock, sign-on Linkedin 180k, 10%, 400k, 55k, senior level (equivalent to l4 at other companies so please stop discussing this particular matter) Pinterest 163k, 0%, 560k, 40k, (l4, sde2, whatever) YOE is somewhere between 0 and 5 years. Which is better? Teams are equally interesting
- Why is Google still considered top destination for engineering? So many exciting things happening in different tech companies. Google is still considered top destination by many even though they have a broken interview process and slow promotion process.
- Pregnancy announcement Would appreciate if f/m share their experiences with taking maternity leave. How did your managers react? Were they supportive or the opposite, did it affect your raise or promotion? Preferably not faang companies, since those guys are set with good packages, talking more about ~150 ppl workplaces.
- Leaving Facebook for Google: Questions This summer I will complete a year at Facebook and have 2.5 yoe. I’m an enterprise engineer making $155k ($125k base + bonus/RSU). I have interview requests for SWE roles at Google, LinkedIn, Uber, Lyft, Twitter + other companies I’m not interested in. I’m totally satisfied with everything about my
- Airbnb vs Google Both offer TC 350k for L5 engineers. Airbnb base 200k, no cash bonus, RSU 600k 4years. If negotiate further, i think RSU could be 700k - 800k based on levels.fyi Assume best case 800k, usually required to sign offer to get it, then Airbnb TC could be 400k, 15% higher than Google. Google Pros: RSU i
- FAANMG uses H-1B to depress everyone’s wages No, FAANMG does not explicitly pay less to those on visas. That’s not what’s happening. Read on... We already know that large big-name tech companies have gone to many lengths, including illegal collusion by restricting recruiting, to prevent their employees from switching jobs. This is wage theft.
- TC growth at Facebook vs Google Facebook has high promotion speed. People who get promoted from E3 to E5 in just 1 year are outliers but it’s possible. I discovered FatFIRE recently and am making it my goal to increase TC by working harder/smarter/whatever it takes. My TC now is under $160k. My RSU are small because I joined as
- Comp expectations if I leave FB? Getting a promotion to E5 at Facebook in a couple weeks, expecting base + bonus to be 200 and about 110 in stock vesting every year. I have just over 2 yoe. Assuming I’ll go down a level if I went to Google or other companies, roughly what TC could I expect? In MPK now, interested in Seattle and MTV
- vote Google vs Pinterest 4 yoe at Google already, seeing a 4 year cliff. Got an offer from Pinterest. Google came up with a counter offer (effective at year end refresh) but still 10%lower as comp team wouldn't completely match pre ipo companies. Both places attract me in some ways. PM role. Google: stable, very recently o
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and industry lounge. - How do you prepare for culture fit questions? I am mostly getting rejected from onsites because I am not a good fit for a big company culture. But I do need the big company TC. I got rejected from both Workday and Box because *I think* I didn't answer the below questions well. So how do you all prepare for questions like: 1. What kind of a man
- vote Tesla Reason for Failing Teams Many software engineering teams at Tesla are failing because of very low hiring bar. (Engineers working for car teams are exceptionally good and do not fall into this category). Over 60% of team members are contractors converted to FTE. Here is their job-life cycle. Interview while joining as cont
- Amazon L6 Vs L7 PM: need advice So, I got an offer for L6 Sr PM position which at best will match my current TC given no state tax in Seattle. Salary bump is a major factor in planning this switch for me along with joining one of the FAANG. Don’t get me wrong I have come a long way as a PM without any MBA and engineering from an o
- Starting Salary at Consulting Firms Hi All. Currently I am one year out of college and a staff consultant at Capgemini working with cloud ERPs and to be honest I think we college hires got screwed on salary compared to other firms. Granted we were college hires but a promotion only comes with a 5-10k boost in salary depending on each
- Tips/guidelines for career growth in Microsoft, Redmond I'm working with an Azure team in Microsoft, Redmond. I have 2 yoe and came to US for master's. I was initially offered entry level (59) and fought my way with a negotiating offer for SE2 but only got level 60 (SE1). I feel left behind coz many of my friends have been promoted to senior SE over the
- Company for career progression? Have 5 yoe and currently an SDE III. Was wondering which companies offer promotions faster. I understand that promotion will be based on performance and want to see what the best case looks like at different companies (assuming I meet/ exceed expectations for the current role). Current TC is 140k.
- Going to switch companies, manager offering promotion now, confused. I am Sde 2 in Amazon . Have been Sde2 from past 4.5 years( Top ratings throughout , victim of reorgs). Currently leading my team and charter. I have no issues with team ,.however it felt my org is pretty unstable (frequent leadership changes) . Also my hike has been 0.4% base, no stocks. Casually tr
- Working in a political org - what should I do? I work in a highly political org. People have been getting their promotions because of their relationships with manager and directors. I believe I have more knowledge than my counterparts who are getting promoted over me, but I lack people skills. I like to bond and spend time with my family and clo
- How long to stay at AMZN before applying to other companies? Just hit 1 year anniversary. Main motivations to switch: 1. Really hate oncall, getting paged (in the middle of the night) often. I feel like I can't really make any plans that whole week and I feel pretty miserable overall. I also can never go back to sleep after getting paged. 2. Lacking benefi
- How long did it take you to become senior engineer? I'm curious about the speed of promotion throughout different companies.
