- Losing Hope. Need help Hi All, I am a contractor QA at Google and have been trying hard for a full time PgM job. Tried applying at many companies and at few rejected after onsite. Applied at Google as well but I feel contractors are not given the fair chance. I recently appeared for two interviews at FB but did not make
- My story of Google workplace benefits transforming my life I decided I should share my story, don’t think we fully appreciate what we have. Me, 4 years ago: diagnosed with pre-diabetes, “borderline obese”. Life at my lowest - 2 kids, wife diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer. Working at Google. See an announcement - new program, commuter e-bikes progra
- link Hey! Google , Facebook Drop Out of Top 10 best places to work for 2019! They actually dropped pretty hard... https://apple.news/AemVR1z9OQM-xP52rA-yS8Q Big tech companies like Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, long seen as some of the world’s most desirable workplaces offering countless perks and employee benefits, are losing some of their shine. The Silicon Valley companies dropped out of the To
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and industry lounge. - 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
- Why do tech companies avoid the Midwest? I work as a software engineer for a startup company in the northern part of the Midwestern U.S. I make about $80K/year, with benefits, which may seem small... but honestly it's plenty. I have my student loans paid off. I have my car and motorcycle paid off. I own a 3-bedroom home, with a fenced in
- Should I start working? my parents want me to stay home as long as possible (they’re not sick or anything, we just get along well) before I go to work. So far (graduated about a year ago) i’ve been really enjoying it. As soon as I graduated I interviewed at two companies (Adobe and a startup) and got offers from both (TC
- vote Should I leave Apple for Amazon ? So I work at Apple, can't reveal org or role, and am seriously considering an offer at amazon. I‘m at the 1y 7m mark at Apple & wasnt planning to leave before the 2 year mark. Was passively looking because the growth / work pipeline for the next year in my org is unsatisfying and not aligned with my
- Hidden Google benefits I have a Google offer on a team I'm excited for, but just got a competing offer that's significantly higher ($$ wise) and I'm unsure if Google can match. Are there any hidden Google perks that add a cherry on top and make the lower Google comp more appealing? Especially ones that can translate to m
- Can you please share your Surrogacy experience ? I saw other post about pregnancy loss and thought of posting this in blind. We have gone through three pregnancy losses (and that too in IVF with PGS tested embryos). Doctor said everything is fine and did many different tests(came out normal). We reached our emotional limit to try further and now t
- Magicleap I need suggestion for my friend who is currently interviewing for ML (https://www.magicleap.com/) in Plantation FL in Engineering position. what is company future for 2020/21/22, I heard it is in process of securing Series E funding. what if it runs out of cash can it go public or possible acquis
- Fixing the Gender ratio in tech I fully understand and accept the problem but I feel that the way we are tackling this at the moment is not correct. All I see in the name of WIT is millions of $$ spent on fancy beach side conference vacations, expensive travel and swags, reserved ticket for women in Google IO and certain unreason
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- vote Choose between Uber and google Got 2 offers, Uber senior 2: TC 400k per year assume $40 per share Rsu Google l4: TC 330k per year I knew level wise Uber senior 2 is much better than google l4 which is not negotiable But google is much closer for commute, better team gcp, better benefit, culture and prestige. Wondering am I t
- link Amazon recruiter contacted me, I sent my CV and he sent me the following NOTE: I am not looking for answers. I'm just interested in knowing if this has been a typical route to get hired as an SA. I have previously applied and had a couple of interviews, but no offer. I want to put my best foot forward. Also sharing for the benefit of others. ****************** Thank yo
- Anyone here from Google Bangalore? I recently got an offer from Google Bangalore. Just wanted to discuss some benefits / be clear on a couple of things, before I search for rent / plan out my work life. TC: Not as good as you'd think! YOE: 3
- 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
- Google relocation requirements What are the pre requisites for getting relocation benefits at Google?
- Immigration I am curious about Americans view on legal immigration - especially the ones against it. Immigrants have been such as asset to this community and I feel the backlash towards legal immigrant community has been due to other systemic factors and govt failures wrt to education and healthcare. Economic d
- Google good place to retire? if you are L7. Because Google has good benefits for family on employees death and they dont fire employees. What do you think.
