Hello everyone, I’m currently a manager in an org at AWS. As of recent my team is not performing to the standard set by management and rather than go through a standard PIP process, leadership and I are looking at ways to improve productivity on the team. Please let me know your thoughts below 1) I...Read more
Hey, I recently went through an interview loop and these are the two finalists. - Coinbase IC6 673k - DoorDash E6 683k I'm looking for growth/scope/impact and willing to give up WLB. I'm really digging the whole Coinbase remote, sprint + 1 week off per quarter vibe. OTOH, I'm not as invested ...Read more
Apparently 80% of Sprint is owned by a company named SoftBank and a lot of T-mobile is owned by a company named Deutsche Telekom? Even if the merger were to go through would it really be to benefit America or these foreign companies? Is SoftBank and Deutsche Telekom well known outside of the US? I t...Read more
Apparently, it’s now up in the air. According to the CEOs of these companies the benefits would be job creation. They also wouldn’t cut jobs in the next three years. Also, without this merger I don’t know if Sprint would be able to survive. For the negatives I could see this being anti-competition, ...Read more
Can someone point me to a blog or a book that characterizes how teams in different organizations (not necessarily cross function) working on the same objective tend to operate. I’m looking for things like the: - problems that naturally arise if the team is not architected well (if any eg multiple ...Read more
Founder here trying to come up with the best neurodiverse friendly workplace accommodations especially after this crazy chaos in the economy. Here’s what I came up with. 4 day work week. Full benefits to all part time employees All engineers and senior engineers are hourly, and overtime must be ap...Read more
Hi Blind Community, I, my wife and our 14 y.o daughter are planning to learn coding together. I was wondering if anyone take on similar journey as a family and if you have any useful tips to share? (What worked, what didn't work etc) A little bit of background: I know how to code, pretty up and r...Read more
So, our PM (which actually is more of a PO than a PM :)) has been assigning a front dev (lets call him Dave) from another squad to some of our squad's work. The reason is that their squad has no more work for them as we approach the end of the sprint (in 2 days). The thing is: - we are currently re...Read more
I'm applying for jobs and saw this one. It's hard to see for me whether this is L4 or L5. And I'm also confused why it's a product role but part of the Business Strategy & Operations organization - is this truly a PM role or an operation role? -------------------------------------------------------...Read more
I started my first job early this year as a first level SWE at a financial services firm. I always push boundaries and do the best I can at my job. I learned about a lot of things really quickly. I helped on board 3 new team members. After 3 months at my job, I became responsible for all producti...Read more
I work in Azure, have a good WLB and am tech leading a small team. I work fully remotely MCOL. Recently promoted Senior SWE at MSFT YOE: 5.5 Current TC: 310K Interviewed to see if I can crack senior interviews externally and what other opportunities may exist. I got two good offers (and some othe...Read more
TC 94k, no stock 1.5 YOE (June 2020 grad) NYC but live in NJ Idk how much you know about BofA but I can reaffirm the general sentiment that it’s a slow bureaucratic org that’s slow to adopt new tech, they have way below avg comp, but decent benefits and WLB. My work is like a 3:1 ratio of non dev ...Read more
Hi everyone, I work at Amazon currently as an L4 PM. I’m in HR/L&D, managing hybrid programs that are both technical and programmatic. In full transparency, I’m not sure that I would be a strong fit for a TpM right off the bat. I do have tech overlap, and I work with developers on my program/am heav...Read more