- Should I move to Microsoft as L61? Been at Amazon for two years, SDE1. Had a change in manager several months in, new manager doesn't seem to care that much about getting me promoted, and skip level seems to have a cap on the number of engineers he's willing to promote every year. My ultimate goal is to get into Google/FB while havi
- vote Are liberals making sexism & racism worse? Companies are implementing promotion/hiring practices based on immutable characteristics. Isn’t this inciting discrimination?
- Problem with good WLB culture It seems companies that have good work/life balance would be plagued by these problems: - chatty office culture - hard to find coworkers because they are taking a long lunch break or at the car repair shop, etc - people (especially managers) that are OK spending the day in any low-value meeting they
- Amazon: Stay or leave for comp Hey, I joined AMZN as an SDE 1 in March 2018 and got promoted in Q1. Numbers after promotion: Base: 145k + 40k from stocks and bonus for 2019-20. From 2020 I'll have additional stocks to makeup the missing bonus. That brings my total compensation to 185k. The thing is I'm enjoying working and ge
- SADFANGLUST companies with SWE forced attrition We all know that Amazon has a forced attrition policy of cutting the bottom 6% of engineers, and that one of them attempted suicide recently. Which of the following companies have a similar policy of terminating a certain percentage of engineers in cycles, or once someone has been at a certain leve
- Facebook E5 vs google L4 offer I have two offers. One is Google L4 and the other is facebook E5. They have the same TC. The team at google is pretty good but I don't know what the team at facebook will be. I like scalability and ML. I don't know what are the expectations from L4 at google and E5 at facebook. For facebook, if some
- Promotion from Software Engineer-II to Senior Software Engineer What does it take to get promoted from SE-II to Senior SE at Akamai and other companies in general? Also, what kind of hike or stock options accompany the promotion? MS in CS (graduated 2017) YOE: 2.5 SE-II TC: 125K base, no stocks. Not in Bay Area.
- Question regarding L3 to L4 promo at Google I was recently offered an L3 position at Google coming in with a bit over a year of industry experience. For other companies I interviewed for, I was given more senior offers (like E4 at fb or equivalent at some startups). I ended up choosing Google, however, due to the extremely strong package I re
- Empire building at Amazon Lots of L6 and L7 managers I have seen are too busy trying to climb the corporate ladder at Amazon. They are essentially building all their decisions around what will get them promoted faster, and that does not always align with what is needed for good business outcomes, leading to lots of politics,
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and industry lounge. - Google vs Facebook vs Netflix engineering culture Question for folks who have worked at Google and one of the companies (Facebook/Netflix). How would you compare the culture there? In particular: * amount bureaucracy, how much development slowed down by all the "processes" - meetings, sync-ups, "design discussions" etc... * amount of office po
- Evaluate my compensation, should I quit and join another company? In total I have 8 years of experience, 5 years at Apple with 130K + 75K RSU every year + 7k bonus on average. Still stuck at ICT3. Probably i was lowballed when I joined and should have negotiated. I get 8/9 in performance review every year. No sign of promotion still to ICT4. But regardless I am g
- Non tech position Promotion What is the speed of promotion for non-tech roles? Which of the following companies is the best for promotion/career growth in a non-tech role? - Square - Apple - Dropbox - Uber - Airbnb - Facebook - Twitter - Amazon
- Good Amazon teams in SF? Sharing for a friend: SDE 2 on promotion track to SDE 3. Mobile-focused-iOS, Android, React looking for a new Amazon team based out of SF or open to remote. Currently at Amazon. Open to other companies, but so far Amazon experience has been good. Current TC 275+.
- when is the appropriate time to leave your job? i’ve only been a spotify for a year. nothing is particularly wrong in my current role. i like my manager and the team i work with. however, i feel like i don’t have real growth opportunities on my team. since i haven’t been here that long, i could be wrong about growth opportunities, but i know for
- Microsoft New Grad Hire What happens after 4 years later when Stock gets liquidated? As a new hire, they have provided me with 120k stocks which with my base of 109k guarantees I get 140k for the first 4 years. My question is, after the stocks get liquidated would we only get the base pay? I assume we will go through promo
- link What does it take to reach E7? Let say currently E5. How many years of experience does it need to get a E7 offer (or promotion)? What is the compensation like at FANNG and other companies? Is there a difference in compensation for E7 and D1 track (director)? I heard some people got $2M including 1.2M of RSU. That’s insane... h
- Career Advice for Late 30 Product Manager I see lots of articles on what you should do in 20s. So I want to learn what late 30 should do career wise. I work at Cisco as a Product Manager making about 200K per year. (Senior Manager) Here is my question. I feel that making to a director level is pretty hard due to politics and luck (although
- Do I need to change companies to get better compensation? I started last year at Amazon as an L4 program manager. After 7 months I was promoted to L5 program with a % pay increase, then after 3 more months I was moved to L5 Product with another % increase. I'm in line for another promotion to L6 Sr. Product in 6 months, which is another % increase. Since t