- link Update: Still poor, but now I've got a future! (& I kept my soul) Hi everyone. Two weeks ago after a particularly long, difficult day, I got on the internet and started researching how to get into the tech field. This first led me to reddit's CS Career Questions board. While reading the posts, I noticed how people kept mentioning "blind" and curiosity led me to d
- Want to move from Bay Area to Singapore Hi, I’m currently living in the Bay Area with my husband. We recently visited Singapore and we both really liked the lifestyle there. We are considering relocating there to be closer to our family in India. I was wondering has anyone moved from Bay Area to Singapore here? My husband works for App
- vote Do you max out your 401k? Apple matches the first 6% of base but that ends up being short of the Max contribution (19k) Was curious whether others max out their 401k or just do enough to match their companies 401k and your basis for doing so. My major concern is the frothy markets that are overdue for a correction. The dow
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and industry lounge. - Looking for Intern Referrals to Google, FB, Stripe, etc I just finished my internship at Uber and am looking for referrals to the following companies: Microsoft LinkedIn Quora Facebook Apple Stripe Nvidia Robinhood Google Dropbox Airbnb Background: I am an incoming senior undergrad at a top CS school and going to become a masters student the year afte
- Another data point in real estate debate Here is a flyer from a realtor a couple of weeks ago. Here is what OCR produced: Sellers: The Real Estate market goes in what is referred to as 7 year cycles. No one knows why It works this way, it just does. Let me explain. For the past 50 years we have seen a repeating trend. We will have a buye
- Are Siri improvements coming soon? I watched the Google Duplex demo and I was floored. Though I don’t expect Siri to look like that tomorrow, can someone from Apple confirm that serious Siri updates are incoming? Thanks
- Does Apple contract disallow employees to sell their own apps? I am thinking about applying to Apple for a software developer job. But I also have modest but good income from my own apps in the AppStore, they were there for years. It would be a shame to find that Apple’s job contract bans employees from having their own commercial apps in the AppStore. Does A
- link SRE compensation How true are these data? Seems pretty close to what’s reported on Glassdoor and Indeed. https://bit.ly/2F45XEP I feel like facebook is surprisingly low. Apple is high! I am aware this data doesn’t tell us about the rank level, but still! I am not too surprised about LinkedIn - seems like a great p
- Amazon Lab 126 OPM I am been contacted by Amazon Lab 126 recruiter for a Senior OPM position. I been with Apple for 4 years and is an ICT 5. I am a senior OPM on Sustaining team. I got 25 years of industry experience. Although I am not actively looking, but since it been 4 years and my initial RSU has vested, I f
- Xiaomi is going IPO in HK Highlights -Valued at apprx. 70~100bn -sizeable m/s in China and India (India smartphone penetration rate is around 30%, Xiaomi no.1 in the market) -Major focus on smartphone, TV, computer, vacuum, etc (All kinds of home appliances) -The margin will never exceed 5%, meaning that they will provid
- Tax: paid family VS paid parental leave payments My W2 includes only one single week of income as PFL, whereas my pay slip shows a much larger amount as paid parental leave. I read on TurboTax that PPL payment can be treated as PFL. In my case, if I include W2 PFL + Payslip PPL amount, it refunds me few thousands extra. @Microsoft @Apple @Google