Atlassian just revoked job offers for new grads. Hearing from former colleagues that they laid off unspecified # of people in advisory services yesterday. #layoff #revoked #atlassian
Took 2 months for the whole process and finally got ict4 verbal offer at Apple. It’s a 50% tc bump. However a week after verbal offer, got automated email saying they are considering other candidates. I’m totally stressed and devastated at this point. I even turned down another competing offer. Feel...Read more
It seems like the economic environment is precarious and you keep getting these cautionary tales of a looming recession. If a recession does hit which kind of startups would be most impacted #startup #recession
Considering Netflix stocks going downhill with its stocks and it doesn’t pay in RSUs how does it manage employee compensation based on growth? In this case does it reduce cash ? Edit ✍️
I suppose I am a rare breed. I was put on PIP late last year and took the option to improve. I worked for the next 33 days on the plan and met most, not all, of the measurements. My manager then failed me. I appealed and then won the appeal. If you are going thru the same and want advice feel free ...Read more
So.. I have been feeling really low and dealing with low self-esteem, inferiority complex issues. Before I joined Amazon almost 2 years ago, I still did feel bad about myself, always trying to aspire for a FAANG lifestyle, dreaming about how awesome it will be working at a FAANG. However, now that ...Read more
It’s 5:47am and I still can’t sleep. I’ve been depressed and anxious since 2019 and COVID made it worse. I’ve been to couple therapies and they helped a bit. But every once in a while I feel like I’m back in the rabbit hole again. This has affected my life and my job a lot. Recently it’s been gettin...Read more
My manager is going to deny my L6 promotion again, and I'm fed up with their excuses. My manager says I haven't delivered enough at L6 level, and I lack 'influence'. This is the third time they've denied promotion. I've got an upcoming interview with a non-fang, and I think I should just leave. ...Read more
One of our senior engineer made a change into my feature that I warned him against. He didn’t listen and shut me down! He pushed the change to satisfy his ego! Now it blew up production. It’s been two months that he’s trying to put bandaids on his change. It is still not fixing it. He tried to make...Read more
Congrats on all the newly minted AirBNB and DoorDash millionaires. I know a new grad with 1 YoE that now has more money than I wi ever earn in a lifetime. TC 220k, 6 YoE
Tldr- 13 reject, 2 offers I hope my story will help others who are interviewing and also give some insight in current job market. My plan was to start interviewing with trial companies and be ready for real companies. But the plan went up in smoke due to the hiring freeze everywhere. Rejected aft...Read more
Is it only in recent years or are interviews becoming more and more harder and impossible to crack? I recently had an interview at a faang company and the kind questions that were asked were oddly specific and experience you gain if you work in their team. After the interview I looked for answers on...Read more
Got IC5 offer SWE - 700k TC first 3 years (350k base, no bonus), 50k sign on. Is this a good offer? Couple more questions for current Robloxers: - How do refreshers look like? - Current RTO policy is 3d/wk, but is it in any way enforced? I saw most of my interviewers were at home. - How do you see...Read more
Women’s tampons in the men’s bathroom has to be the weirdest shit ever. With all the bad PR coming at Google for the toxic DEI culture, where does this lead the company now? No one mentions it internally still, out of fear of retaliation, but I assume leadership has to pivot soon.
Blind community, what’s your fair opinion review based on the scenario? H: current 180k base + 25k bonus, engineer role, yoe 15, master degree W: current 100k base + 10k bonus, IT Support role, yoe 3 (previous background: 7 yoe banking retail, 4 employment gap due to raising kids while studied MBA...Read more
The last decade I haven't gotten anywhere successful in life. Career/marriage/travel/wealth. Just living day to day with stress anxiety, despite enough hardwork to all areas of life. Couldn't get to the US, either via studies (no money) or onsite (no opportunity, holding a job was big deal). Dint f...Read more
Week about to start and I’m already panicking and anxious. Nothing lined up but I wanna quit right now. How is the job market ? Please help 🙏🏻
I'm in disbelief. I'm a person who is kind of dumb - got good grades in school, but it was not effortless. I'm not the strongest programmer nor the fastest one. I've made tons of mistakes, not only career wise, but in my personal life. Started the interview process in December and had SO many reje...Read more
Please share any examples and stories you have of Distinguished Engineers (or the highest IC SDE role at your company). What were they like? What did they do to earn their role? Did they blow your mind?
Please ignore promotion speed factor in your answer. Just want to get a blanket survey of happiness. Feel free to include WLB, comp, culture, teammates, projects as factors. Want to evaluate if I move to Google, and just chill at IC5 if possible, would I be happier. TC: 320k