- vote Take hedge fund offer or keep studying for top tech firm Chasing 1. brand name on the resume to wipe the wework sludge off my resume 2. TC I have an offer on hand for $350k (200k base, 150k bonus) TC at a top hedge fund that I went on a practice interview for. I've spent about ~75hrs of prep doing ds/algos/LC grind but probably need another 75 hours to
- Non-Trad PhD to MSFT L63 ML Scientist. AMA. It's almost my one year anniversary in MSFT (joined Oct 2018). I'm giving back to Blind, so AMA. First, I have a Non-Trad PhD (aka not CS or maths). I made a mistake of not following TC. Wasted 5 years of my life for a useless PhD, and condemned to endless postdoc in the hope of shitty professor po
- Truly need career advice to move to Tech Plainly, I’m miserable in the banking industry. I’m an Investment Product Manager, so we have very limited tech/software exposure. I am in a unique position that allows me to work with project managers, program managers, and developers, but nothing close to the responsibilities of a tech PM. I am a
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and industry lounge. - Want to emigrate from Luxembourg to USA, what to do? I'm a Python/Java/JS developer working with one of Europe's largest bank. Europe has high taxes, mediocre pay but very high quality of life, holidays and ease of living. But my ambition is money and I'm willing to sacrifice my european lifestyle. Background: I'm an asian with Luxembourg residence p
- OCI vs AWS vs Carta age:28 no debt and not married, but was thinking buying a house current: SDE II @ AWS yoe: 2 yrs 3 months in the us (<1 yr before coming to the state) TC: base ~140k with ~30 shares/incoming years Just got promoted in Q2. Team has pretty heavy operational and work load. Great revenue product with q
- Can't get into FAANG, so pick who (list below)? I really cannot-make-it. Looks like the only offers I will be getting are not FAANG, not even FAANG-like, e.g. MSFT. Position is Data/Research scientist doing real ML and DL work, not SQL monkey. Still interviewing. Have offers for some, others just finished on-site and was good. Will prob get ful
- 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
- Please help me decided, should I quit ? First, a little about my self. Im 20 years old and I am studying computer science at a second tier private uni. I started my search for an intenship this year and I was very desperate as I am graduating soon. I applied to many companies for swe but didnt get many calls back, so I decided to branch o
- Choosing onsites: PlanGrid vs Compass vs WePay? Due to timing and schedule reasons, I could only go to one of those companies for onsite interviews. I like all 3 companies so I need some advice on which one of them to proceed. I’m interviewing for a SDE position. What I like about PlanGrid: 2. Relatively unique industry (construction). 3. Relati
- Has anyone seen a Amazon Snowmobile in real life? Reading a book on AWS. It talks about AWS snowmobile. It's a service to move 100PB of data from onprem to AWS. I wonder if this thing is an urban legend or does it actually exist. Has anyone taken a selfie with that thing in the background? In my mind it's like that Mad Max Fury Road war machine
- Jp Morgan Chase Big data Engineer Hey I got a email from Hr that i m going to get offer for jpmc big data engineer.new york. How much should i ask for.
- looking for referrals - 8+ yrs exp bored of jpmc job. looking for something exciting in business intelligence/data visualization/analytics space with innovative/tech firms. thanks! currently in nyc open to relo - bay area, seattle, austin https://repher.me/r/-LmCsrt-8nsIPDSF2kev
- TC for ML/DL/DS scientist positions at top banks? What's the TC like for ML/DL scientist or DS (real DS, not DA Excel/SQL users) at big banks like Chase, Citi, Goldman, etc..? Looking at VP level. Maybe associate if I cannot make it lol.
- vote Moving from PM to Technical Looks like Program Manager isn’t a good fit with my personality. I don’t like being a bad guy keep chasing people and micro manage them. I’ve been PM for 3 yrs, delivered good impact, but i really want to get hands on. I do love manage a team or a product I own though. Thinking of going back to tec