- No one still wants to hire me? Super frustrated. Made a post a while back posting my basic anonymous credentials looking for some advice. Still can't get a job. Giving a bit more background. Background: 15 years experience IT Sales, Security, Personnel Management, and Project Management, no real programming experience. Exp
- Flexible work timings and other benefits What other companies in BayArea have the following comparable to or better than Cisco? 1) Flexible work timings (by this I literally mean your manager doesn’t care about what time you come to and leave the office or working from home as long as you are getting the work done and attend meetings). 2)
- Tier rankings for the tech companies If you have problems with discussing tiers, then GTFO of this post. These rankings are based off the data points from other tier blind posts, If you think these rankings are off, then please comment with your own rankings. Tier = Pay, prestige, wlb, culture, benefits, talent pool, brand weight on r
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and industry lounge. - Meraki Data Scientist Compensation Review Current: ML Engineer with PhD and 4 YOE, TC = $200k Breakdown: $165k base / 0 bonus / 25k stock (ends after 2020) / 100% covered benefits (my value $10k*) Great work-life balance, not much learning opportunity or growth Offer: Data Scientist Grade 10, TC = $235k Breakdown: $185k base / 15% bonus
- Tier rankings for tech companies in the Bay Area Tier = Pay, prestige, wlb, culture, benefits, talent pool, brand weight on resume, people have starry eyes when you tell them where you work at Tier 0: Be your own boss Tier 1: FNG Tier 2: Apple, Uber, Airbnb, Lyft, Linkedin Tier 3: Amazon, Microsoft, Stripe, Pinterest, Slack, Snap, Dropbox, Robinh
- Who has the best 401k plan? I’ll do boring work, I just want an excellent 401k. In my 20s but thinking ahead. I’m looking for a plan with: - no vesting for matches - 100% matches for up to 4%+ of salary - Mega backdoor roth capability I heard Microsoft, Cisco, and Google were top tier in terms of 401k benefits. Anyone else?
- Cisco benefits I've received an offer from Cisco. While I'm considering this offer, I was wondering if someone can shed some lights on below benefits: 1. What employee discounts are being offered? Such as on Electronics, new car, travel, Auto, etc. 2. Backup childcare - such as any tie-up with Daycare centers? 3.
- Apple employee learning resources I am starting my next career with Apple. I am currently working at Cisco. I wanted to know if Apple has some benefits in terms of free subscriptions to online learning resources. I am used to refer videos, courses, books from Oreilly and Udemy and being a cisco employee you get them free(Cisco has b
- Cisco Systems offer What would be the salary for grade 11 and grade 12 architect in Cisco.How is the work culture,time off,stocks and other benefits at Cisco? Please share your thoughts
- Cisco Meraki Hey all, a recruiter reached out to me from Cisco Meraki and I was wondering what it is like working there. I saw mixed reviews on Glassdoor and was wondering what are the benefits? perks? any pros and cons with the company I want all the dirt!
- Cisco G11 offer YOE - 14 Currently at a pre-IPO company with TC 240k Cisco G11 offer - 190k base, 15% bonus, 40k sign-on, 160k stock for 4 years I am happy with the first year's salary but not so much for the subsequent years. Interview went well and I was referred here. I see this outlier post where the overall o
- Microsoft to Cisco Any folks here go from Microsoft to Cisco Systems? What’s your thoughts on pros / cons? How would you compare benefits between the two companies? Any regrets? Thanks
- FTE vs Contractor I’m currently a Contractor for Cisco through a third party with no end date to my contract. Aside from certain benefits, I am treated like a FTE. While I was on the job hunt, I mostly came across contract or temp jobs in the Bay Area. I’m still new to this but is this the norm?
- When will homelessness have its #Pride moment? As we come up on June and all of our companies participate in the Woke-off of bending over backwards showing how much they care about the LBGTQ... community, also known as Pride, I wonder, when is tech gonna have their moment where they start trying to out-do each other to show how much they care ab
- vote Does it make sense to breakdown giant tech companies strickly from the point of view of consumer?? For example: 1. Will consumer/advertisers benefits more when we have Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, etc etc as different companies and compete with each other?? User can switch platform if they don't like the policy and operations of one company.. 2. Can AWS serve their customer better if they are