- Benefits at Google Hi All, What are the benefits one gets being a google employee? Especially employee discounts at google store products?
- Evaluate Zoox vs Waymo offer UPDATED Waymo comp: Need feedback on whether to stay where I am vs. jumping to Zoox or Waymo. Currently discussing offers - verbal with recruiter at this point, don't want to start official offer process until I decide to actually pursue. Zoox: TC=325k : L5 / 205k base / 35k signon / 446k RSU (not
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and industry lounge. - New acronym for top tech companies - FULL MANGA "FULL MANGA" Facebook, Uber, Lyft, LinkedIn, MS, Apple, Netflix, Google, Amazon Benefits- 1. Uses actual words (unlike FAANG) 2. Since Amazon has been in FAANG, doesn't make sense to leave MS out 3. You can say stuff like- "I hate my job at XYZ company, I want to go FULL MANGA now!" and people wil
- Companies with adoption/surrogacy perks? I currently work at Google and the main reason I am staying here is due to the fact that Google pays $20k towards adoption or $40k towards surrogacy. Im feeling a desire to leave but this specific benefit really makes having kids a lot more realistic for me so it's hard to leave. Are there are any
- 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
- link Microsoft L61 offer Redmond YOE: 6 + Masters With my YOE, I was hoping for L62 or even an L63. But it is what it is. After some negotiation, these are the numbers I have. Microsoft Cloud + AI Core Platform, Redmond L61 (Offer letter doesn't mention this, though. It's what the recruiter says.) Base: 135K Signing bonus: 40K RS
- Google onsite from India Does Google India send employees to US on long term on temporary basis? Is accomdation taken care for family? what benefits are provided?
- Google wants written proof of competing offer Google made me an offer for L4 but I also got a competing offer for L5 equivalent from a different company. Other company knows that I also have an offer from Google. They made me a verbal offer which is way over what Google made me. when sending the details via email they left out the numbers and o
- How do I stop feeling like a failure? Warning - edge post. Im working on an Amazon internal ML team in Seattle after I graduate from a low tier state school. Everybody I know makes more than me with better benefits and more prestige at FB, Airbnb, Google, and prop trading companies including the people I interned with last summer all i
- Rank these top companies FAANGUMLLADP Facebook Apple Amazon Netflix Google Uber Microsoft Linkedin Lyft Airbnb Dropbox Pinterest Rakings are based off TC, WLB, Prestige, Career growth, benefits, RSU refreshers etc. My ranking is GF > NU > Apple/Airbnb > Linkedin/Lyft > Dropbox/Pintrest > Microsoft/Amazon TC:200K
- Apple Exploding Offer v.s Google Return offer for New Grad I got an Apple new grad offer for a team under Siri. Recruiter is only giving me a week to consider b/c their HC is full & this is the last spot. I like the team & the interviewers but I'm also waiting on a Google return offer (just finished an internship with google), and have onsite scheduled with
- F**k the visa system! Indians deserve better We’re the only ppl who need to wait for GC for over 100 years probably. We’re modern slaves. They just make us work and pay taxes, but don’t give us any social benefits. Many US companies succeeded because of Indian engineers. Boeing/GE/Microsoft/Google/Amazon/Facebook and etc. Look how we are treat
- Real reason for LeetCode style code interviews Earlier preparing for a week was enough to clear the interviews, then it became one month and now with companies asking LC hard in phone screen it would be minimum of 6 months preparation to clear interviews. Let's admit it, the LC preparation is useless other than clearing interviews. Just like yo
- Google - What Floats Your Boat after some time at G? Sorry for the constant Q&A about Google. What stuff keeps you at Google these days? I'm looking to understand how you'd rate Google in these: 1. Appraisals / Perf is amazing? 2. WLB? 3. Rest and Vest (refreshers are abundant)? 4. The bucketload of benefits? 5. Gratuity? 6. Anything else that's more
- 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,
- The Secret and Frustrating Life of a Google Contract Worker https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2019-11-07/google-contract-worker-kevin-kiprovski-describes-frustrating- More than half of Google's workers are temporary, vendor or contract staff, known as TVCs. This shadow workforce misses out on many of the famous benefits and perks that have burnish
