Hello community, I am looking for some assistance/advice in breaking into one of the FAANGs ( or any company that is a fit) I have over 15 years in Sales, Marketing and Account management, working for companies like Samsung and Sprint. I currently reside in the Bay Area and want to lend my talents...Read more
My manager gives me small work like write this doc for team, verify accounts, and small small task during the sprint apart from tasks assigned in the sprint. Although these are easy tasks? But it takes some time May be a one full day in 14 days kinda effort? Is this expected ? Or normal at tech? So...Read more
I work 1-2 hours a day mostly, no sprints/scrums/standups - I work in IS&S org, which accounts for Apple Music, TV, News, App Store, Apple pay etc. (Specific team shall not be named) My manager doesn't ask me what I'm working on, I give him status updates once in two weeks. I get good refreshers, ...Read more
Hi guys, I am an Account Executive at Sprint (NYC). I am a top performer blowing out my quota consistently over 450% every month. As an AE at Sprint I sell telecom (obviously) and SaaS solutions such as 365, Gsuite, and cyber security solutions. My salary is very low $49,600 however I am on target t...Read more
I have a fidelity account. I’m on F1. I tried using sprint tax and they said that I have to enter all my trades as separate 1099b. So if I have 10 trades then I have to fill 10 1099b forms. I was wondering if there is a better way to do this? Is it really necessary to fill 10 forms ? Same question...Read more
Hi guys, I am an Account Executive at Sprint (NYC). I am a top performer blowing out my quota consistently over 450% every month. As an AE at Sprint I sell telecom (obviously) and SaaS solutions such as 365, Gsuite, and cyber security solutions. My salary is very low $49,600 however I am on target t...Read more
I joined a startup as junior swe a month ago. This is my first full time job. I was given my first project and asked to provide a timeline estimate. I gave them an estimate of 4 weeks, they cut it down to 2 saying it would take my mentor 2 weeks. I managed to get it done by 2.5 weeks (including ram...Read more
We recently hired a new junior on our team. Was having a casual convo with her last week and she let me know she was flying to Miami this weekend (today) but she was going to take a half day. Long Story short, she didn’t take a half day and claimed her “internet has been down” the entire afternoon,...Read more
I graduated last year and joined Amazon right out of college in July 2020. A few days ago all 3 friends who joined Amazon with me got promoted to SDE 2. And here I still don't know shit, haven't achieved anything significant till date. I feel like I don't have enough understanding, all I do is refer...Read more
I've been trying to add some organization to my household, and realized the value of utilizing Kanban boards and standups from work could apply just as well at home. I signed up a Trello account for my family and also set up my household as a company for Slack. Rather than wasting time asking my w...Read more
How would you determine your personal strengths and find a matching job? I’m tired of no control over what I work on, sprints, micromanagement, demands, random short deadlines, public shaming, my feedback not taken into account, heavy ops load, shitty WLB, rat race, rushing, low tech bar etc. I us...Read more
So last summer I interned at Amazon, and it was clear from the beginning that my manager really didn't like me. Surprisingly, despite mostly getting negative feedback in my end-of-internship meeting with my manager, I walked away with a return offer. Now, about 2 months ago I came back to my team a...Read more
Hi, I joined MSFT about a month ago and since I joined I see a huge difference in culture in my previous company and the current team I am in. In my previous company if there was any work assigned there used to accountability and also it was understood that if it's a new thing for the engineer it c...Read more
This is the intern experience of one of my friends, since he does not have a blind account, I will post the story for him. Below is the copy and paste from him. "I did not get a return offer after I finish my stretch goal. These are the reviews I got from my manager: deliver result/ownership/bias f...Read more
I am sensing suspicious activity between the senior engineer in the team who distributes work across the team being biased towards contractors who belong to specific service based company. All the contractors in our team are from that vendor itself and it's not possible unless they are getting help ...Read more
We are hiring for SDEs, SDMs, TPMs, Data Scientists, and Applied Scientists. Our Team strives to protect Amazon businesses exposed to bad actors while maintaining the highest level of customer experience. This means building sophisticated, data-centric systems that can detect patterns of interest a...Read more
Finding a job can be a rough ride. But hey, don't keep banging your head against the same wall. The game changes with every downturn and tech wave. It's all about catching the new tide, instead of sticking to the old tricks that everyone's now onto. If the job hunt's been a ghost chase, maybe it's t...Read more
I would like to share a bit of my story to get some context for you, and maybe just give you another POV from a poor third-country perspective on salary, expectations, hopes. Just to dilute it a bit from your usual $200k+ TC. But if you don't care, just skip to the last two paragraphs. I have 9 YOE...Read more