- Let's Help Our Friends At Uber! Team Blind, please give accounts from Uber unlimited private chats for now so they can pass their info to people offering referrals. There's a giant thread with users volunteering to help. Otherwise they run out at 10 a month. Don't make them choose places to ask for referrals after just losing thei
- LinkedIn better than FANG I’d rather work for LinkedIn than Facebook, Apple, Netflix or Google. Great SF location, generous compensation and benefits, great work life balance, product is more ethical (non addictive, consumer isn’t the product), good food... why would anyone choose to work for FANG? (Other than perhaps, brand
- vote Google to Amazon I'm having hard time deciding whether it's worth moving to Amazon or not. What amount of annual TC increase (averaged over 2-3 years) would persuade you to make the move. (refreshers are taken into account)? Google: - 5 weeks of vacations - 15 minutes of commute -40 hours work week, good and paid o
- Amazon SDE3 vs Facebook E5 VS google L4 HI guys received offer from Amazon SDE-3 vs Facebook E5 VS google L4 YOE 11 year. Need help to find out which one will better in following 3 parameter :- 1. Work life balance 2. Compensation & Benefits 3. Future Growth
- Confused about my next career move Hi, I currently have 4 offers from these companies below and I'm really confused which to take (All SDE roles) 1) Goldman Sachs, SF, TC: Around $190k 2) PayPal, SJC, TC: Around $180k 3) VMware, Palo Alto, TC: Around $200k 4) Doordash, SF, TC: Around $210k Update: got another offer: machine learnin
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and industry lounge. - Do we deserve our pay and how did money change you? Some background : I worked at a small company in a small town for 11 years out of college during which I went from 75kTC to 140k TC. I thought I was overpaid when I reached the 140kTC and used to feel really good about it. This is before I knew of Blind ofcourse. Then got a bad manager and had to l
- Why is SalesForce considered a great place to work? Offer barely matches (that too with a one time joining bonus) my current salary. My Microsoft benefits are pretty good and we even have free food now - at least in the bay area. Other than slight difference in tech, what is the compelling reason to join SalesForce.. also do folks from FB, Amazon and
- Google gym benefits - Sunnyvale From my onboarding email it states I'm not going to get any gym reimbursement cause I'll be based out of the Sunnyvale office. Can spouses access the on site gyms as well or is it strictly employees only?
- sick to death of 'progressive' fraud and aggression (women in tech) love women. love women in tech. hired and promoted many women at google in technical roles ... years before it became topic of discussion or fashionable groupthink obsession ... before training, c level diversity staff, or self loathing reports about how googlers are not right colors and genders etc
- Diversity hiring and affirmative action So I think affirmative action and diversity initiatives in corporate America are broken. Companies value diversity that can be highlighted in a brochure more than real diversity. What I mean by this is that companies like fb, ms, and Google are working really hard to get more black, Hispanic, female
- I want to get to FAANG asap... I know it might sound a little dumb but I’m a new grad and I really want to work at one of FAANG... except fb amazon but especially Google and Netflix. Good benefits, the smartest people in the team, and free lunches seem too good.. How do I get there? How long should I work at the first (current) c
- Thank you Blind! I wanted to say thank you to everyone on Blind. After 4 months of prep and 6 onsite interviews/offers, I just landed a new role at Google with TC of 245 from 155 at Microsoft with 2 yoe. The amount of information on this app is incredible. It has helped every step of the process. - Learning I could
- why are bigcos doing 50c per dollar 401k match Whats with the 50-cents-on-the-dollar 401k matching these days? I know of two comanies that are well known for incredible benefits - google and linkedin - that do this. Paypal matches 100% up to 4% of salary. This is far better.
- link Career Switcher’s Guide to Your Dream Tech Job Hi Everyone, I will be starting at Google next week. I have benefited so much from many online communities, including Blind, during my 6 month job search process. I want to share some of my experience with the online community as my way to give back. Hope these tips will help some of you in your jo